Technologies for Learning, Thinking and Collaborating
http://www.onlinecommunityreport.com/features/10
I just found this site (Online Community Report) and just started subscribing to the RSS feed. I’m not sure how regular the postings are, but there was some great material in the archives. This was an interesting piece on the types of online communities that seem to be ‘working’ by which he means mostly commercial communities. Kind of sad, isn’t it, that we look at communities as business models. – SWL
http://www.hypernews.org/HyperNews/
get/hypernews/history/53.html
This was a blast from the past. Back in 1995 or ’96 we used hypermail to create a web-based archive and interface to majordomo lists. This seems pretty dull until you see the number of mailing list packages or threaded discussion packages that still consider these two mechanisms to communication to somehow be mutually exclusive. Ever since this first time using hypernews, I have refused to consider any mailing list software that does not also present a web-based archive and interface, and vice versa, any threaded discussion software that does not support interactions through email. It’s the communications that are ultimately important, and email or web browsers are just the means of facilitating this, each with its strength and weakness.
http://www.kdnuggets.com/software/visualization.html
While it’s not really an edtech topic, I have a pet interest in visualization software that goes back to a project I worked on at the start of my career. This site presents a treasure trove of software for visualization – lots of good things to try out. – SWL
http://edtechdev.org/blog/archives/001025.html
“Tiki 1.5 (Regulus) has been released. Tiki is a PHP & MySQL-based Wiki/CMS/blog tool. Version 1.5 adds numerous new features,… ”
I can’t wait to see this for myself. The collision of Wikis and blogs (and Zope-like CMSes) seemed at once both an obvious thing, and yet until I actually see it I’m not sure what it will herald, as I am still trying to wrap my head around the unique properties of each of these on their own. – SWL
– via [Ed Tech Dev]
http://telr.osu.edu/surveys/cic-lms/reportOct02.cfm
This is a survey, run out of Ohio State University on the 12 large institutions that make up the Committee for Institutional Cooperation on the status of the CMS/LMS systems and plans. We run a similar survey on a regular basis with the Educational Technology Coordinators group here in B.C., but it was facinating for me to see this for these large institutions in the U.S. – SWL
More from the knowledge management field, but this product is an example of how to integrate machine indexing activities with human classification. This is what I’m looking for in the field of learning object meta-data – a way to not only add a meta-data field contribution as a human in addition o ones generated automatically through various indexing algorithms, but in addition a way for the software to then aggregate the various human contributions so that additional patterns and classifications can be found. Does this make any sense? – SWL
http://webct.ualberta.ca/2003/
This came from the WWWDEV list. I’m acutally kind of interested to see what other forums it comes through, as I am noticing some real splintering going on these days, partly along blogospheric lines. – SWL
http://www.marcprensky.com/default.asp
Came across this site because this fellow is going to be one of the keynotes at the online elearning conference mentioned below being hosted out of U of C. There is a mass of resources here on game-based simulations. This is kind of a pet interest because of a project to develop an online environmental assessment simulation game I was involved with years ago. If only I had know about this guy and this mass of materials back then – SWL
http://elearn.ucalgary.ca/conference/about.html
“The focus of the conference is on the best practices in e-Learning in both education and training. The latest e-Learning technologies and practices will be used in this conference to make this event accessible to more people then a traditional face-to-face conference could be.”
Now I have the wriggly 3 1/2 year old on my lap, but I wanted to post this as a reminder to self, and also because it sounds interesting. – SWL
-Via [Online Learning Update]
http://radio.weblogs.com/0110772/
2003/02/25.html#a795
“Here’s a presentation on “The Economy of Distributed Metadata Authoring” by Stefano Mazzocchi . A few passages ring especially true to me.
- Artificial intelligence is just that: artificial!
- So: for a system that feels smart to humans, you need human-crafted metadata
- Do all efforts to make instant return on the investment of metadata authoring
- Don’t ask too much
- Be smart but not smarter
Some of the same wisdom went into the design of the Internet Topic Exchange.”
Don’t you just love when,
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