Bookmarks for April 20th through May 17th

These are my Jumptags for April 20th through May 17th:

• The Wall Street Journal Coupon Codes – We have free coupons and deals for The Wall Street Journal online shop that can instantly save you.
• Airplane with 43 on board crashes in Afghanistan – Yahoo! News – A local Pamir Airways plane with 38 passengers and five crew on board, including six foreigners, crashed in Afghanistan on Monday in the inaccessible mountainous Hindu Kush region near Kabul, officials said.
• Food Insurance Coupon Codes and Discounts – Food Insurance Coupon Codes, great deals and promotional discounts on your online purchases at foodinsurance.com online store. We have free coupons and deals for Food Insurance online shop that can instantly save you.
• Teaching with the iPad | This Lamp – I suppose I should mark April 19, 2010 on a calendar somewhere. Last night was the first time I've taught a college class exclusively from my iPad. I'll write
• How to Calibrate Color for the Web | Webdesigner Depot – When is orange more like red? Web designers, even picky ones, sometimes ignore color shift across monitors. How is a web designer to manage color when the
• PLoS ONE: Do Pressures to Publish Increase Scientists’ Bias? An Empirical Support from US States Data – PLoS ONE: an inclusive, peer-reviewed, open-access resource from the PUBLIC LIBRARY OF SCIENCE. Reports of well-performed scientific studies from all disciplines freely available to the whole world.
• Portfolio of grahic design student Julian Hansen – So you need a typeface is an alternative way on how to choose fonts (or just be inspired) for a specific project, not just by browsing through the pages of FontBook. The list is (very loosely) based on the top 50 of the Top100 Best Schrieften by Font…

Cognitive Psychology Seminar: Reconsidering Cognitive Load

If the fun from yesterday with the graphic communications majors at Clemson University wasn’t enough, today, I get to discuss cognitive load theory and web based instruction with graduate students and faculty in the Psychology department here at the university. I’m a little nervous about this talk, because I haven’t presented this before. This is a line of significant research for my colleague and friend Dr. Jongpil Cheon at Texas Tech University. So, I am piggy-backing on his great work.

If any of the students and faculty drop by to take a look or download the slides, feel free to leave a comment below.  I’d love to have your feedback on our research.

Below is an abstract of the presentation and the slides for Slideshare.net to go with the talk.

Abstract
This study proposes a new instrument to measure cognitive load types related to user interface and demonstrates theoretical assumptions about different load types. In reconsidering established cognitive load theory, the inadequacies of the theory are criticized in terms of the adaption of learning efficiency score and distinction of cognitive load types. Since measurement of mental effort does not cover all types of cognitive load, a new way of isolating different loads is required. Previous studies have focused on designing interface to reduce extraneous cognitive load. However, interface may have the potential to enhance germane cognitive load because learners may construct their knowledge schemata with interface layouts.

Technology to Support Your Research

Since I’ve been uploading quite a few presentations this semester from my Developing Interactive Learning Environments and project management course, I’ve also decided to upload a few others to Slideshare.net that I’ve given and created recently.  This is a little slow going, because I am attempting to be critical and meticulous to copyrights, as well as respectful of ideas and images, giving credit where appropriate.  I’m also systematically adding my Creative Commons licensing to each of the slide decks.

Last fall, I was invited to present to Dr. Sally Blake’s graduate student seminar about using technology to support your research.  So, I’m including those slides below.  These slides are organized into the phases of research:

1. awareness of a field of endeavor
2. literature searches and reviews
3. citation management
4. data collection
5. data analysis
6. dissemination

Just a sample of the technologies that are mentioned include journal table of contents updates, Delicious, diigo, LinkedIn, Mendeley, EndNote, RefWorks, SPSS, Google Docs Forms, SurveyMonkey, Nvivo, and Atlas.ti.  Here are the slides:

Let me know if you have questions or suggestions for other technologies that I can include in the future, particularly ones that you use.

Bookmarks for November 19th through November 20th

These are my Jumptags for November 19th through November 20th:

• The Wired Campus – ‘The Last.fm for Research Papers’ Tops 100,000 Users – The Chronicle of Higher Education – Mendeley, a Web service that lets users organize and share research papers, recently announced that it has surpassed 100,000 users, and that its database now includes some 8 million works.
• Principles Of Good Design: Balance – In a typical web layout, a designer needs to place a logo, text, photographs or illustration. By making a conscious effort to work on the relationship between these elements to produce an eye catching design.
• 16 Intelligent Sites For Application Review | Showcases | instantShift – Web based applications have many advantages over software that you have to download and install it on your computer. First, You don't need to install or update , Daily Resource for Web Designers and Developers.
• Designing CSS Buttons: Techniques and Resources – Smashing Magazine – Buttons, whatever their purpose, are important design elements. They could be the end point of a Web form or a call to action. Designers have many reasons to style…
• GoAnimate – Create your own cartoons and animations easily. Our tools are free and you don’t need to learn Flash. – GoAnimate is a way to easily create animations and share with friends.

Pen and link: Traditional and electronic journaling

Brandi Leonard, a doctoral student of mine and Assistant Professor at Dyersburg State Community College,  just finished up her research project about student perceptions of traditional and electronic journaling. It’s a qualitative study that used interviews and artifact analysis to consider how students value each time of journaling. What we didn’t try to do was make one better than the other. The abstract is below and you can download the report of research, too, if you like.

Abstract

This study examined student perceptions of two different journaling formats: electronic journaling and traditional journaling. The study, which took place at one of two satellite locations affiliated with a main campus community college, included a series of qualitative interviews spanning five weeks with six participants. In addition, this study used a general qualitative analysis process by conducting two rounds of open coding. Likewise, journal excerpts were collected and analyzed to establish further connection between the participants’ responses and the journaling the participants completed for both types of journaling. As a result of this qualitative study, four themes emerge as relative to the review literature: (1) understanding and knowing; (2) confidence; (3) convenience; (4) recollection. Finally, two areas of discussion emerged regarding the results, which were the results as relevant to the literature and the results as relevant to the retention of adult learners in the community college classroom.

Download report of research by Brandi Leonard.

Bookmarks for October 13th through October 15th

These are my Jumptags for October 13th through October 15th:

• Weebly – Create a free website and a free blog – Weebly has now added an education section. Weebly is perfect for creating classroom websites, student e-portfolios, and websites for assigned projects.
• Free Adobe Dreamweaver Tutorial | CSS Tutorial for Creating Layouts in Dreamweaver | Layers Magazine – This tutorial covers the process of building a CSS-based layout from scratch using Dreamweaver. Great beginner tutorial.
• Free Adobe Dreamweaver Tutorial | CSS Tutorial – Basics of Working with Cascading Style Sheets | Layers Magazine – This tutorial covers the basics of creating CSS in Dreamweaver using the CSS Rule dialog. Great intro.
• Adobe Flash Tutorial | Creating an interactive story in Adobe Flash part 2 – A simple tutorial for moving around Flash CS3. Part 2.
• Adobe Flash Tutorial | Creating an interactive story in Adobe Flash – A simple tutorial in two parts for moving around Flash CS3.
• Flash CS4 |Timeline Animation | Motion Editor | Layers Magazine – With Flash CS4 now has auto-keyframing, a full-featured motion editor, and—most importantly—the ability to animate each property of an object separately from one another.
• Open Access Educational Technology journals – George Veletsianos – One of the resources developed for my students is a listing of open access journals (name, url, and RSS feed) that publish papers on the nexus between technology and education (educational technology, instructional design, e-learning, online distance…
• Best Time-Tracking Application: Klok – Time management – Lifehacker – Earlier last week we asked you to share your favorite time-tracking applications and then we rounded them up for your review.
• The speed of information – The speed of information between neurons.
• 33 Websites For Vector Images Download | Pro Blog Design – Here is a list of free vector images for download, if you're designer and look for vector images for your design project, you can simply download this…
• 3 Ways To Find The Best Website Color Scheme – Learn how to pick a website color scheme that keeps visitors engaged. Includes a list of questions to ask clients and a color psychology cheat sheet.
• Using John Keller’s ARCS model to motivate online learners « Onlignment – ARCS provides a good summary of the issues to be considered when designing a learning intervention. In particular it makes sense to me when putting together a live online learning event.
• Live Online Learning – a facilitators guide « Onlignment – To download your free copy of “Live Online Learning – a facilitator’s guide” just sign up for the free newsletter.
• Healthcare Napkins wins World’s Best Presentation Contest 2009 | SlideShare Blog – Thousands of presentations are uploaded to SlideShare everyday. But some catch your eye from the moment they get uploaded. Tha's the case with the winning
• 5 Steps to Slide Design for Non-Designers by Ellen Finkelstein | SlideShare Blog – I’ve come up with 5 steps that you can take to create a presentation that will work, even if you’re not a designer.

Bookmarks for October 8th through October 9th

These are my Jumptags for October 8th through October 9th:

• Google Docs – Viewer – Use Google Docs to quickly view documents online without leaving your browser. Enter the document URL and Google will generate the link for it.
• Official Google Docs Blog: Add page break and go to page in forms – Google Docs forms recently added the functions of page breaks and branching with multiple choice questions.
• Whistle-but don’t tweet-while you work – A recent study reports that 54% of companies prohibited completely social media access for their employees.
• Flickr Photo Download: The Detective – Image of a detective.

Bookmarks for September 9th through September 16th

These are my Jumptags for September 9th through September 16th:

• The SQ3R Method – An overview and summary of the SQ3R method for studying and reading comprehension.
• Reciprocal Teaching – An overview and summary of reciprocal teaching by Palinscar.
• Behaviorism Tutorial – A tutorial on behaviorism from Athabasca University.
• Periodic Table of Typefaces on the Behance Network – This particular table lists 100 of the most popular, influential and notorious typefaces today.
• Basics of APA Style 6th edition – An Adobe Flash presentation with slides and audio narration of the basics of APA style. References to page numbers in the 6th edition are given.

Bookmarks for July 22nd

These are my Jumptags for July 22nd

• Pew Internet & American Life Project – Links and search for various results on Internet use.
• Blog Research and References – A bibliography of blog research and scholarship, dated to about 2005.
• Teaching Doc Students about Lit Reviews & Research Design – Doctoral students often declare that the choice of a qualitative design is preferred because students fear statistics.
• How to write a scholarly research report. Rudner, Lawrence M. & William D. Schafer – This article discusses the common sections of a research report along with frequently made mistakes.
• Dissertation/Thesis Guide –
• Conceptual Frameworks Learning Object – A tutorial for understand conceptual frameworks and how they fit in your research.
• Design based research EPSS – An EPSS to support design based research by Tom Reeves.
• Qualitative versus Quantitative Research: Key points in a classic debate – Features of quantitative and qualitative research.
• Overview of data collection techniques – Overview of data collection techniques for research.
• Design of research instruments: surveys and interviews – Tutorial on how to design surveys and interview protocols.
• Dilbert cartoon by Scott Adams – Dilbert comic on interface and usability on July 22, 2009.

New journal article: Ethical issues in instructional technology

Multicultural Education & Technology journal

Tom Lucey and I have just had accepted a new journal article.  The article is titled “Ethical issue in instructional technology: An exploratory framework” and it will be published in Multicultural Education & Technology journal.  In reality, this is much, much, much more attributable to Tom than myself.  Tom graduated from the University of Memphis a few years backs, and we have worked together on a couple of different articles and chapters together, including “Dimensions of the digital divide” and “Influences interpreting a technology component to financial education for Grades K-4: Another dimension of the digital divide.”  Tom’s got great tenacity, persistence and ideas.  I hope you’ll take a look at the article and let us know what you think in the comments below.