Isobel Falconer :: Blog

January 07, 2009

Have a play with Wonderland

January 07, 2009

As part of the Habitat project we have been exploring the use of the Wonderland platform from Sun microsystems. This is a 3D Multi-User Virtual Environment (MUVE). See here for some further information from Sun.We have built a simple world which contains a number of shared applications and whiteboards within it (Habitat world). In addition, at the University of ...

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December 24, 2008

Twitter allegiance

December 24, 2008

In the spirit of passing time at Christmas, and following on from a heated discussion about the meaning and robustness of community in online environments, I invited 100 of my 1,276 current Twitter followers to fill in a quick survey cunningly designed to provide a fairly wonky measure of community allegiance. Of course I welcome critical feedback about ...

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December 23, 2008

We - have - A - P - I!!

December 23, 2008

Thanks to the good work of Ajdin, we now have an HTML API that serves Patterns and Cases in XML, PLML, RSS or CSV. I’ve also added a generic API, which allows you to browse all object in the system in XML/HTML. The intention here is to allow other design pattern / learning design repositories to ...

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December 18, 2008

Edublog Awards 2008

December 18, 2008

Its the Edublog Awards 2008! Dust off your party outfits and get ready to join us on Saturday night for the spectacular 5th awards show, celebrating the vibrancy of blog and social media practice to support learning. Voting is still open across this years 16 categories, and every vote still counts since most of the category ...

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December 15, 2008

Good advice from Balbir Barn

December 15, 2008

In November Harvey Mellar I had a long chat with Balbir Barn. Balbir has done a lot of work with JISC on process modelling, and is well versed in the design patterns paradigm. The first thing Balbir noted was that we should be clear about the nature of our patterns: these are pedagogical patterns, and are ...

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pattern browsers that make you go ahhh

December 15, 2008

I’ve recently come across these beautiful pattern browsers from Interface Design Team of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. Of course, my immediate reaction was “I want one like this”. Its not surprising that an interface design / information visualisation group can come up with a better interface than our humble table. But there’s more ...

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December 12, 2008

Organsing Principle for Patterns.

December 12, 2008

Jakki, Andrea and I made an attempt recently to map some of the patterns held on the Planet Wiki against the time and decision based organisational structure put forward by Sally Fincher. We had some success and we also encountered several issues. Particular areas of difficulty arose from: working with a dynamic timeline identifying disciplinary based decisions We ...

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December 09, 2008

iGoogle

December 09, 2008

Started looking into the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) the other day. Downloaded all the kit and got everything working, almost within the Eclipse IDE. The tutorial I used didn’t completely work but I got the general idea. Next the API’s samples and a web app of my own. Its going to be a busy week. ...

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December 01, 2008

Planet and the Semantic Web

December 01, 2008

I had a meeting with Tony Linde (U&I Semantic Web) and Vania Dimitrova / Lydia Lau (AWESOME project - Leeds Uni) today where Tony looked at how the semantic web might be applied to JISC projects. With regard to Planet Tony suggested that there were opportunities to apply semantic Web approaches, particularly when we seek ...

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