This Blog Is 100 Percent Solar
URL: This Blog Is 100 Percent Solarfrom Amit Asaravala, Wired News.Some data centres have made the (smart) move to solar energy and are saving bundles in energy bills as well as drawing in...
View ArticleKeyboards are Good; Mouses are Dumb
URL: Keyboards are Good; Mouses are Dumbfrom Paul TymaPaul makes the compelling case that the mouse is not nearly as effective a device as the keyboard (for text people anyway) and I would definitely...
View ArticleSony Revolution
A short video clip of something Sony has in the works, which reminds me of the technology in the movie Minority Report. The user places plastic (or perhaps glass?) tiles onto a grid that spring to life...
View ArticleSink or Swim: the Daunting Sea of Blog Semantics
The dive into the blog pool is one into the deep end. I mean, it's relatively easy to setup a blog (aside from finding a unique site name) but trying to separate and understand the terminology is...
View ArticleA Coming Dark Age for Innovation
"A provocative view from Jonathan Huebner, a physicist at the Pentagon's Naval Air Warfare Center in China Lake, California, holds that technological innovation has actually been slowing down for more...
View ArticleThe Ray Kurzweil Reader
The Ray Kurzweil Reader is a collection of essays by Ray Kurzweil on virtual reality, artificial intelligence, radical life extension, conscious machines, the promise and peril of technology, and other...
View ArticleDRM is doomed to fail.
Umair writes an interesting post about why DRM (digital rights management) is ultimately doomed to fail. Why? Because DRM is based on analog property rights that are ill-suited to today's digital...
View ArticlePrinciples for Evaluating Websites
How do you know whether something you read on the web is true? You can’t know, at least, not for sure. This makes it important to read carefully and to evaluate what you read. This guide from Stephen...
View ArticleMultilinks : Links with multiple destinations
Here is an implementation of an idea I've been thinking about for awhile and wishing would become a reality. It is currently only offered as a plug-in in PmWiki on Firefox browsers (only partial...
View ArticleMultiple Choice Tests?!
Check out this somewhat longer-than-usual rant on my other blog about multiple choice tests and how ineffective I believe them to be.
View ArticleFolding Windows
Check out this short video demonstrating a new interface concept of dragging and dropping to overlapping windows, called "Fold n' Drop". This new technique illustrates how you can easily navigate...
View ArticleProject Looking Glass
Project Looking Glass is a 3D desktop environment designed by Sun. The site contains links to a 6-minute demonstration video (I could do without the 2 minute intro) that demonstrate some interesting...
View ArticleMERLOT '05 Nashville
Well, I survived the flight and find myself in Nashville attending the MERLOT'05 conference - my first ever visit to the United States. Tonight I went to Nashville's oldest Microbrewery with the CLOE...
View ArticleMERLOT '05: The Long-Awaited Breakthrough? notes
Keynote by Sir John Daniel - presentation notesDevelopment through learning1. Challenge of making HE available to all2. Can eLearning help?3. Barriers to eLearning4. Partners for a better future1....
View ArticleMERLOT '05: "Creating Interdisciplinary Learning Objects from One...
In this workshop, faculty and staff from Chattanooga state discussed how a series of video interviews on the writing process evolved into a learning object that was adapted into several academic...
View ArticleMERLOT '05: "Designing and Managing Reuse" notes
Reuse: Authors vs. instructors vs. students vs. collections4 questions:Can I find it? -> metadata, search techniques (finding vs. searching)Is it useful? -> reusable design (context &...
View ArticleMERLOT '05: Macromedia - Creating Memorable Learning Experiences with...
I should've known better.The session description:"Perhaps no Macromedia product is as well recognized as Macromedia Flash. This session offers a look at some of the many ways that Flash-based content...
View ArticleMERLOT '05: "Is There an OpenCourseWare Project In Your Future" notes
What is OpenCourseWare (OCW)? OCW Addresses the needs of informal learners, borrowing from the paradigm of formal education. It is IP-clean, not for credit, and is for non-commercial uses.What...
View ArticleMERLOT '05: "GLOBE: The Global Alliance of Digital Libraries" notes
GLOBE will provide an integrated and federated search of learning resources worldwide. It connects to repositories residing in countries around the world such as MERLOT (USA), ARIADNE (UK), NIME...
View ArticleMERLOT '05: OpenCourseWare part 2 notes
The second session was much the same as the first, except for a demo of the eduCommons software near the end, which was for me the most valuable aspect of both presentations.OpenCourseWare (OCW) is...
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