Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Study Great Ideas, but Teach to the Test. With the rise of writing portions on standardized tests, the five-paragraph essay has become the law of the land. By MICHAEL WINERIP. [NYT > Education] 11:55:36 PM      Google It!.

Meet-O-Matic: The World's Simplest Meeting Scheduler. like meeting wizard, only easier and totally free [Edubloggers Links Feed] 1:24:38 PM      Google It!.

what are open source communities? [Edubloggers Links Feed] 1:23:41 PM      Google It!.

EDUCAUSE REVIEW | July/August 2005, Volume 40, Number 4. decent summary article on the state of play of learning objects [Edubloggers Links Feed] 1:21:32 PM      Google It!.

Biases in Simulation Video Games [Slashdot:] 11:09:34 AM      Google It!.

BBC Open Source launched [Slashdot:] 11:04:51 AM      Google It!.

Use and Abuse of Reusable Learning Objects - Pithamber R. Polsani, Journal of Digital Information. The term Learning Object, first popularized by Wayne Hodgins in 1994 when he named the CedMA working group "Learning Architectures, APIs and Learning Objects", has become the Holy Grail of content creation and aggregation in the computer-mediated learning [Online Learning Update] 10:43:02 AM      Google It!.