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Engaging the Digital Learner ’08

This weekend a group of us went to Burridge to talk with new faculty at our college about how we can use emerging technologies to engage learners. It was a great weekend, not just for the wonderful conversations we had but also for the time we spent together. What an amazing group! Check out the…
More than moving lips

A great quote from Karl Kapp: “If the only thing moving is somebody’s lips, then you don’t need video.” I’d say that applies to web cams during live sessions, too. Would you?
One trillion

Google says that they have just indexed their one trillionth unique URL. It’s hard to imagine a trillion. At FlickrCC, there are only 20 pictures tagged “trillion”. It’s a mystery how they earned that tag. I visited photographer Chris Jordan’s site. Chris takes pictures that give a sense of the scale of numbers — how…
Hey, I’m a QR Code

There are two things I’ve been trying to wrap my head around lately. The first is gaming. (That’ll have to wait for another post.) The second is mobile learning. Today, I came across a video demonstration of QR codes. This is a QR code for this site. If you take a picture of it with…
One World

I love the videos that Matt does. The latest was posted a few weeks ago. Doesn’t that look like the best fun you’ve ever had? Matt, come to Nova Scotia so we can dance at Peggy’s Cove!
Beautiful words

A wordle tag cloud of my del.icio.us links. Make one for yourself.
Cafe Web 2.0

This past week, my good friend Alan & I gave a presentation about Web 2.0 to some colleagues in Truro. Here are the slides and links to the sites we talked about: Twitter (I’m randommind on Twitter — feel free to add me as a contact) Here’s a video showing you how to use tabbed browsing. …
What’s an instructional designer?

I love everything about design. I love the design of buildings. I love the design of photographs. I love the design of a good meal. I just like how things are put together. Maybe that’s why I love being an instructional designer. But it’s hard sometimes to explain to other people exactly what I do…
Odds & ends

From my feed pile, a couple of things worth sharing … Cole Camplese asks, is it time to ditch the committee and fire up the community? Count me in! Want to avoid presentationitis, that uncontrollable urge that many of us have to lecture at folks online? The idea is to show, not tell, to get…
If class were like chat

If you teach live online, I bet this feels familiar.