CogBlogged from ‘April, 2003’

So first Lora, searches our MLX and then uses her MT Bookmarklet to ping a Correlation Meter that she can use in teaching about the correlation coefficient. She writes a blog entry…

http://www.movabletype.org/mt/trackback/55

Lora’s geology objects was the first psuedo blog I created in MT to demonstrate a site in which w person is harnessing the LO/RSS notion in one field. Lora is a Geology insutrctor, and here she has set up MovableType to accept RSS Feeds form our Maricopa Learning eXchange. Later she adds additional feeds from CAREO, Humbul, ITPapers. And then she learns how to have a Google search on “geology learning objects” inserted to her blog

There is a rather long history to this project (see articles from 2000 here and here)– but its main purpose is to provide an easily accessible collection of innovative practices and projects developed at the Maricopa Community Colleges. This year we have moved on several different fronts to build the collection up, from sponsoring a competitive “race” and tyiing the reporting of things sucha s our internal Learning Grants to directly go into the MLX. The MLX is not strictly a “learning object repository” as it contains more than objects, and our set of fields are a far cry short of other meta-data schemes. Since the data is in a database, it would be easy to connect our information to a “standard” should one arise that actually is implemented. Sometime in February 2003, I began looking at ways which we might be able to have the different college web sites [...]

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