http://kathryn.dirkin.com/blog Kathryn Hershey Dirkin Fri, 18 May 2007 19:21:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Digital Learning site from the MacArthur foundation was launched in 2006. Parts of the site are still under development. ... Definitely worth watching... http://kathryn.dirkin.com/blog/?p=32 As I mentioned previously, I am currently helping to build a set of online courses. Our design team is constantly struggling with different ways to represent content (for a particular goal or objective--e.g. model for students how to integrate a internet-based lesson plan). Anyway, I wanted to add a link ... http://kathryn.dirkin.com/blog/?p=31 On April 20th of this year our governor signed into effect a law that revised Michigan's high school graduation requirements. The state has more recently published a set of guidelines for the Online Learning requirement. (Thanks to my colleague Carrie for sending this along :-) ). This document provides clarification ... http://kathryn.dirkin.com/blog/?p=30 Recently I spoke with students at CMU on how to create a podcast using ODEO studio. I have also created a short flash video on how to create a podcast. To view the video click here. http://kathryn.dirkin.com/blog/?p=29 EASE History is a web-based application that supports the social studies curriculum. The site is filled with videos and photographs from campaign ads. Users of the EASE interface can compare and contrast videos with their unique flash based interface. Recently, I interviewed Brian Collins the lead ... http://kathryn.dirkin.com/blog/?p=27 In my quest for finding open source digital library software, I came across Dspace.org. Dspace was developed by MIT and Hewlett-Packard. Institutions are using it to store, organize, classify, and make accessible to others all different types of digital objects. Important metadata is associated with each digital object. (Once again ... http://kathryn.dirkin.com/blog/?p=24 Currently I am in the process of designing some online courses. Today I was thinking about not just how and why a specific media should be selected but also ... when. While the courses focus on teaching skills (in a meaningful context and related to practice) they are still well ... http://kathryn.dirkin.com/blog/?p=23 I just came across this site that has an application which gives visitors to your blog the opportunity to leave audio comments. It is $45 dollars a year and has a 2 min limit on messages. I haven't looked into this any further but it has interesting possibilities for K-12. ... http://kathryn.dirkin.com/blog/?p=22 All I can say is that I don't think we have heard the last of this. I have seen some other postings from people who feel that the patent was too broad and that it will have to be worked out in litigation. See an article last month in The ... http://kathryn.dirkin.com/blog/?p=21 The next series of posts have all been copied from a blog I was using as part of a course I was teaching in Spring 06. http://kathryn.dirkin.com/blog/?p=5