Though Educational Data Mining (EDM) has been around for a long while making the most of data has been a challenge. This article explores how to enrich data sources to enable better mining and gain deeper insights. Cheat Sheet Ok, so you don’t want to read the whole article… you are busy with your EDM Data Enrichment. What are …
What is the Internet? A very reasonable question these days and yet one that is deceptively simple with a potentially complicated answer. There is however a great analogy to be able to describe “What is the Internet?” The Internet is 3 things working together in harmony. Network, Protocols and Applications. However to most people that could be Double Dutch. Here …
Browser Fingerprints are left every time you look at a web page. In the same way if you pick up a glass with no gloves on, you leave behind a trace of yourself. So what do you leave? What can servers see? Is this information valuable? This article examines the specific technical hows and whats of the services and how …
Science Fiction to Science Fact, this article looks at some of the amazing developments from creative minds, to something you can pick up and use today. So what science fiction can you use today and potentially extend yourself? Merriam-Webster defines etymology as “Etymon means “origin of a word” in Latin, and comes from the Greek word etymon, meaning “literal meaning …
LCARS interface – build your own: is an article to bring a science fiction Star Trek’esque interface into real world usage. As I examined in the article Science Fiction into Science Fact, there are many tools we can use for ourselves these days that were previously only the realm of science fiction. Working with KeyRings from WhereWeLearn, this example …
Precise vs Imprecise. I was privileged recently to be invited to deliver some tutorials in Secondary School Physics. Bracing for the inevitable statement of “I’ll never use this in real life.” I wanted to have something prepared. In this article, I try to explain to my teenage self why I would study precise and imprecise subjects. Some people really hate …
iFrames or “inline Frames” were first introduced in 1997. In over 20 years of use the technology industry used, praised, shunned and ignored iFrames. This article explores this wonderful technology and how it can be used in a very positive sense. iFrames or multiple screens? Space is a premium for everyone. From the macro to the micro. However when …
Languageizer is a tool available on the WhereWeLearn platform. https://wherewelearn.com/forfun/languageizer-options.php Languageizer uses modern browser technology to help in the learning of languages by combining basic word lists with a browser’s SpeechSynthesis. It uses the fundamentals of speaking a language and modern browser technology to provide a free language learning tool. Current Languageizer and Language Projects on WhereWeLearn N.B. These …
QR Codes or Quick Response Codes bring technology content into the physical world. Yet how can you use them for training? Having worked in a strict governance environment for years, finding ways of reminding people of governance was always challenging. Navigating through piles of documentation to find the one relevant paragraph in a timely fashion is even harder. QR Codes …
Mindful Writing is a new approach and tool which addresses a common learning challenge presented to educators when moving role plays to an electronic format. I recently had to address a challenge around Role Plays in an eLearning and distance learning environment. The standard solution was to video tape the interactions and put the entire recording of the video in …
