Celebration Today is “My Twitter Story” Day! I’m so excited, because we can physically see the power of networks. This small project started with one of my students. People are influenced by other people. My colleagues and professional learning network responded. In the true nature of a constructivist perspective, knowledge is constructed through the social negotiation with others. Twitter and [...]
I’ve had a couple of folks ask me about the presentations I gave at the Midsouth Technology Conference (#mstc2010) last week. So, I wanted to go ahead and provide those links and slides. This first one is for beginners and is about Web 2.0. I’m also providing the links to my resources that go with this presentations, so you can [...]
This Saturday is BarCamp Memphis. It’s a great group of people and a great opportunity to learn more about social media, technologies to support learning, and information technologies. I’m planning to be there, and I hope you’ll find a way to make it, too. They’ve got “pay what you can” and “student” categories for pricing. Here’s the “unconference” description: BarCamp [...]
On Saturday, I’m going to TribeCamp. What’s TribeCamp? Here’s what the organizers have to say about it:
TribeCamp is a daylong conference with sessions about Web Content Creation, Social Media, Online Marketing, and “Tribes”, which are really professional groups of people with some commonality (think Designers, Entrepreneurs, Marketers, etc…). However, the sessions are just half of the day.
These are my Jumptags for December 9th through December 10th: How To Explain To Clients That They Are Wrong – Smashing Magazine – GIFs of spinning s on the Contact us page. Common usability mistakes for the sake of visual appeal. Splash pages. Fancy search box. No whitespace. Music on page load…. How to Deal with Feature Creep | Webdesigner [...]
These are my Jumptags for November 24th through December 7th: Instructional Design and Development Blog » Blog Archive » Teaching Frustrations: Why Don’t Students Follow My (Clearly-Labeled, Logically Organized, and Bold/Highlighted/Flashing) Instructions? – Instructors who teach in online environments often devote extensive time and energy into designing a Web space that is inviting and useful to students. But frustration inevitably [...]
These are my Jumptags for November 18th Jane’s E-Learning Pick of the Day: Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009: The Final List – Here is the final list of the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009, compiled from the contributions of 278 learning professionals – from education and workplace learning – worldwide. Thanks to all who contributed their Top 10 [...]
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 [...]
These are my Jumptags for October 8th through October 9th: Google Docs – Viewer – Use Google Docs to quickly view documents online without leaving your browser. Enter the document URL and Google will generate the link for it. Official Google Docs Blog: Add page break and go to page in forms – Google Docs forms recently added the functions [...]
These are my Jumptags for September 19th through September 21st: Videos – Worldbuilder – Welcome to Worldbuilder: A Fourth World Media, LLC Educational Community Committed to the Advancement of Social Media Literacy Did You Know? 4.0: The Economist Media Convergence Remix – The Economist Magazine is hosting their third annual Media Convergence Forum in New York City on October 20th [...]
