After an exciting plenary session on the future of technology - sorry that's all I can say, due to a confidentiality agreement (lets just say the future will be exciting!) I heard a series of exceptional talks discussing how Tablets have been integrated into a number of courses and curricula. Lunch with "birds of a feather" connected me with a community of educators in the physical scientists. I found a few folks who have very similar applications and goals. We discussed details of our projects at length at the poster session. One tip was to go with Vernier probes - the company seems more geared towards college than Pasco.
Gloria Rogers from ABET gave a very informative talk on assessment. This was followed by small groups that reviewed the assessment matrix we prepared in January. The first thing I noticed was that we are probably being too ambitions in our assessment strategy. It might be best to scale things back and spend more time on a few things rather than try to do so many things. The second major thing I learned is that assessment takes upfront planning, but that it is also iterative. I'm glad we are offering the live version of the course next year so that we will have some baseline data.
