Last night after class, I signed up for Jing at home and began to play with this application and its companion -- Screencast -- until I couldn't hold my eyes open any more.
I must have dreamed about rainbows because this morning I couldn't shake from my head the song "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" -- Do you know the version by Israel Kamakawiwo Ole'? I guess it's understandable after last night's class. We were interrupted a bit when a double rainbow appeared, arrayed against a stormy sky at sunset. We all hurried outside to express our wonder.
After oooh's and aaah's and digital cameras were put away, we went back to work finishing a scavenger hunt to acquaint us with navigating Blackboard at the Richard Stockton College portal, trying to estimate the simplicity or complexity of our course contracts, as well as teaming up to tackle a group project. My group landed a presentation of the history of instructional media. We debated what presentation tool to use: Prezi, Google, or PowerPoint until Dr. Ackerman reminded us that the end objective needs to be the focus before the tool selection.
Today, My Google Alerts offered me eleven sites to explore related to Instructional Design, including Associate Professor Michael Grant's blog titled "Viral-Notebook." What caught my attention was a posting entitled "The Landscape of PowerPoint for eLearning" In it, he says,
Development
"Instructional designers and developers have told me
that they use PowerPoint for storyboarding.
PowerPoint is simple enough that subject matter
experts can even input the information (note that's
information, not instruction). The process of moving
from design to development quickly through
storyboarding offers a lot of promise for quickly
presenting a visual product.
Delivery
The other way for using PowerPoint with eLearning is
to use it as a delivery vehicle for the instruction. The
most obvious method is for a trainer or instructor to
present with a PowerPoint presentation. This is
certainly where all the ideas about improving
presentations would most easily fit."
Then I read more comments from other visitors to Viral-Notebook and then added this blog to my Google Reader.
You've got it, all the while, I'm humming that darn tune about problems melting like lemon drops and leaving the stars far behind me. If you've never seen or heard this version of the song "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," don't go to the link! It will be the indelible lullaby of your dreams tonight.
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