Posted Wednesday - August 11 to Treks Transform 2010
After driving around for 20 minutes trying to find a parking place this morning and then yesterday finding a $108. ticket on my windshield, I was beginning to think that staying home was a better option. But getting into the...
Posted August 9th - Day One to Treks Transform 2010
I was slow to get into the material today. Maybe I'm still having some conference lag from Madison, but the afternoon was better. The Quality Matters was good information, but somewhat boring to listen to. I see the value in...
Posted Digital Habitats and Communities of Practice to Treks Transform 2010
Dr. Etienne Wenger is a great speaker and I assume just about everyone heard his keynote this morning. Does anyone in our community claim to have "purple in the nose"? If so, you could add knowledge to our community of...
Posted Buzz to Treks Transform 2010
I was looking for more information about Google's decision to stop supporting and developing Wave and came across this new addition to Google's armada of tools. It has some of the features of Wave, but is clearly tied to gmail...
Posted 4 R's in Multimedia Projects - Rationale, Roles, Resources and Rubrics to Treks Transform 2010
The best part of this workshop was the portion on Rubrics for evaluating multimedia projects. Students needs clear guidelines for how their project will be evaluated and especially when they are engaging in an activity that is new to them....
Posted Is e-learning e-mentia by Dr. Michael Allen to Treks Transform 2010
I enjoyed Michael's presentation style. He tried to demonstrate his principles of using the 3 M's; meaningful, motivational, and memorable. He told three stories of projects that he was involved in that clearly demonstrated what is meaningful to him; i.e....
Posted Surfing the Google Wave to Treks Transform 2010
This workshop was an introduction to Google Wave, a fairly new collaborative collection of tools that are exciting to find out about. In order to use it as a creator or participant, you need a google account. Since the U...
Posted Welcome to Peter Dimock's Blog
Welcome Everyone, I have created this blogsite as an experiment to see if it may have some applications for asynchronous distance learning. This is a format where information is presented in a variety on delivery formats (audio, video, websites, PDF...
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