Jim Robinette

This page is to be a clearing house of useful links for my UF Online courses.

Teaching Tips for Media Selection, http://www.uab.edu/uasomume/cdm/media.htm

Text design resources
Development tools:
Google docs (free) http://docs.google.com
Word processing templates (free) http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/default.aspx

Text design:
Typography guide http://www.coe.unco.edu/Typography/Sections/TypogIntro.htm
Typography tutorial http://www.typography-1st.com/typo/txt-lay.htm
Write to be understood http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/articles/TDelderly/
Typography http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/articles/TDelderly/
Picture book design http://picturingbooks.imaginarylands.org/palette/composition.html

Image/graphic design resources
Development tools:
Picasa photo editing (free) http://picasa.google.com
NCES Create a Graph (free) http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/
Google Spreadsheets (free) http://docs.google.com
SnagIt (free demo) http://www.techsmith.com/snagit.asp?CMP=KgoogleSgen82tm
GIMP image editing (free) http://www.gimp.org/
Adobe professional editing software http://www.adobe.com

Design guidelines:
Graphics for learning http://www.coe.unco.edu/LindaLohr/
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_image_editing
Visual thinking http://char.txa.cornell.edu/
Graphics and animation in instruction http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/articles/TDelderly/

REVOLVER MAPS

http://www.revolvermaps.com/

SURVEY MONKEY

https://www.surveymonkey.com/MyAccount.aspx

WIKI’S

2 Sites provided by Carey Pohanka:

http://geography6.wikispaces.com

http://fagoogleapps4ed.wikispaces.com/

Very Simple – No Graphics
Pirate Pad, www.piratepad.net

Web Colors

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colors

PBwiki – create your personal wiki in less than 30 seconds with this easy online service. Special solutions for educational, business and personal use.

OttoWiki – build up your personal wiki to track projects or collaborate on documents online.
WikiSpaces – create simple web pages that groups, friends, and families can edit together.
WetPaint – build up public and private wikis and join one of the largest wiki communities.
ServerSideWiki – create a web-hosted wiki specifically designed for extremely fast load times.
StikiPad – a hosted wiki solution that gives you an easy way to organize your information and share it with others.
Netcipia – create free private wikis and blogs and invite your coworkers, familiy and friends.
Ziwiki – build up a free wiki site and collaborate with a large community of users.
Near-Time – create and customize collaborative wikis for your business, customers and friends.
LittleWiki – set up free public and private wiki pages that anyone can edit.
TiddlySpot – get your wiki with no installation required and make it private or public.
ProjectForum – create hosted wikis to share, discuss and review ideas collaboratively (self hosted version available too)
Socialtext – build up a wiki in a few seconds. Different plans available for enterprises and smaller groups.
WikiBios – create a wiki page and edit your own biography. You will become part of a large social network.
Wiki – create free wikispaces of up to 5 members each with 25MB storage.
Wikidot – free and professional wiki publishing, collaboration and communication solutions.
Zoho Wiki – create free hosted group wikis and edit them collaboratively.
Wik.is – create public or private wikis and easily integrate them with your existing website.
JotSpot – popular wiki creation service that is momentarily suspended after having been acquired by Google ().
Wikia – a community of users that create, share and discover topics they are passionate about through wikis.
EditMe – wiki hosting service that helps non-technical users to quickly and easily build editable web sites.
Versionate – create collaborative spaces where you can share information and review it with other people.
ProjectForum – software to create wikis to share, discuss and review ideas collaboratively (hosted version available too).
Kwiki – wiki software with over 200 plugins that let you customize the look of your wiki.
XWiki – open source wiki released under the LGPL license
Twiki – enterprise collaboration platform and knowledge management system based on wikis.
OpenWiki – software that lets you create workspaces that can be collaboratively edited by anyone or by selected users.
MediaWiki () – free software wiki package originally written for Wikipedia (). It’s available for everyone to use.
Confluence – enterprise wiki software that makes it easy for your team to collaborate and share knowledge.
Gollum – a fast and user friendly tool that lets you browse through Wikipedia.
Qwika – search articles in Wikipedia with this tool that bridges the language gaps.
Wikiseek – another interesting service that lets you search items within Wikipedia.
WikiWix – search engine specialized in searching content within Wikipedia.

HOW TO LINKS
CommonCraft, www.commoncraft.com/
eHow, www.ehow.com/
Expert Village, www.expertvillage.com/
Instructables, www.instructables.com/
WonderHowTo, www.wonder

Online Journals and Magazines:

American Journal of Distance Education     http://www.ajde.com/
American Journal of Education     http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJE/
Communications of the ACM     http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0007-1013
Computers & Education     Geared to computing issues—research and academic ones; http://www.acm.org/pubs/cacm/homepage.html
Computers in Education     http://www.asee.org/about/publications/divisions/coed.cfm
Distance Education     http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/01587919.asp
Educause Quarterly     http://www.aect.org/Intranet/Publications/index.asp#etrd
Educational Technology Review     http://www.aace.org/pubs/etr/issue4/index.cfm
Originally a print journal, now an online one
Educause Quarterly     http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/index.asp
EduCom Review (not peer reviewed)
Electronic Journal of Science Education     Online, http://unr.edu/homepage/jcannon/ejse/ejse.html
European Journal of Open , Distance, and E-Learning     http://www.eurodl.org/
IEEE Transactions on Computers     Geared to Engineering and Computing but carries educationalissues too
Information and Software Technology     Through Elsevier
Instructional Science     Through Springerlink.com
International Journal of Educational Research     Through Elsevier
International Journal on E-Learning     http://www.aace.org/pubs/ijel/
International Journal of Instructional Media    http://www.adprima.com/ijim.htm
International Review of instructional media    Link through to http://www.irrodl.org/
The Internet and Higher Education     http://www.huizenga.nova.edu/ihe/rightframe.htm
Internet and Higher Education     http://www.emoderators.com/ipct-j/
Innovate (Journal of Online Education)     http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?
Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks (JALN) — online     http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/jaln/index.asp
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication     http://jcmc.indiana.edu/

Magazine/Journal

Academic Advanced Distributed Learning Co-Lab     http://www.academiccolab.org/
ASTD Learning Circuits     http://www.learningcircuits.org/
Campus Technology (was Syllabus) (not peer reviewed)     http://www.campus-technology.com/
Chief Learning Officer     http://clomedia.com
Chronicle of Higher Education     http://www.chronicle.com
Distance Educator     http://www.distance-educator.com/
Educational Technology Review (not peer reviewed)     http://www.aace.org/pubs/etr/issue4/index.cfm
Educational Pathways     http://www.edpath.com
e-Learn Magazine (ACM) (not peer reviewed)     http://www.elearnmag.org/
Elliott Masie     http://www.masie.com/masie/default.cfm?page=default
Magna Publications (Distance Education Report and Online Classroom)     http://www.magnapubs.com/
OLdaily and OL weekly (Stephen Downes)     http://www.downes.ca/news/OLDaily.htm
Ray Schroeder’s Online Learning blog     http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/blogger.html
Sloan-c View     http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/view/index.asp
Technological Horizons in Education (T.H.E.) (not peer reviewed)     http://www.thejournal.com/
Theory into Practice     http://tip.psychology.org/
Virtual University Gazette     http://www.geteducated.com/newsletter/index.asp

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