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Is It a Wiki? A Floor Wax? A Dessert
Topping?. After you read Brian Lamb's article, take the
time to visit Tiddly
Wiki for a bit. As you look more closely, it will
become more and more amazing - an entire wiki can be a
single file. Lamb writes, "The entire tool is
contained in one html file using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Which makes the wiki very portable, and can be run in any
modern browser. As suggested on the website, I also
installed it and PortableFirefox on my USB thumb drive.
This would make updating/showing the e-portfolio very
portable as well. However, to save the changes of the wiki
page, it requires Firefox or Internet Explorer, plus save
capabilities (write access) to a server." By Brian
Lamb, Abject Learning, June 28, 2005
[Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
11:46:20 PM  Google It!.
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The Landscape Metaphor. This issue of InfoVis by Juan Dursteler explores the use of the landscape metaphor to organize information. "In the previous message we spoke about ThemeScape, a visualisation that uses the landscape metaphor
to represent in the form of a topographical map a document space where
distance between each two documents is inversely proportional to their
similarity. There is considerable evidence that the human brain uses
what in cognitive psicholgy are called "schemata". Although the
rigorous definition of a schema would require more space than the one
we have here available, we can consider it as a structured set of generic knowledge that can be applied to many specific situations."
"When designing a visualisation, the designer uses his or her set of mental schemata to elaborate a visual metaphor (see number 91) that will be implemented into the visualisation. If
the mental schemata of the receptor of the visualisation do not match
in some way to those of the designer it's more than possible that the
receptor won't understand the visualisation or will not be able to extract all of its possibilities."
I've cited Dursteler's work several times in this weblog and cited
other thinkers about the subject and also cited software tools (such as
Inspiration) to facilitate cognitive mapping. Visualization and mapping
are critically important subjects for professionals interested in both
learning and in the facilitation of access to online learning
resources. Without clear and comprehensive maps, browsable categories,
and meaningful search tags successful access to learning materials is
extremely difficulty--users quickly become overwhelmed and fail to
fully utilize the resources of learning repositories. ____JH [EduResources Weblog--Higher Education Resources Online]
11:44:18 PM Google It!.
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Blogs in the Classroom. Dig this post-PowerPoint presentation tool. OK,
that said, this presentation at Gnomedex outlines the case
for blogging in the classroom, stipulates some practices
(eg., have students use only one blogging tool), and makes
some development requests (eg., a means of countinbg
comments and posts). Via Will
Richardson. By Kathy Gill, Gnomedex, June 24,
2005
[Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
1:18:23 PM Google It!.
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Google Video Launches Today. Still some bumps to smooth out, but Google's video
search launches today. Google's special video
viewer, based on the open source VLC
Viewer, installed easily but is for Windows only
(no doubt ports will soon be available). Second, despite
having signed on a number of providers ("PBS, CNN, Fox
News, C-SPAN, Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and the
Learning Channel") all the searches I tried resulted
only in screenshots and a "video not available"
message. Coming soon, I guess. More info at John
Batelle and Hollywood
Reporter. By Cory Bergman, Lost Remote, June 27,
2005
[Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
1:16:38 PM Google It!.
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Grokster Loses Copyright Case. Americans are still weighing the impact of
today's Supreme Court essentially ruling against Grokster
and other file sharing services. "We hold that one who
distributes a device with the object of promoting its use
to infringe copyright, as shown by clear expression or
other affirmative steps taken to foster infringement, is
liable for the resulting acts of infringement," wrote
Justice David Souter in the majority opinion. Michael Geist
says it's not so bad: "P2P technology didn't lose...
By seeking to retain Sony but build in active inducement,
it is trying to navigate a difficult fine line... premised
on 'purposeful culpable expression and conduct.'"
Others
are less sanguine. The internet is now awash with opinion;
I'll just say it's a bad decision and leave it at that. By
Arik Hesseldahl, Forbes, June 27, 2005
[Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
1:15:02 PM Google It!.
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