Author Archives: Justin Henry
WebCT Fall Semester Tune-Up
Just in time for the first frost, the Fall semester is upon us. Here are a few pointers to get you up and running with WebCT for the current session, including: Adding students to your course “Flagging” your course via … Continue reading
Summer Workshop Series Wrap-up
At high noon last Friday, we concluded the last of our Summer 2006 series of workshops. As usual, it was quite the whirlwind tour. We delivered a total of 7 separate workshops, many of which were multi-day events. This meant … Continue reading
Summer Workshop Series: Introduction to Adobe Photoshop Elements
We’re just wrapping up one of our series of August events, Introduction to Adobe Photoshop Elements. More updates to come regarding this and our other workshops, but in the meantime we’ve opened up the survey for participants of the Photoshop … Continue reading
The Expert Mind : Training trumps talent.
In the August 2006 issue of the Scientific American, Phillip Ross explores what makes an expert an expert. The key, both surprisingly and unsurprisingly, is training. Or what the article calles “effortful study, which entails continually tackling challenges that lie … Continue reading
Podcasting Lectures
The perennial question “What do Students Want?” often gets asked in way that provide results that contradict expectations. Sometimes the first answer turns out to be wrong. Sarah Brittain and colleagues at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry have … Continue reading
Wikimedia Commons Image Library
This image (an animated gif file) is from the Wikimedia Commons. It was featured as the “picture of the day” for March 14, 2006, and has been nominated as one of the finest images on the Wikimedia Commons. The Wikimedia … Continue reading
A Web-Friendly PowerPoint Alternative
While spending two days in New York attending An Event Apart, I saw some cool stuff about standards-compliant web design & development, CSS best-practices, and unobtrusive JavaScript. Most of that doesn’t mean much to most of the people who might … Continue reading
Grad View of LMS
A Graduate’s View of the Course Management System By Ryan Tansey, Recent Graduate, University of Puget Sound Two years ago when I wrote my first viewpoint for SmartClassroom (then eLearning Dialogue), I issued my university an “Incomplete,” with the suggestion … Continue reading
Online Tutoring Center
Although systems like Blackboard, Instant Messaging, WebCT, etc, provide some of the underlying services, the online tutoring environment provides some nice administrative and support features that don’t come about with the “environmental” features to support a tutoring center.
Continue reading
CFP : Tools for Supporting Social Structures
The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) has issued a call for participation for Hypertext 2006 : Tools for Supporting Social Structures. Scheduled to be held in Odense, Denmark, August 23 – 25, 2006, this is the 17th Hypertext conference. Hypertext … Continue reading