Archive for October, 2004



A Bug in the RSS Feed

In the new site design, the RSS feed is supposed to display a “read more” link at the end of a paragraph rather than cutting off mid-sentence. It doesn’t yet. What this means is that you will occasionally get a post via the RSS feed that looks like a complete thought but is actually […]

JotSpot Interview Coming

I just did a phone interview with the guys from JotSpot. The more I learn about the application, the more I am impressed. And I think it has direct implications for online learning. In past posts, I have raised the issue of the conflict between enterprise and Internet worldviews in LMS’s and other tools and […]

Ethnoclassification, Pattern Languages, and MERLOT

Something clicked for me when I saw the reference on elearningpost to Peter Merholtz’s piece on the bag of keywords approach. The word Maish highlighted was “ethnoclassification.” This made me think of how you could unearth pattern languages in a learning object repository like MERLOT, MLX, or Pachyderm.Let’s use MERLOT as an example. Currently, MERLOT […]

The e-Literate Redesign Is Up

C’mon in and look around. We’re still making some minor tweaks and enhancements but I’m so excited about how it looks that I just couldn’t wait to announce it. Thanks to the folks at pMachine Services for helping me to make this happen.One of the many new features of the site is a show/hide for […]

JotSpot Initial Impressions: This is Your Source Code on Wiki

After spending a few hours playing around with the JotSpot beta, I can say that I like what I see very much so far. As a non-programmer who wants to learn a little HTML and doesn’t read manuals very often, I love the “View Source” feature in my browser. I can find a page I […]





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