Compressed musings – mostly about ICT and education

iStory Creator

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Steve Brooks at edugadget writes about iPod Stories – iStory Creator: iPodSoft is a site where you can find some interesting software for your desktop that will make your iPod much more than a music player. One application I am trying out is iStory Creator, a free piece of software. iStory Creator lets you create [...]

Accommodating PDA displays

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Derek Morrison at Auricle extends on some previous comments about Filling up experiences at the online filling station: Now I’m still someone who reckons that the average web page is best viewed at a minimum of 1024×768 resolution … which isn’t an unreasonable expectation for someone with even a modest desktop or laptop nowadays. But [...]

Scott Sorley speculates about the potential for what he dubs Google-matic Courseware – Real Time Content: I have been busy over the last week testing ideas by writing code not prose. The question here is what do you do if you have an entire library, academic journals, every webpage, every blog, all major news sources [...]

eXe: the eLearning XHTML editor

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From across the Tasman the Kiwis present eXe: the eLearning XHTML editor: The eXe project is developing an off-line authoring environment to assist teachers and academics in the publishing of web content without the need to become proficient in HTML or XML markup. The project is funded by a grant from the Tertiary Education Commission [...]

Found in Wired News, this piece, No Wrong Answer: Click It, about the growing use of instant response devices in class. It includes this: Many colleges already use technology that allows teachers and students to interact more easily outside the classroom. For example, professors can now post lecture notes, quizzes and reading lists online. Several [...]

Broad and Narrow Folksonomies

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James Robertson at Column Two points to a post at Personal InfoCloud Explaining and Showing Broad and Narrow Folksonomies: I have been explaining the broad and narrow folksonomy in e-mail and in comments on others sites, as well as in the media (Wired News). There has still been some confusion, which is very understandable as [...]

Podcasting

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Peter Ford writes about Podcasting in the TES: Podcasting was covered in the Times Educational Supplement yesterday. It is the ice-breaking article that will be followed by more in-depth analysis as schools begin to use the technology. Here is a link to a useful overview of podcasting and its potential in education by RECAP Ltd. [...]

Podcasting

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Peter Ford writes about Podcasting in the TES: Podcasting was covered in the Times Educational Supplement yesterday. It is the ice-breaking article that will be followed by more in-depth analysis as schools begin to use the technology. Here is a link to a useful overview of podcasting and its potential in education by RECAP Ltd. [...]

Mobile Learning

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George Siemens shares some thoughts about Mobile Learning: He points to various sources including an article, Enabling Mobile Learning, in the current issue of Educause Review, a piece in which Bill Gates is reported to claim the mobile phone will beat the iPod, a Wired News article about Cellphedia, and a UK Learning and Skills [...]

Teemu Leinonen at FLOSSE Posse writes about Subjects, objects and outcomes of (e-)learning activity system. He cites Graham Attwell: Graham wrote that he would vote the ‘learning application’ to be the object in the e-learning. I do not agree with him. I think in a learning activity system the object should be something as abstract [...]

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