http://zircon.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ocotillo/bb/index.php?c=4 Newest Discussion Board Messages for the Ocotillo Objects Discussion Board en-us Maricopa Center for Learning & Instruction Tue, 18 Jul 2006 06:05:01 -0700 http://backend.userland.com/rss Alan's Hacked PHP script alan.levine@domail.maricopa.edu alan.levine@domail.maricopa.edu http://zircon.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ocotillo/bb/viewtopic.php?t=85 Fri, 01 Apr 2005 06:52:15 PDT O.k., so the first set of questions didn't seem to spark a lot of response; maybe they just didn't resonate with where you are at. So let me try to approach the issue from a different tack. How do you currently go about finding new online materials to incorporate into your courses? Where do you look for them? What are some of the issues you currently find yourself facing in terms of trying to reuse material you've found? Is simply finding it in the first place a problem? Is knowing what you are able to do with it an issue? How about being able to do with it what you want to be able to do? In my mind, these are all issues that can start to be addressed through various aspects of learning objects/repositories, but an interesting point to start at might simply be a discussion of if they are problems you currently face, and how you try to deal with them (if at all) right now? What do you think? http://zircon.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ocotillo/bb/viewtopic.php?t=84 Tue, 29 Mar 2005 08:29:08 PDT Very much like your colleague Alan pointed out in a post in an earlier forum, I'm personally not overly interested in nailing down definitions of learning objects, but instead more interested in figuring out how best to accomplish the main ends this approach is supposed to facilitate, which in my mind are the sharing and re-use of digital content for learning (oops, did I just inadvertently define a learning object?) In any case, for our discussion here, I'd like to start with a question to which I have some ideas but am honestly looking for more answers: in developing learning content, what do you do to ensure it's shareable and re-usable as much as it could reasonably be? Literally, what do you currently do in your own practice in this regards? If your answer is 'Well, nothing' or your looking http://zircon.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ocotillo/bb/viewtopic.php?t=83 Tue, 29 Mar 2005 02:50:25 PDT Hi all, my name is Scott Leslie and I've been asked by your hosts Donna and Lisa to moderate a discussion on 'learning objects' for the next couple of weeks. First a brief bit about myself - I currently work part-time managing a project to implement a learning object repository in the province of B.C., Canada. The rest of my time I'm a researcher with the Edutools project (http://www.edutools.info/) where I do comparative analyses of educational software. I also run the educational technology blog EdTechPost (http://www.edtechpost.ca/mt/) in my 'spare' time. I've been working on learning object issues for a few years now, but definitely do not consider myself an authority, and am extremely distrustful of anyone who bills themselves as such. While for some it may seem like we've been at this for a while,