As my trip down the plain language rabbit hole continues, I’ve added Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words to my book wishlist. From the Wikipedia page about the book:
“In Thing Explainer, Randall Munroe explains the function and mechanics of 54 subjects using only the 1,000 most commonly used words in the English language.”
Instructional Message Design Reflection 2 – Upload a Document to Scribd Read this document on Scribd: Instructional Message Design Reflection 2 Reflection Week 2 By: Jennifer Maddrell Submitted: May 23, 2008 For: Dr. Gary Morrison, IDT 895 Reflection 1 – Pett and Wilson Overview Pett and Wilson (1989) provide a comprehensive literature…
What follows is a review and analysis of the theoretical perspectives and research findings related to how social factors within the learning environment influence a learner’s likelihood and ability to selfregulate. The objective is to assess what (if any) social features influence a learner’s ability to self-regulate and how those features should be considered within…
I gave Yahoo! Pipes a try this morning to see what all the fuss is about. In a nut shell, it is a hosted mashup tool on steroids with a fairly simple interface to seek and grab web content for publishing within your desired mashup. I fear I have only seen the tip of this…
The latest FCC report on U.S. High Speed Internet Access was released on July 26th. The report notes that high speed connections to the Internet increased by 33% in 2005 to 50.2 million total high speed lines. Just over 85% of the high speed lines were serving residential end users. For the first time, the…
Choi, M. Communities of practice: an alternative learning model for knowledge creation. British Journal of Educational Technology v. 37 no. 1 (January 2006) p. 143-6 The highlighted article (available via this link with an IU network ID and password) discusses the use of "communities of practice" (CoP) as a learning model for corporate training. The…
Thanks to Ben for this list of amazing Web 2.0 applications. He and I have been trying out meebo.com this morning. Too awesome for words! Still in alpha (no history, etc), but it allows you to sign on with multiple IM accounts (AIM, Yahoo!, Google, ICQ, MSN) and chat directly in your browser (no need…