User:Jonesd
Since 1994 I've had a personal home page with all the relevant details, and probably a lot more than required. Some other related info is below.
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My Links Annals of Education: Most Likely to Succeed: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker Posted on 8 January 2009 Has somethings to say about the importance of the teacher compared to other factors in the quality of learning. Implications for the focus on anything but that at Universities. InfoQ: Developing Expertise: Herding Racehorses, Racing Sheep Posted on 16 December 2008 Talks about software development but is directly applicable to the design of learning and teaching. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School Posted on 4 December 2008 Some fundamental knowledge about how folk learn that should underpin what we do. American University of Sharjah Posted on 17 November 2008
Social Aggregators Emerge To Manage Digital Lifestyles [Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog] Posted on 16 November 2008 Like this idea as it provides a chance to break the Facebook hold. Muddling about in the PLE space Posted on 12 November 2008 An attempt to understand a famous diagram in the PLE world. I think there's some value in re-framing this within the context of the Web2.0 course site idea, both so far and what we need into the future. How are you going Nathaniel? Posted on 12 November 2008
Posted on 12 November 2008
Study Name:USG Student Information Technology (SIT) Study - Advanced Learning Technologies - USG Posted on 12 November 2008
Online Student Course Evaluations | Virtual Canuck Posted on 12 November 2008 A timely post from Terry Anderson about online evaluations, considering the low response rate on CQUniversity's evaluations.
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My Blog
Posted on 9 January 2009
I’ve been a fan of Dave Snowden and his work for a couple of years. In this blog post from last year Dave shares 7 principles for “rendering knowledge”. For me, these 7 principles have direct connection with the tasks I’m currently involved with e-learning, curriculum design and helping improve the quality of learning and [...]
Content, redirects and impact on Google ranking
Posted on 7 January 2009
Late last year I wrote that this blog was currently ranked #12 by Google (US-based search) for a search on “david jones”.
Over the Xmas break I spent a fair bit of time copying content from my old website to this blog and putting in place permanent redirects from the old site to the new content. [...]
Reflections and Implications from Webfuse - Domain languages
Posted on 7 January 2009
As I am currently writing up the PhD I have banned myself from working on any new papers. However, as I work through the PhD I will get ideas for papers so rather than waste time writing them in full and even worse forget about them I’m going to try and write about them on [...]
Implementing the rotating banner image
Posted on 6 January 2009
I’ve mentioned some plans to implement a rotating banner image on this blog. As you may have picked up from this post, if you’re looking at the site, that such a rotating banner image has been implemented. Here’s the story.
It’s one of pragmatism. The plan of not using an external server, after a minimum [...]
Webfuse usage statistics - Online assignment submission
Posted on 5 January 2009
Online assignment submission is one of the more used features of Webfuse and is explained in part in a few publications like this one. Number of students and courses
Year
- of Students
% of All students
- of courses
- assignments
2000
1067
5.6%
11
1519
2001 1646 7.5% 18 3915
2002 4005 17.4% 28 13468
2003 3805 16.5% 48 14792
2004 5709 23.3% 65 23273
2005 8134 29.1% 79 26781
2006 7109 25.5% 92 29132
2007 6328 27.3% 97 25317
2008 6571 31.9% 124 24081
Posted in thesis, webfuse
Webfuse statistics - Staff Portal
Posted on 5 January 2009
Webfuse provides a “staff portal” called Staff MyCQU. It is essentially a web-based application that provides a single interface to most of the tools/services staff require while teaching a course.
- staff using the staff portal
The following (as yet incomplete) table shows the # of unique staff using the staff portal and the average [...]
Webfuse usage statistics - Quizzes
Posted on 5 January 2009
As part of my PhD thesis I’ll be generating some statistics about the usage of the Webfuse e-learning system that has been in use at CQU since 1996.
I plan to post those statistics to my blog to share the data but also to encourage discussion and suggestions around the causes and contributing factors behind these [...]
Operating Systems animations and other resources
Posted on 30 December 2008
Back in 1998/1999 I supervised a couple of project students (who have gone onto bigger and brighter things) in the development of some multimedia resources to support a course in operating systems. The most recent version of the course is available here.
I taught the course from about 1995 through 1999. I seem to [...]
Plans for implementing rotating banner image
Posted on 28 December 2008
Problem: Implement a rotating banner image on this blog which is hosted by WordPress.com. This means I cannot install any WordPress themes that automatically support bnner rotation (e.g. the Mandigo theme suggested by Will Taylor.
There is a known approach that relies upon you having some disk space on a server that will let you run [...]
Rotating banner images in WordPress - the last missing puzzle piece
Posted on 28 December 2008
When I moved by website from my long-term personal server to WordPress.com the one bit of functionality that I lost was the rotating banner image.
The image of the sunrise just north of Kaikoura in the banner above is static. It’s always the same. Back on the original website I had a collection of 40+ [...]
