Wk 4 Comment on Stacie Stoumbaugh's Udutu Project

I was very frustrated with Udutu in the beginning, simply because I was intimidated by the initial setup, but once I began working and creating the pages, I was impressed with the simplicity of the layout. I do wish there were more background and formatting options, so the pages did not look so generic, but overall that is just a design element. Because of time constraints, I wasn’t able to include as many scenarios as I would have liked, but I indubitably intend to return and add additional pages and scenarios. However, I am very happy with the overall feel and interactive nature of this lesson, and I believe it offers important information to young teens. I will be creating more lessons with Udutu in the future for my classroom. I believe my students would enjoy learning new content on this platform. I am also inspired to learn more about what I can do through our school’s Moodle account now.

@Stace
I am glad you were able to incorporate your videos into your Udutu project as I feel those are one of your strengths in this program. I liked the navigation as well and it is great that you took what we did in a previous class and made it something so worth while and needed. I too was frustrated with some of the options that were lacking but you overcame those to produce a nice final project.

Wk 4 Comment on Kathy Kellen's Udutu Project

Once I got going in Udutu, I found it to be user friendly for the most part. The best part for me was not having to configure action script and links of the pages. I was a bit frustrated by the lack of quality in my videos, as higher bandwith would not embed. Overall, though, I am very pleased with how the unit turned out, and look forward to creating more units for my students using Udutu!

@ Kathy
I feel the strongest part of your Udutu project apart from the quality of the material was the differentiated assessments sprinkled throughout the entire lesson. This really allowed the learner to judge their progress and if you scored it using SCORM it would be a great data gathering tool. Remember I am your business manager if you ever go public with this!

Wk 4 Comment on Abbie Toy's Udutu Project

I found Udutu to be difficult to navigate, which in turn made creating my lesson harder than I had planned. It took me several days to set up my account, read through tutorials on the program, and then get my lesson up and running. Even after creating my lesson for this class, I am still feeling a bit confused by the Udutu program. Although I understand the concept of Udutu, I feel like there are probably other programs that I could use in order to create interactive lessons for my students that would be easier and more time-effective.

@Abbie
I really liked how you incorporated the step by step process into your assessment tool at the end. To go along with your frustrating, one of the frustrating things I found with Udutu was the font size capabilities, or more precisely, the lack of capability. I went with the same font size you did and realized I had to shorten my sentences to make sure they would fit on one screen. I agree with you that this is something that has it uses but I will not be using it anytime soon again.

Wk 4 Project - Future Report

Pictures and screenshots courtesy of:

http://www.skillsoft.com/online/lms
http://moodle.org/
http://www.blackboard.com/
http://www.usmilitary.com/
http://oerconsortium.org/
http://www.oercommons.org/
http://www.hewlett.org/oer
http://creativecommons.org/tag/ahrash-bissell
www.office.microsoft.com

References

Anderson, T. (2008). OER’s & a good educational system. Retrieved July 9, 2010 from http://online.fullsail.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=assignment.main&itemId=194011

Bissell, A. (2007). Some guiding principles for legal and technical interoperability in OER. In Proceedings of Open Education 2007: Localizing and Learning. Logan, UT, 2007

Hewlett Foundation. (2006). The promise of open educational resources. Change 38(5), 8-17.

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Wk 4 Udutu Project

Here is the link to my Udutu Project.

http://lms.myudutu.com/LMSGadget/courses/lms/21483/Course39177/2293/v2010_7_31_15_25_52/course/Course39177.html


I took bits and pieces of the lesson I created for DAE and made it work for the Udutu format. I can see why Udutu would be a good way to implement classes easily into a LMS, however since I am adept at using Flash I feel that it better serves what I envision for future lessons.

Let me know what you think.

Wk 3 Comment on Kathy Kellen's Blog

Studying the trends that are listed in the article by Dr. Ian Gibson (2008), it is apparent that change is a given for education as we know it. In the not so distant future educators will look back on this point in time and see the existence of trends that were not even visualized. It is important as educators to make ourselves more aware of possible, and likely future developments in e-learning, and also dream of the developments we could envision.

@ Kathy
Who would of thought when I was playing Atari with my uncle that games would be seen as a possible future for education. The social aspect of gaming is underrated and you did a nice job of pulling from experts to back that claim up. Obviously change is a part of life and yet educators seem to distance themselves from embracing it. I know that gaming has been an eye opening experience for you and you are a better educator because of it. I challenge you to continue and make others aware so that we can get gaming mainstream in public education.

Wk 3 Comment on Joe Huber's Blog

When teachers are asked if they think that computers and LMS in the classroom will eventually replace them, it becomes a topic of debate. The weekly discussion posting on FSO for the month 10 LMO class yields results demonstrating that the majority of the participants believe that a teacher in the classroom will not be replaced.

@ Joe
After reading the discussion board and your blog I have to admit you present a well thought out argument backed by some serious experts (Nardi especially) about how the future might look with ITS leading the way. However I just can't get the scene from Wonka movie with Gene Wilder where the scientist is asking the computer where the golden tickets are and it responds with what would a computer do with a lifetime of chocolate. My point... computers are only as intelligent as we make them, and since we will never be able to duplicate the human brain, I feel that technology will never be able to replace the human condition.