CITations

• Annual Survey on Infocomm Usage in Households and by Individuals for 2006 [pdf]
• Technorati | Blog search engine
• Blogger | Free blogs
• Wordpress | Free blogs
• EduBlogs | Free blogs for educators & students
• Flickr | Photo hosting
• YouTube | Video hosting
• TeacherTube | Video hosting for educators (unlimited)
• SlideShare | YouTube for PowerPoints
• Reason & Persuasion | John Holbo's module blog
• Matrix of some uses of blogs in education | Scott Leslie
• The street finds its own use for things | Henry Farrell's five uses
• PC1432 | Physics IIe module blog
• LSM1303 | Animal Behaviour module blog
• CL2280 | Basic Translation module blog
• NM3216 | Game Culture (Design) 1 module blog
• NM4210 | User Experience Design
• A view from Singapore | Christopher Fahey on the NM4210 student blogs
• Urban Transport Issues Asia | Paul Barter's professional interest blog
• QBlog | Office of Quality Management blog
• Raffles Museum News | RMBR news blog
• Using NUS Module Blogs
• Blogs as Personal Learning Environments | James Farmer

Lifehacker featured a nifty online tool - BibMe - which lets you add sources, auto-creates entries in various formats (APA, MLA, Chicago), and enables you to save and export your entries.

I registered for an account, which says you can store up to 20 entries. I suppose they will eventually charge if you want to store more. Also, the website refused to acknowledge that I was logged in.

In any case, it's good particularly for the more esoteric sources. No need to refer to that style manual. Just choose the source on the tabs, search for it, then copy and paste the entry.

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You must have seen That Orange Button. It's everywhere.

Sometimes, it has RSS written on it. Sometimes, XML. Sometimes, it looks like this:

What exactly does it do?

Well, let the good people at CommonCraft help to demystify That Orange Button in this 3.5 minute video.

Christopher Fahey, "an artist, designer, teacher, and captain of industry", noticed that one of his online articles was required reading in Raghavendra Reddy's NM4210 User Experience Design module. Fahey notes:

In browsing the official site for the course, I was struck by the comprehensiveness of the reading lists and the depth of the course itself. Reddy’s students are required to create their own blogs, and all class assignments are to be submitted as blog posts. It is in the student blogs where I found these students to be remarkably thoughtful and insightful about interaction design and the power of good user research.

I know almost nothing about Singapore, but if this course and these students are representative of their education system, I’m duly impressed.

Fahey joins the conversation too, commenting on at least one of the students' blogs. I browsed through that blog and found it to be highly readable. I just wish the students would comment more on each others' work though!

Cheers to Kevin for highlighting Fahey's post.