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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:54:54 PDT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:54:54 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=377049 ELATEwiki (the Electronic Learning and Teaching Exchange) is a space for those who work in e-learning to share their insights on issues of pedagogy, instructional strategies, student support, and technologies. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=242710 The Instructional Design Technology Roundtable (IDTRT) involves presentations by instructional designers and multimedia specialists on various technologies and eLearning strategies.  The lectures and presentations involve digital videos.  There are downloadables as well.  http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=716768 This Flash slideshow introduces social network analysis as it is applied to socio-technical spaces / electronic social networks. This culls some of the main approaches to analyzing social networks. Then, it introduces the use of the freeware tool NodeXL, which is an add-in to later versions of Microsoft Excel. This tool enables the extraction of social network data from various sites' APIs (Twitter, Facebook, Flickr,YouTube, and others), the computation of graph metrics, and then a half-dozen node-link visualizations from the data. This tool was created under the auspices of the Social Media Research Foundation (SMRF) and distributed on Microsoft's CodePlex. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=742022 An ideology is defined as a set of ideas that “explains and evaluates social conditions, helps people understand their place in society, and provides a program for social and political action” (Ball & Dagger, 2011, p. 4). As such, these concepts underpin the actions of various groups and organizations, including that of the Anonymous hacker group, which professes no ideology or creed. Rather, the group has styled itself as a kind of anarchic global brain connected by various spaces on the Internet. This work explores four main data streams to extrapolate the group’s ideology: the current socio-political context of hacking and hacktivism; the group’s self-definition (through its professed values); the group’s actions (through the “propaganda of the deed”); and the insights of others about the group This chapter defines the socio-technical context of this Anonymous hacker socio-political movement, which draws ideas from the Hacker Manifesto 2.0, which suggests the advent of a new economic system with the new technological vectors (mediums of communication). This movement is apparently pushing forth the advent of a new information regime in which the abstraction of ideas adds a “surplus” economic value that may be tapped. Styled as fighters against government tyranny, they are pushing hard against an international regime of intellectual property and information control by governments and corporations. This is being published in the spirit that (some) information wants to be free and that there is a value in direct discourse. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=671604 A common trend in online learning involves a focus on interactivity (how learners engage with others in the online classroom) and long-term social interactions over time (for competitive advantages). This presentation will introduce a software program that creates node-link diagrams to map social networks to show connections between centers and peripheries, the thick nodes and the thin ones, and some of the conclusions that may be drawn from these visualizations. Social network analysis has been used in a variety of fields: epidemiology, terror group analysis, cultural analysis, and even online learning. This will include a smattering of some of the findings of the research on social networks. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=671646 Study guides are common features of science-based (and some social science) courses. These are information sets created by learners to help them prepare for upcoming exams. If effectively designed (by the faculty member usually) and executed (by the learners) with faculty oversight, such study guides offer effective notes for student learning. They serve as powerful resources to enhance memory. Study guides are effective because they help learners synthesize (sometimes contradictory) information from various information sources and are expressed in the learners' own words to enable instructor evaluation of their actual comprehension. These guides enhance learner citations of research sources. Such digital study guides may integrate text, imagery, URLs, and other resources. These help learners take ownership of the learning and help them express their understandings through their own interpretive lenses. This presentation will include some live examples of study guides and their various strengths and weaknesses. There will be ideas for how to take the "retro" concept of a study guide and re-make study guides into interactive learning resources, with special strengths in intensive, concentrated, or accelerated courses. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=611613 This interactive article in Educause Quarterly describes the building of an online global health course. It includes a rabies prevention sidebar (on a microsite) and a global health game titled "Where in the World is Dr. Salus 'Dynamica' Mundi?״ http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=561072 This resource is a static Digital Entomology Lab site. The purpose of this resource is to support students learning about the morphology (form and function) of basic insects. The images are from the pinned insect collection at Kansas State University. This lab complements an undergraduate General Entomology course. When you get to the URL, please click on the tab that reads "Digital Entomology Lab.״ http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=561184 This E-Learning Faculty Modules project at Kansas State University was built to encourage quality e-learning designs by the various faculty and development teams around campus. This is a multimedia collection of page-based modules set at three main levels of user needs: Beginners' Studio, E-Learning Central, and Advanced Workshop. There is a Faculty Share participatory page. This resource is built on a MediaWiki substructure. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=345772 These resources are contemporary teaching case studies related to Native Americans and their lived issues. These involve topics in art, biology, business, chemistry, economics, environmental studies, ethics, geology, health, history, management, Native American studies, natural resources, political science, public administration, social work, sociology, and women's studies.