Author Archives: Doc

Qik and easy video

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Doc

As a former educational media producer, I am always on the lookout for quick and easy ways for busy educational professionals to create and use videos in their onsite and online courses. Two emerging educational technologies have converged into one … Continue reading →

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DSpace – an open source platform for digital repositories

Posted on January 2, 2010 by Doc

At the ECEL09 conference in Bari, Italy, a keynote address by Julià Minguillón introduced the application of learning objects supported in an open source digital repository software called DSpace. On my return, I took a look at this software on … Continue reading →

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Riding the Crest of Change

Posted on November 20, 2009 by Doc

In 1996, as I wrote the Introduction to a book that my co-author (Gene De Libero) and I would call Strategic Networking, I wanted to capture in words what I could about the innovation that was then in an early … Continue reading →

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Online Presentation Strategies for Visual Learners

Posted on October 25, 2009 by Doc

Greetings, Here is a Web-based version of my ECEL09 conference presentation on the topic: Online Presentation Strategies for Visual Learners http://www.programhouse.com/webpres/phecel09pres1.htm This Web-based PowerPoint presentation (optimized for the Internet Explorer browser) outlines the major points of a (peer-reviewed) paper that … Continue reading →

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Catch the (Google) Wave!

Posted on October 7, 2009 by Doc

Video from Google I/O 2009 Conference: It is an understatement to say that Google is changing the way we use the Web. It is now true for the way their Google Wave (open-source) software platform with its real-time software tools … Continue reading →

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digital marketing strategies and techniques for Web sites

Posted on July 31, 2009 by Doc

There are many digital marketing strategies and techniques that can be used for achieving e-business Web site goals such as increasing traffic, social networking, social media, converting browsers to customers, etc.  Share with us briefly in your comment what you feel … Continue reading →

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how would you gather user needs data?

Posted on May 6, 2009 by Doc

In human factors work, you need to gather data about software user needs before you begin to design (or redesign) software. As a user, what are your suggestions for getting the right kind of user needs information from prospective users? … Continue reading →

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using blogs to promote traffic to a Web site

Posted on April 20, 2009 by Doc

In this entry, I would like to consider the use of blogs as a marketing tool to promote traffic to a Web site, such as my own at http://www.programhouse.com The rationale for this strategy can be expressed as tenets of … Continue reading →

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how do you use your mobile computing device to support your learning?

Posted on January 31, 2009 by Doc

There is likely to be a wide range of frequency and types of use of mobile devices in support of learning. I wonder how we might be able to accommodate those uses as user needs in the design, development, and … Continue reading →

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