Conferenciantes :: Speakers
Presentaciones :: Presentations
Talleres :: Worshops
Horario :: Schedule

Conferenciantes/Speakers

The speakers for this year’s Blogfesores will be James Groom and Heather Morrison, well-known in the area of open access. Here are brief bios and links to more information about them.

James Groom

James Groom

James Groom is an Instructional Technology Specialist and adjunct professor at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He has been working for over a decade in education with a consistent focus on the development of teaching and learning in higher education. In addition to his extensive experience teaching at the college level, for the past four years he has worked primarily in the field of instructional technology (see work experience).

Heather Morrison

Heather Morrison

Heather Morrison is a well-known open access advocate, librarian / provincial project coordinator, and Adjunct Faculty member at the University of British Columbia’s School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies, where she has developed and taught courses on open access and scholarly communications. Heather is currently working on a book, Scholarly Communications for Librarians, to be published by Chandos Publishing in 2009. Links to Heather‘s extensive publications and presentations, generally focusing on open access, can be found from her scholarly blog, The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics.

Presentaciones :: Presentations

• Alternativas de Contenido Abierto para la Educación en Puerto Rico
  Profa. Carmen M. Maldonado-Oliveras
• Colaboración en el metaverso: la experiencia de PIENSL
  Prof. Pedro Amill Quiles
  Profa. Rossana Barrios Lloréns
  Dr. José Sánchez Lugo
• El iPortal de la Biblioteca de la Escuela Pedro Carlos Timotheé y PROMETEA: Dos proyectos para la integración de las competencias de información al proceso educativo utilizando programados de código abierto
  Angélica M. Carrillo Toste
• Implantación de Programas Libres y de Código Abierto en la Enseñanza de las Ciencias Geomáticas
  Marisol Rodríguez Rivera
• Manifiesto para el e-Learning: el proyecto de APAD
  Antonio Vantaggiato
• Open Access Policy and the Dramatic Growth of Open Access
  Heather Morrison
• Periodismo ciudadano: blogs, grupos de discusión y espacios abiertos de creación de contenido
  Dra. Mariam Ludim Rosa Vélez
• Universidad Abierta: el movimiento en la UPRM
  Dr. José Mari-Mutt
  Estudiantes de “Free Culture”

Talleres :: Worshops

• A Web of Ideas: How Do We Teach with These Tools?
  James Groom
• Joomla
• Open Journal Systems (OJS)
  Heather Morrison
• Selecting the right Free/Open-Source Software (FOSS)
  Dr. Marko Schutz