Tuesday, December 23, 2003

Wiki use to support English class at Texas A&M. http://english.tamucc.edu/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Loudermilk3301/Home  Another example of innovative uses of wikis to support online education, this one from Dr. Susan Lodermilk of Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. In this particular example she uses the wiki both to post all of the class information and to provide the students each a personal portfolio wiki space; but as can be seen here, she actually uses the wiki for a variety of classes and purposes. I stumbled on to this because the software she uses, PmWiki, is the same PHP-based wiki software I am using to run the EdTechPost wiki. The developer, Patrick Michaud was also previously at TAMUCC, though I think he has moved on. - SWL [EdTechPost] 3:46:04 PM      Google It!.

New Education Law Is Faulted in Gauging Performance. Public schools with diverse student populations are far more likely than those with a homogeneous one to be labeled as failing under President Bush's education law, a study has found. By Sam Dillon. [New York Times: Education] - this is a place where good statistical analysis makes a real contribution to understanding the issues -- BL 3:44:01 PM      Google It!.

Bookmarklet to printout link URLs as footnotes. http://www.kokogiak.com/gedankengang/ default.asp#12012200393 Likely to be the only other post before the holidays; another Christmas present, this one from Alan Taylor's Eintagsfliegen. A bookmarklet (I think now only for IE, but apparently could be done in Mozilla) that "converts all text hyperlinks into footnotes, and lists out their URLs at the bottom of the page." I can see a number of places where this could come in handy. - SWL [EdTechPost] 12:01:26 PM      Google It!.

Usability Views- Solomon Asch - Conformity [Newsability] 11:56:05 AM      Google It!.

Usability Views- Sir Frederic Bartlett - The War of the Ghosts [Newsability] 11:55:11 AM      Google It!.