I really enjoyed watching Scooby-Doo as a kid. The original theme song was, of course, the best…”Scooby, Scooby-Doo, where are you? You’ve got some work to do now.” As my Technology Tools to Support Learning course finishes up their self-paced interactive learning modules, I was thinking, “Where are you…in your thinking about elearning and self-paced instruction?” …

These are my Jumptags for October 21st through October 26th: satmodel.gif (GIF Image, 550×673 pixels) – Image hierarchy of ISD using ADDIE. Free Vectors – 7 High-Quality City Skyline Vectors | Think Design – A pack of 7 high-quality City Skyline Vectors, created by ThinkDesignBlog.com A List Apart: Articles: The Myth of Usability Testing – A List Apart offers a [...]

Just this morning, I received an email update fro Jane Hart at the Center for Learning and Performance Technologies in the UK.  Jane’s blog “Jane’s E-Learning Pick of the Day” is one I look forward to each day, because I get a single new tool to consider for elearning.  I encourage you to check it out.  Since my Technology Tools [...]

It’s getting to the time of the semester where I’m starting to get quite a few questions about what forms need to be completed, etc. for doctoral students in IDT. (As an aside here, I’m going to point out that the word is doctoral not doctorial. So that’s three syllables—not four. Don’t add in the i.) On my resource wiki, I have created a page that has a listing of all of the doctoral forms for IDT students…

These are my Jumptags for October 21st Xtranormal | Text-to-Movie – Use Xtranormal to create movies quickly. Drag and drop actors onto scenes. Add text and the software syncs the actors mouths with the text. Windows only. Storybird – Collaborative storytelling – Storybirds are short, visual stories that you make with family and friends to share and (soon) print. Uncovering [...]

My Technology Tools to Support Learning course is continuing our overview of elearning this week. But I also wanted to link elearning to some of the other topics we’ve been discussing over the semester. As we move from using Powerpoint for presentations to building interactive learning modules, I thought we would consider what we should bring with us from presentations. Slideshare.net, one of the Internet’s largest archive of slides and presentations, holds a competition each year for the World’s Best Presentation. The topic for the slides can be on anything. The winner this year, Dan Roam, built a presentation about healthcare in America, and it’s all written on napkins (sort of). See for yourself; I’ve embedded it below….

These are my Jumptags for October 13th through October 15th: Weebly – Create a free website and a free blog – Weebly has now added an education section. Weebly is perfect for creating classroom websites, student e-portfolios, and websites for assigned projects. Free Adobe Dreamweaver Tutorial | CSS Tutorial for Creating Layouts in Dreamweaver | Layers Magazine – This tutorial [...]

Back in July, Tony over at The Learning Circuits blog (connected with ASTD), offered up the “Big Question” of what are the skills elearning professionals need. In particular, the discussion centered around elearning 2.0, or elearning in light of Web 2.0 and the culture of informal learning and wisdom of crowds. In addition, a number of weeks ago Michael D., a student and colleague, sent me a post about how instructional designers rely less on theories and models (Someone please extract the stake from my heart.). Instead, they are using rule of thumbs and heuristics. So, it got me to thinking: just what does elearning professionals need? …

This week in my Technology Tools to Support Learning course, we are discussing an overview of elearning. These novice instructional designers are on their way to producing some self-paced instruction with Powerpoint and converting it to Flash for ease of deployment. So, I thought it would be really beneficial for them to see/read the landscape of elearning and Powerpoint. Certainly…

These are my Jumptags for October 9th through October 13th: PowerPoint Design in 2009: Six most recommended tips : Speaking about Presenting – But in this project, there was a striking consistency with the advice given. I’ve outlined below the six tips that were recommended most often. I’ve also noted the research that backs up a recommendation – where it [...]