Full Sail University EME6629 Learning Management Systems and Organization
Sunday, September 26, 2010
wk4 Comment to Natividad,Froilan
I will post later my not so pleasant experience on just finding the correct link after publishing it in my Facebook using Udutu Teach & Udutu Learn. I stayed late until 3:00 am today just finding the correct link.
Your Udutu project was informative and simplistic enough for young learners to comprehend. The problem with a of e-learning systems, is that they may give complex instructions and hard-to-do task. Which is why individuals have to constantly replay or reread instructions several times.
wk4 Comment to Nathaniel Q.
This week we were to work on the Udutu project that was proposed in week 2. I found Udutu to be a great authoring tool that has some good templates to get a course designer started. The navigation and instructions could use some more development. Like a progress bar letting me know my media files are being uploaded and how much longer it will take. It would also be be nice not to have to type the word delete in all caps when I want to delete a page in the lesson I am creating. However for a free tool I think this works well and I really don't have a lot of issue with it.
Great Job. I like how you simplified project management into everyday activities, allowing learners to understand that we all have complete projects without us calling it. Your Udutu project was very interactive and engaging.
wk4 Udutu Project
In my Udutu project, I briefly explain how to import and cut video clip on Final Cut Pro. As complex as this application can be to navigate your way around, I simplified the basic edit functions making it easier to use. I used a mixture of still images, written text and audio to help learners understand Final Cut. It is import that the learners understand that audio is applied to EVERY slide after the first. Sometimes is make take a while to hear, depending in your computer's operating system. (sometimes i hit the mute button above twice and the audio comes on).
http://lms.myudutu.com/LMSGadget/courses/lms/22938/Course41862/2600/v2010_9_26_10_33_48/course/Course41862.html
Sunday, September 19, 2010
wk3: comment to Laura Williams
As a tech connoisseur I am always very keen to learn about cutting edge technologies that will eventually become the new standard. Naturally, I gravitated most to the Reading 11 activities -- New Directions in CMS. This subject also has practical application for me in my work environment where we are struggling to source a new way of leveraging our disparate technology solutions so that the information housed in them may be integrated, aggregated, and accessed throughout the organization. We need an enterprise platform that can enable this initiative and I am leading the early stages of needs assessment and looking at solutions that will best fulfill those needs. The new Semantic Web protocol is exactly the kind of solution we need and I was delighted to see that there were already some tools commercially available that provide this functionality. I intend to explore them further!
I believe we share the same fortune in wanting to stimulate the education system through the use of new internet applications. The web, makes it very easy to manipulate the data, simply because all you need is an Internet connection. Cost plays a huge factor with transitioning to updated technologies.
Wk3: Comment to Natividad_Froilan
I have always been interested in simulations. In fact my favorite game of chess was designed to simulate war. This game like any other simulations engage the participants in situations or events that would be too difficult and unsafe in the real world.
According to Aldrich there are four different types of simulations:
1. Branching simulations- he likens it to adventure books. An example is a mock customer encounter.
2. Business school spreadsheets- it sows the results if you change one variable to another, for example inventory, sales and profits, price and outsourcing of products or services.
3. Game based simulations- like a quiz show. For example my daughter has a game in Wii “Are you smarter than a fifth grader?”
4. Product- based simulations- it shows how and where a particular product works. Most of these products are created by Flash, which was formerly owned by Macromedia now by Adobe.
I too, like simulations in an education. The participants are engaged and is interested in learning more. I like that you showed advantages and disadvantages when using these tools to stimulate the students. This framework allows me to decide which research I will embark upon or which tool to implement in my classroom.
Wk3: Cross Brian New CMS Directions
It is always amazing to learn how the new technological trends today will affect the learning and development of tomorrow’s educational training systems. Computer technology is designed to accurately execute commands more swiftly than the human being.
The computer industry has evolved into a world of convenience for the average user. Web 2.0 tools (trend 1) are unique ways to enhance education through social networking. Most individuals in today’s society, has joined some form of an online pool, such as facebook, twitter and myspace, etc. These social networks allow connectivity from any part of the world to be on one large system.
Cell or mobile phones are being used for their popularity and unique design for educational purposes (trend 3). Training simulations are being downloaded to PDA’s and smartphones. Mostly everyone in the world has some form of mobile device, which makes this transition easier.
The future of web tools (3.0), an intelligent web, is already in the making. Google docs is an example of applications can be shared on the web and made available for many users to utilize. This tool is beneficial for students who may not have certain applications and who lack the resources to obtain them.
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