Levels of Technology Implementation (LoTi) Breakdown
This taxonomy of technology integration is designed specifically for the instructional context and provides examples and links. Very teacher-centered. Oh, if I could only reword the highest level. More...

15 Ways To Read An RSS Feed
A lot of readers won't need this, but if you still don't knopw how to read an RSS file, this article is for you. Go to one of the browser-based sites listed at the top of the list; you don't need to install any software. More...

Turn Your iPod Into a Wireless Jukebox With Pocketster Pro
I don't think that people have really caught on to the degree to which wireless communication will change file sharing. Previously, you needed to use the internet to share files (unless you were just swapping tapes), which meant that a central authority could monitor your activity. More...

IMS Question and Test Interoperability Gets Major Make-over
This specification "concerns itself with three distinct functions: the actual format of a question, the format of a bunch of questions in a test, and the format and processing of the answers that come back. In terms of substantial change, the new version only really concerns itself with the form of question items." As the author warns, this specification isn't ready for prime time yet. More...

Most Effective Pedagogic Technique Ever or 21st Century Cannon Fodder Processor?
A tongue-in-cheeck rendition of the debate surrounding e-Portfolios that makes some good point. The affirmative gets the debate rolling by citing studies showing e-Portfolios have pedagogical value. More...

Corn Hill Nursery
Days like this I wonder whether I'm getting old and ossified. My Edu_RSS system stubbornly refuses to harvest beyond a certain point because of a database that keeps 'going away' for no apparent reason. Nobody to help me with this; I'm on my own. In the world of e-learning, meanwhile, the systems and protocols look more and more like jibberish each passing day as every possible requirement from every possible system - whether it makes sense or not - is piled into that tangle of 24-character variable names called Java. More...

On Extending HTML
Part 3. Now here's where it really gets interesting. As Dave Green in NTK writes, "Apple made a deal with Opera and Mozilla the same week to add enough to the browser plugin API to provide the same javascript objects on other platforms and browsers." What this means is that HTML will be extended, a move defended in this article, to include slider controls, search fields, a composite attribute on the img tag, and a canvas tag. More...

Konfabulator
There's a bit of a story here. Part 1. Let's begin by introducing Konfabulator, "a JavaScript runtime engine for Mac OS X that lets you run little files called Widgets that can do pretty much whatever you want them to. More...

Scriptometer Overall Scores
I do most of my programming in a computer language called Perl (Practical Extraction and Report Language). Maybe one day I'll switch; I used to program in C and before that in Basic and never thought I'd put either aside. And people are always urging me to write code in Java. But I detest Java. More...

Who Are All These People, and What Are They Doing in My Classroom?
The new EDUCAUSE Review is out and I carry three articles in today's newsletter beginning with this one, a look into one of those odd problems caused by technology: non-students inhabiting the class online workspace. More...