Developing Innovative Video Resources for Students Everywhere

The paper I submitted to the DIVERSE conference, was accepted and therefore I am presenting on the 6th July 2006 at Glasgow Caledonian University.

Taking a break

Well, for two obvious reasons now I am taking a short break

EDUTEC 2006

EDUTEC , an important conference in Spain and Spanish speaking countries. This year is going to be focused on ICT-based teaching learning processes, quality in e-learning, Technology and society, and ICT and the configuration of the higher education european space.
Abstracts have to be submitted before May 30, 2006.

Postgraduate Researchers in Education 2006

PRIE 2006 is going to be held on Saturday 10th June 2006 at MAnchester Metropolitan University.
A good opportunity to access an open forum and present one’s work to an audience with a general understanding of educational research.
Abstracts have to be submitted before Friday 12 May 2006.

ASCILITE 2006

At the end of his keynote speaking Peter Goodyear invited the audience to participate in the ASCILITE 2006 conference in Sidney, December 3-6, 2006
The theme of the conference is “Who’s Learning? Whose Technology?”.

Deadline for proposals: Monday 24th July 2006 at noon (Sydney time).

Video Blog

In the task of developing a vlog for delivering video summaries for one of my case studies, I went over two different methodologies to achieve my goal.
First of all, I recorded a talking head, and I created a PowerPoint presentation, then I used Camtasia Studio to integrate and synchronize the slides with the video. At that point everything was pretty straightforward.

Networked Learning Conference 2006

The fifth international conference on networked learning held at Lancaster University, UK, brought me some ideas and useful tips.
I met Peter Goodyear, well I saw him in the keynote, and I attended to some interesting presentations.

Words and concepts

I have just decided to include a working section in which I could write isolated words and concepts that may be useful for my research corpus.

The appendix of words and concepts is in the PAGES block menu.

Books I have to get

Besides, Mayer’s and Mason’s, which I have already gone into, I have just found two books that I definitively have to read.

After reading Robin Mason’s Using Communications Media in Open and Flexible Learning, I started to browse for more Open and flexible learning books and I came across a very interesting book (according to its title, indeed) called Designing Educational Video and Multimedia for Open and Distance Learning by Jack Koumi (publishing date: May 2006).

Also after getting Mayer’s Multimedia Learning from the library, I felt like buying my own copy and while browsing the web I found The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning a newer book of Mayer’s.

Again the concept of opportunistic learning has helped me finding interesting things.

Update notice 10.04.2006
I have just received my copy of one of those two must-have books.

Quotes and References

To keep track of the material I have read, I decided to build a blogged-based data base of the quotes, ideas, summaries and references I have read for my research.

Go to the Quotes & References Blog