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HCI Design — Implications for Education

Jeffrey — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 01:54:31 +0000

It’s been a couple of weeks since graduation, but to keep the memory of completing my degree better intact I’ve decided to release my final review paper under the creative commons license shown at the bottom of my website. Partially it sums up pretty much my feelings and assertions of the role that advanced computing technology should have in learning. While I’m fairly confident in my writing, I must state that this is not published anywhere in any academic journal at this time. It isn’t peer-reviewed, so it’s validity and "publishability" is yet to be determined. I actually don’t expect it to get published at all. Not that the world is clamoring to read my every word, but who knows. With that said, I’ll trust the web community at large that they will respect the laws of copyright in their own country. Hopefully your parents have taught you well as mine have taught me to share and give credit where it’s due. My philosophy for this is based on my assertion that truth exists independently of learners and is out there for discovery amongst gigantic mountains of information. Well-educated and well-meaning truth-seekers can mine the truth that exists in these mountains of information. Once truth is mined, it can be refined into knowledge and shared with each individual learner. If that knowledge is then righteously and correctly applied by a learner it becomes wisdom. I don’t claim to be an expert learner, but those who know me closely know that I appreciate one’s ability to learn as a fundamental reason for us to exist.

So if you feel the need to call this work your own, be forewarned that by doing so you have missed the entire point of what it truly means to learn, as with all forms of cheating, plagiarism, dishonesty, etc. Wow, that was really deep…I think I’ll talk more about that later.

Hope you enjoy the paper. Here’s the link: Reivew Paper

And for those who think this post is too serious, I do in fact have a sense of humor. Today it was put away for a short time

Cone of Experience Media

Jeffrey — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:48:22 +0000

As promised, I’ve created a resource for this with a more modern feel to it. Here it is in all its glory:

Here’s a version with some overlays to indicate those learning activities that are active and passive:

Active learning would include those activities that charge our brains and capacities to remember what we are experiencing. Passive learning would include those activities that people can still learn from, but not generally as effective as active learning.

Given this, we should realize that every human being is different. We as instructors and educators should be flexible to adapt to every person’s learning style and seek out their needs

As stated, I’m releasing this under a Creative Commons License under a variety of animated media presentation formats:

MS PowerPoint (version 2003 or greater) Cone of Experience Media PowerPoint

Adobe Captivate (version 1 or later) Cone of Experience Media Captivate

Adobe Flash (version 8 or greater) Cone of Learning (Adobe Flash)

Adobe Fireworks as an unflattened PNG file (still images only) Cone of Learning (Adobe Fireworks PNG)

Here’s the link to download them all as a zipped archive: Cone of Experience Media

As mentioned, anyone can use this stuff to their heart’s content as per the creative commons license below:

Edgar Dale Cone of Experience Media by Jeffrey Anderson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Based on a work at www.edutechie.ws

Creative Commons Collaboration

Jeffrey — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 03:03:18 +0000

Sunset

Originally uploaded by midiman

I’ve been a flickr.com participant for over a year and a half now. As far as a great way to store pictures, they’ve also been one of the premiere second generation Internet social networking apps. One of the reasons they’ve been successful is the creative commons licensure model. Where everyone on the web has the ability to scoop up and use content with the understanding that it will be attributed to or given credit to the individual or entity that put it out for consumption in the first place.

I’ve had several of my pictures ‘scooped’ up this way. Some of the websites and entities that have taken advantage of this are:

http://answers.yahoo.com
http://www.thefriend.org
http://www.downtownatlantis.com/ (Adam Zeisler – a professional juggler. I took a picture of him at an event he was performing in)

…among others.

One of the really cool ways these pictures get used is in other applications. Schmap.com does it in a way that allows them to make online traveler guides, and then make little smaplets that display little local things to do around where the pictures were taken: