This new video by CommonCraft explains how Twitter search creates new opportunities for business feedback, tracking news in real time and discovering trends. As a follow-up to Twitter in Plain English, it further illustrates the power of this microblogging technology in bringing people together in new ways.
How might Twitter search be useful for an educational activity? Leave a comment with your ideas!
ADDIE is a process that instructional designers use to Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, and Evaluate a learning situation and improve upon it. This movie demonstrates the ADDIE Model, by showing a nerd how to get a date.
David Merrill has become one of the most influential names in educational technology theory. Since receiving his PhD from the University of Illinois in 1964, he has developed an extensive body of research dedicated to instructional material, and more recently instructional design and technology, including developing and co-developing several instructional design theories. This video provides a brief introduction to his current thoughts on web-based instructional design.
Do you ever struggle to remember the link to that recent website, blog, our YouTube video clip is located? Then you need start storing your bookmarks online rather than simply in the favorites of your browser on your computer.
Watch this 3 minute video that explains what online bookmarking, also referred to as “social bookmarking” is and why you should sign-up for a free account today!
I personally have a delicious account, available at delicious.com/jrhode and have found the activity of bookmarking my favorites to have totally revolutionized how I use the Internet. I encourage you to give delicious a try. If you already have a social bookmarking account, leave a comment sharing what service you use and why.
On a side note, a secondary bookmarking service that I use specifically for bookmarking academic research articles that I find is CiteULike. My CiteULike library is at citeulike.org/user/jrhode
If you are using Google Reader like I am to read all our course blogs, you may want to create a folder for our class and add all your subscriptions our classmates’ blogs into the folder to keep them organized. Rather than create a video tutorial on how to do this, I found this great little video on YouTube that explains how to organize your feeds using Google Reader.
I personally have a folder for our class where I’ve added everyone’s blog subscriptions, so I can easily focus on just the new contributions from our class. If you are a Google Reader user, give folders a try!
During Module 1 as we are considering what comprises “good design” here are clip of a few attempts at defining design…it’s a bit more difficult than one might originally expect…
Here’s another short clip of the process often encountered when seeking a good design…
So, what is your definition of design?
Google Reader is a fabulous free tool for subscribing to and reading any RSS content. I personally subscribe to each student’s blog in my Google Reader account so that I don’t need to manually visit each blog to view the latest contributions. You should subscribe to my blog as well as the blogs of all the other students in our course.
If you’ve never heard of Google Reader before, watch this brief video that explains Google Reader in Plain English.
Wondering what exactly a blog is? Watch this 3 minute video that explains Blogs in Plain English
The power of blogging can be found in the ability to easily syndicate and subscribe to content through the wonderful technology called “RSS”. Watch this 3 minute video that explains what RSS is and why you should use a RSS reader to read blogs.
This new video by CommonCraft explains how Twitter search creates new opportunities for business feedback, tracking news in real time and discovering trends. As a follow-up to Twitter in Plain English, it further illustrates the power of this microblogging technology in bringing people together in new ways.
How might Twitter search be useful for an educational activity? Leave a comment with your ideas!