About Me
Michael Edwards is an Instructional Designer for the Center for Distance Education at Rhodes State College.This blog contains his thoughts on various elearning resources, pedagogy, technology, and web 2.0 as well as feeds from some of his favorite resources.
Monthly Archives: March 2009
LLT09: Responses & Reflection
I’d like to hear others’ thoughts about this year’s Learning, Libraries + Technology conference.
Here are some potential prompts:
What sessions did you attend? What did you think of them?
Was there any technique/technology/idea that has stuck in your mind that you might consider implementing in a course?
If you were there for the keynote on Monday, what did [...]
RAD133 Welcome Video
I used a Flip Mino HD ($229!!) to shoot this welcome video to RAD133. Edited in iMovie ‘09 (I like the new typography options in ‘09.)
LLT09: Quality Matters – Collaborations in Quality
Connie Molnar, Brenda Boyd, Mark Karamol, Paul Bowers, Sheryl Hansen & Leslie King led a panel presentation/discussion about the Quality Matters consortia.
Quality Matters is “both a process and a (not-for-profit) service.” An inter-institutional peer review for improving online course design. It is a collaboration on rubrics, standards, support, and more.
QM does a lot of work [...]
LLT09: University 2.0 How BGSU Leveraged Open Source Technology to Create a Web 2.0 Learning Landscape by Terence Armentano
Terence, using the impressive and dynamic Prezi, presented on how BGSU took an open source blogging platform (WordPress) and built a “learning landscape.” You can find out more on the blog Terence set up for the conference as a live & ongoing demo.
More powerful, more versatile
Moreso than the narrow and commercial LibGuides, BGSU’s implementation of [...]
LLT09: Libraries & 2.0 Technology: Using LibGuides to Deliver Information
Diane Schrecker, Sara Klink, and Kathryn Venditti of Ashland University delivered a presentation on using LibGuides to enable librarians to customize library resources for bibliographic instruction.
Billed as “Web 2.0 for Library 2.0,” LibGuides is a commercial content management system geared towards libraries. (Not open source). Without requiring any html skills, librarians can set up a [...]
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