A friend of mine sent a higher resolution copy of the video made by Michael Wesch’s students that’s circulating online right now. Amazing stuff. I can see more in the version I have now, so I pause the video to read what the students are saying. At one point in the video, where students are [...]
Archive for October, 2007
I feel more connected online
Posted in Digital Learners on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Turning a broadcast into a conversation
Posted in Media, Tools to Try on October 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
There are lots of tools that allow people to share videos and pictures (YouTube comes to mind), but we’re starting to see a new generation of services (maybe inspired by Joost) that bring a bit of interactivity to a static presentation. VoiceThread and Viddler are two examples. These services let you or learners share presentations, [...]
The web is not a broadcast medium
Posted in Facilitating Online, Random on October 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From a chat with a colleague (and shared with his permission) … “It’s funny but in many ways teachers are not about communication, they are about broadcasting. That is why they don’t get the web, it’s not that they don’t know what it does, it’s that they don’t like what it does…” I wonder. What [...]
Trust the blog
Posted in Blogs, Tools to Try on October 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Michael Hotrum did a small “trust test“. He searched the net for information about repetitive stress injury. He looked at web sites and blogs, and he concluded … “Websites are primarily corporate, designed to deliver a message leading to a sale, and often dated. The weblog – personal ones – can be corporate and sales [...]
Engaging the digital learner
Posted in Digital Learners, Tools to Try on October 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A group of us just spent a wonderful morning with the great group taking part in Foundations in Adult Learning at the Burridge Campus. Besides the amazing food (thanks Phyllis & Tony!), we had the chance to talk about “digital learners” and look at some of the technologies that are engaging them.For those who were [...]
An eportfolio in del.icio.us
Posted in Portfolio on October 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
What will Helen Barrett think of next? She has created a version of her eportfolio in del.icio.us.
How to save yourself from zombies
Posted in Random on October 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Mobile-based assessment
Posted in Mobile learning on October 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Here’s Gavin Cooney of Learnosity explaining how a phone might be used for assessment. Basically, you log in with your student ID, a recording asks you questions, you respond & your response is recorded as a voice mail for an instructor to mark afterward. It’s interesting because this interview was actually recorded using a mobile [...]
Write an email that students will read
Posted in Facilitating Online on October 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Again & again I hear from faculty who complain that students just aren’t reading their email. “If they read the email, they’d know the assignment was due.” “If they read the email, they’d know that the course started last week.” Of course much of the responsibility lies with students themselves. They are expected to check [...]
Learning objects? Did someone say learning objects?
Posted in Open Content on October 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“Learning Objects”, what are those? It seems like we have just briefly been swept back in time to the early 2000s. I’m not ready to recite that “Paul is Dead”, but I did listen to a learning object backward recently …” ~ Alan Levine in a comment on Stephen’s Web
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