Instructional Blogging: Promoting Interactivity, Student-Centered Learning, and Peer Input. I found this article useful and will have a detailed read. I am planning to build a blog particularly for the teaching of one of my course.
This article was originally published in Innovate (http://www.innovateonline.info/) as: Glogoff, S. 2005. Instructional blogging: Promoting interactivity, student-centered learning, and peer input. Innovate 1 (5).
I was very impressed by this gadget when I saw the demo in a computer shop at Mongkok. I then searched for information about it. Here comes some of them.
Product overview at iWantOneOfThose.com: TViX Storage Jukebox
Another overview: TVIX-M3000U Multimedia Jukebox: Amazing multimedia storage system.
One more at MacSense Australia: TVIX Multimedia Player - DVD Jukebox.
DVD JukeBox: Put all of your DVD titles into TViX and setup a DVD Jukebox in your living room. No more CDs and DVDs in your house any more.
Digital Photo Album: Still watch your photos on a small PC monitor? Now, enjoy your memories with you family on a big TV screen!!
Music Tank: You can store 20,000 mp3 music files in the TViX(80G). TViX is a mobile music tank for playing your full collection of MP3s and WAV files to a hi-fi system.
Portable storage: Backup all your important data. High-speed FIREWIRE interface.
Rimax TVix Connectivity Diagram
It is on my list of next gadget I want to buy.
Update: I start to be confused. Where is the originality of this product? Via here I learn that it is a product by DVico, which should be a Korea company. However, I also viewed the same product from rimax.net. Anyway, I still want one. It should cost around HK$ 1500 (hard disk not included).
KONFABULATOR - Whatever you want it to be.
What Is Konfabulator?
Konfabulator is a JavaScript runtime engine for Windows and Mac OS X that lets you run little files called Widgets that can do pretty much whatever you want them to. Widgets can be alarm clocks, calculators, can tell you your WiFi signal strength, will fetch the latest stock quotes for your preferred symbols, and even give your current local weather.
The format for these Widgets is completely open and easy to learn so creating your own Widgets is an extremely easy task.
The explanation is from Wikipedia (the free encyclopedia) at this page.
In computing, phishing (also known as carding and spoofing) is the act of attempting to fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy person or business with a real need for such information in a seemingly official electronic notification or message (most often an email, or an instant message).
Jeliot 3: the program animation tool
Jeliot 3 is a Program Visualization application. It visualizes how a Java program is interpreted. Method calls, variables, operation are displayed on a screen as the animation goes on, allowing the student to follow step by step the execution of a program. Programs can be created from scratch or they can be modifyed from previously stored code examples. The Java program being animated does not need any kind of additional calls, all the visualization is automatically generated. Jeliot 3 understands most of the Java constructs and it is able to animate them. Especial effort is currenlty being addressed to animate object oriented features, such as inheritance.
I get this when I attend a paper presentation at ICALT2005. The work is from a university of Finland.
Via Robin Good, I get this article: Folksonomies: power to the people by Emanuele Quintarelli.
A folksonomy is a user-generated classification, emerging through bottom-up consensus. A fusion of the words folks and taxonomy, the first use of the term folksonomy has been attributed to Thomas Vander Wal. Taxonomy comes from taxis and nomos (from Greek). Taxis means classification. Nomos (or nomia) means management. Folk is people. The term was coined in the AIfIA mailing list to mean the wide-spreading practice of collaborative categorization using freely chosen keywords by a group of people cooperating spontaneously. Folksonomies are not a theory or a top-down strategy: they were born out of a feature (folk classification tools) introduced by software like Del.icio.us, Flickr, 43things, Furl, Technorati, etc. and from people using these platforms to tag their contents (links, photos, etc).
Here are some sections of the article: Limits of taxonomies, Folksonomies: an emerging approach to distributed classification, Folksonomies at work, Properties of folksonomies, From trees to leaves: a comparison of taxonomies, facets and folksonomies.