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…
Blogging IT and EDucation
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…
More on academic blog use
Blogwithoutalibray A couple of interesting Academic Blog Initiatives have been listed AT “Blogwithoutalibrary” – firstly the fact that yet another university (in the US), is starting a blog service, and also that Black History Month has, or rather, as it was in February, had, a blog….
Working Smart: PowerPoints Presenter View This looks useful – I’ve tested it on the Tablet – with Office XP 2003, wonder if it will work in the classrooms with Office 2K?…
Just Blog it 0.2
I’ve been using Just Blog It for a while now, it’s an extension for Firefox. While it doesn’t seem to be listed on the main Firefox extension sites, there is now a version 2 – which I must have found somewhere – as it’s installed at home. The developers site is Warmbrain – though that’s…
Microsoft Producer
I’ve just been looking for things that will enable us to liven up Powerpoint – and also video lectures. Powerpoint Producer is an add one for Powerpoint, which will allow you to integrate video and a powerpoint – so the video can be a “talking head” or could be other video to support the slides….
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…
Editing the templates
I’ve just started to try to edit the templates. It’s not quite as easy as Blogger, as by default the ability to edit files is disabled. In order to do it, you have to first of all make the files writeable. I managed to do it for one file using SSH shell – which is…
The Internet Courses: Weblogs
The Internet Courses: Weblogs A plethora of links!…
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…