[ED-TECH] Apple iPhone/Touch Development User Group Meeting

Ed-Tech list members,

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A number of people at UM have indicated interest in learning more about Apple iPhone/Touch development. In order to support that desire, there will be an iPhone Development User Group Meeting on Wednesday, March 4th, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm, in Whitten Learning Center, Room 192.

This will be an organizational meeting to see how much interest there is, and how to move forward. Whether you are a web designer or a programmer, you are welcome to attend this planning event.

If you will be attending, please register with the http://tinyurl.com/umiug01 web form. If you know of people inside or outside UM that might be interested, please pass this information on to them, too.

Bill Vilberg

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[ED-TECH] Upcoming GIS Mapping Workshops in Florida

Hey group,

We're trying to get the word out to the UM Educational Technology Community
regarding a couple of upcoming mapping workshops in Florida. The workshops
are geared toward beginners who would like to map demographic information
for Florida communities.

Mapping Florida Communities: An Introduction to GIS & Community Analysis

Jacksonville: April 1st , 2009
New Horizons Computer Learning Center- 7020 A.C. Skinner Pkwy STE 180
Jacksonville, FL 32256

Tallahassee: April 1st, 2009*
Tallahassee Community College - 444 Appleyard Drive, EWD Building #38, Lab
217 Tallahassee, FL 32304
Orlando: April 3rd, 2009*
Valencia Enterprises of Orlando 2411 Sand Lake Road Orlando, FL, 32809
Miami: April 3rd, 2009*
Location to be determined.
*These are one-day workshops (8:30am - 4:30pm). Participants choose which
day to attend.
Audience: Beginners, anyone interested in mapping their community.
Focus: This workshop is customized for each location.

This hands-on workshop focuses on teaching the fundamentals of using a
Geographic Information System (GIS) for community analysis. Participants
will learn to create thematic maps with Census data, Geocoding (Address
mapping) and Spatial Queries. Other features of the workshop are learning to
extract Census data and good map layout and design.

For more information about the Florida workshop, please visit
www.urban-research.info

Gina Clemmer
New Urban Research, Inc.
877.241.6576 | www.urban-research.info

[ED-TECH] Fun Friday #12 - Adobe Acrobat Forms and Portfolios

Wow! It is almost the end of another month, so it must be time for Fun Friday again. This month I am going to demonstrate the incredible form building and the new Portfolio capabilities in Adobe Acrobat Professional.

UM has a faculty/staff site license for Acrobat Professional. Acrobat Professional has many more features than the free Acrobat Reader that most of us have used. Faculty and staff can download Acrobat Professional 9 from the http://www.miami.edu/software page, in the "Graphics, Design, and Web Tools" section.

The event will take place Friday, Feb 27, 12:20 pm - 1:10 pm, in Richter Library, Room 305 (The Faculty Exploratory). Registration is required, since seating is limited and lunch will be provided.

Please go to http://www.miami.edu/iac and click on the "Events" item in the menu bar to locate the registration form.

Bill Vilberg

[ED-TECH] FW: Web Conferences in MIAMI next week

Ed-Tech list members,

There are two big web conferences next week in Miami.

The first, BarCamp Miami is on Sunday. It is free, in Coconut Grove:

* http://barcampmiami09-fowa.eventbrite.com/

The second, Future of Web Apps (FOWA), is all day Tuesday. A student pass is $45 and a normal pass is $395. This conference is going to have a lot big speakers from 37signals, Virgin, Mozilla, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, digg, plus others.

* http://events.carsonified.com/fowa/2009/miami

I am just passing on this information in case others are interested. I have nothing to do with either event. The student passes to FOWA on Tuesday are an incredible deal, in my opinion. I hope many students will take advantage of this opportunity.

Bill Vilberg

[ED-TECH] Mid-course surveys

Ed-Tech list members,

Do you give a mid-course survey to your students? You can use it to find out how things are going, where there are problems, and whether the course is succeeding in the ways that you want. It can provide you with this information, and give the students an opportunity to reflect on the course as a whole.

A faculty member at another school gives a set of questions and then posts the responses on-line for everyone to see. An example is at http://people.stu.ca/~hunt/32360708/evals/ so you can see the types of questions and answers he received.

You can do this with paper/pencil, or use Blackboard's survey system to collect the answers anonymously. If you would like assistance with this, let me know.

Bill Vilberg