Since my students' online units are due today, I figured I would make this post. If you want to make your online course successful a best practice is to include the following things in each unit. I say this because many times I see an online course a

According to the rumors, the latest versions of Flash, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and the rest of the Adobe suite will be coming this summer. Here are a few pieces from an interview with the CEO of Adobe: "Question And with respect to the CS5 mid-cy

What is a Test? What is an Assessment? What is an evaluation? Believe it or not, these terms all have different meanings. Tonight in my 515 class we will briefly discuss these differences during our discussion on online assessment and we do It t

Very interesting article on IGN today about game designer and developer salaries. The numbers come from Game Developer Magazine and are based in the US: Art and Animation - $75,780 (up from $71,354) Audio - $83,182 (up from $68,088) Business

Here is a list of the main things I have used to keep my sites consistently in the # 1 ranking for my chosen keywords in Google: 1. Content Content is king. The more content you have on your site, actually related to your site, the more Google

Wow, a motion at this conference to eliminate video games for children. Lets take a close look at the article from the Guardian and conference against video games. I have quoted the article and broken it out into pieces and then commented on the sect

The use of multimedia in education has become increasingly important as the technology to design, develop, and use it are becoming more popular. Multimedia refers to external representations of words (text, words, audio) and visuals (images, video, a

Since this issue has been coming up in the news lately I thought this pic posted on Mashable was pretty interesting and worth sharing:

A new study by the Pew Research Center, that included 1,400 adults, found that people who read books with e-Readers read an average of 24 books per year compared with those who read text books only read 15. Other findings: -1/5 have read an ebo

This is a good question brought up time and time again in class or the workplace, conferences, and manuscripts. I have heard instructional design programs called: Instructional Technology Instructional Design Educational Technology Educational

This is a 'hot topic' right now in the tech world. Companies, schools, and government agencies are apparently asking their employees or interviewees for access to their facebook profiles. Now I am sure this is not too common as I have yet to hear of

Pretty cool graphic, I love these:

To go along with my previous post which can be found, here. Here is another article on pinterests use in education. It seems pinterest is gaining a lot of popularity in education and is being used quite a bit. I have yet to use it for my classroom

Check where your site falls on Google, Yahoo, and Bing searches. Simply type in key words that people may search and this site will show you where your site falls when someone searches for those terms: http://www.searchbliss.com/seo-tools/search-p

This is a free online scheduler. Its very easy to use and allows you to enter your participants, dates, and times. At that point your participants then choose the dates/times when they are ready to meet. It is brilliant for a professor during advisin

Here is a presentation I give to my students in my multimedia class during the beginning of the semester. It reviews multimedia theories such as cognitive load, dual coding as well as Mayer's theories of multimedia: Multimedia Presentation

Here is a little blurb on user design that I wrote for a class during my doctoral program: The implementation of user design in organizations and educational systems is not new, however, it is very rarely practiced as it differs from out tradition

At an event in San Fran, Adobe will announce the release of CS6 today. Very excited to see if all the rumors are true. Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/adobe-systems-to-launch-creative-suite-6-will-make-it-available-on-a-s

We will find out everything about CS6 today but here is the latest. There will be a cloud based service so that users can purchase the software at $50 a month instead of buying it forever. This means that you could essentially rent the software. This