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Monday, March 14, 2005

The Problem with Learning Objects in Courses for the Military. Some discussion of the Susan Smith Nash article over the weekend. Albert Ip writes, "That is the fundamental problem in finding things. If a repository claims to contain everything, it contains nothing useful" because different metadata would be required for different types of objects. And D'Arcy Norman comments, "Reusability is pretty much a fallacy, especially when attempted with highly complex “learning objects” like websites, powerpoints, etc." By Albert Ip, Random Walk in E-Learning, March 13, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
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S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System. e_Literate links to S5, a standards based system that creates HTML slide-shows without using PowerPoint. To Jay Cross - this is the system I referred to a while ago in a comment but couldn't find. I think this sort of approach has a lot of promise, much more than may appear at first glance. By Eric A. and Kathryn S. Meyer, Meyerweb, March, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
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LionShare Releases Personal Repository Milestone. This is a very interesting project that picks up where POOL left off - a mechanism that allows people to build their own personal repositories, manage their own content, and yet share it with the rest of the world. It's not perfect. It is unfortunately written in Java 1.5. It aims to employ Shibboleth for authentication rather than a genuinely distributed system such as LID or SxIP. But these do not detract from what is a fairly significant step forward. By Wilbert Kraan, CETIS, March 13, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
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The Ideal Publisher's Digital Content Package for 2005-2006? -- A Portable Learning Environment. not entirely sure what to make of this; interesting to see if it causes a ripple [Edubloggers Links Feed]
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[oss watch]Where to go to try out some open source software [Edubloggers Links Feed]
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blogging is not always about the post. What: Non-linear learning, simu-learning, connectivism, constructivist education theory, etc. There is so much information available to teachers on the web and so little time to digest it. I have learnt more in the last couple of months writing edugadget than I did in the past 5 or 6 years, including teacher training. So much of what I learn about I never even get to address in this blog.

But that is the point or at least the point Will Richardson has made before ... writing a blog is about learning.

Putting the Pieces Together

I recently listened to a podcast of Clark Aldrich on IT Conversations. He was talking about a lot of things but one of them was gaming and how ... [edugadget]
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Two new CalendarX releases, stable and dev. New stable and dev releases of CalendarX are available today at Sourceforge. [Plone RSS]
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CMFMember 1.0 final released. CMFMember 1.0 final is now available for your downloading pleasure! [Plone RSS]
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Biodiesel Boosters Plan Co-Ops. Producers of a diesel alternative made from old vegetable oil want to build a network of stations to sell the fuel to motorists. But many find it tough to convince local regulators to approve their efforts. By Mark Baard. [Wired News]
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The Blind Fragging the Blind. If you need to improve your hand-to-ear coordination, you can take advantage of a growing library of computer games for the blind, including audio versions of Quake and Doom. By David Cohn. [Wired News]
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Open Source 2007: How Did This Happen? - Brad Wheeler, Educause Review. Developing sustainable economics and advancing the frontiers of innovation are the dual challenges for application software in higher education. Sustainable economics means that an institution’s base budgets can support the licensing fees, developers, mai [Online Learning Update]
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Donald Knuth On NPR [Slashdot:]
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del.icio.us: the screencast.  You had to know this was coming. Today's five-minute screencast is a whirlwind tour of del.icio.us from my own perspective as a power user. ... [Jon's Radio]
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