George Siemens of elearnspace makes the healthy and obligatory nothing-new-under-the-sun critique of this year’s crop of online learning buzzphrases: Rapid elearning and workflow learning are two concepts that have been getting enough attention over the last year to be classified as “trends”. I’m not entirely sure what to think about either. We have a unique […]
More on Apple's Workflow Taxonomy
More good stuff: The prerelease version of Automator currently comes with 123 Actions that are grouped into categories according to function. The categories include Mail, Find, Alert, People, and iPod, and users can search for Actions using Tiger’s standard Mac OS X search field. The alternate view command groups the Actions by keyword, which can […]
A Workflow Taxonomy
A few posts ago I mentioned that Apple’s new Automator tool was a potentially interesting development vis-a-vis workflow learning. Well, a new article at MacWorld surfaces this fascinating additional tidbit: With the Automator, you don’t have to write a single line of code; instead, you build a flow chart. On the left side of the […]
On English: Blorgasm
And here I thought I was being clever and original. Apparently, somebody beat me to the punch by several whole months (albeit with a different definition). Perhaps the correct term for self-referential blogging extasy should be “blogo-eroticism.”
When Parallel Play Matures Into Socialization
Here’s a great example of sustained and productive conversation supported by (or at least started by) weblogs and, perhaps, a counter-example to the blogging as parallel play argument. Recently, Apple Computer announced that they would be adding four extensions to HTML in order to support new features in the upcoming version of their operating system. […]
O'Reilly Network: Blogs as data stores
Here’s another instance of the blog as file cabinet meme, but with a twist: I already “blog for Google”, which is the same thing as the old usenet practice of posting a post about some problem I encountered and how I solved it. These entries are not really for discussion, but more for the archives […]
Shot Heard 'Round the 'Net
Stephen Downes (who is almost always an interesting read), has issued a call to arms for academics and academic institutions to stop relying on proprietary content. To me, this has the ring of the inevitable to it. Universities are, among other things, content factories. With the Internet available to dramatically lower production and distribution costs, […]