Michelle's Eclectic Blog

I attended the MICCA conference today in Baltimore, MD. I also presented my paper Social Computing in the Enterprise. I have been a member of MICCA on and off since 1998. I have presented three times. I always meet great people and learn a lot. The keynote speaker today was David Warlick. He told us that in a world of rapid change, we need to teach the students how to teach themselves.  We need to maintain our classrooms as learning engines. We also need to have our own personal learning network. Below are some links and books that Mr. Warlick mentioned. David Warlicks's Handouts Web Site, http://handouts.davidwarlick.com/ The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent, Richard Florida Lulu.com, http://www.lulu.com/ , Publish your own book InnoCentive, http://innocentive.com/ , solve a R & D problem Will Richardson reminded us to model learning for our students. The kids need mocels to show them how to lear...

I attended the MICCA conference today in Baltimore, MD. I also presented my paper Social Computing in the Enterprise. I have been a member of MICCA on and off since 1998. I have presented three times. I always meet great people and learn a lot. The keynote speaker today was David Warlick. He told us that in a world of rapid change, we need to teach the students how to teach themselves.  We need to maintain our classrooms as learning engines. We also need to have our own personal learning network. Below are some links and books that Mr. Warlick mentioned. David Warlicks's Handouts Web Site, http://handouts.davidwarlick.com/ The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent, Richard Florida Lulu.com, http://www.lulu.com/ , Publish your own book InnoCentive, http://innocentive.com/ , solve a R & D problem Will Richardson reminded us to model learning for our students. The kids need mocels to show them how to lear...

Tonight I went to a UMBC ISD Training Forum on The Power of Play: Effective Training Through Games and Similations. It was great. The topics and speakers are below. I have also included links to games in training websites that were given to us tonight. I will update this post with my notes this weekend. Dr. Karl Kapp, Assistant Director, Institute for Interactive Technologies at Bloomsburg University http://www.karlkapp.com The Gamer Generation Dr. Steve Sugar, Game Developmer and Author of Games that Teach and Others http://thegamegroup.com Low-Tech Game Development Greg Walsh, eLearning Designer and Developer, Black and Decker http://www.gregwalsh.com High-Tech Game Development Other Gaming Websites Games in Training

Hi Family, Here are a few pictures from Dot's Homegoing. Michelle 2007-04-19 -Dot's Homegoing

Social Computing in the Enterprise PowerPoint and References PowerPoint social-computing-in-the-enterprise.ppt References Benedictus, L. (2006, November 4). Feed Burner, Dick Costolo. Guardian Unlimited. Retrieved November 8, 2006, from http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/page/0,,1939196,00.html Blog. (2006, November 4). Wikipedia. Retrieved November 4, 2006, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Blogging for business. (2006, November). T+D, 60(11), 14. Bull, G. (2006, November). A tool for collective intelligence. Learning & Leading with Technology, 34(3), 10-11. Burkeman, O. (2006, November 4). Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales. Guardian Unlimited. Retrieved November 10, 2006, from http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,1939018,00.html Caldwell, F., & Linden, A. (2004, October). PKN and social networks change knowledge management (ID Number No. G00124178). Gartner. Abstract retrieved November 1, 2006, from http://www.gartner.com/resources/124100/124178/pkn_and_social_.pdf Cummings,...

Happy Birthday Chris and RJ! Aunt Safety

During the Sleep Deprivation seminar, Dr. Teodor Postolache introduced us to many eye opening topics. :-) During the seminar Dr. Postolache said that 40 million Americans manifest sleep disorders. He also said that over 100,000 motor vehicle accidents can be attributed to sleep disorders. It was very interesting to know that sleep can be measured. An EEG can diagnose the sleep state and rapid eye movement (REM) can be monitored to see what stage of REM state you are in such as REM (with dreams, later at night) sleep or Non REM sleep (without dreams, earlier at night, deeper sleep). Dr. Postolache said that if we sacrifice the Non REM sleep that is earlier at night, then we are sacrificing deeper sleep. This can occur if we go to bed late. Dr. Postolache also explained our states 1.Wake a. Sleep latency-after you wake, not fully awake, 10-20 minutes after waking up, our abilities are not at our best; b. Alert-most alert time especially in the evening around 6 pm; c. Sleepy – this is w...

4/12/07 Science in the New Millennium, Dr. Donna J. Nelson, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma Wow, this seminar was interesting. First I had lunch with Dr. Donna Nelson and the members of the WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) organization. During lunch Dr. Nelson answered our questions and talked about being a woman professor. She then started to talk about the number of women and minorities that are professors. Dr. Nelson completed research on the number of Assistant, Associate, and Full Professors in the top 50 departments in 14 science and engineering specialties. I found out that Dr. Nelson was going to present her data at an Advance Distinguished Speaker Series Seminar at 4:00, so I went to the seminar. This is where she showed the data. It was jaw dropping. The number of African American Assistant professors is pitiful. Needless to say the number of associate and full professors is worse than pitiful. I will let you interp...

Posts Business and Dining Etiquette Seminar, 4/12/07(I haven't added all of the details for this post, be back soon.) On April 12 th I attended one more seminar at UMBC on April 12 th . This seminar was the Business & Dining Etiquette seminar. It was, what else can I say, excellent. All of the seminars that I attend at UMBC are excellent. This seminar was divided into two parts. The first part was the Networking seminar. The second was the Etiquette seminar. During the Networking seminar, Ms. Marcia Hall of Reputation Counts ( http://www.reputationcounts.com ) taught us networking tips. She told us that networking is responsible for 87% of jobs found. This was not surprising to me because I am reading “What Color is My Parachute” and it says the same thing. Ms. Hall taught us how to shake hands, tell what we want to do, and make contacts. (More information to come.) In the Etiquette seminar, Ms. Carol Haislip, of the International School of Protocol ( http://www.internationals...

I went to a Computer Mania Day planning meeting today. If you have a 6 th -8 th grade student, please register them for Computer Mania Day to be held on May 5, 2007. Computer Mania Day is a program designed to encourage girls to pursue science, technology, engineering, and math careers. Even though it is geared to girls, boys are definitely welcome. Parents are welcome to stay for the Adult Program.   I am going to be helping with registration. Please go to http://www.computer-mania.info/ for more details and to register. Michelle

I am on the High School Task Force for my school system. Some of the topics that relate to this task force are of interest to me. I will post the articles as I find them. The key words will be high school reform which defiinitely relates to minority student achievement. Michelle

This week I went to my first Computer Mania Day organization meeting. I am going to help with the Registration on the day of the conference. This purpose of Computer Mania day is to spur girls to become interested in technology. The longterm goal is to get them to pursue technical and engineering careers. Since I happen to teach a computer class and have a very low enrollment of girls, this particular topic is of interest to me.  As I find articles of interest, I will post them to this blog. Keyworks - Girls in IT Michelle

I will be presenting at the MICCA conference at the end of April. My topic is Social Computing in the Enterprise. On of my favorite articles on this topic came from Andrew McAfee , the topic was Enterprise 2.0. The key words for the topics related to this will be enterprise 2.0 and web 2.0 and social computing. Michelle

This blog will be a collection of things that I find interesting. Michelle

Happy Birthday Rich, Michelle and Lura

Richard just sent an email that included details of the plane crash in Bradley. Check out the report . Michelle