link to website
from Albert Ip
Links to articles about Podcasting
Derek Morrison has a series of posts on "Recording online audio interactions - the easy way?" Part 1, part 2 and part 3. Amy Gahran has a post on How to Receive and Listen to Podcasts. Now, we can quite easily create Podcast (see Podcast defined for what is a Podcast) and subscript to them and listen whenever we want to.
http://www.digitalstories.org/home.asp
At a Glance Guide from Maricpoa Workshop presented by Dr Helen Barrret on eportfolios
More info about the workshop and more links to resources here
Barrett's site http://electronicportfolios.org
includes lots of graphics
link to website
by Chris Dede in Educause Quarterly Review
"Increasingly, people want educational products and services tailored to their individual needs rather than one-size-fits-all courses of fixed length, content, and pedagogy. Whether this individualization of educational products is effective depends both on the insight with which learners assess their needs and desires and on the degree to which institutions provide quality customized services rather than Frankenstein-like mixtures of learning modules.
Overall, the Internet-based learning styles ascribed to “Millennial� students —those born after 1982—increasingly apply for many people across a wide range of ages, driven by the tools and media they use every day. As computers and telecommunications continue to evolve, what new forms of neomillennial learning styles might emerging media enable, and how can higher education prepare for this shift?"
Connectivism:
A Learning Theory for the Digital Age
by George Siemens
"Including technology and connection making as learning activities begins to move learning theories into a digital age. We can no longer personally experience and acquire learning that we need to act. We derive our competence from forming connections. Karen Stephenson states:
“Experience has long been considered the best teacher of knowledge. Since we cannot experience everything, other people’s experiences, and hence other people, become the surrogate for knowledge. ‘I store my knowledge in my friends’ is an axiom for collecting knowledge through collecting people (undated).”
Chaos is a new reality for knowledge workers. ScienceWeek (2004) quotes Nigel Calder's definition that chaos is “a cryptic form of order”. Chaos is the breakdown of predictability, evidenced in complicated arrangements that initially defy order. Unlike constructivism, which states that learners attempt to foster understanding by meaning making tasks, chaos states that the meaning exists – the learner's challenge is to recognize the patterns which appear to be hidden. Meaning-making and forming connections between specialized communities are important activities."
link link to website
Quote from Fullan "The answer to large-scale reform is not to try to emulate the characteristics of the minority who are getting somewhere under present condition. Rather, we must change existing conditions so that it is normal and possible for a majority of people to move forward" (Fullan, 2001, p268)
Comment by Stephen Marshall:
"I think we're so distracted by the impressive work of early adopters and the potential of new technology that its easy to lose sight of the different priorities most academics have. Its not even a question of whether they can engage in e-learning, its why they should do it instead of other aspects of their work."
Fullan, M. (2001). The new meaning of educational change (3rd. ed.). New York: Teachers' College Press.
"lessons in effective teaching" at Virginia Tech
Creating Passionate Users: Too Many Words
Too Many Words
A picture really is worth a thousand words, especially when you're trying to get information or knowledge to go from your head into someone else's. You can talk all day, but that sketch on the back of the napkin can suddenly make it all clear. When you're communicating, you have a thought bubble over your head with a representation of what you're trying to convey, and the listener/receiver has a thought bubble over his head with a representation of what he thinks about what you're saying. The big question is, do they match?
"This course surveys Knowledge Management systems that enable the access and coordination of knowledge assets. Technologies reviewed will include intranets, groupware, weblogs, instant messaging, content management systems and email in both individual and organizational contexts. Students will use these KM technologies, review case studies, research methods of knowledge organization and analyze and design KM processes and systems. "
1. Font Shorthand
2. Multiple Classes
3. Border Defualt Value
4.Print Stylesheets
5. Image Replacement Technique
6. Box Model alternatives
7. Centre Aligning a Block Element
8. Vertically Alignment
9. Postioning within Containers
10. Background Colour to the bottom of screen
link to website
Dave Pollard's 'TEN MOST IMPORTANT IDEAS OF 2004: BLOGS AND THE INTERNET'
Also
from Dave Pollard
People change slowly. They change because they have to, more often than because they want to. And they change their behaviours before they change their beliefs.
Nowhere is this more manifest than in business. And most large organizations have a large number of people, and so, like oil tankers, they change direction the slowest of all, and are the least agile and manoeuvrable.
link to website
"In previous Auricle articles I've alluded to the Internet and intranets as e-learning filling stations and, so, I thought it was time to engage with podcasting as one way of 'filling up'. For this article I was particularly interested in tracking down podcasts and raw MP3 files with high production values. I know, there's some real gems in amateur sites with access to limited production facilities or expertise, or in conference/presentation recordings, but some podcasts engage and involve because they have the listeners of the recording in mind and so 'speak' to their particular audience."
link to website
from Dave Pollard
"Some more 'fun with numbers' today. A while ago I mentioned Idea Champions' When & Where Do You Get Your Best Ideas? survey. If you haven't taken the survey already, you can still do so. But before you click to post your answers, write them down. Then you can use this article to create your Personal Creativity Profile, as I've done above. The Profile will tell you:
* When and where you get your best ideas
* How your sources of great ideas differ from others, and why
* How you can make more time and space for creative activities"
Conferencing on the Web
"A comprehensive guide to software that powers discussions on the internet
Web Conferencing - Video Conferencing - Online Meetings - Instant Messaging - Forums & Message Boards - Groupware
Social Software for Online Collaboration - Online Communities - Virtual Teams - Intranets - E-learning - Knowledge Management "
link to website
from Seth Godin
"Yes, it's only been ten years.
And despite our memories of the crash of 2000, here are ten reasons why I believe that there's about to be a significant flourishing of Net companies and business successes, not to mention extremely cool things for the rest of us:"
link to website
by Scott Wilson
"First of all, I'm afraid I'm going to have to introduce a new bit of terminology. From now on instead of courses I'm going to talk about shared learning contexts (SLCs). Courses are a good word to describe a lot of things in formal education, but isn't broad enough to cover similar groups of functionality in informal settings, so this is a new term to cover anything that provides a space where a group of people engage in learning, whether informal or formal, and wether or not there is any sort of assessed outcome.
So what does a SLC typically contain? Well, looking across the range of LMSs, course websites, and the like, I think a reasonable starting list would look like this..."
Working Smart: The Master Task List
The purpose of developing a Master Task List is to enable you to focus more easily on those activities that really add value to your department, your division, and your company.
Created as part of a LearnScope Project at Swinburne.
5 key KM concepts as chosen by Denham Grey are:
Tacit Knowledge
Corporate memory
Expertise Directory
Ontologies
Personal Knowledge Management
link to pdf
by OKABE, Daisuke of Keio University
"This paper reports on an ethnographic study of camera phone usage in Tokyo, based on a diary study of usage patterns."
Guide to Using the Murdoch WebCT Template
Guide to Using the Murdoch WebCT Template
50 Alternatives to Lecture for Your Online Course
The motivation to find alternatives to online lecture is pretty obvious. Lecture alone does not work very well as an instructional strategy for a variety of reasons. This is true in the traditional classroom but is especially apparent in online courses where onscreen reading can be very tedious and recorded lecture hogs bandwidth without necessarily adding any value. In any case, recent views of instructional "best practice" focus on a more student centered and participatory model of teaching and learning.