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Ä Involved in the development and administration of online courses and programs since the early 1990s, Susan Smith Nash has
made a point to share her experience as well as her research through her websites, weblogs and podcasts. Her background is
interdisciplinary, with a Ph.D. in English, M.A. in English, graduate courses in economics and instructional design, B.S. in Geology.

Ä The recipient of collaboration and innovation awards for her work in developing innovative and high-quality online and hybrid
programs that take advantage of the latest technologies, Nash has been involved with organizations and educational institutions
involved in online education and training. Ground-floor online program development for the University of Oklahoma and has
developed curriculum and programs for elearning (including mobile learning) for Florida Community College Jacksonville, the
Literature Institute, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Excelsior College.

Ä Over the last 15 years, Nash has developed instructional content for textbooks, audio books (educational mp3 downloads),
simulations and serious games, video (downloadable educational video clips). Content includes Spanish and English language
materials.

Ä Having held administrative positions at Excelsior College and the University of Oklahoma, Susan currently holds a leadership
position in at Victoria Resources, a natural resources company. Her role involves research in innovative processes.

Ä She has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and has made presentations at prominent national conferences.
Susan is involved with research into the best ways to use new techniques and technologies (Web 2.0, etc), for effective e-
learning (and training).

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Henderson and published in 2007.     was published in 2006. Nash is managing editor
of Texture Press, also an editor with JELLO - Journal of E-Learning and Learning Objects.
Ä Her edublog, e-Learning Queen (http://www.elearningqueen.com) has been nominated for several awards.
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Ä a. enhance instructional content

Ä b. engage with the material on a deeper level
Ä c. explore and uncover previously unsuspected
aspects of the data
Ä d. open up new worlds through new ways of
seeing familiar things
Ä e. discuss, debate and share insights and sources
of information
Ä f. develop analytical skills
Ä g. enhance computer skills
   

 
 
 

Ä a. higher education
Ä b. K-12 education
Ä c. corporate training
Ä d. not-for-profit education
Ä e. infrastructure and/or software service
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Ä f. textbooks and instructional materials

   


    
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Ä a. Engages students in deeper learning.

Ä b. Asks students to classify and organize
knowledge.
Ä c. Connects to real-world situations.
Ä d. Encourages collaboration.
Ä e. Creates ideal conditions for learning
(engage learner, spark interest)
Ä f. Causes students to learn by doing

   


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Ä a. make the connection between the
instructional content and the learning
outcome
Ä b. overcome their fear of the technology and
the unknown
Ä c. truly interact with each other in the
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Ä step 1. define learning goal -- what do you

want the data to tell you?
Ä step 2. identify sources of data
Ä step 3. determine if the data can be mined
Ä step 4. discuss what the relationships of the
data fields can reveal
Ä step 5. identify pitfalls and problems with
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Ä a. classification of knowledge
Ä b. working memory
Ä c. connections
Ä d. experiential
Ä e. emotional

   



 

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Ä Encourage self-directed exploration

Ä ͞Decriminalize͟ experimentation
Ä Learning as play: a playful setting
Ä The organization sees itself as capable of
changing along with the innovations
(innovation-led change / adaptation / growth)

   



 
  
  
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Ä Efficient and effective collaborations

Ä Developing schemata
Ä Self-guided scaffolding
Ä Informal mentoring
Ä Distributed mentoring
Ä Communities of practice

   


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Ä a. be aware of potential bias in the way that

databases are combined
Ä b. be aware of the underlying assumptions
used in selected databases
Ä c. gender & cultural spin in articles pulled
from news databases
Ä d. ways of sharing data and information can
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Ä a. Digital natives have different comfort zones

with technology
Ä b. Boomers have learned to learn by creating
classification schemes
Ä b. Team learning -- problem-solving using
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Ä Question: Have you created a feed on a

service (del.icio.us, netvibes, myspace,
facebook, technorati, etc.) that filters the
results based on a tag that you have selected?

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Ä a. Use igoogle to blend together applications

on a single page
Ä google scholar and google earth: Look at the
current configuration of the Aral Sea (google
earth); what has happened historically?
(google scholar)

   


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Ä b. If you use Bebo to pull feeds tagged with

"Westminster Kennel Club" along with
"Beagle" with Flickr images tagged "Beagle" --
yield? stories about Uno, who won the
Westminster Kennel Club "Best of Show" this
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Ä oresults only as good as the data

Ä odata can be outdated, incomplete, inaccurate... need to test
Ä oit is helpful to think of applying the scientific method &
developing multiple working hypotheses for a research
question
Ä ointerrogate your research question... what do you really
want it to tell you?
Ä owill your methodology really yield what you want from your
research question?

   


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Ä It can be useful to probe the connection between rural poverty and
cultural isolation in the U.S. (assuming that the socialization process
occurs in a consumer society via consumption) -- selecting low per capita
income towns (census data), getting zip codes, then using yahoo (or
google maps) to see how many WalMart, Target, McDonald's, and Burger
King restaurants, as well as "big box" stores there might be.

Ä The idea that low income areas are typified by consumer-culture isolation
was not supported in the way we expected. While low-income rural
regions tended to not have the retail outlets mentioned above, there were
"magnet communities" in the midst of low-income rural regions.

Ä College towns tended to have low average income figures, but tended to
have numerous chain or "big box" stores.

   


      
 
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Ä The well-being of young people can be related to their behavior and social
environments. Mashed together data from various U.S. governmental agencies, with an
emphasis on illegal and high-risk behaviors. Followed research design and methodology
recommended by the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics.

Ä Source: National Institutes of Health / National Institute of Drug Abuse:

Ä Stats: Substance use: regular cigarette smoking, alcohol use, and illicit drug use.
Ä Breakdown: by grade and by reported ethnicity

Ä Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Ä Behaviors: Sexual Intercourse
Ä Breakdown: 12th grade; 9th grade

Ä Source: National Crime Victimization Survey

Ä Behaviors: Reported crimes involving juvenile offenders
Ä Breakdown: Ages 12-17

   


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Ä step one: discuss research problems in class

Ä step two: group and individual work outside class
Ä step three: report results and discuss in class
Ä Step four: post to discussion forum and make a lasting
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Ä a. require students to pull together data from different sources as a part

of a research project
Ä b. encourage sharing of the mashups and/or the process in the discussion
forum area
Ä c. include tutorials and links to popular mashup spaces and mashup
techniques and uses

   


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Ä a. mashup-type experiences can be had using

yahoo Go Y! Go (has taggable Flickr, Yahoo Maps,
News, etc.)
Ä b. use IM services to communicate / share results
Ä c. iTunes with iTouch, iPhone, iPod mashed with
IM to share & post

   


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Ä http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=477835307527580
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Ä http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-
8383038440830989640&hl=en

Ä http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-
7919650162799248639&hl=en


 
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