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Week 4: Preparing for the Synthesis!

Quick Items

Today

We will be doing lots of team work this week. I will be asking you to work within your teams to construct a couple of artifacts. We will start with an informal presentation by each team of their work on rounding out the SWOT analysis of the iPad in education exercise we did last week (Right Shark & Too Disruptive). I want to push you to the front of the room so you get comfortable for your synthesis presentation next week. After we talk a bit about that work, I am going to ask you to individually identify your three top thesis from the Cluetrain manifesto and why and post them to the course blog … then do the same as a team, but I want you to add in a reflection/refraction with/about the Cluetrain New Clues piece — this time synthesizing your work together and make a single post. That will provide a nice basis for a discussion of those readings. The remainder of time will be for you to work together on the Synthesis Post and Presentation … if you have questions, I will be available.

Out of Class

  • I am not assigning any readings for next week as you should be doing that in your synthesis posts (be judicious)
  • Continue working on your Team Videos and post them to the course site via YouTube or Vimeo embeds with a short overview of what technology you focused on and why by noon on 3/5/2015
  • Construct your team’s first synthesis post, post questions for the class to consider, post any readings you want us to do (or videos to watch, etc) by 5 PM on Tuesday
  • Weekly iPad Reflection by 5 PM on Tuesday
  • Give me some early feedback

Next Week

  • Present Team Videos
  • Present your first Synthesis

New ESPN App

I do watch a lot of sports, but I do not typically rely on any specific app for my sports news per se. I like the Yahoo Sports app for the iPhone/iPad because of its speed, but ESPN is more my style editorially. I don’t really use their apps all that much becuase I have histroically found them underwhelming. Apparentally that is about to change. This is really a great read about the changes coming and the design decisions ESPN made along the way.

SWOT Outcomes

I’ve added the slides we generated during the SWOT Analysis to this post for you to reference as you work on your weekly posts. If you think of additional Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats please leave them as a comment below. The original scenario is included as is the wrap up slide that can guide you in your work.

Week 3: Community, The Bloomsburg Daily, and the SWOT

This week we will be our first real deep dive into community. Now that you’ve experienced a little bit of Wenger we need to unpack what you learned there. Let’s talk about your reactions to the chapter you read and discuss some of the big issues embedded in his writing. I am going to ask you to write your own definition of community in teams and post it to the blog.

After that we will take a look at the curious case of The Bloomsburg Daily. We will look at it through the lens of community and disruption.

The second half of class we will be conducting a SWOT Analysis in class around the question of the iPad as an enabler within the context of higher education — teaching, learning, and community engagement.

BTW, we will be done early today!

In class

  • Define Community
  • Conduct SWOT Analysis

Out of class

  • Readings:
  • Begin working on your Team Video project: This will be due in two weeks — by noon on 2/25/2015
  • Complete the iPad survey
  • Leave a comment on the other team’s definition of community
  • Team Post: Select one strength, weakness, opportunity, and threat from the class SWOT activity and expand upon each to make a persuasive argument. See post holding our SWOT outcomes. Due Tuesday 5:00 PM.
  • Weekly iPad Reflection: How are you utilizing the device now across all of your courses and academic life? Due Tuesday 5:00 PM.
  • Weekly create. Due Tuesday 5:00 PM

What's in my Bag – Cole

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I decided I would post the contents of my larger laptop bag. I don’t carry this all that much anymore unless I know I will need my laptop — which is actually not very common anymore. So, what can the iPad replace? Almost all of this stuff, but when I am carrying just my iPad I sometimes have an external keyboard case and will always have a charger. I do typically handwrite my notes because of the kinds of meetings I am in. I find that culturally Stony Brook is not as open to having technology open/out in meetings. That is changing, but I try to have a pen and a Moleskin always with me. It is easy to know what I can’t live without in my bag — a charging cable for my iPhone/iPad. Actually just as critical as the devices. The most surprising thing is a Post-It Notes pad. I actually do end up using them quite a bit, but it is a little odd given my typical digital first attitude. So contents, from the top:

  • Custom, Handmade moose + pine bag
  • iPad Air 2
  • Post It Note Pad
  • iPhone Headphones
  • iOS Charging Block
  • USB Cable
  • iPhone Lightning Cable
  • Black Bag 1 … Thunderbolt Display Connectors (VGA & DVI), an SD Card, and a USB Stick
  • Black Bag 2 … Noise Canceling In Ear Headphones
  • Black Bag 3 … Wireless Remote
  • 1 Band-Aid
  • 13″ MacBook Pro with Retina Display
  • Apple Business Card Holder
  • MacBook Power Brick
  • Moleskin (My “real” one is at the office and is an Evernote Business Edition)
  • OptiFlow Fine Point Pen — Blue
  • Extra 32 GB iPhone 5S (I carry two iPhones, the other is a 32GB iPhone 6 that stays in my pocket)

Outlook for Mail, Calendar, and More on iOS

Several you complained about the built in Mail app on the iPad in class this past week. I’ve not really used Apple Mail for quite some time, instead leaning heavily on the native Gmail app, especially given our access to Google Apps on campus.

I recently switched to Microsoft Outlook for iOS — a huge change for me. It is a surprisingly great app and is actually saving me time during a typical day. Not only does it do email very well, with modern approaches to quickly managing individual messages. The things I really like is that my calendar is built in as is access to my Google Drive files.

Having all these tools in one place not only saves times and taps, but it allows me to easily replace two apps with one in my dock. I don’t know your workflow, but I have to live all day checking email, referring to my calendar, and sharing files from Drive. The new Outlook lets me do all of that from one place. It might be worth a try for some of you.

The new Outlook app brings together the core tools you need to get things done—your email, calendar, contacts and files—helping you get more done even on the smallest screen.

via A deeper look at Outlook for iOS and Android – Office Blogs.

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Change in Plans

I was just notified that the folks from Apple will not be here today … other than it being a bummer it leaves a pretty big hole in our class today. I am doing some work now to expand our agenda for this afternoon, but I doubt we will be there all three hours because of the change. See you all in a bit.