I just started reading Karl Kapp’s book Games, Gadgets, and Gizmos for Learning. Much of the book is about the differences in how different generations learn. Specifically, he compares the “boomers” to the “gamers.” One of the characteristics of “gamers” (called by others the net generation, or digital immigrants, or millenials, or probably some other
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I thought when I was tagged for the my first meme that I had “arrived” in the blogosphere, but now that I’ve been panned by Stephen Downes, I know I’ve really made it. 😉 Image citation Stephen on the Lake from Stephen Downes‘s photostream. I do want to clarify what my Facebook as LMS? post
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Sarah Robbins posted on Ubernoggin today with the title Roll your own LMS with Facebook. She says that rather than using a traditional LMS that students don’t use as often as they perhaps should, you can use Facebook as a “near perfect course management system,” with chat, file sharing, and “Courses.” It looks to me
These are my notes from the presentation MySpace is not YourSpace: The Promise and Pitfalls of Online Social Networking at the Conference for Distance Learning and Teaching last week. The presenters were Alan Foley and Hal Meeks.The slides from the presentation are available as a pdf. Late Update: You can get the audio with the
I’ve had the pleasure in the last few days to meet my coworkers in person for the first time. It is one of the oddities of telecommuting that you can build relationships with people over the course of months and never get to meet them face to face. We’ve shared pictures, so we knew what
Cheri Toledo pointed out a site called Orisinal. It’s got a bunch of little Flash-based games. None of them are designed to be overly challenging; Cheri says she uses them for mental breaks. It’s nice to look at some ideas for a variety of interactions. I admit found some of them confusing; I couldn’t quite
Some of the continuing conversation from Will’s It’s Not Just the Read/Write Web post has been about, well, continuing conversations. It’s the idea that learning shouldn’t be about memorizing for a test or completing a project, but lifelong learning. David Warlick wonders if we can focus more on learning and less on just what has
I’m starting to learn Flash now. This is something I want to do, and I’m looking forward to having the ability to do more interactivity in my courses than just what I can do with html or even with Captivate. Things are a little slow for my job right now, so it has seemed the
My previous post about Technology Skills for Instructional Designers has prompted some good discussion. Check out Do Instructional Designers Really Need Technology Skills? for my response and more comments, as well as Cammy Bean’s reply, Instructional Designers Tools. I still think that learning technology skills is a good route to go if you’re hoping to