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Katie Salen
Director, Graduate Studies
Associate Professor
Parsons The New School for Design
Executive Director, Gamelab Institute of Play

Teaching with Technology Day, April 29, 2008

Northeastern's fourth annual Teaching with Technology mini-conference will be held on Tuesday, April 29, from 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. beginning in the Curry Center Ballroom!

Our keynote speaker will be Katie Salen, well-known game designer and Director of Graduate Studies in Design and Technology, Parsons School of Design. With Eric Zimmerman, Ms. Salen is the coauthor of Rules of Play (MIT Press, 2003) and coeditor of The Game Design Reader (MIT Press, 2005). She is also a recipient of a McArthur Foundation grant on exploring how technology is changing kids and learning.

You can download and listen to (or watch) the keynote from iTunesU: and Northeastern's YouTube Channel

Teaching with Technology Day is sponsored by The EdTech Center, The Center for Innovation and Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CIETL), Information Services, SPCS and University Libraries. Join us to hear how fellow Northeastern faculty are using technology in their courses. Attend interactive breakout sessions on a range of technology related to effective teaching strategies. Plan to spend the day and enjoy refreshments, a light lunch, and a chance to win an iPod Nano!

Schedule
8:30-8:45	Registration/Coffee
8:45-9:00	Introductions
9:00-10:00	Keynote Presentation: Katie Salen, Systems to Think With: Games and the Architecture of Persistence \| YouTube
10:10-10:15	Coffee Break Book signing, "The Ecology of Games"
10:15-10:55	Northeastern Faculty Panel: Facilitating media-based assignments Debra Mandel, Thomas Bary (Digital Media Design Studio): video of student work, Patrick Mullen (English), Seth Merriam (Art+Design)
10:55-11:35	Northeastern Faculty Panel: Personal Response Sytems (clickers) in large and small classes Kostia Bergman (Biology), Veronica S. Godoy-Carter (Biology), Michael J. Gonyeau (Pharmacy)
11:35-12:15	Northeastern Faculty Presentation: Greening the Supply Chain: Development of a Computer Game to Teach Environmentally Benign Manufacturing Jay Laird, CEO Metaversal Studios, Assistant Director of Game Design, Northeastern
12:30-2:00	Lunch and interactive poster sessions Curry Student Center Ballroom Wimba Northeastern YouTube project, iTunes U Podcasting and webcasting Northeastern e-Portfolio project Educational Wikis and Blogs Integrating Collaborative Media (Flickr, YouTube, and Slideshare) New Trends: Mashups, Citizen Journalism and Collective Intelligence Google Tools: Google Earth, Google Docs and Google Analytics Also: YouTube film festival Sign up for interest groups: eportfolios Clickers Wimba Games for Learning Collaboration & Social Networking Dynamic Media Creation Digital Storytelling Tech Trends for Teaching - mobile learning
2:00	Afternoon Breakout Sessions Tour of Digital Media Design Studio Tour of Second Life virtual world (demo)