Category: General

Did anyone else see the Newsnight story on Web 2.0 just now? It’s interesting to see the mainstream media frame these technologies in a way that the unaccustomed can easily understand. It might be worth discovering more of these in the future – you can build the coolest tool in the world, but it’s no…

Today has been interesting to say the least. Lots of people (a capacity audience) talking about all kinds of different issues surrounding e-learning and e-portfolios. I’m very interested in topic maps, which have come up several times; the trick is going to be creating a friendly user interface for them. This kind of thing –…

The ePortfolio 2005 conference starts in earnest tomorrow – today we were all talking about how different e-portfolio systems can interoperate, and in theory demonstrating working implementations. The instructions we were sent months in advance dictated no PowerPoint presentations; I knew exactly how the day would pan out after the first three speakers whipped out…

{{file:1717}} Interesting mention of deriving test systems from UML – first time I’ve heard that standard discussed at an e-learning conference. “Driven by the needs of users”, “Give priority to methods currently in use” – absolutely!