Week4 Comment 2

This week we were to work on the Udutu project that was proposed in week 2. I found Udutu to be a great authoring tool that has some good templates to get a course designer started. The navigation and instructions could use some more development. Like a progress bar letting me know my media files are being uploaded and how much longer it will take. It would also be be nice not to have to type the word delete in all caps when I want to delete a page in the lesson I am creating. However for a free tool I think this works well and I really don't have a lot of issue with it.

Q,

I enjoyed your presentation. You have wonderful “stage” presences and the videos were quite enjoyable. The interactivity within your Udutu was fun and engaging. At the end for the assessment I choose wrong answers and the result of acknowledging that the answers were wrong and to try again was good feedback. Way to go, Q.

Week4 Comment 1

The UDUTU was not difficult to use but the media controls leave a lot to be desired. My project, a software tutorial created in Captivate 2.0, only publishes to a .swf file. From there I had to convert it to a .mov file, which is a format that is supposed to be supported by UDUTU, but will not load due to file size. As per the wetpaint wiki, I used the Adobe Encoder to convert the .mov files to .flv files, which then only took about 3 minutes to upload to UDUTU. UDUTU then further compresses and re-scaled the media files, resulting in very poor quality. NOT a tutorial that I would want to distribute to anyone with expectations of any learning to be achieved. Going back to my original Captivate file, I tried to rescale the project from the original source, but it would not reduce sufficiently without loosing a good bit of my screen capture and graphics. To get it the size down effectively, I would have had to re-create the project from scratch, which seemed to onerous a task just to learn how to use UDUTU.

Laura,

What a great idea to share about archiving. Your tutorial is informative and gives good reasons that would benefit a user to answer the question "why" to archive information. I liked the option to choose which video I was interested in watching rather than clicking to the next slide and going in a mandatory format. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Week3 Link to AR Blog for month 10

This is the link to my AR Blog for month 10:

http://web.me.com/colishizaki/AR_Website/Ishs_Blog/Entries/2010/9/19_LMO_month_10.html

Week3 Comment 2

In this weeks reading I decided to take a look at what the future may hold for LMS/CMS. The great part about this is we can speculate all we want. There are some great things to come based on the readings and some of the trends that researchers are looking.

Q,

This is an amazing time as a professional in education. I have found as a teacher of 5^th graders to embrace that they may know more about a Web 2.0 tool or a software program than I do. My job is to help my students expand their knowledge utilizing these tools. The advancement within Web 2.0 tools is changing quickly and it is my endeavor to be sure there is still human contact and interaction with student/teacher relationship. Some things cannot be taught by technology…successful human interaction is vital for happinessJ.

P.S. Love the visual, I know it is from Wall-E but it reminds me of a spaceship from Star Wars.

Week3 Comment 1

What you need to know about W3C Semantic Web

First what is a Semantic Web; this is a web that connects data. For example if you have photos stored on you computer, a list of contacts, and also keep a calendar. If a semantic web was at work you could look at a calendar view and see the pictures taken on a particular day, then look at you contact list and see photos related to each of your contacts. It establishes connections between vast stores of data so things would never need to be entered twice, or stored in multiple ways or places

Comment to Abby:

Semantic Web is a good way to overlap information without having to do so manually. But, as Monika stated what about losing the original piece of data and not being able to retrieve it? That does pose an issue although as all things through time I'm sure a user friendly system will be created to prevent this from happening. Through time we progress and so does technology.

Ishizaki_Collette_New CMS Directions

Due to technological advances learning platforms have and will continue to change in the education realm as well as the corporate world. Shirky (2008) states that “Tagging” through the Internet, his example of Flickr, replaces planning with coordination. This statement translates to coordinating thoughts/items within the Internet is easier and more cost effective than creating or planning an institution that has a limit to what can be accessed. There is more “bang for the buck” when cooperation can be created into the infrastructure so that people can obtain what they need. Therefore, the cost of running an institution outweighs the cost of an infrastructure platform.

A cutting edge LMS that is geared towards new e-learning development is the Epsilen Environment. The LMS Epsilen has a feature of being able to create global networking by bringing together many groups to meet and communicate . Epsilen offers a lifetime membership which allows an individual to access their own ePortfolios even after leaving a company. This LMS is not limited to only accessing grades but it also allows educators to create assessments that can be taken Online. This program proves to integrate a few functions that are not yet evident with other LMSs.

Some large corporations use a Semantic Web although the popularity is increasing on a daily basis. The overall concept of a Semantic Web is being able to intertwine data from various facets within each other. A Semantic Web will benefit an individual with his/her time and resources.

References:

(2010). Epsilen environment. Retrieved September 13, 2010, from http://www.epsilen.com/LandingSite/index.aspx

Herman, I. (2009). Semantic web. Retrieved September 13, 2010, from http://www.w3.org/RDF/FAQ

Shirky, C. (2008). Institutions vs. collaboration. Retrieved September 13, 2010, from http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/clay_shirky_on_institutions_versus_collaboration.html

Week2 Comment2

Week 2-Cavazzi Aimee Training Professionals Gain Agility and Power from LCMS Technology

Many large corporations and agencies have invested in learning content management systems (LCMS) to train and educate their employees. Many of these buyers are mentioned in Bill Perry's article; the Canadian Air Force, the US Nuclear Power Industry, and the Challenger Corporation (has the largest online training library for clinical training) have implemented LCMS into their training repertoire.

Aimee,

You broke down the reading into a brief, descriptive summary good job. Your quote from Perry is right on the mark…making LCMS a weapon for employers. It is fruitful for companies to have hands on training and learning geared directly towards their employees.