Mapping Out Your Knowledge

Mapping Out Your Knowledge

Mapping Out Your Knowledge How do you keep track of what you’re learning? When you have to tackle a complex new subject, how do you figure out how its parts hang together? One tool worth trying for these learning tasks is mind mapping. Mind Map Defined A mind map is a...
Tech Basics PDF

Tech Basics PDF

Minimalist Instructions At IAIA we’ve had trouble getting students oriented to our three campus systems. email online registration Blackboard LMS This term, we decided to reduce orientation week training to a minimum and to give students a ready reference to basic...
ePortfolios at IAIA

ePortfolios at IAIA

Starting the Fall of 2011, I began development of an ePortfolio system for the Institute of American Indian Arts. This system has grown into a cost-effective, campus-wide service. Link to IAIA ePortfolio portal....
Quality Control

Quality Control

Online Simulation Development and Testing Notes Some of my books have required development of over 70 online simulations; each of which must work perfectly. As an author and multimedia developer, I’ve been responsible for hundreds of multimedia videos and...
Teaching Online – Meetings

Teaching Online – Meetings

Online Office Hours instructions I’ve paid for my own GoToMeeting subscription for the past three years. Its primary purpose is to support my online teaching activities. I use a variety of communications channels, including VOIP (e.g. Skype), instant messaging,...
Teaching Online – Interactivity

Teaching Online – Interactivity

Sample Google Docs scheduling document When I have a problem, I look for ways to solve it. In this example, I posted a shared Google Docs document so students could easily tell me when they’d be available to meet and also see the times classmates...