Posts from ‘September, 2004’

More on the MLX front. An item that came in recently got me thinking more so about the value of reusable ideas- sure it is great to have some complex, engaging Flash animated do-hickey, but what great teachers have in great volume, and worth sharing, are smaller gems of great re-usable teaching ideas.
So take a [...]

For the last two years we have tried a myriad of methods for soliciting people in our system to contribute their teaching ideas, class activities, course materials, heck even “learning objects” to our Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX) (see more about our incentive methods)
Even getting closer to the 1000 item mark, I know for sure [...]

I sure regret not having time to make the Instructional Technology Institute at Utah State University apparently well orchestrated by David Wiley and nicely blogged by others.
The blog buzz is good from folks I know and trust. I’ve got some blog scraping to catch up on.
Some wishes:

Earlier Notice. It was announced like in [...]

Ahh, and end to the lack of blog labor for an extended Labor Day weekend in San Diego. Over there, the refer to us invaders from the east as “Zonies.
Some highlights included:

Excellent Mexican food at a little place in Blythe, CA (we drove out the LA way to visit family south of Riverside) called La [...]

After today’s Ocotillo Online Learning Group meeting, I am hitting the road for a long weekend in San Diego. I need to romp in the ocean and find some good fish tacos.
Much to Mrs CogDogBlog’s pleasure, I am likely leaving the laptop at home so this blog will be in holding pattern [...]

In the last two years, we have home spun 4 or 5 online surveys for our projects. It took a bit of elbow grease in PHP and mySQL to get a decent system, and we were successful in creating a usable form for our survey-ees and a reporting tool.
But this year, the demand was growing [...]

A few clicks back I had played with a test Blogdigger collection – this is a service that allows you to take a pile of web/RSS feeds, and then have that itself be able to collapse into its own feed- an uber feed if you will.
My test was to build up a collection of RSS [...]