Bill Brandon: ClippingsThings that don't fit a category but they were too good to let go.Parked- June 25, 2004 Nice... Timeline Creator Tool. Just saw this at the NMC 2004 5 minutes of Fame- a nifty app for creation of interactive timelines- presentation is via Flash (of course), but data driven by XML. Created by the Center for Educational Resources at Johns Hopkins, the Timeline Creator is a freebie for downloading and provides what looks like a simple interface for buildling timelines. Might the timelines be consider Learning Objects What the heck notcogdogbloghttp://radio.weblogs.com/0110222/categories/clippings/2004/06/24.html#a1359 Parked- June 25, 2004 ACollab - accessible, open source, multi-group, Web-based collaborative work environment. http:www.atutor.caacollabindex.php If you weren't already impressed enough with Atutor, the accessible, open source LMS from U of Toronto's Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, along comes the second piece in their ever-growing suite of accessible learning technologies. With shared document authoring, calendering, chat, threaded discussion and extensive group support, ACollab is WCAG 1.0, Section 508...http://radio.weblogs.com/0110222/categories/clippings/2004/06/24.html#a1358 Parked- June 24, 2004 A special request. With thanks to my colleague Stephen Downes for writing most of the following, and licensing it in such a way that I may repurpose it:As you may know, the work I do is funded by the Government of Canada through its support for the National Research Council's Atlantic E-Business Initiative in the Institute for Information Technology. The National Research Council has given me a great deal of freedom to offer a wide range of offerings for the Web community, including Seb's Open..http://radio.weblogs.com/0110222/categories/clippings/2004/06/24.html#a1357 Parked- June 24, 2004 DrupalEd Classroom Weblog Tools. Charlie Lowe has been working hard to create a Weblog set up for writing classes using Drupal. Drupal, at its base installation, is a blank slate, a content management system that can be used to create a large variety of different websites. Thus, DrupalEd is preconfigured for creating a community site suitable for the online writing classroom, a highly configurable platform that better facilitates community interaction and collaboration than is possible with...http://radio.weblogs.com/0110222/categories/clippings/2004/06/24.html#a1356 Parked- June 24, 2004 Production for Use. A reflective look at the forces affecting design -- style vs. usability. Many designers have been exploring the balance of these forces -- some vouch for usability and others vouch for style, but there's magic when a balance of both fits the real purpose of design. And to really know the balance, designers have to be holistic. This holistic approach is now widely referred to as experience design. Jesse James Garrett's map (PDF file) is a good reference point to experience...http://radio.weblogs.com/0110222/categories/clippings/2004/06/24.html#a1355 Parked- June 24, 2004 User Experience Design. Peter Morville takes on the task of defining user experience design using his honeycomb diagram, which presents the various facets of experience design: Useful, Usable, Desirable, Findable, Accessible, Credible and Valuable.elearningposthttp://radio.weblogs.com/0110222/categories/clippings/2004/06/24.html#a1354 Parked- June 24, 2004 More on the emerge 2004 - Blended Collaborative Learning Conference. This virtual conference starts on the 28th of June. Among several other interesting presentations I'm particularly looking forward to one by Derrick Cogburn on "Going Global, Locally: Geographically Distributed Collaborative Learning Environments for Studies of Globalisation and the Information Society". The full announcement (recieved by e-mail from Tony Carr) below: emerge 2004 - Blended Collaborative Learning in Southern...http://radio.weblogs.com/0110222/categories/clippings/2004/06/24.html#a1353 Parked- June 24, 2004 BlogMatrix Jäger v1.2. BlogMatrix Jäger is now in it&146;s 1.2 release. Jäger is a &147;one-panel&148; RSS blog reader that is designed to be &147;browser-centric&148;. The 1.2 release adds significant functionality about the 1.0 release, including RSS 2 enclosure support (which works very well with BitTorrents), &147;Watch Lists&148; to automatically mark interesting posts, &147;Filters&148; to automatically remove uninteresting entries or create feeds restricted to a few...http://radio.weblogs.com/0110222/categories/clippings/2004/06/24.html#a1352 Parked- June 24, 2004 90% of all usability testing is useless. Lane Becker has written an article that suggests that 90% of all usability testing is useless. To quote: Ninety percent of all usability testing performed on Web sites is useless. This is not to say that it doesn't have a... Column Twohttp://radio.weblogs.com/0110222/categories/clippings/2004/06/24.html#a1351 Parked- June 24, 2004 User experience honeycomb. Peter Morville has published his new user experience honeycomb, which provides a new perspective on the facets of user experience. To quote: When I broadened my interest from IA to UX, I found the need for a new diagram to... Column Twohttp://radio.weblogs.com/0110222/categories/clippings/2004/06/24.html#a1350 |