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Tufte bullets PowerPoint
Oh this should be good- the supreme master of information density and visual displays takes a look at Mark Milliron refers to as “no power and no point”…. Edward Tufte: The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint
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Why Teachers Don’t Share…
This paper by Greg Webb (Open Training and Education Network, OTEN, New South Wales, Australia) is from 2000, but has always been hanging out in my bookmarks.
Read more and see what Greg says about Why teachers don’t share resources, and what we can do about it .
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Brainstorming LOs (May 2002)
One of the discussion topics at Maricopa’s May 2002 Ocotillo Retreat, we had people work in groups to produce “blueprints” for various instructional techniology topics. See the Cafˆà Discussions: Library of Re-usable Learning Objects for the activity and see the summary and images of sketches.
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Learning Object Readings
Learning Objects Readings assembled by Micheael Roy at Wesleyan for a new Learning Object site being developed there (worth a click and look). Their project sounds interesting and is using some (free) web portal tools from the Internet Scout project
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RSS to JS examples+code
To follow up on the RSS in Blackboard piece, I have posted a new page that documents and demos RSS to JS along with the source PHP code.
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MT as a Teaching Portfolio
Ryan Eby, a Michigan State University education major, has created an e-Portfolio in Movable Type, a nice example of using te reflective aspects of a blog for this purpose.
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Learing Objects Discovery Workshop
An online workshop from Australia’s NET*Working 2002 conference (Ozzies know how to run a great online conference, I have participated in this one was as well as th eone from 2000) designed as an introduction to LOs.
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RSS Feeds into Blackboard
Not to be outdone by Brian (Displaying RSS Feeds in WebCT), I found a niche of time to do the same proof of concept in Blackboard.
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Mosaic Decade
A friend and colleague from Melbourne (.au) recently e-mailed some humorous recollections marking the 10th anniversary of NCSA Mosaic. “Does that make you feel old?”
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Google of the Week (google**10)
This week’s newest set of googled links are to variety of sites that make great use of visuals to further the understanding of scales of magnitude, some great educational resources lie within…