The book we are using is Teaching online: A practical guide, by Ko and Rossen.  Week one had us reading chapters one and two.  We then answered the following questions: Question #1: How would you implement online discussions in your course? Question #2: To help students become involved in an online course, what should be [...]

I’ve written plenty of times about how much I admire Cammy Bean’s thinking (you must read her Learning Visions blog), but today she helped me out and she didn’t even mean to. So here’s to you, Cammy! You see, I’m preparing materials for my EDTC 5753: Introduction to Instructional Design course, and I’ve been interviewing [...]

To say the last couple of weeks here at effectivedesign have been interesting is an understatement. First of all, I had been reading the posts at Cammy Bean’s Learning Visions blog, and had been linking to them on my weekly post of links. On my Links for 1-26-08 to 2-01-08 post, Cammy commented to me [...]

Posted by under Reading Responses,Technology,Tools,Web 2.0,Websites on February 18 2008, 0 comments

It’s been a busy week on the blog, so without further adieu, here’s the links for the week. From my del.icio.us account: Simple Spark — a great directory of web 2.0 applications. 13 Tools For Tracking Discussions in the Blogosphere — I hadn’t heard of a lot of these tools. 14 Simple Ways to Convert [...]

Posted by under Columnists,People,Reading Responses on February 15 2008, 5 comments

Cammy at Learning Visions asked me to whittle my list down more. As a former English teacher, I relish the thought of making my writing “tighter.” So while the purpose of my initial post on how to get an instructional design education without paying tuition was meant as a “here’s what you need to know,” [...]