Over the years, many excellent tutorial sites have sprung up over the web, providing basic to advanced instruction for a number of software packages. We believe that there is no purpose served by replicating the materials provided on these sites. Instead, these resources are designed to:
We expect this section to grow over time - additions to it will be documented in the weblog published on the Hippasus site.
| Title | Author | Description |
A Matrix Model for Designing and Assessing Network-Enhanced Courses |
A model for the design and evaluation of courses involving networked components. The model allows educators to select appropriate tools, plan their usage, and design metrics for results as part of a single integrated process. | |
| A Moveable Feast: the del.icio.us web | A discussion of the structure, use, and potential of del.icio.us, an online service providing shared bookmarking resources. | |
| Achieving Fairness and Excellence in Social Software | A discussion of practices and tools that avoid many of the pitfalls commonly encountered in the use of social software. | |
| Agile Learning Object Development | An exploration of the concepts from Agile Software Development relevant to the creation of learning objects, focusing on real-world tool usage, and demonstrating the actual development of a learning object. | |
Digital Storytelling - Basic Thoughts about Visual Composition |
This site offers some fundamental principles and guidelines for visual storytelling and for the use of images in a narrative context. | |
| Game and Learn: An Introduction to Educational Gaming | A 14-part podcast series on videogames in education, available in its entirety from iTunes U, that provides educators with the knowledge needed to successfully use educational gaming in their classroom. | |
| Mapping del.icio.us with Anthracite and OmniGraffle | A tutorial demonstrating how to construct visualizations for del.icio.us using two user-friendly Mac OS X programs, Anthracite and OmniGraffle. | |
| Symbolic Math - A Workflow | A tutorial demonstrating the use of Maxima as a tool for basic computation, symbolic math, and typesetting in an integrated workflow. |
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