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Moving to Moodle
A series of talking heads discuss the move of the Bloomsbury Learning Environment to Moodle 2 from Blackboard 8. Videos provided on the ULCC Events Channel.
Techno-glut
I’ve been gorging on new technology this week. It all started with Episode 6 of Doug Crockford’s “Crockford on JavaScript“, an excellent series of evening Yahoo! technical talks that on the history of programming and the JavaScript language that originally … Continue reading
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Tagged javascript, node, technology, videos, yahoo, yui
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The History of the Internet
This (partial) history of the Internet (from Arpanet to Internet) has been created as a show case for a German student’s diploma project to develop a visual language for electronic communication called PICOL. I picked it up from Lee Lefever … Continue reading
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Wikis and RSS in Plain English
I’m indebted to Brady Forrest on O’Reilly Radar for the link to this cool video by Lee & Sachi LeFever that explains how Wiki works. There’s also a companion video RSS in Plain English that I haven’t embedded here, but … Continue reading
Google Tech Talk Showcase
Dion Almaer has provided a nice new portal to the Google Tech Talk Showcase of tech videos that are hosted on Google Video. I’ve been picking these up from a search feed that looks for the engEdu tag on Google … Continue reading
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Google Developer Day 2007
Dion Almaer blogs about the Google Developer Day which took place at several locations worldwide on 31st May. I stumbled upon the announcement of Google Gears yesterday among the growing collection of YouTube videos recorded at the various events. Expect … Continue reading
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Rod Johnson: Are we there yet?
Just published on InfoQ is a video recorded at last year’s Java and Object-oriented (JAOO) software engineering conference. Rod, Enterprise Java guru and original developer of the Spring Framework gives a “state of the union” statement on Enterprise Java in … Continue reading
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