Workshop resources on Google Docs and podcasting added to the NDLR
Google Docs – a presentation and handout for a 1 hour introductory workshop to Google Docs and the word-processing application – see also http://elearn.itcarlow.ie/topic/GoogleDocs.htm for a description of Google Docs, a screencast showing some basic features and useful links.Podcasting – a presentation for a 1 hour introductory workshop to podcasting – see also http://elearn.itcarlow.ie/topic/podcasts.htm & http://elearn.itcarlow.ie/topic/audacity.htm for information on the educational uses of podcasting and screencasts & links for Audacity.
If anyone wants copies of the screencast files, please contact Damien Raftery. Note that the files are Office 2007 – for some reason when uploaded to the NDLR, the file extension changed to .zip – if you manually change it back to .docx or .pptx it will open as normal.
CLT workshop material online
Catherine Kane of the Centre for Learning Technology (CLT) has just completed the first Social Networking workshop for TCD staff. There are sites for the course which are open to the public.
Social Networking site which is powered by Ning
Why Did We Build Ning?
We started Ning with a simple premise. We wanted to see what would happen if everyone had the freedom to create their own social network for anything. We thought the results would be amazing, but they have truly surpassed our expectations. From artists to musicians, athletes, bloggers, video channels, journalists, students, educators, parents, craft hobbyists, alumni, and interest groups, the range and diversity of the social networks on Ning are profound. We thank you for using our platform and hope we can continue to relentlessly improve both the platform and the social networks powered by it.
eLearning for Large Group Teaching pbwiki
PBwiki hosts more classroom wikis than anyone else in the world, and lets you create a simple, secure wiki in about 60 seconds. Wikis drive engagement and collaboration. A wiki is a live, evolving document – but gives you user tracking and access controls to monitor your wiki at all times.
You can make your wiki public or private or anywhere in between. No matter what, PBwiki keeps your students’ information safe.
These resources have also been added to NDLR
Avoiding gratuitous multimedia – A case study
While dealing with the subject of multimedia in elearning, there is a basic case study here which details the problem of “gratuitous” use of multimedia in elearning.
The essential conclusion can be summed up thusly: “Use it (multimedia) a bit, but not too much”.
Nice & simple.
Darragh
3 ebooks on multimedia in elearning from the elearning guild
The elearning guild is an online community of practice where members can identify and access elearning resources that are created or sourced by other members. The website – http://www.elearningguild.com – is worth looking into on a semi-regular basis, as there are often free resources offered by the guild – a case in point being the titular 3 free ebooks.
As a community of practice, all the content provided by the elearning guild is member driven content, something reflected in the 3 ebooks. Each ebook is based on surveys of members of the guild, so the advantage of the pointers in each ebook is that they derive from the expertise of individuals involved in the field of elearning and so can be seen as pertinent to the real world industry. The disadvantage to this approach is that all the information given in these ebooks is based solely on the contributor’s experience, as opposed to being designed to suit the novice learner. There is very little given in any of the 3 ebooks to explain how to use a piece of software – you are already expected to know it. The only information given most of the time is how the contributor applied the software to suit their own situation, or else general tips on the use of a particular product in providing e-learning material.
Therefore, it is recommended that these books not be read straight through, but that the reader peruse through them as a means of seeing what can be done with particular software, or else to look to a particular section relating to software that one is using or intends to use. I.e.: when considering creating flash content to add to a course, a user could look briefly through the ebook “239 Tips for Producing and Managing Flash-based e-Learning Content” and see if there is anything in the book that would be relevant to their own intentions.
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162 Tips and Tricks for Working with e-Learning Tools |
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144 Tips on Synchronous e-Learning Strategy + Research |
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239 Tips for Producing and Managing Flash-based e-Learning Content |
Darragh
Reusable Learning Objects
Below is a short little Flash animation we’ve been working on here in the DEIS Department to explain the near transfer of skills and knowledge.
More resources are available in the NDLR for members of any of Ireland’s universities or institutes of technology. To get an account, contact your NDLR institutional representative.
Roisin
Profiles
Name: Catherine Kane
Centre for Learning Technology
Name: Catherine Bruen
Title: Manager, National Digital Learning Repository
Name: Gearóid Ó Súilleabháin
Title: Elearning Manager
Name: Roisin Garvey
Title: Multimedia DeveloperRegister
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