Category Archives: technical issues

squareCircleZ on teaching gambling in math

Posted on 2006-07-16 by alan

squareCircleZ: Should we teach gambling in math classes?

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Mashup.DarwinianWeb.com: Creating my first Google map by hand

Posted on 2006-07-07 by alan

Mashup.DarwinianWeb.com: Creating my first Google map by hand

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Weapons of Math Instruction

Posted on 2006-06-13 by alan

This has been around for at least a couple of years but keeps returning to the email inbox so I thought I’d point out that although the authors of the joke seem to see “al-gebra” as just a funny coincidence,I’ve … Continue reading →

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Confusion about Wikipedia

Posted on 2006-06-11 by alan

In Edge; DIGITAL MAOISM: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism, Jaron Lanier garbles many concepts. His complaints about Wikipedia are best answered by the response of Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg, who point out his apparent ignorance of the … Continue reading →

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Captain Copyright Caught Copying

Posted on 2006-06-09 by alan

This is amusing but also frightening. Our public institutions are being blackmailed into paying huge fees to an organization which is aggressively promoting a wrong understanding of ethics and the law mainly for the benefit of institutions which have no … Continue reading →

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Whiteboard Movies

Posted on 2006-06-05 by alan

Whiteboard Movies

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check out mathplayground.com

Posted on 2006-06-01 by alan

This does seem worth looking at for K-8(+) level online math activities.

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Serving Maths

Posted on 2006-05-29 by alan

Serving Maths (at York in the UK) is a project combining various assessment tools in mathematics.

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Google Web Toolkit – Build AJAX apps in the Java language

Posted on 2006-05-25 by alan

Google Web Toolkit – Build AJAX apps in the Java language

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Google Cleans Ajax for Java

Posted on 2006-05-25 by alan

Google Cleans Ajax for Java reports on the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) for converting Java apps to Ajax (Javascript&XML). Hard to believe it’s possible at all! but anything that produces Ajax which overcomes all browser incompatibilities is already a marvel.

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BCcampus Online Communities –

Posted on 2006-05-15 by site admin

BCcampus Online Communities – “BCcampus EdTech Online” will be discussing on-line testing on Wed May 17 @noon

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Silence: A short history of our atoms

Posted on 2006-05-12 by site admin

Silence: A short history of our atoms is actually a posting by Dutch blogger Renee Alkmar about the idea of science as a form of religion. I arrived there via the link from the author’s March21 comment on the Jan24 … Continue reading →

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Philosophy Talk: The Blog: Does Truth Matter?

Posted on 2006-04-27 by site admin

From the ‘PhilosophyTalk’ blog, Ken Taylor’s posting on Does Truth Matter? leads to a discussion in which the question of whether the question has a well defined answer becomes one of the issues to address. But although “Truth matters” may … Continue reading →

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H5N1: The Guardian reacts

Posted on 2006-04-07 by site admin

In this posting on his H5N1 blog, Crawford Killian goes off-topic with a discussion of on-screen readability issues. But I believe our different reactions to his examples show that what constitutes readability is far more subjective than the experts admit.

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Downes on Belam on BBCwebsite

Posted on 2006-02-11 by site admin

This is a reference by Stephen Downes to a series of articles by Martin Belam on the organization of the BBC website (in which he was a participant)

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Writing for the Web: The Limits of Satire

Posted on 2006-02-09 by site admin

Crawford Killlian blogs his Tyee article ‘The Limits of Satire’ on the Danish cartoon frenzy. I agree with most of what he says in general terms, but I am not sure that it fits the actual circumstances. The cartoons were … Continue reading →

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Innovate – Places to Go: Moodle

Posted on 2006-02-01 by site admin

Stephen Downes had an article on the ‘Moodle’ CMS in the Dec/Jan issue of the ‘Innovate’ journal of online education.

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Downes on Sakai

Posted on 2006-02-01 by site admin

Stephen Downes has an article on the ‘Sakai’ CMS in the ‘Innovate’ journal of online education.

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Stephen’s Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~

Posted on 2006-01-18 by site admin

Stephen’s Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~

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EdTechPost: Reports from the CETIS Vocabularies Project

Posted on 2006-01-18 by site admin

Scott Leslie comments on progress (or not) in the development of controlled vocabularies for paedagogical resources.

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