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View of the Boston Skyline

For all you out-of-towners, this is the Boston Skyline seen from the waterfront. The only relevance this has to elearning is that I took it with my Blackberry while attending a Web 2.0 conference.

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INSDSG 605 Web 2.0 Class

Hi Everyone!

This new post is the assignment for our Web 2.0 tools class. The big question I have is once I know how to use the tools, what do I do with them? How do I incorporate them into the courses I design? I have lots of ideas, but I wonder about you. Please post comments with thoughts on how you will use these tools.

I like to post pictures, so here is one I took yesterday on the UMB campus. Its a view out of a window in the Healey Library. I'm calling it Study in Triangles. How many triangles do you see? There are way more than 10. You never know what you will see if you keep your eyes open. I had no idea this image contained so many triangles until I started counting them now. Good photography and good instruction are all about design.

8 am Class

Poor guy. He dragged himself out of bed to get to an 8 am class. He ought to try an online class next semester! He could be sleeping in his bed, not on the trolly at 7 am every Monday and Wednesday. He'll probably sleep through the class too.

Photo taken with my Blackberry. elearning Ellen is a stealth photographer.

Good ID is Good Composition

Once again, I post the image and then I figure out why I posted it. This photograph is compositionally interesting because of the patterns, the repitition of shapes, colors, lines, and textures. Similarly, good instructional design depends on good "composition," the organizing of course elements into simple and repetitive patterns so that students can easily follow the structure and know what to do.

VERY tangentally, I'm noticing how different the mood is between this image and the image in my prior post. The masks in both images are the same. But the morose maniquins in the prior post's image sets a disaffected, lonely tone, while the smiley face of the biggest mask [cut off in the prior image] and the colorful patterns and textures in this image make me happy.