Kategorie: Bits & Bytes

  • Article: Social Machines

    http://nte.unifr.ch/blogs/monnard/index.php/2005/07/14/social_machines schrieb / wrote: Article: Social Machines: A thought provoking article about the impact of ’social and connected‘ technologies (wikis, blogs, photo/url sharing sites, podcasting, …) on our future lives. http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/08/issue/feature_social.asp?p=0 phpBB(Topic346|Post1987)

  • Article: Some Insight Into How We Develop Preferences

    http://www.elearningpost.com/archives/007175.asp schrieb / wrote: Article: Some Insight Into How We Develop Preferences: This is a wonderful explanation for why we prefer some items over others. This can have some learning design implications. The finding: We prefer items that we ‚remember‘, rather than that we ‚know‘. So, what’s the difference between ‚remembering‘ and ‚knowing‘? ‚When we…

  • Material: Skills For Access

    http://www.elearningpost.com/archives/007176.asp schrieb / wrote: Material: Skills For Access: This is a comprehensive resource for creating accessible multimedia for e-learning. (via elearnspace). http://www.skillsforaccess.org.uk/ phpBB(Topic877|Post1985)

  • Google: Google Earth

    http://www.elearningpost.com/archives/007177.asp schrieb / wrote: Google: Google Earth: "Want to know more about a specific location? Dive right in — Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world’s geographic information at your fingertips." http://earth.google.com/ http://elch.blogs.com/lernpfade/2006/11/blitzlicht_auf_.html schrieb / wrote: Service: Blitzlicht auf die Erde: Flashearth ist eine nette Website,…

  • Article: Why do we forget our childhood?

    http://www.elearningpost.com/archives/007178.asp schrieb / wrote: Article: Why do we forget our childhood? This is a nice explanation for childhood amnesia, or ‚Why don’t adults remember events occurring before they were three or four years of age?‘. Research findings indicate that it has to do with the lack of language skills during those years to be able…

  • Tutorial: Communicating Error Messages Accessibly

    http://www.elearningpost.com/archives/007182.asp schrieb / wrote: Tutorial: Communicating Error Messages Accessibly: Nice tutorial. Read the followup in the comments section. http://standards-schmandards.com/index.php?2005/06/25/21-accessible-errors phpBB(Topic877|Post1980)

  • List: Good Experience Games

    http://www.elearningpost.com/archives/007185.asp schrieb / wrote: List: Good Experience Games: Mark Hurst has made a listing of online games that in his opinion offer a good experience: ‚Good game design with an overall attention to quality‘. http://www.elearningpost.com/archives/007185.asp phpBB(Topic1098|Post1979)

  • Article: Working with Organizational Dark Data

    http://www.elearningpost.com/archives/007186.asp schrieb / wrote: Article: Working with Organizational Dark Data: Paul Chin writes about managing an organization’s ‚dark data‘ – those invisible files and documents that are hidden from the visible intranet. http://www.intranetjournal.com/articles/200507/ij_07_07_05a.html phpBB(Topic1367|Post1978)

  • Article: Learning Development Cycle

    http://www.elearningpost.com/archives/007188.asp schrieb / wrote: Article: Learning Development Cycle: I have not gone through this George Siemens article in detail, but it seems to provide the basis for his theory of Connectivism: ‚Instructional design (ID) serves only a small part of the entire learning experience. The pace of information development exceeds courses as the primary delivery…

  • Article: An Equal And Opposite Reaction

    http://www.elearningpost.com/archives/007191.asp schrieb / wrote: Article: An Equal And Opposite Reaction: David Weinberger laments on current educational rigidities: ‚The connectedness of the Net has clearly changed the way our kids learn. The default for many of them is to do their homework with whoever else is on their buddy list. Collaborating on assignments just seems natural……