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Ideal Gas Law Multiuser Game
by Alan Levine (District Office)

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Object Summary Page Updated
cited Wed Apr 23,'03 at D'Arcy Norman Learning Commons
"I took some time to clean up the Object Summary Page in CAREO. I was only addressing functionality. It should be a little more useful now, since I dropped the redundant "Summary" and "Details" section, and merged them into a single, real "Summary". I also added a "Discussions" tab, so you can easily see what's being said about an object. It directly displays CAREO discussion posts, and has a link to display Trackbacks (posts from other websites such as weblogs). I'll have to take some time in the future to make the default theme look purty, since Alan's showing how..."

Ideal Gas Law Multi-User Game
cited Tue Apr 22,'03 at CogDogBlog
"This experimental site form 2000 (MLX Item #372), a multi-user application designed to teach students the interplay of variables in the Ideal Gas law, has been getting a fair bit of action lately...."

BackTrack to TrackBack
cited Sat Apr 19,'03 at CogDogBlog
It was David Wiley's paper "Learning objects: difficulties and opportunities" that got me thinking about how weblogs might be able to provide the contextual "wrapper" around learning objects- .e.g. people implementing LOS would use tools like MT's TrackBack to discover...

about shareback

A "Shareback" provides a link from here to other websites where MLX Package 372 has been used, described, or referenced. It uses "Trackback" technology to share these remote citings back to the item's packing slip.

Shareback is both a courtesy and a way to provide feedback to Alan Levine, the person who contributed Ideal Gas Law Multiuser Game to the MLX. In addition, it may help visitors to this package to see other contexts in which the package has been used or described.

Creating a Shareback sends a short electronic message, or a "ping", back to the MLX that says, "This MLX package has been described on this web site at this address, with this description" and thus becomes part of the data associated with the package.

Weblogs such as MovableType, TypePad, and Manila have built-in tools to automate creation of sharebacks- if the URL for this package is mentioned in an entry created on these systems, the information is automatically sent back to the MLX as a "shareback."


 

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MLX Package Sharebacks (Item #372)
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