tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514893647073290711Wed, 04 Sep 2024 22:52:07 +0000Thought LeadersEvaluationsTeachingDesignNew MediaTutorialsNeurosciencehttp://mavenography.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (John Baek)Blogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514893647073290711.post-994356491621575362Sun, 13 May 2007 17:07:00 +00002007-05-13T10:12:27.479-07:00 Paivio, A. (1986) Mental representations. A dual coding approach. Clarendon Press, Oxford.Arnheim, R. (1969). Visual thinking. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Gibson, J. J. (1986). The ecological approach to visual perception. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Latour, B. (1986). Visualization and cognition: Thinking with eyes and hands. In H. Kuklick & E. Long (Eds.), Knowledge http://mavenography.blogspot.com/2007/05/visual-cognition-references.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Baek)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514893647073290711.post-7998942666253532474Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:16:00 +00002007-02-19T13:46:51.595-08:00EvaluationsI wasn't able to find a decent video editing freeware for Windows. So I turned to online video editing websites.I found these two online video editing websites, jumpcut and eyespot. Both pretty do the same things, although I like jumpcut's clip editing controls. Jumpcut has more robust editing features. If you record audio on the video, that's one audio track. Then you can add "background http://mavenography.blogspot.com/2007/02/online-video-editing-websites.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Baek)10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514893647073290711.post-744171246886875463Sat, 17 Feb 2007 01:17:00 +00002007-02-16T17:27:27.980-08:00TutorialsThis is the main page for which I did my work in ModX. Keeping it quite simple, you can manage many pages of content working with just the template and content pages. Because the template is the only page for which I am adding styles, I found it more convenient to keep the CSS styles embedded in the page. Poor practice I know, but convenient.How to edit content pages:1. To edit a page, click on ahttp://mavenography.blogspot.com/2007/02/tutorial-modx-e-learning-portal.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Baek)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514893647073290711.post-8083820301390550354Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:49:00 +00002007-02-13T09:57:52.934-08:00TutorialsIn this screen, use the drop down menus to register a new group. If 'Your School' or 'Your Name' is not available, this means that you have not registered yourself as a teacher in the system. Go to the Teacher Prototype. Currently the system is designed for elementary students, however if you need a higher grade level as a choice under 'Your Grade', then please email someone on the GO Inquire http://mavenography.blogspot.com/2007/02/tutorial-go-inquire-register-new-group.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Baek)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514893647073290711.post-486084465453804650Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:41:00 +00002007-02-11T15:11:26.467-08:00EvaluationsTutorialsOn Paper Presentations Donata Renfrow and James C. Impara's tips (pdf) provide a very helpful structure for trailblazer studies. In the Introduction: Give a teaser, where it fits with prior research; Build a case, build logic, give background; Give purpose and importance. In the Body: Give enough details on methods and procedures to establish credibility; Give conclusions with supportive http://mavenography.blogspot.com/2007/02/conference-presentations.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Baek)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514893647073290711.post-1003616439975785640Sun, 11 Feb 2007 20:41:00 +00002007-02-11T16:43:53.777-08:00Evaluationsfinetune.com is a new online music service, that I spent way too much time yesterday playing with. They have stolen the very best features from others into one engaging experience. The way finetune works by the creation of playlists, similar to Apple's iMix. Once you log in, you can create a playlist of 45 songs. It seems like a lot, but they have an I'm Lazy button that will fill out the rest http://mavenography.blogspot.com/2007/02/online-music-services.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Baek)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514893647073290711.post-8435129487687591412Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:46:00 +00002007-02-11T13:30:05.914-08:00DesignNeuroscienceIn the New York Times today, this article, A Small Part of the Brain, and Its Profound Effects, discusses the Insula, a part of the brain recently discovered to be associated with smoking cessation when damaged. The insula is understood to be deal with pain. It is also seems to translate our feelings into actions. The article makes me wonder what kinds of research we might do in education in http://mavenography.blogspot.com/2007/02/todays-read.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Baek)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514893647073290711.post-4021578127058098728Fri, 02 Feb 2007 16:10:00 +00002007-02-11T13:30:45.955-08:00DesignNeuroscienceNew MediaTeachingI'm going to try to pull together a number of different posts I've read today. The first that got my attention was an article about security expert Bruce Schneier. In thinking about computer security, the risk comes down to people's behavior. We don't assess risk in a purely rational function. Schneier, coming from the technology, doesn't come up with the next widget, but looks to how people http://mavenography.blogspot.com/2007/02/im-going-to-try-to-pull-together-number.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Baek)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514893647073290711.post-4294628497325206764Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:29:00 +00002007-02-11T13:31:04.473-08:00New MediaThought LeadersThe hyperlocal media movement is really important lever for instructional technologists. This movement makes the local community the source of content for media coverage. Teachers naturally are content creators, but they have terrible tools to use at their skill level. Hyperlocal media enablers, Rob Curley and Adrian Holovaty, have found value in what local community actually value, their towns, http://mavenography.blogspot.com/2007/02/hyperlocal-media.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Baek)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514893647073290711.post-3698473254774994391Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:15:00 +00002007-02-01T07:28:58.828-08:00TeachingBeing known as the tech-guy, I get asked how-to questions. I think people ask me not only because I might know, but also they feel comfortable asking as well as the fact that they are going get an answer that makes senses to them. I don't speak some foreign language of acronyms at them. This is an important competency that instructional technologists must have in order to be successful. Here's a http://mavenography.blogspot.com/2007/01/answering-tech-questions.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Baek)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514893647073290711.post-753429066764626643Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:34:00 +00002007-01-31T10:59:06.247-08:00Thought LeadersThe Etech conference is being held March 26-29, 2007 in San Diego. Though I can't go, I wanted to know a little more about what I'm missing. Looking through the Speaker's list, two programs caught my eye. How to Innovate on Time by Scott Berkun (his blog). This talk sounds like an elaboration on what PaylPal founder, Max Levchin, said on NerdTV. "I actually think that a successful startup is 5 http://mavenography.blogspot.com/2007/01/ones-to-watch.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Baek)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514893647073290711.post-5110438875952999822Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:02:00 +00002007-01-30T13:28:40.187-08:00EvaluationsTeachingAptana is free and pretty robust, however it doesn't have one thing, wysiwyg editing. What I mean is you can't edit the page like a Word document, a very nice feature of DW. You can configure it to view your work in multiple browsers, but all editing is in code. The built-in FTP work very nice, maybe better than DW. The interface is confusing at first. I deleted most of the panels in the http://mavenography.blogspot.com/2007/01/dreamweaver-alternatives.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Baek)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514893647073290711.post-8273672357071243139Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:20:00 +00002007-01-29T10:33:47.766-08:00New MediaIn the Washington Post today is an article about the emergence of online marketing companies. Spending their whole day interacting with new media, on the web, playing games, IM'ing, these companies work in these channels in order to both manage the public image of Hollywood clients as well as find opportunities to market new brands.To me this is really a land grab/arbitrage opportunity. As old http://mavenography.blogspot.com/2007/01/new-media-strategies-online-analysts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Baek)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514893647073290711.post-6538695273779400592Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:34:00 +00002007-01-29T09:45:15.839-08:00TeachingQuizlet provides a robust way for teachers and students to learn vocabulary. It an interesting approach coming from the instructional design field. In that Andrew Sutherland has turned what I would call a teacher test-making tool into a student studying tool. He adds some nice Ajax gui-ness and social networking sharing to the mix. Bringing this software code to the web unlocks a lot of untapped http://mavenography.blogspot.com/2007/01/quizlet-is-tool-for-learning-vocabulary.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Baek)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514893647073290711.post-8379898065576895014Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:17:00 +00002007-01-29T09:26:10.155-08:00Thought LeadersIn the February 2007 edition of the Harvard Business Review, you can access the free article Breakthrough Ideas for 2007. One of the twenty authors, Eric von Hippel, discusses how User-Centered Innovation needs to be a national priority. Seems to be a trend today, the Cox Review shares this theme.Also Clay Shirky discusses the nature of open-source projects and their ability to out-succeed and http://mavenography.blogspot.com/2007/01/breakthrough-ideas-for-2007.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Baek)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514893647073290711.post-2272837855240916570Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:41:00 +00002007-01-29T09:31:56.088-08:00DesignThe UK's Design Council has published the Cox Review of Creativity in Business. One highlight of the review stresses the separation of creativity (generation of ideas) from innovation (exploitation of ideas into products and services). Among the recommendations:A national support programme, modelled on the Design Council's work with businesses, to help SMEs use designA review of whether strategichttp://mavenography.blogspot.com/2007/01/cox-review-of-creativity-in-business.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Baek)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514893647073290711.post-2200053904948339189Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:12:00 +00002007-01-29T08:24:18.105-08:00Thought LeadersBruce Nussbaum reporting from the Davos conference on power shifts in four categories: geopolitics, economics, technology/society and business. Two in particular seem relevant to me in terms of learning and education: "Rise of The New Individual, empowered by networks" and "Shift to collective intelligence from individual intelligence and aggregators of information".If individuals can become http://mavenography.blogspot.com/2007/01/davos-12-power-shifts-that-are-changing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Baek)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514893647073290711.post-5280157133118870916Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:59:00 +00002007-01-29T08:11:12.864-08:00Thought LeadersI just rsvp'd for this event on February 9, 2007 hosted by the GMU School of Management.In the mid-70’s technology pioneers Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf developed the common computer language that gave birth to the Internet. Today, as chairman, CEO and president of the Corporation for Research Initiatives, Kahn continues to nurture the development of the medium he helped create. Join us as he http://mavenography.blogspot.com/2007/01/hot-topics-in-technology-management.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Baek)0