About a month ago, members of the Instructional Design and Course Page Development Group from Granite State College attended a session at UNH Manchester by assistant professor Karla Vogel about Web 2.0. Several ideas came forth from that meeting and led to the development of some experimental tools for online learning. Karla posted a handout about this at http://pubpages.unh.edu/~kv/web2/
Since that time, members of our group have been working on Blogs, Wikis, Google Earth, and del.icio.us to determine how we can make our online and hybrid courses more dynamic. Karla showed us some interesting ideas, but more than this we experienced the enthusiasm of several students for MySpace, bitTorrent file sharing technology and a general sense of technological wonder.
Of course as instructional designers and course page developers, we are always trying to think of ways to enhance the experience of learning online. This information session reminded us of information we knew, and sparked some discussion about how we might go forward with these potential educational interventions. Here is what we did:
1. Bob Baxter created a web page called “Tools for Design” at http://bbresources.granite.edu/course_docs/tools_for_design/ that helped us define, understand and compartmentalize what we had seen.
2. Chuck Bagley continued his work on the “ID Cafe” that will be a repository for Instructional Design information and documents and also has been using a wiki to communicate with individuals working on one of his classes.
3. Aaron Tornberg created an “Instructional Design Ideas” blog at http://idideas.wordpress.com to regularly post brainstorms he and other designers might have about technology at any given time. We try to record our thoughts for further discussion.
4. Victoria Tilton continues to work on course development and considers the tools available that were introduced at the session.
5. Reta had already been working on a “Wiki” to act as a depository for ID information and continues to work on that technology.
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