Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Week 4 Design of Everyday Things
When I moved into this house about 15 years ago, this system was explained to me by the installer. It has the following features: alarm, interphone, radio, clock... but looking at it today, I noticed it has so many botoms that I started wonder if it did anything else. Actually it does not work anymore, the installer has moved away, the maker is in Canada and the closest support center is in Oakland. They are not sure what to charge me for the house call since they can't predict the time it would have the driver to cross the Bay-Bridge. I tried to use the system today for this assignment and nothing worked, not even the radio. I made a digram of the system on the left. I got used to have it as part of the living-room decoration.
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Week 3 - ISD discussion
The discussion on ISD and the history of learning was very good. The teams did a great job in sorting through very dense material and presenting it in an easy to follow presentation. The class answered and clarifies a lot of issues for me. Looking forward to more discussions.
Thursday, February 8, 2007
Elluminate
I have chosen this as my project. So far so good. I have been able to install the software as a moderator and a participant. There is 1 small glitch and 1 annoyence.
The glitch is that the user is instructuted to cut and paste an internet address that has 2 lines. The problem is when an email is forwarded it puts >> (greater than ) in every line, which needs to be removed manually. This is obvious to a more experienced computer user, that is, after getting an error message!
The annoyance is that during installation the software does not detect the user's connection speed and asks what is the speed of the connection. Depending on the user and where it is connecting from it may not be so easy to tell if it is modem, DSL, cable, etc.
Using it was not so obvious so I have signed up for 2 live online training sessions for next week. I am going to try using it on saturday and try the recorded training session.
I am hoping to get this going fast so we I can invite everyone to participate.
The glitch is that the user is instructuted to cut and paste an internet address that has 2 lines. The problem is when an email is forwarded it puts >> (greater than ) in every line, which needs to be removed manually. This is obvious to a more experienced computer user, that is, after getting an error message!
The annoyance is that during installation the software does not detect the user's connection speed and asks what is the speed of the connection. Depending on the user and where it is connecting from it may not be so easy to tell if it is modem, DSL, cable, etc.
Using it was not so obvious so I have signed up for 2 live online training sessions for next week. I am going to try using it on saturday and try the recorded training session.
I am hoping to get this going fast so we I can invite everyone to participate.
Hello ITEC students
This is a great class. The discussions make me learn so much!
After reading this week's assignment I have been thinking quite a bit about education on demand. Hope to be able to discuss it in class
After reading this week's assignment I have been thinking quite a bit about education on demand. Hope to be able to discuss it in class
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