Via Ian comes Steve Margetts WikiTextbook ‘The free textbook anyone can edit’. Waycool, I like the idea, I’m not usually a fan of the ol’ textbook but this has got a lot of potential. It’s pretty much British curriculum at the moment (GCHEs, ‘A’ Levels & alike… ahhh I remember the days anyone wanna know …
Yearly Archives: 2005
Elgg open source
Dave Tosh says in the comments: “We are planning to release the system as Open Source – hopefully by the end of this week, fingers crossed!” To which I say that is fan-bloody-tastic! For those of you who don’t know Elgg is a kind of authenticated blog / FOAF tool that might just be the …
Elgg to Apcala
I think my memory is going, only when I read Judith’s post about Apcala did I realise that I’d probably been asked not to invite people to Elgg, whoops! Either way the good news is that you don’t need an invite… you can go to Apcala and register yourself (and make sure you add me …
IncSub Blogs – Spaminator & Stats!
The relentless march of WPMU and IncSub blogs continues apace with all blogs now having Kittens Spaminator automatically installed (bye bye spam!) and also a stats tool (it’s a tab on the ‘Dashboard’… haven’t used it yet so tell me what you think. Looks like I’ll be able to set a limit on the MB …
How can I identify/provide technologies and tools to make it easier for teaching staff to come up with (and then do) creative stuff like this?
Nate, it’s pretty simple, you just need to hire me ;o) [and I’m only partly joking…]
Elearning Australian Magazine
Here’s to the success of Albert’s new Australian elearning print magazine… they’re looking for authors too!
Shock news: Flinging iPods at learners does not facilitate learning
OK, perhaps that’s a bit OTT but from what I can gather Duke have set themselves up for a nasty fall if they’re looking for a 6 month impact on T&L outcomes. Via Ray, this article goes into some serious detail about the project. Media stunt or not it’s an interesting experiment in the use …
Continue reading “Shock news: Flinging iPods at learners does not facilitate learning”
Outstanding
Looks like Hugh is on a CC licence which lets me img src this which is cool, because it’s very very funny. [gapingvoid]
Raindrops falling into the pool
Wow, Chris Abraham leaves the kind of comment on one of my OSN05 posts that really deserves more than comment status. Essentially I was trying to describe a semi-latticed environment in the usual “So how do you draw a circle in Fireworks?” kind of way and Chris commented that he sees the online environment more …
Gmail as a file server
Outstanding, Josie points to an Engadget feature on turning your Gmail account to a file server… now all we need is a simple implementation / uses plan from Edugadget!