Tutorcasts | Bringing together the ‘nets resources for the community.: Tutorcasts is meant to be a repository (and directory) of screencasts available for educational purposes. If you would like to become a part of this group, please sign up and post your screencast information. ——- this sounds like a great idea.

Teaching and Developing Online: Teaching is Dead, Long live learning is a similar iconoclastic statement aimed at the traditions of modernist education. It uses the sociological and economic impact of media technology, in particular the Internet and its strengthening of informal and networked learning, and calls the foreseeable end of the traditional roles of teachers […]

LAMPPIX // Welcome!: This is the website of LAMPPIX, the Linux Live CD booting a webserver. LAMPPIX allows you to burn your web projects (i.e. PHP presentations or Perl scripts) onto a CD-ROM and give them away to others. They will only have to insert the CD and reboot — if you configured LAMPPIX right […]

I think arguments found in classic philosophical books… the canonical ones that I teach end up concretized in students minds as valid and real arguments and models for arguments. I am not convinced that understanding these arguments as fixed and real and powerful is a good thing for anyone. I think they need to know […]

What Kind of Insects Are Those Buffalo?: Quote of the day from a page entitled "Perceptual Fallacies": There is a tribe called the Ba Mbuti that provide evidence that size constancy is learned. This tribe lives in a thick jungle where they never are able to see more than a few yards away. When taken […]

The Illuminated Middle Ages : The Illuminated Middle Ages database presents several hundred recently digitized illuminated texts from French national library collections. While the full collection, in even higher resolution, is available for purchase on DVD-ROM, this web site gives access to the entire database. Only a portion of the full collection has been translated […]

Weblogs as Pedagogy: Barbara Ganley’s recent post about how the tool is becoming indistinguishable from the course makes it clear just how far down the blog road she has travelled. snip As both Aaron and Barbara ask, however, which comes first, the tools or the pedagogy? The easy answer is that the pedagogy should drive […]

Facilitation: the Anti-Lecture – Kaarin Record, techLearning: “The best of online classrooms intelligently employ a discussion board to foster a sense of community and to become a vehicle for sharing and learning. The role of the facilitator is to enable groups of people to work cooperatively and effectively. T” (Via Online Learning Update.) —— this […]