A number of folks have contacted me asking for up-to-the-minute updates on the trial. To begin with, I am tagging all relevant articles so that they appear in the EduPatents feed. I probably won’t blog about most of these directly unless I feel I have something substantially new to say about them, so my advice […]
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Updates on Blackboard v Desire2Learn
Published by February 13th, 2008 in Instructional Design and Digital Democracy. 2 CommentsTeaching with Facebook
Published by February 8th, 2008 in Instructional Design and Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 7 CommentsUpdate: The link is fixed now.
Michael Staton has posted a good presentation on tips and tricks for teaching with Facebook. There’s nothing earth-shattering here, but for a guy like me who is still finding his way around the platform, there were some tips that I found to be very helpful.
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Jing Rocks!
Published by January 21st, 2008 in Instructional Design, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and Notable Posts. 4 CommentsThanks to my wonderful readers, I have solved my screencasting dilemma. To begin with, I am thoroughly impressed with TechSmith’s Jing. It is extremely simple to use and produces very high-quality videos with very small file sizes. And it’s free. It’s not what you need if you’re going to want to edit the files, create […]
Screencasting Frustrations
Published by January 20th, 2008 in Instructional Design and Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 10 CommentsI’m trying to help my wife with what should be an easy-to-meet technology challenge, but so far I’ve run into a lot of unforeseen problems. Basically, she wants to do screencasts of her reviews of essays for her composition students in an online class. In other words, she talks while looking at (and pointing to, […]
Desire2Learn Competencies and Rubrics, Part II
Published by November 25th, 2007 in Higher Education, Instructional Design, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and Notable Posts. 0 CommentsI’ve been a little surprised at the amount of attention—both positive and negative—that my first post in this series has received. I want to address some of the comments on the negative side. There seems to be some concern that systems like D2L’s might promote bureaucratic mandates that increase burdens on teachers, or that they […]
