Category: Web/Tech
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Effectively incorporating instructional media into web-based information literacy
Just finished reading the following article: Title: Effectively incorporating instructional media into web-based information literacyAuthor(s): Li ZhangJournal: The Electronic LibraryYear: 2006 Volume: 24 Issue: 3 Page: 294-306 I read it with WISPR in mind, to see how we stacked up, and I think we’ve done a pretty good job so far. The article started a…
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DRM through cartoons
Two related items in the same week must be a sign, so check ’em out if you haven’t seen ’em yet. Thing #1) The Pig and the Box. From the site: The Pig and the Box is about a pig who finds a magic box that can replicate anything you put into it. The pig…
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Comprehensive overview of Screencasts and Screencasting in Education
Courtesy of a pointer from Stephen’s Web comes a wonderful overview of Screencasts and Screencasting from Graeme Daniel of wwwtools for teachers. Not sure why I hadn’t heard of this site before, but I’m definitely watching it now. Graeme goes way beyond the cursory compilation of links to provide a look at the history of…
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Rice University Relaunches University Press – Online Only
Tim O’Reilly reports on a Wall Street Journal article about the online-only relaunch of Rich University Press. An excerpt: Although the new press will solicit and edit manuscripts the old-fashioned way, it won’t produce traditional books. The publishing house will instead post works online at a new Web site, where people can read a full…
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A distraction-free desktop
Uh-oh, it’s going to be one of those days! One of those neat days where one idea leads to another, and lots of thoughts fire in my brain. As soon as I finished that post about continuous partial attention, I switched over to my aggregator and saw that Jon Udell is thinking about the exact…
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36,000,000 IMs per day
Yeah, it’s a big number, but it’s just the drop in the bucket that Meebo processes every day – imagine how many more Instant Messages are sent in the native interfaces! The number comes from an interesting writeup of a meeting he had with Meebo by Tim O’Reilly. Lots of little interesting “new ways of…
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Wiki Webcast Week
In addition to Meredith’s wiki webcast this Thursday, the authors of Uses and Potentials of Wikis in the Classroom, S. Pixy Ferris and Hilary Wilder, will be participating in a free webcast for Innovate, the Journal of Online Education. This is a neat idea in that Innovate invites people to interact with the authors of…
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An introduction to Screencasting – SirsiDynix Institute
Just posted on the SirsiDynix Institute future seminars page is notice of my Wed, Nov 8 session entitled Show and Tell the Easy Way – an Introduction to Screencasting. It runs from 11am-12 EST (8-9am PST) and should also be available after the fact as a recorded session and audio-only podcast, though I do plan…
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Streaming Media Magazine review of Captivate and Camtasia
My colleague Jennifer went to SLA and brought me back the May 2006 issue of trade magazine Streaming Media, which has a review / comparison of Captivate and Camtasia Studio. The article’s not online, nor is it in any of the major aggregators. 🙁 Jan Ozer is the author, and it appears that he’s giving…