As the Ocotillo rep for South Mountain, Alisa Cooper (that’s me!) will be blogging about information and events coming out of Ocotillo. Alisa is also part of the R&D team for Ocotillo doing research on Podcasting. You can read more about Podcasting in Education on her Ocotillo blog and eport.
Now in it’s 19th year, Ocotillo since 1987 has served as a faculty-driven catalyst for addressing technology and learning at the Maricopa Community Colleges. Ocotillo takes its name from a plant which is indigenous to the natural Arizona landscape. Like the plant’s branches which reach up and out in many directions, Ocotillo’s ideas may reach out, grow, and flourish.
For the 2006-2007 year, we have launched a new structure for Ocotillo, re-inventing itself for the fourth time in its history. We have returned to a set of topical R&D groups, led by faculty co-chairs. The R&D Groups for this year are focussing on Podcasting, Elluminate, iCampus, and RSS Technologies. Each group will be developing its own array of activities, projects, workshops, etc to involve interested faculty and staff from across the Maricopa system. All of the action includes an electronic presence, with each group running its own weblog, wiki, and discussion board. You can read all about it on the Ocotillo ePort.
