Warning! Will Robinson! Warning!
Joel has begun blogging. Not nearly as irreverant as I understand a blogger should be, I’m excited to begin authoring in addition to lurking. Many thanks to my Ph.D. chair David Wiley for getting me...
View ArticleThe ringing in my ears
The Deafening Silence David speaks of is ringing in my ears. I’ve tried to to read and understand the discussion of the CC-EDU license and feel like I still don’t understand it well enough to be able...
View ArticleAuthoring tools for teachers
My dissertation study is titled Theory for Authoring Tools that Support Adaptation of Mathlets (TATSTAM). So a main thrust of my research is to identify the characteristics of tools that support...
View ArticleConfiguring Mathlets
I’ve been re reading Lite Applets at Joma and looking at the Java Components for Mathematics website and imagining that I could quickly make those applets configurable from within TADRIOLA. It...
View ArticleCopyrights and copying wrongs
I just ran across a five part series of articles titled: Copyrights and Copying Wrongs at Education World. It provides a nice overview of copyright issues for teachers as they relate to reusing web...
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Developing mathlets
This morning on my way to work I was thinking about what I would like to see in the developers forum of the Math Tools DL. The following issues seem most pertinent to me: user interface design, user...
View ArticleDo teachers want lessons or the building blocks?
Yesterday in a discussion with an NSDL evaluator who is also an ElEd Prof., he told me that research has shown that teachers would rather be given the parts from which to build lessons, than...
View ArticleMy Defense
For the record, I successfully defended my dissertation December 12th. I have a running joke with my wife about how human nature is to think that when such and such happens, then I will be happy. After...
View ArticleD-Lib Math Tools DL article
I just read an article by SRI researchers that reports on a user study of the Math Tools DL. As one of the participants in the study I was interested to see what they had to say. The basic structure of...
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Teacher Authoring and Metacognition at the PSLC
JCDL 2008 trip continued: On my way out of town I couldn’t resist stopping by the PSLC to attend a lunch meeting where Turadg Aleahmad and Ido Roll were giving practice talks for ITS2008. Turadg...
View ArticleRemixing web content
Lois Delcambre is talking about the new ensemble portal and the CS1 project being motivated by the CSTA. There is an intellectual debate about what you should use to introduce people to computer...
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