Posts from ‘September, 2004’

Our system recently issued a policy that to drive any vehicles for school purposes, one would have to pass an online Defensive Driving course. I logged on recently to take care of this requirement but also to look at the design factors.
It was very well done instructional design, following the ADDIE formula to a “T”. [...]

With some regular motion in the learning space, maybe every other lunar conjunction there is a sharp increase in attempts to define learning objects. David Davies has been at it with echos here and there.
Personally, my attention span goes into day dream mode as the level of definition attempts grows, but I accept that it [...]

Hardly Hollywood, but I’ve been focussed this week in the MCLI movie studio (e.g. my G4 TiBook).
We are preparing an online opening for our Ocotillo Action Groups that will include some video welcome messages from our faculty co-chairs… as an introduction of their efforts this year and a teaser to invite people from Maricopa [...]

Attention everyone in IP 221.*.*.* and 60.*.*.* – you have been banned from our Ocotillo wikis. Sorry if you are accidently in that group, but place the blame on 221.198.73.159, 60.25.119.199, 221.196.57.131 and who has been repeatedly inserting into our wikis a mangle of URLs to strange Asian URLs, and a handful of other [...]

I cannot breathe! The feeds are swirling!
Snatding on the shoulders of giants, Brian Lamb and David Wiley (imitation and flattery apply here) I mixed up my furl bookmarks and flickr photos with the cogdog feeds and voila! the uber feed:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/cogdogblog
This just rocks! I have just skimmed the surface of feed burner, but they are doing [...]

Scanning the horizons of my RSS reads… XPlanazine had this new one on A Discussion with the UT TeleCampus about Learning Objects (note to XPlanazine- how about using the blog title in your template TITLE tag; it makes for more laborious furl-ing)…
Jennifer Rees and Michael Anderson of UT (University of Texas) Telecampus discuss an [...]

More fun for Greg at Blogdigger My colleague Brian Lamb shared some nifty web resources for a class he is teaching at University of British Columbia.
Remember, Rip-Mix-Burn…
Specifically, he has created (rip) a Bloggdigger Group (a collection of chosen RSS feeds), that is itself turned into an RSS feed (mix), and is [...]

Yesterday I was listening to a Electronic Portfolios Virtual Community of Practice chat session that swam around on the issues of “Digital Natives vs Digital Immigrants” and motivators for students to engage in eport activity. On reflection, I think the group under estimates the sheer power of having a personal publishing platform, especially if there [...]

From a recent comment blog spam cleansed this morning. I think the spam author needs his own product (spammers URL intentionaly deleted)
prozac
http://anxietyXXXXXXX.xxx/
Blackmail Error:
Send $200 to Bill Gates or your computer will get so messed up it will never
work again.
prozac online Jim, it’s Grace at the bank. I checked your Christmas Club account.
You [...]

Sigh. The wiki euphoria may be short lived. I’ve just wiped out a pile of link insertions from a pile of weird Chinese web sites from some of our Ocotillo wikis. Sure, I can remove them and ad some IPs to the banned list, but that approach surely will not scale.
Over the weekend, there were [...]