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July 2003
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Dave Pollard on the Blogging Process
“A pretentious and presumptuous attempt to document what bloggers have learned, without any formal instruction, to do every day. And then a description of what’s needed to make blogs a medium for real conversation.” I agree with Sebastien Paquet, this post is well worth reading. Pollard’s diagram captures what I think a lot of the previous efforts to [...]
Software license that promotes the creation of free (not open source) educational content
You’ve probably seen the software before – Hot Potatoes from Half-Baked Software (a local Victoria, B.C. company), but have you ever read the fine print of the licensing? “Hot Potatoes is free for use by individuals or educational institutions which are non-profit making, on the condition that the material you produce using the program is [...]
'An IMS Generator for the Masses' – Ariadne Issue 36
A fairly technical article on how the University of East Anglia dealt with the problem of generating IMS-compliant XML files describing student profile information from multiple data sources (the purpose of which would be to use them within their course management system, or ‘virtual/managed learning environment’ as the Brits say). By adopting this type of middleware architecture, they [...]
excerpts from Tom Laughner's Dissertation Proposal entitled Psychological Sense of Community on TLTR site
Via the TLTR mailing list came notice of this excerpt regarding the “Psychological Sense of Community” - an attempt to identify the psychological factors that determine whether an individual will feel they are a part of a community. The four major factors he identifies are Membership, Influence, Integration, and the Fulfillment of Needs. This struck me as [...]
Ice Machines, Steamboats, and Education
In this paper, Robert Tinker (President of The Concord Consortium, itself worth a detailed look) describes the evolution of educational technology with an analogy to how steam first augmented, then replaced, wind-powered sails. He details some of the future’s driving forces (Moore’s Law, open source) and some of the general classes of applications on the [...]
Summary of Library/Museum forum on metadata standards
http://www.rlg.org/events/metadata2003/summary.html Nice, shortish summary of a recent (May 2003) forum held in New York concerning metadata standards from the Museum/Library/heritage collections world. Worth a look for those ed tech folks dealing with learning object metadata issues, if only to become introduced to some evolving metadata standards in a different field from which we might learn [...]
Article on issues with current LO approaches
This months ‘The Learning Marketspace’ newsletter from the Center for Academic Transformation contains a provocative article by Carol Twigg challenging LO projects that see the problem simply as one of scarcity of online resources. Twigg says this is simply not enough; in addition to the issue of access and availability, we should be focusing on issues [...]
Article on writing an XSLT RSS Client
An older article, but still interesting. I had thought that aggregators would mostly be using XSLT (maybe they do?) but this article seems to imply that this is an exception, not a rule. In any case, given how straightforward RSS is as an XML format (at least 0.92 and the barebones needed for feeds in 1.0 [...]
RSS top-level namespace
“In order to be able to encapsulate RSS payloads into other XML applications, it will be necessary to explicitly place RSS into its own namespace. It’s been speculated that you can do that without causing any breakage. This posting tests that theory. “ So far there’s been a lot of talk in the edtech blogging [...]
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