- IT Strategic Planning: A Vision- and Mission-Oriented Approach to Enhancing Teaching and Learning with New Technologies (source: Educause Connect)La Salle University’s School of Arts and Sciences has created a strategic plan for the development and implementation of information technology in teaching, learning and research. This presentation will highlight the development of the mission, goals, selected action items, subcommittee structures for discovery, implementation, training and evaluation, and lessons learned.- What Wikipedia Can Teach Us About the New Media Literacies (source: Educause Connect)This 73 minute podcast features the 4th Annual Robert C. Heterick Jr. Lecture, given by Henry Jenkins, Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT. The lecture is entitled, “What Wikipedia Can Teach Us About the New Media Literacies”.Emblematic of the new participatory cultures and the emerging practices of collective intelligence, Wikipedia has drawn fire from academic institutions and traditional gatekeepers. Using segments from a forthcoming documentary about the Wikipedia movement produced by MIT’s Project NML, this session will discuss how educators might use Wikipedia to introduce students to the ways that new forms of cultural production and knowledge sharing are reshaping the research process.- Exponential Change in Traditional Organizations: McMaster University Libraries (source: Educause Connect)In this 49 minute podcast, we feature a session by Jeffrey G. Trzeciak, University Librarian at McMaster University, entitled, “Exponential Change in Traditional Organizations: McMaster University Libraries”. This speech was recorded at the ELI 2008 Meeting in San Antonio, Texas.McMaster University Libraries, one of Canada’s most innovative university libraries, is bringing together librarians, faculty, information technologists, and students in new and exciting ways. …

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