Today’s work is in the beautiful Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. It took some getting to, with delays all over, due to, well Chicago. I got a car there and drove the rest of the way, wishing it was day light. I suspect that I may have missed some scenery, but I don’t know. I am fairly certain that this is a beautiful place, if only because the name of the town appears to be a prepositional phrase, it’s in French, and there’s a lake (I saw it on a map).
The event is the Wisconsin Collaborative Online Network (WCON) Symposium, a gathering of educators involved in online learning. Yesterday’s keynote address was delivered by Susan Patrick, whom I saw speak a year ago at North Carolina’s Online Learning Conference in Asheville (another beautiful place). I’ll do my standard fair here, beginning with a session that will introduce attendees to wikis, blogs, and podcasting — in that order. This will be an operational presentation designed to define these applications and demonstrate their use. Here are the wiki handouts:
This session will be followed by a keynote address on contemporary literacy, what I am increasingly called Learning Literacy. The presentation seeks to redefining or expand what it means to be a readers, a processor of information, and a communicating when information is becoming increasingly networked, digital, and overwhelming. All though this is not a specifically distance-learning topic, it is, I believe, ideal for this group, as they work almost exclusively within this information landscape. The wiki notes will be available at:
