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H5P Demo

Hi Everyone, Please take a look at a quick example of diving into the H5P web application.  Blow you can view my video description and the interaction I created.   Model, image and info from: http://www.tpack.org/ Header image credit: Mel...

EDU 807 Review #2 Diigo

This week I am going to take a deeper dive into the annotation and social bookmarking tool Diigo.  I’ll review how the developers approach some of the functionality, including the useful outlining tool.  I’ll discuss how note-taking and collaboration are a key skills...

EDU 807 Blog Post #3

For this quick blog post I am going to introduce Diigo.  This is another tool for bookmarking and annotating sites, similar to hypothes.is, which I reviewed previously.  Diigo has been around for quite some time by web standards, and because of this seems to have...

EDU 807 Review #2 – Hypothes.is

Hypothes.is is a web annotation tool that allows you highlight and create various margin notes – “marginalia” directly in a web page.  This tool has many uses, from journalism and research to education.  For this review, I will discuss some of the ways that this...

EDU 807 Blog Post #2

Let’s annotate the web. I am excited to finally have a chance to take a look at a true web annotation tool.   What is web annotation?  Well, until a few weeks ago I had no idea either.  A Wikipedia search is always a good first step.  There is also a great definition...

EDU 807 Week 2 Blog Post

A Search for a Collaborative Notetaking and pdf Annotation Tool I am looking for a few different things in a collaborative notetaking/annotation tool or set of tools. I’ll list these later, but provide a bit of background first. I want to be able to have one place to...

EDU 800 Elevator Pitch Videos

I placed two versions of the video below.  The first just discusses the questions and is two minutes long.  The longer version contains that section, but discusses a bit more on broad interests and the course in general. 2 Minute Version 6 Minute...

EDU 800 Week 16

Wei, H. C., Peng, H., & Chou, C. (2015). Can more interactivity improve learning achievement in an online course? Effects of college students' perception and actual use of a course-management system on their learning achievement. Computers & Education, 83, 10-21. In...

EDU 800 Week 14 Post 2

Dicheva, D., Dichev, C., Agre, G., & Angelova, G. (2015). Gamification in education: a systematic mapping study. Journal of Educational Technology & Society, 18(3), 75. In this article, the authors conduct a systematic mapping study of gamified education research.  A...

EDU 800 Week 14 Post 1

Antonaci, A., Dagnino, F. M., Ott, M., Bellotti, F., Berta, R., De Gloria, A., … Mayer, I. (2015). A gamified collaborative course in entrepreneurship: Focus on objectives and tools. Computers in Human Behavior, 51, 1276–1283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.11.082...

EDU 800 Week 13

Dabbagh, N., & Kitsantas, A. (2012). Personal Learning Environments, social media, and self-regulated learning: A natural formula for connecting formal and informal learning. Social Media in Higher Education, 15(1), 3–8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iheduc.2011.06.002 In...

EDU 811 Week 13 Article Summaries

Zimmerman, B. J., & Kitsantas, A. (2014). Comparing students’ self-discipline and self-regulation measures and their prediction of academic achievement. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 39(2), 145–155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2014.03.004 In this article...

EDU 811 Week 12 Article Summaries

Barnard, L., Lan, W. Y., To, Y. M., Paton, V. O., & Lai, S.-L. (2009). Measuring self-regulation in online and blended learning environments. The Internet and Higher Education, 12(1), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iheduc.2008.10.005 In this study, the researchers...

EDU 800 Week 12

This week I took a look at the use of VR in the medical field. Dascal, J., Reid, M., IsHak, W. W., Spiegel, B., Recacho, J., Rosen, B., & Danovitch, I. (2017). Virtual Reality and Medical Inpatients: A Systematic Review of Randomized, Controlled Trials. Innovations in...

EDU 811 Week 11 Article Summaries

EDU 811 Week 11 Summaries Sitzmann, T., & Ely, K. (2011). A meta-analysis of self-regulated learning in work-related training and educational attainment: What we know and where we need to go. Psychological Bulletin, 137(3), 421. In this meta-analysis the researchers...

EDU 800 Week 11

This week I’ll discuss my first couple readings of the article assigned for the second critical review of research. Ertmer, P. A., Richardson, J. C., Belland, B., Camin, D., Connolly, P., Coulthard, G., … Mong, C. (2007). Using peer feedback to enhance the quality of...