TCS Instructional Design

I wanted to introduce the team to some online software that might help you with your SME meetings. It a web-based Adobe program called acrobat.com. It is not associated with Adobe acrobat, the PDFviewing software. But the website is literally: https://acrobat.com/ There are two functions to this program. One is a file sharing service where you can edit documents, spreadsheets, and presentations online and in real time. I tend to prefer google docs for this function. The second function is incredibly valuable. It is a virtual meeting space. If you sign up with a free adobe account, then they give you your own meeting space and custom url . The great thing is that SMEs do not need to sign up for an adobe account in order to enter the meeting. You email them your custom url and they enter from their browser and have the option of logging on as a guest. Here are some screen shots to show you the meeting space. This is the file sharing portion of acrobat.com. Again, it h...

Hi again, So the first thing that I am sharing here is a button set that Mark uses in his courses. These buttons are currently found on the shared drive, but additionally I uploaded them onto a photo sharing site (picasa). I created a document with the image code and will walk you through inserting the buttons/icons into the course and week headers. The google doc with the code is found on the shared drive: Z:\Icons & Logos\buttons\img style.doc. Click on the images below to enlarge them Here is the main screen. What we would like to do is put an icon by Week 1. Make sure you are in the Author window and in the HTML editor. Find the icon that you would like to include and copy the code associated with it (underneath the icon) Paste the code into the html where you would like the icon. Normally this will be in the header. Put the img code between the brackets (it could also be depending on the header style). If done right, The image will appear beside the header. ...

Hey all, I thought that I would set something up for us in the way of a platform where we can collaborate and share ideas. Kassel told us before he left that the worst thing that could happen to us is that we lose our value by becoming merely data entry people. There is more to this job than merely cutting and pasting, and we should be creating value for ourselves and for the team by searching out new ways to make the curriculum interesting to the students and effective while flexing our creative muscles. My thought for this blog is that we can form a community among the CID department that will allow us to share ideas and processes with our teammates. As many of us work fully remotely, collaboration is difficult. This blog will allow us to share best practices and give/receive useful suggestions. So feel free to post on this blog. I invited each of you to be authors (via your work emails). Whenever you post, make sure to use the labels. Put your name as a label, as well as ...