Definitive reference to the JavaScript language. Bookmark so you have somewhere to lookup the properties and methods of the JavaScript objects you are working with. Part of the Mozilla Developer Network, which is a useful resource in itself. The “learning” resources are worth a look.
Posts from 2011
my bookmarks 12/21/2011
A site which tests and reports your browser’s support for new and forthcoming Html5, Css3 and JavaScript APIs and presenting the results in a simple grid. Where a feature is missing, haz.io links to a fallback resource.
tags:eg-259 html5 testing browser
- HTML5 Forms Readiness Chart · Wufoo
Nice test page for HTML5 form support. Includes browser charts and fallback (graceful degredation) resources in JavaScript and using widget libraries.
tags:html5 javascript eg-259 forms new forms test-page
- html5shiv – HTML5 IE enabling script – Google Project Hosting
“Public repo for the latest HTML5 JavaScript shim for IE to recognise and style the HTML5 elements. ” Small picce of JavavScript that assigns new HTML5 elements to DOM for older IE browsers. Allows them to be displayed and styled.
my bookmarks 12/20/2011
Improving accessibility: don’t leave it to the fairies! http://t.co/0Ipmy1eg. My thoughts, with links to some training opportunities.
my bookmarks 12/16/2011
Wow! You have got to try Doceri Remote for the iPad and Doceri Desktop for the PC/Mac. This app has one feature that I have not found on any other desktop remote. It allows you to annotate on anything. Basically, your iPad, PC/Mac and Projector becomes your digital smart board. There is no need to pay for expensive and bulky smart board systems. Nor any of the wireless pen based whiteboards. Doceri is all you need. Doceri gives you the freedom to teach from anywhere in the classroom. You can annotate, open and close programs, surf the web, play flash video, control and annotate on your power points wirelessly from your iPad. It even allows you to record your annotations and play them back. For more information please visit Doceri.
tags:doceri ipad teaching tools whiteboard annotation for:swansealearninglab
my bookmarks 12/15/2011
An easy to use, powerful, and flexible framework for building prototypes and production code on any kind of device. As heard on The Changelog http://bit.ly/vxND7J.
tags:zurb foundation css javascript framework examples eg-259 HTML5 boilerplate responsive
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the point about coursera is the enormous publicity value...i think the report from the previous edcmooc said that most participants had heard about the course via coursera
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Interesting question Chris. You might find one of the readings from next week useful as one perspective on this : Stewart, B., 2013. Massiveness + Openness = New Literacies of Participation? Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, 9(2). http://jolt.merlot.org/vol9no2/stewart_bonnie_0613.htm There are some advantages to having a centralised space, but we also wanted to challenge that idea and show what other useful and interesting pedagogies might be able to take place on the open web. Of course 'open' is a contestable term. One might argue that the Coursera platform is less 'open' that other spaces, but aspects of the 'public' web also have constraints and limitations. I take the view that we are always compromised in the digital. The themes and topics of the EDCMOOC are also related directly to the web, so it seems appropriate to think about these issues while working and being 'in' spaces that reflect the distributed and disruptive nature of the digital, rather than the enclosed safety of the classroom.
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I can see that the coursera branding might have this affect and it seems that last time around 60% of the students it was their first MOOC (this time it's not the case maybe - there appear to be lots serial MOOCers at least in Twitter). But once you've found the twitter hashtag and the resources list what's left for coursera to do? The conversations in the bulletin boards were too intellectual for me (and this isn't my first MOOC) so I left coursera almost immediately when I realised that other more accessible conversations were happening in the social networks.
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What are the advantages of a centralized space? Cousera and its ilk seem to assume that it's the model to go for but the original distributed MOOCs promoted a more distributed approach. It's interesting that you've decided to do both. Perhaps coursera is needed only for the certification at the end of the process but monitoring what's happening must be a challenge when yo don't have control of the space that it's happening in.
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sure but no everyone is talking like that. Im not.check out my blog if you want the proof. http://elearningmoocedinburgh.wordpress.com/ I even actually completed the course in january but i did hardly any reading
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I think the publicity value, as expressed below is definitely part of the reason. The ‘xMOOCs’ have attracted many more participants than the original ‘cMOOCs’. As the Stewart paper argues, a positive take on this would be to acknowledge that, at the very least, more exposure to online learning (and opportunities for engaging in digital literacy practices) must be a good thing. Part of our interesting in working with Coursera is to be critical of MOOCs, from an inside position. By critical, of course, I don’t mean negative. I mean that we can actively engage in both centralised AND distributed course spaces in order to get a sense of what works and what doesn’t. I don’t claim to know what MOOC pedagogy is, but being involved in teaching one might help me work towards that. I think the certification element is interesting, and we are certainly getting the sense that this is valued by a lot of students. However, there is also a lot of interest in centralised teaching, or ‘instruction’, and this is something that a centralised platform would seem to incorporate more readily.
my bookmarks 12/10/2011
Thought provoking blog post from David White. Some interesting ideas that have come out of interviews related to his Digital Residents and Natives and Open Edducational Resources research, viz the “emergency collaboration” 24 hours from coursework submission (I’m sure that goes on a lot in Swansea) and Google> Wikipedia> References which is a popular technique with students but is kept hidden because of the overt discouragement of academics for Google and Wikipedia as valid academic research tools. I’ve personally never had a problem with either G or W in my own learning. Am I prejudiced against them in my students’ learning?
tags:learning digital resident digital visitor tall-blog
- Open Educational Resources (OER) – Paul’s E-Learning Resources
tags:pauls resources oer e-learning
- OER Impact : JISC
“This study investigated the impact of Open Educational Resources (OER) use on teaching and learning. To achieve this, the project team reviewed current research in the area; surveyed, interviewed and ran workshops with suitable participants to collect data; and produced an accessible report on the study findings. The report considered the use of OER from both an individual and institutional perspective looking at the benefits OER can offer each and identifying the pedagogic, attitudinal, logistical and strategic factors conducive to uptake and sustained use of OER, as well as the associated issues and challenges.” Video, “accessible” report and full report available. Cited on Paul’s e-Learning Resources https://sites.google.com/site/technologyenhancedlearning/home/the-resources/open-educational-resources-oer
my bookmarks 12/09/2011
Interesting discussion on the Higher Education Teaching and Learning (HETL) group on LinkedIn (itself an interesting resource). You may need to be a LinkedIn member and join the HETL group to access the discussion.
tags:group discussion large class teaching linkedin large class suggestions
my bookmarks 12/06/2011
E-Learning Tips
Here’s a more useful set of ideas for exploring technology in e-learning for your personal development that the usual ones I see. “TEN WEB 2.0 THINGS YOU CAN DO IN TEN MINUTES TO BE A MORE SUCCESSFUL E-LEARNING PROFESSIONAL” a presentation by Stephen Downes, National Research Council Canada remixed by jago2009
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akAfCrOVhrM]Blogging this is related to tip 1 “Listen to a Conference Presentation” and 10 “watch a YouTube video”.
my bookmarks 11/29/2011
Allen Wirfs-Brock discusses the various computing eras and the change we are currently going through, leaving the PC era and entering a new one characterized by mobility, clouds, HTML and content.
tags:computing pc programming ambient computing javascript cloud
- Plagiarism | Common Craft
“An introduction of the basics of plagiarism and how to avoid it, told via a story of a student completing an assignment” as shared by the Wales RSC
tags:wales RSC disgital literacy plagiarism eg-353 sr-311
- Digital collections and archives for learning, teaching and research | JISC Content
“This website provides an introduction to digital collections designed for education. They are mainly aimed at university students, researchers and librarians but many of the online archives are open to anyone. The collections cover areas such as history, social sciences, or science and engineering and include, for example, journals, newspapers and images.”
tags:jisc content resources collections digital archive library rsc
- Occupy Flash – The movement to rid the world of the Flash Player plugin
Mentioned on The Guardian Tech Weekly Podcast 22/11/2011.
tags:flash html5 browser web web applications electronic voting systems