Blog – the most looked up word. Merriam-Webster, an online dictionary reported that the most looked up word in its online dictionary this year was Blog. The dictionary itself, by the way, has moved from being a predominantly free, ad supported site, to a paid for, ad-free site….
Blogging IT and EDucation
Journal of Educational Technology and Society.
I found this journal through the feed from eLearnopedia. The actual feed pointed to 1 particular article, however, the whole of the current issue looks interesting, as it’s a special issue entitled “Ontologies and the Semantic Web for E-learning[N.B Link to a .pdf – c 5MB. (2004: Vol 7 Issue. 4)]. To whet your appetite,…
Understanding PISA
Stephen Downes has written an article reviewing a recent BBC report that suggested “Students who use computers a lot at school have worse maths and reading performance” . The BBC article was reviewing a CESifo sponsored report, which studied school performance in several European Countries, evaluating the influence of many factors, of which only 1…
Embanet SuccessLetter
Embanet SuccessLetter: When the Help Desk Is Not Just a Help Desk, But Instead, A Retention Tool for Online Programs. This article (pointed to in the RSS feed that I get), will, I think ring true for many students on the MSc in eLearning Technologies … As institutions look to recuperate time, effort and capital…
Wikis- A Breeze Presentation
Wikis Presentation This is a blog article about a Breeze presentation about Wikis. The presentation itself is worth watching, as it’s got a lot of useful information. However, the reason for starting at the Blog article is because Scott is discussing alternatives to Breeze. Breeze is Macromedia’s newest offering (or one of their newest!), but…
New Look
I’ve been working on ensuring accessibility of assessments that are created with Perception recently. One site that I used a lot was Glish to help me with creating scalable fonts. (It’s also useful for all things to do with .css). They had a Blogger template which had scalable text, though I wasn’t so keen on…
WebCT and Java
Following several reports of a vulnerability with the version of Java that I was using (1.4.2_03), such as the one at DSLReports, I decided to upgrade JRE to 1.4.2_06. Given previous experiences of upgrading JRE, I uninstalled the existing version before installing the new. (JRE isn’t great at uninstalling an earlier version, and having two…
Ten Technologies That Are Going To Change The Way We Learn
Ten Technologies That Are Going To Change The Way We Learn – Robin Good’s Latest News: In this article, Robin Good lists 10 technologies that he feels have the potential to change learning, both for face to face learners, and distance learners. Each technology is linked to a relevant section of his blog, which overall…
wBloggar
This is a test posting using w.bloggar – from http://www.wbloggar.com It’s a Java application that will allow you to create blog posts offline & then post them….
Google Scholar
Google Scholar Google’s latest offering, this time to search academic sources: ” Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories…