Tuesday, October 05, 2004

Amazon Launches New Web Services. The online retailer adds new Web Services offerings for developers, including access to the Alexa Web Information Service. [eWEEK Technology News] 1:30:35 PM    comment []  trackback []

Studycard Studio Lite 2.2.1. Studycard Studio Lite is a program to create and memorize multimedia flashcards, tests, and tutorials, including picture and sound identification. It is meant for educators, students, or anyone who has something to memorize. Students can create and study their own flashcards and track their progress. Educators can create quizzes or flashcards for their students. [freshmeat.net] Looks like I ned to find a Mac to try this out... 1:27:07 PM    comment []  trackback []

New Features @ www.cali.org: AutoPublish, LessonLink, ScoreSave, and Flash Viewer www.cali.org - CALI Spotlight:"Available now to CALI members are a series of new features, AutoPublish, LessonLink, ScoreSave, and the Flash Lesson Viewer. These features allow faculty to create lessons/quizzes/tutorials, publish those exercises to the CALI website, and assign them to students in a specific class. Students can then take the lesson and save the results.  The faculty member can then review the saved results of his students.  " This combo of features puts the finishing touches on an end-to-end system for the creation, distribution, tracking, and basic analysis of web-based exercises/tutorials/lessons/quizzes.  I don't think there is anything else like this out there. 11:55:09 AM    comment []  trackback []

DoubleType 0.1.6. DoubleType is a graphical typeface designer that builds TrueType font files. It is designed with collaborative creation in mind. Unlike other programs that work on a single binary file, DoubleType stores each glyph in a separate text file. This allows people to utilize existing collaborative tools such as Wiki and CVS to share their work and send patches. [freshmeat.net] 10:14:41 AM    comment []  trackback []