ETUG General Forum - What's up?

I guess I'll start!

1.  The JI is doing a lot of experimenting and trying all kinds of new tools, devices, and activities.

2. I'd be interested in a theme around unconventional ways of delivering or supporting courses, programs, services etc.  Sort of a innovative delivery remix theme that pushes outside of the LMS delivery box.  Eg. continue with the multi-access theme, with all the mixes that are possible. Maybe some brainstorming, maybe some demo-ing. I'd also love to hear from a remote student panel, or a workplace learning student panel that challenges us to come up with creative solutions that address their challenges.

3. I think there should a 20 year anniversary ETUG special edition beer distributed as part of the conference goody bag. Or available for purchase in support of student-ETUG collaborative projects or something.

1. What I love right now is that there are now options for what instructors, students, and staff can do to achieve their teaching and learning goals. May those options be collaborative spaces like the wiki, personal spaces such as blogs or community spaces such as communites of practices.
2. I'd like to participate in a community visioning process on where do we want to go as a community of "educational technologists". What does it mean to be one? How does one get into it? We might not go anywhere concrete but at least we can start thinking of how do we get new people involved.
3. A cruise! With fireworks! A documentary! A big cake!

hi Leva, hi everybody

I'm thinking about ETUG's 20th anniversary celebration.... I love Paul's 'What's my Line?' game show idea. As many will remember, we did an ETUG 'Jeopardy' a couple of years back & it really was fun. And I like Zack's idea (however unlikely) of the cake + fireworks + cruise :) 

But when we're thinking about 20th anniversary ideas I think we really need to keep in mind our newer & brand-new attendees who may not know anything about ETUG's history (& possibly not even care). If we want a 20th anniversary celebration then I think we'll need something that's inclusive of all/most of our membership: from ETUG Emeritus who know all about the group's history to brand-new people who don't even know that they become ETUG members the moment they fill in the workshop registration form ;-)

Gina

20 years... that means etug would have started when I was 15!

Share a really great thing that your institution has been doing this past year!

Things are different for me as a non-profit, but we began a wage subsidy program -  so if you have a business of 500 people or less, I'll give you up to $30,000 to hire a person with a disability.

Personally, I've survived my first year of raising twins which was a lot harder than anything on the work front in 2013.

What themes or ideas would you like to explore at the next ETUG workshop?

Managing your digital life.  I spent some time thinking about how much time is spent with email, social networking sites, and how things are fragmented across so many tools, services, and walled gardens.  I have spent some time this holidays thinking about my work flow and how I manage this, but surely, others have thought about this as well and may have better processes.  Time Management for the overconnected?

How we should celebrate and mark ETUG’s 20th anniversary?

It's Neil Squire Society's 30th anniversary a week after this, so someone, come up with a good idea and give it the CC - Share Alike so I can steal leverarge community best practices. ;-)

Perhaps during the luncheon / breaks, have some videos from past years (short clips) of some key moments in ETUG... or ridiculous / funny moments from ETUG history.  Highlights and bloopers to have people transition into the breaks with a smile or a warm memory.

I really like Paul's idea of game show theme event.

Hi Everyone,

Thanks for your participation and sharing your ideas! The winner of our random draw is Zack Lee. Congrats!

L