IRRODL: Elements of Effective e-Learning Design The IRRODL generally has useful papers – this one is no exception. They are looking at eLearning in all its genres – blended as well as distance. Though the paper focuesses on By design we mean the planning or working out of the e-learning resource. This combines tasks including…
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Main Page – Wikibooks
Main Page – Wikibooks This looks as if it has some potential – as with other Wikis it’s an open content system that all can edit. In this case, it’s a collection of books, with a vague “textbook” type emphasis. At the moment, it’s the cookbook that seems to be getting the most editing, though…
KEEP Toolkit
KEEP Toolkit This is an initiative started by Knowledge Media Laboratory of The Carnegie Foundation. It’s a set of open source tools. Knowledge sharing and collaboration are key aims of the project. They summarise the main points as: The KEEP Toolkit is a set of web-based tools that help teachers, students and institutions quickly create…
International Journal of Education and Development using ICT
International Journal of Education and Development using ICTThis is a new Journal, focussing on, as the title suggests, the use of ICT in education in developing areas of the world (rather than the use of ICT to teach about Devleopment). The list of articles for the first issue looks interesting….
Web Accessibility Resource Planner
Web Accessibility Resource Planner WebAim, a sote focussing on accessibility have now put together WARP. This is an area where, as a teacher, you can put together a set of resources for students about accessibility. While they give you a template (it ends up looking rather forumlaic), there is the option to either create your…
Mary's M.Ed. journal
Mary’s M.Ed. journal Quite a short blog, and one that seems to have reached a natural end. However, it’s a useful example of a reflective learning log, and she’s put in some useful resources….
Is it Time for a Moratorium on Metadata.
Is it Time for a Moratorium on Metadata(N.B .pdf file) This starts off with an amusing look at the issues surrounding the use of Metadata, in a vaguely Educational system. Bulterman then looks at the Dublin Core, MPEG-7 (a metadata for Video) and The Semantic Web. From here he moves on to the issues involved…
EDUCAUSE | Resources | Educating the Net Generation
EDUCAUSE | Resources | Educating the Net Generation A New EDUCAUSE e-Book This is a whole book that’s online. It can either be downloaded as a complete PDF, or you can get single chapters. (One of the drawback of getting the whole book at once, is that there are no external hyperlinks. If you go…
The WebLog as the Model for the new VLE
Auricle In February 2004, Auricle initiated a series of articles The Weblog as the Model for a New Type of VLE? Auricle (based at Bath) have been looking in particular at ELGG, a blog type system developed at Edinburgh, which has quite a lot of social interaction type features. They are calling it a “Personal…
blogwithoutalibrary.net
blogwithoutalibrary.net This seems to be an excellent blog – one that I’m going to add to my Bloglines account. Today the most recent items include how to add email lists to bloglines (could be very useful!), as well as quite a few references to academic uses of blogs. The whole site as far as I…