Registration is now open for NERCOMP's workshop: "Widgets in Education"

DATE: March 24, 2009

TIME: 9:15 am - 3:00 pm (Coffee and Registration start at 8:00 am)

PRICE: NERCOMP Members: $111, Non-Members: $236 (fee includes continental breakfast and lunch)

LOCATION:  University of Massachusetts - Amherst , Campus Center - First Floor, Amherst, MA.

DESCRIPTION: Widgets, also known as gadgets, badges, modules or snippets, are mini-applications that run on your desktop or mobile device or can be embedded in websites. Small, fast and portable, widgets enable the aggregation of content (news, maps, calendars, bookmarks) and functionality (search, quizzes, chat) from a variety of sources. Widgets are endemic of the move away from closed environments of traditional course management systems and institutional portals to more open eco-systems of blogs, wikis and personal news aggregators.

This SIG will show how widgets are developed, discovered and added to web pages, wikis, blogs and course management systems and how they are changing the way curriculum is being constructed. We will share case studies of how teams of developers and educators have worked together to create widgets for teaching, learning and research. The day will end with roundtable discussions on how to promote and deploy these tools at your institution.

For a full schedule and registration information, please go to: http://www.nercomp.org/events/event_single.aspx?id=1764

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. "NERCOMP's upcoming workshop: "Widgets in Education"." Academic Commons Issue Name (Spring 2008): 13 February 2012. <http://www.academiccommons.org/>.