Aaron Campbell at Ryukoku University has a great piece out on how to use LiveJournal to teach EFL. It has everything you’d want in this sort of an article, including a rationale for choosing the particular technology and step-by-step instructions for educators. This is one of the clearest, most concrete examples I’ve seen for using [...]
According to USC Annenberg’s Online Journalism Review, some quirks of linguistic usage may be effectively biasing the Google News algorithm toward hard-right anti-Kerry articles. Author J. D. Lasica claims that anti-Kerry pieces will tend to refer derisively to “John Kerry” repeatedly as a derisive rhetorical device, where more mainstream articles will tend to refer to [...]
TiddlyWiki has some unusual affordances that makes it suited to somewhat different tasks than other wikis I’ve seen (though I remind you that I am a wiki newbie). To begin with, the display allows you to call up a number of posts (which the developer calls “tiddles”) on the same page. This makes it well-suited [...]
O’Reilly (the premiere IT publishing house) now offers hands-on software training through a partnership with Useractive which, in turn, has a partnership with the University of Illinois. What’s interesting about the offering is the way that it’s apparently accomplished technically and what that affords. From a user’s perspective, you use your web browser to gain [...]
You’ll get even more mileage from Amy Gahran’s must-read series on the seven styles of blog posts if you consider it in conjunction with the site usability findings of the Eyetrack III project. For example, the study found that pages with large headline font sizes relative to the article text encourage scanning and discourage [...]
