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At this very moment, I am attending the free lecture on “Strategies in Teaching Reading, Science, and Math: Focus on Understanding By Design” by Alison Davis here at the Benitez Theater, UP College of Education. The registration is free but there is a first come, first served policy for the venue. The lecture starts at exactly 2:30pm.

Quoting from an email:

Alison is an inspirational presenter who is passionate about helping individuals make progress in their lives through education – and, in so doing, to help their families, communities and countries to prosper. She has a wealth of educational experience interacting with international educators to share best practice and contribute to improving the learning outcomes for students. Alison works closely with teachers, school leaders, and bureaucrats to ensure that students access the very best teaching and learning opportunities.

I will try to live stream the event via Ustream in a bit and hopefully the stream will be clear enough for I will only use a SmartBRO connection if I don’t get to have a decent WiFi connection.

Live TV by Ustream

As I was trying to search for samples of learning object content outlines, I got a result that redirected me to this proceeding: A Design Process for Developing Learning Objects: An Instructor and Student Perspectives. Although I have no access to that interesting article, I tried to go over to its main portal, the Education & Information Technology Digital Library.

Quoting the Ed/ITLib:

The Digital Library is a valuable online resource of peer-reviewed and published international journal articles and conference papers on the latest research, developments, and applications related to all aspects of Educational Technology and E-Learning.

The AACE Digital Library enables users to:

* Conduct scholarly research.
* Keep current on the latest research and publications in their fields.
* Access and fully search to publications in an easy, searchable, and efficient manner.
* Maintain their academic interests in the area of information technology in education.
* Receive Table of Contents Alerts prior to publication.

Export capability is offered in the following formats:

* BibTex, compatible with LaTeX and similar TeX-based text processors.
* EndNote, compatible with EndNote and any application capable of importing references in EndNote format.

It also offers eBooks, presentations, and several featured & public collections – paperless resources! I just hope that this digital library shall also be included in my university library’s online subscriptions soon. This resource will be very handy especially in the field of educational technology.

Are you confused in formulating goals and objectives for your learning object? Here’s a list of verbs that can aid you in writing out the statements along with some examples.

Goals: Understand, Learn, Realize, Know, Appreciate, Be aware, Feel, Believe, Desire, Enjoy.

Instructional Objectives: Identify, Outline, Operate, Compute, Name, Detect, Volunteer, Write, Construct, Support.

For example, your topic is on Web Development:

G: Learn HTML programming.
O: Create a simple HTML.

G: Understand the various frameworks used in web development.
O: Operate on a specific framework in creating a website.

G: Know the different terminologies in HTML.
O: Name the different terms or concepts used in HTML programming.

G: Appreciate the beauty of web development.
O: Volunteer to present and demonstrate your own website in class.

G: Be aware of the different strategies on web development.
O: Detect and identify the methods used in developing a website.

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2010 seems to be a very promising and amazing year! This year, I am looking forward to writing more blog posts where I share my teaching experiences, self-reflections, and of course, educational resources that can aid in teaching and learning things.

Portals, HTML5, learning objects, courseware development, short courses, workshops – name them all! This year’s going to be a very challenging one and exciting as well! So let’s welcome this year with a bang!

Happy New Year! Cheers to 2010!

Last week, I had my second my speaking engagement at the Philippine Youth Congress in Information Technology or Y4iT Congress 2009. My topic last year was Library 2.0 and Beyond: Library + Web Services + YOU, along with other topics such as eLearning 2.0 and ePortfolio. This year, I presented a new concept called “Education 3.0″, a new paradigm on the trend of ICT in the field of education. Other education-related talks that were presented in Y4iT 2009 were “IT in the Early Grades” by Sabrina Par and “Kinespell: Kinesthetic Learning Activity and Assessment” by Ada Cariaga.

Here’s a sample of my presentation:

Surprisingly, delivering the talk was somewhat easy for me because I only have to illustrate and compare the transition of education’s components from the 1.0 to its 3.0 counterparts. Although it’s just my first year in my graduate studies in the College of Education and my first time to take up Educational Technology, I’ve been doing a lot of research already on such technologies and its usage in the academe. However, the hard part in it was the research process on getting the established definition for Education 3.0 because based on what I had found so far, the term can only be defined by describing the sum of its parts.

Also, here are the questions raised by my audience:

What will happen to the schools in Education 3.0? What are their roles then? Is there a standard criteria existing to evaluate if a school is using Education 3.0 already?

…well, what do you think?

Some months ago, I was interviewed by QTV11 to talk about the social bookmarking site, Del.icio.us. Here’s a copy of the video captured by @sabbypar:

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