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Tuesday, December 21, 2004 |
Instructional Design Models. George Siemens points to this very useful - and
very comprehensive - list of instructional design models,
organized by epoch (modernist and post-modernist) and
model, pointing toresources, writings and home pages for
each model. By Martin Ryder, Dece,ber 1, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
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Component Frameworks. Scott Leslie sent me notice of this very
interesting presentation. The key is on the third slide
(edited for syntax): "[The] Web Server paradigm fails
lifelong learners – How? [The]Stateless browser leaves no
trace behind. To manage their learning they need their own
records. Lifelong learners attend multiple institutions
over time, even at the same time. [They] have to learn a
new environment at each. Their record and portfolio is
scattered. They need a continuous connection for learning,
but, if off-campus, this may be slow, unreliable,
expensive. As eLearning becomes more complex, VLEs won’t
scale. PLEs [Personal Learning Environments] allow the
learner’s system to share the load." The solution
proposed is complex, Java-based and Web-Services based. I
think it needs to be simple, language neutral, and use
appropiate protocols for appropriate tasks. My advice:
don't try to build the whole thing at one. Roll out a
simple open base platform and let people add on to it.
Don't try to design it; let it grow.
PowerPoint. By Bill Olivier, December, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
12:55:09 PM Google It!.
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Evolving Technologies Reports from EDUCAUSE. Most
of these reports will be mainly of interest to university
administrators in information management positions, but I found the
report on Learning Objects by Michael Roy to be of more general
interest. Roy's report could be used as an overview of the subject to
share with both instructional designers and faculty; he identifies
major issues and provides links to the best known LO repositories.
"Learning Object use is almost certainly already happening on your
campus, and very likely there are early adopters who are busily
creating these materials with or without your knowledge... it is a
mistake to not engage with this new way of thinking about instructional
technology." All the reports are available as pdf files. ___JH [EduResources Weblog--Higher Education Resources Online]
12:52:26 PM Google It!.
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Your Cell Phone as Media Center. A Library and Cinema in Your Pocket
"The increasing power of cellphones is fast shaping
innovative forms of compact culture: micro-lit, phone soap operas and
made-for-mobile dramas that can be absorbed in less time than it takes
to flick through a book introduction....
One pioneer is Media Republic, an Amsterdam company that is
successfully reaching young women with the mobile equivalent of the
French "roman photo,' a sentimental genre of romantic still photos and
text that dates to the postwar period.
Dutch users register their mobile phones to follow the adventures of
the hormone-driven characters of 'Jong Zuid,' or 'Young South,' which
is now in production for its fourth season. Customers receive two
episodes daily, each with six photographs of well-known Dutch actors
and text describing the travails of glamorous young people seeking
their fortune in the big city....
In Japan, major publishers like Shinchosha and Kadokawa Shoten have
created Web sites to offer telephone reading material. Japan is also
home to probably the most successful telephone venture. Earlier this
year a mobile novel jumped from phone screens to the silver screen,
evolving into a feature film, 'Deep Love.'
In the book industry in the United States, the initial reaction to mobile-lit is: 'Are you kidding?' as one veteran put it.
Still, some major New York publishing houses are pondering the
future. 'We are paying attention, but we haven't entered the market
yet,' said Kate Tentler, vice president and publisher for Simon &
Schuster Online. 'It would be crazy not to look at this. Smart phones
are everywhere and it's the fastest-growing device.' " [New York Times]
Rephrased for librarians: "Still, some major libraries are pondering
the future. 'We are paying attention, but we haven't entered the market
yet,' said Famous Library Director. 'It would be crazy not to look at
this. Smart phones are everywhere and it's the fastest-growing device.'
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The whole article is interesting (I could have excerpted a lot more), so be sure to read the whole thing. [The Shifted Librarian]
12:49:56 PM Google It!.
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I Skyped, We Skyped ... and then Shazam! from Finland. My call for some skypers paid off this time, the phone has been ringing off the hook... Just as I was checking email this monrning, I got the notice of Will's comment
that he had just downloaded Skype, and just as I was adding him to my
Skype contact list, he called! The audio quality was great, from
Arizona to New Jersey, and it was looking like a good thing.
It looks like some browsers will support the URL link structure of
call me
Sa,y hey call me...
There is even a slick little test account you can call to verify your SKype-ability- callto:echo123
a computer generated voice answers (you can test your audio out), then
offers to record your voice, and plays in back so you can verify that
your microphone is working. Even that little bit is a nifty trick.
I got two more invite notifications while talking to Will, and had
good connections with Eric at one of the SUNY schools, and on offer to
do some collaboration next year on blended learning. Getting better.
Then I had a invite come in from Teemu, who offered to test the
Skype service from here to Finland. It was not bad, a brief lag (no
worse then my US cell phone) and some echo here and there, but very
good. He complimented myself and Brian and D'Arcy on our June 2004 "Small Technologies Loosely Joined"
session at the NMC conference, and went on to say it was an inspiration
for a new system being developed in Finland called "dicole" "(Discover.
Collaborate. Learn"), Right in skype he IM-ed the access and log in
instructions.
Wow, this goes far beyond the tin cans and string system I set up last year for our Ocotillo project.
One one level, it has the small pieces tools all loosely joined, group
blogs, threaded forums, wikis, plus a document sharing feature... and
all of it threaded together with RSS. I've just had a bit of time to
poke around, but am eager to try this our next year for Ocotillo... the
software will be released soon as open-source, but is part of a larger
plan of a network of installations, where "meta-groups" would exist
from multiple dicole locales, so while I may have a Learning Object
group here at Maricopa, we could tap into resources and info with say a
similar group running in Helsinki. It is a big vision. It is small
pieces on a big scale.
While the system is being polished I did find some public viewable info at http://www.dicole.fi/en/about/overview/overview.
I did ask Teemu if I was pronouncing his name correctly, and he
explained the several ways his name is pronounced. Then I said, don't
worry, you may be the next Linus. He laughed, but perhaps day dreamed a bit.
So thanks Teemu for making the call! I am skyped and psyched. [cogdogblog]
12:27:39 PM Google It!.
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