Archive for the ‘Web Design’ Category
What is Study-English-Online.Net?
In: Accents, Collaborative Learning, Commonly Made Mistakes, Course Design, Digital Storytelling, E-Learning Design & Management, Educational Technology, EFL/ESL CD-ROMs, ESL Facts & Figures, ESL statistics, groupwork, Instructional Design, interactive CD-ROMs, language learning e-tivities, Learner Skills, Learning Language Teaching, Learning Styles, NOTES, Observations, Statistics, Teacher Skills, Testing and Assessment, TEYL, Uncategorized, Using Blogs in EFL, Using Wikis in EFL, Web 2.0 Buzz Words, Web 2.0 Tools, Web Design, Who is Who in ELT
Teachers’ Digital Toolkit
International online learning projects for students ThinkQuest Online tools for resource creation Animoto Create videos from images Benettonplay Create stunning animations Classtools.net Create educational games Gliffy Create floor plans, flowcharts and 3D diagrams Glogster EDU Create interactive multimedia posters Kerpoof Create movies and stories Mixbook Create a page turning e-book Myebook Create an e-book PoducateMe Exe files How to create a podcast Power League Create […]
In: Digital Storytelling, E-Learning Design & Management, Educational Technology, groupwork, Instructional Design, language learning e-tivities, Web 2.0 Tools, Web Design
Three Generations of Distance Learning Pedagogy
Three Generations of Distance Learning Pedagogy 1. Cognitive Behaviourism 2. Constructivism 3. Connectivism
In: Accents, Collaborative Learning, Commonly Made Mistakes, Course Design, Digital Storytelling, E-Learning Design & Management, Educational Technology, EFL/ESL CD-ROMs, ESL Facts & Figures, ESL statistics, groupwork, Instructional Design, interactive CD-ROMs, language learning e-tivities, Learner Skills, Learning Language Teaching, Learning Styles, Observations, Statistics, Teacher Skills, Testing and Assessment, TEYL, Uncategorized, Using Blogs in EFL, Using Wikis in EFL, Web 2.0 Buzz Words, Web 2.0 Tools, Web Design, Who is Who in ELT · Tagged with: behaviourism, cognitivism, connectivism, constructivism, theories
Educational Technology – Web-Resources: Theory & Tools
THEORY Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching & Technology TOOLS Mootools Javascript Thumbnail Viewer DimDim – A Web-Conferencing Solution More about Moodle http://www.humboldt.edu/~jdv1/moodle/all.htm A code from answers.com which allows you to gloss an entire text. Currently used on the NY Times website, Available at: http://www.answers.com/main/answertips.jsp
In: Course Design, E-Learning Design & Management, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Web 2.0 Tools, Web Design · Tagged with: links, theory
A Multimedia Resource for Language Learning
I have been racking my brains over the past few weeks in vain. I am incapable of thinking of a proper topic myself and that prevents me from starting work on the assignment which reads as follows This assignment consists of two interrelated parts: A multimedia resource for language learning for classroom or self-access use. […]
In: Course Design, Digital Storytelling, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, language learning e-tivities, Teacher Skills, TEYL, Web Design · Tagged with: ideas, methodology, Web Design
Web 2.0 Synonyms & Opposites
The opposite of hyperlinking is RSS aka really simple syndication. Users find content on the web and hyperlink to it . The opposite is subscribing to syndicated content aka RSS feeds. RSS readers are also known as aggregators. Metadata or metatags are usually embedded in website code, are not visible to the eye, are added […]
In: Course Design, E-Learning Design & Management, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, language learning e-tivities, Web 2.0 Buzz Words · Tagged with: aggregators, hyperlinking, metatags, RSS feeds, RSS readers, tag clouds, tagging
Digital Storytelling
A digital story is a personal experience represented in narrative format. The script is amplified by including video, music, still-frame imagery, and the author’s voice. A digital story typically lasts for two to three minutes. Web 2.0: New Tools, New Schools p. 43 It must take ages to create such a story, but the idea […]
In: Collaborative Learning, Digital Storytelling, Educational Technology, groupwork, Instructional Design, language learning e-tivities, Learning Language Teaching, Web 2.0 Buzz Words, Web 2.0 Tools · Tagged with: Solomon & Schrum, writing skills
Reading From a Computer Display
Have got a copy of Eleanor L. Criswell’s Design of Computer-Based Instruction at last. Here are some important although slightly dated stats People read about 25 per cent faster from text pages than they do from computer displays (Gould et al, 1987, cited by E.L. Criswell 1989, p. 83) In the late 1980s that might […]
In: Course Design, E-Learning Design & Management, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Statistics, Web Design
To SEO or Not to SEO? Are blogs really doomed?
Bought a copy of issue 183 of the Practical Web Design Magazine after work today and flicked through it on the bus home. It’s very interesting indeed to see that there are as many suppoters of SEO as there are opponents to it. It’s actually the first time I’ve heard about someone who has gone […]
In: Web 2.0 Tools, Web Design · Tagged with: Calacanis, Mahalo, SEO
Web Usability
That’s the term I’ve been looking for ever since I started toying with the front page of my website. I initially thought that it was navigation that I had to address, whilst now it is clear that it is web usability, or rather ways of designing it. Unfortunately, I am no artist, which means that […]