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
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The newest installment in Common Craft’s video series is Social Bookmarking in Plain English. It’s a good introduction to the concept, but I don’t think this is as strong as their other videos. This one is focused specifically on del.icio.us and uses numerous printed screenshots rather than being solely about the overall concept of social
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These are my notes about the "Rapid E-Learning with Adobe Captivate" webinar this morning, presented by Silke Fleischer. The recording of the webinar should be available within about a week. This is pretty much live blogged, so please forgive the brevity of the points here. I was really focusing on what the new features are
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Jane Hart has asked a number of people to write about their favorite tools, for either e-learning or personal learning and working. Of my top 10, 8 are free tools, and 3 of those are open source. Without further ado, here’s my list: 1. Firefox: I started using Firefox as my browser because it’s more
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
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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
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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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Common Craft has another video similar to their previous “RSS in Plain English” video. Pass this one along to anyone who needs a 3-minute intro to wikis! This video was made by Common Craft with a CC-BY-NC license.
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Courtesy of NSWLearnscope, here’s a way to visualize how del.icio.us networks are interconnected. The tool is called del.icio.us network explorer. Enter your del.icio.us username (or someone else’s) as a starting point, and you see your network. Click on anyone in your network to see their network. Mutual connections are in red, one way connections are
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