Classroom2.0: Twitter, del.icio.us and participatory learning ... for teaching and learning In the spirit of Right Now teaching and learning, I decided to try out Twitter this week as a means of offering the students a back channel as well as an opportunity to learn more about emergent content ... . “I think it could be a super beneficial tool for teaching. Everyone learns at a different pace, so imagine the advantages of someone being able to tweet, say me, in class a question. I’d learn through helping them, ...

Literally create learning journeys with Flowgram .  It is like a guided tour of the World Wide Web, … and ... specify.  Add a wiki page, and instruct your students to reference or even modify it in some way.  Have your students ... embedded objects, such as videos and widgets, or for adding instructions). Add audio to any or all of your Flowgram pages ... closed-captioning or to provide instructions or additional information. Pause Flowgram pages or let them proceed automatically. Learn the basics of Flowgram with this video tutorial. Visit the extensive help directory , and ...

... challenge. "I learned at my mother's knee (and my Dad's poker table) that game ethics are not real-world ethics. Mercy ... player receives three pieces. The instructions are as follows (and it's important to word this carefully): each ...

This semester I am taking a class called “Introduction to Instructional Design”. We are stepping through Dick, Carey & Carey’s textbook The Systematic Design of Instruction . The book examines the Dick and Carey model of instruction in detail. Here’s a diagram of that model (click the picture to see a larger version): As with all models of instruction, the diagram shouldn’t be interpreted as a lock-step process. It is pretty ... analysis to ensure the instruction you develop is going to satisfy the instructional goal. My degree program ...

As you can probably tell, I decided to change things up a bit on my blog. I changed the theme and added a couple of links to some school projects. I also added a badge for the eLearning Learning community as well as a widget for the community (so be sure to check out all the new eLearning links!) I’ve been busy at work helping build a new external-facing community (as soon as it is live I’ll talk more about that!). Between that work, my grad school class,  and what my senior director calls my “day job” (actually developing technical instruction)  I have had ...