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Author Archives: Elizabeth Pyatt
ID2ID: Always Good to Review the Basics (Dirksen)
This year I’ve been participating in the Penn State ID-2-ID instructional designer mentoring program with another ID from the University of Nebraska. One of our “assignments” was to read and discuss a book together. The one we chose was Julie… More On: ID2ID: Always Good to Review the Basics (Dirksen)
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Actors Replacing Instructors?
Campus Technology has an article in a recent issue about Purdue using actors instead of instructors to present video content. At first I had a knee jerk “The Apcolypse is here” reaction, but the article raised some interesting points worth… More On: Actors Replacing Instructors?
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3D Print Test Run
This week, I commissioned a 3D model of a trigonometric curve from the ETS 3D Print shop and was able to do a quick usability test with some volunteers from the TLT accessibility team on what kinds of information could… More On: 3D Print Test Run
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Why Can’t Academic Publishing Be More like iTunes?
Kindle works fairly well for novels and light non-fiction, but I have always wondered why academic publishing can’t be more like iTunes or even like journals in the Libraries. Why can’t we allow users to purchase chapters? And why to… More On: Why Can’t Academic Publishing Be More like iTunes?
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Why Don’t Students Like School? (Book Review)
About the Book Willingham’s goal for this book is explain how findings from cognitive science can be used to explain how learning works. Topics include memory, a review of learning style theory (partly to debunk it), and the importance of… More On: Why Don’t Students Like School? (Book Review)
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InsideOut: Strategies for Teaching Writing (Book Review)
ISBN and Chapter Info Kirby, Dawn Latta and David Crovitz (2013) Inside Out, Fourth Edition: Strategies for Teaching Writing. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann ISBN-10: 0325041954 http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Out-Fourth-Strategies-Teaching/dp/0325041954/ The table of contents of the book is as follows: Chapter 1 Finding a Footing… More On: InsideOut: Strategies for Teaching Writing (Book Review)
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Descriptive vs Prescriptive Standards
Descriptive and Prescriptive Grammars A useful distinction linguists make in describing grammars is “prescriptive” vs. “descriptive” grammars. Simply put, the difference is the prescriptive grammar is what your teacher tells you to do, but descriptive grammar is what actually happens.… More On: Descriptive vs Prescriptive Standards
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Accessibility Workflow in Higher Ed vs Federal Agencies
We’ve been trying out a few products to accessify documents, particularly PDF documents. We have to admit the products work and the vendors are very supportive, but I have been struck at how vendors are assuming a particular model for… More On: Accessibility Workflow in Higher Ed vs Federal Agencies
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Random Word Accessibility Tips
There are lots of standard strategies for making more accessible Word files, but even so I have learned some new tricks this week. Tip 1: Right Click to Modify Heading Styles Using heading styles in Word such as Heading 1… More On: Random Word Accessibility Tips
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Pack and Play Brownbag on Social Network Analysis
ETS is happy to announce a "Pack and Play" brownbag session on Social Network Analsysis in which Elizabeth Pyatt will introduce general concepts of social network analysis. Date: Monday April 1, 2013 Time: Noon – 1:00 PM Location: 202K Rider… More On: Pack and Play Brownbag on Social Network Analysis
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