Edtechpost by Scott Leslie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Canada License.
Cite
August 2003
You are browsing the archive for August 2003.
Amazing visual search demo – Iokio.biz
Via Mark Oehlert’s mailing list e-clippings (there must be some reason he has for keeping that list and his blog separate?) comes reference of this immensely cool Flash demo of a ‘visual search engine’ (I’m not sure what else to call it). Once you get through the flash intro, click on the ‘Camera Finder Demo’ [...]
highlighting bizarre search terms in monthly newsletter
o.k., last one from this site, I promise, but this really tickled my fancy – at the top of their monthly newsletter the folks at Web Lab highlight “This month’s weirdest Googling that brought people to the Web Lab site.” Not only is this a funny use for this underused data that most of us [...]
Web Lab – Small Dialogue Technique
Buried within the last article on virtual communities in news sites was reference to this ‘technique’ for Small Group Dialogues (they call it a ‘tool’ at the top of the page but I don’t get the sense they are talking about actual software). I found this really interesting – many of the issues they try to [...]
News Sites Still Figuring Out What to Do With Online Communities
You’d think all this talk about businesses focusing on community would be uplifting, but I ended up feeling kind of depressed by the end of this article at the commodification of human socialization. – SWL – via [Online Community Report]
Updated example feeds from repositories supporting RSS with Merlot
Based on a reminder from Alan’s latest post, I updated this page of known examples of RSS feeds from learning object repositories. I hadn’t necessarily planned on maintaining this, but what the heck, the original title of that page was pretentious enough to justify it – SWL
SAT math and verbal scores hit highs
I’m sorry to say this, and it is not just generational envy, but I just can’t believe this. You would have to try very hard to convince me that these results aren’t due to the ‘dumbing down’ of the SATs. – SWL
Wendell Berry's Life is a Miracle
I inherited a lot of books two years ago when my Dad passed away, and I’ve slowly been making my way through them. One that’s been staring at me for a while, and for who knows what reason I had resisted picking up so far, was Wendell Berry’s Life is a Miracle. Well a recent [...]
Slashdot thread on the long-term instability of CD-Rs
I found this thread fascinating for a number of reasons. First off I hadn’t known there was any such issue of CD-Rs becoming unreadable and unstable over time, so it was just a good cautionary tale. Secondly in explaning the phenomenom, the posters give a great lesson on how some of the technologies involved with [...]
Gender Genie
“an algorithm intended to predict the gender of an author by analyzing writing style. Simply enter a few lines of text and click submit.” I’ve read a few articles on this topic before which seemed to indicate this wasn’t possible, and so I had to try it out. First attempt it asserted that my submission was [...]
Blackboard to Launch Learning Content Management and e-Portfolio System for Academic Market
I had heard talk recently of Blackboard entering the ‘content management’ marketplace, and the speaker was puzzled why they would want to do this. From the looks of there announcement, they are not necessarily trying to compete with your standard web content management system that serves your public web presence (thought it’s not clear that [...]
Recent Comments