Recent Comments on Center for Teaching & Learning http://ctl.blog.uvm.edu/ en-us iberrizb@uvm.edu 2010-08-11T00:37:51-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Comment on "Colleague Tea: Web Tools for Teaching" by Rebecca http://ctl.blog.uvm.edu/2006/04/post.html#5259 A Comment http://ctl.blog.uvm.edu/2006/04/post.html#5259 Comments 2006-04-06T15:54:56-05:00 Author: Rebecca: (feedback@vitaminstohealth.com)
Date: May 31, 2007 12:04 PM
URL: http://www.pickthebusiness.com

I think its excellent the way technology is used at uni now. When I did part of a distance learning degree in Australia, we used the internet a lot, and the forums made up for the lack of student interaction that you normally have with a distance degree. It also made getting help a lot easier. And that was a few years ago - I imagine they're using a lot more now.

]]> Comment on "Welcome to the CTL blog" by Logo&Web Banner Designer http://ctl.blog.uvm.edu/2006/03/welcome_to_the_ctl_blog.html#5124 A Comment http://ctl.blog.uvm.edu/2006/03/welcome_to_the_ctl_blog.html#5124 Comments 2006-03-31T15:19:08-05:00 Author: Logo&Web Banner Designer: (thedesignideas@gmail.com)
Date: May 19, 2007 3:23 PM
URL: http://www.the-design-guru.com/

agree with justin -

]]> Comment on "A Web-Friendly PowerPoint Alternative" by Jeff Klein http://ctl.blog.uvm.edu/2006/07/a_webfriendly_powerpoint_alter.html#4911 A Comment http://ctl.blog.uvm.edu/2006/07/a_webfriendly_powerpoint_alter.html#4911 Comments 2006-07-12T10:52:56-05:00 Author: Jeff Klein: (support@web-design-schools.net)
Date: May 1, 2007 10:24 AM
URL: http://www.web-design-schools.net/

Thanks for the info. I will check out Eric Meyer's tool. I heard Eric speak and Jared Spool's Conference a couple years ago in Boston and was very impressed with him. Thanks again.

]]> Comment on "A Web-Friendly PowerPoint Alternative" by Deb http://ctl.blog.uvm.edu/2006/07/a_webfriendly_powerpoint_alter.html#4868 A Comment http://ctl.blog.uvm.edu/2006/07/a_webfriendly_powerpoint_alter.html#4868 Comments 2006-07-12T10:52:56-05:00 Author: Deb: (debdulal@brainware-india.com)
Date: Apr 27, 2007 9:16 AM
URL: http://www.quality-web-solutions.com

"A Web-Friendly PowerPoint Alternative" - I really learn a new concept. Thanks Deb

]]> Comment on "A Web-Friendly PowerPoint Alternative" by Ryan Johnston http://ctl.blog.uvm.edu/2006/07/a_webfriendly_powerpoint_alter.html#4808 A Comment http://ctl.blog.uvm.edu/2006/07/a_webfriendly_powerpoint_alter.html#4808 Comments 2006-07-12T10:52:56-05:00 Author: Ryan Johnston: (ryanj@ryanj.org)
Date: Apr 23, 2007 4:57 PM
URL: http://www.ryanj.org/wiki

What do you think of the rumuors this week of Google realising a powerpoint like product via the web? The Professional Web Developer Wiki - http://www.ryanj.org/wiki --ryanj

]]> Comment on "A Web-Friendly PowerPoint Alternative" by Eric Meyer http://ctl.blog.uvm.edu/2006/07/a_webfriendly_powerpoint_alter.html#387 A Comment http://ctl.blog.uvm.edu/2006/07/a_webfriendly_powerpoint_alter.html#387 Comments 2006-07-12T10:52:56-05:00 Author: Eric Meyer: (eric@meyerweb.com)
Date: Jul 12, 2006 2:50 PM
URL: http://meyerweb.com/

Hi, Rob. Glad to hear you enjoyed AEA! I too believe S5 could be a big deal in the education space, and in fact a lot of its success is due to educators using it. There've been some cool enhancements recently, and one feature I think will be added fairly soon is the ability to have one-to-many presentations-- where a classroom of students (or a class of remote students) all load up a copy of a slide show, and a presenter "drives" the slide show for everyone. In other words, any changes of state to the presenter's slide show would be reflected in the remote followers. I know of four such implementations, two of which didn't really scale up to a classroom setting, and two of which I don't know how scalable may be. (One of those is at http://zohoshow.com/.) So the demand is clearly there. Now it's just a matter of getting the feature added to the publicly available S5 code base. Oh, and three presenters didn't use S5: Khoi Vinh and Jason Santa Maria, both of whom used Keynote; and Ze Frank, who used either Keynote or Powerpoint. But Jeffrey, Tantek, Aaron, and I all used it, so S5 wins! Thanks again for the kind words and for coming to AEA.

]]> Comment on "Online Tutoring Center" by Hope http://ctl.blog.uvm.edu/2006/07/online_tutoring_center.html#144 A Comment http://ctl.blog.uvm.edu/2006/07/online_tutoring_center.html#144 Comments 2006-07-05T10:06:01-05:00 Author: Hope: (hope.greenberg@uvm.edu)
Date: Jul 5, 2006 11:45 AM
URL:

Neat concept. The UVM Library has been running a program named "Ask a Librarian" that is essentially a chat service. It might be interesting to find out how this has gone, how much use it gets, how people have responded to it, and what any limitations have been. The system described might answer some of those limitations and feedback from the library might give us some indications about how to best implement such a tutorial system.

]]> Comment on "iChat Video Interview?" by Ed Kohler http://ctl.blog.uvm.edu/2006/05/ichat_video_interview.html#66 A Comment http://ctl.blog.uvm.edu/2006/05/ichat_video_interview.html#66 Comments 2006-05-09T13:53:45-05:00 Author: Ed Kohler: (edkohler@technologyevangelist.com)
Date: May 26, 2006 1:18 PM
URL: http://www.technologyevangelist.com

That is a great use of chat. I think Skype is another application that could become very popular for this role. It's already gaining popularity with radio stations for call-ins because it's free, and can be used for pre-recording radio segments by recording phone calls to digital formats. The service has video chat available now, but I think conferencing is limited to audio at this point.

]]> Comment on "iChat Video Interview?" by sjc http://ctl.blog.uvm.edu/2006/05/ichat_video_interview.html#8 A Comment http://ctl.blog.uvm.edu/2006/05/ichat_video_interview.html#8 Comments 2006-05-09T13:53:45-05:00 Author: sjc: (Steve.cavrak@uvm.edu)
Date: May 12, 2006 1:06 PM
URL: http://sjc.blog.uvm.edu/

I believe some professors at UVM have used this type of desktop video conferencing to provide "guest lecturers" for their courses. AIM, iChat, MSN, and Yahoo Messenger all work at UVM. Dr. "Tuna" makes extensive use of video conferencing for debates and is currently exploring virtual video debates using podcasting! ... see http://debate.uvm.edu/

]]> Comment on "Welcome to the CTL blog" by justin http://ctl.blog.uvm.edu/2006/03/welcome_to_the_ctl_blog.html#5 A Comment http://ctl.blog.uvm.edu/2006/03/welcome_to_the_ctl_blog.html#5 Comments 2006-03-31T15:19:08-05:00 Author: justin: (justin.henry@uvm.edu)
Date: Apr 11, 2006 1:09 PM
URL: http://www.uvm.edu/~jhenry/wordpress/

Here is a page with a few articles on how to set a banner image. We basically edited our css to point to a script that delivers a random image. The script sits in a folder with all of the banner images. So, our "stylesheet" template has an entry that looks something like this: #banner { background: #FFFFFF url('http://www.uvm.edu/ctl/blog_banners/rotate.php') center top no-repeat; } You're more than welcome to come in to the Doctor Is In program for help with this.

]]> Comment on "Colleague Tea: Web Tools for Teaching" by justin http://ctl.blog.uvm.edu/2006/04/post.html#4 A Comment http://ctl.blog.uvm.edu/2006/04/post.html#4 Comments 2006-04-06T15:54:56-05:00 Author: justin: (justin.henry@uvm.edu)
Date: Apr 11, 2006 12:51 PM
URL: http://www.uvm.edu/~jhenry/wordpress/

What fun! We also discussed the idea of using social bookmarking tools such as del.icio.us as a method for the class or group to gather together lists of resources found online. Some of the options we had talked about included creating a class "tag" to be able to group the results together, and possibly having everyone just use one account in order to avoid duplicates. Anyway, I wanted to post link to an article I had mentioned that described an example of how this might be done (the author also had a followup post).

]]> Comment on "Welcome to the CTL blog" by Dan http://ctl.blog.uvm.edu/2006/03/welcome_to_the_ctl_blog.html#3 A Comment http://ctl.blog.uvm.edu/2006/03/welcome_to_the_ctl_blog.html#3 Comments 2006-03-31T15:19:08-05:00 Author: Dan: (dfredman@uvm.edu)
Date: Apr 11, 2006 11:14 AM
URL: http://adms.blog.uvm.edu

The new blog looks great! We're trying to get a similar style going here; no love with the banner images, though :-\ Any ideas?

]]> Comment on "What banners?" by justin http://ctl.blog.uvm.edu/2006/04/what_banners.html#2 A Comment http://ctl.blog.uvm.edu/2006/04/what_banners.html#2 Comments 2006-04-04T11:14:31-05:00 Author: justin: (justin.henry@uvm.edu)
Date: Apr 5, 2006 1:31 PM
URL: http://www.uvm.edu/~jhenry/wordpress/

Rob may sound a little gruff here, but we're nice, really, we are! If you have thoughts about a banner, or any other comments, we'd love to hear any feedback you have.

]]> Comment on "What banners?" by Ines http://ctl.blog.uvm.edu/2006/04/what_banners.html#1 A Comment http://ctl.blog.uvm.edu/2006/04/what_banners.html#1 Comments 2006-04-04T11:14:31-05:00 Author: Ines: (ines.berrizbeitia@uvm.edu)
Date: Apr 4, 2006 1:32 PM
URL:

Another image source is clipart.com, a site the CTL has had a subscription to for years. Lots of great images there.

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