Spending two weeks away from home, I missed Ames already. I have also been following the class blog to keep myself updated. That is another good thing about Internet and communication technologies we can cross the borders of time and distance. My visit at University of Virginia was very rewarding as I got to know their instructional technology program, professors and graduate students there. Moreover Charlottesville is a great city with full of history and culture and architecture is also amazing.
Dr. Thompson and I now are at SITE conference in Charleston, South Carolina. The conference just started and we are attending the sessions on variety of topics ranging from TPACK (Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge) to games and simulations in education. Site is a well-known organization in education which promotes research, scholarship, collaboration, exchange and support. Iowa State University has been represented with many graduate students and professors here in the last 20 years. Next year it is going to be in San Diego in March, so you might want to consider submitting your 505 final paper to this conference for next year. It is a great conference with full of interaction, networking and friendship.
The website is: http://site.aace.org/
I'll be posting my insights here as I attend to the sessions and learn new technologies or ideas to share with you. Hope you are having a great time in Ames and please let us know if you have any questions about your digital stories.
Here are some pictures from my UVA visit with me, Karly (ISU graduate student), Daniel and other UVA graduate students.
nice bunch :)
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