Correct Pronunciation of Roadways & Place Names

I thought I'd share today's 'Āha'i 'Ōlelo Ola segment, thinking that it would probably be a useful segment to post as a course announcement or link as resource (especially our A'o Makua courses). Puakea, who's interviewed in our owau blog video on Princess Ruth is also featured in this one.

Mobile Learning Gaining Steam

Blackboard's announcement of their acquisition of TerriblyClever Design, a mobile application developer for education is an interesting one. It looks like mobile learning is gaining steam in the education field now in the U.S. Hopefully we'll see more successful case studies in the near future. I remember seeing examples during a conference a couple of years ago highlighting Japanese students integrating mobile learning, but haven't seen too much since.
http://www.blackboard.com/Company/MobilEdu.aspx

I follow Judy Brown on Twitter (judyb) just to keep in touch with the current trends for mobile learning, but haven't dived into exploring too much. She's a great resource for this topic.

Coincidentally, I saw an email come through today with Edweek.org sponsoring a free Webinar.
Title: Cellphones as Instructional Tools
Time: Thursday, July 23, 4-5 p.m., Eastern time
Registration Link

Thoughts on the future of mobile learning for K-12?

Ed Images and Videos

Here are two feeds I thought were interesting from the Free Technology for Teachers blog.

• The World Images Kiosk - 75,000 images
  San Jose State University did a really good job with their database. Click on the California Ed Standards link and you'll see they even linked up images to use for benchmarks. Now if they could do one for Hawai'i, that would be awesome.
  http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/07/world-images-kiosk-75000-images.html
• Skype Explained Visually
  Too bad we don't use Skype with our DL learners anymore. Otherwise, this would be a great video to integrate. I also looked at the Common Craft videos and thought these would be good resources to keep in mind.
  http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/07/skype-explained-visually.html

Google Wave in 10 minutes

I know many of you didn't have a chance to view the 90 minute Google Wave video link I provided earlier, so here's another link I found during my blog scans this AM. Looking forward to seeing what happens after Google Wave is released.

http://christytucker.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/google-wave-in-10-minutes/

The Kemp & Other ID Models

Have you heard about the Kemp Model for instructional design? It sounds similar to Dick & Carey, but shows a non-linear model which also incorporates project management and support services in the outer rim. Michael Hanley, in his blog, indicates that it describes a holistic approach to instructional design that considers all factors in the environment. http://elearningcurve.blogspot.com/2009/06/discovering-instructional-design-11.html

Apparently, there are quite a few other ID models. These weren't covered when I was in ETEC, but I think they're all fairly similar in concept/theory using ADDIE as the base foundation. Personally, I think it was good for myself to have learned Dick & Carey because that provided me with background to better understand these other models. Here's another link from the same blog towards the bottom in the reference link.

http://www.effectperformance.com/sites/prestera/html/M4/L1 - ISD/M4L1P1.htm

Interested in hearing your thoughts, especially our IDs. :)

Aviary & Leadership Food for Thought

I saw the Aviary link from another blog post a couple of days ago, but have been busy with annual reporting, so I'm catching up now and wanted to share with you this link. This Web browser screen capture tool, Aviary, is free and you don't even need to install any type of application. Simply type "Aviary.com/" in front of the URL after http:// in your browser! I don't think it works for all pages, depending on the URL you're at, but I'm thinking it comes in pretty handy, especially when you're on a computer with no pre-installed screen capture software.
http://aviary.com/

This morning, the link "What Makes a Tech Leader" grabbed my attention and the post from Tech and Learning blog staff was a nice read for an early morning. I felt inspired after reading his thoughts and I hope you will too. Continuing to learn more everyday...
http://www.techlearning.com/blogs/21840

NECC 2009 Videos from Digital Directions

For those of us who aren't able to attend NECC 2009, you can take a look at these video snippets to gain some insight from ed tech leaders. I enjoyed viewing Susan Kirkpatrick, Chris Dede and the high tech field trip videos.

http://www.edweek.org/dd/collections/videos/necc09.html