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I use a lot of elearning strategies in my face-to-face classroom because I teach in a multimedia lab that has one-to-one computer workstations. My classes always revolve around the class website, which is a place where lessons, assignments, announcements, and...
This is a project showing “Fading” in a worked example screencast. This is a physics problem where you are given the time it takes for something to drop and you need to calculate how high the object fell in that...
Link to presentation. Using worked examples in e-learning can be a powerful method of teaching. A worked example is a step by step demonstration of how to perform a task. Embedded in the presentation above is a short tutorial showing how...
The Personalization Principal states that using a conversational style rather than a formal style of communication is better for learning and understanding. This makes sense, as a teacher you should always meet your learner where they are. This doesn’t mean...
Have you ever noticed when navigating unfamiliar city streets, that you turn your music down? There is nothing about looking for street signs or avoiding traffic that requires you to hear, yet you turn the music off when you need...
The above image shows a Prezi I created explaining both the Modality Principle and the Redundancy Principle of Multimedia Education.
Here is a link to my Haiku Deck Presentation on the Fast for Nonviolence. The Fast for Nonviolence – Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires. My multimedia program participates in a yearly project called the Fast for Nonviolence....
I created a static multimedia Instructional tutorial using Clarify-it. Clarify-it is a program that builds an instructional tutorial based on screenshots. I use screenshots a lot in my instruction but always just use the the Macintosh interface keys to take...
This is what’s called a Sketchnote. A Sketchnote is a graphical way of taking notes or illustrating learning. Doing a skechnote on material learned makes the learner process the information in a deeper way than just reading, hearing a lecture,...
My lessons to my students always start in front of the class, teacher centered, and lecture driven. I like to begin with focus and direction, even if that is all I am doing. My lessons are all available on our...
In this post I will be evaluating an Asynchronous lesson I created for my Boise State EdTech 521 course on Online Teaching in the K-12 Environment. The lesson I created was to allow my students to research different topics in...
Moodle, Forum, Badges, hangouts, oh man. A Moodle site and a forum would be the ultimate beginnings of the blended learning approach I want to create with my multimedia academy and classes. We have classes and students throughout the day...
The International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) have helped develop the iNACOL Blended Learning Teacher Competency Framework (available here). In reading through this framework I was struck by a very simple sentence in the Preface, “central to its development was...
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