By Stephen Downes
August 14, 2003
Changing Places: Instructional Designers
Become Online Classroom Participants
Good
article describing instructional designers' experiences as
online students during a series of presentations hosted by
e-Learning Guru (the eLearning Developers' Journal, in
which this article appears, is usually a subscription-based
journal, however, the author sent me this link, which works
- for now, at least). The author provides a good - though
overly generous - description of the vClass conferencing
software (with screen shots), and more importantly,
accounts of the students' recommendations. Interesting were
the desires for a private space not connected to the
classroom, and for individual photos or bios -
personalization features long the staples of most community
software but not (yet) regarded as important in the
educational market. By Ariana B. Bianchi, Ann M. Busby,
john DeCore, Susan Horsey, Kathleen M. Hueser, Kimberly
Hill, and Valerie LeBlanc, The eLearning Developers'
Journal, August 4, 2003
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
Learning Objects: Collections
List
of a couple of dozen learning object repositories,
including general repositories, discipline-specific
repositories, and commercial repositories. By Unknown,
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Undated
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
Collaborative
Content Creation Lab
CANARIE, along with seven
public and private sector partners, today announced the
launch of the Collaborative Content Creation Lab (CCCL, or
C3L). According to the press release, "The C3L Team will
jointly develop Web-based and desktop E-learning content
authoring tools and help systems for collaborative use by
faculty at Canadian universities and colleges." The
partners include several colleges and universities,
Recombo, Canadian Microelectronics Corporation (CMC), and
Desire2Learn. The C3L project is led by OPAS, an
Ontario-based industry-university partnership. There's not
a lot on the site yet (almost nothing, actually), but
according to the press release the first pilot project has
been started at Centennial College.
By Press Release, CANARIE, August 13, 2003
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
TS Author Forum on Blogging
Short
commentary on my online Technology Source webcast yesterday
with Mary Hirrsh on the subjects of blogging and RSS (I
would have run an advanced notice but jet lag got the
better of me). The archive should be available online in a few days. By
Geoffrey Harder, The Blog Driver's Waltz, August 12, 2003
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
Would You Like Wi-Fi With
That?
This short article makes an important
point. It is difficult to sell WiFi (wireless internet)
connectivity; instead, many businesses are offering it for
free. "Wi-Fi isn't a luxury or even a commodity. It's a
condiment." There will be a day in the not-too-distant
future when free wireless broadband access is just
something you expect to find in a store or restaurant, just
like heat or lighting. Think about that. By Paul Boutin,
Wired, September, 2003
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
XML to RDF transformation for Atom with
XR
This one's for me, since I will need to
transform Atom files into RSS at some future point. It
points to Sam Ruby's Atom to RSS XSLT file, and also to a
transform using XR. By Sjoerd Visscher, Sjoerd Visscher's
weblog, August 14, 2003
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
Certainly Not Logic
If you don't
write software you won't appreciate this article, but if
you do you'll get some chuckles, and maybe some pointers.
The author, looking at examples of software written in C
and Perl, bemoans the basic lapses of logic displayed by
many programmers. And therein, shows the answer to the
question of how memory leaks crash your computer and where
buffer overflow hacks come from. By czth, Kuro5hin, August
14, 2003
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
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