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Live blogging MSU Accessible Learning Institute

Today, I am attending MSU’s inaugural Accessible Learning Institute. Under the cut, I will be live-blogging the event until Noon. I’m excited to be here, as this is a great opportunity to learn more about the broad issues surrounding accessibility and the implications of the accessibility movement on education, especially in regard to online and [...]

Explorations in Instructional Technology – Future of the LMS? – LON-CAPA

As announced by Byron Brown, the first in a series of presentations examining MSU’s LMS future.

Gerd Kortemeyer, Lyman Briggs College. Course management system demonstration/discussion: LON-CAPA.

TIME: THURSDAY, October 15, from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m.

PLACE: The Koo Room of Marshall-Adams Hall

September Breakfast Series Announcement

MSU Virtual University Design and Technology (vuDAT) invites you to attend the next session in our ongoing Breakfast Series: Conversations on Online Pedagogy and Best Practices
DATE: Wednesday, September 9, 2009
PLACE: MSU Main Library, North Conference Room, 4th floor, west wing
TIME: 8:45am – 10:00am (8:30am for refreshments)
TOPIC:
MSU-Created Online Teaching Aides
PRESENTERS:
Representatives from MSU’s Virtual University [...]

New ANGEL content type – MSU Scheduler

vuDAT is excited to announce MSU Scheduler, a new content type developed for ANGEL that allows faculty members to create, and students to schedule appointments from the lessons tab of an ANGEL course.

Aviary’s “Falcon” Image Markup Editor Is A Lightweight

Image annotation is all the rage these days. It makes conveying tutorials, instructions, and FAQs a breeze, without having to pull out the heavy screen recording software. Image annotation programs also fulfill the need for many users to make simple edits, such as cropping and resizing, quickly and easily. While there are superb full-featured solutions [...]

Tips For Media Creation and Hosting

Some of you may already be familiar with Storemedia, which allows any faculty, staff or teaching assistant on campus to easily upload, share, distribute, and podcast lectures and other video files on the web. As of March 2009, Storemedia accepts packages (such as those created with Camtasia or Adobe Presenter) and allows for authorization of [...]

Follow-Up: Progress on Geotagging MSU Project

Last month, I wrote about my idea to geotag all of the buildings and other significant landmarks on MSU’s campus. My objective is to create an interactive, visual map of campus that can be shared through Google Earth. Thus far, I have taken over 90 images of approximately 50 campus locations. However, I still have [...]

Follow-Up: What’s Missing from Skype

Nearly two months ago, I canceled my iPhone’s AT&T service and made a leap into the mobile world of Skype. This has turned out to be an excellent decision for me. Although Skype is not perfect, my style of cell phone use plays well into its advantages. Furthermore, the price of the service by far [...]

Photoshop Tutorial: Additional Masking Features

After receiving feedback on my previous Photoshop tutorial, I decided to create a second video to demonstrate a few additional features related to masking.
How to Create a Border for, Reposition, and Transform a Mask.
Click Here to view the narrated tutorial video.

Transform: The Educational Geometry Puzzle Game

Transform is my latest educational game. Its learning focus is on basic geometric transformations. The topics of reflection, rotation, translation, and dilation, more commonly known as flip, turn, slide, and scale, are all conveyed through an interactive puzzle environment.