It’s been on my to-do list for weeks, but I finally experimented with the DVD authouring task accessed through the ETEC565a eLearning Toolkit. The DVD authouring software bundled on my laptop is called Power2Go, and it’s the only such software…
Author: Nicola Einarson
Digital Story Draft
My story is based around an intern’s reflections on her internship experiences, and has been created using Levine’s (2010) 1-2-3 process of outline, media search, and tool choice. I outlined and then wrote the story script based around best-practices guidelines…
What makes a digital story educational?
What makes a digital story educational? Tacit knowledge, as contrasted with explicit knowledge, is difficult to verbalize or otherwise explicate; falling at the opposite end of the knowledge-management spectrum as explicit knowledge (Binney, 2001). The hallmark of academia is the…
Considerations for a Custom GUI
One of the components of ETEC565A Assignment 5, the Moodle Course Site, is a splash page with a custom graphical user interface (GUI) of at least four navigational components. As this is my first time creating this type of content,…
Social Software
In this activity from the eLearning Toolkit, we were tasked to explore social software and consider the following: Who “owns” materials posted by members? For what purposes can these materials be used? Would using each site be appropriate with your…
Tagged with: ELearning Toolkit, Facebook, Flickr, Google, multimedia authoring, still images, Twitter, youtube
Assignment 3 – Quiz & Reflections on the Process Posted
Just a note to my fellow ETEC565A’ers that I’ve updated my Assessment page for Assignment 3. If anybody is interested in accessing my Moodle site, just let me know and I will enroll you as a student.
Synchronous and asynchronous communications
Having previously explored synchronous communication tools in Moodle with the creation of a chat room for instructor office hours, for this module’s eLearning toolkit activity I decided to explore asynchronous communication tools. For this activity, I chose to draft a…
Assignment 2 Reflections posted
I’ve posted my reflections on the process of creating and designing my Moodle Intro Module. What an intensely challenging and rewarding experience!
The Importance of Introductions
So, what do students need in the introductory module of an online course? In her 2004 study of course design elements most valued by adult learners, Ausburn found that for online course features, the second highest-ranking item was course information documents…
eLearning Toolkit: Web Design and HTML Authoring
Working towards my upcoming second assignment, I have spent the past few days experimenting with the “Web Design and HTML Authoring” section of the eLearning Toolkit. I primarily used the present blog to test the different requirements related on the…
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