I will be giving a presentation on bringing business partners into the classroom using PBCL (Problem-based Case Learning). The presentation, on 2/21/2010 at 12:00PM will be for the second meeting of the Nashville Instructional Design Users Group. Visit http://www.makinglearningreal.org for more information on PBCL and for connecting with it’s community of practice.
In a rare video that I came across on YouTube.com, Cheng Man Ching discusses the movement of Chi in the body. I had the pleasure of studying Tai Chi for about 12 years with a number of teachers. One teacher that I had several seminars with, Benjamin Lo, was a senior student of Cheng Man Ching.
Embedding media files into web pages have been a challenge for web designers for years. Different platforms default to different MIME types and use different helper applications to play the media. That is the reason why many have gone to using Flash. Flash is installed in 98% of machines that surf the internet. Embedding media in Flash is an easy way of creating one solution for the vast majority of visitors to your site and thereby ensuring a consistent user experience. Still, some prefer not to use Flash, or need multiple versions of a page to support mobile devices that do not support Flash – the iPhone for example.
Below are several resources that may clear things up. While the EMBED tag has been used for years, the W3C recommends the usage of the OBJECT tag.
The following video is intended for my beginning HTML students and has to do with naming, arranging, archiving the semester files and their directory structures.