Archive for May, 2007
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
The flickr photos were meant to provide a resource for use in blogs, on Web pages, and as PowerPoint backgrounds, they are not meant for paper reproduction especially.
I’ve just been asked via the comments (now back on moderation thanks to those nice people in Romania) about printing onto paper.
As Flickr is a resourced published to [...]
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Sunday, May 27th, 2007
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Sunday, May 27th, 2007
The bridget theme will return when I have solved an annoying compatibility problem. Until then, I am falling back on the simple and clean White as Milk theme by Azeem Azeez.
Note added Monday 28th Actually, I’m trying out a modified version of John Pozadzides’ Rapid Access theme, which turns out to be broken on MS [...]
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Thursday, May 24th, 2007
Oddmuse is a wiki script written in perl. It is based on the Usemod wiki script, but can produce valid xhtml. Oddmuse does not need a database, page data is stored in text files.
To get a wiki running on a Web server that runs Apache (1.2 upwards) and that can run perl cgi scripts, you [...]
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Sunday, May 20th, 2007
David Weinberger’s 49 minutes on his new book, with some questions.
We develop ideas about things through ‘prototypes’ that we refine; a sparrow is perhaps a better example of a bird than a penguin is, but both fit the prototype ‘bird’
Digital objects can be in more than one category, a certain thing could have [...]
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Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
Quiz program for individual student support
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Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
Slideshare deck shows step by step solutions.
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Sunday, May 13th, 2007
I’m both in different parts of the lesson. I think that many people assume that PowerPoint use implies Sage role, and I was trying to provide counterexamples.
Charles Nelson takes me to task in my post about PowerPoint in a post on his Explorations in Learning blog as follows
“One point that needs to be considered a [...]
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Saturday, May 12th, 2007
What is appropriate, when and why?
The Learning Circuits blog has posed this question about PowerPoint, with some detailed side questions. My answers below. See also Clive Shepherd’s answer on his Clive on Learning blog. I like the example slides put up by Jay Cross, especially the little chap ‘reading’ a technical manual upside down! In [...]
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Saturday, May 12th, 2007
Testing the ScribeFire blog tool, a plugin for Firefox. You can post to blog directly from Firefox, and you can upload pictures using the WordPress image upload script.
The HTML produced by the rich text editor is familiar to Firefox and Mozilla users, full of line break tags. At present, there appears to be no [...]
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
Some free books and a film of Douglas Engelbart using a five button mouse.
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Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Using a blog to get views before a staff development event.
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
Why ‘understanding’ isn’t a good word to use in learning outcomes or criteria, and the problem with Bloom’s taxonomy.
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