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Nicola Martinez
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- Name in Second Life:
- Ragitake Takakura
- Home State or Province and Country:
- New York
- Job Title:
- Director of Curriculum and Instructional Design
- Home Institution(s):
- SUNY Empire State College
- Area(s) of Expertise:
- My research is in learning design for immersive and virtual environments. Expertise in online teaching and learning, distance learning, adult learning, visual pedagogies and learning theories, collaborative learning design (pro-con debates, role play scenarios, case-based activities), large scale course development, knowledge management, learning management systems, large scale systems
migration, large scale conversion, faculty development, curriculum development, instructional design, privacy issues and policy analysis, security studies, security policy analysis, media, project leadership, quality assurance, educational technology, systems design, evaluation, knowledge of both American and European
pedagogical approaches and educational systems. Expertise in Tahitian (French Polynesia) history and cultural traditions.Native speaker of English and French. Some Spanish.
Current Projects include a $1.25 m Charitable Leadership foundation grant for the development of math and science courses (online) - this includes an immersion/visualization segment that is funding our SL initiatives. I am spearheading the revision of the national Fire and Emergency Services Baccalaureate (and its conversion to an online program) in collaboration with the Dept. Of Homeland Security National Fire Academy and seven universities and colleges (almost done with this one, two more weeks and the multi-year project willend); and a NSF funded project - Integrated Laboratory Networks spearheaded by Devon Cancilla from the University of Western Washington.
I present frequently on related topics - upcoming publications include a chapter titled: Engaging the Visual Brain in eLearning: Visual Cognitive Neuroscience and Visual Approaches to Learning in Online Environments, to be included in a forthcoming publication on elearning and neuroscience; and a presentation titled Meaning Making, Agency, and the Intentional Brain, given at the Jean Piaget Society for Knowledge and Development annual meeting. I was a 2006 recipient of the SUNY Chancellor's Excellence Award.
I'm a member of the Media Grid Immersive Education Technology Group for the setting of standards for immersive education, and active in Second life as Ragitake Takakura.
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You might be interested in this conference ...................
I have had the great privilege to be a participant/volunteer in the Pop!Tech conferences held in Camden Maine since 1997. One of my favorite was the 2000 Being Human
in a Digital Age with Bill Joy whose talk about the his April 199 article in WIRED about the future of humans was the highlight of the conference
My white light transmission hologram on Family ( a series of ancient symbols on the vicissitudes of family life) was displayed at that conference ( see series of three photos posted to my page )
This year the conference will be on the Human Impact October 17 to 20 2007
http://www.poptech.org/overview2007
Pop!Tech 2007 will explore some of the many ways human beings impact - and are impacted by - the world and each other.
http://www.poptech.org/conferences/
If you scroll down to second photo, that is me in the third row behind the big guy
with glasses : 0
There are podcasts from the 2004, 2005 and 2006 conferences posted
Last year the 2006 conference was video streamed through Yahoo and had a presence in Second Life.
I will post more about what will be available if
there is an interest.
The SMP project (our nickname for the SMART site related project, which is officially, the Charitable Leadership Foundation grant to support “Adult Learner Literacy in Mathematics and Science”) has been both challenging and rewarding. We spent the first two years in piloting, testing, and experimenting to see what works and what doesn't (as we developed a number of courses).
We are now at the really exciting stage of entering year three, and about to take deeper approaches to the design of visual, immersive, and interactive components. We have some very engaging activities planned - including SL immersion for a course I'm co-authoring called: The Future of Being Human. It'll be fun!
I hope to see you in the Visual Pedagogy workshop. We'll have an applied collaborative activity for everyone as well as theory, case studies, examples and discussion. My colleague Eric Feinblatt will be joining us from Buenas Aires, where he is currently doing a field project.
Take Care, --Ragi
I looked over your work for Empire State and the SMART work for online courses for science, math and technology. Interested to see courses developed for participants w/o strong science backgrounds
For the Jason Academy ( part of Jason Project/NG)
I teach online cohorts of participants from Cambridge College which sounds similar to Empire State. I work with mostly adult learners, many who do not have a strong science background. They also have family and careers and are joggling much in their lives.
Very interested in collaboration and visual immersion. I am thinking about taking the
SLOAN workshop this month
So may see you there too : )
Ragi writes........
Hi Arlene,
Thank you for the kind comments! It looks like we have some intersecting interests, which is always nice :-)
My next related activity is a Sloan-C workshop titled Visual Pedagogy, Collaborative Learning, and Meaning-Making in Online Environments (it will have a SL component). http://sloan-c.org/workshop/visual_sep07.asp
The website showcasing some of our activities on the SMART project is: http://www.esc.edu/smart/default.html
Take Care, --Ragi
Your NMC creativity symposium project is really cool too. The sound made it so much more immersive. Overall I think it is a great beginning to what you envision. I look forward to seeing it continue to develop.
What an impressive background !
"Engaging the Visual Brain in eLearning: Visual Cognitive Neuroscience and Visual Approaches to Learning in Online Environments, to be included in a forthcoming publication on elearning and neuroscience; and a presentation titled Meaning Making, Agency, and the Intentional Brain, given at the Jean Piaget Society for Knowledge and Development annual meeting. "
Very interested in this topic and look forward to this publication
Also
"Charitable Leadership foundation grant for the development of math and science courses (online) - this includes an immersion/visualization segment that is funding our SL initiatives"
Would love to know more........
I am involved with online science for Jason Project/National Geographics and have worked as a consultant analyst for AAAS in looking at online media ( phenomenom and representations) and National Science Standards.