Author: Robert

Current Topic Two, ED 650

 Chapter 3 I like how our authors call “cramming” out. “Cramming” has always been discouraged in my schooling, moreover, in my experience, I could see that it did not suit me. Interestingly they offer that intervals between study sessions, and allowing for a bit of forgetting seems to be a more optimal approach.  They introduce…


6 photographs Assignment, ED 659

Photo manipulation is daily work for me.  My job involves sizing and optimizing images for the web, and print. I am handy with Adobe Photoshop. That is not to say that I am a good photographer. I started using 35mm film SLR when I was a kid. My Grandfather tried to teach me about his retirement-passion…


Current Topic One, ED 650

Sometimes I find it more efficient reading to work backward from the author’s conclusions. In our text, Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning, Brown, et al. end the second chapter with this summary. Practice at retrieving new knowledge or skill from memory is a potent tool for learning and durable retention…. Effortful retrieval…


Advice for Future Students, ED F654 : “Digital Citizenship” & Intellectual Property

This class feels overwhelming pretty much all the way through. I think this is a function of choice, complexity, and pacing. After receiving grades for the first two sections, I settled down a little bit. Chris replicates the richness and complexity of the internet in both his content and his assignments, and I believe this is…


Not-So-Final Project

Digital Citizenship OR topic X for a particular audience; For, my purposes I am interested in making the distinction between residents and visitors do more work rather than parsing the audience out along gender, generation, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disability, creed, national origin or religion. Particular Audience Perhaps it is useful to imagine online residents along…


Connecting ADA and IDEA to Instructional Design

Owen Guthrie in ED 653 challenged us to work through some of the issues linking ADA, IDEA and or work as Instructional Designers and teachers in the online environment. My post and work are linked here: Document Accessibility, ED 653  Owen’s original assignment is linked here: Designing for Accessibility It was good for me to go…


Reasonable and Unreasonable Accomodations

Making accommodations and modifications means changing the way things are usually done to take into account a person’s disability-related needs. Examples of accommodations and modifications include modifying rules, policies or practices; removing architectural or communication barriers; or providing aids, services, or assistive technology. “(i) modifications or adjustments to a job application process that enable a…


ADA, Questions

What are best practices for instructors and designers when building online courses sensitive to ADA? What are public or private college-university’s responsibilities to students with disabilities? Is money available and specifically relevant to assisting persons with disabilities in online activity and digital participation?  


ADA, Single Starting Point

(though I guess you could do three not-so-long blog posts. But wouldn’t that be boring?) So, Bob is a little overbooked and is playing the boring card. I started a new job 7/24.  I am participating in the iTeach summer intensive and trying to get, my winter fish in this week. Exploring the ADA and…


Search & Research

Protections for intermediaries from liability for users’ content are necessary to a vibrant, innovative Internet.  These legal protections allow Internet access providers, content hosts, social networks, and others to support a robust online environment for free expression without worrying about potential liability for the material stored on or moving across their networks. Without them, services…