O’Reilly CodeZoo

28-Apr-05

O’Reilly CodeZoo is a new site by O’Reilly Network, which was launched on April 2005. Its slogan is Find good code. Use it quickly. To quote:

CodeZoo exists to help you find high-quality, freely available, reusable components, getting you past the repetitive parts of coding, and onto the rest and the best of your projects. It’s a fast-forward button for your compiler.

Blue Web’n

18-Apr-05

Blue Web’n is an online library of huge numbers of outstanding internet sites. You can search for educational web sites by

  • grade level (early childhood, elementary, middle school, high school, college, professional),
  • subject area (e.g. arts, education, technology, science), and
  • content areas (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects).

A Famous Article on Collaborative Learning

13-Apr-05

Bruffee, Kenneth. “Collaborative Learning and the ‘Conversation of Mankind.’” College English 46.7 (November 1984): 635-52.

In this article: Bruffee points out:

Collaborative learning assumes instead that knowledge is a consensus among the members of a community of knowledgeable peers — something people construct by talking together and reaching agreement.

This statement causes me to think many things about my teaching and my learning.

Find Free Photographs For Your Online Articles

13-Apr-05

This is really a great article by Robin Good on April 2005. It saves me a lot of time in finding the websites of this kind.

I personally like Pixel Perfect Digital. Other good sites include:

Here is Robin’s recommentation to bloggers and online publishers.

I recommend also, no matter which of these sources to use, to always credit and where possible inform the authors of these images that their work is being used and published somewhere. To someone who has been so generous to offer his creative work for your own use, it is the very minimum that we offer full credit, acknowledgement, link back and information about where the image is being used. In this way we allow the authors to use such free use for good credit and to show to potential customershow their work has been already used.

Agent-Oriented Software Engineering

06-Apr-05

Journal: The International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (IJAOSE) fosters discussion on all software engineering aspects of the use of agent technology for the development of IT systems. Structuring software system as a collection of autonomous agents can give a number of benefits including increased flexibility, adaptability, and robustness. The journal readership includes software engineering researchers, software developers, IT managers and educators.

Paper: Agent-Oriented Software Engineering by Nicholas R. Jennings and Michael Wooldridge in Handbook of Agent Technology, 2000. You can search more paper in scholar.google.com.

Workshop: The International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE).

Workers in the Age of Connection

01-Apr-05

Think about this statement.

Workers are empowered only if they are successful at creating and maintaining personal social networks.

Source: It’s Not What You Know, It’s Who You Know: Work in the Information Age by Bonnie Nardi, Steve Whittaker, and Heinrich Schwarz. First Monday, volume 5, number 5 (May 2000). URL

First Monday is a famous peer–reviewed journals on the Internet, which is indexed in Communication Abstracts, INSPEC, LISA, PAIS and other services.