Entries from December 2007 ↓

At the 2007 Educause conference, Diane Zorn described an online course in philosophy that she created.

Here are the main points that I got out of this podcast:

“The goal of distance education, in my experience, is not to replicate the in-class experience but rather to go beyond what is possible in a conventional classroom.”

She used Mediasite which provides a video of the instructor along with the corresponding Powerpoint files but with a little ingenuity, something similar to this could be done using Keynote, Garageband, and iMovie.

 Using Video Streaming and Podcasting to Design Rich-Media Online Courses [29:25m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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This is an interesting podcast – http://connect.educause.edu/blog/gbayne/e07podcasttomorrowsstuden/45344

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This video is quite impressive. It presents some interesting facts about tomorrow’s world and challenges us to consider what we are doing to prepare students for tomorrow’s world.

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I’m becoming more interested in how video can be used in education and how to make it interactive. An interesting application that can be used is VideoPaper Builder, a free program produced by the Concord Consortium.

If there is video on the Web (i.e., You Tube, Google Videos, etc.) and you want to create some text or hyperlinks that relate to certain objects within the video, go to Asterpix to see how easily this can be done.

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If you want to learn more about Web 2.0, Atomic Learning has a series of videos on the topic, which can be found at http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/web20/

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Zotero is an add-on for Firefox for those who want to keep track of information used in research. Check it out at Zotero.

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