Sunday, March 26, 2006

timeline Student-Generated Timelines. Malcolm Brown from Darmouth's Academic Computing Services polled a list I am on, looking for software to allow students to generate timelines. Owen Ellard from Mt. Holyoke pointed him to the timeline creator, a nifty piece of software developed by the Center for Educational Resources at Johns Hopkins. At Wesleyan, we've created some nice timelines using fancy software (see South Asian Diaspora ) but haven't yet thought through how to go about taking this tool and allowing non-designers use it to make their own timelines. The folks at Berkeley's Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative point to TimeMap, a more sophisticated (and therefore presumably harder to imagine students using) tool for displaying data with a spatial and temporal component. [Academic Commons -] 8:40:23 PM    comment

storage update Amanda 2.5 Released. [Slashdot] 8:36:49 PM    comment

National Repository of Online Courses Receives $2.35 Million Grant From The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation - AScribe Newswire. The Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE) today announced the receipt of a $2.35 million grant from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to continue the development of the National Repository of Online Courses (NROC). The National Rep [Online Learning Update] 8:34:27 PM    comment