I love being a online distance student. On-demand learning is definitely for me! While I am amazed at the "friendships" I have developed through online collaboration, distance learning can be a lonely experience. Most of a distance student's learning time is spent in solitary activities – reading, writing papers, adding comments to asynchronous discussion boards….
I received an e-mail yesterday outlining the upcoming Innovate-Live Webcast schedule for this summer. Here is a cut and paste of the schedule: All times are New York time. You may use the world clock athttp://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ to coordinate the time with yourtime zone. The schedule for the June/July Innovate-Live Webcasts is provided below. Creative Commons:…
Here is a list of various IST related associations provided by our instructor: Instructional Systems Technology Association Web Sites: * Association for Educational Communication Technology – http://www.aect.org * International Society for Performance Improvement – http://www.ispi.org * International Society for Technology in Education – http://www.iste.org * American Society for Training & Development – http://www.astd.org * Association…
I've been working with Writely – an online web word processor – for the past couple of days. So far, it appears far superior to other writing collaboration tools (and wikis) I have seen. Beyond the word processing and wiki like functionality (spell check, comments, multiple save as options- to Word, a PDF, etc), it…
Still more than a little lack of understanding about this new fangled online education stuff . . . [This AP article | http://www.businessweek.com/ap/tech/D8F461R00.htm?campaign_id=apn_tech_down&chan=tc] made the rounds today in most newspapers and online. Unfortunately, I can’t say it did much to help the average Joe understand what an online college program is like or to explain…
Since it seems you need to learn Power Point about a week after you learn your ABC’s , I thought I would share this blog I have been following. It is dedicated to the [“art” of preparing presentations | http://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/] I’ve sat through (and likely have given) presentations with Power Point screen overload and this…