ITI Newslink Look at section 3. ERIC has been given a bit of a make over. Since last year they have been working initally on the content and appearance, and now … Recently, ERIC introduced improved features in the Basic and Advanced Search interfaces and expanded search result viewing options. Searchers can now construct nested…
Blogging IT and EDucation
Internet Research 6.0: Internet Generations
Internet Research 6.0: Internet Generations. I’ve found several blog references to this conference, in particular from Lilia’s Mathemagenic Blog. I’m not sure how many papers there are, but there are quite a few. I’ve looked at several abstracts so far, but unfortunately it seems that it’s just an abstract, only delegates get access to the…
TLC: Dulce Et Decorum Est
Dulce Et Decorum Est A wonderful example of using Audio in the Classroom. Students were given Dulce et Decorum Est: – one of Wilfrid Owen’s poems. It was divided into chunks – they had to put them back in the correct order. As well as the poem, sound effects (screaming, shooting etc.) are used. The…
Group for User Interface Research
Berkeley’s GUIR has some interesting looking projects. I’ve used DENIMin the past, though not without some problems. Those who are observant, will notice that DENIM is actually based at Washington, not Berkeley. Other projects at GUIR that look promising are LiveNotes, Multiview – as do several others. The projects pages for both DuB (at Washington)…
Get Gizmo!!
Leigh , at TALO has reviewed Gizmo – a VOIP application, that he feels has more to add to educational uses of VOIP than, say Skype, which is generally the most used. I like the links to Google maps that it has, and you can IM as well as talk. (Though I can’t see the…
Information strategy: filtering
Ton’s Information strategy: filtering Ton Zijlstra has an article about how he copes with the “information overload” that comes from following RSS feeds. He’s got some useful diagrams covering information flow back and forth….
KM Bloggers Community
Mathemagenic: Lilia Efimova has created a diagram of how her & others blogs about Knowledge Management interlink. There’s also a link to the abstract of a paper that she & others are working on, looking at how blogging communities build up….
Flickr & Yahoo!
I’ve mentioned in the past that Flickr is one option for including images in blogs. Having just tried to login to it, it seems that it’s now owned by Yahoo! You can combine your Flickr & Yahoo accounts – so it’s a single sign on to both now….
Community PC
The Guardian reports on a “Community PC” – which Intel are developing. Rather than donating old PCs to the majority world, they are developing PCs that are robust enough to cope with high humidity, lots of bugs (the multi -legged sort) – as well as lots of different users. From a maintenance point of view,…
eLearning Design Challenge
ยป eLearning Design Challenge #6 This is now the 6th challenge that has been set, and, I think that it’s an interesting and challenging one. The brief is to design an online learning solution for schools. The topic though is “How to be nice to each other, and it’s to be aimed at teenagers. As…