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otivations are much more complex and diffused i am not trying to speed up how quickly i shift from one thing to another instead i am involved in a stream of activities in which other people figure prominently either synchronously through direct discussion a la twitter or im or indirectly through their writings and my responses in many cases i leave activities dangling because i don t know exactly how i feel about them in some cases i could resolve my feelings and take some action if i simply stopped other activities and focused solely on that post a comment read more abilene christian university one year later get link facebook x pinterest email other apps october 02 2009 i was reading this post on inside higher ed about the findings of abilene christian university a year after they started giving an ipod touch or iphone to each incoming freshman this was quite an interesting article to read and partly because of the high success rating from both students and faculty i wonder how many instructional technologists and how many instructional designers they had on board to prepare for the on slaught of course conversions or content additions to be able to use iphone as an actual learning tool rather than a gimmick device one of my favorite tools is profcast which takes powerpoint and keynote slides and allows you to narrate them similar to adobe s presenter the difference is that they are made into podcasts instead of streaming video files i would take downloadable podcasts over streaming files any day of the week post a comment read more the role of theory in instructional design get link facebook x pinterest email other apps september 30 2009 i was reading this article a week or so ago on the role that theory plays in instructional design even though the study was very limited only 7 participants and in several different industries i ve seen similar results when working with my classmates i should point out that this post is not meant to criticize my classmates but to point out observations in the instructional design field as a whole the researchers in this study found ten themes participant desire to use theory and report that they often do participants expressed ambivalence toward theory theories were viewed as overly abstract rigid or complex with relatively little guidance regarding application the range of theories chose are likely limited to those that practitioners know about understand how to apply and find useful in their work the researchers then suggested that practitioners may seldom identify theories that are actually useful in their specific setting even if a helpful theory exis post a comment read more heard this before get link facebook x pinterest email other apps september 28 2009 i was reading an article recently on the washington post the title of which was a virtual revolution is brewing for colleges quite honestly i ve heard this before and i ve been hearing this for the last ten years still hasn t happened here s an interesting quote the young students of tomorrow will be growing up in an on demand personalized world in which the notion of a set term offline prepackaged education will seem anachronistic in my experience there have been very few prepackaged classes in all of my undergrad education we ve had guidelines about what should be covered however the classes were anything but prepackaged we did get off syllabus we did explore interesting tangents and the students who were in the class did offer valuable insights another interesting quote soon you ll see more web sites that make it easy to take classes from a blend of different universities while this would be interesting there is a problem of accreditatio post a comment read more free food get link facebook x pinterest email other apps september 25 2009 with the beginning of the semester behind us and the opening festivities almost behind us as well this puts an end to the free food on campus i guess we re back to normal now as indicated by this phd comic strip post a comment read more 5 reasons microsoft will buy blackboard get link facebook x pinterest email other apps september 23 2009 i saw this article on inside higher ed recently it s an interesting concept but i don t really buy into it blackboard it toxic at the moment many people who use it absolutely despise it microsoft already has image problems having one more image problem is not something that they need to fix their brand if microsoft were to buy blackboard they would probably buy them and end of life all current blackboard products with the exception of angel that product seems to be loved by the people who use it however this is unlikely many customers would probably prefer to see upgrades to blackboard vista and ce to make them more intuitive rather than switch to another product altogether since there are course conversion costs converting existing templates training people training faculty troubleshooting etc and if microsoft were to kill off the troubled children of blackboard this could compound on their existing image problems if microsoft were to enter the lms cms ar post a comment read more i don t get lrnchat get link facebook x pinterest email other apps september 21 2009 it s been a while since i attended podcamp boston and met a lot of interesting people one of those interesting people is gina minks gminks on twitter gina informed me about lrnchat on twitter you can find transcripts here and i eagerly wanted to check things out what is lrnchat lrnchat is an online chat that happens every thursday night 8 30 10pm est 5 30 7pm pst over the social messaging service twitter participants are people interested in the topic of learning from one another and who want to discuss how to help other people learn i haven t had a chance to participate in a lrnchat session because when it s on i am generally tired the morning following a lrnchat session i feel as though my twitter stream has been spammed and spammed badly i only get one side of the conversation with some quotes that are just like whaaaaaa and others that are awesome pearls of wisdom in an of themselves that can stand without context now i can post a comment read more paying students for academic achievement get link facebook x pinterest email other apps september 18 2009 this months started off with a show me the money theme both for pre college and college level kids first we had a story on nrp asking whether paying for grades cheapens education and then we had a story from indiana university s pressroom on their incentive grants for students who do well in school i fall somewhere in between the two positions of to pay and not to pay when i was in school i did not get money from my parents for bringing home a good report card however i did get certain allowances like being able to play computer games on my 68040 performa no fpu and being in a better bargaining position when it came to buying new video games when i was in college it was expected that i was an adult and i was responsible enough to value the education that i was paying for of course what it comes down to is this whether in k 12 or in college we end up paying for education nothing is free if you want to reward kids for doing well in k 12 post a comment read more what is an instructional designer get link facebook x pinterest email other apps september 16 2009 i was reading inside higher ed earlier this week and there was an interesting list similar to educause s 7 things lists about what define a learning technologists out of this list these three points are quite interesting to me and quite possibly define my weltsanschauung with regard to educational technology and my likes at work we learning technologists share a healthy skepticism towards the dominant commercial cms blackboard put another way our relationship with blackboard is often ambivalent philosophically i think many of us are drawn to open and community source platforms and business models there is an important conversation going on in our profession about the advantages of sticking with blackboard as our campus cms which there are many versus moving in larger numbers to an open source alternative with moodle getting the most traction lately this conversation will continue to dominate our profession personally it s not like i hate blackboard it s 2 comments read more the learning 2 0 strategy get link facebook x pinterest email other apps september 14 2009 i was recently reading a wrap up post on elearningtech which pointed me to an older post that tony karrer had written in this post tony writes about the key aspects of learning 2 0 briefly summarized here start tactical and bottom up avoid the culture question avoid highly regulated content and lawyers learning professionals must lead prepare workers for learning 2 0 technology is tactical not strategic avoid the cio what s interesting about this is that this is the way that i ve started building out the instructional design network of students and alumni and other people involved with the graduate program at umass boston first with ning then adding on a wiki and other services that can help both students and alumni what i find interesting is that all the members of the community are learning professionals or want to be learning professionals anyway but we are still experiencing the same types of issues that any organization faces it s a real culture change post a comment read more barriers to technology accessibility a myth get link facebook x pinterest email other apps september 11 2009 i was reading an article recently on the 5 myths of mobile learning while i somewhat agree with most of what is said i take issue with the accessibility and cost myth this was perhaps one of the stranger myths i encountered that personal mobile computing devices are inaccessible because of the inherent cost barriers looking around me here in india at the amazing rate of adoption of mobile devices see mobile learning in india and the availability of mobile networks capable of data that now range contiguously across india see networks in rural india its obvious cost is hardly a factor in the mobile learning equation phones today cost far less than they ever did do far more and are cheaper to use because network usage charges are dropping consistently these factors contribute to increased technology availability and subsequent adoption i think that it depends on what the meaning of mobile is and even then there are accessibility constraints not everyone carrie post a comment read more missing those firedrills get link facebook x pinterest email other apps september 09 2009 aaaaah first week back to classes after a summer of classes and lots of rain and the beloved fire drills are back of course i won t be participating in te firedrills because we don t have any in the library building i remember that as an undergraduate i loved fire drills because it got me out of class as an employee i hated them because there was always a chance that something would go missing and now that i haven t had a firedrills on five years i strangely find myself missing them odd very odd indeed post from my iphone post a comment read more i am no good at computers get link facebook x pinterest email other apps september 07 2009 well the semester started and i invariably got my first i m sorry i m just no good at computers comment from someone at work this reminded me of a post that i saw on dangerously irrelevant a few weeks back i first started hearing this a couple of years back and ever got it this quote from dangerously irrelevant was really interesting what does this say about us as educators as employees of supposed learning organizations who purportedly are all about life long learning is saying i m not very good at computers the modern counterpart to i m not good at math both typically accompanied by a chuckle and a c est la vie hand wave as if it didn t matter personally i ve never heard of i m just no good at math granted i am not the best at math but i still do try and i do get a correct answer eventually i ve never had a c est la vie attitude about not being able to do math and i post a comment read more post hoc versus post doc get link facebook x pinterest email other apps september 04 2009 a little friday humor for you all post a comment read more media literacy for the 21st century get link facebook x pinterest email other apps september 02 2009 here s a nice little clip of rheingold on media literacy a quick run down of his literacies attention participation collaboration critical consumption aka crap detection omg he said crap personally i would have called it bullshit detector or is that a different category 21st century media literacies from jd lasica on vimeo post a comment read more conversation simulation software get link facebook x pinterest email other apps august 31 2009 while i was exploring the options for conversation simulation software i am not that skilled with flash so that would take way too long to accomplish i came across kdsimstudio via elearning learning i was really excited to try it out since it seemed straight forward and easy to use and there was a demo version that i could try the software looks nice but i found out that it only supports roman character sets maybe even just ascii so all my greek looks like gibberish too bad because i thought that this software would have been great for language education post a comment read more google for education get link facebook x pinterest email other apps august 28 2009 i love the phrase collaborating like it s 1999 post a comment read more what does a d stand for get link facebook x pinterest email other apps august 26 2009 earlier this month i was reading the sinkhole ahead blog post on inside higher ed which prompted me to read this little rant on the d written by the same author you know it s funny i ve been a student for quite some time now and i ve never thought of the d much one semester in my undergrad i just wanted to get a d in calculus ii so that i can pass and move on calculus ii wasn t required for any subsequent courses but i had to take it and pass it and quite honestly i felt like i was being dragged behind a bus in any case what is debated is what role does d satisfy i ve always thought about the letter grade system as being things similar to my greek elementary school grading a αριστο excellent b πολύ καλό very good c καλό satisfactory good d μέτριο so so not quite fail not quite satisfactory needs work f 0 zero now one of the blog posts mentions the following d s make some level of sense if you believe the a post a comment read more getting out of grading seriously get link facebook x pinterest email other apps august 24 2009 earlier this month i was reading an article on inside higher ed about about a duke administrator that went back into teaching how she found grading so tiresome that she decided to outsource it to her students yes 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