Jtzanis - Grafeio Hypermedia

As VoIP becomes more available and video becomes easier to create and share, both teachers and learners are taking on the new role of multimedia producer.

There have been some great discussions on the ITForum this month about audio and video -- both in terms of the role of digital media in the online and blended classroom and the nuts and bolts of audio and video production. Regustered users can access these discussions from the list's online archives (registration is free).

• Freebase Freebase.com is home to a global knowledge base: a structured, searchable, writeable and editable database built by a community of contributors, and open to everyone. It could be described as a data commons. Freebase.com is enabled by the technology of Me
• Diverse Group focused on diversity of technologies and media in asynchronous instruction
• Digital Storytelling in the Classroom A Classroom Tutoriall
• Adobe Digital Kids Club: Introduction to Digital Video: The making of a movie Basic introduction to the topic
• Digital Video Editing Guides: Digital Director A series of guides to demonstrate the ease with which footage can be transferred from your DV video camera to a CD or website
• FindSounds - Sound Types Searches audio clips on the web
• ACIDplanet.com: What is ACIDplanet? A site where users can create and upload music and videos and listen to music created by others. Contests for remixing music by major artists and scoring your own music videos. Users can access a limited number of free "loops"
• Videomaker Online newlestter with tips and resources
• dvHandbook a resource for digital filmmakers and videographers, featuring reviews, how-to's, and more.
• Pre-production Research Methods Links and resources on issues related to video -- including copyright info,
• Vimeo. Because everyone shouldn’t see everything. Alternative to YouTube -- Video sharing site with privacy options

Roy Clariana and Les Mohler's "Distance Learning Profile" instrument is used to predict on-line course achievement based on personality and other factors.

Link via ITFORUM list

Here's a good reason to allow extra time to get through security at Heathrow...

Link thanks to Bill L.

Great discussion in tonight's class about viability of a minimal instruction approach in a technology training with real-world limitations.

A couple of resources of interest on this topic:

• End-user training. Study comparing three kinds of hands-on practice in training users of a software package: exercises, guided-exploration, and a combination of exercises and guided- exploration.
• Minimal instruction manual. Study examining the effectiveness of four self-instruction manuals: a skeletal version, an inferential version, a rehearsal version, and a lengthy version.

• Your Community is a Party Waiting to Happen | Common Craft - Social Design for the Web Answers the age-old question: "How is your online community like a party?"

Welcome to the new group of bloggers from this summer's Teaching Online class at NYU:

• Susie's blog
• Let's talk about...
• PromedtheusStar
• Moral Learning
• LaBusa's Corner
• whynot

Hope to get back into the blogging game again with you all this semester!

• The ASTD E-Learning Handbook Companion Website - E-Learning Resources sampling of elearning resources

• What do faculty do with technology? This practical seminar will help institutions determine the current state of their faculty's technology use, illustrate emerging instructional technologies, and provide strategies to help instructional designers and faculty design pedagogically effective