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January 2007
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Website Redesign as a Public Service
http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2007/01/28/ toronto-bloggers-swarm-to-redesign-ttc-website/ OK, a little off topic, but this post from the Wikinomics blog kind of caught my eye because it resonates with a situation I’ve recently come across. The post talks about a group of bloggers getting together in Toronto to redesign the unbearably unusable Toronto Transit Comission’s website. Maybe the TTC will listen [...]
5 things you didn't know (and were definitely afraid to ask)…
So, Brian wants to know 5 things about me he wouldn’t know… I used to be an avid hitchhiker. My longest ride ever was from Medicine Hat to Sudbury (over 2,500 kilometers, driven straight through at my behest!) which ironically came the day after my shortest ride, trying to get out of Cowtown (and getting [...]
SUNY SLN awards ANGEL Learning a master agreement
http://www.cyberlearninglabs.com/News/documents/2007-01-23.html Not sure if it is right to link these too closely, but coming close on the heels of a story last week is an announcement that SUNY’s Learning Network has granted a ‘master agreement’ to Angel Learning. You’d hope business was actually pretty good over at Angel these days, what with their major commercial [...]
Ahem…Is this thing on?
Sorry for this totally superfluous post – I am moving Edtechpost off of MoveableType on to WordPress (finally) and a new URL, http://www.edtechpost.ca/wordpress/. If I did this the way I hoped, you should still this post in your current subscriptions, through the wonders of mod_rewrite. Feel free to update subscriptions and blogrolls, but I’m hoping [...]
On "The Perils of Stargazing" and the NMC Horizon Report
http://connect.educause.edu/blog/catherine/ the_perils_of_stargazing/16706 Catherine Howell writes (and Stephen Downes seconds – still no RSS feed in GReader today, Stephen, and how about some permalinks the rest of the world can understand) of the time lag and conservative nature of this year’s NMC Horizon Report choices for technologies that will have a significant impact on teaching and [...]
Effects of Information Distributions Strategies on Student Performance in a CMS
http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/v1n1/ lohman/IJ_%20Lohman.pdf This is one of those papers where I find myself thinking “freakin’ amazing, I can’t believe it” (yes, I really think like that) but by the end I’ve been reduced to, “ok, but a sample of 50 students? And all of them graduate students of education from 3 courses?” I’m not saying that [...]
Patrick Masson on Lessons Learned Implementing a SOA at SUNY
http://www.elearning.ac.uk/features/masson This remarkably frank and insightful interview with Patrick Masson, the former Director of Technology for the SUNY Learning Network, is well worth the read, though by the end you would be forgiven for despairing about the future of SOA on any campus. I know I do and did. Monoliths ahoy! – SWL
So Long Bloglines…
Unlike most of the of the other cool kids, I’ve had a hard time kicking my bloglines habit for newer tools. A case of “if it ain’t broke…” Well, sad to say, it is broke. It’s probably a familiar refrain to others who’ve made the leap, but after the umpteenth time of Bloglines acting funny, [...]
Moodle Pilot Report from Idaho State University
http://www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/ ISU_IDUS/I061227I.pdf Via Jim Farmer comes a link to this Pilot Report from the Instructional Technology Resource Center at Idaho State University, a current WebCT 4 customer. On the basis of this small (20 instructor) pilot, they are going expand it to 50 users. What I thought was interesting (and maybe the Moodle folks will [...]
BioDieselNow – Informal Learning, Mass Amateurization and Open Science in one tasty package
BioDieselNow – Biodiesel from Algae It truly is not that remarkable to find examples of informal learning communities online, indeed these are the very genes on which the net has grown so explosively. What’s maybe more remarkable is that people even feel the need to remark on them. So why highlight this one? Well… – [...]
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