I saw an interesting presentation on Machinima the other day (thanks, Julia!), which basically refers to the creation of animated film (digital video) through use of 3D video game engines, either through recording video game output or otherwise exploiting video game engines for creation of new material. Due a search on Google, and you’ll be [...]
Archive for November, 2004
Machinima
Posted in general on November 24, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Google Scholar!
Posted in general on November 18, 2004 | 1 Comment »
Hold on to your hats–here comes Google Scholar!!
You can read a bit about it in a New York Times article, read Google’s information about it, or simply try it out.
What do you think of it?
Open thread
Posted in general on November 13, 2004 | 3 Comments »
Here’s your chance to post any links, news, or anything else you’d like to share with Papyrus News readers. Just do so in a comment below.
Educational Technology Policy
Posted in general on November 12, 2004 | 1 Comment »
Here’s a paper on twenty years of educational technology policy in the U.S.
The Power of Positive Deviance
Posted in general on November 12, 2004 | 2 Comments »
You can download a PowerPoint presentation from this page about positive deviance. PD is an approach to social change that involves identification of best practices, sifting through to determine their replicability, and active dissemination to others. Originally designed for health research, I think it’s a good model to try to identify and spread positive educational [...]
Measuring ICT Literacy
Posted in general on November 11, 2004 | 1 Comment »
Educational Testing Service has launched a major initiative to measure Information and Communication Technology literacy. You can download the 52-page framework for the initiative, read a press release on it, or visit the ETS website on the it.
Thanks to Sandra Fotos for passing on this info–and congratulations to Sandra on her recently released book, New [...]
Election maps
Posted in general on November 11, 2004 | 3 Comments »
Two centuries of U.S. progress.
A personal appeal
Posted in general on November 11, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
A personal appeal from Mrs. Suha Arafat.
Getting the blog by email
Posted in general on November 10, 2004 | 1 Comment »
Well, a couple of people have said that you can get this blog, and other blogs, via email through services such as Bloglines and Bloglet. I did set up a link on the right side of the page to subscribe to this list via Bloglines. I’m not quite sure how you get from there to [...]
Online research access
Posted in general on November 10, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Though the public funds much U.S. research–through federal grants and public universities–access to this research is, for the most part, controlled by for-profit journals that charge exhorbitant fees. Now, the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. is considering whether it should require all its grantees to provide copies of their to-be-published manusripts so that, [...]
