10 Ideas for Using PINTEREST… online classes.
Features Marina Kostina, PhD, distance learning expert. She discusses a popular tool, Pinterest. I was interested in how the talking head is shown with Camtasia (I think) effects such as arrows and text boxes. Also, she talks about how Pinterest can be used to create an online icebreaker to engage students.
andflywrite on 24 Feb 13
So Marina Kostina has been doing this stuff for a while. I wonder when Kris first came across her…?
gary575 on 12 Jul 12
One of the keys that is apparent, but hardly referenced, is the importance of visuals in communications, I have been working on a large proposal with a new colleague. It turns out he is very big on using drawings (versus only prose) to communicate to the readers. I find that it is effective – especially when the reader/evaluator/buyer is confronted with hundreds of pages of text. Of course, conceiving and creating the right visuals in not easy (or necessarily well understood).
John Griffith on 12 Jul 12
Since the first tribal styles of personal decoration, on through signage, flour sacks, canned food etc, image and communication have been “under development”. There’s theory out there about the psychology of images in communication, and developed methodology in film and tv, websites, and even online courses. Often as you suggest, theory falls short of practice, and efforts are tested after the fact with “real people” in focus groups because theory isn’t reliable.
One of the assumptions is that for certain kinds of communication, such as might be in manuals, or legal documents, text is far far more efficient way of presentation, if formidable. The recent deal between Apple and Text Book Publishers to standardize a transition from the print format to the iBook format on iPad brings some of these issues of efficiency to the forefront. Yes one can make material more “accessible” through graphics, sound, moving image, multilayered presentations, but can you do it for masses of material in an efficient way?
I was intrigued by the videos on Higgs Boson, because I thought they worked well with a highly abstract subject. Maybe physics is particularly well suited for visual explanations. Other disciplines may be much more challenging to address.