TLC – Jason Toal

April 24, 2013

Educational Media distribution and you

Learning Objective: Map learner-centered options, for your course, for accessing/distributing media

Mobilizing Media

What should you support? BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)… Do you have to build 4 versions of your media/app?
HTML5 is as an answer to our ‘build it once and it will work for all devices’ goal.
Demo how to distribute video via HTML5

Push vs. pull

Web 2.0 technologies provide teachers with new ways to engage students, and even allow student participation on a global level.

Web 2.0 a term coined in 1999, this refers to the Internet as a place where things get done, as opposed to places where you go to read stuff.
Using RSS vs visiting websites vs email vs carrier pigeons ( Google Reader, Feedly, Rolio, The Old Reader, )
RSS for courses in action ( French 215- D100, ds106 ,)

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April 18, 2013

Going visual

From the royalty free website of retro vector art. http://retrovectors.com/

Welcome to session 4! “Going visual”, in which we will explore our creative side and explore in context what it means to be facilitate your classes using 2d visuals whether they be graphics, drawings or otherwise.

What kind of visuals do you use in your class? Are they online or face to face? Typically visual elements for course materials fall into the “asynchronous” category of media. That is they are pre-designed and created and embedded on your course website. Sometimes however visual elements are incorporated into the class “synchronously” or in real time.

Some examples

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April 5, 2013

Educational Media – Visual summary

This visual summary is from the introductory session of the Ed Media Protege program. The notes are the starting point for discussion for the 2nd session.

Image by Jason Toal posted on flickr

The above image was a revised rendering of the whiteboard brainstorming session captured below.