Dec 29
April HaymanMultimedia, e-Learning, instructional design declaration of human rights, elearning, elgg, instructional design, kinetic text, kinetic typography, motion text, social learning, social platform, youtube video
Ever seen the very cool YouTube video “The Machine is Us/ing Us“? If you have, you’ve already experienced kinetic typography. In general, kinetic typography is a mix of motion and text and can include music or voice overs. I know that when I watch this type of video I am more inclined to pay attention to the information or what the author has to say than if it is just music, just motion, or just text. I’m not sure if you could do an entire course this way, but wouldn’t it be interesting to use kinetic typography as a central theme?
I could certainly see it used as a way to engage students and then offer them directions in which to explore the topic at hand. And, if using a social platform like an Elgg installation, the learning could be social as well.
Here are a few examples: More
Aug 17
April HaymanTutorials e-Learning, elearning, eportfolio, Facebook, instructional design, instructional designer, lifelong learner, LinkedIn, marketing, portfolio, resume, social media, social networking tools, twitter
In the third installment of the “How to Develop an Instructional Design ePortfolio,” I examined two content management systems (Wordpress.com and Joomla!), their pros and cons, and offered a simple example of an ePortfolio in the tutorial activity. If you followed along with each step, your portfolio should now be ready for available for the final part of the design and development process. If it isn’t, please review Step 1, Step 2, and Step 3 before continuing.
Today’s post is the final step in the portfolio development process: marketing your portfolio as an extension of your resume.
More
Jul 29
April HaymanDaily Bookmarks bloom's taxonomy, course outcomes, css, dropdown menu, e-Learning, elearning, jquery, learning outcomes, objectives, PowerPoint, suckerfish menu, template
-
Here’s a Free PowerPoint Template & How I Made It – The Rapid eLearning Blog
Excellent post from Tom about using inspiration from well designed websites to create PowerPoint templates for elearning. Includes a 30 minute screencast and a zipped file of all the elements created.
tags: powerpoint, elearning, templates, articulate, howto, rapid elearning
-
eLearn: Best Practices – Seven Steps to Better E-learning – Annotated
"…a distillation of cognitive research on learning intended to make your e-learning more effective, and to create a better experience for the learner. These seven principles integrate cognitive and emotional components of learning, and the more that happens, the greater the outcomes."
If you have Diigo, I’ve added some highlights and notes on this page.
tags: E-Learning, elearning, education, pedagogy, learning, elearn, theory
-
Create The Fanciest Dropdown Menu You Ever Saw | Web Design Tutorials | Creating a Website | Learn Adobe Flash, Photoshop and Dreamweaver
An easy to follow tutorial on creating dropdown menus with CSS and jquery. It also includes zip files of the images, css and jquery used in the tutorial.
tags: dropdown, menu, dropdown menu, jquery, webdesign, web design, web2.0, css, webdesigndev
-
Use Bloom’s Taxonomy Wheel for Writing Learning Outcomes
Several versions of Bloom’s Taxonomy for use in developing learning outcomes and related activities. Rather handy, actually!
tags: education, e-learning, elearning, web2.0, tools, zaidlearn, edtech, bloom’s, bloom’s taxonomy, learning objectives
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
RSS