Sunday, October 07, 2012

Zaid has a bunch of taxonomies that put modern tools/apps into a proposed use based on the level of Bloom.

http://zaidlearn.blogspot.fr/2012/10/a-juicy-collection-of-blooms-digital.html


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Thursday, February 09, 2012


Writing an Ebook
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This is a work in progress but I wanted to get it started. Each chapter will become a separate post when finished.

Chapter 1 Ebooks definition
Digital formatted book that may include audio, text and multimedia with links to websites if the reader has browser capability.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-book

Ebook Primer Educause

  1. Text-
  2. Audio-
    Audio books or "books on cd" have been around for a long time, but the audio books most related to mobile learning are those designed for reader users who have a problem with print. The Daisy format has been designed for those users and stands for  "Digital Accessible Information System" or Digital Talking Book.
    The books are based upon the Daisy Standards and will support both text to speech and Braille output content in a mixed media approach for various readers and tablets.
    Available Daisy formatted books can be found here as well as other sites listed on the Daisy site. Bookshare offers them free for qualifying students.
The ASB has some public domain books that you can download and use with a public reader.
Chapter 2 Standards 
Epub 2(current) and 3(coming) standard

                   Chapter 3  Ebook readers and formats

CBZ, CBR, CBC, CHM, EPUB, FB2, HTML, LIT, LRF, MOBI, ODT, PDF, PRC**, PDB, PML, RB, RTF, TCR, TXT , Amazon, Bnoble, other proprietarial
http://bookworm.oreilly.com/ online epub reader


                  Chapter 4  Writing process
Ultimately, an ePub file is merely a zip file consisting of XHTML and XML metadata, so it is possible to create one "by hand" yourself. A good tutorial for this can be found at http://www.jedisaber.com/eBooks/tutorial.asp.
CreateSpace- Tools


                        Chapter 5 Ebook Authoring Software
  1. Feedbooks (http://feedbooks.com/share/): You can log into Feedbooks and create your own content, which will be made available in ePub, as well as other formats like PDF and Kindle.
  2. ePub Tools (http://code.google.com/p/epub-tools): Command-line tools suitable for batch processing and integration into toolchains. Includes tools for conversion from Word, RTF, DocBook, TEI, and FictionBook.
  3. Rome?- multimedia output? convertible?
  5. eCub (http://www.juliansmart.com/ecub)  - "a simple to use EPUB and MobiPocket ebook creator"
  6. Sigil (http://code.google.com/p/sigil/) - Multi-platform WYSIWYG ebook editor. It is designed to edit books in ePub format. 
  8. Plucker HTML accumulator http://www.plkr.org/download
  • yWriter This is a free novel-writing application that you can use to write your next story.- breaks your novel into chapters and scenes For PC.
  1. Edupub http://edu.epubbud.com/ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lePPFxPfacoeWozRzzI006s0kNsvTaq2wH1DBj1qsRc/edit
  2. Wordpress Blog to epub plugin http://anthologize.org/
  3. FlatWorld http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/
  4. Web page to ebook http://dotepub.com/ cloud

Chapter 6 Publishing and ISBN process

Chapter 7 Conversion software
http://www.armandmorin.com/ebook/- commercial- exe format


                             Chapter 8 Reader Software
  1. Android reader  Comparison
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Android_e-book_reader_software
  1. Aldiko http://www.aldiko.com/
  3. Firefox plug in https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/epubreader/
  4. Mobipocket http://www.mobipocket.com/en/DownloadSoft/default.asp?Language=EN
  5. KOBO http://www.kobobooks.com/
  6. Adobe http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/
  7. Kindle apps http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=ms_sbrspot_5?ie=UTF8&docId=1000493771&pf_rd_p=1259190242&pf_rd_s=center-22&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B0015T963C&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=07H3AGZEQCWKMGD5W1XG
  8. Sony http://ebookstore.sony.com/download/
  9. plucker http://www.plkr.org/download http://www.plkr.org/download/windows

                      Chapter 9 Examples of Ebooks and Uses
FlexBook http://www.ck12.org/about/about-us

Memory Aids -
Action planning forms
Checklist
Notes
Possible inclusion of Qr
JIT instructions
Link Resources
Reference/documentation
Self contained modules
 
 
 
  Chapter 10 Free Ebooks

  14. http://www.freetechbooks.com/ computer science/math

Free Audio Books

Not Free




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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Types of Video Use

Different video/types/technology
Remember that most of the video we are talking about here is not exclusively visual, but also includes an auditory componenet.
  1. 2-way videoconferencing
  2. Satellite (1-way videoconf.)
  3. Desktop  videoconferencing      
  4. Web-based  resources (w/plug-ins) pc accessible
  5. Software formats such as fla, wmv       
  6. Chats webcams- telephony 
  7. Streaming  video
  8. Video disc/CD/DVD
  9. Vcr/camera  playback   
  10. Mobile video- ebooks
  11. Gaming videos
  12. Video  textbooks-
  13. Podcasting video-
  14. Smart phones /tablet with presentationapps
  15. Smart phones/tablets used as recorders
  16. Lecture  capture/recordings-
  17. Scripted and filmed video-
  18. Student Led Broadcasts- equipment?
  19. SIP Trunking
  20. White board recordings
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Friday, April 15, 2011

Wired for Mobile Learning


Via: Voxy Blog
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

20 Tools for m learning, mobile learning

20 mLearning Tools in 60 Minutes - mLearnCon 2010
View more presentations from bjschone
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Friday, December 31, 2010

HTML 5, CSS and JQuery

A few weeks ago, a member of the Instructional Technology Forum asked about HTML 5 vs Flash and I have been on a hunt ever since. I have been trying to upgrade my HTML skills, which were getting a little rusty.

Along the way I ran into the jquery library and I intend to work alot with it in the next year.
JQuery Project
JQuery Library
JQuery Mobile

I have some links to demo projects, comments etc:
JQuery educational app
45 application uses
Not quite there-api
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Friday, September 17, 2010

Theory of Learning for the Mobile Age- M Sharples

Theory Of Learning For The Mobile Age  - Leicester April 2007
View more presentations from sharplem.
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Monday, August 23, 2010

SALT- Call for Papers

New Learning Technologies Conference
Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin
Orlando, Florida
February 23-25, 2011

The details for the call for papers can be found here:

http://www.salt.org/fl/orlandoP.asp?pn=call

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Saturday, July 10, 2010

New Skills for Instructional Designers

New Skills for Instructional Designers
View more presentations from cammybean.
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Thursday, April 08, 2010

ID Theories

Theories Of Instructional Design
View more presentations from Jordan .
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Gear ID

Gears/HEIPA

  • Content Hierarchy
  • Task Hierarchy and Sequence
  • Information Processing Analysis
  • Drive control=goals and Objectives
  • Strategies
  • Media/Method
  • Learner Requirements/Conditions
  • Level and Type of Demonstration
  • Repeat/Expand/Alternatives/Elevate





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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Visual Literacy and Visualization

Visual literacy is part of the art of communication and design. When designing for any learning event, the ability to communicate the content and interpret it are vital to understanding.

The following links will provide a start for visual literacy study.


http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html

There are more maps here:

http://www.visual-literacy.org/pages/documents.htm
including the page by Chris the extracts each one with a show/hide
http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/xmldb/rest/db/Visualization/showAll.xql

and the papers:
http://www.visual-literacy.org/pages/articles.htm


As long as you are looking at visual lit, there is an ivla
http://www.ivla.org/

http://www.ivla.org/resources.htm
which has a taxonomy and bibliography listed


http://www.adobe.com/uk/education/pdf/adobe_visual_literacy_paper.pdf

http://www.pomona.edu/Academics/courserelated/classprojects/Visual-lit/intro/intro.html

http://trc.ucdavis.edu/?page_id=823

lots here:
http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/~vlibrary/edres/pathfinders/atos/

http://www.jakesonline.org/visual.htm
http://www.jakesonline.org/collections.htm

http://suelebeau.com/visualliteracy.html


http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/21stcent/visual.html

http://www.ericdigests.org/2003-1/visual.htm
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Saturday, August 08, 2009

Visual Literacy and Visualization

The Visual Literacy org site has a periodic table of visualization methods:
(use Mouseover)

http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html

Shown single method by using a show/hide link done by Chris Wallace:
http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/xmldb/rest/db/Visualization/showAll.xql

by category
http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/xmldb/rest/db/Visualization/index.xql


Other visual literacy maps
http://www.visual-literacy.org/pages/documents.htm

Visual Literacy Papers
http://www.visual-literacy.org/pages/articles.htm
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Friday, May 22, 2009

Basic Blog Info

The following links have basic info on blogging for the newbie:

http://opencontent.org/docs/begin_blog.html

http://www.elearnspace.org/enabling/blogs.htm

http://ocw.usu.edu/Instructional_Technology/new-media

http://www.bloggingworks.com/

http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/barrios/blogs/tools/tools2.html

http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/forum/fall03/rss.html
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Biological Learning Issues



As an ID, ISD or LISS, one of the areas that all learning designers need to address are the new discoveries in brain research that influence the cognitive learning processes. It is one of the areas that needs to be incorporated into all ID or LISS research studies in the future.

Learning, psychological and systems theories are theories, but actual physiological research has shown some of them to be relevant and this needs to be incorporated into all planning for learning activities.

This blog will address LISS activities in all phases, including media attributes, as well as the actual technological issues of using any new technology. It is vital to the future of ID that technology use be separated from the use of the term educational technology or instructional technology. AECT has changed names for the group in previous years and definitions of educational technology and instructional technology. However, the government has demoted the definition back to the use of technology in education with its NCLB act and academia has confused the terms for years. Its time to define new terms and new ideas that separate the processes, theories and ideals of learning experience design from the AV history which overshadows its changes during the last 25 years. As a starting point, I am going to call myself a LISS instead of an ID and see if anyone continues to confuse me with a button pushing, mouse clicking, PowerPoint using computer nerd that can show some one how to use the LCMS system to upload their antiquated PPT slides to the web.

Instructional Technology or Educational Technology is not computers, it is not media. Those institutions which continue to use the term that way need to read the definitions of AECT over the last 40 years.

Scientific American has released a new study about a specific region in the brain that is essential to the ability to read.


Other articles and links with various theories and ideas.
Cogprints
Cognitive Behavior management
The Official Psychology Website of Bangkok Patana School


Learning styles..is there really such a thing? More on this later..
Learning styles and pedagogy in post-16 learning : A systematic and critical review
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Learning Design Strategy, Instructional Design Strategy, Teaching Strategy, Media Delivery Strategy

Learning Design Strategy, Instructional Design Strategy, Teaching Strategy, Media Delivery Strategy

I haven't had time to do much here lately. The problem that I see is that there seems to be a confusion about what differentiates a learning design strategy from a learning delivery medium. Too often it seems people tend to confuse the two.

I have been looking at the term "instructional strategies" and then trying to find something that defines the characteristics of an instructional strategy vs the characteristics of the media delivery system. I have been less than satisfied with what I have found in the books and research papers.

Everyone talks about instructional strategies, but the actual process of defining the strategy and the composition of the strategies are nebulous sometimes. I know about designing for rules, procedures, etc., but the application of strategies in other than Gagne's 9 events doesn't appear to be well defined, especially for different domains.

Lots of folks appear to be using the term learning strategy, especially the military and related vendors, but a "learning strategy" is what the learner uses to organize information, procedures etc, to learn. That is not the same as an instructional strategy and a teaching/facilitation strategy. I have also seen a lot of "strategies" listed, that are more or less activities, not strategies. Some strategies can be used by both the learner as a learning method and the instructional strategy..like brainstorming.


I went to the library and pulled out a bunch of "teaching" strategy books to see what they say. Teaching strategy.. to me-- is the on site application of the instructional strategy and being on the spot to use it. The instructional strategy should be the needs, content definition, circumstances and learners evaluated and integrated, a selection of delivery mode and learning mode that best fits the learners, content and circumstances, lesson plans, media if needed, delivery process, assessment and re-instruction/learning.. if necessary... all based on the objective outcome. Its more than just presenting content by direct instruction.

Where I am having the most difficulty is defining the difference in some of the terms that can be used in different ways. Ex..role playing is a strategy, but it is also a delivery mode, so at what point does it cease to be the strategy (what is included in the strategy characteristics?) and become just an activity/delivery mode?

Out of curiosity, I looked up "instructional strategy" in the old AECT glossary of terms from 1979 (newest one that they had in the library)- pg 76 it says:

"The overall approach to instruction to be incorporated in the instructional system or instructional product; it includes the types of system operation, format, stimuli, responses, feedback, generalities, instances, difficulty, mathmagenic information, approach, presentation-organization, sequence, scope, size of step, and pacing to be used."

I did not find any definition of what they meant by "system operation" when they wrote that glossary. "Format" means the materials medium and organization of the content.

So essentially, what the old one is saying is that a strategy has (Macro and Micro):

1. system operation-
2. format
3. stimuli
4. responses
5. feedback
6. generalities
7. instances
8. difficulty
9. mathmagenic information
10. approach
11. presentation-organization
12. sequence
13. scope
14. size of step
15. and pacing

AND what is missing..assessment for understanding and learning goals, which I did not see in this definition. That should have been included. There is no indication of whether this was supposed to have been based on a descriptive or prescriptive process.
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Thursday, July 26, 2007

Technology Issues and Design Issues

One of the many issues with the term "instructional technology" is that people confuse "instructional technology" or "educational technology" with "technology for education" tools at various times during the last 80 years such as computers, television, video, radio, and overhead transparencies .

Instructional technology is the systematic design of learning situations, including instruction, delivery modes/mediums, environmental needs and modality concerns, evaluation. The design of the instruction includes the correct choice of a delivery medium, but the medium became the focus by those outside of the profession and the confusion become dominant.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Instructional_Technology

This blog will, as stated earlier, be concerned with the actual uses and functioning of tools for media/modes, but consideration will be given to the characteristics of the tool that make it applicable to a learning situation, learning situation design and why. The term "instructional technology" will NOT be used when referring to these tools.

Tech Tour Year begins in August 2007 and will consider new tools, software and their possible uses such as:

Blogs
Vlog
Video
Podcasting
Wikis in several forms
Design Software for Documents
Graphics Design Software
Web Design Software
Authoring systems
Content Management Systems
Web 2.0 applications
Open Source and Free software options
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Technology Issues and Design Issues

The government has increased the problem of confusing "technology use in education" with educational technology or instructional technology. This blog will focus on the technical issues of dealing with technology and "how to do it".... with some theory of course! :)
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Sunday, February 19, 2006

Podcasting

Podcasting has been the big rage for the past year. The following sites offer detailed information on how to begin podcasting.

http://www.feedforall.com/podcasting-tutorial.htm

http://www.podcasting-tools.com/how-to-podcast.htm

http://www.podcastbunker.com/

http://www.podcasting.com/

http://www.stager.org/podcasting.html
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Saturday, December 31, 2005

Base Camp

I have been behind in keeping up with the blogging and video blogging technology that has become available. This last year there was a lot of talk about using the technology for training and educational purposes. Using new technology always seems to be hard for some people to accept and the costs can be prohibitive for users, so I waited for the "kinks" to unravel. New technology can become another hill in the mountain range of learning (both for skills training and knowledge development)! I usually love my computer technology, but it is not and should not be the main focus. The outcome is what matters and sometimes "low-tech" is just as effective.
So...this is the Base Camp.

The definition for base camp is found at http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Base_camp

It defines Base Camp as a place to " provide the starting point for a multiple day or week assault on climbing a mountain. Base camp is used to store supplies that are carried to camps higher up on the mountain."

The base camp will be stocked with basic information and resources on learning how to use the technologies, which are always changing! The technology will be used to apply current learning and instructional design knowledge in constructive, practical methods. When that has been achieved, an advanced base camp will be developed for LID applications..or so goes the dream!
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