Buried Bones (Archive) for the 'Blog Pile' Category
- New RSS: Multimedia Authoring (
Thursday, August 14th, 2003)
Building from the same path we have added RSS to 4 other resource web sites, we just added a feed to Multimedia Authoring Web. Get the feed (RSS 2.0)
“AUTHORING” here refers to “programming by non-programmers.” This site is a resource collection of pointers to Internet sites for those that develop or “author” multimedia.
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- RSS Feeds from SourceForge.net (
Wednesday, August 13th, 2003)
Yet another useful avenue for RSS- stay in tune with all or part of the open source software projects at more »»
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- Update: RSS to JS- addressing accessibility (
Tuesday, August 12th, 2003)
Regarding our RSS to JS demo (code that allows you to embed RSS into any web page using a script that returns RSS as a series of JavaScript write statements), Michelle appropriately noticed that this approach would leave in the dark anyone using a screen reader (or just having JavaScript turned off).
Bad dog.
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- Awesome RSS Resource at Lockergnome (
Saturday, August 9th, 2003)
Chris Pirillo has a new comprehensive site on Lockergnome’s RSS Resource (tip of the blog hat to Will for this one). It features a wide range of stories on new types of RSS uses (e.g. notifying beta testers of software updates) and the latest in tools and technology, written by a team of contributers.
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- MERLOT: The Buzz (and the next day effect) (
Friday, August 8th, 2003)
A little bit of echo to Brian’s analysis of our conference ending session on RSS and Learning Objects. You can find the paper there as well as a hefty 6 Mb PowerPoint (if I have time, I will at least post a MS mangled HTML version), plus there is a streaming quicktime version too.
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- MERLOT: Online Faculty Development (
Friday, August 8th, 2003)
Friday, last homestretch of the conference.
Collaborative Usability Evaluations with IDEA Online
Rachel Smith
(Comment- this is a very cool, Carl Berger “cooooool”, resource. Sign up, submit designs, and join their evaluation group. The system itself is well designed)
Asked for hand raises of faculty, staff, who designs online content or learning objects. Then… asked for who had [...] more »»
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- MERLOT: EduBloggers Plus Beer (
Thursday, August 7th, 2003)
There was a significant drop in weblogging activity this evening, starving Stephen’s MERLOT conference feed, as D’Arcy, Scott, Brian, Greg, Stephen, Bruce, Alan (plus Michelle but she may not want her blog linked… but we know where it is downed some ales and swapped stories over at… um… what was the name of that [...] more »»
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- MERLOT: RSS SPOTTED (film at 11) (
Thursday, August 7th, 2003)
Well, no fanfare, no big announcement, just an utterance at an earlier web services presentation, but here in its full glory, a true blue MERLOT RSS feed for… the ten newest items in physica.
No secret that David Carter-Tod had an early clue- they are using his RSS News Center tool, another RSS to Javascript renderer. [...] more »»
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- MERLOT: Federated Searches (
Thursday, August 7th, 2003)
“MERLOT Focus on: Federated Search Technologies”
Martin Konig Bastiaan
Waiting for the overview, background slides about federated searches. In a nutshell, use web services to spread search and retrieval across multiple sources.
But the three dollar (Canadian) question- will they put a URL on the screen of a MERLOT RSS feed?
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- MERLOT: CATS and WebQuests (
Thursday, August 7th, 2003)
“Herding CATS: A Model for Professional Development for Academic Technology”
Abbe Altman, CSU Sonoma
CATS= Community of Academic Technology Staff (CATS) also part of MERLOT, see MERLOT repository of CATS materials
(Comment- the dogs here are riled at the feline metaphors
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