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Editing Audio in Captivate 5 and Adobe Creative Suite 5.5
So I upgraded my Adobe CS5 to CS 5.5. However, I have not yet upgraded my Captivate from 5 to 5.5. As you probably know, CS5.5 has replaced the audio editing program, Soundbooth, with Adobe Audition....
View ArticleOLDaily: Review: The Edupunks' Guide, by Anya Kamenetz
OLDaily: Review: The Edupunks' Guide, by Anya Kamenetz: OLDaily: Review: The Edupunks' Guide, by Anya KamenetzI certainly do not feel qualified to offer any opinions on Edupunk, but it was interesting...
View ArticleA Taxonomy of an eLearning Professional
I was thinking about what an ideal eLearning professional would be to plan out my own professional development. What are the skills, knowledge, and attitudes such a professional would possess? As I...
View ArticleWhat Do I Know? Yet Another eLearning Blog: A Taxonomy of an eLearning...
What Do I Know? Yet Another eLearning Blog: A Taxonomy of an eLearning Professional: I was thinking about what an ideal eLearning professional would be to plan out my own professional development. What...
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I am thinking about threshold learning as it relates to eLearning, especially as it relates to resistance to adopting eLearning in various respects. The concept has allowed me to re-think on a higher...
View ArticleWelcome MOOCers!
Just a note to welcome anyone participating in the ETMOOC! Welcome to my blog! As you can tell, I don't blog much. I also don't tweet much or Facebook much, etc. I'm quite introverted, so I think it...
View ArticleGiving Back to the Web
Remember in December when that (somewhat) annoying yellow box showed up on Wikipedia asking for donations? Did you ignore it and carry on with what you were doing? I did that all the time. Then, last...
View ArticleThoughts on Research Paradigms
In the last presidential election, Obama came out in favour of gay marriage. Even conservative commentator Bill O'Reilly (I think it was him) said that those who oppose gay marriage were on the "wrong...
View ArticleThoughts on Fermi's Paradox
“Let’s say we have an ant hill in the middle of the forest. And right next to the ant hill, they’re building a ten-lane super-highway. And the question is “Would the ants be able to understand what a...
View ArticleDirksen's Design for How People Learn - Part 1
I had to blog in a course about the readings week by week. I thought I would throw them up here to fill this blog more:The first three chapters of Julie Dirksen’s Design for How People Learn was a...
View ArticleDirksen's Design for How People Learn - Part 2
Chapters 4 and 5 of Julie Dirksen’s Design for How People Learncovered how human memory works and principles for gaining and retaining attention. Dirksen covers the basics of human memory, including...
View ArticleDirksen's Design for How People Learn - Part 3
I find myself wanting more nuance from Dirksen as the book goes on. I find myself saying, “Yes but…” more often, especially in Chapter 6. There is nothing factually untrue with what Dirksen, but I...
View ArticleFollow-up on Dirksen's Proficiency-Sophistication Grid
I was interested in Dirksen’s Proficiency-Sophistication grid on Page 69 which uses Bloom’s taxonomy and Gery’s Proficiency scale: Familiarization, Comprehension, Conscious effort, Conscious action,...
View ArticleA bad reading
When I was teaching writing, I would often have to tell students to ensure they were in control of the language that they were using. Don’t use a fancy word just for the sake of using a fancy word if...
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Leadership and Technology 1
I am quite new to the concept of leadership and the various styles of leadership, so my blog posts will be quite focused on the basics and me thinking through leadership and technology. I have been a...
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As mentioned in my last post, the ed tech field is relatively new and has few well-recognized success criteria. This lack leaves the field open in particular to suffering from the Dunning-Kruger...
View ArticleQuestioning the Dual Channel Theory
I was investigating the dual channel theory used in Mayer and Moreno (1999). After a review of the literature, it appears that the theory is currently unreliable.Long-term and Working MemoryCognitive...
View ArticleSkills and Knowledge for Online/Blended Teaching
Here's a follow-up post to something I wrote five years ago on a taxonomy for an eLearning professional. I put together a rubric that matches that post on a Google Doc on the Skills and Knowledge for...
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