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Friday, February 27, 2015

Designing Engaging Presentations at IMU!

Looking forward to co-facilitate with Fareeza Marican (Senior Learning Designer at IMU) a workshop on 2 July (2014), focusing on designing engaging presentations based on Gagnes nine events of instruction. It has been some time, since I facilitated a workshop that focuses on Instructional Design (ID), so it will be fun to rediscover my e-learning roots (started of as an Instructional Designer in 2001).

Sadly, Fareeza Marican will be leaving IMU soon to explore a new world (not to be revealed...I seriously dont know either!), but Insya-Allah with her exceptional instructional and creative design abilities, she will do well wherever her destiny takes her.

Wishing Fareeza the best of the best of the best in her future learning adventures!

WORKSHOP

In this 2-hour workshop at the International Medical University (IMU), you will learn how to design engaging presentations for e-learning and flipped classroom sessions based on good instructional design practices. In the process, you will explore PowerPoint, Gagne’s 9 Events of instruction and other tools to engage students to learn.

SLIDES

The presentation slides were co-created by Zaid Alsagoff and Fareeza Marican. However, having our own preferences and flavors, we decided in the end to go both our own ways and have published our own delicious versions on SlideShare, which you all are free to enjoy.

Zaids version:

Designing Engaging Presentations from Zaid Alsagoff

Fareezas version:

Designing Engaging Presentation for eLearning from Fareeza Marican

Both have value added enriched and contextualized learning juice not mentioned in the other, so you are strongly recommended to explore both. Lucky you!

I am again learning and rediscovering ID! In a way, I feel like a new born baby that needs to unlearn old habits, and rediscover new ones to keep up with new ID world :)

What Did They Say Wednesday! Linky Party!

Dont kids say the most hysterical things! I have been loving all of the link ups the past few weeks, and Im looking forward to hearing your funny kid story this week!

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Ive been sick this week, so I thought Id post about a story that happened last time I was sick.

Just before Hurricane Sandy, I had bronchitis and I missed a day of school. Once we got word that school was closed, I made phone calls to parents about the closing. When I called one of my moms she said excitedly, "Im so glad you called! My son has been so worried about you for days because he knows youve been sick and he was scared you wouldnt be able to get to the doctor in the storm! I dont know what you did to him but its all hes been talking about this whole weekend!"

These kids are just too precious!

Now... its time to share your cute kids story from this week!

Rules for the Linky Party:

Share a story that one of your kids said on your blog! If you dont have a blog, leave a comment with your story!
Use the HTML code at the top of this post to link back to the post!
Comment on the two blog posts before yours!

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This linky party will be posted through 11:59pm on Tuesday. On Wednesday, a new linky will be started. I decided to host this as a weekly collection so that we can share numerous stories from our students! Im looking forward to reading everyone elses stories!

Adobe Photoshop Tips and Tricks

Adobe Photoshop is the most widely used graphic editing software all over the world. Its the most worlds renowned tool to edit the images and pictures and all type of graphics. With the help of Adobe Photoshop, a person can edit his photos, images and other graphical images. After learning Adobe Photoshop, you can edit all your images, you can change the effects of your pictures, can edit the backgrounds and also add some animation effects to your images. In this tutorial about Adobe Photoshop, I will tell you very easy but very handy Tips and Tricks about Adobe Photoshop. After learning these simple tips, you will be able to make all your images very beautiful with amazing effects and also can add effects and can change backgrounds of your pics. Just download the Tutorial of Adobe Photoshop from the link below. Or you can read it online through our site from the screen below.

Adobe Photoshop Tips and Tricks

You can download about more then 1000 tips and tricks about Adobe Photoshop from the link below.

Click Here to Download Adobe Photoshop Tips and Tricks guide.

After reading and learning this guide, then you will be able to be a photshop master. And you will be able to create amazing photos and graphic designs by your own. Share it to your friends also. :)

Instructional Design Electronic Workbook

Link to Instructional Design Electronic Workbook
"This tool has developed fairly informally over the last several years by graduate students at the University of South Alabama at Jack Dempseys urging. It is intended as a tool to aid those interested in learning basic instructional design principles. This first version of the Instructional Design Electronic Workbook is based on Gagne, Briggs, and Wagers Principles of Instructional Design, one of the classics of the field.Their intention is to continue to develop additional versions of this resource with varying content related to instructional design..."

PDF Creator 0 8 Excellent Free

Link to PDF Creator & Home page
"PDFCreator (0.8) is a free tool to create PDFs easily from nearly any application. With the PDFCreator Printer driver you turn any program into a PDF-machine"
Improvements (in Version 0.8):

Security! PDFCreator can handle either security settings from AFPL Ghost above 8.14 or can use then program pdfenc from Steven Lee.
Improved printer driver handling
2 new variables: OptionsEnable and OptionsVisible (a simple protection to save the options - useful for administrators) Set this variables manually in the file PDFCreator.ini to save the options.
Email Clients: Succesfully tested with MS Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Eudora,
Pegasus Mail (WsendTo.exe), The Bat!, Foxmail, Sylpheed-Claws, IncrediMail Problems with: Ak-Mail, GeMail, Postguard, Vivian Mail
Add PDF document properties Keywords and Subject
You can add printable files (also via Drag and Drop) and through the windows explorer context menu.
Added Commandline parameter PF: Convert a printable file in a pdf document example: pdfcreator.exe -PF"c:autoexec.bat"
Update check from PDFCreator Menu.

Excitment a Giveaway Reminder and a Poll!

Yesterday was such an exciting day for me... I hit 75 followers and started my b and d Uno giveaway and I got an invite to join Classroom Freebies Too!

If you havent entered yet, click the picture below to check out the giveaway for my new Uno game!

Also, to check out my post at Classroom Freebies Too, click the picture below!

Also, I think Im going to start a weekly tradition: a Technology Tuesday. Im going to add a poll to my sidebar to get your opinion on what I should blog about first! Be sure to vote!

"A creative value-added fusion of SAMR, TPACK, SETT frameworks created by Zaid Ali Alsagoff!"

IPAD WORKSHOP

This 1-day workshop on iPad for Learning & Teaching will (Insya-Allah) be facilitated at the Third International Conference of e-Learning and Distance Education (eLi13) in Saudi Arabia on the 2nd February, 2013. It will awaken and empower participants on how they can use iPads more strategically and effectively for learning, sharing, communicating, collaborating, creating and publishing their e-learning content and activities using a range of essential applications. It will be interactive, engaging, fun, and you will learn a lot of tips on how to use mobile devices to engage your students in and beyond the classroom.

After completing this workshop, participants will be able to:

Download and annotate presentations/articles/notes.
Use social media to connect and collaborate with others.
Create interactive multimedia e-books.
Create and publish online interactive video tutorials.
Use a variety of apps to engage students in and beyond the classroom.

PRESENTATION SLIDES

iPad for Learning & Teaching at #eLi3 from Zaid Alsagoff

Click here to download the PowerPoint (.pptx) version.

CHALLENGE

Besides the first 30-45 minutes introduction, the rest of the workshop will be an hands-on exploration into using iPad to transform learning and teaching in the classroom and beyond.

RESOURCES

1. BASICS

How to Make a Stylus in 2-Minutes
17 iPad Tips & Tricks
16 New iPad Tips 2012
iPad Tutorials and Tips

2. APPS FOR...

iPad Apps to Support Blooms Revised Taxonomy (Kathy Schrock)
Blooms Taxonomy for iPads (Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano)
Gardners Multiple Intelligences for iPads (Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano)
The Digital Learning Farm: Apps for iPads (Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano)
21st Century Skills & Literacies for iPads (Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano)
Evaluation Rubric for Educational Apps?
SETT – A Framework for Making Informed Decisions About Inclusive Technologies
The iPad as Assistive Technology
Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) Framework

3. LEARNING *$: Means ‘NO FREE VERSION’

iTunes U
TED
Keeping Yourself Updated?
Zite
Feedly
Flipboard
Saving Online Articles for Offline reading?
Pocket
Instapaper($)
Reading e-Books?
iBooks
Google Play Books
Taking Notes?
Notes
Evernote
Notability($)
Annotate Notes & Documents?
iBooks
Subtext
PaperPort Notes
DocAS($)
Pages($)
Notability ($)
Storing & Accessing Files?
Dropbox
Google Drive
Box
iCloud
9 Mindmapping & Brainstorming Tools
QR Code Reader Apps

4. CREATING

Creating Presentations?
Haiku Deck
Prezi
CloudOn
Keynote($)
Presenting Slides with Animations?
SlideShark
Keynote($)
Writing Content?
Evernote
CloudOn
GoDocs($)
Pages($)
Creating, Editing & Sharing Images?
Skitch
Flickr
Explain Everything($)
Visualize($)
Recording & Editing Audio?
GarageBand($)
SoundCloud
Fotobabble
SoundCloud
AudioBoo
Recording & Editing Videos?
Videos
Videolicious
iMovie($)
FiLMiC Pro($)
Creating Screencasts?
Explain Everything($)
Educreations
ScreenChomp
ShowMe
Teach
Doodlecast Pro($)
Digital Story Telling?
Animoto
VoiceThread
Creating e-Books?
Book Creator($)
Book Writer($)
Comic Life($)
iBooks Author (for MAC only)
Blogging (Journal/e-Portfolio)?
Blogger
WordPress
Tumblr
Posterous

5. COLLABORATING

Live Online Video Discussions?
Skype
Google+ (Hangouts)
WizIQ
Collaborative Learning & Sharing?
Twitter
Facebook
Google+
LinkedIn
Box
Google Drive
Edmodo
Pinterest

6. ASSESSING

Poll Everywhere
Socrative
Infuse Learning

7. MOVE FORWARD?

5 Critical Mistakes Schools Make With iPads (Tom Daccord)
Roadmap for Success? Source (Slide 73)
Best Starting Point: Apps according to Learning Objectives
iMedicalApps
The Best of iPad Apps
Apps in Education
Reflector
My Delicious iPad Collection

Are you up for the challenge? :)