Archive for December, 2008
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 […]
Is Teaching & Learning PURELY WEB 2.0-wise a Must?
| View | Upload your own A nice basic summary (in somewhat broken Russian, but that is not an issue, the content offsets this minor drawback) with a lot of unstated assumptions, though. The basic supposition is that the learners MUST do everything online, and the question that is unanswered is WHY they have to […]
In: Instructional Design, Using Blogs in EFL, Using Wikis in EFL, Web 2.0 Tools