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Awesome Excel Chart Quick Tips for Web Display
Last week, my colleagues and I created 3 Excel spreadsheets in an effort to highlight some of VCU participants’ responses to the EDUCAUSE ECAR Undergraduate Student and Faculty Technology Research Studies Surveys. This division of labor resulted in an unfortunate consequence. Different machines, different data, and different perspectives resulted in different data presentation styles. To standardize the look of the charts, I offered to be the general editor. One set of eyes working on one machine is likely the best way to make the look and language of the charts…
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HLM 7
HLM 7* – Hierarchical Linear Modeling statistics software is a little clunky but not too complicated. My chair had said before, qualitative researchers understand statistics too, you know? I am doing a qualitative research study for my dissertation, but I work with quantitative data everyday at work — lots of Excel spreadsheets, Access data queries, and presenting the data using mainly descriptive statistics. Dr. Bellini had said that some journal editors think descriptive statistics are “inferior”/second-class and this sort of data presentation is not as publishable. However, every data analytic…
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Designing Brain Training & Other Experiences
A web start-up, Lumosity, claims to provide brain exercises to train your brain become “brighter”. Mhm. Read about it here at Mashable. I haven’t found time to try it out yet. Let me know if you have and if it does what it claims. The other thing that I learned today is about design. As an instructional designer by training and practice, I was struck by what Sawyer wrote on his blog: “A curator designs experiences, whether presentations, performances, or art spaces.” Basically, that’s what I do too? Designing and…
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iStethoscope Pro: mLearning in Healthcare
“Experts are saying the software is a major advance in medical technology and enables doctors in remote areas to access specialist advice.” Read more I read this with careful contemplation. I try to think how this device can be used to supplement other means to improve healthcare. It would be interesting to find out more about how it is used in practice. I don’t have an iPhone, yet, maybe, because I’m a poor doctoral student. This doesn’t stop me from being curious about the possibilities of what mobile, and any…
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Automatic Captioning & Automatic Timing from Google
I had a pleasant surprise today as I was researching how social media technology supported d/D participation. As of November 2009, Google offers automatic captioning (uses the same voice recognition algorithms in Google Voice to automatically generate captions for video) and automatic timing service (attach a script without time codes and Google will do the rest for you!) in YouTube. So, if I watch a Spanish video on YouTube, I can simply click on the cc button and have Google transcribe it into English or any of the 51 language…
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IDE 735#13: More reflection
So the course has ended, but I feel it’s just begun for me. There’s just so much to catch up on because of the course schedule and my own work schedule. I didn’t get to really read and chew on what I’ve read. There’s a lot of readings I want to delve into; I want to rewrite my final paper for a conference submission; it’s just a first draft. I have so many things I want to clarify, so many concepts I still have not a firm grasp of yet:…
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IDE.735#12: SL for relaxation
With such limited time and so much to do, I often have all these thoughts I want to blog about but don’t because I just don’t get to a computer on time and those moments/thoughts are lost. I posted 2 questions on Clark’s blog after asking one of them during his guest speaker appearance on June 14. I’m now trying to gather my thoughts and findings about SL to create my final paper. Started well but researching on SL is frustrating. Today I tried to attend a major event hosted…
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IDE.735#11: The Fascination of SL
I’m beginning to find SL very addictive. There’s just so much going on. It’s a game, so it’s fun and engaging, but it can also be educational. I’m also learning a whole new vocabulary. Do you know what a prim is? I didn’t until I googled to check it out as Miss SL 2007 kept using it in her blog. Personally, I think SL has great potential, setting aside all the pc crashes and motion sickness I get. Here’s a bit about what I’ve learned — thanks to Natalia, Miss…
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IDE.735#10: Miss SL 2007
This lady’s blog is supercool. She has a Second Life guide, lists fascinating places to explore, produces tutorials on how to create nice avatars, and listen to this, she is…. ta-dah!!!! Miss Second Life 2007 – Natalia Zelmanov! Is this surreal or what? I have to try out the links she posted myself. Many many to explore.
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IDE.735#9: Guest Speaker Clark
I visited Clark’s site numerous times to read and prepare for the session on Thurs 6/14, so I was a bit disappointed not to get to ask all my questions. Still, I’ll have a chance to post them. I posed him a question about the lack of a standard lexicon or terminology in the field. Honestly, my head at this point is swimmingly full of jargon about sims. He said that his effort in creating the glossary blog was a start in the direction to standardization. Hmmm… I thought so…
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IDE.735#8: Roaming SL again
Well, today I explored SL again to see if I can find anything educational or informative. I teleported to this Angel Island Isle and met 2 persons who actually interacted and chatted with me. Whoa! This lady, Sunshine Sparrow, is from a Florida state community college. She actually told me what this island was about – for Angel LMS to orientate potential clients to their software. Cool! So other competitors might be in SL too for this reason – like Blackboard, D2L, etc. She told me where I could go…
