Create a podcast was the foundation of the assignment. My first thought was “Oh yeah, I got this.” In 2007 I attended a conference where podcasts were all the rage, heck I even created a podcast back then and coded the XML wrapper, (however it was only 1 episode and really never went anywhere) years went by and podcasts kind of faded into the background. When I say into the background I mean for the general person who wanted something…
We are getting deeper into the principles of Multimedia and specifically the Modality and Redundancy Principles. I was tasked with trying to create a presentation that flowed like a story, but was picture rich and text light. Getting folks away form the standard bullets of powerpoint into a new mode is a good thing that i have always been a proponent of, in fact I have been using Haiku Deck for a while (although I do very little presentations in class). I took…
Over the past year I have been slowly moving all of my presentations to Google Slides for a number of reasons. It is always online and easy to share and present. It is easy to create and allows me to pull in images and resources using the full power of google from within the app. This summer Google introduced the power of audience feedback as an option right within slides. For me this new option has moved me firmly over…
Just started ED 513 – Multimedia, this past week. Multimedia is something that I have long been interested in going back to the days of developing Multimedia CD’s even before the internet (anyone remember Macromedia Authorware?) I know some of the tools around the trade but for me it is the how and why that i am really interested in. I just watched the video on Universal Learning Design and this is something that I always want to now keep in mind…
The class ended with us reading the definition of Educational Technology as put forth in the book by Alan Januszewski and Michael Molenda based on the AECT. I read the definition (about 14 pages), and then read it again and yet a third time before things really started to click. We were tasked with creating a graphic that would summarize the definition. I have long been a photoshop person, but decided to try my hand at a couple of new…
Here is a project that I thought I would just follow the instructions and crank out the report. Little did I know that I would end up putting in lots of time and energy and by doing a self reflection on the Outdoor College I really learned a lot. To me some of the best projects are going in expecting very little and yet coming out very surprised (kind of like a movie). In preparation for doing this School Evaluation Summary, we had…
Here is a technology that i heard about a couple of months ago but really knew nothing about until this past week. Down in Las Vegas on the floor of InfoComm there are vendors everywhere. I happened upon intel’s booth and was immediately drawn in by the quick demo of Intel Unite. Collaboration and wireless technology is something that I have long been interested in. Getting any and all content from point A to point B and sharing that full…
The dreaded group project. Let me start by saying that as a teacher I have long been a fan of group projects. Bringing that collaborative learning into a larger hands on project that involved many skills was always a plus in my mind. This was my first student group project that I have done in 25 years. We were tasked with choosing a state (Idaho) and then researching 6 principles that could help to bridge the digital divide. We were…
Flipboard – for the past 4 years I have been using a personally curated Flipboard magazine (CS 103 – Ed Tech) as a great way to aggregate relevant news stories from multiple Flipboard magazines (usually current news, Technology and Education) along with stories from the web, for my Instructional Media class. For me and the students this has become a great reference that they can use not only for the 3 months that they are in my class but also…
I have been developing classroom spaces, experimenting with different ideas and presenting at conferences all over the US for the past 10 years with evidence based mainly in the technological side. Starting this Ed-Tech program at Boise State has really led me back in the research and empirical data world. One of the assignments last week was to find 5 peer reviewed articles based on the topic of our choice. This is strange to say as my office has been…