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Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:12:57 -0800

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Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:11:28 -0800

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Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:31:53 -0800

Phage Wars 2
The last hour just disappeared on me - as I was completely rapt playing this gene sequencing game. "Phage Wars 2 is set up...
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Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:55:39 -0800

Web content visualization tool: new e-reader?
FastFlip looks like a good way to see a lot of web content in a hurry - and to read ebooks as well. "Fast Flip is software...
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Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:25:48 -0800

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC36 WG5: Call for Use Cases on e-Testing
eLSACC and the ISO working group are looking for use cases for a new standard on high stakes e-testing. This is for the...
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Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:11:46 -0800

Learning Styles and Manuals
Yes, learning styles exist, and Mike Caulfield makes good sense reframing how we should think about them. "Rather than argue...
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Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:47:11 -0800

Idea Paint
I want to be able to write on my office walls. A number of people have linked to this recently (Andrew Watt, Jenny Levine,...
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Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:54:48 -0800

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Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:53:20 -0800

Feynman 'Fun to Imagine' 3: Rubber Bands
"The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things." So says Richard Feynman in this explanation of how rubber bands work in a...
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Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:29:24 -0800

Lessons Learned From Lessons Learned: The Fit Between Online Education Best Practices and Small School Reality
E-learning implementation best practices developed for large institutions must be adapted for small schools. This according to...
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Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:22:31 -0800

JISC announces Intute funding cut
Funding to Intute is being cut; I think we'll be seeing many more of these cuts in the near future. "It is JISC policy that,...
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Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:22:37 -0800

I was wrong: games ARE an alternative vision.
There is, writes Patrick Dunn, an uncrossable chasm between games and e-learning. It's not so much a technical chasm as one...
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Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:53:54 -0800

Clean Slate
Coverage of the settlement between Blackboard and Dersire2Learn. D2L head John Baker expands on his blog, "this is in the best...
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Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:02:05 -0800

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Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:00:58 -0800

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Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:39:43 -0800

Blackboard, Desire2Learn Announce Patent Cross License Agreement and Settlement of Litigation
Huge news: Blackboard and D2L cross-license patents and settle litigation. "We are pleased to have resolved our differences...
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Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:43:55 -0800

iPhone apps for college media
It's stupid, isn't it, to have a separate 'app' for every single web site? It seems to me to be very much a major step...
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Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:14:35 -0800

FeedBurner Socialize: Add Your Feed to Twitter
Well it took exactly that long before Google unrolled a 'blog post to Twitter service' via FeedBurner. (I still think mine is...
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Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:53:35 -0800

Footprint in your pocket and head in the cloud -The Little Black Device
Is the iPod dead? Maybe not, but the shift from mobile players that are mere storage devices - such as the old iPod - to...
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Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:35:35 -0800

What Matters Now: get the free ebook
It's disjointed, inconsistent and at times incoherent but a lot of people will like Seth Godin's ebook. It touches (oh so...
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Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:10:35 -0800

Here come the indicators, wait for the task corruption
Jones's cynicism is evident in this title: here come the indicators, wait for the task corruption. The context is a discussion...
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Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:18:55 -0800

Collaborative training departments
Collaborative training departments may well become the norm, even in large enterprises. The need for this is apparent in small...
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Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:56:11 -0800

Virtual Worlds, Simulations, and Games for Education: A Unifying View
Are virtual worlds, simulations, and games for education all types of the same essential thing? I'm not sure I agree with this...
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Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:33:46 -0800

5 Higher Ed Trends NOT to Watch in 2010
Tony Bates: "If this is the way of the future, frankly I give up." He is responding to Campus Technology's 5 Higher Ed Tech...
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Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:23:47 -0800

How To Make A Portable Version Of Winamp For Your USB Drive
Why isn't there an MP3 player into which we can just plug a USB stick full of music? The USB side of this has already been...
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