Monthly Archives: December 2003

Assessment Guide: Australian VET Sector

Posted on December 31, 2003 by Michelle Lamberson

Via Online Learning Update comes a link to Assessment and Online Teaching – Australian Flexible Learning Quick Guide Series.The Guide: “… looks at the nature of assessment in a changed (and changing) Australian Vocational Education and Training (VET) context, and … Continue reading →

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Grokker

Posted on December 29, 2003 by Michelle Lamberson

Via a CNN article, Going deeper than Google, comes info regarding a nifty little visualization tool for Internet Searches, Grokker 2.Latest version is currently only available for the PC, with a Mac version promised soon, this tool takes searches and … Continue reading →

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Plone releases eduplone products

Posted on December 29, 2003 by Michelle Lamberson

Well.. I see that Plone has made a suite of eduplone products publicly available… The products include: GoZip A ZIP-Exporter for Zope/Plone content. You can export every folder or folderish object that has a manage_FTPget method. And a content object … Continue reading →

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Accessibility Weblog

Posted on December 28, 2003 by Michelle Lamberson

By way of a comment on my own site, I have been introduced to a relatively new weblog, “Curb Cut Learning“, that focuses on Accessibility, Universal Design and Distance Education. Of all the resolutions that I have for this year, … Continue reading →

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Through The Web (TTW) authoring tools

Posted on December 23, 2003 by Michelle Lamberson

I’ve been doing a bit of research into a different flavour of CMS lately — Content Management Systems — (matter of fact we are playing with Plone now)… and ran across the work of another [mildly] reformed geo-colleague, Paul Browning, … Continue reading →

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PC Magazine & Bloggin’ and Wikis….

Posted on December 12, 2003 by Michelle Lamberson

Yup, we’re mainstream. I just knew it. I knew there was no way I was finally part of the cool crowd… that was doing some thing cool and happening. Its mainstream, man… Even PC Magzine is covering weblogs and Wikis … Continue reading →

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Paper on LMS & Libraries

Posted on December 10, 2003 by Michelle Lamberson

Martha Whitehead, the Head of our Library’s Information Services Unit and a new weblogger on the UBC scene, has put forward a short paper called “Connecting Learning Management Systems and Libraries: Issues and Progress“, posted through her weblog “Libraries and … Continue reading →

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New Tool: Online Users for WebCT

Posted on December 7, 2003 by Michelle Lamberson

Development of tools that enable interesting new ways of supporting online teaching and learning is an area that in which UBC is strongly engaged. From the Admin side of the house comes a tool that will interest the WebCT support … Continue reading →

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