BP14_Week4_WordPress
Been busy with the beginnings of the build phase of my AR project, tentatively named EveriLearn.com.
I still need to purchase the domain name, currently I'm utilizing WordPress to build the simple blog and course catalog. I will soon need to find a WordPress hosting site, upload WordPress Multi-User and BlogPress. Both these WordPress add-ins are required to add the multi-user functionality to my course site.
I have located and started to utilize the following site to help me with this buildout. It contains tons of video and written tutorials.
At same time, I am beginning the build of actual coursework. Utilizing Adobe Flash to make a highly interactive class. I am quite proficient with this tool, so I won't be blogging too much about this effort here, just wanted to mention it.
I still need to purchase the domain name, currently I'm utilizing WordPress to build the simple blog and course catalog. I will soon need to find a WordPress hosting site, upload WordPress Multi-User and BlogPress. Both these WordPress add-ins are required to add the multi-user functionality to my course site.
I have located and started to utilize the following site to help me with this buildout. It contains tons of video and written tutorials. At same time, I am beginning the build of actual coursework. Utilizing Adobe Flash to make a highly interactive class. I am quite proficient with this tool, so I won't be blogging too much about this effort here, just wanted to mention it.
BP13_Week 4_WordPress
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Here's an example of the University of Mary Washington's school site utilizing WordPress as both a student's blog site and their learning management system. Students log into the site, link through to course catalog. Moreover by clicking on a course title, the student will then enter the course's blog site, administered by the teacher, where they can link to the course's syllabus, texts and grades. Other school's site features include an area for students' blogs, message board, clubs and groups.
BP12_Week 4_WordPress
I have decided to utilizeWordPress as my development platform for the learning management system (LMS) to contain the Flash-based courses.
WordPress has several advantages as a LMS; it's an open source environment, their are boatloads of plugins and widgets to enhance your site, and finally, WordPress can be configured to allow your community of users to interact, share their knowledge and opinions. This combination of standardized LMS and customized personal learning environment (PLE) is very attractive to my Action Research project. One caveat of my AR project is to promote both a Christian eLearning toolset and community of learners. The relationships formed at church are an important aspect of our christian life and the eLearning environment can create a isolating factor. This must be avoided.
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Saturday, July 24, 2010
BP11_OMM_Go!Animate
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Want to have fun making Saturday morning cartoons? Or...simply create new and innovative teaching tools? Go!Animate.com is a new Web 2.0 tool that promotes social interaction with your fellow animators through the Go!Animate community or facebook, twitter, delicious and myspace connectivity. I'm planning on implementing this tool at the office by upgrading my account, creating and importing corporate material and taking advantage of the video import module. The Go!Animate team is very active in developing new functionality including a full screen studio, your voice recording and improved searching.
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Awhile back my senior vice-president of Communication came up to me and stated, "I want to see my Saturday morning cartoons!" Now I instantly know what he really meant by this, he's looking to find another medium to communicate with all the associates at OfficeMax. Now, our department already produces all different types of media, video, audio podcasts, flash-enabled virtual environments, eLearning courses, posters, graphical images, intranet pages and written textbooks. So this was just another medium to reach out and engage our associates with messaging. I immediately opened up my desktop copy of Adobe Flash and Illustrator to begin the process of "animating". This can be a very time-consuming effort. So when I came across GoAnimate.com I was absolutely flabber-gasted. This site allows you to either utilize their huge catalog of characters and objects to create your masterpieces or the site will allow you to upload your materials and create customize animations with your materials. The site is original free to use, and I have had some fun "playing" around on it and their video tutorials, however, my corporate work will require the purchase of the DIY Animated Video, GoAnimate-In-A-Box license and the ability to download our animations (available for a very small fee). My corporate Plus account GoAnimate account features: full-length animations (basic account limits your cartoons to 2 minutes), text-to-speech animations, the ability to upload images and swf files for animation and finally, the ability to merge our video assets to the GoAnimate files. I look forward to working in the GoAnimate Studio in the future!
BP8_GoAnimate.com
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BP7_OMM_ClientShow
Do you work on a creative team? Or are you designing eLearning courses for a training department? I do and I'm very interested in implementing ClientShow.com within our training department. This Web 2.0 tool may be the answer to assist in the collaboration between creative teams, instructional designers, project managers and script writers.
The creative process consists of conceptual idea-mapping, scripting/storyboarding, asset gathering, creation and preparation, media production and rendering, approvals, editing and publishing. Each step in the process involves several responsible individuals and cooperation among these people is very time-consuming and laborious. The typical tools utilized in this process consist of email, shared servers and ftp upload sites. Each of these older technologies have clear disadvantages namely, a lack of trackability, versioning and no feedback mechanism. The Web 2.0 revolution brings new collaboration tools, such as ClientShow.com. This tool provides a platform for creative teams to share their work, receive feedback and deliver the final product - all based upon a secure Internet venue.
The creative process consists of conceptual idea-mapping, scripting/storyboarding, asset gathering, creation and preparation, media production and rendering, approvals, editing and publishing. Each step in the process involves several responsible individuals and cooperation among these people is very time-consuming and laborious. The typical tools utilized in this process consist of email, shared servers and ftp upload sites. Each of these older technologies have clear disadvantages namely, a lack of trackability, versioning and no feedback mechanism. The Web 2.0 revolution brings new collaboration tools, such as ClientShow.com. This tool provides a platform for creative teams to share their work, receive feedback and deliver the final product - all based upon a secure Internet venue.
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BP4_CientShow
One of the most interesting new Web 2.0 tools I have come across is ClientShow.com. My work involves storyboards, scripts, graphical assets, videos and other internal and external media assets. Today, most of these assets are created and shared between our production house team members via email, shared server folders and, least efficiently, printed, hardcopy. ClientShow is designed and built around creating a creative team’s collaborative environment, enabled on the Internet. ClentShow is built around creative projects and enabling the sharing of your ideas, creative ideas and assets among the project team, whether that team consists of internal or external clients. By uploading a pdf-formatted document to a ClientShow project, an Instructional Designer or project manager can share their storyboard or script. Media assets are then developed by the creative team, uploaded to the ClientShow project site and shared with the rest of the project team for approval. At any point during this process, a review session can be scheduled either in real-time for all parties to meet at once, or the parties can review, make comments and/or changes and submit these changes to the creative team for implementation. ClientShow sends all notifications of action items, commentary, versioning and changes to the appropriate person via email, however ClientShow maintains all files within it’s collaboration platform. Moreover, ClientShow is much more than email, FTP, shared servers or screen sharing. These other, older technologies are hampered by a lack of trackability, versioning, feedback mechanisms or real-time communication. Finally, ClientShow accepts several graphical formats (jpg,png, gif), video formats (swf, flv, mov, f4v, mp4, mp4v) and for final asset presentation (zip, tar, gz, rar) file formats may be utilized.
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BP3_Kaltura.com
My work life is surrounded by various forms of rich media, video, audio, podcasts, etc. Currently, most of that content resides on a secure HTML-server. This Web 1.0 setup, combined with the internet pipeline limitations to our retail store locations, severely limits our rich media capabilities. With this and other network security considerations in mind, I have been on a hunt for a Web 2.0-capable rich media server solution. I think I have found just the thing in Kaltura.com.
This online, open source video platform provides companies with the ability to ingest, publish, syndicate, monetize, and manage all of your rich media. This platform encodes various rich media assets into the Flash media codec (.flv), transcodes your assets into various resolutions. These assets can then be served inside your corporate website, taking advantage of Flash's adaptive bitrate streaming technology, which adjusts the video playback based upon the user's network connectivity. In addition to this Flash-capability, Kaltura.com can also support the new HTML5 video codecs. Your users can edit and publish their own video timelines (utilizing your content assets, of course), adding annotation, subtitles, transitions, etc. All this functionality can be utilized either on your servers or as a hosted (software-as-a-service, SaaS) solution.
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BP2_iGoogle Screen Shots
BP1_Google Reader
- EndUserSharePoint - excellent site for SP newbies all the way to more advanced stuff, very little coding involved here
- Path To SharePoint - for a bit more advanced SP developer, some JavaScript, but will help you really "wow" your SP site users
- SharePoint Joel - blog published by one of the real SP superstars, excellent
- SharePoint Magazine - good all round SP reference
Rich Media. Moreover, for this class, and my current professional project, involving the development and distribution of various rich media assets. These assets cover a gamut of areas: podcasting, videos, intranet, eLearning courses, Learning Management System (LMS), etc. Most of this work is done utilizing Adobe products; Flash, Premier, After Effects, and DreamWeaver.