Amy Reading Challenge: NL8 & Padlet
This week, I wanted to go for something a little more "old school" by creating my Reading Notes of Chapter 8 of New Learning in Padlet:
You can see that embedding my Padlet creates some reading space issues, so you can also see it here: http://padlet.com/alocklea/djj8e1igllx1
The Padlet design is pretty simple, limiting creativity to an extent, I think. I would have liked to format each element using a color scheme, but I did not see that as an obvious editing feature. (It may be featured in the paid version.) The Padlet visual / composing space that seems built in also limits the size of my thinking space (and although I'm fairly linear in my thinking, I find myself casting my visual thinking in ever-widening frameworks).
I do like the ability to add videos, images, as well as link to image pages. That is a feature that works well, and the commands are intuitive. Nice feature for in-class activities, as there would seem to be a very shallow learning curve.
Design principles: the program offers a limited selection of background options, but they seemed diverse enough to offer "something" for almost everyone if you think metaphorically about the possible design connections. I did note that when I navigated away from my board, some of the elements shifted -- not good, and not sure if that's going to be replicated here. The help / navigation feature hides on the right of the screen, and contains all of the basic commands I imagine would be necessary, including a link to a blog.
All in all: I think this would be a useful tool for all sorts of in-class activities, as long as the need is fairly blandly text based (i.e., one font choice, one color palette, etc.).
This week, I commented on Heather's NL8 in Realtimeboard. I like how her presentation and commentary highlight some of the directional potential for the presentation features. Especially since these whiteboard simulations often cover a wide expanse, so having these rhetorically intentional navigational cues are really helpful to the readers!
I also looked over Kim's notes on Chapter 8 of BR using Animoto. I was really excited to review her post since I'm considering Animoto for my BR chapter this week. I must admit, creating a video is a bit intimidating to me -- all the more reason to try it! Her decisions as outlined in her post were really helpful, and her choices made on how to best compartmentalize the video coverage worked very well. I've tried one other video maker (can't recall the name -- has a little sun icon in the corner), and I recall feeling overly rushed, knowing I had less than 5 minutes to talk. But 30 seconds! Loved Kim's solution to this limitation.
You can see that embedding my Padlet creates some reading space issues, so you can also see it here: http://padlet.com/alocklea/djj8e1igllx1
The Padlet design is pretty simple, limiting creativity to an extent, I think. I would have liked to format each element using a color scheme, but I did not see that as an obvious editing feature. (It may be featured in the paid version.) The Padlet visual / composing space that seems built in also limits the size of my thinking space (and although I'm fairly linear in my thinking, I find myself casting my visual thinking in ever-widening frameworks).
I do like the ability to add videos, images, as well as link to image pages. That is a feature that works well, and the commands are intuitive. Nice feature for in-class activities, as there would seem to be a very shallow learning curve.
Design principles: the program offers a limited selection of background options, but they seemed diverse enough to offer "something" for almost everyone if you think metaphorically about the possible design connections. I did note that when I navigated away from my board, some of the elements shifted -- not good, and not sure if that's going to be replicated here. The help / navigation feature hides on the right of the screen, and contains all of the basic commands I imagine would be necessary, including a link to a blog.
All in all: I think this would be a useful tool for all sorts of in-class activities, as long as the need is fairly blandly text based (i.e., one font choice, one color palette, etc.).
This week, I commented on Heather's NL8 in Realtimeboard. I like how her presentation and commentary highlight some of the directional potential for the presentation features. Especially since these whiteboard simulations often cover a wide expanse, so having these rhetorically intentional navigational cues are really helpful to the readers!
I also looked over Kim's notes on Chapter 8 of BR using Animoto. I was really excited to review her post since I'm considering Animoto for my BR chapter this week. I must admit, creating a video is a bit intimidating to me -- all the more reason to try it! Her decisions as outlined in her post were really helpful, and her choices made on how to best compartmentalize the video coverage worked very well. I've tried one other video maker (can't recall the name -- has a little sun icon in the corner), and I recall feeling overly rushed, knowing I had less than 5 minutes to talk. But 30 seconds! Loved Kim's solution to this limitation.
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Kevin's Comments on Amy's Padlets
Your visual look good. However, I don't know if I like the lined background. Adding visuals and videos is always good.Posted on 3 November 2014, 9:42 am by Kevin M. Norris | Permalink
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