Wednesday, March 16, 2005

Online Resources Repositories for Distance Learning - eLearning Europa. Funded by Minerva Programme, the e-Resources and Distance Learning Management (eDilema) project has been carried between 2001 and 2003 to promote access to efficient methods and high quality educational resources as well as to promote the access to the be [Online Learning Update] 11:54:23 PM      Google It!.

Flickr is amazing. It deserves all the accolades it's been getting. I love two things, one specific, one general. First, I love the way they edit graphics. It's way beyond what I expected. Second, the attention to detail, across-the-board, is wonderful. The user interface constantly delights the user, with things they thought of; and you can use the software with confidence that they are thinking about users every step along the way. Very excellent work. [Scripting News] 11:53:10 PM      Google It!.

Female chromosome has X factor. Females are genetically more varied than males, an analysis of the X chromosome has found. [BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition] 11:42:53 PM      Google It!.

Hitachi Unveils Humanoid Robot [Slashdot:] 11:41:42 PM      Google It!.

A Learning Blogosphere. Discussion in two parts. Part 1 follows up on a project to build a distributed learning blogging community in a class last fall, including an interesting series of attempts to actually follow the conversation. Part 2 looks at the long tail phenomenon in class blog posts and looks at ways of improving the balance of participation. "I had to participate but also wanted to keep my role to a minimum so that the conversation remained more student driven," the author writes. By Bud Gibson, The Community Engine, March 1, March 10, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 11:39:15 PM      Google It!.