Category Archives: compendium
Saving and sharing design maps in a browser friendly format
This is an update on work towards exporting learning designs in the SVG format (W3C SVG Working Group, 2011b), and sharing them via e-mail, or by uploading the SVG file to a web site. It builds on earlier posts, and … Continue reading
Learning outcomes, concepts and media
Some quick notes about mapping relationshops between learning activitites, the media through which activities can be delivered, the concepts that the activities are intended to teach, and the learning outcomes that are presented to students. 1 A picture showing the … Continue reading
Coding Compendium / CompendiumLD links and transclusions in SVG
This post follows on from my last one, adding some thoughts about the way Compendium links can be encoded in SVG, a way that permits the links to be straight lines or any sor of arc or curve. There’s also … Continue reading
Design visualisation and mapping for the web using SVG
This post is about a way to share the visual representations of learning activities in particular, and visual representations of linked ideas in general (go straight to an example). This general category of ‘visual representation of linked ideas’ includes any … Continue reading
Visualising the process and products of learning design
I will be at CAL ’09 next week in Brighton, and am looking forward to it, in particular some of the sessions and papers which include work from the JISC Curriculum design call. For example, the “challenges of the design … Continue reading
Java Interfaces used as types
v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} Here are some notes I have made about using Java Interfaces as types, prompted by my initial confusion about the concept, a discussion with Michele Bachler, and reading this and this (thanks … Continue reading
Timing information in CompendiumLD
I have been working on a new feature for CompendiumLD which allows the user (designer) to specify how long they expect each task within an activity will take. Using this new feature the designer can specify that a particular task … Continue reading
Video annotation in Compendium – applications in learning design?
Simon Buckingham-Shum has recently described early work which will enable a user to annotate a video within Compendium. He writes that this development will enable “not only the usual temporal annotation of video, but adding a spatial dimension so that … Continue reading
Derby database notes
I’ve set the %DERBY_HOME% environment variable so can start the Derby ij tool using: java -jar %DERBY_HOME%\lib\derbyrun.jar ij and also see the system info (e.g. java version etc) using java -jar %DERBY_HOME%\lib\derbyrun.jar sysinfo. The ij tool needs to be started … Continue reading
Compendium and Eclipse
I’ve just spent an hour trying to work out why running Compendium from inside Eclipse wasn’t working. Note to self for when I want to get the development environment running on another machine: remember to set the working directory to … Continue reading
