Creative Faculty Uses of Breeze
George Elvin of Ball State University
Jason Johnson of Ball State University
James Flowers of Ball State University
When?
Oct. 11, 2006 (12 noon-12:50 p.m. Eastern time, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m. Central time)
Where?
The conversations in this series will be delivered via IHETS Interactive to multimedia meeting rooms and classrooms throughout the state.
If your campus would like to become a host location, please contact Cheryl Denski (cdenski@ihets.org , 317.263.8984)
Session Description:
Face-to-face teaching can now take place outside the traditional classroom environment, still using all the same resources teachers need to convey information and engage learners. Today's higher learning teacher plans instruction to meet demanding schedules of teachers and students through flexible and effective technologies, like Macromedia Breeze. This session will relay the creative and strategic thinking needed to teach using Breeze.
About the Presenters:
Dr. George Elvin is an Associate Professor in the College of Architecture and Planning at Ball State University, a fellow of the Center for Energy Research, Education and Service, and a Senior Research Associate at the Building Futures Institute. His research on nanotechnology and other emerging design technologies has been published by Princeton Architectural Press, the International Journal of Architectural Computing, the American Institute of Architects, and the American Society of Civil Engineers.
He has taught numerous digital collaboration courses, connecting students with the University of Illinois, Illinois Institute of Technology, and the University of Florida. These courses emphasize interdisciplinary collaboration for increasingly global projects with complex technical, social and environmental consequences.
Jason Johnson joined Ball State University in the fall of 2004 as an instructor of digital media and fabrication. He has a Masters degree in Architecture and Urbanism from the Architectural Association in London. His collaborative work on p-shifter.org while at the AA was awarded the FEIDAD.org Special Award for Time/Space Environments in 2004. He has practiced architecture in the United States, Europe and South America and is currently a partner in the Minus Architecture Studio, a multinational collaborative focused on speculative projects and research.
He has been using online delivery methods for both course content and presentations to international juries. His current work is focused on expanding collaboration through the use of highly distributed networks, using Macromedia’s Breeze, blogging software, and open source studios.
Dr. Jim Flowers is a Professor and the Director of Online Education for the newly renamed Department of Technology at Ball State University. He has been teaching online since 2000, and in 2002 his department began offering completely online MA degrees in technology education and in career & technical education with great success. In September 2006, he received the Rawlings Outstanding Distance Education Teaching Award at Ball State.
Since 2000, Jim’s online courses have made heavy use of lessons presented in the form of original online reusable learning objects, combined with cognitive dialog in Blackboard discussion forums. The recent advent of Breeze Meeting has led to trials with both teacher-led sessions and unsupervised student group collaboration in several of his online classes. See http://jcflowers1.iweb.bsu.edu for more information on Jim.
