Do you know what I do with openly licensed YouTube videos when I think they are worthwhile? I copy the YouTube link and paste it over on dotSub.com. (DotSub can import directly from YouTube.) Why do I do this? Because YouTube isn’t very useful if you are deaf or don’t…
The usability cube: Stating the obvious in 3D
A note to those who cares about Instructional Technology and improving real, live classrooms: I would love your feedback. 🙂 In their article Creating a Framework for Research On Systemic Technology Innovations, Fishman et al. describe a “usability cube” and state that its purpose is to “predict the difficulty any…
Links from my AECT seminar: Web2.0 to support teaching and learning
Thanks to all who participate in this seminar! I hope it was helpful. Some great ideas and links were shared today as we discussed the components that make up Web2.0. Here are the presentation slides. Also, here is a link to my class website (wiki) for preservice elementary school teachers:…
National Center for Edtech Research Announced
Glad to see the field getting a boost like this. This promises to be a really positive step for US education. http://www.pbs.org/teachers/learning.now/2008/08/new_national_center_for_edtech.html This past week, President Bush signed into law a bill that will establish a new national research center for studying digital technology and learning. The center aspires be…
Improving USU’s Instructional Technology Department
So far the USU Instructional Technology department has done a poor job convincing me that I matter as a PhD student within the department. (No, this has nothing to do with COSL or my choice of program chair.) I’ve been at it for a couple years, and I’m not even…