Update: I have now posted a new (printable) version of the PDF with all DRM turned off. Note that it is located at a new URL. Here it is [PDF]! As you read the interview, I want to suggest that you think about the following words from Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community […]
The Value and Politics of the Unsaid in Instructional Design
This post on Rick’s Caf矃anadien is just a teaser for an article that hasn’t been published yet. (Not fair!) But one point he makes really caught my eye: Designs too often try to meticulously define all of the content, whereas a big part of the aesthetic experience is leaving room for the viewer/participant. Artists do […]
Registration No Longer Required for Comments
Several people (most recently James Farmer) have complained that the registration requirement for commenting on e-Literate discourages them from posting comments. Obviously, this isn’t good. So I’m turning off the registration requirement. For the moment, I’m viewing this as an experiment. As a result, I’m going to leave the various text warnings about needing to […]
A Bug in the RSS Feed
In the new site design, the RSS feed is supposed to display a “read more” link at the end of a paragraph rather than cutting off mid-sentence. It doesn’t yet. What this means is that you will occasionally get a post via the RSS feed that looks like a complete thought but is actually just […]
JotSpot Interview Coming
I just did a phone interview with the guys from JotSpot. The more I learn about the application, the more I am impressed. And I think it has direct implications for online learning. In past posts, I have raised the issue of the conflict between enterprise and Internet worldviews in LMS’s and other tools and […]
Ethnoclassification, Pattern Languages, and MERLOT
Something clicked for me when I saw the reference on elearningpost to Peter Merholtz’s piece on the bag of keywords approach. The word Maish highlighted was “ethnoclassification.” This made me think of how you could unearth pattern languages in a learning object repository like MERLOT, MLX, or Pachyderm.
The e-Literate Redesign Is Up
C’mon in and look around. We’re still making some minor tweaks and enhancements but I’m so excited about how it looks that I just couldn’t wait to announce it. Thanks to the folks at pMachine Services for helping me to make this happen.