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Connecting Online 2010 - Eva Ferrari Public Class

Friday, February 05 2010 | 1:00 PM (EST)

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Connecting Online 2010
Feb 5-7

Welcome to CO10 the annual live online conference. The conference will be of interest to educators, administrators, students, and community members who value the importance of integrating technology into the curriculum to improve instruction and learning. Online learning involves various skills on the part of the instructor and learner. These include social and communication skills, social networking, independent learning strategies, critical and higher order thinking skills, creativity, and effective online and face-to-face facilitation.

The Conference will be conducted on IT4ALL Moodle course: http://www.integrating-technology.com/course/view.php?id=89 (enrollment key is CO10 ) and WiZiQ.

About the Presenter:
Eva Ferrari

 Eva FerrariEva's research interests are focused on Social Communication and New Technologies, developed in 2006/2007 at the Human Technology LAB, at the Department of General Psychology at the University of Padova. Through her dissertation thesis (M.Sc) on the application of Social Marketing in Service and Professional Industries she developed her interest in studying users' needs and experiences from media. She used an exploratory and ethnographic approach to study the use of new technologies by people in their social and physical contexts. Eva is a Research Associate at the Psychology Department at Goldsmiths, University of London, focusing on studies on the ease of use and accessibility of consumer media products and services, as well as psychological evaluation of advanced media. Eva is now a Research Associate on the PASION project. Her role is focused on the evaluation of a social networking application supporting collaborative knowledge work.

Title of presentation:
"Multitasking - a psychological overview

Description of presentation:
The increased use of technology for work and leisure tasks in combination with access to portable technologies leads us to habitually multitask. Technology is also certainly, not just changing but also constantly increasing the access that we have to information. How can our brain cope with the countless inputs we are subject to every day? How are perception and attention involved in this process?

Language of instruction: English

Keywords: multitasking

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Abe Soltani
By: Abe Soltani
732 days 23 hours 58 minutes ago

A very good topic. thank you for the time and effort to do the presentation.

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Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learning (IT4ALL) is a non-profit organization founded by Dr. Nellie Deutsch in 2006. IT4ALL includes a team of volunteers who are passionate about instruction and learning and promoting free e-learning around the world. The leading team at IT4ALL are: Dr. Ludmila Smirnova (professor at St. Mary's College in New York State, writer, experienced presenter and online facilitator), Dr. Nellie Deutsch (a Canadian instructional designer and curriculum development leader, who has been teaching English and integrating technology into her classes, and presenting, researching, writing, and providing consultation on Moodle for teachers. WebQuests, blended learning, and e-portfolios), Dariem Garcés (Moodle Developer, creator of the WebQuest pluggin for Moodle, and expert in installing virtual learning environments), and other educators & technology experts volunteer their time and make up Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learning (IT4ALL).

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