Yesterday Essex County College in Newark, NJ was our gracious host for another NYC Regional Meet Up. Essex, Rutgers, NYU, NYU School of Medicine, and CampusEAI were all well represented. We had a chance to talk about a variety of topics, specifically tools, adoption, and content authoring. We also looked at different Sakai sites and spoke about how different organizations have different approaches to using Sakai for teaching and learning in their respective environments.
The subject of portfolios did come up, and we discussed at length the types of use cases for portfolio functionality. Apparently both Rutgers and LaGuardia are doing some type of portfolio work, and NYU is interested. Perhaps we may have a portfolio-centric meetup at some point.
Jason and I also gave a recap of the Paris Conference and covered some of the trends that came out of it. It was great to see both new and known faces, but one of the things I was especially impressed about was variety of experience represented. There were, of course, Developers and Instructional designers, but also quite a few Faculty and Librarians!
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