CALICO 2010: Great conference, or the greatest conference?
The Computer Assisted Language Learning Consortium Conference 2010 was in Amherst, MA, June 10 – 12. I summed up my feelings about it in this tweet: Goodbye, #calico2010! It was awesome, in terms of presentations, people, planning, place… Presentations I learned so much from the sessions! This was the first conference I’ve attended where I […]
Dimdim vs. Elluminate, Round 2
Several people have written to ask me for a copy of the paper I allude to in Dimdim vs. Elluminate: Fight! Well, the status of that paper has been “in press” since it was accepted by TechTrends in December 2009. I was hoping to wait until it was “officially” published in TechTrends before publishing it […]
SDoI: Chapter 3: Conducting a Goal Analysis
Goal Analysis Diagram by Elizabeth Lavolette is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License. [This is the fourth in a series of posts about Dick and Carey’s The Systematic Design of Instruction. Want to read an overview and my thoughts on Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 before proceeding?] Chapter 3 starts out […]
Push the BigBlueButton
When I try a web-conferencing product, I expect to find myself in a sterile demo room – alone and left to my own devices. When I tried BigBlueButton, I was momentarily confused. Many people were in the demo room. They were talking, text-chatting, pointing at slides – and one of the developers, Fred Dixon, starting […]
Origami mail
Today, I got this in my email from a friend. Click it to open it and read the message: Thanks, Noriko!
Netflix is great
No, they didn’t pay me to write this. But they did send me an extra DVD. As they sometimes do. <3
Cacoo – easy diagram creator
I learned about Cacoo from @NikPeachey and immediately started using it make diagrams. It’s extremely easy to use. My favorite feature is probably the ability to snap-to. I am pretty lazy when it comes to lining up parts of a diagram and tend to eyeball it. Now, I don’t have to! One of Cacoo’s selling […]
DCDC Monthly Feature: Google Reader
A short article (plus slideshow) that I wrote about Google Reader is currently the monthly feature on the Distance Course Design and Consulting Group website. Of course, it’s my job to write them, but you could check it out anyway. Those are my hands in the pictures, by the way – and you can see […]
New credentials
One great benefit of my current job is that I have access to lynda.com, where I can learn various tech skills. So far, I’ve learned to use Adobe Flash, ActionScript 3.0, and most recently, PHP. When you complete a course, which means viewing all of the instructional videos, you can download a PDF certificate of […]