http://rruane.com/dcd Mildly Obscure, Tragically Unhip Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:24:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This nice article on implicature (from The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) the basics of the Gricean implicature is forcing me to rethink some of the more naive examples I gave in class last night. Interesting to think about the assumption of cooperativeness in interfaces and instruction versus the assumption of ... http://rruane.com/dcd/archives/31 Just in time for tonight's presentation, here are copies of my: Presentation Paper http://rruane.com/dcd/archives/30 Given my interest in online learning, it's surprising that it took me a year to get around to engaging an article I'd bookmarked almost a year ago: Learners' Perspectives on What is Missing from Online Learning. The co-authors, from major Canadian research universities, noted several areas where learners (apparently mostly adult ... http://rruane.com/dcd/archives/29 I Have No Words & I Must Design is Greg Costikyan's classic article on what makes a game a game and what makes a great game great. I got this article via email several years ago from a former colleague. The email came with the provocative title "is instructional design like ... http://rruane.com/dcd/archives/28 Howard Rheingold published Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier in 1993, wrapping up a good portion of his research in 1992 or earlier. At this time the World Wide Web was still nascent, and those of us who were finding our way onto the Internet via commercial access providers ... http://rruane.com/dcd/archives/26 Update: I've moved this post to make room on the main page. Click here for the originally posted rough draft. http://rruane.com/dcd/archives/23 Ru Weatherwax is a newbie avatar in Second Life, and rarely has more than a few Lindens to his name. He's prone to changing clothes (and body) a lot. Ru started out life like most other Avatars, navigating Orientation Island (where he had to retake several of the tutorials because he's ... http://rruane.com/dcd/archives/22 Flock and I may have hit the first bump in our otherwise all-honeymoon of a relationship. (You'll notice there's no "blogged with Flock" below.) Okay, I admit it: I'm a convert to the notion of structural markup, and that means I'm probably more fanatical than other, saner people who have real ... http://rruane.com/dcd/archives/21 True Confessions and Full Disclosure: I am a pathetic geek for online office apps. Theoretically, they fascinated me when I first heard of them, but that was back when pretty much everyone who wasn't making six figures was stuck with dial-up. I mean, if you were in the office on a ... http://rruane.com/dcd/archives/20 So, uhm, they've got China Meiville, Cory Doctorow, and the Booker Prize. And now they've got an apparently viable plan for urban WiFi, too? Wi-fi sharing plan launched in UK Blogged with Flock http://rruane.com/dcd/archives/19