http://openedweb.com/blog Education and Technology Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:59:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://openedweb.com/blog/2011/12/27/starquiz/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2011/12/27/starquiz/#comments Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:59:22 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1830 Some of my colleagues and I have been looking ways to implement Data Driven Instruction (DDI), one of the components of the educational reform being implemented by NYSED’s Race to the Top. We had looked into packages such as LinkIt, but these comprehensive services are only interested in working with schools rather than individual teachers. [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2011/12/27/starquiz/feed/ 0 http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/08/22/oxwall-ning-alternative/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/08/22/oxwall-ning-alternative/#comments Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:19:50 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1791 I recently found another social networking server app through Twitter. As we know Ning recently changed its terms of service and is no longer offering free social networks. This sent a wave of panic throughout the educational technology community, accustomed to having “free” apps at their disposal. People immediately sought alternatives to Ning. Of course [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/08/22/oxwall-ning-alternative/feed/ 10 http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/08/16/graphics-to-support-learning/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/08/16/graphics-to-support-learning/#comments Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:08:56 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1743 This is one of a number of posts exploring multimedia learning. I have been reading research on this topic with an eye toward improving my presentations and other multimedia instructional material. Here are earlier posts in order of creation: Text and graphics in Multimedia Presentations Multimedia Researcher Mayer on Slideware Graphics in Instructional Presentations In [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/08/16/graphics-to-support-learning/feed/ 0 http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/08/10/graphics-in-instructional-presentations/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/08/10/graphics-in-instructional-presentations/#comments Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:27:49 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1705 As I grapple with research trying to improve my instructional presentations, I have learned about Richard Mayer’s assertion that people learn better with words and graphics than just words alone. As a result, I have been investigating information about the role of graphics in learning. One natural extension of the reading that I have done [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/08/10/graphics-in-instructional-presentations/feed/ 1 http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/08/09/corporate-web-2-0/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/08/09/corporate-web-2-0/#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:30:20 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1719 Jim Groom just got me fired up again. Groom, in conjunction with Brian Lamb, wrote an important article in Educause entitled Never Mind the Edupunks; or, The Great Web 2.0 Swindle. The article laments the corporatization of  Web 2.0 in education.  The authors acknowledge the appeal and power of free online services offered by Google and [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/08/09/corporate-web-2-0/feed/ 3 http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/07/19/critique-of-timeline-lesson/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/07/19/critique-of-timeline-lesson/#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:41:04 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1656 The animated Chinese timeline shown my previous blog post was a demonstration of a workflow using proprietary software to make a stand alone animated timeline. While viewing the timeline several times, I started examining it through the prism of the research on multimedia learning that I have been reading–particularly that of Richard Mayer. One learning [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/07/19/critique-of-timeline-lesson/feed/ 0 http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/07/17/create-animated-timelines-as-oers/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/07/17/create-animated-timelines-as-oers/#comments Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:34:02 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1623 This is a fairly specialized procedure for users of Keynote and TimeLine 3D, both proprietary Mac programs. The important thing is that it results in something that could be a high quality OER. I had a couple requests for a how-to on building a timeline like the one shown below. Bee Doc’s Timeline 3D is [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/07/17/create-animated-timelines-as-oers/feed/ 2 http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/07/12/how-turn-a-flickr-image-into-an-oer/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/07/12/how-turn-a-flickr-image-into-an-oer/#comments Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:08:13 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1582 If you have a Flickr account, one of the easiest ways to to contribute open educational resources (OERs) is to Creative Commons license your images. Once you have done so, your photographs will appear on Flickr’s Creative Commons search page according to the license that you have designated. This is quick and simple to do. [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/07/12/how-turn-a-flickr-image-into-an-oer/feed/ 0 http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/07/10/how-about-a-summer-of-oer/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/07/10/how-about-a-summer-of-oer/#comments Sat, 10 Jul 2010 23:26:10 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1535 In general, teachers love freebies and actively seek them out. These free things range from blogs to web apps to lesson plans. I’d like to challenge teachers to go beyond just consuming freebies to producing them as well. Teachers create great resources all the time in the course of their practice. We could go a [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/07/10/how-about-a-summer-of-oer/feed/ 2 http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/07/07/multimedia-researcher-mayer-on-slideware/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/07/07/multimedia-researcher-mayer-on-slideware/#comments Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:45:06 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1480 Richard Mayer is one of the leading researchers on the impact of multimedia on learning. However, in his two books, Multimedia Learning and e-Learning (coauthored by Ruth Colvin Clark), slideware is not often mentioned. Multimedia Learning he simply mentions PowerPoint presentations as an example of multimedia. Since I have ben exploring his research as a [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/07/07/multimedia-researcher-mayer-on-slideware/feed/ 1 http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/06/30/text-and-graphics-in-multimedia-presentations/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/06/30/text-and-graphics-in-multimedia-presentations/#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:31:51 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1463 My presentation design has been greatly influenced by Nancy Duarte’s book slide:ology and Garr Reynolds, the author of Presentation Zen. I have integrated their ideas in both my conferences and instructional presentations. Their advice has dramatically changed my practice from bullet points to slides that are more graphically oriented with much less text. Both Duarte’ [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/06/30/text-and-graphics-in-multimedia-presentations/feed/ 4 http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/06/24/rethinking-cc-licensing/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/06/24/rethinking-cc-licensing/#comments Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:16:44 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1438 Working with open educational resources (OER) and sharing, I constantly grapple with copyright. I have come to a greater appreciation of explicitly stated licensing. As a consumer of such resources, I often must search, parse, and decipher to determine whether they are OER. This has caused me to reconsider my practices as a content creator. [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/06/24/rethinking-cc-licensing/feed/ 7