Category Archives: technology

Stephen’s Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~ Proof of Learning: Assessment in Serious Games

Stephen’s Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~ Proof of Learning: Assessment in Serious Games from Stephen Downes’ OLDaily

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A Difference: Rip Mix Learn

A Difference: Rip Mix Learn is a workshop on ‘blogging’ for Manitoba math teachers on oct21 by Darren Kurotapwa. I hope I have time to look at it in more detail.

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Teach and Learn Online: Lawsuit forces Web2 learning strategies

Leigh Blackall comments on the WebCT accessibility lawsuit and outlines some more open alternatives. But the overhead of learning the tools is substantial. Which is fine if that’s what the course is about – ie if the medium really is … Continue reading

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Non-accessible e-learning: lawsuit against an institution using WebCT – FLOSSE Posse

I’m no fan of WebCT (or “vendor-lock-in” of any kind) but in their discussion of a lawsuit against an institution using WebCT (on the basis of non-accessible e-learning) FLOSSE Posse say: “In WebCT they probably seriously think that learning happens … Continue reading

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Stephen’s Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~ Web Site Link Checker

This Stephen’s Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~ Web Site Link Checker might be useful for the MathWebResources project

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Writing for the Web: Hurricane Blogs

Crawford Killian reports the advent of more Hurricane Blogs. My own sense is that blog references to Katrina have been slow to show up – at least within the edtech arena.

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Writing for the Web: The World’s Greatest Online Journalism

Writing for the Web: The World’s Greatest Online Journalism

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McGee’s Musings

McGee’s Musings

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CogDogBlog � Blog Archive � Conversations: Tree People and Cave Dwellers

This comment on the Moodle discussion of blogs CogDogBlog � Blog Archive � Conversations: Tree People and Cave Dwellers came via Downes’ OLDaily

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Vocational Math Ed Resources

Check for app links in Math Education Web Resources

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CogDogBlog � Blog Archive � Distributed Conversations: More Than Four Reasons

CogDogBlog � Blog Archive � Distributed Conversations: More Than Four Reasons

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2 Cents Worth � Blog Archive � Four Reasons Why the Blogsphere Might Make a Better Professional Collaborative Environment than Discussion Forums

2 Cents Worth � Blog Archive � Four Reasons Why the Blogsphere Might Make a Better Professional Collaborative Environment than Discussion Forums

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More on the Telus Censorship Issue

thetyee.ca To Censor Pro-Union Web Site, Telus Blocked 766 Others

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E-Learning Queen: Communities of Practice: The Role of Classification Schemes and Taxonomies

E-Learning Queen: Communities of Practice: The Role of Classification Schemes and Taxonomies – more about how to identify stuff for easy retrieval

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Tags vs Trusted Sources

From Weblogg-ed – The Read/Write Web in the Classroom : via Stephen Downes

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HP Free Online Courses

Golden Swamp � Blog Archive � HP Free Online Courses makes a suggestion which could represent the thin end of the wedge for the eventual commercialization of all education

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Using Moodle: Blogs, Forums and the nature of discussion

A discussion of Blogs, Forums and the nature of discussion started by one of the fonders of he ‘Moodle’ CMS

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[Odrl-interest] Comments on REL patents, third-party standards, and MPEG LA

These [Odrl-interest] Comments on REL patents, third-party standards, and MPEG LA by Steve Rowat came to me via Stephen Downes’ OLDaily. Here a former patent industry worker says “bowing to such a demand – to pay for patents that are … Continue reading

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Visual Calculus – Curve Fitting

Visual Calculus – Curve Fitting is something else to check out

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CC Licensing for WordPress: Now with AJAX

This came via OLdaily

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