Cammy Bean wrote an interesting comment on my earlier post, Technology Skills for Instructional Designers. She said: Let’s not forget that many of us instructional designers don’t have any technical skills whatsoever — nor do we need them! I’ve got no HTML skills, can’t use Dreamweaver, don’t do Flash, can hardly crop an image in
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“Technology, Colleges, and Community.” The theme for this year’s conference was “Blending Community and Multimedia in Ubiquitous Learning.” I have to admit that not too many people explicitly talked about “ubiquitous” learning; there were presentations on Web 2.0 tools and Second Life, some on accessibility and learning theories, and a few on working and teaching
I promise that this isn’t going to turn into one of those personal journal blogs where people just write about what they had for breakfast each day, but please indulge me in a little personal reflection time for my birthday. Today is my 30th birthday. I know a lot of people dread this milestone, but
Last week, someone emailed me this article, Writing for E-Learning. to help support a point she was making about adding a search function to online classes. I think her idea of a search function is great, but I mentioned that I disagree with several points in the article, starting with the assertion that “content is
Will Richardson’s presentation at the Online Connectivism Conference had a number of great ideas, but one recurring theme was the idea of passion in learning. Will talked about creating networks of passionate learners. This comes back to my ideas about lifelong learning from my post last week; if we can excite our students, they can
Yesterday I watched George Siemens presentation on Situating Connectivism in preparation for the Online Connectivism Conference. The presentation was helpful in providing context, but I admit that I’m still not sure I completely understand connectivism. Right now, I feel like I know it sort of superficially, but not well enough to do anything with it.
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