I had a request from a student to show how to connect to a SQLLite db from C#. It turns out it is pretty straight forward. You just need a few tools. I will list what I find here: .NET ADO SQLLite components: http://sourceforge.net/projects/sqlite-dotnet2/ Great tutorial: http://adodotnetsqlite.sourceforge.net/ SQLLite Browser: http://sourceforge.net/projects/sqlitebrowser/

So I was contacted by a Mikogo.com rep after my dimdim post and I gave it a shot. Mikogo is awesome. It not only allows me to share my screen and give control but also let students share their screens and I take control. Just great. It was fast and clear. I recorded using camtasia [...]

I was shocked and dismayed to see salesforce had furchased dimdim and killed it (of course). I was told that my account would be active until 3/11/11. Whatever. I had been using join.me for some time now. Jane wrote about this today and her list fails to mention join.me which I find to be an [...]

When we train someone we want to be as helpful as we can. We jump at every question and quickly respond to chats and emails. Watkins points out in 75 e_learning Activities that this may not be the best approach. On page 29 he notes that as a course progresses the demand on the instructor [...]

Conrad and Donaldson (2004, engaging the online learner, pp. 28,29) show a great grading rubric. It is really figure 3.1. Can we use that sort of thing in technical training? Sure! The grading rubric tells the student what is expected of the in the assignment. Lazy students will use it to figure out the minimum [...]

According to Conrad and Donaldson (2004, engaging the online learner, p. 17) “Every activity should be scrutinized to determine whether it matches a learning objective.” They go on to add that activities that do not meet this criteria add confusion and frustration. The learner is left asking “why did I just waste my time doing [...]

Today I had a student call me on my google voice number and tell me that his laptop would not start up with video. Nothing on the screen. He even tried to hook it to a TV and there was nothing coming out. Video card seemed to be toast. No big deal? Normally this would [...]

A cool tool I started to use in late January is Prezi.. Just a PPT replacement, but think about the uses. Record yourself presenting in front of class then share the prezi and the video. Two for one. You can drill as deep as you want, so share concepts and as you go deeper perhaps [...]

Getting back on track. Jason has been away from a while and he explains what he means to get back on track and working on the site again.

Interesting sitting in the Dallas airport. The actially sell iPod touches, and PSPs from vending machines. Thanks to a samsung booth I can charge my iPhone.

I am sitting in my Keller class final (I am the Instructor) and I had some thoughts about how I took a final when I was a student. Here it is. Originally this was an email to my students. As you all sit and take the final a few thoughts occurred to me that I [...]