Educational Technology | Instructional Design | Learning Theory
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My group and I have just finished of our group assignment for the ETEC511: Foundations of Educational Technology course. I’ve never worked on a group assignment completely online before, not to mention, with group members situated in different places around the world. It actually turned out to be easier than I anticipated. After we figured out the best time for meeting, we used Google Hangouts for regular meeting sessions. Continue reading
ThingLink was originally created for online interactive advertising. But many educators are adapting it for creating interactive images in the course content. It only takes a few minutes to create an interactive image which you can add several types of Rich Media tags. This makes it possible to have multiple social content links to be accessed from one image.
To see how ThingLink works, first make sure this post is completely open, so the “continue reading is not visible below the image. Then just mouse over the image and click on the green icons to learn more about this enigmatic print by Francisco Goya.
This print is work No. 43 of Goya’s “Caprichos” series (1st edition, Madrid, 1799). Public Domain .
I’ve worked with technology for quite some time now and much of that work was has involved different areas related to education, from administration and support, to course design and training. Yet, I am learning so many new things about educational technology already. The first course I am taking towards the MET degree, ETEC511: Foundations of Educational Technology course, has introduced me to new ideas and topics. What I find especially exciting, is sharing and learning from my classmates. Continue reading
Public Domain (wikimedia.org)
For a long time people avoided using animated GIFs on the web. They were considered to be simple, annoying, like the tacky cousins of the more sophisticated flash animations, javascript and videos. A snobby web designer might have said that they were so Web 1.0! However, after a decade long dormancy they are back! Continue reading
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One of the most charming tools available in Photoshop is the eyedropper tool. It’s so handy to sample colours from images already open in Photoshop. For online, images or web site elements that I wanted to know the colour for, I just copied and saved the image, and then brought it into Photoshop to sample. Continue reading