I just opened an IU student listserv e-mail announcing the Learning about Learning – Technology – Design (L2TD) web site. I spent a few minutes checking it out and, while the the content isn't very deep at this point and the concept is not new, it may be an interesting site to follow based on…
In this short podcast, I discuss drupal as my Personal Learning Environment (PLE) and compare / contrast the experience to being a distance graduate student utilizing a traditional Learning Management System (LMS). Here are links to the items I mentioned during the podcast: My del.icio.us links with tags = PLE Professor Terry Anderson's blog –…
The fall semester of Effective Writing in Instructional Technology is kicking off this week and I am having a great time linking through to all of the great suggested web resources. I've been trying to figure out the best way to capture a "Reading List" of resources. For now, I've created a sort of "mash…
In this podcast, I discuss why I selected drupal as my content management system for my working journal (or e-Portfolio). Sites and organizations mentioned during the podcast: Drupal.org Blogger.com: Hosted blogging site. Start a free blog in about 2 minutes! BlueHost.com: My web host for almost a year. Excellent experience! Lullabot.com: Great drupal resource for…
EdBloggerNews is another way to get caught up on "popular" Edublog news. I completely missed this one, but I guess Will Richardson rolled it out back in June! It allows readers to submit and vote on articles related to education – kind of like the Digg for the education community that is a great example…
The Center for Research on Learning and Technology (CRLT) at Indiana University's School of Education provides some great resources, research and publications including video presentations, journal articles and papers, that focus on teaching, learning and technology. One long running CRLT project, directed by Professor Thomas Duffy, is the Learning to Teach with Technology Studio (LTTS)….
I had my first meebome chat with a visitor. I was working away at my computer when I heard the familiar meebo ping that someone wants to chat and there was a site guest with my first meebome "hi" – what a fun surprise! Since it is anonymous, I doubt he / she will care,…
My new textbooks have started to roll in and I am getting really excited about digging into the new semester! I flipped through the texts for my Effective Writing in Instructional Technology course. The books hit on all the "common sense" factors that often are lost in the excitement of jazzing up a Power Point…
As I mentioned in a prior post, meebo is my IM client of choice. I had trouble at first installing the meebo me widget, but today I no problem getting it up and running on my left sidebar (check it out) and it is working great! I can tell within meebo.com if someone is on…