The Overstated blog (still love that name) has a post on how to use textual analysis to highlight canned speech snippets using the first U.S. Presidential debate as an example. He also has posted a nifty tool that lets you do your own analysis.
More on Enterprise-class Educational Blog Software
Auricle’s Derek Morrison follows up on his great example of how to make an internet-focused tool like a personal blog system enterprise-robust for large educational institutions. In this latest post, he analyzes the clever features of the University of Warwick’s Blogbuilder tool. This is exactly the kind of article that I love; it translates software […]
Pattern Languages as Human Languages
Here is the text of a speech that pattern language inventor Christopher Alexander gave in 1996 to The 1996 ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programs, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA). There is a lot –a lot— in this speech that makes it interesting and fulfilling reading (and entirely applicable to online learning and knowledge sharing). I’ll […]
Posting Rate About to Slow Down for a Bit
Believe it or not, I do occasionally go out and work for a living. I’m going to be tied up for a while and expect my posting rate to drop of quite a bit. I will still post on weekends at the very least, but I don’t know know if I’ll be able to get […]
White Paper: Open Source is Good for Education
For those of you out there fighting the good fight to bring Open Source software into your institutions to stave off the extortion of some of the proprietary vendors, here’s a white paper [PDF] that will give you some ammunition.
Weblog as Online Class Management Tool
Lee Lefever’s Common Craft site has an excellent piece on how to use weblogs with discussion boards in an online community. Many of his points translate directly into an educational environment. Here are a few examples: “With the community manager [teacher] having complete control of the weblog, they can use it to develop a stronger […]
A Different Take on Social Interfaces
A while back, I wrote a rant on Joel Spolsky’s conception of something he calls “social interface design.” Now there’s a thought-provoking piece out of IBM that defines “social interface” in a second and completely different way: Social interface theory is built on the results of various studies demonstrating that humans respond socially in their […]