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The ‘personal learning environment’ (PLE) is a collection of concepts intended to express this idea. (Liber, 2006) The PLE is not an application, but rather, a description of the process of learning in situ from a variety of courses and according to one’s personal, context-situated, needs.
Archive | November, 2008
links for 2008-11-17
November 17, 2008
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links for 2008-11-16
November 16, 2008
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The following is the current Berkshire Hathaway's top holdings. We'll track the holdings that represent more than 1% of the Berkshire Hathaway's portfolio and added together represent about 90% of the portfolio.
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I helped to develop Bort, but I think that base apps are the way to roll. They save you about half a days worth of development and let you get straight into developing your application rather than fucking around doing the same monotonous stuff every time.
links for 2008-11-15
November 15, 2008
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David must have forgotten that I have a full log of the chat where he admitted it, so let’s get into some nice clean truth for a change.
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eCollege is a leading provider of an integrated, standards-based eLearning solution to the post-secondary and K-12 education industries. eCollege builds and supports some of the most successful, fully online degree, certificate/diploma and professional development programs in the country.
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Integral is a lightweight application to help you test the integration between different applications. It was developed to ensure that the various (independently tested) applications that make up a web site are interacting correctly before they are rolled out to the live servers. Written with Thor. Available from Github.
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Authlogic has been updated to 1.1.0. Authlogic is a clean, simple, and unobtrusive ruby authentication solution.
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choose to have notifications delivered to Instant Messenger, SMS, Email, or Desktop Application.
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Jumpchart is a website planning application that allows you to plan the navigation of your website by creating, dragging and dropping pages into the plan. You can also add text and formatting to pages and then export your CSS files and site map when you’re finished.
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"Give it some time," he said, noting that before long, the tricky component to integrating online video and social networking will be reduced to figuring out which witticisms to type. "What would I possibly have to say via onscreen chat," he quipped. "'Pass the popcorn?'"
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TimeMachineEditor is a software for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard that lets you change the default one-hour backup interval of Time Machine.
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Keep in mind that this is an early preview, so I'm well aware that it needs a lot of TLC before I'll be happy making a 1.0 release, such as:
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So, in this post I am going to list down the kind of tests that can be run by NUnit or other similar testing tools.
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A free online Flash gaming portal designed just for kids. All games are reviewed for kid appropriateness so parents can let their kids surf the site without concern that they'll encounter an inappropriate game. The site is operated by KidZui.com; all games on the site (plus many more) are also available in KidZui's fun, kid-safe web browser.
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In online free-to-play games, companies aim to structure their costs so they can break even if as little as 5-10% of the users pay. Anything above that is profit. Which is why these numbers from MMPOW, a blog that covers the industry, are so impressive:
* Club Penguin: 25% monthly uniques pay, $5/mo per paying user
* Habbo: 10% monthly players pay, $10.30/mo per paying user
* Runescape: 16.6% monthly uniques pay, $5/mo per paying user
* Puzzle Pirates: 22% monthly players pay, $7.95/mo per paying user
links for 2008-11-13
November 13, 2008
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Study Island is a leading provider of web-based state assessment preparation programs and standards based learning programs.
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This week, Trotzke is at the fifth Web 2.0 Summit, a high-profile conference that includes the likes of Tim O’Reilly, Dion Hinchliffe, Mark Zuckerberg and Jerry Yang.
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This is a list of handy MySQL commands that I use time and time again. At the bottom are statements, clauses, and functions you can use in MySQL.
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These are some of the ways I started to recently use and rediscover RSS.
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Ta-da Lists Widget is a free Dashboard widget for OS X that offers quick access to 37signals Ta-da Lists.
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Unlock your iPod with Senuti, a simple application that allows you to transfer songs from your iPod to your computer.
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Slife Teams is a new communications and analytics tool for your company. It makes it easy and automatic for your employees to share what they are working on, visualize how much time is collectively spent on projects and activities, and much more.
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BlueHarvest allows you to keep your disks and servers free of Mac "trails"
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Never fear! Your days of boring status updates are over! Simply type your name, indicate whether you are a boy or a girl, then hit Generate.
You will be served up a brand new, sparkly status all ready to be copied and pasted into Facebook, Twitter or whichever social networking site you like best.
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Download the source code for PearPC at http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pearpc/pearpc-0.3.1.tar.gz. As of this writing, 0.3.1 is the most recent version.
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curl -u youremail:yourpassw -d status=”text” http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
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GroupTable allows you to manage all of your group projects, study groups and student organizations easily from one central location. At a glance you can see all the recent updates for each of your groups including new files uploads, topic posts, tasks, upcoming events & more.
links for 2008-11-12
November 12, 2008
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This is part 5 in a series of posts that address the issues involved in porting a large Java RIA to Flash. I recommend reading the previous posts as well:
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If I owned BrightKite, I would make it an (the!) information resource for the annotated world. In fact, that’s where the real gold is. The marketplace of information this tool can provide is where the magic lies.
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near.ly sends you links to news and blog posts happening within any address in the United States that you give to us. nearlies are sent via Twitter direct message
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will not speed the process, but it will allow the live application to use the mysql database as normal without locking any tables and preventing the application to change the database.
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It’s much easier to track your progress when you have something in writing – and much harder to lie to yourself. When you’re working on a goal that requires daily action, keep a record, in writing; you’ll be surprised at what a difference it makes to your motivation and self-discipline levels.
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The Select Series is a line of tee shirts featuring the work of the world's most talented artists, curated by Threadless.
links for 2008-11-11
November 11, 2008
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A plugin for working with the SmugMug API. Documentation is available on the Project Home Page: http://smugmug4r.rubyforge.org.
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A recent tool release from Google, Rietveld, brought this back into the news – but there are other tools that are probably a better fit for most organizations.
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Look at his ill-fated Yahoo episode — one of his many investment boo-boos, he admits. When Yahoo was a tiny start-up in the late 1990s, venture capitalist Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital, one of Yahoo's original investors, asked Kawasaki if he wanted to be CEO of the Silicon Valley firm.
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Provides a simple wrapper around the Amazon FPS SOAP web service.
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Hoboken-based SuiteMatch is like Match.com for office space. You can post open space at your office and you can search for space for you and/or your team. Currently they are listing open space in New York, San Francisco and Chicago. While they are in beta postings are free and they note that after that there will be a fee to post.
links for 2008-11-10
November 10, 2008
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We don’t usually get to see this handmade stage of the web, but some folks have been thoughtful/narcissistic enough to upload photos of their UI sketches, and I find them fascinating.
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Speaking of Rails 2.2, which is about to be released, you’ll finally be able to run rails my_app -d ibm_db. This will generate a DB2-specific config/database.yml file.
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the most downloaded catalog track in iTunes history is actually “Don’t Stop Believin” by Journey.
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Many newcomers to Extreme Programming wonder what a team room looks like. (For those unfamiliar with Extreme Programming, at the end of the article you will find a quick explanation of the XP terms that I use.) Here are photos and a description of a team room from a 9-month, 5-person project. Areas in the photos that might identify the client have been blurred out.
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iphoneize a rss feed of your site
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Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats.
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ridiculously easy contact list information from various providers including Yahoo, Gmail, and Hotmail
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Notable is a simple, completely free note-taking application for Windows that is optimized for people who make lots bulleted lists. I was inspired to make it after having worked in the computer industry for a while, and I realized that no note-taking option really suited my need to manage my large number of meetings and task lists.
links for 2008-11-08
November 8, 2008
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About 30 seconds in they start bantering about Twitter. Had to put it on the blog for posterity.
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MicroUI is a minimal GUI control library for ActionScript3 based projects.
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This is the complete detail of our XMPP API as it is right now. We tried to implement a PubSub Syntax, so please, tell us if we did anything wrong so that we can stick to the "standard", or at least, help define it! In Green are the requests from your client, and in red are the responses from the PubSub server!
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You may know about the MySQL Cluster, which is a complex architecture to achieve high availability and performance. One of the advantages of MySQL Cluster is that each node is a peer to the others, whereas in a normal replicating system you have a master and many slaves, and applications must be careful to write only to the master.
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Emerge Desktop is a replacement windows "shell" (the desktop environment normally provided by Windows Explorer) for Windows 2000 and above. In order to replace Windows Explorer as a shell, it provides a system tray (the area that collects the icons collected at the lower right corner in Explorer), called emergeTray
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This time around, I decided to try out the new kid on the block, Prawn. On the website I just linked to, they recommend the prawnto plugin
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4Kids is teaming with Academic Skill Builders, who develop online games that offer a fun approach to learning math, language arts, vocabulary and thinking skills. Ready for a challenge? Check out the all new Matrix Learning games that help students learn middle school level math.
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With no software to download or install, Dimdim forever democratizes webbased live meetings. In seconds – right from your browser – you easily host or attend web meetings complete with audio and video conferencing, desktop and document sharing. So get started today and experience the freedom and ease of Dimdim Web Meetings.
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HTTP Cache For Java is a library designed to be easy to use, and attempts to implement all rules for a HTTP 1.1 transparent cache, as defined in: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec13.html#sec13
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Twitter4J is an open-sourced and mavenizable Java library for the Twitter API which is released under a BSD-style license.
http://yusuke.homeip.net/twitter4j/index.html
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Families have collectively jumped on the Web with gusto. Online tools have given them the ability to do everything from track the family schedule to keep in touch with distant relatives, monitor their children’s browsing, and more. Many of these services are even becoming available on mobile platforms, which is critical for those parents on the go. Here’s a rundown of some of the sites available for you and your family.
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The controlled chaos of Obama's ground game owes a debt to the civil rights and farmworkers' movements of the past, as well as lessons from the 2004 campaigns, and an organizational-team theory developed by Ganz and colleague Ruth Wageman, a psychology professor at Harvard, in a recent project for the Sierra Club.
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In this article, you’ll find 10 terrific content management systems that may not garner as much attention as their more popular counterparts – but should.
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Default Actions
Listed below, 40 default Quicksilver actions.
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For the instant customer: TeamViewer QuickSupport
Simple and small customer module, runs immediately without installation and does not require administrative rights – optimized for instant support
links for 2008-11-07
November 7, 2008
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This Wikispace is set up as a centralized place for educators to:
* Learn the benefits of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and how to implement UDL in their classroom.
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“If you don’t get mathematics to the highest level you possibly can in high school, your career options shrink dramatically in the 21st century,” Mr. Compton said. “Our society basically tells girls they’re not good at math. I was determined that was not going to happen to my daughters.”
