RSS in Plain English
There are two types of Internet users, those that use RSS and those that don’t. This video is for the people who could save time using RSS, but don’t know where to start.
SECTIONS Model for Instructional Design
Eruditio Loginquitas posts the following summary of the SECTIONS model for instructional design, proposed by Bates & Poole. He notes that this model, “is helpful in the sense that it offers an instructional view as well as an administrator view (along with some technological savvy). The cost, novelty and speed concerns are more administrative ones, and technology undergirds this. Also, the consideration for swapping in materials is highly helpful.”
Students: what is known about the students—or potential students—and the appropriateness of the technology for this particular group or range of students?
Ease of use and reliability: how easy is it for both teachers and students to use? How reliable and well tested is the technology?
Costs: what is the cost structure of each technology? What is the unit cost per learner?
Teaching and learning: what kinds of learning are needed? What instructional approaches will best meet these needs? What are the best technologies for supporting this teaching and learning?
Interactivity: what kind of interaction does this technology enable?
Organizational issues: What are the organizational requirements and the barriers to be removed before this technology can be used successfully? What changes in organization need to be made?
Novelty: how new is this technology?
Speed: how quickly can courses be mounted with this technology? How quickly can materials be changed?â€
Reference:
Bates, A.W., and Poole, G. (2003). Effective teaching with technology in higher education: Foundations for success. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers. 79 - 80.
Tim Berners-Lee on the Semantic Web
The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, explains in this 8 minute video how the Semantic Web works and how it will transform how we use and understand data.
Watch video | Read accompanying article from Technology Review
Collection of Research Journals with RSS Feeds
Douglas Holton has posted a list of research journals with rss feeds at his Educational Research & Development Wiki as well as on his blog. The OPML file can be imported into any rss reader to subscribe to the table of contents alerts for this entire collection and then the unwanted journals can be removed. Or, one can individually subscribe to any of the journals that are listed individually.
Douglas has also setup an experimental Educational Research Journals blog where he’s looking to post educational journals that don’t offer rss feeds (but, by subscribing to the rss feed for this blog, one could in effect then receive the new table of contents alerts via rss).
These certainly are fabulous resources for any graduate student or researcher seeking to stay updated on the most current education and educational technology publication topics and trends. Thanks Douglas for putting this together!
State of the Live Web - April 2007
Here’s Sifry’s Alerts: The State of the Live Web, April 2007 via Will Richardson on the status of the read/write web in April 2007 as demonstrated via Technorati statistics:
- 70 million weblogs
- About 120,000 new weblogs each day, or…
- 1.4 new blogs every second
- 3000-7000 new splogs (fake, or spam blogs) created every day
- Peak of 11,000 splogs per day last December
- 1.5 million posts per day, or…
- 17 posts per second
- Growing from 35 to 75 million blogs took 320 days
- 22 blogs among the top 100 blogs among the top 100 sources linked to in Q4 2006 - up from 12 in the prior quarter
- Japanese the #1 blogging language at 37%
- English second at 33%
- Chinese third at 8%
- Italian fourth at 3%
- Farsi a newcomer in the top 10 at 1%
- English the most even in postings around-the-clock
- Tracking 230 million posts with tags or categories
- 35% of all February 2007 posts used tags
- 2.5 million blogs posted at least one tagged post in February
Find Sifry’s complete State of the Live Web at http://www.sifry.com/stateoftheliveweb