While it’s pretty distressing not to have the ‘in page’ function in the Firefox 1.0 search bar I find it hard to express my joy at the fact that I can now search wikipedia as easily as I can Google :O)
Author Archives: James
Notify List
Thinking about blog & site design this looks like a fantastically simple way to set up a mailing list. “Get free one-way mailing lists that you can set up fast and use easily!” notifylist.com
Schooltool
Jeremy reminded me yesterday about Schooltool… this is something I do not want to forget about at all, ever. “Our vision is for a common information systems platform for school administration from California to Calcutta, via Cape Town! We hope to provide a single tool that will be readily adapted to the specific regulatory requirements …
International Journal of Web Based Communities (IJWBC)
Typical, am run off my feet, the last thing I need is a new journal full of amazing articles related to online communities such as: Designing and evaluating online communities: research speaks to emerging practice With regard to respect: a framework for governance of educational virtual communities Towards mobile communities for cancer patients: the case …
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Emporer’s new…
Jeremy calls it straight on podcasting, with a great link to a comment on audio blogging (and check out the music… well worth it!): “right now it looks like everyone is simply exorcising their childhood fantasies to be radio DJs because they can.” And I sympathise a lot with that, seriously, and well said too …
Ramble
Interesting project at Oxford, Remote Authoring of Mobile Blogs for Learning Environments (RAMBLE) : “In this project the process of blogging has three stages: * Blogging on a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) – where students can use handheld devices to reflect on their learning experiences, provide feedback on lectures, tutorials, practicals etc at a location, …
Oh dear
Well, it appears that the all new WebCT Vista 3.0 is taking us back to supported browsers, great to see even more forward-thinking approaches from “the world’s leading provider of e-learning systems for educational institutions”… we’re in good hands! p.s. in this version you can also take pedagogical delight in our CONTROL AS TEACHERS dammit, …
Up and running
As Stephen mentioned, I’ve found a new energy of sorts ;o) Wouldn’t be the case without the 88 (and that doesn’t include many non-trackbacked postings & emails!) amazing, insightful, supportive, thoughtful and kind comments you guys made, not a chance. Thanks again.
Andragogy
Here’s an interesting point, we shouldn’t do pedagogy but, instead, andragogy. “Knowles’ theory of andragogy is an attempt to develop a theory specifically for adult learning. Knowles emphasizes that adults are self-directed and expect to take responsibility for decisions. Adult learning programs must accommodate this fundamental aspect. Andragogy makes the following assumptions about the design …
Content, content, content…
This is a session on a fully online first year health & statistics unit for mostly on campus students. The course has been developed around two CDROMs for the material and an online CMS environment for ‘end of topic’ assessment (there are several topics). The CD ROM worked well for delivering lots of content and …