Tools for 5130 week 2

Jott and ooVoo and Talkshoe

Checked out the tools above they are all pretty cool. Of the 3 ooVoo was the favorite.

Jott was super cool had many options and features that were super cool. If you are looking for something similar that supports RSS check out gcast.

As for the video side ooVoo has some cool features as well. Of course like many of the web 2.0 providers they have there paid service as well and VOIP seems to be a great opportunity for people to use your bandwidth to make money of the pennies it cost to make a connection fee. Looks like a super way to make money to me. I do not mean to bash the product is has some cool features if I decide to by a web came I may use it. I was watching a web 2.0 something the other day and stumbled across a program called seesmic . I would suggest checking this one out. I think I will use this tool to conduct my practitioner interview. It will give me the opportunity to ask question and get some candid and maybe rehearsed responses. What it does for me is gives me the opportunity to ask the standard suite of questions but also to adapt and modify based on feedback provided.

Talkshoe scared me abit. It gave me that underground feel that allows people to preach to no one but at the same time allowing multiple sickos a communication method for anarchy. I do not think I'm old fashion but at this time Talkshoe is a bit to progressive for me.

Diigo site

http://www.diigo.com/profile/gjones2

DE vs CI

Well this was my first Meta-Analysis and I hope it was my last. Not that I do not appreciate the findings of all the long hours and multi faceted requirements that went into this report but it feels as if it is one of those things that makes you go duh. After the hour or 3 it to me to read the report I could not help but say I knew that. The fact the CI wins out over DE is pretty obvious because for centuries now we have learned in a CI fashion. I would have liked to see some more depth spent on the alternative methods that are now being used in tools such as articulate, Connect and Livemeeting. I felt that this study discredited these style of DE because I feel the learner has a choice. Most of these applications of DE have an asynchronous and synch component. They allow the learner to attend the presentation or instruction setting live or if the session is recorded the can review the minutes or a video version. I feel that in order to make this study more effective and fight a stronger case DE would have had a equal if not more effective result over CI.

As for the beginners it is pretty cool it feels like a very short version of the 2 text books that we had for the DE certificate. I almost felt that this should have been first. Wait a second just looked and this is 5650 BTW this should have been first. Oh well glad to have it now. Reminder to self ask the instructor if I can share the reading with coworkers it might help them.

Non school related blog

http://wectm.blogspot.com/