Interoperability in Action - a Video Presentation This video has been produced to demonstrate the important role of interoperability and standards when creating and sharing learning materials. Using tools developed as part of the X4L Programme, the demonstration involves the transportation of content via the RELOAD content packaging tool, the creation of learning objects in a digital repository and how these can be reused to enhance a teacher's learning material, through to delivering the finished object to the institutional VLE. The step-by-step instructions provide a 'how-to' guide on using these systems. The video is approxi From EdNA Online on November 3, 2004 at 10:53 p.m..
Introducing Moodle An online slide presentation about the nature of Moodle and how it might be used in a variety of situations. Moodle is an acronym for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment. From EdNA Online on November 3, 2004 at 10:53 p.m..
Shared Learning Objects Developed by Mid-South Community College of West Memphis, AR, the learning objects are free to use. The learning objects are categorised by subject, including: Business, Computer Systems, Information Systems, English, Faculty Development, Fine Arts, History, Instructional Design, Math, Foreign Languages, Science, Social Sciences. From EdNA Online on November 3, 2004 at 10:53 p.m..
Cineaste This Web site, from the UC Berkeley's Media Resource Center, makes available a selection of articles, interviews and reviews from the notable US film magazine, Cineaste. The articles cover a broad range of world cinema, focusing on films, actors and directors from North America, Latin America, Asia and Africa and taking into account issues of race and ethnicity, diaspora, and gender in particular. Here, users may read articles taken from a special issue on 'Race in Contemporary American Cinema', which examines, for example, Allison Anders's 'Mi Vida Loca'; the po From New Humbul Resources on November 3, 2004 at 10:30 p.m..
Dissertationen online Dissertations Online is a virtual information exchange on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) set up by the German National Library (Die Deutsche Bibliothek, DDB). The site offers a DDB link to some 24,000 ETDs from Germany, as well as a number of other links to key German and American sites that are gateways to thousands more. A cursory search of German ETDs suggests that the Sciences are dominating the Humanities and Social Sciences in the online publication of doctoral disserations at Higher Education Institutions. In addition to the dissertations themselves, the site posts inform From New Humbul Resources on November 3, 2004 at 10:30 p.m..
Curriculum Leadership 2:34 Wooranna Park Primary School Curriculum Leadership 2:34 Wooranna Park Primary School. Wooranna Park is a culturally diverse government primary school located in an economically disadvantaged suburb in Melbourne. The school has engaged in a deliberate and systematic process of research and innovation in order to make education more relevant for children in the 21st century by moving from teaching through instruction to practices based on the 'pedagogy of listening' and that recognises children as subjects of individual, civil and social rights. From EdNA Online on November 3, 2004 at 9:30 p.m..
Young People and Vocational Education and Training in South Australia This NCVER paper aims to establish the importance of vocational education and training (VET) to young people in South Australia in Adelaide and regional areas. It is based on analysis of the number of young people and their characteristics within two broad groups: those who complete 12 years of schooling and continue their education in VET; and those who leave school before Year 12 but continue their education in VET. It finds that VET, as a substitute of continuing school, is important in Adelaide and regional areas, although it is more important in non-metropolitan areas. Further, lower soci From EdNA Online on November 3, 2004 at 9:30 p.m..
ARKIVE – IMAGES OF LIFE ON EARTH ARKive gathers together, into a centralized digital library films, photographs and audio recordings of the world’s species, creating a record of the world’s biodiversity. The Web site features photographs of endangered and protected species worldwide, and includes information on habitat, status, descriptions, threats and biology. ARKive is a not-for-profit initiative of Wildscreen (www.wildscreen.org.uk), a UK-based charity, whose mission is ‘to use the power of wildlife images to inspire the people of the world to value and conserve our natural environment and its biodiversity’. ARKIVE From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on November 3, 2004 at 1:30 p.m..
Beginner's Guide to CGI Scripting with Perl This is a basic tutorial designed to help novice programmers learn the Perl programming language, specifically to learn enough to be able to run CGI scripts on a Unix web server. It assumes no prior programming or Unix knowledge. The site is written by John Callender, the author of the book Perl for Web Site Management. From EEVL New Learning Materials on November 3, 2004 at 11:30 a.m..
Introduction to Perl This document gives a general introduction to the Perl programming language. It includes links to Perl references and resources, and information about creating, storing, and running Perl programs. There is also information on testing Perl programs and common mistakes of novices. From EEVL New Learning Materials on November 3, 2004 at 10:30 a.m..
Supporting Student Wellbeing - Conference Proceedings 2004 Papers under the conference theme 'What does the research tell us about the social and emotional development of young people?'. From EdNA Online on November 3, 2004 at 3:30 a.m..
South Australian Policy Online An interactive public policy website linking researchers and public policy makers in South Australia. SAPO is a collaborative initiative of the Australian Institute for Social Research at the University of Adelaide, the Hawke Research Institute at University of South Australia, Flinders Institute of Public Policy and Management at the Flinders University of South Australia, the Don Dunstan Foundation and the South Australian government. From EdNA Online on November 3, 2004 at 3:30 a.m..
Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) A collection of images offered by the Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division. From EdNA Online on November 3, 2004 at 3:30 a.m..
MediaCollege.com MediaCollege.com is a free resource website providing educational and reference material in the field of electronic media. Topics covered include video and television production, audio work, still imagery and graphics, website design and more. Quick Guides consist of basic step-by-step instructions for specific tasks, and usually take less than 5 minutes to read. Tutorials cover topics in more detail and provide structured learning with background information, suggested exercises, etc. Most take between 20 and 60 minutes to complete. From EdNA Online on November 3, 2004 at 3:30 a.m..
Ariadne, Issue 41, October 2004 Published every three months by UKOLN. In this issue: ISBN-13: New Number on the Block, Ann Chapman; The Tapir: Adding E-Theses Functionality to DSpace, Richard Jones; Improving Communications within JISC through News Aggregation, Paul Davey; Developing Portal Services and Evaluating How Users Want to Use Them: The CREE Project, Chris Awre, Matthew J Dovey, Jon Hunter, William Kilbride and Ian Dolphin; The Dawning of DARE: A Shared Experience, Annemiek van der Kuil and Martin Feijen; What Do Application Profiles Reveal about the Learning Object Metadata Standard?, Jean Godby; How the Use of St From EdNA Online on November 3, 2004 at 3:30 a.m..
MathWorksite: Online Math Worksheet Generator This web site will allow you to create printable math worksheets for children learning simple arithmetic (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) from your browser. Each worksheet that is created will have a new arrangement of problems, or new problems altogether, depending on the type of worksheet. There are also time telling problems, fractions, and a one hundred chart. An answer sheet can be printed for each problem worksheet. The site includes a subscribers only area, with a small subscription cost, where over 40 additional types of worksheets are available in PDF format. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on November 3, 2004 at 1:30 a.m..
College-Cram.com Biology Page Learn about cells, human anatomy, and other biology topics with our tutorials, flashcards, and other reference materials. College-Cram.com is a 24/7 tutorial library for college students and professionals who need help with Biology and more. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on November 3, 2004 at 1:30 a.m..
Matt Turner's webpage French teacher at High School has compiled websites and personal experiences in French and Tunisian Arabic From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on November 3, 2004 at 1:30 a.m..
Extremophiles Extreme organisms that can survive in the harshest and strangest of environments. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on November 3, 2004 at 1:30 a.m..
Graphics Tutorial: Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004 This tutorial will guide students in creating a company logo banner using Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004. The material is part of the online resources for the textbook Web Developer Foundations: Using XHTML. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on November 3, 2004 at 1:30 a.m..
Reusing Educational Material for Teaching and Learning: Current Approaches and Directions The authors survey some current approaches in the area of technologies for electronic documents that are used for finding, reusing and adapting documents for teaching or learning purposes. They describe how research in structured documents, document representation and retrieval, semantic representation of document content and relationships, and ontologies could be used to provide solutions to the problem of reusing education material for teaching and learning. From EdNA Online on November 2, 2004 at 11:30 p.m..
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