1 == Bernie Innocenti's E-102 Portfolio ==
3 This is a list of the works I produced for the
4 [[http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k63125 | Educational Technlogies]]
5 class at [[http://extension.harvard.edu/ | Harvard Extension School]].
7 I signed up for this course even though I'm not a professional teacher because
8 I wanted to develoop better understanding of the topic to guide me in my work
9 on the [[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org | Sugar Learning Platform]]. The course was
10 very challenging for me, but I the things I learned certainly exceed my
14 === Online profile ===
16 I created an [[http://cte.dce.harvard.edu/elgg10/pg/profile/bernie | profile]] in
17 [[http://cte.dce.harvard.edu/elgg10/ | The Yard]], the online community portal of the
18 Educational Technologies course.
20 My profile page acts as a hub from which I can link to my online resources. It also
21 lets me join the [[http://cte.dce.harvard.edu/elgg10/pg/groups/3901/exploring-educational-technologies-fall-2009/ | E-102 group]],
22 which is the main vehicle of online interaction with my instructors and classmates.
26 I created a [[http://delicious.com/BernieInnocenti/topten | Top Ten List]] using
27 [[http://delicious.com/ | del.icio.us]] bookmarks to help answer my research question:
29 "What technologies can be used for measuring knowledge acquisition of learners in a constructionist environment?"
31 This assignment turned out to be extremely hard for me to carry on because the
32 question I had chosen, expecially in its original formulation, was truly
33 a //reserch// question with no well established answer.
37 This concept-map was supposed to drive me through my research.
39 The suggested software package to carry on this assignment was [[http://www.inspiration.com/Inspiration | Inspiration]].
40 However, due to my personal preference of using [[FreeSoftware]] whenever possible, I opted for another
41 software package for Linux called [[http://www.gnome.org/~dscorgie/screenshots.html | Labyrinth]], which
42 also exists as a [[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4078 | Sugar Activity]].
44 Labyrinth has very few features, but its interaction model is nice and minimalistic, which is what you generally
45 want mind-mapping software to be.
52 Using the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pechakucha | Pecha Kucha]] format, I gave a
53 quick presentation of 10 slides, 10 seconds each.
55 The presentation is available in several formats:
57 * [[portfolio/educational-technologies/assessing-constructionist-learning.odp]] [Open Office Impres document]
58 * [[portfolio/educational-technologies/assessing-constructionist-learning.ppt]] [Microsoft Powerpoint document]
59 * [[portfolio/educational-technologies/assessing-constructionist-learning.pdf]] [Adobe PDF document]
61 This work is licensed under the
62 [[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike]].
63 The individual images contained within the presentation are the property of their respective
64 authors and may be subject to different licensing policies.
66 I recommend people to use open formats and open web standards when creating presentations.
67 As you can see, they do not detract from the quality of the result and let you share the
68 result of your work with more people, regardless of what computer platform they have.
73 My [[http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/html/icb.topic601041/portfolio.html | Web Portfolio]] an online
74 resource summarizing all the work done during the course, which is what you're reading right now.
76 I chose to carry on this assignment using my [[about | personal web site]],
77 powered by my own minimalistic wiki engine called [[GeekiGeeki]]. Anonymous changes are allowed,
78 you can edit this page by clicking on the EditPage button in the navbar.
80 === Review Article ===
82 For our final presentation project, we were asked to learn about a specific teaching
83 technology, become experts in it and then write a review appropriate for an educational
86 Because picking [[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org | Sugar]] would have been way too obvious for
87 me, I chose to review [[http://alice.org | Alice]] instead. This is the result:
89 * [[portfolio/educational-technologies/alice-review.odp]] [Open Office Write document]
90 * [[portfolio/educational-technologies/alice-review.ppt]] [Microsoft Word document]
91 * [[portfolio/educational-technologies/alice-review.pdf]] [Adobe PDF document]
93 Blah blah blah open standards will rule the world
97 Blogging was the biggest opportunity for us to interact with our classmates and
98 reflect about our learning experience. It did indeed bind us together as an
99 online learning community.
101 A few years ago, before blogs became popular, I taught a class of GameProgramming, in which
102 I made all my students subscribe to a mailing-list to discuss the project. Students
103 spontaneusly took the habit to post reflections and proposals to the list, creating a
104 very dynamic interaction. At the end of the semester, the archives contained over 500 posts.
106 My favorite blog posts:
108 * [[http://cte.dce.harvard.edu/elgg10/pg/blog/bernie/read/4802/education-terrorists | Education Terrorists]]
109 * [[http://cte.dce.harvard.edu/elgg10/pg/blog/bernie/read/4760/the-intruder | The Intruder]]
110 * [[http://cte.dce.harvard.edu/elgg10/pg/blog/bernie/read/4961/a-recipe-for-success | A recipe for Success]]