MIT Tech Review: MIT’s Superarchive
MIT Tech Review: MIT's SuperarchiveIn September the MIT launched DSpace, a Web-based institutional repository where faculty and researchers can save their intellectual output and share it with their colleagues around the world and for centuries to come. The result of a two-year collaboration of the MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard, DSpace is built on open-source software and is available to anyone free of charge. But it
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, November 21, 2002
MSNBC Interactive: Spot the threat
MSNBC Interactive: Spot the threatYou be the airport baggage screener in this 2-minute simulation, and experience the difficulties in spotting a threat.
Very nice experiential infographic.
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, November 21, 2002
The International Children’s Digital Library
The International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) is a 5-year research project to develop innovative software and a collection of books that specifically address the needs of children as readers. Interdisciplinary researchers from computer science, library studies, education, art, and psychology are working together with children to design this new library... Currently, the collection includes materials donated from 27 cultures in 15 languages.Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, November 20, 2002
Vnunet: Knowledge isn’t power, says Xerox
Vnunet: Knowledge isn't power, says XeroxThe idea that knowledge is power has been knocked on the head by researchers who claim that high-performing employees are more likely to be ones who proactively share information with their colleagues.
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, November 20, 2002
KM World: KM & Intranets 2002 Presentations
KM World: KM World & Intranets 2002 PresentationsVery nice collection of presenation materials and resources from the recently concluded conferences. I've checked out a few-- Social Network Analysis for KM, Information Modeling Demystified-- and they are quite informative.
knowledge management, intranets Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, November 20, 2002
User Interface 7West: The Art of Being Human
User Interface 7West: The Art of Being HumanFor many Web sites, whether for businesses or organizations, we simply plug in and play the bare technology - the super-duper means of information delivery. All the site visitor sees and feels is the design, the interface, the links and the clicks. The experience is about as warm and human as banking with an ATM machine... And then we sit in our expensive offics and wonder why it is that we get such terrible conversion rates on our sites, why so few people continue to open our emails or read our newsletters.
interface Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, November 20, 2002
CANARIE: Networks For Innovation: A National Strategy For Canada
CANARIE: Networks For Innovation: A National Strategy For CanadaThe Internet's "third wave" involves the development and application of grids, repositories, web services and new approaches to sharing and collaborating. Applications in learning, health, government and business will be central.
Via http://www.downes.ca>Stephen's Web
innovation Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, November 19, 2002
Cooper: Getting from Research to Personas:
Cooper: Getting from Research to PersonasThe usefulness of personas in defining and designing interactive products has become more widely accepted in the last few years, but a lack of published information has, unfortunately, left room for a lot of misconceptions about how personas are created, and about what information actually comprises a persona... in this article, I hope to highlight a few essential points.
personas, research Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, November 19, 2002
Gerry McGovern: Intranet return on investment case studies
Gerry McGovern: Intranet return on investment case studiesAn intranet can deliver return on investment (ROI) by either reducing the cost, or expanding the ability, to communicate. By shifting manual processes to the intranet, the cost of accessing and processing information is reduced. The intranet speedily delivers information to large numbers of people. This gives the organization a greater capacity to change.
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MIT: Sociable Media Group
MIT: Sociable Media Group"Discussions, in the forms of newsgroups, chat-rooms, mailing lists, etc. form the basis of social life on-line. Yet current interfaces are often poorly designed for their social function, making it difficult, for instance, to keep track of the participants in a discussion. We are creating designs that allow community history to accrue, that visualize non-textual conversational components and that explore new ways of representing the participants in a virtual discussion."
interface Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, November 19, 2002
Macromedia: Creating Shared Learning Spaces with Macromedia Contribute and Macromedia Flash Communic
Macromedia: Creating Shared Learning Spaces with Macromedia Contribute and Macromedia Flash Communications Server MXInteresting article on using Flash and Contribute (new tool from Macromedia) for effective and engaging e-learning environments. Although I'm quite convinced on the use of the Flash Communications Server, not sure if Contribute would take off as a collaborative document editing application; Wikis have much better features for such applications.
Add tag Permalink | Monday, November 18, 2002
Wired: A Smarter Way to Sell Ketchup
Wired: A Smarter Way to Sell KetchupCognitive science isn
Add tag Permalink | Monday, November 18, 2002
Strategy+Business: Karen Stephenson
Strategy+Business: Karen StephensonAdd tag Permalink | Monday, November 18, 2002
CIO: Give it a Break
CIO: Give it a BreakCompanies and organizations that utilize Knowledge Management... collect tons of data, review it, process it, disseminate it, all in the name of making smarter decisions about products, customers and markets. What companies don't want to do is slow to a trickle the amount of information they take in. Indeed, with all the technologies now available to collect and massage data, the emphasis among many KM circles is to cast as wide a corporate information net as possible. The more information, the argument goes, the better the knowledge... That's the conventional wisdom. But my self-imposed exile from data deluge suggests to me that turning down the siphon every once in a while will not result in a drought of knowledge. On the contrary, reduce the noise level, and the result is a better ear for what matters and what's important.
Add tag Permalink | Friday, November 15, 2002
Evolt: Information Architecture for Everyone
Evolt: Information Architecture for EveryoneThe purpose of this article is to help you define information architecture so that you can recognize when it is you are wearing an IA hat, as well as provide you some tips, basics and resources to help you build the most well-architected sites possible.
information architecture Add tag Permalink | Friday, November 15, 2002
First Monday: By Choice or by Chance: How the Internet Is Used to Prepare for, Manage, and Share Inf
First Monday: By Choice or by Chance: How the Internet Is Used to Prepare for, Manage, and Share Information about EmergenciesToday the Internet plays a recurring role in all phases of emergency information management. As a communication system and an information repository, a strategic tool and a populist medium, the Internet can be a powerful element in crisis situations. It has been readily used in recent crises and it will, no doubt, be used in the next emergency, by choice or by chance. The choice must be made to use it well.
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Strategy+Business: Best Business Books 2002
Strategy+Business: Best Business Books 2002The books are categorized as follows:
- Strategy
- Management
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TechLearn 2002: official follow-up site
TechLearn 2002: Official follow-up sitePresenation slides, streaming video, and audio recordings of the sessions held at TechLearn 2002.
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, November 14, 2002
Wired: Maine Spawns Budding Kubricks
Wired: Maine Spawns Budding KubricksClassroom windows look out on colorful treetops and the Atlantic ocean. Kids sit at tables together and walk down well-kept corridors. Teachers and students here have access to a computer lab full of iMacs, and they've each had laptops since last spring.
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, November 14, 2002
Business 2.0: Making Creativity Work
Business 2.0: Making Creativity WorkThere is a fundamental need to balance two things that are often in conflict: the need to nurture artistic talent, and the day-to-day requirements of instilling sound, disciplined management processes. Leaders of creative enterprises must foster the right environment to fuel a hothouse for ideas while making sure the trains run on time and on budget. There are three distinct ways to make this happen: understand how creative talent thinks; nurture and reward this talent; and structure the organization to leverage your assets while maintaining appropriate development processes and financial controls.
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USDLA Journal: Developing an Interactive Web-Based Classroom
USDLA Journal: Developing an Interactive Web-Based Classroom"Editor
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, November 13, 2002
Indian Express: Gates to give $20 million for e-learning in India
Indian Express: Gates to give $20 million for e-learning in IndiaUnder the Shiksha project, the Microsoft assistance of $ 20 million would involve training of 80,000 teachers along with 3.5 million students over a 3-5 year period.
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, November 13, 2002
Wired: Study: PDAs Good for Education
Wired: Study: PDAs Good for EducationThe study observed that 89 percent of teachers found the handhelds to be an effective instructional tool for teachers, 93 percent believe the PDAs can have a positive effect on students' learning, and 90 percent plan to continue using the devices post-study... The study showed PDAs not only help organize calendars and phone numbers, but are also useful to students. PDAs can help in collecting data, writing papers, checking facts, synching data with desktops and laptops, and collaborating on projects.
instructional design Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, November 13, 2002
Boxes and Arrows: Defining Feature Sets Through Prototyping
Boxes and Arrows: Defining Feature Sets Through PrototypingOne of the main reasons to create a Vision Prototype is to allow the rest of the project team and the client to understand, review, and provide feedback on the vision. Because the prototype makes the ideas under discussion visible and concrete, it's common for new needs or concerns to come up at this point
prototyping Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, November 13, 2002
Learning Circuits: How the U.S. Military Is Reinventing Learning
Learning Circuits: How the U.S. Military Is Reinventing LearningTo a large extent, the military's needs are driving the training industry, especially e-learning. Behind it all is a commitment by the Pentagon to invest more heavily in distance learning technologies, a trend underway throughout the U.S. government. Indeed, e-learning courses have become a mainstay already for military trainers to meet just-in-time training objectives and career advancement goals. As a result, military contracts have become a vital revenue source for e-learning vendors coping with the current slump in the corporate market.