Directory of E-Learning Tools: Course Authoring Tools
These tools can be used to create courses and tutorials. [See also Interactivity tools for specific tools that provide interactive elements that can be used within courses]
Archive | March, 2009
Directory of E-Learning Tools: Course Authoring Tools (link)
March 30, 2009
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INeedAPencil.com – Free SAT Prep (link)
March 30, 2009
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INeedAPencil.com – Free SAT Prep
INeedAPencil.com is an innovative site that raises students SAT scores through a strategic preparation program that uses SAT questions, lessons and student tools. Learn more about INeedAPencil.com in the About Us section.
Ruby script to generate weekly Twitter links – Alex Miller (link)
March 30, 2009
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Ruby script to generate weekly Twitter links – Alex Miller
First, I wanted to hit the Twitter Search API to grab all of my tweets with links in the last week. You can pretty quickly figure this out by using the Twitter advanced search screen and looking at the resulting search, something like: “from:puredanger filter:links since:2009-03-23″ should do the trick.
Ruby Sequel – The Database Toolkit for Ruby (link)
March 30, 2009
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Ruby Sequel – The Database Toolkit for Ruby
# Sequel provides thread safety, connection pooling and a concise DSL for constructing database queries and table schemas.
# Sequel also includes a lightweight but comprehensive ORM layer for mapping records to Ruby objects and handling associated records.
# Sequel makes it easy to deal with multiple records without having to break your teeth on SQL.
# Sequel currently has adapters for ADO, DB2, DBI, Informix, JDBC, MySQL, ODBC, OpenBase, Oracle, PostgreSQL and SQLite3.
Ruby rake file to export to CSV (link)
March 30, 2009
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Ruby rake file to export to CSV
A quick script to export a database table to CSV is below. Drop into lib/tasks/export.rake (Rails), or directly into your Rakefile, then call at the command line:
Confluence vs. Basecamp – Code Intensity (link)
March 30, 2009
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Confluence vs. Basecamp – Code Intensity
I am impressed! Confluence is a superb wiki! I’ve used several other wikis over the last year or two (we use twiki heavily as well, and I’ve tried a half dozen others). Confluence takes it up a notch. It feels polished and professional, and it’s been a joy to use. Also, the less-technical folks are finding it a lot nicer to use as well. And, their task extension (we’re using the Enhanced Task List macro) is quite nice, perfect for what we’re after (fitting our Scrum use).
Tales from the OSGi trenches (link)
March 30, 2009
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Tales from the OSGi trenches
Slides of Bertrand Delacretaz’s “Tales from the OSGi trenches” presentation at ApacheCon Europe 2009
Railscasts – Beginning with Cucumber (link)
March 30, 2009
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Railscasts – Beginning with Cucumber
Cucumber is a high-level testing framework. In this episode we will create a new Rails application from scratch using behavior driven development.
Link: Authonomy – crowdsourcing literature evalution by HarperCollins
March 29, 2009
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Authonomy – crowdsourcing literature evalution by HarperCollins
authonomy is a brand new community site for writers, readers and publishers, conceived and developed by book editors at HarperCollins. We want to flush out the brightest, freshest new literature around – we’re glad you stopped by.
If you’re a writer, authonomy is the place to show your face – and show off your work on the web. Whether you’re unpublished, self-published or just getting started, all you need is a few chapters to start building your profile online, and start connecting with the authonomy community.
