Quandary Home Page Quandary is an application for creating Web-based Action Mazes. An Action Maze is a kind of interactive case-study; the user is presented with a situation, and a number of choices as to a course of action to deal with it. On choosing one of the options, the resulting situation is then presented, again with a set of options. Working through this branching tree is like negotiating a maze, hence the name "Action Maze". Action mazes can be used for many purposes, including problem-solving, diagnosis, procedural training, and surveys/questionnaires. Quandary is only available for Windows (although it also works perfectly on Wine under Linux). The Quandary site has now been moved to the University of Victoria.
Visual Eyes - The Power of Storytelling | The Power of Storytelling ALT-C 2011 - 0107 Preparing for a Thaw – Seven Questions to Make Sense of the Future Adam Cooper, Scott Wilson Asking questions about the future is a timeless human activity that is brought to the fore in times of change. Learning technology is clearly situated in our wider environment and how we engage with it is bound up with our culture and history. This means that when looking to the future, the ‘wisdom of crowds’ is likely to provide as rich a picture of what is to come as expert opinion. In this workshop we will follow Ratcliffe (2002), who declared “foresight is largely a matter of conjecture, and at the heart of conjecture lies conversation” by introducing participants to a simple conversational technique known as “Seven Questions” (Amara and Lipinsky, 1983). The facilitators will blog a personal view (on the JISC CETIS website) on the collected responses on the same day as the workshop. JISC Observatory:
Proyecto Malted - Multimedia Authoring for Language Tutors and Educational Development MALTED es una herramienta informática de autor para la creación y ejecución de unidades didácticas multimedia e interactivas para ser utilizadas por el alumnado como prácticas de aprendizaje en aulas dotadas tecnológicamente. Esta herramienta ha sido desarrollada en particular para la enseñanza de idiomas, si bien su uso se puede extender a otras materias del currículo escolar. El sistema MALTED está integrado por dos entornos de trabajo, llamados respectivamente Editor MALTED (DVE) y Navegador MALTED (RTS). El programa funciona bajo los sistemas operativos Windows y Linux. Las unidades interactivas de este sitio requieren la máquina virtual de Java y el plugin de Malted Web 2.0,.
VisualEyes thomcochrane.wikispaces (or "Kick Ass Professional Development") Thomas Cochrane Academic Advisor, Centre for Learning And Teaching (CfLAT) AUT University, tcochran@aut.ac.nz Vickel Narayan Academic Advisor, Te Puna Ako, Unitec New Zealand, vnarayan@unitec.ac. QR Code Download QR Code reader for any cameraphone:Download Kaywa Re users: download the free app "QR App" from the iTunes StoreAndroid users: download the "Barcode Scanner" or "I-nigma" apps from the Android Market Experiential learning movie clip In a similar way to Cage’s Kick-Ass character, the researchers’ developed the Social Learning Technologies (SLT) course as an experiential learning environment for the participants, while informed by a graduate-level critique and reflection upon emergent learning theory. Dummies2Delight 2006 Redesigning the GDHE SLT Paper The Graduate Diploma of Higher Education (GDHE) is one of the institution’s primary methods of lecturer professional development.
LIM El sistema Lim es un entorno para la creación de materiales educativos en formato de Libro Interactivo Multimedia. Características Uso de HTML+javascript+css Compatible con los principales navegadores , sistemas operativos y dispositivos. Entorno abierto, basado en el formato json. Sin dependencias, no necesita blibliotecas o frameworks externos Modificable, los archivos HTML y CSS pueden ser modificados para ampliar las posibilidades y aspecto de LIM EdiLIM es compatible con los recursos creados con las versiones anteriores. Los recursos ya creados pueden abrirse con EdiLIM y exportarse al nuevo formato. Desde un punto de vista educativo : Entorno agradable .
f.lux: software to make your life better Digital professionalism... if only it were that easy Image: Doctor reading articles by rosefirerising The longer I am online and the more I become immersed in being online the more complex this existence seems. I want to talk about some principles for "Digital Professionalism" which have been put forward by Rachel Ellaway in the journal Medical Teacher last year. The journal is paywalled so I am going to give the principles here. The 7 principles are: Principle #1: establish and sustain an on online professional presence that befits your responsibilities while representing your interests. Principle #2: use privacy controls to manage more personal aspects of your online profile and do not make anything public that you would not be comfortable defending as professionally appropriate in a court of law. Principle #3: think carefully and critically about how what you say or do will be perceived by others and act with appropriate restraint in online communications.
eXe The eXe project developed a freely available Open Source authoring application to assist teachers and academics in the publishing of web content without the need to become proficient in HTML or XML markup. Resources authored in eXe can be exported in IMS Content Package, SCORM 1.2, or IMS Common Cartridge formats or as simple self-contained web pages. eXe grew out of the New Zealand Government Tertiary Education Commission's eCollaboration Fund and was led by the University of Auckland, The Auckland University of Technology, and Tairawhiti Polytechnic. eXe was named a finalist in the New Zealand round of the IMS Global Learning Impact Awards 2008 and went on to claim a Leadership Award at the international judging. There are now several projects inspired by eXe around the world.
Jisc Inform / Issue 38, Winter 2013 | #jiscinform | Digital tools to bolster research effort In medical research, text mining can be used to review tens of thousands of pages of research papers simultaneously and detect patterns and associations that could otherwise easily remain hidden from researchers. Those previously unimagined connections could help to bring about rapid, important advances in understanding disease pathology, genetics and drug development. €250bn of value could be added annually to the European economy if researchers were able to make full use of text and data mining, according to a report published by McKinsey Global Institute in 2012, as well as continuing these huge advances in our understanding of the interconnectedness of things. And text and data mining are just are just two of the tools that are transforming research. Digital research tools now in development and under test can support: Text mining Brainstorming ideas Data collection File conversion and manipulation Resource discovery Management of bibliographical information Automation of routine tasks
A New Culture of Learning by Doug Thomas & John Seely Brown .: Ardora :. Ardora 9 creación de contenidos escolares para la web Ardora es una aplicación informática para docentes, que les permite crear sus propios contenidos web, de un modo muy sencillo, sin tener conocimientos técnicos de diseño o programación web. Con Ardora se pueden crear más de 35 tipos distintos de actividades, crucigramas, sopas de letras, completar, paneles gráficos, simetrías, esquemas, etc, más de 10 tipos distintos de páginas multimedia: galerías, panorámicas o zooms de imágenes, reproductores mp3 o mp4, etc; "páginas para servidor", anotaciones y álbum colectivo, líneas de tiempo, póster, chat, poster, sistema de comentarios y gestor de archivos, pensadas fundamentalmente para el trabajo colaborativo entre el alumnado, así como las utilidades que permiten presentar conjuntamente varios contenidos como los paquetes de actividades, espacios web o los escritorios virtuales (desktop).