April Hayman

SALT 2010 New Learning Technologies Day 1

Mar 04

April HaymanUncategorized e-Learning, Evernote, New Learning Technologies, Open Source, SALT 2010, slideshare No Comments

The first day of the New Learning Technologies conference went off without a hitch. I found the presentations that I attended interesting and informative. As always, I took copious notes but, because of some issues with Internet access at the conference center, I am unable to live blog or tweet. Instead, you may access my notes one my public Evernote notebook: SALT 2010.

Additionally, my friend and colleage, Natalie Laderas, and I had the great honor to present at this conference. You may access our presentation, Leveraging Open Source to Develop e-Learning, on Slideshare.net.

As always, if you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to post! I look forward to hearing from you about what I have learned and shared with you.

~April

The Class

Feb 11

April HaymanOpinion, Technology, instructional design edtech, higher ed, instructional design, twitter, youtube video 1 Comment

This YouTube video is making the rounds through Twitter and I thought I’d share it with you. While it pokes fun at higher education and the use of technology thereof, I don’t think it’s too far off the mark. What I did like was that the professor was flexible enough to listen to his students and make some changes. After you watch the video, I’ll walk you through some tips that I would give to the professor on redesigning with technology in mind. More

Goodbye…and Hello!

Jan 22

April HaymanFeatured, ISTE, Opinion, Uncategorized Higher education, ISTE, Professional development, Technology No Comments

Image by janusz l via Flickr

For the past three years I have worked as an instructional designer at Performance Learning Systems. It was a great experience and I learned quite a bit about design, teamwork, and myself. I have made some great friends while developing online higher education for teachers. But, like all great things, my time with PLS has come to an end. And, with a heavy heart, I must say goodbye to the friends and colleagues I have come to know so well.

And say hello to my new colleagues at ISTE. As of January 25, I will be working for this terrific organization as an instructional designer. I look forward to creating professional development that is informative, timely, and innovative. I find this opportunity exciting as I hope to continue my personal mission to help teachers prepare our kids for a world increasingly dependent on technology and the increasing amounts of available information.

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