Ryan Collins » eTech Ohio Conference http://ryancollins.org Educational Technology Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:09:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 A Kindle, iPad, and iPod Touch walk into a classroom – #oetc11 http://ryancollins.org/2011/02/05/a-kindle-ipad-and-ipod-touch-walk-into-a-classroom-oetc11/ http://ryancollins.org/2011/02/05/a-kindle-ipad-and-ipod-touch-walk-into-a-classroom-oetc11/#comments Sat, 05 Feb 2011 17:18:34 +0000 mr.rcollins http://ryancollins.org/?p=635 The slides are available on Google Docs.

]]> http://ryancollins.org/2011/02/05/a-kindle-ipad-and-ipod-touch-walk-into-a-classroom-oetc11/feed/ 0 21st Century Learning – Return of the Jedi #oetc11 http://ryancollins.org/2011/02/05/21st-century-learning-return-of-the-jedi-oetc11/ http://ryancollins.org/2011/02/05/21st-century-learning-return-of-the-jedi-oetc11/#comments Sat, 05 Feb 2011 17:13:45 +0000 mr.rcollins http://ryancollins.org/?p=630 The slides are available on Google Docs, and I’ve started to put my links under http://www.delicious.com/mr.rcollins/partvi.

Have you succumbed to the dark side? Do you use technology for good or evil?

]]> http://ryancollins.org/2011/02/05/21st-century-learning-return-of-the-jedi-oetc11/feed/ 0 Interview with Kent State journalism students at #oetc11 http://ryancollins.org/2011/02/05/interview-with-kent-state-journalism-students-at-oetc11/ http://ryancollins.org/2011/02/05/interview-with-kent-state-journalism-students-at-oetc11/#comments Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:57:45 +0000 mr.rcollins http://ryancollins.org/?p=627 I was interviewed by Amanda Murrow at the Ohio eTech Technology Conference:

Star Wars for Teaching from David Smeltzer on Vimeo.

]]> http://ryancollins.org/2011/02/05/interview-with-kent-state-journalism-students-at-oetc11/feed/ 0 My presentations for the eTech Ohio Educational Technology Conference 2011 #oetc11 http://ryancollins.org/2011/01/29/my-presentations-for-the-etech-ohio-educational-technology-conference-2011-oetc11/ http://ryancollins.org/2011/01/29/my-presentations-for-the-etech-ohio-educational-technology-conference-2011-oetc11/#comments Sun, 30 Jan 2011 01:11:14 +0000 mr.rcollins http://ryancollins.org/?p=620 I’ll be presenting twice at the conference this year. On Monday, I’ll be presenting “21st Century Schools: Part VI, Return of the Jedi” from 3:45 – 4:30 pm in Room: D230 – 232. This session will be on motivating students and teachers, while trying not to stray to the “dark side” of technology. The twitter hastag will be #rcpartvi.

My second presentation is Tuesday, “An iPad, Kindle, and iPod Touch walked into a classroom…” at 3:45 – 4:30 pm in room: C213 – 215. This session will explore the Kindle, the iPad, and the iPod and how they can be used in the classroom. Alternative technologies will also be presented and discussed. The Twitter hashtag will be #rcmobile.

For both presentations I’ll be using Google Docs, and will update this site with urls to the presentations. I’m going to try to use the “View together” feature, where participants can follow along and actually converse if they have Google accounts. For audio, I’ve set up a Shoutcast server and I’ll be attempting to broadcast the audio live while presenting. I don’t know how well it’s going to work, but it should be fun!

Update: The “21st Century Schools: Part VI, Return of the Jedi” presentation is online at http://eduk8.me/nrMMMm. I’ve started to collect the links for the presentation at http://www.delicious.com/mr.rcollins/partvi

]]> http://ryancollins.org/2011/01/29/my-presentations-for-the-etech-ohio-educational-technology-conference-2011-oetc11/feed/ 0 Low tech and high tech communication – eTech Ohio 2008 http://ryancollins.org/2008/03/15/low-tech-and-high-tech-communication-etech-ohio-2008/ http://ryancollins.org/2008/03/15/low-tech-and-high-tech-communication-etech-ohio-2008/#comments Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:21:01 +0000 mr.rcollins http://ryancollins.org/wp/2008/03/15/low-tech-and-high-tech-communication-etech-ohio-2008/ The audience #4At the eTech Ohio Technology Conference this past February I presented on different ways a person can communicate. Some ways were very low tech (writing a letter, using the phone), and some ways very high tech (using Grand Central to control incoming calls, social networking with del.icio.us or Twitter). I’ve finally gotten around to tagging the sites in del.icio.us (thanks Alvin!). I used the tag etechohio08.
Creative Commons License photo credit: steveyb

]]> http://ryancollins.org/2008/03/15/low-tech-and-high-tech-communication-etech-ohio-2008/feed/ 0 eTech Ohio Conference 2008 thoughts http://ryancollins.org/2008/02/12/etech-ohio-conference-2008-thoughts/ http://ryancollins.org/2008/02/12/etech-ohio-conference-2008-thoughts/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:19:24 +0000 mr.rcollins http://ryancollins.org/wp/2008/02/12/etech-ohio-conference-2008-thoughts/ The conference took place over a week ago and I’m still trying to get my head wrapped around all the information I collected! I did learn one very important thing. My ID badge this year said Librarian/Media Specialist, and I learned that it makes it a lot easier to walk through the vendor area. They didn’t seem as interested in talking to me. :-)

I’m hoping to get more things put together and online. I still have to collect the notes from my session and put them online, and also to tag them into del.icio.us (thanks Alvin!).

Every year I go hoping to take away one new thing to get excited about, but that is getting harder to do. Technology in education has become such a commodity that the break throughs are getting more and more uncommon. I’m also torn with the problem of too many choices. It’s hard for me to focus on one thing, I want to implement them all!

]]> http://ryancollins.org/2008/02/12/etech-ohio-conference-2008-thoughts/feed/ 3 Low tech and high tech communication http://ryancollins.org/2008/02/04/low-tech-and-high-tech-communication/ http://ryancollins.org/2008/02/04/low-tech-and-high-tech-communication/#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:23:18 +0000 mr.rcollins http://ryancollins.org/wp/2008/02/04/low-tech-and-high-tech-communication/ This is a test post from the eTech Ohio 2008 Conference.

]]> http://ryancollins.org/2008/02/04/low-tech-and-high-tech-communication/feed/ 2 eTech Ohio conference and Twitter http://ryancollins.org/2008/02/03/etech-ohio-conference-and-twitter/ http://ryancollins.org/2008/02/03/etech-ohio-conference-and-twitter/#comments Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:10:02 +0000 mr.rcollins http://ryancollins.org/wp/2008/02/03/etech-ohio-conference-and-twitter/ I will be trying to Twitter as much as I can at the conference. You can follow my updates under http://twitter.com/mr_rcollins or you can follow me under twitter.

]]> http://ryancollins.org/2008/02/03/etech-ohio-conference-and-twitter/feed/ 0 eTech Ohio Technology Conference http://ryancollins.org/2008/02/03/etech-ohio-technology-conference/ http://ryancollins.org/2008/02/03/etech-ohio-technology-conference/#comments Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:37:28 +0000 mr.rcollins http://ryancollins.org/wp/2008/02/03/etech-ohio-technology-conference/ After reading John’s blog post yesterday, I realized that not only haven’t I posted anything, I haven’t even begun to look at what sessions I want to go to at the eTech conference. Since I present at 8:00am Monday morning, I’ve been more focused on that.

Through the Online Conference Planner I’ve begun to setup the sessions I want to go to, and I will be publishing my calendar through Google Calendar.

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