http://openedweb.com/blog Education and Technology Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:54:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 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/ 2 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 http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/06/19/buddypress-installation-for-the-masses-2/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/06/19/buddypress-installation-for-the-masses-2/#comments Sat, 19 Jun 2010 18:48:26 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1436 I recently created another BuddyPress test site and I am pleased with how much the procedure has been simplified. I blogged about the difficulty in the past, so it is only fair that I note vast improvements. I never fully succeeded installing BP the first time I tried. It involved a long process of manually uploading a [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/06/19/buddypress-installation-for-the-masses-2/feed/ 5 http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/06/19/what-about-an-open-educational-resource-torrent-tracker/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/06/19/what-about-an-open-educational-resource-torrent-tracker/#comments Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:20:33 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/06/08/what-about-an-open-educational-resource-torrent-tracker/ There are many resources on the Internet dedicated to open educational resources. Some are sites, for example Curriki, that provide online communities for sharing such resources. Others are search sites such as CC Search that provide links to open licensed resources throughout the Internet. The one variant that I have not yet found is a [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/06/19/what-about-an-open-educational-resource-torrent-tracker/feed/ 4 http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/06/13/sharing-isnt-simple-ii/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/06/13/sharing-isnt-simple-ii/#comments Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:03:57 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/06/06/sharing-isnt-simple-ii/ Copyright issues are not the only obstacles to sharing content with others. Some of the obstacles are my choice of software and platform. Although I am an advocate of open source software, my focus in this area has been server based applications. When it comes to desktop computing, I run a Mac. I like the [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/06/13/sharing-isnt-simple-ii/feed/ 0 http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/06/06/sharing-isnt-simple-i/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/06/06/sharing-isnt-simple-i/#comments Sun, 06 Jun 2010 15:08:54 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/05/22/sharing-isnt-simple-i/ I have made hundreds of instructional presentations over the past three years. As reflected in my last blog post, recently my focus has been on math. Now my goal is to share these presentations with other educators. The first consideration is straightforward. I plan on using a Creative Commons license. As I’ve discussed in an [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/06/06/sharing-isnt-simple-i/feed/ 3 http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/05/22/digitizing-math-instruction/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/05/22/digitizing-math-instruction/#comments Sat, 22 May 2010 15:25:20 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/05/22/digitizing-and-sharing-math-instruction/ A few months ago, I decided to deliver math lessons to my fifth grade digitally. It was the last subject area that I brought into this form. I was reluctant because typesetting needed for math was confusing and frustrating. Beyond that, I was quite pleased with how I conducted math lessons, and my results have [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/05/22/digitizing-math-instruction/feed/ 0