Thanks to George Siemens for calling my attention to a great blog called Eide Neurolearning. Lots of good stuff here about how our brains work.
Archives for 2005
Separating Content from Presentation for Pedagogy and Reusability
A post on the OpenACS discussion board clued me in to a neat little technology piece called S5. Basically, it takes a single, simple HTML file and turns it into a cross-browser slide show. No more messy, crufty PowerPoint-exported HTML; this is nice and clean. (Check out the demo to see it in action.) But […]
What Version of Yahoo Are You Using?
This great question was posed by Patrick Masson, SUNY Learning Environments’ Director of Technology Projects, to make a point about the next generation of course management systems. The design of the current generation of systems is that of old-fashioned monolitic systems. Blackboard, WebCT, Angel–even Moodle (albeit to a somewhat lesser degree)–they are all built on […]
"An excess of teaching presence will limit student-student interaction"
Joe Ugoretz has a
Technorati to Provide Folksonomy Tuning
According to David Weinberger, Technorati is about to add a folksonomy tuning feature that shows related tags, making closely related content more findable. This is the kind of thing we need to make folksonomies be useful as more than just fun toys. Mix in a faceted results tuner like fac.etio.us and you’ve got something really […]
Catching Up on the Backblog
Work has been keeping me so busy lately that the list of postable items has been piling up on my virtual desk. I’m going to try to do some catching up over the next week. Let me start by calling your attention to Eric Feinblatt’s new blog. Eric is a new friend, colleague, and co-conspirator […]
Faceted Folksonomies
I’ve been meaning to blog about fac.etio.us but Alan beat me to it. Basically, facetious allows you to create what amounts to a pivot table out of folksonomy-tagged web pages. This is a better solution than creating faceted single tags (e.g., “arthistory:france”) that I made a while back because (a) it’s simpler, and (b) it […]