Kategorie: Bits & Bytes

  • Study: How Much Information?

    http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info/ schrieb / wrote: Study: How Much Information? This study is an attempt to measure how much information is produced in the world each year. We look at several media and estimate yearly production, accumulated stock, rates of growth, and other variables of interest. http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info/ http://www.elearningpost.com/archives/007116.asp schrieb / wrote: Article: ‚Info-Mania‘ Dents IQ More Than…

  • Thinker: Cognitive Psychology Resource

    http://www.elearningpost.com/archives/007127.asp schrieb / wrote: Thinker: Cognitive Psychology Resource: Here’s a cool site with many Macromedia (Adobe?) Flash-based experiments in memory, perception, attention, etc. Try them out, it’s great fun! http://cat.xula.edu/thinker/ phpBB(Topic1109|Post1817)

  • Initiative: Directory of Open Access Journals

    http://www.doaj.org/ schrieb / wrote: Initiative: Directory of Open Access Journals: This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 1601 journals in the directory. Currently 400 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 73931 articles are included in the…

  • Book: Infographics in the Internet Era

    http://www.elearningpost.com/archives/007133.asp schrieb / wrote: Book: Infographics in the Internet Era: Wonderful PDF book from Alberto Cairo that looks at the process and practice of infographics in visual journalism, especially with the Spanish newspapers. (via Interactive Narratives) http://www.albertocairo.com/index/index_english.html phpBB(Topic1300|Post1814)

  • Software: Moodle 1.5 (5th June, 2005)

    http://moodle.org/doc/?frame=release.html schrieb / wrote: Software: Moodle 1.5 (5th June, 2005): Headline features: Web pages are compliant with XHTML Transitional 1.0 Improved Accessibility, aiming for compliance with WAI (W3C), SENDA (UK) and Section 508 (US) criteria. Very strong new Themes system, allowing cascading themes, user themes, course themes, with very fine control of every page in…

  • Infographic: Cancer Survival Rate

    http://www.elearningpost.com/archives/007134.asp schrieb / wrote: Infographic: Cancer Survival Rate: Edward Tufte deconstructs a published cancer survival rate table and offers a set of redesigns that enhance understanding. A nice case study. http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0000Jr&topic_id=1 phpBB(Topic1299|Post1812)

  • SVC: New Scientific Collaborator at the Swiss Virtual Campus

    http://www.virtualcampus.ch/display.php?lang=1&zname=news#112 schrieb / wrote: SVC: New Scientific Collaborator at the Swiss Virtual Campus: The coordination team of the SVC has a new collaborator: On June 1, Aude Pacton has started as a scientific collaborator. She studied political science at the university of Lyon. After finishing her studies she worked as a scientific collaborator at the…

  • Paper Prototyping: Getting User Data Before You Code

    http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030414.html schrieb / wrote: Paper Prototyping: Getting User Data Before You Code: With a paper prototype, you can user test early design ideas at an extremely low cost. Doing so lets you fix usability problems before you waste money implementing something that doesn’t work. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030414.html http://www.elearningpost.com/archives/007149.asp schrieb / wrote: Aricle: Creating Digital Prototypes: Dave Rogers…

  • Business Matters: Need a tutor? Call India.

    http://www.elearningpost.com/archives/007147.asp schrieb / wrote: Business Matters: Need a tutor? Call India. A good overview of this new outsourcing trend. ‚As technology develops and the barriers to communication erode, most agree that tutoring is likely to join the list of other jobs facing global competition. Some hurdles remain, of course. Indian tutors undergo training to learn…

  • Concept: Podcasting – Weblogs that Sound 🙂

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting schrieb / wrote: Concept: Podcasting: Podcasting is a method of publishing sound files to the Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed and receive new audio files automatically. Podcasting is distinct from other types of audio content delivery because it uses the RSS 2.0 file format. This technique has enabled many producers to…