I've just created and uploaded a nine page PDF document that provides an outline of all 45 products made in this class. The products are organized by person's first name, then by the 3 types (audiobook, slideshow, video). The description of each product, provided by the author, is also included. Please download if you'd like a handy overview of all the student work accomplished this semester.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Friday, December 11, 2009
Project Feedback & Project Outline
I wanted to give you a quick update regarding feedback. This week, and early next, are completely devoted to dissertation related work. Most of the rest of next week will be given to completing grading for my Applied Statistics class. After that I'll get to you!
Specifically I'm planning/hoping to provide audio feedback to each of you regarding your projects before December 28th. I will not provide feedback, however, if I don't have a complete set of three multimedia products to review. So sometime before December 28th you should receive an email from me with a download link to your own individualized feedback. Grades will likely be submitted by this time also—but the deadline for grades is around January 4.
On a related note, I will also create a PDF handout that outlines everyone's projects and includes the short description provided by each student. In total you'll see 45 projects with 45 short descriptions. As with the feedback, this document may not be ready until about December 28th.
Specifically I'm planning/hoping to provide audio feedback to each of you regarding your projects before December 28th. I will not provide feedback, however, if I don't have a complete set of three multimedia products to review. So sometime before December 28th you should receive an email from me with a download link to your own individualized feedback. Grades will likely be submitted by this time also—but the deadline for grades is around January 4.
On a related note, I will also create a PDF handout that outlines everyone's projects and includes the short description provided by each student. In total you'll see 45 projects with 45 short descriptions. As with the feedback, this document may not be ready until about December 28th.
Monday, December 7, 2009
Integrating Multimedia
Three groups presented three sets of ideas for how we could more productively integrate multimedia into a doctoral program. I've created two versions of this presentation: QuickTime movie and audiobook formats. The movie is sized at 800x600 pixels. The audiobook includes the PDF scans of each group's visual model. These are optional downloads. I'll be encouraging the Dean to include these presentations as part of his holiday "reading." Many thanks for your valuable ideas!
Mylene Miles Wynton
I shared video clips featuring three musicians at our last class session: Mylene Farmer, Miles Davis, and Wynton Marsalis. The clips also included other key jazz figures such as Wayne Shorter and Cassandra Wilson. Part of the reason I wanted to share the Jazz DVD went beyond the music and to share how it was made by Ken Burns.
I could freely share the Jazz vignettes in class, but I can't provide them to you as downloads. However, I can share some of the Mylene Farmer material as it has been made freely available on the web. If you have better speakers than the ones in our classroom, then you may want to view the live version of her 2008 song C'est dans l'air performed live below. (After pressing play, and after the 12 second advert, I suggest using the pause button to let the movie load for about 2 minutes before playing.)
You can also download the above video in iPhone compatible size:
You can download the 13 minute video released in January 2009 that includes the first and last songs on her new album. (That's not quite right as there's a hidden final track on her album where she sings Ave Maria.)
You can also download a 7 minute interview with Mylene conducted in June 2009 on the main national news show in France. The interview is translated in English using subtitles.
I could freely share the Jazz vignettes in class, but I can't provide them to you as downloads. However, I can share some of the Mylene Farmer material as it has been made freely available on the web. If you have better speakers than the ones in our classroom, then you may want to view the live version of her 2008 song C'est dans l'air performed live below. (After pressing play, and after the 12 second advert, I suggest using the pause button to let the movie load for about 2 minutes before playing.)
You can also download the above video in iPhone compatible size:
You can download the 13 minute video released in January 2009 that includes the first and last songs on her new album. (That's not quite right as there's a hidden final track on her album where she sings Ave Maria.)
You can also download a 7 minute interview with Mylene conducted in June 2009 on the main national news show in France. The interview is translated in English using subtitles.
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Multimedia Conversations
Three groups, three conversations! The recorded conversations are between 25 and 35 minutes long. Each one addresses key multimedia learning themes with an intended audience of first year students in the Cognitive Psychology course.
This is an optional download but some of you may want to listen to these conversations at some point. All I've done is done a basic "fix up" of the recorded audio: deleted unnecessary bits at the beginning and ends, optimized the audio using the Levelator, and some other very small things. I haven't listened to any of the conversations straight through yet (though I have heard some 5 minute snippets) and I look forward to a good sit down with your conversations later this week. Download the 60 Mb complete set if you want.
This is an optional download but some of you may want to listen to these conversations at some point. All I've done is done a basic "fix up" of the recorded audio: deleted unnecessary bits at the beginning and ends, optimized the audio using the Levelator, and some other very small things. I haven't listened to any of the conversations straight through yet (though I have heard some 5 minute snippets) and I look forward to a good sit down with your conversations later this week. Download the 60 Mb complete set if you want.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Final Checklist
Many of you are submitting your various projects fast and furious over the past few days. With 15 students, and 3 products each, that's 45 products to keep track of—yikes!
To help me (mainly) and you, I'm providing a very simple checklist that shows each student, the student's 3 projects, and check marks beside each product that I've received and posted to the Creations section.
This checklist is accurate as of 11 a.m. on Thursday Dec 3rd. Please check this very simple webpage to make sure I've received and posted your materials. (Of course, if you sent me materials after 11 a.m. today then don't expect them to show up on this list until tomorrow.)
I hope this list helps mitigate any organizational miscues that might arise in the last hours before our final class.
To help me (mainly) and you, I'm providing a very simple checklist that shows each student, the student's 3 projects, and check marks beside each product that I've received and posted to the Creations section.
This checklist is accurate as of 11 a.m. on Thursday Dec 3rd. Please check this very simple webpage to make sure I've received and posted your materials. (Of course, if you sent me materials after 11 a.m. today then don't expect them to show up on this list until tomorrow.)
I hope this list helps mitigate any organizational miscues that might arise in the last hours before our final class.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Final Knowledge Dig
The final knowledge dig has been posted. It's a reflective question so it doesn't ask you to respond to any new readings or materials. Hopefully we can have a very productive final e-discussion over the next ten days! You'll find a direct link at the top of the sidebar area as well as below.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
