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Cube Creator- A Tool to Boost Your Students Literacy Learning
Med Kharbach, Educational Technology and Mobile Leanring, 2021/04/06

I picked this item because I though the idea of creating cubes was interetsing and fun, and because it reminded me of the old Coub format (sometimes incorrectly called 'cubes') for short video loops (it's what we had before we had TikTok). But when I followed up on the link to Cube Creator to try it out I discoved it was based on an old Flash application. So here's a message to all those ed tech websites highlighting nifty toolss and such: Flash is dead. It is dead for some very good reasons. Review the things you are recommending and make sure they don't use Flash.

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Web Handicraft
Alan Levine, CogDogBlog, 2021/04/06

I always have time for an Alan Levine rant. Here's the thrust of this one: "Might the antidote to some future/present sense of powerless miasma to an algorithmic fueled inescapable AI matrix be just human created quirkiness?" My answer, of course, is yes! I have always loved the fact that people use tech however they want to. It makes me happy to see people use a trillion dollars worth of technology to send cat pictures to each other. Failure to understand this is failure to understand what makes a technology great, and the instant you can't use something for your own purpose is the instant that thing has become useless to you.

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From “Skills Taught” to “Skills Sought”: Can Postsecondary Syllabi Close the Gap?
Howard Lurie, Encoura, 2021/04/06

This is a great article that really gets into the weeds of some recent developments, but in an accessible way. Here's the set-up: on the one hand, we have the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) listing course curricula that describe what subjects are covered and what resources are used by universities around the world. On the other hand, we have Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system in the U.S., and similar codes elsewhere, that describe what people do and what skills they need. They are of course very different and this "discontinuity between how schools organize instructional content and how employers categorize required skills and knowledge has created a cottage industry of CIP-SOC crosswalks." Now I don't think reorganizing all of higher education programming into the SOC is a good idea. Life is about more than just work. Still, it would be helpful if there were a way to coordinate them.

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Teaching without video meetings
Alastair Creelman, The corridor of uncertainty, 2021/04/06

Alastair Creelman points to Lucy Biederman's article Goodbye, Zoom Fatigue in Inside Higher Ed pointing to how online learning classes can work without Zoom, including such techniques as communicating on Google chat, a course taught entirely on Slack, and a course where students maintain individual blogs. It boggles the mind to think that these are being introduced as the new thing we can do instead of Zoom. It's like nobody has a memory that extends beyond March of 2020.

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Technology Considerations When Building E-Learning Courses
Tom Kuhlmann, The Rapid E-Learning Blog, 2021/04/06

This is a fairly basic article for people new to e-learning, but it does link to twoi quite useful resources:

• How to Get an E-Learning Course Online
• An Introduction to Learning Management Systems

both from Articulate's E-Learning Heroes. I like the first one especially because it addresses questions that get lost in higher-level discussions, questions like "how do I put stuff on a web server?" Sadly, that's where the usefulness ends, because the remainder of the resources are for Articulate 360 subscribers only. I don't really see the point of putting such basic help behind a subscription wall, and I think it reflects poorly on Articulate that it does so.

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