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One of the most common scenarios for rapid elearning developers is to take an existing PowerPoint presentation and convert it to an "elearning course." Sometimes you get the luxury of meeting with the subject matter expert and then reworking the content to transform it from a presentation to an elearning course. However, there are many times when you have to take the content "as is" and then put it online. The subject matter expert's not too interested in reworking the content much.

Beyond Sakai 2.6, a vision of the future of the Sakai LMS. Slides presented to the LMS Committee at the University of Delaware. January 21, 2009.

With the help of Prezi you can create maps of texts, images, videos, PDFs, drawings and present in a nonlinear way. Move beyond the slide, it only takes 5 minutes to learn how to use Prezi.

We are using the word "story" in a general sense; it may be a deeply personal one of the digital storytelling variety, or it may be a tale of a travel trip, or a simple multimedia presentation.

List of poster presenters at a Baylor U. Teaching with Technology event.

Slides from her presentation.

Baylor University welcomed to its campus yesterday the CogDog himself, Alan Levine, for conversation, tours, and an afternoon presentation titled "NMC 101, An Introduction to the New Media Consortium."

Here is a stripped-down version of the workshop notes that I give to faculty at my institution. You are invited to adapt them to your own purposes, and to use the same links to courses on WyoSakai, or to follow the paradigm to set up your own.

As I've carried on my work this month, I've returned again and again to the role of computers in learning. I keep trying to understand not only the subject itself, but the sources of my own fascination. The presentation at Delaware was perhaps my fullest effort to date to get at the vexed question of what a computer is, or rather, what it symbolizes.

Emerging technology for active learning. Our discussion will build upon ideas from provocative popular authors along with emerging research from higher education.

George Bradford and I presented a poster session at the 2008 Sloan ALN Conference entitled Social Bookmarking Lessons Learned: Harnessing the Power of Networked Bibliographic Resources for Web 2.0 Learning.

Citizen journalism refers to a wide range of activities in which everyday people contribute information or commentary about news events. With the birth of digital technologies, people now have unprecedented access to the tools of production and dissemination. Citizen journalism epitomizes the belief that the experiences of people personally involved with an issue present a different -- and often more complete -- picture of events than can be derived from the perspective of an outsider. Citizen journalism encompasses content ranging from user-submitted reviews on a Web site about movies to wiki-based news. It forces contributors to think objectively, asking probing questions and working to understand the context -- the kinds of activities that lead to deeper learning.

Your voice is unique and personal…just like your stories. Use Yodio to add your stories to your photos or presentations, and share these narrated photos with your friends and colleagues.

In the era of technology students do not pass notes or try and whisper quietly to one another, they send text messages from their cell phones or Facebook messages to one another if on a computer during class. These actions are done silently and do not cause a disruption in the classroom. But is it distracting? Maybe. Is it beneficial? I think so.

The LMS market today faces a strange contradiction - few teachers truly *love* their current LMS but at the same time no one wants to endure the pain of switching to a new LMS. The LMS vendors are slowly cloning each other's features and innovation is slowing. At the same time how people teach and how people learn using technology is constantly changing and evolving. Teachers continuously experiment with technologies outside of the LMS system with varying levels of success

Here's an undergraduate student at UBC articulating a vision for the future that I so thoroughly agree with that it is fills me with a sense of unbounded hope and encouragement.

Mapping potential processes of informal learning through social media

Finally, an easy way to tell your story. Just drag and drop your favorite stuff into Freepath's playlist - no need to convert files, upload videos or embed links. Just like that, your digital life became bigger and better! Best of all, it's FREE.

Screencast-O-Matic is the free and easy way to create a video recording of your screen (aka screencast) and upload it for free hosting all from your browser with no install!