Pedagogy
Product Tutorials Can Provide Project Ideas
Some companies go beyond the norm when they produce tutorials for their products. More than just basic how-to information, some tutorials provide suggestions for applications and instructions for how to accomplish specific tasks using their products. Apple Computer is particularly good at this, and their “Productivity Lab” section of the science website offers short videos [...]
Reporting from the NMC Symposium on New Media & Learning
Well, this isn’t really a live “report from the symposium”, but it just ended last night, so it’s fresh in my mind! The Symposium offered a variety of interesting sessions, an it was a great way to learn about other schools’ projects and ‘meet’ others in SecondLife without having to spend money on travel. More [...]
NMC Symposium on New Media & Learning – Online
The New Media Consortium (NMC) is hosting an online symposium March 24-26, 2009 that looks like it will be very good:
The 2009 NMC Symposium on New Media and Learning, the thirteenth in the NMC’s Series of Virtual Symposia, will explore the impact of new media on teaching, learning, research, and creative expression, especially in higher [...]
Pre-Recording Computer Demonstrations
Talking anyone through using new software can be difficult. Even explaining the nuances of using an unfamiliar tool or feature in a familiar software package can be difficult unless you’re sitting right next to the person, and one demonstration may not be enough to make a complicated series of clicks and settings “stick” in the [...]
Michelangelo 3D Slideshow
Penn Libraries recently announced a cool new way to explore the image collection at the Anne and Jerome Fisher Fine Arts Library. Here is a Michelangelo Slideshow I made in a few seconds – click the blue arrow at top to start. The CoolIris 3D software may require a plug-in download. You can create [...]
Penn Law’s Second Annual Visual Legal Advocacy Roundtable
Professor Regina Austin has written to us about an upcoming event at Penn Law School on Friday, October 17 that should be of interest to public interest lawyers, entertainment lawyers, law students, law professors, ITS specialists with public interest organizations, documentary filmmakers, and members of the Penn community who are interested in nonfiction video production [...]
Blackboard’s Wiki
Blackboards’s Wiki
I have found that wikis can provide students and teachers with a number of ways to collaborate with each other on written documents. A wiki is frequently an article that has been created, edited and developed by several authors over an extended or limited period of time. One of the prime examples of [...]
