Open Access Publishing: broadsheet roundup and JISC's role
The British House of Commons and Technology Committee report, covered here earlier this week, has caught the attention of the press. Most of the reports are vaguely positive toward the proposal. More...
Future Chat
The summer issue of Threshold - a magazine published by Cable in the Classroom - contains some remarkable content, including this fascinating online discussion featuring students (supposedly) from around the world (meaning, around the U.S.) talking about the the future of learning. This dialogue, archived from a discussion at Tapped In, is chock-full of classic one-liners. More...
Why Weblogs?
Link to a longish PowerPoint presentation on the use of weblogs in the classroom. Many screenshots make the presentation a bit of a heavy download (which is why I've simply linked to the blog post) but offer a lot of ideas and inspiration. More...
ECMAScript for XML (E4X) Specification
I still can't reconcile myself to the idea that Javascript is now called ECMAscript (and I won't change!) - it seems to me it should be called Javascript, as it always was, and run by the W3C. Even if ECMA runs it, it should still be called Javascript. Anyway. D'Arcy Norman picks up this nice link to E4X - ECMAscript (Javascript) for XML. More...
No Two Swimmers Float Alike
I still feel wistful when I think of Guy Bensusan, a man I never met but who was able to talk to me through his stories, examples, and passion for teaching the person (as opposed to teaching the material). More...
Reusable Learning Objects Aggregation for e-Learning Courseware Development at the University of Mauritius
Pretty good overview of the traditional theory of learning objects (it feels funny to say it like that) with some good images. The authors, though, sense the same sort of dissonance I feel with the State of The Art. More...
RecoSearch: A Model for Collaboratively Filtering Java Learning Objects
There's a lot going on in this paper and this short summary won't do it justice. The author describes a system for "a collaborative infrastructure for authoring, searching, recommending and presenting Java source code learning objects." I am on the one hand impressed by the completness and elegance of the solution described (and, as far as I can tell, implemented). More...
Self-archiving: Institutional Repositories
Something government funding agencies and foundations in other nations (including my own) should look at: the possibility of tying research funding to the provision of publications in an open access eprints archive. More...
Information and Communication Technology
Recommended on WWWEDU today was this resource offered by the Alberta government describing the ICT (Information and Communications Technology) curriculum in Alberta schools. More...
A Guide to Handheld Computing in K-12 Schools
Summary of a report on the use of handhelds in learning; the full report (which I haven't seen) is available for purchase. I know that some school divisions in Canada are planning pilot projects with handhelds. More...
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