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 […]
Archive for October, 2004
JotSpot Interview Coming
Published by October 22nd, 2004 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 0 CommentsI 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
Published by October 21st, 2004 in Higher Education, Content Management & Taxonomy as Knowledge Management, Educational Pattern Languages and Folksonomy. 0 CommentsSomething 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 […]
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
Published by October 18th, 2004 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 0 CommentsAfter 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 […]
