Blogs about: Educational Technology Tools
Current Research on Online Learning
jimsparks wrote 4 months ago: The Effectiveness of Online Learning In May 2009, the U.S. Department of Education published a repo … more →
People in the Field
jimsparks wrote 1 year ago: Elliot Soloway: Researcher in the Integration of Technology into Education Your comments are welcome … more →
Web 2.0 - Harnessing Collective Intelligence
jimsparks wrote 1 year ago: At the heart of the World Wide Web’s architecture is hyperlinking, a feature which gives the W … more →
Web 2.0 - Software Above the Level of a Single Device
jimsparks wrote 1 year ago: In the early days of the Web (1990) interaction between browsers and servers was largely uni-directi … more →
YouTube
jimsparks wrote 1 year ago: Mike Wesch at the Library of Congress Brolsma Original Numa Numa video … more →
Web 2.0 - Re-mixable data source
jimsparks wrote 1 year ago: A re-mixable data source is, by and large, a web site that permits the user to combine the site … more →
Web 2.0 - Cost-Effective Scalability
jimsparks wrote 1 year ago: To understand what’s meant by cost-effective scalability let’s look at some new servcice … more →
Web 2.0 - Architecture of Participation
jimsparks wrote 1 year ago: Architecture of Participation is an O’Reilly concept that describes systems, such as the World … more →
Web 2.0 - Service vs. Software
jimsparks wrote 1 year ago: In a previous post, I discussed the evolving defintition of the word “platform”, how it … more →
Web 2.0 - Introduction
jimsparks wrote 1 year ago: So what’s all this brew-ha-ha about Web 2.0 (pronounced web-2-point-oh by the initiated)? Well … more →
The Illuminated Wiki
jimsparks wrote 1 year ago: The illuminated wiki is used to engage learners in a process of explication often accomplished throu … more →
The Simulation Wiki
jimsparks wrote 1 year ago: The simulation wiki lends itself to activities such as creative writing projects and the study of hi … more →
The Presentation Wiki
jimsparks wrote 1 year ago: The presentation wiki could also be called the course management wiki because, even though it doesn … more →
The Resource Wiki
jimsparks wrote 1 year ago: For educators the Resource Wiki allows a classroom to become a knowledge-building community. The goa … more →
The Gateway Wiki
jimsparks wrote 1 year ago: The gateway wiki connects a data set to the typical wiki features that enable participants to share … more →
What Wiki?
jimsparks wrote 1 year ago: A wiki is a web page which users can change. The idea of wiki originated in 1995 when Ward Cunningha … more →
Why Wiki?
jimsparks wrote 1 year ago: In his article entitled Coase’s Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm, American law pro … more →
