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December 2003
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Accessibility-checking Bookmarklets
http://www.accessify.com/tools-and-wizards/ accessibility-checking-favelets.asp Large collection of bookmarklets to assist web developers ensuring more accessible sites. Many of these are useful more generally as design tools – for instance the ‘show and label divs with IDs’ is a neat trick that re-renders any page with all of the divs on the page named and outlined in red, [...]
Wiki use to support English class at Texas A&M
http://english.tamucc.edu/pmwiki/pmwiki.php /Loudermilk3301/Home Another example of innovative uses of wikis to support online education, this one from Dr. Susan Lodermilk of Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. In this particular example she uses the wiki both to post all of the class information and to provide the students each a personal portfolio wiki space; but as can be [...]
Best Faculty-level presentation on Learning Objects from the last 18 months
http://www.designingwbt.com/content/ madison/objectkeynote.pdf I’m working on a number of different learning object repository projects at the moment and have been spending the last few days digging through masses of material I’ve bookmarked and blogged over the past few years. All of which brought me back to this presentation given by William Horton at the 18th Annual [...]
Bookmarklet to printout link URLs as footnotes
http://www.kokogiak.com/gedankengang/ default.asp#12012200393 Likely to be the only other post before the holidays; another Christmas present, this one from Alan Taylor’s Eintagsfliegen. A bookmarklet (I think now only for IE, but apparently could be done in Mozilla) that “converts all text hyperlinks into footnotes, and lists out their URLs at the bottom of the page.” I [...]
Get Mailing Lists as RSS in Bloglines
http://www.bloglines.com/about/news For regular aggregator users this might seem obvious, but the folks at Bloglines have a way of taking such features and implementing them quickly and really well. Bloglines now allows you to setup an email address that will be added to your current list of feeds. You can then use this address to subscribe [...]
MERLOT's Development Process Documents and other background tech information
http://conference.merlot.org/projects/technology/ I don’t know if I could tell you exactly *why* MERLOT published all of this – possibly for the greater public good or possibly to maintain a fairly high degree of transparency and formality given so many stakeholders in their development process. In any case, they have shared the policies shaping their development framework [...]
More grist for the 'Blackboard going public' rumour mill
http://www.ipohome.com/ipoplus/press/ usatoday_120403.asp The same day that the article appeared in the Washington Post speculating on the possibility of Blackboard going public because of repeated meetings with investment bankers, the above article was published, concerning the potential re-kindling of tech IPOs. But as if to dampen down the growing rumours, Michael Chasen, Blackboard’s CEO, is featured [...]
Scirus – science-specific search engine
http://www.scirus.com/ New to me was this search engine that focuses solely on sources of scientific information and returns results either from qualified web sites or from only scientific journals. It points to a different strategy for finding learning resources – highly constrained and vetted search catalogs that instead of relying on metadata simply use good [...]
OSS Watch – UK-based Open SOurce Advisory Service from JISC
http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/ Via another great article from Wilbert Kraan at CETIS comes mention of this new service, Open Source Software Watch (OSS Watch), aimed at providing “neutral and authoritative guidance about free and open source software” to the U.K.’s higher education community. They are not focusing on a single type of open source application, but rather [...]
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