I wanted to let everyone know that I will be participating in the Institute for Intelligent Systems “Speed Date” program this Friday. I was invited to present about the research and projects I am currently working on, so I plan to talk about the mMIND project and mobile teaching and learning, my research with Dr. Jongpil Cheon in cognitive load [...]
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of presenting at Union University’s Education Research Forum with Joanne Gikas, a former doctoral student, and Suha Tamim, a current doctoral student. Some friends and colleagues have sent to me some photos of our presentations, so I thought I would share. I also found a great, quick, free little tool called Flickr [...]
I am so excited to be presenting at Union University‘s 5th annual Educational Research Forum today. My dear friend and colleague Dr. Anna Clifford invited me to submit some proposals to present. Together with some current and former students, we’ll be presenting three sessions for the Ed:Forum. The links and info for our sessions are below. Coming to Understand the [...]
I just received my acceptance notices that I will be presenting at Union University’s Fifth Annual Research Forum. Yahoo! My dear friend and colleague Dr. Anna Clifford (whom I often visit and present to her students at Union University) informed me about this local conference opportunity, and she suggested I submit. She thought my research areas on project-based learning, mobile [...]
Big shout outs go to IDT students who are presenting at the Arkansas Distance Learning Association (ARDLA) conference this week. Joanne Gikas, Paul Ayers, Carmen Weaver, and Jennifer Nelson are all presenting research and/or Programs they have implemented through UofM. At this small conference, UofM is supremely well represented at the Arkansas conference. Plus, IDT is taking a leadership role [...]
‘m excited to say that it’s finally happened to me. Today, one of my presentations made it to the home page of Slideshare — even it was only for a little while.
I received the following information about an open session with James Paul Gee, who is one of the leading experts on using video games to support learning. This is courtesy of Steve Hargadon at the Infinite Thinking Machine
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 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 [...]
