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Instructional Design from PSU Voices
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Using Camtasia for the Mac to Communicate with Team
Showing Something Today to Someone is already at TomorrowMy team is currently in the heavy development phase for the Bio12 project. On top of that, our subject matter expert, Tyrone Ridgway, has recently moved back to Australia where he is...
Project Management...in the Open
Let's Open it UpSince I've arrived here at Penn State to enter the world of higher education 10 months ago, probably the most recurring theme I've run across is that of "openness". Open courses, open courseware, open source, open sesame,...
Gearing up for ANGEL 7.4: A Preview of the Rubric Tool
It's the middle of fall and that means we're preparing to possibly upgrade to ANGEL 7.4 at the end of the spring semester. Over the next few months I'll be posting short video previews of some of the major new...
CIC CIO Presentation: Blog Platform as E-Learning Authoring Platform
On October 6, 2009 I was part of a presentation on the Blogs at Penn State web publishing platform at the CIC CIO Tech Forum at Michigan State University. I presented with Brad Kozlek and Erin Long.Our approach was this...
Thoughts on the CIC Tech Forum
The great over-arching challenge facing IT groups across the CIC is the culture gap that exists between those of us on the frontier of new educational technology and a great part of the community we try to serve. This was...
Some Initial Thoughts on e-Portfolio
I've been part of the e-portfolio initiative since the summer and for the last month I've been doing a lot of work with students, particularly freshmen, helping them to get up and running with their academic portfolio. Here are some...
A New Project Communication Approach
I am creating this Project Status website as a method for creating a project "hub" of information. This project is for the Biology 12 redesign and development project. I will attempt to keep this site up to date with...
Taxonomy For Instructional Design
Level 1 of the taxonomy of instructional design is simply relaying of information from the teacher to the student. I think that far too often this is the only way information is taught in a classroom. In a special education...
Time to Develop One Hour of Training: More Accurate Data?
Recent Survey Shows...It's that time again. Time to debate the age-old question of "how many hours does it take to develop one hour of training?" This has always been one of the more interesting questions in training development, e-learning in...
Balogna or Baloney
Copyright, like politics, is local. Or at least that's how we've been approaching it. When we talk about designing content we generally apply the law of copyright as understood in our own backyard. This, of course makes sense. Designers, instructors,...
Balogna or Baloney
Copyright, like politics, is local. Or at least that's how we've been approaching it. When we talk about designing content we generally apply the law of copyright as understood in our own backyard. This, of course makes sense. Designers, instructors,...
Using Flickr to Archive Photos for a Course
One of the grad students Teaching with Technology Certificate portfolios has a good example of using tagging in Flickr to organize photos that he's taken which can be used in a course. Jason Brooks from Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies...
A New Biology 12 Design Begins
I've spent the last couple of weeks working with Tyrone Ridgway on the next phase of the Biology 12 project. He returned from a rather exciting month or so back in Australia conducting classes from a boat where he took...
The Technology Ecosystem
My recent nano difficulties brought to the forefront just how inter-dependent my technology ecosystem is and how dependent I've become on it. The loss of my nano also meant I could not use my Nike+ system, which meant I lost...
Smeal Honor Code Resources
This is the time of year when I check and update the external links for Web sites such as the Plagiarism Prevention Resources. I had a few new URLs to input, but it appears that the Smeal College of Business...