Wednesday, April 02, 2003

Fotonotes.net - The Photo-Story Archive Tool "Photographs are mini-databases of people, places, things, and stories. The "fotonotes" technology enables the rapid captioning, annotation, storytelling, and meta-data conveyance of individual objects visually depicted within digital images." 3:17:14 PM    comment [] Technology Refusal and the Organizational Culture of Schools "Analyses of the deployment of technology in schools usually note its lack of impact on the day-to-day values and practices of teachers, administrators, and students. This is generally construed as an implementation failure, or as resulting from a temperamental shortcoming on the part of teachers or technologists. It is predicated on the tacit assumption that the technology itself is value-free. This paper proposes that technology is never neutral: that its values and practices must always either support or subvert those of the organization into which it is placed; and that the failures of technology to alter the look-and-feel of schools more generally results from a mismatch between the values of school organization and those embedded within the contested technology." 3:14:21 PM    comment [] What is Smarty? "Smarty is a template engine for PHP. More specifically, it facilitates a manageable way to separate application logic and content from its presentation. " 3:12:42 PM    comment [] LearnScope "When corporations, governments or educational enterprises think of knowledge management, they usually think of large, expensive and richly featured centralized storage systems. Such systems, though, are the antithesis of knowledge management. The true locus of knowledge management is not in the organization. It is in the person." 1:06:55 PM    comment []

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