I’ve set up a blog reading assignment for my latestest edition of E-Learning for Educators. I’m asking the folks in the class to create a feed reader (I suggested bloglines.com or Google Reader). Next I ask that folks post one interesting blog article a week.
The group is turning up some sweet connections. In earlier classes I’d asked folks to create their own blogs and use them for posting reflections. I found it was asking too much too soon. The risk of using new tech (it was very new for most) and publishing personal reflections just made people too uncomfortable during the start up phase of the class.
This approach is lower risk. Down the line, once folks are comfortable reading blogs and can see the importance of the information stream I’ll suggest they consider setting one up voluntarily. This lays the ground work for the third course in our series: EDUC 744 959F Assessment in the Online Classroom. Datta Kaur Khalsa will ask folks to do the blog/reflection exercise. I think it will go more smoothly at that point.
Here are the links I bounced into thanks to just one nights posting from a very knowledgeable and interesting group:
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IDEAS: Instructional Design for Elearning ApproacheS: Learning Objects
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Squeak is a “media authoring tool”– software that you can download to your computer and then use to create your own media or share and play with others. It is free and downloadable here.
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Blackboard’s Web2.0 attempt at social bookmarking. Worth a look.
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Good stats and a long comment thread comparing two open source learning management systems: Moodle and Sakai. The data point heavily towards Moodle ‘kicking butt’ as more than one blogger in this dialog declares. I haven’t had a chance to get my hands on
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