The Cambridge Guide to Multimedia Learning, edited by Richard E. Mayer, the "father" of this fairly new discipline, is a great resource for people involved in instructional technology and application development.
According to Mayer, "the focus of this handbook is on how people learn from words and pictures in computer based environments. Multimedia environments include online instructional presentations, interactive lessons, e-courses, simulation games, virtual reality, and computer-supported in-class presentations."
As I revisited the various chapters in this handbook, I realized that people interested in topics such as information visualization, computer-supported collaborative systems, and data-driven decision making might find some value from this book.
What I'd like to see next from Dr. Mayer is a handbook that focuses on ways people learn, think, and communicate through interactive multimedia that is presented on screens of all sizes. This is important, given the explosion of large interactive whiteboards in classrooms, large-screen displays in the home, and mobile devices that now contain higher-resolution screens.
Feb 8, 2008
Feb 3, 2008
Interactive Displays and Whiteboards: Link to TechPsych Post
I've posted new information and links about resources for interactive whiteboards and displays on the TechPsych blog:
So You're Getting an Interactive Whiteboard. Now What?
Feb 2, 2008
Links to TechPsych posts about technology, intervention, progress monitoring, and RTI
If you are looking for information about the ways technology can be used for response to intervention(RTI) and progress monitoring, take a look at these recent TechPsych posts!
Jan 31, 2008
Gigapan: Good for interactive whitebooards and large touch screen displays
Gigapan, a web based panorama sharing website, offers a range of visual resources that are ideal for interactive whiteboards and touch screen displays.
I'll update this post with video, pics, and a review soon!
I'll update this post with video, pics, and a review soon!
Jan 28, 2008
Visual-Literacy.Org
If you are interested in how people use multimedia to think, learn, and communicate, it is good to know about the concept of visual literacy.
Visual Literacy.Org provides two on-line tutorials about visualization. You can log-on to the tutorials as a guest:
Visualization for Business and Communication
Visualization for Engineering and Communication
Information from the website:
"This e-learning site focuses on a critical, but often neglected skill for business, communication, and engineering students, namely visual literacy, or the ability to evaluate, apply, or create conceptual visual representations. After this tutorial, students should be able to evaluate advantages and disadvantages of visual representations, to improve their shortcomings, to use them to create and communicate knowledge, or to devise new ways of representing insights."
For further reading, Visual Literacy.Org provides an interactive map of books on the topic:
Interactive map of books on Visual Literacy
Visual Literacy.Org provides two on-line tutorials about visualization. You can log-on to the tutorials as a guest:
Visualization for Business and Communication
Visualization for Engineering and Communication
Information from the website:
"This e-learning site focuses on a critical, but often neglected skill for business, communication, and engineering students, namely visual literacy, or the ability to evaluate, apply, or create conceptual visual representations. After this tutorial, students should be able to evaluate advantages and disadvantages of visual representations, to improve their shortcomings, to use them to create and communicate knowledge, or to devise new ways of representing insights."
For further reading, Visual Literacy.Org provides an interactive map of books on the topic:
Interactive map of books on Visual Literacy
Jan 25, 2008
Cross- Post: Visualizations: Telling a Story with Data -Making an Impact
More information about this topic can be found on the TechPsych blog: Visualizations: Telling a Story with Data-Making an Impact.
I posted a video of Hans Rosling's TED 2006 presentation using data visualizations, and Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod's "Do You Know: Shift Happens" revision of a presentation originally designed for a high school faculty that "went viral" after it was uploaded to the Internet.
If you have not yet seen these two videos, you'll need to set aside about 30 minutes to view them, and more, if you want to stop the video and reflect for a moment or two.
MYTHS ABOUT THE DEVELOPING WORLD
DID YOU KNOW? SHIFT HAPPENS
I posted a video of Hans Rosling's TED 2006 presentation using data visualizations, and Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod's "Do You Know: Shift Happens" revision of a presentation originally designed for a high school faculty that "went viral" after it was uploaded to the Internet.
If you have not yet seen these two videos, you'll need to set aside about 30 minutes to view them, and more, if you want to stop the video and reflect for a moment or two.
MYTHS ABOUT THE DEVELOPING WORLD
DID YOU KNOW? SHIFT HAPPENS
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