Bare Bones

Tangibles I Gained from the NMC conference

Interactive Posters—This one woman who was talking about student access to planning, designing, and printing large posters for course projects had made her poster interactive by building handouts into the poster itself. I love that idea!

Programs/software/tech tools to try out:

• VUE—visual understanding environment (mind mapping): http://vue.tccs.tufts.edu/
• MediaBASE—multimodal discourse tool:  http://pages.emerson.edu/faculty/E/Eric_Gordon/html/mediabase.html)
• XMAS (Cross-Media Annotation System):  http://icampus.mit.edu/projects/xmas.shtml
• iPod as audio recorder
• play with wikis more (playing back the various versions of a document’s construction)
• TeamSpot:  http://tidebreak.com/prodteamspot.shtml
• Online Syllabus Generator:  http://www.clt.odu.edu/sgen/sg_help.php
• Pachyderm (finally…I know!):  http://www.pachyderm.org/
• Second Life (3D virtual reality):  http://secondlife.com/
• Technorati: http://www.technorati.com/

Books/authors/sites to read:

• Instructional Assessment Resources (IAR) Online: http://www.utexas.edu/academic/diia/assessment/iar/
• Brenda Laurel
• Richard Lanham
• Gaming Theory (See Jeff Anderson’s list from his workshop)
• Hippasus:  http://www.hippasus.com/

Concepts

• Faculty certification for teaching w/tech skills
• Faculty ePort for demonstrating teaching w/tech skills
• Faculty facilitating teaching w/tech workshops
• Just in Time Learning (vs. JiTT):  http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/03/motivated_to_le.html; http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/index.cfm?fa=viewfeature&id=23

June 10 2006 | Posted in nmc