This is an abridged version of a coaching session held over Skype with a teacher thinking of implementing Wallwisher in her teaching as part of the VITAE course refined in the UnderstandIT project using Distributed Concurrent eDesign.
This is a link to a screencast which shows you how to add a hyperlink to Moodle. I have also attached an image of the icon which you can use to post text from a Word document without getting all the invisible code which comes with it and which sometimes interferes with being able to add a link.
Thursday September 3
Housekeeping
Tidy, fresh air and no food
Registration
Give out books
Fronter tour – be ready that I ask you to use external tools ‘in the cloud’
Email problems? Get the DJES email to go to your private mail box – how? Depends on your email. Eg Gmail
H-drive – what does yours look like?
About learning
It’s about making new connections, the more you do the more connections you make and the stronger these connections become.
Eg. Group work mindmaps show pdf on paper
Activities in Komm/IT are not optional unless it says optional (eg multi-tasking forum)
Communication theory
Remember that those who post first have the easiest job! Those who come later will be asked to research what others have said about the topic and those who post later still will be asked to make a summary and then a mindmap.
World statistics
In HTX you work a lot with numbers.
Show some examples that you have produced. Do they follow the AIDA model?
Homework:
Explore at least two of the following which are either showing the statistics you were asked to find or which are tools to show similar statistics.
In the forum World Statistics explain which you thought was the most effective and why. Can you apply the AIDA model to the state of the world?
About grades
Fill in the can-do checklist
In the interests of openness: Minimum for 7 is that you try everything I ask you to do.
Resources
Forum on AIDA and school work and avatars
Forum on world statistics
Fallback Internet location http://foxdenuk.posterous.com
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This is a challenge which must be completed before I see you again on September 3. Find and present the following statistics to show the state of the world today.
1. Distribution of population between Asia, Europe, N. America, S America and the Caribbean, Africa, Oceania
2. How many males and females there are.
3. How many live in urban areas.
4. How many are disabled
5. Distribution in numbers following different religions including Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, non-religious and other religions.
6. How many have access to basic sanitation (kloaksystemer)
7. How many have access to clean water .
8. How the world’s wealth is distributed.
9. How many are hungry or malnourished.
10. How many can read.
11. How many have been educated more than 6 years.
12. How many have a computer.
13. How many have access to the Internet.
14. How many have AIDS/HIV.
15. How much is spent on military activities.
16. How much is spent on development aid.
17. How many have a bed, wardrobe and a room to sleep in.
18. How many have a bank account.
19. How many live on $1 a day or less, $2 a day or less.
Decide the best way to find and present this information. Try and give suggestions why someone would want to present these statistics.
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Re-sizing an image
Challenge: Add an avatar image to your profile in Fronter which fits the required dimensions of 73 x 110
1.1 File/Open – Choose a picture from your computer
1.2 Image/image size – to see how close you are to the required dimensions (73 width, 110 height in pixels)
1.3 Use crop tool to get the right proportions (on left hand menu)
1.4 Use image/image size again to check.
1.5 File/save as in jpg format (PS reduces the file size automatically)
1.6 Upload to Fronter (click on your name)
2.1 Upload – Choose a picture from your computer (‘edit from my computer’)
2.2 Click on ‘resize’ to see current size. Eg 345 x 407 To get 345 down to 73 for Fronter you need to reduce by about 80%, so tick percentage and try 30%. This gives 104 x 122. Be careful, you might lose too much quality.
2.3 Now use crop tool so that the picture is less wide.
2.4 Click on ‘resize’ to check you are close to 73 x 110
2.5 Save (very important if you are not registered). The file size wil be automatically reduced.
2.6 Upload to Fronter
3.1 File/Open
3.2 Billede/skaler billede (use baggrund at bottom to make bigger if the picture becomes too small) to get the picture close to the required height of 110
3.3 Værktøjer/transformerings værktøjer/beskær to get the proportions to 73 x 110
3.4 Check image size again through Billede/skaler billede
3.5 Save as jpg (Be careful that the file size is not too big, GIMP does not reduce it automatically)
3.6 Upload to Fronter
Additional challenges
