Thursday, April 01, 2004

Delphi Process as a Collaborative Learning Method - Murray Turoff, Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Zheng Li, Yuanqiong Wang, Hee-Kyung Cho; Sloan-C View. The Delphi Method is a process that allows all the members of a class to participate in a class-wide, collaborative, structured learning exercise that can: Improve idea generation. Self organize the contributed content. Facilitate equal partici [Online Learning Update] 11:36:57 PM      Google It!.

SCORM 2004 Photoshop Examples Version 1.0. http://www.adlnet.org/index.cfm? fuseaction=DownFile&libid=641&bc=false There's likely to be a few posts circulating today on this as the ADL sent out a news release via its RSS feed to the effect that they were releasing a number of new items. The ones in particular that were of interest to me are these example content packages - interesting because the collection illustrates a number of the different sequencing scenarios that can be addressed under the current 'Simple Sequencing' specification. In particular, I found the powerpoint presentation bundled at the root of the zip file (warning, it is about 11MB in total) to be helpful in laying out visually how these different scenarios unfolded. - SWL [EdTechPost] 11:34:48 PM      Google It!.

Grid Computing Steps up a Gear [Science Blog] 11:33:42 PM      Google It!.

Usenet Audio [Slashdot] 11:31:06 PM      Google It!.

OpalTree's CADRiA. http://www.opaltree.com/ Early this week, BCcampus hosted an event to take a closer look at some of the open source course/learning management systems that are currently available and commence (or really continue) a province-wide dialog on the viability of implementing one and the issues surrounding such a project. In the afternoon we were given a demo of OpalTree's CADRiA system, out of Australia (what are they putting in the water down there!?! These folks seem to be simply bursting with innovation in the learning objects/elearning field!). In my mind the demo was actually a bit out of place in that particular day's focus - when I think Course/LearningMS, I think more of delivery and tracking capabilities (of which CADRiA appears to lack many basic ones) instead of authoring, aggregation and searching capabilities (more á la LOR/LCMS, of which CADRiA had some simply mind bending qualities). So if what you're currently seeking is an LMS, I wouldn't necessarily send you in this direction. But if you are involved with more of a learning content management/object repository-type issue, you'd do well to wade through their site, maybe look at their 'demonstration' flash movies, and see what they are doing. Read on for more... [EdTechPost] 11:28:48 PM      Google It!.

Homeless to be Implanted with Subdermal RFID Tags [Slashdot] 11:27:09 PM      Google It!.

PDTP - The Best of Both FTP and BitTorrent? [Slashdot] 11:24:07 PM      Google It!.

An example of helpful guidance. A reader took me to task for suggesting, in this week's column, that we need to do a better job of spelling out the user-interface implications of Internet standards. Robb Beal agreed with me, though, and today I found another example of the kind of guidance that his functional annotations provide. ... [Jon's Radio] 11:20:50 PM      Google It!.

Chatterbox Challenge Contest Underway [Slashdot] 10:41:29 AM      Google It!.

New Zaurus Linux PDA Available In the U.S. [Slashdot] 10:40:14 AM      Google It!.

Google to Unveil Free E-Mail. Firing a huge warning shot across the bows of Yahoo and Microsoft, the search-engine player plans to offer a free, Web-based e-mail service. The move may shake up the Web and online advertising industries. By Amit Asaravala. [Wired News] 10:33:36 AM      Google It!.

On Situated Software - Designing For The Few? [Slashdot] beyond the factory model and the mythical mass market utilization there are real niches where "not everyone is the same".  Equality is an important political issue rather than a model for software usability.  BL 10:23:42 AM      Google It!.