Terence Armentano - eResume & ePortfolio

The strategic use of audio, video, images, and text, is crucial to designing learning environments in online courses. Bubbleshare is a simple to use product with cool implications for the online instructor. It allows the users to include audio and video narration to images. This is great for telling stories, critiquing photography and other forms of media, language learning, and more.

I contacted them because the audio and video is not working when I embedded it in this blog so hopefully they will be able to get it fixed. If you click on the image below, you will see what is supposed to happen.

Time Magazine has selected you and me as their Person of the Year because of our role in receiving and distributing information in this new era. Essentially they are proclaiming that we control the media. User created content is HUGE on the web and will only continue to grow. Site’s like Digg, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, and the millions of blogs on the net proclaim that you have the power. The irony is that Time Magazine selected you as their person of the year because you control the media…hmmmmm.

CNN Business 2.0 asked 50 of the brightest minds in business how they do what they do - and how you can cash in on their advice in the year ahead.

Did you know?

Google Is a Calculator
Google Knows Mathematical Constants
Google Converts Units of Measure
Google Is a Dictionary
and much more…

The google search tool is much more than just a searching machine. Check out the following site to learn about some of the other cool things you can do with Google.

http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.asp?p=675528&rl=1

Video and audio communication over the internet adds some really neat aspects to online teaching and learning. Would you like to call or video conference anyone in the world for free using your computer? Would you pay $15 a year to call any landline phone with your computer in the US and Canada? Would you like to to do some free video conferencing online with your students? How might these techniques enhance your online course? I’m no salesperson, but I will advocate something if I think it can benefit education and Skype is one nice application that uses peer to peer technology to enhance online communication. Check out their most recent version— Skype 3.0

I am looking forward to the day that my students and colleagues in the 3rd world will call me for free from their $100 laptops. The global classroom is just around the corner.

Feel free to give me a call sometime via skype. My skype name is terenceonline

Over 30 hours of video and audio content from Thought Leaders and Keynote Sessions from Learning 2006. Video “Objects” from Ken Blanchard, interviews with Stephen Covey, JimLauderback, sessions on NextGen, LMS Futures and much more. They also included transcripts of most of these session. All FREE at http://www.learningwiki.com/library

The quest for knowledge is a journey that every human embarks upon in his/her life. It is a quest that has spurred innovation across the globe from Gutenberg’s printing press to Einstein’s Relativity to your own discoveries. It has been said that humans only utilize 10% of their brain. Wouldn’t it be great to use more. How can we target those untapped areas of our brain? The following article suggests 77 ways to hack into those barren places of the brain enabling one to learn faster, deeper, and better. http://oedb.org/library/college-basics/hacking-knowledge

If you are a breathing person and either maintain a website or want to build a website, I encourage you to take the time to have it done right…especially if you are a professor or business person. Just because you own a copy of Photoshop and Frontpage or have IWEB installed on your MAC, doesn’t mean you are a graphic designer or web-designer. A poorly designed site can make any intelligent person or organization look unintilligent pretty quick. So if you are diving into developing a website or hiring someone to do it for you, I recommend the following article titled, Biggest Mistakes in Web Design. If you can look past the authors sometimes bizzarre commentary, this article actually provides plenty of good tips on what to do and what not to do when designing a site.