I got back from a conference at my old stomping grounds—the University of Wyoming. The Wyoming Department of Education (WDE), the Wyoming Distance Education Consortium (WyDEC), the University of Wyoming, the Wyoming community colleges, and school libraries hosted this conference—Wyoming Innovations in Learning. It is an expansion of the e-Volution conference I attended. The focus of the conference is to present ideas for better use of technology in the classroom. The opening keynote speaker, Travis Allen, who is the CEO of iSchool Initiative, set the stage for the rest of the conference. Continue reading →

The very last presentation I sat in on at SUNY CIT focused on a topic for which we just received an IITG grant—GIS. GIS is a geographic information system. Basically, you can overlay information visually on a map. Mary Perrelli from Buffalo State College gave this informative presentation. Continue reading →