Sebastian Foti - Professional Artifacts

Résumé - An online version of my resumé.

Sample Articles

Learning Objects: Closing the gap between the academic and the technical. Paper including my thoughts on Learning Object Libraries (Presentation here)

Addressing Standards at the Program Level with Electronic Portfolios Gail L Ring, Sebastian L. Foti, Tech Trends v.47, no.2 (pdf version)

The Lord Kelvin Project: Middle School Science for the 21st Century (AACE Digital Library, membership required)

Meaningful Links: The Meaning of Hot. Article published in the Proceedings of Eighth National Conference of Teaching and Learning, Jacksonville, Florida.

Technology, Complexity, and Education. Essay on how technology intersects our lives as educators.

Sample Presentations

Orchestrating Instruction: The challenge of electronic instruction. While at the University of Porto, I often gave presentations to diverse audiences. Faculty from many colleges attended, and I was never sure of their relationship to technology. Consequently, I often provided pre-session readings to help insure that everyone knew what it was I was talking about. This is one of those pre-presentation readings.

Image Processing Module - Working with the Faculty Support Office at the University of Porto, I helped organize a workshop on Image Processing. I believe that workshops should contain an "awareness" component, and the first section of this document "Pedogogical Implications" attends to that requirement. After the workshop, I always include a "Retrospective" to discuss issues that became salient in the workshop. The workshop, incidently, taught the students how to process images to create a replica of this module. That is, each student learned how to create the title page, icons, and other graphic and text elements in the module.

Projects

Enhanced Science Helper (ENC Record)

Culture & Technology Help System - Culture & Technology CD-ROMs were products created as part of a grant by Dr. Mary Budd Rowe. This online help system discusses every aspect of the program. The help system was designed and built as part of an independent study with Gail Ring, who was a graduate assistant at the time.

Augmenting a text book with technology - This site was created for a text book company, as an example of how digital assets might support instruction for a section of their text book. (Note: This is a personal site, not intended for commercial puposes, but rather as an illustration).

Other Illustrations

Teacher Support Web Site for PSI Sims - I created this website to support teachers who purchase the PSI Sims my colleagues and I have created. The PSI Sims themselves are marketed by Cord Communications and illustrated here.

Student Work: The WebTech Page - A collection of some student work from graduate media courses.

Biographical Sketch - This "nested" presentation is a brief bio of my academic and commercial work. Many of the slides are themselves multi-page presentations, so they take some time to load. Click the arrows or pop-up menu items to move around it, click the slides to advance through the individual presentations. Much of this presentation appears in this list.

Ward's Wheel - (Flash Plug-in Required)This is s an example of how media can be used to replace real classroom artifacts. At a workshop with some Jacksonville Teachers, Ronetta Wards, one of the science teachers explained that she had a huge, cubic beach ball that had something written on each side. When she wanted to know if a student comprehended what they had read, she threw the ball to them. Whichever face was facing them had a question on it that they had to answer "What information do I want to share?", or "Where could I go to find more information?", for example. She said it worked well, but other teachers didn't have a cubic beach ball so the process couldn't be generalized. Wards' Wheel (which was created very quickly) solves that problem.