Category Archives: web

thetyee.ca Free Wireless Fever

Should we get thetyee.ca Free Wireless in Vancouver? I think so! Not so much for the business traveller (who probably has adequate access at hotel and meeting place) or the poor (who probably don’t have laptops and more likely use … Continue reading

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Hypertext Style: Cool URIs don’t change.

Hypertext Style: Cool URIs don’t change.

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EdTechPost: An Evaluation of Open Source CMS Stressing Adaptation Issues

EdTechPost: An Evaluation of Open Source CMS Stressing Adaptation Issues

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EdTechPost: Unicon provides Sakai ‘Test Drive’ sites

EdTechPost: Unicon provides Sakai ‘Test Drive’ sites

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EdTechPost: Why does ‘Freesound’ succeed when so many learning object repositories fail?

Scott Leslie asks EdTechPost: Why does ‘Freesound’ succeed when so many learning object repositories fail? – and of course for me the interest is in the second clause. I have claimed to have ideas about what is wrong with LOR’s … Continue reading

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Online Rights Canada

Online Rights Canada

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Declan Butler, reporter � %u2018Thin blogs%u2019, RSS and %u2019social bookmarking%u2019

Declan Butler, reporter � %u2018Thin blogs%u2019, RSS and %u2019social bookmarking%u2019

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Stephen’s Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~ Dave Winer Proposes to use URLs for Digital Identity

Stephen’s Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~ Dave Winer Proposes to use URLs for Digital Identity

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Johannes Ernst’s Blog

Johannes Ernst’s Blog

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Stephen27s20Web207E20by20Stephen20Downes207E20Dave20Winer20Proposes20to20use20URLs20for20Digital20Identity

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iterating toward openness � Structured Blogging for Learning Objects?

Was pointed to this iterating toward openness � Structured Blogging for Learning Objects? by sDownes in OLDaily on Nov10. . . .Might be worth looking at.

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Physics Flash Animations

Physics Flash Animations by Dave Harrison @UofT

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Java Applets

Java Applets by David Little at PennState

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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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