132 Posts Tagged "ed tech"

General educational technology things no longer worthy of their own cateory

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A Big Squared Circle Flickr Poster

Check out this flickr spawned creation, the Squared Circle Poster. It is a mosaic of 2600 photos from the flickr Sqaured Circle Group (photos of circular objects inside a square image): This image was made by compositing 2600 photographs and arranging them in a fibonacci spiral, a form commonly seen in plants, such as sunflowers […]

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Helen’s Online Portfolio Adventure

The self-proclaimed “grandmother” of electronic portfolios, Helen Barrett has likely the most comprehensive set of resources on her main web site plus her E-Portfolios for Learning blog. Not so evident on the front page of site is a fantastic resource where she has taken the same portfolio content and used it in 22 different eportfolio […]

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Some ePortfolios Blossoming

It’s been a while since I browsed some of the new electronic portfolios that have been growing this semester on our Maricopa eP site. But I am liking what is starting to pop up… Dale Doubleday, our Ocotillo ePortfolio Action Group co-chair, has had her ART289 (Computer Illustration) students post to their ePs examples of […]

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Bb-igfoot: Are there More than Blurry Photos of ePortfolios?

Despite a lack of clearly focused photographs, there are some out there clinging to firm beliefs in Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster. I get the same sensation trying to get a clear picture of Blackboard’s ePortfolio functionality. Some messages of inquiry about the legendary beast in question bounced around the AAHE Electronic Portfolio Action […]

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Learning Object Definitions Redux Number 3254

(Taking a break from my current Kiwi blogging action, cannot stay away). In Learning Objects: A Practical Definition Rory McGreal takes a somewhat noble effort to wrestle the learning object monster. I was looking for that grail like singular uber definition. Is it there? I love reading things like: LOs are sometimes defined as being […]

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EDUCAUSE: “Electronic Portfolios in Higher Education: Where Are We and Where Are We Going?”

From the folks at the University of Denver Portfolio Community:

The University of Denver Portfolio Community is a comprehensive electronic portfolio system that supports individual, course, and community portfolios and curriculum assessment. This session will discuss the DUPC’s development and lessons learned during its implementation and compare it to other electronic portfolio systems..

Began work in mid 1990s in school of communication. No commercial products then, so they did a home grown system.

Note to presenters- Nearly all presentations wade through word slides of background info, etc before getting to a rushed and hurried demo. Always start with the demo, give us a visual. grab our attention…. then wade through the bullet points.

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Denver Bound

In a few clicks, I’m off to the airport for Denver heading there for the EDUCAUSE 2004 Conference Extravaganza. With good wireless connectivity, I hope to blog what I can. Tomorrow Brian and I will be rounding up some objects in our pre-conference seminar, “Decentralization of Learning Resources: Syndicating Learning Objects Using RSS, TrackBack, and […]

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flickr object

flickr foto Volcano Types Diagramavailable on my flickr Volcanos are often classified by plotting their degree of “explosiveness” (y axis) and height of the erpution column (x axis)…. the largest and most dangerous eruptions have high values of both. Roll over each type for examples. Note- this example is here is purely for showing how […]