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Site Review: the Microsoft Curriculum Repository. Microsoft's
Academic Alliance Developer Center maintains this site to provide
teaching materials for higher education. Not surprisingly, most of the
resources at the repository utilize Microsoft software. "Use
the Curriculum Repository to access teaching materials, such as
presentations, labs, and exercises. As part of the worldwide academic
community, you can freely use these materials as is or edit them to
meet your educational objectives." The site is browseable and
searchable. See the How To links to orient to the use of the site. The
majority of resources in the repository relate to the field of computer
science. [EduResources Weblog--Higher Education Resources Online]
10:04:34 PM  Google It!.
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PythonCard 0.8. PythonCard 0.8
PythonCard is a GUI construction kit for building cross-platform desktop applications on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. The latest release of PythonCard
includes over 50 sample applications and tools to help users edit and
build applications in Python, plus many useful programs like the
slideshow sample that you might want to use without ever bothering to
do any coding. Check out the sample pages for screenshots and info about the samples. The more applications page has some info and screenshots on applications users have built with PythonCard.
New samples include ataxx, lsystem, moderator, montyhall, mp3player,
reversi, and twistedEchoClient. There is also an experimental
reStructuredText and HTML editor in the codeEditor directory called
restEditor.
PythonCard requires Python 2.3 or higher and wxPython 2.5.2.7 or higher.
The documentation page has links to installation
instructions for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows that covers installing
Python, wxPython, and PythonCard. The Linux instructions will be
updated soon, but we're waiting for the RPMs to be built, so for now
Linux users can just download and install from the tar.gz source
archive. The documentation includes some walkthroughs, screenshots and
info on using PythonCard and some of its tools such as the codeEditor, resourceEditor (layout tool), findfiles, and runtime shell.
There are many changes from the earlier PythonCardPrototype packages. See the migration_guide.txt file if you are upgrading from an earlier release. Check the changelog for a complete list of changes for release 0.8.
This is the first release targeted at resolving issues for a 1.0
release. If all goes well, PythonCard 1.0 will be out this winter after
wxPython 2.6 is released.
If you would like to contribute to PythonCard, the first step is joining the mailing list. [Kevin Altis' Weblog]
9:59:42 PM Google It!.
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EDUCAUSE Seminar: Objects, Trackback, RSS... maybe even the kitchen sink. FYI and for self (and colleague Brian Lamb) promotion... if you are attending EDUCAUSE 2004 (October in Denver), sign up now for our pre-conference seminar Decentralization of Learning Resources: Syndicating Learning Objects Using RSS, TrackBack, and Related Technologies:
Customized collections of learning objects from multiple
repositories are achieved with simple, existing RSS protocols, creating
access to a wider range of objects than a single source. This provides
discipline-specific windows into collections, contextual wrappers via
blogging tools, and a system for connecting objects and implementations
via TrackBack.
This is going to be just about a completely hands-on (computer!)
session where you will learn how to find objects via RSS, build your
own dynamic feed collections, use weblogs to describe found objects,
use Trackback to connect uses of objects to other resources, wax
poetically on the social network that the blog community generates (and
how that might be a lesson for learning objects).. and expect a wiki
and other items thrown in to the mix.
You can expect to be doing small group activity, accessing real
world but cheap/free/available technology tools, and a pair of
sarcastic facilitators. Your will NOT see PowerPoint, droning lectures, or long diatribes about meta-data or definitions of learning objects.
If you missed our Small Technologies Loosely Joined session at NMC 2004.... well this will have some of that flavor, though it may be less wild and chaotic.
Operators are standing by....
[cogdogblog]
8:31:11 AM Google It!.
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More on public access to drug trial data. Faye Flam, Researchers working for full disclosure of clinical trials,
Philadelphia Inquirer, August 17, 2004. Excerpt: "In criminal
proceedings in the United States, the prosecution is legally required
to provide the defense with any information that might be beneficial to
the defendant - even if it may hurt the prosecution's case. Scientists
are bound to a similar type of disclosure through an unwritten code of
ethics. It's part of what separates real science from pseudo-science or
folk wisdom....In many cases, it's not that the journals refuse to
publish negative results, [Kay] Dickerson [professor at Brown
University] said, but that researchers never write them up or send them
to the journals. Sometimes, when researchers try to publish their
results, the companies that sponsor them try to intervene....Critics
such as [Drummond] Rennie [a deputy editor at JAMA] argue
that...voluntary measures won't go far enough. Companies retain the
power to stop posting all results once the current controversy dies
down." [Open Access News]
8:29:33 AM Google It!.
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Rejection 2.0.
Several new services add a modern twist to the ancient art of
rejection. People unable to say 'no' personally to unwanted advances
can now sign up for e-mails and phone messages that do the dirty work
for them. By Daniel Terdiman. [Wired News]
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