Tuesday, December 13, 2005

p2p The Importance of Nonverbal Elements in Online Chat - Joan Gajadhar and John Green, Educause Quarterly. Communication is often not so much what we write or say but how we write and often what we do not say.1 Thus, meaning in real-world chat messages depends not only on the words we use but also on how we express meaning through nonverbal cues. Online chat i [Online Learning Update] 10:15:22 PM    comment

eLearning Michigan Considers Requiring High-School Students to Take at Least One Online Course - Dan Carnevale, Chronicle of Higher Education. The Michigan State Board of Education is set to approve a new graduation requirement today that would make every high-school student in the state take at least one online course before receiving a diploma. The new requirement would appear to be the first [Online Learning Update]Michigan Considers Requiring High-School Students to Take at Least One Online Course - Dan Carnevale, Chronicle of Higher Education. The Michigan State Board of Education is set to approve a new graduation requirement today that would make every high-school student in the state take at least one online course before receiving a diploma. The new requirement would appear to be the first [Online Learning Update] 5:57:08 PM    comment

eLearning Michigan Considers Requiring High-School Students to Take at Least One Online Course - Dan Carnevale, Chronicle of Higher Education. The Michigan State Board of Education is set to approve a new graduation requirement today that would make every high-school student in the state take at least one online course before receiving a diploma. The new requirement would appear to be the first [Online Learning Update] 5:29:04 PM    comment

web services Test-driven SOA. In today's screencast I explore Mindreef's Coral, a new tool for collaborative development of web services. As you'll see and hear in the screencast, that collaboration can include: A project architect who specifies a new service (using any WSDL construction tool), checks the WSDL against public and internal standards, and creates simple unit tests that illustrate how the service is expected to behave; A developer who takes the architect's executable specification, runs it under simulation, and then begins swapping out stubs for real implementations; A support engineer who captures XML messages from internal and external systems, replays them in the Coral simulator, identifies reproducible success and failure scenarios, packages them up as problem reports, and routes them to the development team. ... [Jon's Radio] 5:12:43 PM    comment

search HarperCollins Will Create a Searchable Digital Library. HarperCollins's decision to put all of its book and audio content online is the latest move in the battle between publishers and search engines. By EDWARD WYATT. [NYT > Technology]  Thanks to Google the publishers are modernizing -- it is about time if they want to survive in the internet era.  The value-added from publishers has been considerably reduced by mass communications technologies and the lifecycle of "books" is getting shorter -- BL 8:44:34 AM    comment