Educational Technology

We offer:

• group workshops
• personalized just-in-time training
• instructional design support
• resource development
• learning technology research

• urthcast - real-time streaming video from the space station - very cool
• free 3-seat vRoom webconferencing available again from Blackboard Collaborate
• Recommended reading: Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 by John Seely Brown in Educause Review.
• L100.wikispaces.com - user guide for the ed tech centre
• edtech links on delicious
• Blackboard help for instructors and students
• Video hosting - We have our own flash and wmv video server, as well as an account at Vimeo.com.
• Nine Principles for Excellence in Online Teaching - from CJLT
• Academic Earth - video lectures from the world's top scholars
• eXe is a new open source xhtml editor designed specifically for easy creation of e-learning content.
• Udutu creates flash-based branching scenarios