Over the years, many excellent tutorial sites have sprung up over the web,
providing basic to advanced instruction for a number of software
packages.
We believe that there is no purpose served by replicating the materials provided
on these sites. Instead, these resources are designed to:
We expect this section to grow over time - additions to it will be documented
in the weblog published on the Hippasus site.
Title |
Author |
Description |
A Matrix Model for Designing and Assessing Network-Enhanced
Courses
(PDF Version) |
|
A model for the design and
evaluation of
courses involving networked components. The model allows educators to select
appropriate tools, plan their usage, and design metrics for results as
part of a single integrated process. |
A Moveable Feast: the del.icio.us web |
|
A discussion of the structure, use, and potential of del.icio.us,
an online service providing shared bookmarking resources. |
Achieving Fairness and Excellence in Social Software |
|
A discussion of practices and tools that avoid many of the pitfalls commonly encountered in the use of social software. |
Agile Learning Object Development |
|
An exploration of the concepts from Agile
Software Development relevant to
the creation of learning objects, focusing on real-world tool
usage, and demonstrating the actual development of a learning object. |
Digital Storytelling
- Basic Thoughts about
Visual Composition
|
|
This site offers some fundamental
principles and guidelines for visual storytelling and for the use of
images in a narrative context. |
Game and Learn: An Introduction to Educational Gaming |
|
A 14-part podcast series on videogames in education, available in its entirety from iTunes U, that provides educators with the knowledge needed to successfully use educational gaming in their classroom. |
Mapping del.icio.us with Anthracite and OmniGraffle |
|
A tutorial demonstrating how to construct visualizations for del.icio.us using two user-friendly Mac OS X programs,
Anthracite and OmniGraffle. |
Symbolic Math - A Workflow |
|
A tutorial demonstrating the use of Maxima as
a tool for basic computation, symbolic math, and typesetting in an integrated
workflow. |
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