These are my Jumptags for April 29th through April 30th: How to Balance Online Classes with Working Full Time – Tips for balancing online classes with a full-time job. The things I’m learning from having an ugly design – Robert Scoble discusses the transition of his blog template and its impact on users. Best Embeds for Educational Wikis and Blogs [...]

Tonight is the project showcase for my IDT 7095/8095: Developing Interactive Learning Environments II course, where students work with a “live” external client. This semester one project is a traditional instructional design training opportunity for a client and friend Dr. Chuck Hodges at Virginia Tech‘s Math Emporium. The other project is more of an electronic performance support system for abnormal ophthalmology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center here in Memphis.

Today, I’ll be spending class time with some exceptional preservice teachers at Jackson, TN, with Dr. Anna Clifford’s classes. As part of her instructional design and technology integration courses, we’ll be talking about teaching and learning with Google Apps.

For a long time, I have kept a simple, nondescript manila folder in the bottom right drawer of my desk. In it, I collect Sunday circulars, postcards, direct mail flyers, etc., for when it comes time to create a new layout, color scheme, theme or graphic design.

These are my Jumptags for April 21st Are You Looking for an Easy Way to Make Your Courses Look Interesting? – Quick how to for colorizing an image to draw interest. Typography Commandments – Typography rules and guidelines PS. A Summary of Classic ID Models – Ellen Wagner is a learning industry analyst with a passion for sustaining innovation and [...]

I’m at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting this week in San Diego, CA.  I’m presenting three session throughout the week, which is a little tough to get through.  On Tuesday, I presented on “Coming to Understand the Influences on and Artifacts of Learning.”  Today, I’m presenting “Understanding Projects in Project-based Learning: A Student’s Perspective.”  The abstract reads: Project-based [...]

I’m off to San Diego, CA, this week for the American Educational Research Association annual meeting.  This is the premier conference for educational researchers.  I will be presenting three sessions, and I will create posts for each one.  So, you can find all the articles and good stuff easily. Today, as part of the Multiple Intelligences Special Interest Group, I’m [...]

These are my Jumptags for April 8th through April 13th: World Wide Web in Plain English – A short explanation of what makes the World Wide Web work: browsers, packets, servers addresses and links. Wired Campus: Lev Gonick: How Technology Will Reshape Academe After the Economic Crisis – Chronicle.com – Where will higher education be the day after the current global [...]

One of my new favorite tools, Sproutbuilder, recently changed its pricing structure (again!).  Whew!  However, at the beginning of March, Sprout announced that they were going to offer a free account again.

These are my Jumptags for April 3rd through April 5th: Design Battle: Vector vs. Raster – Vectors and Raster Images is what every designer or graphic artist regularly uses.This leaves us with a question, which among these techniques is better to use? Give your training a visual boost – Most of us have had no training in visual literacy. We [...]