Posted in LTEC3440, Tools on September 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Another project for the LTEC 3440 course is the creation of an Excel-based grade book. Building a web-based grade book was also an option, but I preferred the Excel approach. Here’s a partial screenshot of the gradebook:
It takes into account quizzes, exams and assignments. Each of those three categories is weighted as [...]
Posted in LTEC3440, Unified Communications on September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Note: I see that the formatting isn’t great on this one. I’ll fix it eventually.
In a competitive technological landscape such as the one in which we live, it is imperative that technological concepts be comprehensible. This means that people want to see what you’re proposing. Any technology company that doesn’t utilize its own [...]
Posted in LTEC3440 on September 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The next assignment due in the LTEC 3440 class is a lesson plan. Typically, a lesson plan would be a five minute job. However, my topic is one I’m a bit more passionate about than say, The Mating Cycles of Angry Chilean Sea Bass. Interesting, though it may be, I’ll stick to [...]
Posted in LTEC3440 on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The assignment for this week in LTEC 3440 was relatively simple to complete. While I didn’t necessarily agree with the results of the various surveys in which we took part and discussed, they did provide some insight. In addition to those, we were asked, “Aside from learning styles and preferences, what else should [...]
Posted in LTEC4070, Tools on September 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In my LTEC 4070 class, we’re doing some work on the DISC tool. It was a requirement in the course, listed on the syllabus but it wasn’t mentioned in our text book until the very last two pages of the text book. There was no information in the lecture. The assignment associated [...]
Posted in Collaboration, LTEC3440, Technology, Unified Communications on September 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Our assignment included a requirement to explore mind mapping and contrast a good ol’ pen-and-paper mind map vs. a computer generated mind map. Personally, I find the pen-and-paper maps more fun and more interesting to create. I have a hard time with the computer or web based mind mapping software packages because I [...]
Posted in Collaboration, LTEC3440, Technology, Unified Communications on September 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Technology is pervasive in today’s society. It touches every aspect of our lives today in ways we don’t even realize. In 1958, what may be the single largest advance of our time took place. The Integrated Circuit (IC) was invented. Since that time, the volume of transistors that can be placed on an integrated circuit [...]
Posted in LTEC4070, Technology on September 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Throughout the course of history, work has typically been classified with other unsavory four-letter words. In the Industrial Age, employing people was seen as doing them a favor. And, in many cases, that was indeed the case. The idea of people actually liking and/or enjoying what they do was irrelevant or simply unthinkable. [...]
Posted in Collaboration, LTEC3440, Technology, Unified Communications on September 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The latest activity in the LTEC3040 course is similar to the prior one regarding Syberia. However, this time, we’re creating a plan rather than trying to distill a message from a pre-created media source.
LTEC3040.020 Week 2, Activity 4
Topic
In selecting a topic for this discussion, I wanted to do something out of the ordinary yet beneficial. [...]
Posted in LTEC3440 on September 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We were asked to put together an analysis of an example of various media types and what the presenter(s) may be trying to get across to us as consumers. I chose a video for my little piece of the discussion. Here are my rambling thoughts:
I took a look at the Syberia Video for the purposes [...]
