Share Prototype Evaluation Report Ed Tech 561 Joe Deegan Evaluation Type: Think Aloud User 1: Spouse (Project Manager) User 2: Co-Worker (Training Manager) User 3: Class Listserv I conducted a “Think Aloud” evaluation for my “Twitter for learning” multimedia page with my wife, a co-worker, and I also got some good feedback from the class[Read More...]
Multimedia Research #4 – Ed Tech 561
December 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Share Chapter 34 Reflections A Handbook on Educational Communications and Technology Designing Instructional and Informational Text I chose to read the chapter about designing instructional and informational text because as somebody who spends their day’s developing e-learning I feel it is definitely something that can improve the effectiveness of my work. I see a lot[Read More...]
Web Based Article Storyboard – Ed Tech 561
November 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Share Below is a sketched out storyboard of what my “Twitter for Learning” web based article will roughly look like. It was nice to sketch it out on paper to get a better idea of how the page will look and how to layout the graphics and text. Now that I have a better visual[Read More...]
Web Based Multimedia Article Proposal and Outline – Ed Tech 561
November 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Share As class sizes become larger it is becoming increasingly difficult to engage students in the classroom. A great way of overcoming the challenge of engaging students and increasing interaction in a large class is to take advantage of Twitter. Using Twitter to increase conversation in the “Back channel” can broaden participation and engage students[Read More...]
Multimedia Research #3 – Ed Tech 561
November 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Share Chapter 33 Reflections A Handbook on Educational Communications and Technology Visual Representations and Learning: The Role of Static and Animated Graphics After reading through this article I was struck most by how far we have come in such a short amount of time when it comes to the use of visual elements in instructional[Read More...]
Educational Video – Ed Tech 561
October 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Share The video below was developed for the “Educational Video Workshop” in Ed Tech 561 at San Diego State (http://coe.sdsu.edu/edtec/). I used Adobe Premiere to create the overall video and Camtasia Studio for the screen recording clip. This was my first time using Adobe Premiere so I was a little slow out of the gates[Read More...]
Multimedia Tools #2 – Ed Tech 561
October 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Share For my second Multimedia Tools assignment I wanted to familiarize myself with Adobe Premiere since I am planning on using it for my video and have never used it before. I do have experience with more basic video editing programs like Corel Video and Camtasia Studio so I have a basic understanding of how[Read More...]
Educational Video Production Plan – Ed Tech 561
October 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Share This is the production plan for the educational video “How to Donate Life.” Props: Stool for actor to sit on Donate Life clothing/button Fireplace setting in background Equipment: Camera Internal microphone on camera Tripod Lighting (Basic lighting in room) Laptop to be used as teleprompter Schedule: 10/12 – Test set for lighting and overall[Read More...]
Multimedia Research #2 – Ed Tech 561
October 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Share Chapter 16 Reflections A Handbook on Educational Communications and Technology Exploring Research on Internet Based Learning: From Infrastructure to Interactions I found this article to be very helpful because it focuses on what does and does not work in distance education or “Internet Based Learning” and makes those finding easy to apply to my[Read More...]
Educational Video Storyboard – Ed Tech 561
September 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Share I normally use Power Point when creating storyboards and find it useful so I thought I would use power point to create this storyboard instead of drawing slides on the provided template. Power Point makes it easy to include images and color schemes I am considering for the final product and makes things more[Read More...]
