Week
3
Agenda
- learn about Flash drawing tools
- visit professional organizations
Fun
Ansel Adams at 100, from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Beautiful photographs, and a nice use of Flash in the web interface. (High bandwidth recommended).
Review of social bookmarking
Furl and del.cio.us are two new sites that help you store and share web links, and metadata about those links. Very cool. These are "social bookmarking" sites. They allow you to save your web bookmarks to a web page, and also see who else is bookmarking a particular site. This is a great way to save and share web links. You also create your own "tags" to mark the sites in a way that is memorable to you. It then becomes easy to search and share those sites. For instance, here are all the sites I have saved recently about "online teaching" and here are my saved links about wikis (collaborative software). It's a little hard to explain, but worth trying.
Here is my complete set of bookmarks. Another neat feature of deli.cio.us is that each tag or combination of tags has it's own RSS feed. So for example, if you want to see what I'm bookmarking as important or interesting, put this RSS feed into your aggregator.
Professional Organizations
There are many different professional organizations that instructional designers and performance technologists belong to. These organizations offer a wide variety of benefits such as professional development opportunities (e.g., conferences, workshops), and job board postings. Some of the organizations include:
- Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT)
- Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)
- International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
- International Board of Standards for Training, Performance, and Instruction (IBSTPI)
- International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI)
- American Society for Training and Development (ASTD)
- American Educational Research Association (AERA)
- American Association for Higher Education
Choose one of these organizations to examine.
- What is the focus of the organization?
- How does the organization serve the profession?
- What can you do for the organization?
- What can the organization do for you?
Publish Your Launch Page
In this course you will have a central web page that I call your "Launch Page". This web page will have links to all the assignments you create during this course. As you create your course projects you will upload them and link them to your Launch Page. This way I and everyone else can easily find and view your course projects. Your launch page should look like this. You can use this actual file if you like. Just right click and "save as" to your computer. Your links should go to your project files, as you create them over the course of the semester.
When you have uploaded your Launch Page, post the resulting URL here:
