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This page will contain descriptions and links to Tutorials and On-line Instruction on technologies, standards, and ideas related to PK12 eLearning and the work of OpenVES. Where links are provided to third party tutorials, the links are for information purposes only and do not necessarily imply any relationship between OpenVES and the organization providing the tutorial or information resource. We welcome your comments and suggestions. This page is a work in progress.
 
Education Tutorials
     
State of Utah - RSS Workshop   RDF Site Summary - (RSS) Workshop - In this workshop you'll learn how to create, validate, syndicate, and view your own RSS news channel. The emphasis will be the practical application of RSS XML/RDF metadata for dynamically publishing:
  • news headlines
  • events listings
  • announcements
  • lists of publication titles
  • press releases
  • interactive directories
  • catalogs
  • project status updates
  • breaking news
  • reviews
  • in-depth features

You'll learn how to use RSS channels to keep current with topics of interest. We'll show you how others can incorporate your news into their pages automatically. The workshop will showcase the use of public domain tools

     
    more to come.......
Vendor Tutorials
SUN - Java Tutorial   SUN - Java Tutorial - A practical guide for programmers, with hundreds of complete, working examples. The Tutorial is organized into trails--groups of lessons on a particular subject.
SUN - J2EE Tutorial   SUN - J2EE Tutorial - A beginner's guide to developing enterprise applications on the JavaTM 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition SDK version 1.3. Today, more and more developers want to write distributed transactional applications for the enterprise and leverage the speed, security, and reliability of server-side technology. If you are already working in this area, you know that in today's fast-moving and demanding world of e-commerce and information technology, enterprise applications have to be designed, built, and produced for less money, with greater speed, and with fewer resources than ever before.

To reduce costs and fast-track enterprise application design and development, the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) technology provides a component-based approach to the design, development, assembly, and deployment of enterprise applications. The J2EE platform offers a multitiered distributed application model, the ability to reuse components, integrated Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based data interchange, a unified security model, and flexible transaction control. Not only can you deliver innovative customer solutions to market faster than ever, but your platform-independent J2EE component-based solutions are not tied to the products and application programming interfaces (APIs) of any one vendor. Vendors and customers enjoy the freedom to choose the products and components that best meet their business and technological requirements.

This tutorial takes an examples-based approach to describing the features and functionalities available in J2EE Software Development Kit (SDK) version 1.3. Whether you are a new or an experienced enterprise developer, you should find the examples and accompanying text a valuable and accessible knowledge base for creating your own enterprise solutions.

If you are new to J2EE applications development, this chapter is a good place to start. Here you will learn the J2EE architecture, become acquainted with important terms and concepts, and find out how to approach J2EE application programming, assembly, and deployment.

SUN - Web Services Tutorial   SUN - Web Services Tutorial - This tutorial is a beginner's guide to developing Web services and Web applications using the Java Web Services Developer Pack (Java WSDP). The Java WSDP is an all-in-one download containing key technologies to simplify building of Web services using the Java 2 Platform. This tutorial is intended for programmers interested in developing and deploying Web services and Web applications on the Java WSDP.

This tutorial is organized into five parts:

  • Introduction
  • Java XML Technology
  • Web Technology
  • Case Study
  • Appendixes
SUN - JNDI Tutorial   SUN - JNDI Tutorial - This is the online version of the The JNDI Tutorial. It is modeled after The Java Tutorial by Mary Campione and Kathy Walrath. It is organized into trails -- groups of lessons on a particular subject.
SUN JMS Tutorial   SUN - JMS Tutorial - The JavaTM Message Service (JMS) Tutorial is provided as a companion to the Java 2, Enterprise Edition (J2EETM) SDK, version 1.3.1. It has the following goals:
  • To introduce the JMS API to new users, with simple JMS client program examples
  • To show how to use the JMS API within the J2EE platform, with examples showing how to
    • Consume messages asynchronously with a message-driven bean
    • Produce messages from an application client
    • Produce messages from a session bean
    • Access an entity bean from a message-driven bean
    • Produce and consume messages on more than one system

The tutorial assumes that you are familiar with the Java programming language and that you have some experience with the J2EE platform.

Free Book - J2EE and XML   FREE BOOK(pdf) - J2EE and XML - available from theServerSide.com, takes a look at real-world uses of XML in J2EE systems. Topics covered include XML-based persistence mechanisms, integration strategies, Web services, the latest XML-based approaches to Web presentation layers, content publishing systems, design patterns and more.
     
Standards Tutorials
IMS Global Learning Consortium  
IMS teamed up with Oracle iLearning, an IMS Contributing Member to provide:
  • "IMS Basic Training: Introduction to Content Packaging"
  • "IMS Basic Training: Introduction to Question and Test Interoperability"
  • "IMS Basic Training: Introduction to Learner Information Package"

These classes are available free of charge on the Oracle iLearning website.
Sign Up Now! It's easy to sign up and take the classes. You'll need:

  • A Computer
  • Access to the Internet
  • Sound Card
  • Ability to play Real Video
Dr. Tom's Metadata Guide   IMS - Dr. Tom's Metadata Guide - More about meta-data than anyone would ever want to know.
Dr. Tom's Taxonomy Guide   IMS - Dr. Tom's Taxonomy Guide - The purpose of this document is to define taxonomies and their uses. A selection of useful taxonomies is provided.
Dr. Tom's Classification Guide   IMS - Dr. Tom's Classification Guide - The purpose of this document is to provide guidelines for the use of the classification category in the IMS Meta-data and the IEEE LOM (Learning Object Metadata). This document includes an explanation of the rationale behind classification.
Dr. Tom's XML Guide   IMS - Dr. Tom's XML Guide - To provide a glimpse into the concepts in XML and provide links to useful resources such as tutorials, tools, resource sites and IMS XML bindings.
Dr. Tom's Metadata Implementation Guide   IMS - Dr. Tom's Guide to a Simple Path to Metadata Implementation - To describe a simple path to start using the IMS meta-data specification. Ways to break implementation down into manageable parts are discussed.
Dr. Tom's XML Schema Guide   IMS - Dr. Tom's XML Schemas - The purpose of this guide is to describe how IMS uses XML-Schemas as the primary control documents for IMS XML bindings, which commonly accompany IMS specifications. This guide does not describe all of the features of XML-Schema, only those implemented within the IMS XML-Schemas.
Dr. Toms Extensions and Incorporations Guide   IMS - Dr. Tom's XML Extensions and Incorporations - The purpose of this document is to provide a method for extending one XML binding with elements from another source. A parallel method is also provided for incorporating into the XML binding of one specification the elements and structures of another XML binding . The method uses the W3C XML-Schema standard (recommendation)
     
 
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