Thursday, March 10, 2005

WikiTextbook. Ian Grove-Stephensen of Chalkface sent me this link to WikiTextbook, a natural evolution of the wiki concept, this time to produce textbooks. According to the site, "we are currently working on 167 articles." Ian writes, "Steve's twist is that he encourages his pupils - and by extension all pupils - to write their own textbook. He's gambling that the peer review principle will keep it accurate and relevant even when used by the most difficult age-group possible." Chalkface is providing server space and bandwidth for WikiTextbook - kudos. By Steve Margetts, March, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 7:36:17 AM      Google It!.

Terra Soft Offers Linux-booting iPods, FW Drives [Slashdot:] 7:32:19 AM      Google It!.

PloneArticle 3.1 released. PloneArticle is a full-featured Archetypes-based content type, providing images, attachments and links support, customizable models, etc. [Plone RSS] 7:19:10 AM      Google It!.

ADL Co-Lab presentation on implementing SCORM [Edubloggers Links Feed] 7:14:11 AM      Google It!.

ADL CO-Lab paper "What Users Expect from Repositories". Colin Holden's summary of ADL Co-Lab's repository meetings and summaries; good place to refer to in terms of justifying certain feature expectations of repositories, based on survey results (though pretty much only 'experts' answered) [Edubloggers Links Feed] 7:13:11 AM      Google It!.

Preventing Professorial Plagiarism: How an Online University Uses Technology to Prevent Faculty Plagiarism, Ensure Academic Rigor - Business Wire. The people who have condemned widespread student plagiarism are being found to be guilty of the same crime. Pervasive student plagiarism used to be the dirty little secret in higher education, but the plague of plagiarism by professors is the dirtier secr [Online Learning Update] 7:00:41 AM      Google It!.

Google Adds News Personalization [Slashdot:] 6:56:58 AM      Google It!.