Paperless Study

There are hundreds of ways to make your online class a better experience. Studying online is an increasingly available option - it's cheaper, and in many ways, better. There are lots of articles explaining how to create on-line learning communties and get a sense of belonging with your classmates far away. By far, this is the most important aspect of on-line learning.

But second comes the technology, which I've written an article about here. Unfortunately, teaching hasn't quite caught up to the possibilities digital study has to offer. What this means for you is that you'll have to make obsolete resources match more rapidly-developing technologies. Until the education system catches up, you're going to have to make some accomodations.

MAF-LT is excited to announce a new release of DEScribe!  DEScribe is a course authoring application that supports exporting to DEViewer.  This release of DEScribe includes several smaller enhancements:

• Added a selected icon to the cascading style sheet display in the metadata tree.  This is useful if a package contains multiple css files.
• The styles in the cascading style sheet are now automatically displayed in the WYSIWYG drop-down styles menu.
• Added the list of panes under the Windows menu item.  Each pane can be shown or hidden from this menu.
• Added additional file types to the file-type selector in the insert images and resources dialog box

A set of completed tickets for this release is located on the DEScribe Trac site for release 1.2.5.1.
 
For more information and to download DEScribe 1.2.5, please visit the DEScribe product page.

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Learning Technologies is researching the web based content management system called Drupal.  We are looking to use Drupal as a hub for a collaborative website featuring forums, wikis, static content and a library. This story is a continuation of a previous story. 

One of the details we were going to research further into was the use of breadcrumbs in the wiki.  Breadcrumbs would allow for navigation of Drupal wiki pages in an intuitive manner.  After doing some research, I found that Drupal has this ability built into it in the form of the Book module.

Social networking works. Here's part of an email I just received, as an example:

Brad -

I stumbled across you through an Amazon book review 
(Missions in the 21st Century), discovered you are now 
working with MAF-LT, and then, via your blog, saw that you
will be in AZ sometime in October. Depending on where 
you'll be in AZ and when, I'd enjoy the opportunity to
connect with you.

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