Category Archives: Education
Google + Schwarzenegger terminating textbooks together
According to a news article on ABC News (PDF Calif. to Dump Printed Text..), Governor Schwarzennegger is trying to trim the state’s budget gap with a cheaper alternative to the traditional high school textbooks. California has a US$24.3 billion budget … Continue reading
Instructional Design
Instructional design projects differ from other multimedia projects in that the social and intellectual development of the user becomes the main focus, and the subject matter may be complex and perhaps not entertaining. (What is instructional design? Wikipedia) As such, … Continue reading
benefits of using Second Life as an educational tool
Although initially sceptic and frustrated with the learning curve, I am starting to realise how Second Life can be beyond awesome for learners. Let’s face it, we all learn and many of us loathe the necessity due to the form … Continue reading
Client education, business and technology issues
As a potential client, you may consider their point of view. Building a world class multimedia product is very expensive, time consuming and extremely taxing on business relationships. The client also has a reputation to protect, and picking the right … Continue reading
annotation of search information
First, choose the best three sources found in the previous task. Using whatever software or tool you think appropriate, record the following information about those sites: URL author institution blurb/ summary / screen shot (this can be a direct copy … Continue reading
soul searching on the web – in the clouds
Engines Boolean searching Organising search information Engines Google, (in the western world at least), is such a common search engine, the very name has become an accepted slang verb! So let’s google with a query of my choosing: [Image of] … Continue reading
© copyright versus fair use
Public domain (http://ww.wikieducator.org/Copyright_and_copyleft/public_domain) comprises all the works that are free to use without permission. There are a lot of works on the internet that are in the public domain and hence, not protected by copyright. Ideas, facts, titles, names, short … Continue reading
zěnmeyà ng?
Assignment 1 for CHN11 finally came back. I reckon 85% is a bloody good mark. I’ve organised the lovely librarian at Hawthorn to be my invigilator for the Chinese exam. Assignment 2 is now under way, along with other assessable … Continue reading
tools for CHN11
I’m studying Modern Standard Chinese (Mandarin) 1A through Griffith University. It’s worth doing a search through Firefox add-ons for Chinese within language support for things like Chinese-Japanese-English Character Hint Bar Moji side-bar and dictionaries can be found at http://moji.mozdev.org/ Chinese … Continue reading
The machine is us/ing us
Okay all you NET12ers out there, I’ve finally made a start on the material. Here’s the proof: this smart YouTube video clip on web 2.0 done by Mike Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology in Kansas State University, raising some … Continue reading