I had a great time yesterday doing a webinar on Ayamel. I have given many presentations in many different settings, but this was perhaps the most challenging. Sitting there looking at the computer screen with no visual feedback from the audience was interesting, to say the least.

As I was speaking during the presentation, I noticed a couple of typos in some slides due to some late additions. Also, listening to it afterwards, I noticed way too many “uhs,”which I considered editing out. Now, however, I have decided to throw vanity to the wind and make the link available immediately, simply because I believe that the brilliance of Ayamel will come through, despite the imperfections in the presenter’s delivery!

With that explanation, here is the link on YouTube for the video of the webinar. I have posted the PowerPoint deck here (corrected of course! 🙂  ). All I ask is that anyone who downloads the deck give attribution, should any slides be used in another presentation.

Finally, here is a link to a short (10-minute) Qualtrics survey for anyone who would like to have additional permissions for using Ayamel, such as “Create Course.”

I just posted the most recent piece in my series of columns, “Educational Technology Points of Inflection.” It explains where educational video is in its development life cycle.

The machine Thomas Edison said would replace the textbook.

Thomas Edison exclaimed as early as 1913 that “It is possible to teach every branch of human knowledge with the motion picture.” He also predicted that motion pictures would replace the textbook and that schools would change drastically. Despite the incredible advances in digital video of the past 25 years, which meet or exceed the exponential increases of Moore’s Law, Edison’s pronouncements remain unrealized. Furthermore, the time of exponential increases in basic capabilities might well be coming to an end, “the significant positive slope of the linear portion of the development curve suggests that significant, even amazing, advances likely lie ahead for video as an effective educational technology.”

You can read the entire piece here: “Educational Video on the S-Curve of Video Technology Development.”