Now I understand why Dawud Wharnsby sings the following line “I’ll travel through the world but I doubt that I will see, A city with such wonder as Madinah”. It can only be experienced, over and over again 
Posted by: icordoba | September 6, 2009
Longing to return to Madina
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Posted by: icordoba | August 13, 2009
Open Source Media Framework
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Posted by: icordoba | August 3, 2009
Top-Ten IT Issues, 2009 (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE
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Posted by: icordoba | July 27, 2009
Illinois Online Network: Educational Resources : Case Studies
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Posted by: icordoba | July 23, 2009
Using Google Calendar, Thunderbird and Lighting to full effect – Ubuntu Forums
Posted by: icordoba | July 20, 2009
Google’s Chrome OS May Fail Even as It Changes Computing Forever
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Posted by: icordoba | June 13, 2009
Flex Programming Concept Metaphor
I am currently following the Cairngorm micro-architecture for rich internet application to develop and architecture my latest app (which will be a desktop AIR app for multimedia recordings). I have been following this excellent series of tutorials by David Tucker. On part 3, David goes through the complete architecture. I have been trying to wrap my head around the different components of it and I think this metaphor makes sense:
- View = body (waiting to send message based on impulse)
- Event = electrical impulse caused by interaction to the body
- Controller = brain that understands all events
- Commands = messages sent by brain
- Model = Memory that stores states of the body from messages sent by brain
- View = body (waiting to receive message and state to react to impulse)
That helped me wrap my brain around the concepts
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Posted by: icordoba | June 13, 2009
Multimedia in Learning Readings
The article below is good starting point – review of literature and identification of key theories
Multimodal Learning Through Media: What the Research Says
One of Richard Mayer’s papers (He wrote several books one of which is partly available on google books)
Visual Presentations in Multimedia Learning: Conditions that Overload Visual Working Memory
Article from Adobe Elearning
The Value of Multimedia in Learning
More references:
Multimedia Learning: Empirical Results and Practical Applications
Posted in Interactive, elearning | Tags: Multimedia Learning Audio Video Text Dualcoding
Posted by: icordoba | October 8, 2008
Project & Performance based learning
I’ve subscribed to an excellent podcast series from www.edutopia.org. I’ve found the attached videos particularly interesting – the power of using real-life projects and cases to help the students internalize & gain mastery in the concepts. There is definitely a place for text-based learning from the teacher and actually this should probably constitute a strong part of the foundation of teaching, specially for cognitive knowlegde. However, project based learning combined with performance based assessments really help in deepening the knowledge by having the students use the knowledge in a controlled environment.
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin
Even more powerful is using projects/cases across different subjects in the same curriculum. It can be very effective, specially for tacit knowledge like change of attitude, character building or problem-solving skills.
The files are in mp4 format (you can play them on any computer using quicktime player)
- Project Based Learning- done
- Performance Based Assessment – done
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Posted by: icordoba | October 7, 2008
Tarbiyah process (part un)
These recordings have moved to the section under “Lessons in Tarbiyah“
Please send me a comment to get the password
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