details of a global brain
California race
That’s not a political race – that’s a freak show…
Collaborative learning environments sourcebook
»This is a sourcebook for academics and students who want to develop collaborative learning environments (or communities of practice) in which lecturers, students and others can work together to create new knowledge while learning new skills. Click on the links on the left to browse through the book. The book is currently in the process…
Cognitive Psychology & IA: From Theory to Practice
Jason Withrow: »What do cognitive psychology and information architecture have in common? Actually there is a good deal of common ground between the two disciplines.«
Explorations in Learning & Instruction: The Theory Into Practice Database
»TIP (theory into practics database) is a tool intended to make learning and instructional theory more accessible to educators. The database contains brief summaries of 50 major theories of learning and instruction. These theories can also be accessed by learning domains and concepts.«
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!
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…
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…
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
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.
Online Readings in Psychology and Culture
Available at the Center for Cross-Cultural Research, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington U.S.A.
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]
Blog Experiment
Here is someone from Scotland looking for english speaking webloggers to take part in an experiment.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
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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