Author: Oliver Wrede
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Encyclopedia of Educational Technology
»The Encyclopedia of Educational Technology (EET) is a collection of short multimedia articles on a variety of topics related to the fields of instructional design and education and training.« [via BildungsBlog] What a wonderful collection!
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Syndicating Learning Objects with RSS and Trackback
Von Alan Levine, Brian Lab und D’Arcy Norman: »Customized collections of learning objects from multiple repositories are achieved with simple, existing RSS protocols, creating access to a wider range of objects than a single source. This provides discipline-specific windows into collections, contextual wrappers via blogging tools, and a system for connecting objects and implementations via…
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Ten Things We Know About Teaching Online
Margaret Driscoll: »As a consultant, I frequently work with business unit managers who are making decisions about online learning. These managers have clear business needs and an in-depth knowledge of technical issues, but they sometimes lack the knowledge needed to make sound educational decisions. As online learning technology becomes more reliable and user-friendly, the real…
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Weblogger review
PC Magazine reviews the Weblogger.com Manila service: Weblogger isn’t as simple to use as the other services we reviewed, but it offers a superb level of template control for business professionals. You can stick with one of the themes or customize all the elements on the page
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Howard Dean Weblog
Howard Dean is one of the next presidential candidates and he runs a weblog. Is weblogging a better way run a candidacy? Dan Gillmor is at the campaign headquaters and reports.
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Online Readings in Psychology and Culture
Available at the Center for Cross-Cultural Research, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington U.S.A.
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The Hyperspace Classroom
Spike Hall notes some of his experiences over the years using online teaching. Overestimation of technical skills of students and failure to detect problems early are his main two reasons for failure of online education. [Spike Hall’s Weblog]
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Blog Experiment
Here is someone from Scotland looking for english speaking webloggers to take part in an experiment.
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iSight white balance
Horst Prillinger demonstrates that Apple iSight camera is adapting the color balance according to the objects it photographes. This is causing an annoying effect. DV cameras have this »auto white balance« as well, but I think they do a much better job than iSight.
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The World Votes
»Here’s a site that lets the world vote in the next US presidential election.Since the world’s vote counts about as much as that of a confused elderly Jewish lady in Dade County, Florida, it’s too bad the site is only publishing the results afterthe US polls close when it can have absolutely no effect.« [Joho…
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Weblogs and political discourse
Boston Globe: Blogs shake the political discourse. [via Der Schockwellenreiter] Interesting to see how opinion leaders in the weblog community push towards political relevance of the weblog discourse. Well… seems the whole weblog community wants to be opinion leading somehow…
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Chris Lydon interviews David Sifry
Chris Lydon interviews David Sifry, father of Technorati. I like Technorati a lot – it is a very useful tool to track connections between weblogs (or the reading trails of the weblog authors). David talks about this at the end of the interview: a hyperlink is a piece of metadata that created Google. Technorati now…
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Tcl/Tk Aqua
Tcl/Tk is now to be available for OS X Aqua. Very good. MacOS X gets more and more interesting for the old school UNIX developers. macdevcenter.com has an article by Michael J. Norton on that topic.
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Düsseldorf gets public MetroLAN
Today the city of Düsseldorf started the first public hotspots for wireless LAN access. THe hotspots are installed in public schools on top of the school network provided by Deutsche Telekom. Students, teachers and members of the city council have free access. Other users will have to pay a small fee.
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Scripting.com offline?
After complaining today about developers that reinvent the wheel and not caring enough about cooperation on standards Davw Winer pulled his long running weblog »ScriptingNews« offline. Winer: »I’m not willing to go on without more support« I was reading scripting.com daily – sometimes several times a day. 90% of it was not so interesting to me…
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Tech Support
»The technical support team at B. F. Yancey Elementary keeps the school’s 43 iBooks in good order, tutors students, organizes websites and shows parents how to make presentations. The average age of the team is eight years old.« [Apple Hot News]
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RSS & Education
Marry Harsch: »The implications of RSS file syndication for the academy—in particular, its potential to expand the scope and prominence of self-published Web content—are significant, especially when files are produced from the content of a professional’s weblog. In essence, RSS syndication technology provides a bridge between isolated Web content and interested information consumers in multiple…
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That Tricky Word, ‘Design’
Peter Merholz talks about dismissing the word »Design« in the marketing language of his company Adaptive Path: What’s wrong with “design”? Well, there’s nothing wrong with the practice, but plenty wrong with the word’s associations. […] Design, with a capital D, ought to stretch beyond tactics, and into strategy. Design methods are brilliantly suited to…
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Students teaching with blogs
Jill Walker: »One thing I’ve really liked in the student weblogs I’ve been grading is that there are a lot of posts that are really useful. It’s so different from exams where only the examiners are ever going to see all the work students have done. For instance, a colour blind student teaches other students…