Thankls to Beth Mazur and her post on IDblog: Spotlighting comments that had the MovableType code for adding the excerpts of the 5 most recent comments to this blog, now visible on the right under the heading “Others Bark Back”
Just another small way to bring bits of information from within the weblog to the front.
The “obligatory legal” statement in the footer at Heather Champ’s blog, harrumph! scared me enough. I would not mess with it 😉
Some very slick small tools that might be helpful as teaching tools (and other uses). You have to like something with the tagline “your free, preposterously easy instant discussion space” (almost as good as “software that doesn’t suck”)
QuickTopics is a simple platform for web based brief discussions on a single topic (un threaded), that can also have people participate by email. I found it by stumbling through a blog (the url has vanished from my leaky biological memory) where an instructor was using it in a teaching blog as a way for students to respond to weekly topical issues he posed on the blog.
Librarian David Mattison compiled this comprehensive , yet concise (is that possible) collection of resources for Blogs, RSS, and Wikis (gleaned from OLDaily).
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
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 .
