Customize your blog some more?

Check this out for directions on changing the graphics for your blog.

Blog Post #4

As you read Cooper's Inmates are Running the Asylum, think about how you relate (or don't) to his discussion of user-centered design (or lack thereof) in high-tech products.

What kind of computer user are you? (apologist? survivor? etc.)

Are there any high-tech products that you find particularly counterintuitive? What are they, and what about them frustrates you?
Describe a high-tech product you think is particularly well-designed and why.

Wired Campus: Professors on YouTube, Take�2 - Chronicle.com

Here's a blog post with more links to places with online lecture videos.

Wired Campus: Professors on YouTube, Take 2 - Chronicle.com

Twitter, anyone?

I found this post about using Twitter in a class setting interesting. Not sure I'd want to do it myself, though. I like my privacy in the off hours. Still, I wondered if it couldn't be useful for class related updates -- profs sending out reminders of what students should be working on? Students indicating what they're up to on projects?

What do you think?

Cool blog widgets!

Post any links to cool blog widgets in the comments!

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Flickr is a great photo hosting service and they have an app that lets you make a rotating badge of photos here.

Librarything will allow you to show what you're reading.

Here's a widget directory.

Don't add too many complex ones or you may slow down your blog. But have fun!

Blog Post #3

Pick an online game, play it, and write a brief critique of the game from a learning perspective and interface perspective. Include a link to the game and screenshots (as you see fit).

International Call for Open Resources :: Inside Higher Ed :: Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education

Here's an interesting article about the same topic we discussed last week -- providing course materials online for free!

International Call for Open Resources :: Inside Higher Ed :: Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education

YouTube Professors: Scholars as Online Video Stars - Chronicle.com

YouTube Professors: Scholars as Online Video Stars - Chronicle.com: 

An interesting article -- you will need to be on campus or logged in via the library's proxy server to access the full text.

Blog Post #2

Based on the Clark and Mayer articles (yes, they address the same topic but provide slightly different coverage), try to find either an example of non-example of at least 3 of the multimedia principles.

Post links and screen shots/graphics (see if you can do it! lots of good online resources to figure out how!) in an entry on your blog, with an annotation explaining why each link is (not) a good example of the principle.

Blog Post #1

Please respond to the following questions on your blog. (There is no right or wrong answer)

How do you define courseware? Give a brief example or two of experiences you have had with courseware.

How do you anticipate courseware affecting your career? What will you be doing with it?

How about learning objects? How might they relate (or not) to your career?

What do you hope to learn from this course?

Blog Assignment

This semester you will be required to maintain (and regularly post to) your own blog as well as participate in the class blog (this one!). You may both create top-level posts and comment on this blog. You will be able to visit classmates' blogs and comment there as well.

I will post weekly blog prompts on this blog to guide your posts. You may feel free to make additional posts to your blog (thoughts/reflections on readings, etc.) at any time. In other words, include responses to the weekly prompts but feel free to expand it as you see fit. Make it a useful space for exploring the course material.

When you've created your blog, post a comment here, including the URL to your blog so you may be added to the sidebar links.

Next week we'll be moving the blogs to our own domains!

Wecome!

You made it. You found the blog. Now it is time to set up your own blog.

Go to http://www.blogger.com and set up an account! You do not need to use your real name if you are uncomfortable doing so (remember that blogs are viewable by the general public on the Web), but should you choose a pseudonym be sure I know who you are.