Ocotillo Learning Objects

Increasing Engagement for Online and Face-to-Face Learners Through Online Discussion Practice (January 27, 2006 04:29 PM)
Today, I attended a very interesting dialogue day, sponsored by the MCLI, here at the District. The presentation was on Increasing Engagement for Online and Face-to-Face Learners Through Online Discussion Practice, presented by Alice Bedard-Voorhees.... more» »
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Kartoo.com +Learning Objects vs. RLO Repositories (October 10, 2005 09:46 AM)
"Kartoo is a metasearch engine with visual display interfaces. When you click on OK, Kartoo launches the query to a set of search engines, gathers the results, compiles them and represents them in a series of interactive maps through a proprietary algorithm..." What happens when you use Kartoo.com to "find"... more» »
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Pre-approved Faculty Professional Growth Projects - 2005-2006 (September 9, 2005 04:46 AM)
We would like all Faculty in the Maricopa Community College District know of the Pre-approved Faculty Professional Growth Projects that Lisa and I have planned for you for the 2005-2006 Academic Year. Fall 2005 – SoftChalk: We started off with our SoftChalk Learnshop conducted on 2 Thursday afternoons at Gateway... more» »
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Wiki Activity (August 26, 2005 12:46 PM)
Janelle Underhill of Rio Salado College was intrigued by the use of a wiki for an activity created by Brian Lamb during his April 2005 Dialogue Day on Learning objects, wikis, and other curious things. She was organizing a workshop for Rio's Dual Enrollment English teachers, and created her own... more» »
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Summer Happenings with the Co-Chairs! (July 16, 2005 04:21 AM)
A big Oahu "Mahalo" (thank you) to Alan for the Pachy Update from the NMC Conference. Alan, Lisa and I attended the NMC conference in Honolulu. (Yes, tough to take BUT someone had to go....) [lots of giggling in the background] :-) So - there were LOTS of good... more» »
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Hawaii -TCC - Illinois State University's Experience (April 20, 2005 07:40 PM)
Eli Collins and Cheri Toledo of Illinois State University did a presentation called "No programming necessary! The promise of multimedia presentation software for creating quality learning objects." They have a web based presentation about their experiences converting a PowerPoint presentaiton into 3 programs (Camtasia, Captiva and Wink). Here are the... more» »
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Developing Cost-Effective Sharable Content Objects (March 11, 2005 03:15 PM)
--from the Brevard Community College League for Innovation Learnshop: "Developing Cost-Effective Sharable Content Objects." Brevard Community College has decided that it is more cost effective to create their own "reusable shareable learning objects" than to purchase them. They are doing this through the use of a standard template for object... more» »
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RLO101: 19 Participants (March 10, 2005 10:38 AM)
The RLO101 - Introduction to Reusable Learning Objects "Learnshop" is going strong! We have now more than doubled our size since the last blog on March 2nd! Mesa Community College is "leading the pack" with 6 folks, then PVCC with 2, Estrella Mt. with 2, then Chandler-Gilbert, Gateway, Glendale, Rio,... more» »
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RLO Repository of the Week (March 3, 2005 03:07 PM)
This week, the "spotlight" falls on: Wisc-Online Wisc-Online is the Wisconsin Online Resource Center and is a RLO "hub" with RLOs in ABE/ESL, Business, General Education, Health, Professional Development, Service and Technical. In addition........ more» »
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RLO101 - UP and Running (March 2, 2005 04:36 AM)
We currently have 8 participants in our RLO101 Learnshop. The Learnshop in now "up and running" and folks are already in there working. Lisa and I would like to invite you to register and join us. We have 2 guest presenters that we excited about. Our guest presenters will lead... more» »
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Online Learning Group (February 5, 2005 08:48 AM)
Yesterday, I attended the Online Learning Group (OLG) meeting, held at Scottsdale Community College. The main focus of the meeting was on Reusable Learning Objects.... more» »
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League for Innovation - Tampa (November 9, 2004 08:23 AM)
This is my blog from the League for Innovation in the Community Colleges - Conference on Information Techonolgy. It's is being held this week (Nov. 7 - 10, 2004) at the Tampa Convention Center, Tampa, Florida.... more» »
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So what are Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs) Anyway? (September 14, 2004 04:40 PM)
One of our main goals for this year is to come up with a working definition or two, or many... that we can use for Maricopa. I think of RLOs as compact pieces of instruction that can be used to convey discrete learning objectives/principles. These pieces of instruction can be... more» »
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Trying Out ecto (September 2, 2004 10:45 AM)
This is my review of the ecto download process and its ease of use.... more» »
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What are we going to do this year? (August 26, 2004 12:43 PM)
Welcome to the Learning Objects Blog! Donna and I are busy researching and planning Ocotillo activities for your learning pleasure. :-) Lisa C. Young is the Program Director and residential faculty for the Water Resources Technology and Occupational Safety Technology Programs at GateWay Community College. I have been teaching in... more» »
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Welcome to the Learning Objects Blog (April 30, 2004 02:00 PM)
Hi! I am Donna Rebadow, one of the new Ocotillo Action Group co-chairs for 2004-2005. Along with my colleague, Lisa Young from GateWay Community College, we will be leading a bunch of great activities next year to better harness these things called Learning Objects. What are they? I need to... more» »
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