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January 09, 2009
The problem with the mother
January 09, 2009
Link love: This post builds on the case study I contributed to the Eduserv workshop on Digital Identities at the British Library today. Everyone's case studies are lodged over at the Pattern Language Network site, along with Yishay's Slidedeck pattern language tutorial on writing a case study. It also moves forward some observations I made in my post ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
November 19, 2008
the new pattern template is here!
November 19, 2008
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been busy with workshops all over the place: CETL ALiC in leeds, formative e-Assessment in London, Teaching and Learning Computer Science in Edinbrugh. Of these, the first two were planned as a Workshop II in the frame of our methodology. The London one pretty much followed the plan, while ...
Try once, refine once: a handy pattern from Aliy Fowler
November 19, 2008
Aliy Fowler from Kent is one of the participants in our formative e-Assessment group. She brought us a case story called String comparison in language learning. At the 2nd workshop of this group, we discussed this case, and identified a pattern, which she called Try Once, Refine Once. Aliy and her table posted the first ...
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