Today we are working on a seminar to learn about Wikis, blogs and learning objects.

I'm ready for my presentation at SMWC on Tuesday. The name of the presentaiton is Learning Objects, Wikis & Blogs, Oh My.... and will incorporate some of the things that I learned during my sabbitical. It would have been nice to just hand them a copy of my book, but...

I am actually removing some of the sections of the book and making them more generic - since they are specific to SMWC. Still usuable, but just need to reword them.

Worked about eight hours on Lectora, Camstudio and Camtasia. All three of these software packages are incorporated into the book, but I make a presentation October 26th (Tuesday) at SMWC to talk about the sabbitical. Since it is so close to Halloween, the name of the presentation is Learning Objects, Wikis, & Blogs, Oh My... Lectora is so rubust that the presentation could just be a demonstration of that software, especially in light of creating learning objects. The drag and drop authoring and publishing makes it pretty easy to build something that is interactive and better yet - it is SCORM conformant!

Looks like I'm going to have some help this week - finally some student assistants! Jennifer Kramer starts Monday, and Kim Anderson starts Tuesday. Nicholas and I just can't do all the editing without some help.

The first chapter, Encourage Contact, still needs some final edits; however, finding good secretarial help is not easy. What is listed below is just a few of the resources used to produce this chapter. Enjoy!


Encourage Contact
Bloglines Overview
Cafe - Waubonsee Community College
Coolsig - Find Great Email Signatures
COPING WITH HITCHHIKERS AND COUCH POTATOES ON TEAMS
Creating and Supporting Online Learning Communities - Donahue
Creating and Supporting Online Learning Communities
CyberJournalist.net The Weblog Blog
DevForum (E-Discussions)
Digital Journalism
Face-toFace Vs. Online Community
Free Website Live Chat, Live Help, and Live Support
Full Circle Associates - communications, project management, facilitation, and online community and collaboration spaces
George B. Brain Education Library - Guide to Information Resources in Education - Discussion Lists
Hope College Discussion Boards Spring 2004
How Interactive are YOUR Distance Courses
http--www.bsu.edu-web-arose-vita-MARose.pdf
IDEA Resources-Discsussions
Indiana State University Distance Support Services Sketches of Innovators in Education
LISTSERV list by Subject
Major Categories in the Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
My Voice Email - Voice-enabling your out-going email messages
NewsGator - the RSS news aggregator for Outlook
Online Collaboration - Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings
Online Learning Update
Online Learning
Online Student Handbook for CAC
SDSU WebCT Announcements
Seven Principles of Effective Teaching - A Practical Lens for Evaluating Online Courses
Sloan-C - Publications - Journal JALN
Start - first contact
Synchronous Tools Comparison Shauna Schullo Symposium for Building Community Online and On Campus The TLT Group
The Furrygoat Experience
The IDEA Center - Establishing Rapport
The OTiS Site
The Ramblings
USDLA Publications - Electronic Learning Communities
Using Aggregators to Capture RSS Feeds
Vemail voice email software
Yahoo! Groups Accounting_at_SMWC Messages 1-2 of 2

Yesterday, I edited the first chapter by removing all reference to SMWC "how to" items to make them more generic. Nicholas is reviewing chapter 1 to include items that are relevant to ISU without being so specific to ISU that the general public doesn't get use out of them. Talked to publisher this week and we are feeling the pressure to get done.

Still need to develop one cartoon for each chapter. Have ideas but not the time. Plan to catch up this weekend on "must do" things so that we can get back to the book. Will get another student assistant this week to help (at least that is the plan).