The Guardian Technology supplement reports on some work done at Middlesex, attempting to predict how well students are likely to perform in programming. Like other Universities, they’d noted that students typically either did very well, or failed. They have therefore designed a test, to see if they can predict how well students are likely to…
WordPress and iframes (and Firefox?)
I’ve had a few posts recently that have seemingly mangled my blog. From what I can tell, it seems to be things that have iframes. This morning a student emailed me to say that he’d wanted to comment on a post, but wasn’t able to. I checked a random post and was able to comment,…
Blogs and ePortfolios and Assessment
Barbara’s thinking Out Loud about blogs & ePortfolios. Here at Portsmouth we’ve been talking about blogs & ePortfolios; I’m hoping to have Elgg set up for the start of next academic year, and to test it with some students, primarily for blogging, but, as all the groups that I’ll be working with will have to…
How to Make Your AJAX Applications Accessible – 40 Tutorials and Articles
Max Kiesler has a useful list of articles about Ajax & Accessibility….
Web 2.0 Services.
I’ve been using ikeepbookmarks for some time now, to organise bookmarks & I find it very useful. However, I know that del.ici.ous is much more heavily used; so was Googling to see if I could find any reviews of the two. In part, I was hoping to find evidence to support my decision not to…