2007

2.15

Wikiversity, Wikieducator Please Join and Make Wikilearner
Leigh Blackall, Learn Online
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http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=38878
Leigh Blackall is forced by site outage to shift his
attention from Wikiversity
- a Wikipedia style online learning platform - to Wikieducator,
a similar project set up in December, 2006, by the
Commonwealth of Learning. “Wikieducator has made fantastic
progress since last I looked,” he writes. “Apart for a
range of great tutorials, the key players in wikieducator
have been more innovative and experimental in my view. They
now have a web based IRC chat facility on the main nav -
which is getting closer to Teemu’s vision of a VOIP
supported community learning network; they support media
embedding, they use funky templates to play around with
navigation and content layout, and they already have some
significant contributions.” Well good, but I wonder about
his call for the two to join forces. Sure, they my be doing
the same thing, but the management styles, I suspect, are
miles apart.

Direct Link

2006

10 Drupal Modules You Can’t Live Without
http://www.nicklewis.org/node/766

Teaching Hacks Wordpress Plugins
http://www.teachinghacks.com/2006/12/21/teaching-hacks-wordpress-plugins/

Various authors - E-Learning Concepts and Techniques -
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
http://iit.bloomu.edu/Spring2006_eBook_files/

I had a nice time reading this 11-chapter online book this
morning instead of doing my work like I’m supposed to. As
the site says, “E-Learning Concepts and Techniques is a
collaborative e-book project by Bloomsburg University of
Pennsylvania’s Department of Instructional Technology
students and guest authors.” The result is a quite
acceptable introductory level text that not only covers the
basics of traditional instructional design but also manages
to incorporate mor contemporary approaches, from Siemens on
learning design to the use of games in e-learning delivery.