Best Websites for Teaching and Learning: Media Sharing

Masher
Are you a little hesitant to create videos? Masher makes it’s easy. You can “mix, mash, and share” video clips, audio files, and photos into polished movies. Students own content as well as media from the BBC Motion Gallery and Rip Curl free for the mashing, and can then be shared on social media sites or via email.

Web Design: What Color to use in my site?

If you are new to design, it can be a tough decision to select colors for your web site. Here are some sites that can help you with the process:

• Color Scheme Designer not only provides color options but shows example pages with the color scheme you have chosen.
• ColorJack offers color schemes, a color sphere generator, and a wealth of other resources including articles, software, a blog, etc.
• The Color Wizard offers a variety of ways to choose and compare a variety of color schemes related to a chosen starting color.
• Eric Meyer’s Color Blender is very useful when you want to create site with a monochromatic color scheme.
• Sometimes designers choose colors based on a photograph. Visit colr.org to select a image from the Web and choose colors from from the image for use in your site.
• WellStyled.com offers a handy color scheme generator that will create a variety of color schemes including monochromatic, contrasting, triad, tetrad, and analogic.
• Hypergurl.com offers a color scheme generator that shows a quick preview of text and background colors.
• The color selector at Colors4WebMasters offers point and click color choosing options, immediately shows you the results, and generates CSS to configure the colors.
• Use the RGB sliders to choose a color and Lee Street Management’s QuickColor Flash animation will display a selection of coordinating colors.
• Color Wheel Pro – a program that allows you to see color theory in action: you can create harmonious color schemes and preview them on real-world examples.
• Adobe’s Kuler offers an easy way to browse color schemes or search for a color scheme based on a keyword or theme, such as desert.
• Bruce Clay offers an overview of using color in web design focusing on the the hidden meanings of color, branding, and the power of color.
• Colorcombos.com offers a collection of color combinations for your choice and even provides a method to quickly grab the color palette of a web site.
• COLOURlovers is a self-proclaimed “resource that monitors and influences color trends” — it’s a good place to visit to generate ideas.

Overview of Instructional Design

Instructional Design – Power Point Prese

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Teacher Designers – Web Design for Teachers

This spring I will be co-teaching a Website design course at Lehigh University’s College of Education. This is one of the very few instructional design courses offered in the Teaching Learning Technology Program. I am working with the course instructor and the college’s Instructional Technologist Ilena Key to revamp and identify some resources for this course.

During this past two weeks, I spend considerable amount of time looking back at some of the Web design work I have done in the past. I realized it is better to go back and do some design tasks rather simply looking at what I have done and trying to study the code. This is obviously helpful because there are more and more software tools and features available for the Web designers today.

Here is an interesting video tutorial from Andrew Dotson
. He discusses the basics of web design, mainly composition design, and the process that he go through to create mockups. The video covers basic wireframing, grids, psd structure and general design techniques. Is is an excellent video for teachers who are new to web design as the techniques used are basic explanation are very simple and jargon free.

Part 1

[Vimeo http://vimeo.com/6520450%5D

Part 2

[Vimeo http://vimeo.com/6520505%5D

Web Design Tutorial Part One from andrew on Vimeo.

Media Awareness Network Website

If you looking for practical teaching units and classroom activities for media education? This is the place for you! Media Literacy: What is it? Why teach it? In this section, you can find out what media education is all about, why media literacy and Web literacy are essential life skills for today’s young people, and how you can begin to help students think critically about the media. There are also useful quotes and articles by media education experts.

Definitions of Instructional Design

Instructional Design as a Process:

Instructional Design is the systematic development of instructional specifications using learning and instructional theory to ensure the quality of instruction. It is the entire process of analysis of learning needs and goals and the development of a delivery system to meet those needs. It includes development of instructional materials and activities; and tryout and evaluation of all instruction and learner activities. 

Instructional Design as a Discipline:

Instructional Design is that branch of knowledge concerned with research and theory about instructional strategies and the process for developing and implementing those strategies. 

Instructional Design as a Science:

Instructional design is the science of creating detailed specifications for the development, implementation, evaluation, and maintenance of situations that facilitate the learning of both large and small units of subject matter at all levels of complexity. 

Instructional Design as Reality:

Instructional design can start at any point in the design process. Often a glimmer of an idea is developed to give the core of an instruction situation. By the time the entire process is done the designer looks back and she or he checks to see that all parts of the “science” have been taken into account. Then the entire process is written up as if it occurred in a systematic fashion. 

Instructional System:

An instructional system is an arrangement of resources and procedures to promote learning. Instructional design is the systematic process of developing instructional systems and instructional development is the process of implementing the system or plan. 

Instructional Technology:

Instructional technology is the systemic and systematic application of strategies and techniques derived from behavioral, cognitive, and constructivist theories to the solution of instructional problems. 

Instructional technology is the systematic application of theory and other organized knowledge to the task of instructional design and development. 

Instructional Technology = Instructional Design + Instructional Development 

Instructional Development:

The process of implementing the design plans.