Introduction
over the last nine years I have taught into a number of different programmes in a number of different institutions. During this time I have designed a number of classroom and online courses. My instructional design (ID) philosophy is twofold; first, I follow a number of ID methodologies and use the one that best suits the learning situation, second, I have developed my own ID methodology called Agile Instructional Design (AID). Follow the links here if you want to see a mix of these efforts.Current
2008: Instructional Design - I am currently building Open Educational Resources (OER) focusing upon OpenOffice Writer 2.0 for the Commonwealth of Learning's (COL) WikiEducator initiative. This OER module provides an introduction to word prosessing using OpenOffice Writer. This COL initiative is to reuse the resources made available by the ICDL / OCDL and recreate them in a wiki for everyone to use and reuse as they need.Past
2007: Instructional Design - I built an Open Educational Resources (OER) focusing upon OpenOffice Base 2.0 for the Commonwealth of Learning's WikiEducator initiative. This OER module provides an introduction to designing and creating databases using OpenOffice Base.2007: Instructional Design - I built a series of workshops for the Instructional Design Office of Memorial University. These workshops are intended to help faculty better understand the use of technology in teaching. The workshops focus on the pedagogical approaches to educational blogging, podcasting, wikis, tagging and the Web 2.0. These are very constructivist workshops where the participants learn by doing.
2006: Memorial University - Faculty and graduate student workshops. A series of workshops covering the use of technology in education. Topics include; beginner and intermediate educational blogging, podcasting and pedagogy. Graduate student and faculty workshops on the supervision to completion. And a series of workshops within the Memorial Teaching Opportunities for Graduate Assistants (TOGA) program.
2006: Memorial University - Educational Blogging. a four week course on educational blogging. One of the outcomes of this course will be a paper discussing the course, how it was executed, the topics covered, what we learned and what we would do to improve upon the course for the next time. If you are interested in the course material feel free to visit the course web page and review the students edublog projects.
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