Module 3 Table of Contents
Resources
For further information on interactive communication technologies (ICT), see these useful resources:
- US Distance Learning Instructional Media Selection Guide - this is a pdf file
- Distance Education Clearinghouse (part of University of Wisconsin-Extension, its partners, and other UW institutions)
- Campus Technology (formerly Syllabus Magazine)
- The Chronicle of Higher Education (while there is some free content, much content is restricted to subscribers)
- Educause White Paper on Podcasting (pdf file download)
- Expanding the Concept of Literacy to include multimedia
- Next Generation Bibliographic Manager-Zotero - Note: you have to create a free account with the journal to access the article.
PBS MediaShift Technology Overviews
(these are a couple of years old but still a nice overview)
Videos
- Web 2.0-The Machine is Us/ing Us
- CommonCraft Show
- Warriors of the Net
- Video tutorials on streaming video
- Cathy Moore at Elearning Blueprints offers an interesting video on learning with Web 2.0
As students of Indiana University you can download free educational editions of most of the Microsoft and Adobe products or purchase them on CD or DVD from an IU campus bookstore or by mail order. Please see IUWare Online for access.
The following are a few of the commercial, freeware, and web-based distributors and maintainers of technology and learning tools:
- Adobe
- Angel Learning (recently bought by Blackboard)
- Blackboard
- Desire2Learn
- EduTools
- Elluminate
- Moodle
- Nicenet
- Sakai Project
- Second Life
- WebEx
- A/V edition of NGO-in-a-box
References
Newton, H. (ed.). (2006). Newton’s telecom dictionary (22nd edition). San Francisco: CMP Books.
Webopedia. Definition of computer. Retrieved December 2, 2005, from http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/c/computer.html
