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Printer-friendly format (PDF) Technology Conference Gives Global Attention to Changing Landscape of Education
July 20, 2009
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Put aside your books, your pencils, and your SparkNotes, it’s time to realize that higher education is moving faster than the speed of your home processor, and the upcoming Campus Technology 2009 conference can prove it.
The Campus Technology Conference in Boston, Mass. begins July 27 and will focus on rapidly growing technologies in higher education. Conference highlights include a technology-specific exhibit hall and marketplace, networking opportunities for education professionals including CIOs, VPs of Technology, Deans, Department Chairs, and faculty from academic institutions around the word.
The conference will also feature technology savvy speakers ranging from a multitude of backgrounds to talk about the potential and driving force of technology in higher education.
Hap Aziz, Director of the School of Technology and Design for Rasmussen College, will be one of these speakers. Aziz will be presenting a poster session titled, "The Psychology of Self: What Do Avatars Represent?"
His session will explore how computer-based avatars merge the acts of observation and participation changing and combining each activity into something fundamentally new in the virtual age. Participants will learn the history of avatars, beginning with the mechanical characters in Spacewar! to the first examples of FPS avatars in Battlezone. They will continue by identifying how avatars are utilized in modern computer games and how players redefine ideas of self in their selection of avatars.
For more information on the conference, visit http://campustechnology.com/microsites/events/campus-technology-conference.aspx. For more information about Rasmussen College, visit www.Rasmussen.edu.
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