wikis and html

We talked about wikis. The first place to look for an answer on what is a wiki? is, of course, on the mother of all wikis. Speaking of Wikipedia, the next assignment is to edit the page on Interactive whiteboards. If you need any help, then you probably want the help page (linked on the wikipedia sidebar).

The LKL hosts two wikis: the Learning and Technology in the Workplace wiki and Philosophy of technology wiki.

As for editing html. Again, you can start with Wikipedia, and follow the links. There's also a good tutorial on WikiBooks. A good site is WDG's html reference. If you want a bit more funk, Wired's webmonkey is a good place to start. You might want to bookmark there html cheatsheet.

let's play tag!

I've set up a del.icio.us tag for the course: lklprogrammingcourse. Del.icio.us is a bookmark sharing and tagging tool (see folksomony).

What does this mean, like, in humanspeak? Well, every time you or I come across a web page we find relevant, we list it on http://del.icio.us/ and attach the tag lklprogrammingcourse. Then the other of us can see it, by browsing http://del.icio.us/tag/lklprogrammingcourse or by tracking the RSS feed (oh boy, here he goes again) at http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/lklprogrammingcourse.

Ah yes, you first have to register at http://del.icio.us/. Then, the best way to use them is by copying the bookmarklets - read the about page.

Not quite, but cute?

Not exactly a Googlewhack, but close enough for a laugh.
Gordon, Michele & I am writing a paper. In there, I plugged a sentence about "design for cognitive conflict". Gordon, who wasn't sure WTF that means,
googled it.

The only page that came up was an obscure note I once made on the PPIG mailing list. So, does this count as a whack? not sure. but maybe I should elaborate the concept, or dump it.

Here's what I wrote there:

When designing technology for performing a task, you will want it to be invisible, not get in your way of doing your thing. When designing technology for learning, you often intentionally make it provoke thinking by forcing users to solve problems. We call thins "design for cognitive conflict".

whatever.

Yet another
free blogging service. They have a few nice features, like private posts and tags, but on the other hand, they dump ads on your pages. Should we bother? Probably best to stick with Blogger.

Look mum, a blog!

Looks like Edublog isn't quite working for us. Carey tried to register and we gave up after 30 minutes. There support didn't seem very, er, supportive either.

Ok, so what is this blog? Well, we're playing around with a programming course at the lkl, and we thought we'de try this as our platform. Probably not very interesting if your not the teacher or the student (yes, singular) of the course. You can waste your time better elsewhere.