Archive for February, 2005


Aretha Franklin Mp3

Lycos Music

Why podcasting?

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from Albert Ip
Links to articles about Podcasting
Derek Morrison has a series of posts on “Recording online audio interactions - the easy way?” Part 1, part 2 and part 3. Amy Gahran has a post on How to Receive and Listen to Podcasts. Now, we can quite easily create Podcast (see Podcast defined for […]

Digital Storytelling

Digitales
http://storycorps.net/
http://www.digitalstories.org/home.asp

ePortfolios

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At a Glance Guide from Maricpoa Workshop presented by Dr Helen Barrret on eportfolios
More info about the workshop and more links to resources here
Barrett’s site http://electronicportfolios.org

Engineering Learning Resources

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includes lots of graphics

NeoMillenial Learning Styles

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by Chris Dede in Educause Quarterly Review
“Increasingly, people want educational products and services tailored to their individual needs rather than one-size-fits-all courses of fixed length, content, and pedagogy. Whether this individualization of educational products is effective depends both on the insight with which learners assess their needs and desires and on the degree […]

Connectivism

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Connectivism:
A Learning Theory for the Digital Age
by George Siemens
“Including technology and connection making as learning activities begins to move learning theories into a digital age. We can no longer personally experience and acquire learning that we need to act. We derive our competence from forming connections. Karen Stephenson states:
“Experience […]

Large Scale Change Issues

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Quote from Fullan “The answer to large-scale reform is not to try to emulate the characteristics of the minority who are getting somewhere under present condition. Rather, we must change existing conditions so that it is normal and possible for a majority of people to move forward” (Fullan, 2001, p268)
Comment by Stephen […]

Design Shop

designSHOP
“lessons in effective teaching” at Virginia Tech

Book to buy

Amazon.com: Books: Re-imagine!
Re-imagine!
by Tom Peters

1000 words = visuals

Creating Passionate Users: Too Many Words
Too Many Words
A picture really is worth a thousand words, especially when you’re trying to get information or knowledge to go from your head into someone else’s. You can talk all day, but that sketch on the back of the napkin can suddenly make it all clear. When you’re communicating, […]

Knowledge Management Course Materials Online

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“This course surveys Knowledge Management systems that enable the access and coordination of knowledge assets. Technologies reviewed will include intranets, groupware, weblogs, instant messaging, content management systems and email in both individual and organizational contexts. Students will use these KM technologies, review case studies, research methods of knowledge organization and analyze and […]

10 CSS Tricks

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1. Font Shorthand
2. Multiple Classes
3. Border Defualt Value
4.Print Stylesheets
5. Image Replacement Technique
6. Box Model alternatives
7. Centre Aligning a Block Element
8. Vertically Alignment
9. Postioning within Containers
10. Background Colour to the bottom of screen

Design

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nice homewares design

2004 in review

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Dave Pollard’s ‘TEN MOST IMPORTANT IDEAS OF 2004: BLOGS AND THE INTERNET’
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