These tools are not sexy. They do not integrate with Twitter or Facebook. They will not transform the way we teach, learn, think or live. They are only useful for some of the small tedious tasks that go on behind the scenes of e-learning:
pdf to html convert a PDF document to html. Incredibly useful. Free. [...]
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There are two types of learning: Institutional Learning and Idealised Learning.
Idealised Learning is eternal and unchanging. It has an idealised learner and an idealised teacher. The idealised teacher:
Wants to teach
Is capable of teaching
Knows more than the learner
The idealised learner:
Wants to learn
Is capable of learning
Knows less than the teacher
Idealised Learning [...]
You might expect it from a small cowboy operator but some young marketing genius in Dell no less UPDATE: Actually this is not Dell but there is definitely someting dodgey going on. Loook at this site and tell me it does not look like Dell:http://dell-ireland.electronicoffers.co.uk/?tracking=Computer-11&curlid=100172
[Some genius in some dodgey company that is NOT Dell] [...]
They are better than reasons 11-20. That’s why they are the top reasons
We have 10 fingers
10 toes
10 cigarettes in a pack
The Romans used decimal to organise their armies and then conquered the known world before going on to party themselves to death and trash their empire - legends.
People will bookmark your post in delicious [...]
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Theories of idealized learning (as opposed to institutional learning) often focus on neurology and biology. Big cortexes are big thinkers was one such theory. Because the avian brain so different to the mammalian one, particularly the development of the cortex, it was assumed that this accounted for the (alleged) superiority of mammal intelligence. [...]
John says blogger is not really a “technology” but a product. I confess I do not know what technology is so I consulted a sophisticated academic research tool (a little something called Google).
For a word that is used so much it is very interesting to see what it means to different people (my comments in [...]
Today the mail server is down so I started tinkering with (i.e. breaking) my phone. I’d been thinking about modding my phone so that I could forward texts from my inbox to a twitter account. This has obvious applications e.g. use mobiles as powerful classroom SMS voting devices. I managed to programatically send SMS from [...]
90% of all predictions for 2009 will be wrong. This is because making predictions is hard. Especially about the future.
The 9% of predictions that come true will be boringly trivial. Trend x will increase moderately while trend Y will die down yadda yadda yadda
Somebody somewhere (Mr or Ms 1%) will invent something new. However this [...]
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If you live in Europe you know that the mobile operators are serious cash cows. If you live in Ireland you feel this pain pretty acutely as everything has become ludicrously dear here (isn’t this what happened in Iceland towards the end?).
The problem is that the mobile operators, like the broadband ones, have [...]
Update: I put the wrong link in earlier to the GM script, oops!
Putting a large cohort of students into specific Moodle groups can be tedious and error-prone (if you need specific students in specific groups).
I’ve written a Greasemonkey script to help assign specific people to groups in Moodle. It simply hides people already assigned to [...]
