Saturday, April 24, 2004

Berkley ePortfolio Report. I ran across this report almost at random... (gotta love google).. LDP ePortfolio Report. The objective of the report is: "The UC Berkeley Leadership Development Program (LDP) ePortfolio Project Team was asked to research and make a recommendation as to whether a student ePortfolio should be implemented on the UC Berkeley campus. Our charge included presenting data in support of... [Michelle's Online Learning Freakout Party Zone] 7:20:35 PM      Google It!.

Playing Games With a Conscience. Groups bemoan the proliferation of 'hate' games, but some of them foster cooperation, understanding and tolerance. By Daniel Terdiman. [Wired News] 5:07:08 PM      Google It!.

Moodle 1.2. Developed as an Open Source project, Moodle is a course management system that will be most welcome by educators seeking to create quality online courses, or who may be interested in adding an online dimension to a traditional classroom course. This la [Online Learning Update] 5:06:04 PM      Google It!.

British Library to digitise audio archive, to increase accesibility - Public Technology. A major £1 million pound programme to digitise 12,000 items of sound recordings from the British Library’s Sound Archive, which amounts to nearly 4,000 hours of recordings has been announced, by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). This sig [Online Learning Update] 5:05:22 PM      Google It!.

Gigablast is a fast search engine. It's not using the same ranking algorithm as Google. At first I thought it was, but some of my standard searches show radically different results. Overall I really like it. It's designed to make transitioning from Google as painless as possible. And it compares favorably to Google in clutter. Google is going down the same path that Altavista went down, adding lots of doo-dads and paid distractions that take you away from the search results. [Scripting News] 5:03:39 PM      Google It!.

How to: Use a GPS watch, XML and Satellite photos [Slashdot] 5:02:48 PM      Google It!.

Biometric Voice Recognition Credit Cards [Slashdot] 4:59:12 PM      Google It!.