Presenting a Poster Session at an Academic Conference For those who are new or inexperienced to preparing a poster session, I have a few thoughts that I would like to pass on to future poster session presenters. tags: poster-session, aera, academic-conference, presenting, doctoral-students Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Tech Disruptions: Research-based findings: Smartphone usage in K12 leads to increased student achievement tags: mobile-learning, smartphones, cellphones, research St. Marys City Schools Mobile Learning Technology tags: mobile-learning, smartphones, cellphones Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Simple, Practical Color Theory | Tutorial9 tags: no_tag Mobiles to Help Learning? High School in UK says OK « Teach42 tags: no_tag Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Web 3.0, The Movie [Video] The 15-minute film (embedded below) is a pretty good general overview of the semantic web. That is, turning all of the data on the web into structured data so as to define relationships between it and derive meaning. tags: semantic-web, web-3.0, 7064 The Adobe Captivate Blog: Composition & Layout for Multimedia eLearning Projects I often [...]

TwitterCamp at Daniel Dura “TwitterCamp is a desktop application that allows you to monitor tweets from your friends using the popular Twitter service. The application is especially suited for running on large displays such as plasmas, LCDs, and projectors at conferences. It is simple to customize the interface so that you can use the application for your conference.” tags: twitter, [...]

During a session last week at AERA on theory and practice in instructional design and elearning, I piped in with a comment about folks who I thought were doing theory better than those of us in higher education. In fact, I thought these folks were making theory not sound like theory at all. They are providing to a large audience of practitioners through their blog posts a wealth of applicable knowledge and skills in very digestible ways.

Okay, I finally did it. I jumped ship and have decided to leave Jumptags. Why? Well, I wasn’t happy about it.  The choice was hard, but in the end, there really wasn’t a choice. Jumptags was great. I really like My Jumptags.  I particularly like that you can create bookmarks for different types of media, include images/photos, code, and videos.  [...]