elearning2.0 linklog

*very* extensive, very high-quality resources including free online video programming [WMV sadly], online textbooks and support materials for teachers' CPD.. "Annenberg Media is a unit of The Annenberg Foundation. Our mission is to advance excellent teach

int prelim speculation based on his own bookmarking practice + rumination about making keeping and using lists... catches some good points about why simple services can bootstrap sophisticated functionality etc

new lightweight ad-hoc make-a-content-hinged-discussion service.."Conversate is the fastest way to get a conversation started about anything on the web. Want to talk about a website, blog post, article, or image? Drag this bookmarklet to your bookmark bar

[same people as conversate].. "The Participatory Culture Foundation is building software and websites to create an independent, creative, engaging, and meritocratic TV system for millions of people around the world.

[original Guardian article on del.icio.us].. "Every so often, along comes a free, useful website that seems too good. The latest comes from New York: a blurring of online bookmarks storage system and community weblog, all rolled into a simple website with

[long how-to I posted yesterday].."a very easy technique already exists for bringing 'live' links lists into discursive site content, using the javascript linkroll feature from del.icio.us itself. This post explains how to do that

This update offers many improvements, including 'Improves responsiveness during Spotlight searches in the Finder' [at last! sez I] + many others

Kiwi is a WordPress theme, but it’s a bit more than your average theme. Embedded inside are a few nifty tools that give the user the freedom to change the layout structure and components without delving into the code, and — hopefully — make navigati

this'll ring bells with any serious del. user - charming and interesting insight into pushing the boundaries, trying to support rudimentary conversation.

In the early part of next year, you can look forward to a public beta with extensive programme details and broadcast histories. There are "On This Day" schedules that go back to 1933. It's got full contributor histories, and Really Good Search. I can't be

..I was ecstatic. You see, what the tool does is provide an interface to annotate and segment audio on the web. Yes, podcasts can be easily segmented and annotated. A couple other items of note about this product. It is great interface design as it is int

worth tracking - they may have v interesting layering of 'social'.. "automatically uploaded entire course schedules for most colleges and universities in the U.S. Students can quickly add the courses they are taking. As the company gets some history behin

Currently, many academic digital collections remain "hidden" or difficult to access on the Internet. Through the use of LionShare, users will be able to find and access these information reservoirs in a more timely and direct manner -- employing one rathe

The VIUS project has prototyped and evaluated two services: a conventional image database and a more experimental peer-to-peer file sharing system for a digital media files. A team at Penn State University has conducted an extensive assessment project to

Teachers helping teachers. Helping one another use Web technology to teach better. OpenCourse.org hosts virtual communities developing, evaluating and using open, non-proprietary learning objects in their discipline.

Compare reviews of CMS products, online college, Advanced Placement®, and high school courses. View the results of research projects • Learning object repository software • Student services products • e-Learning Policies sponsored by WCET - the Wes

..explores some of the recent buzz around the concept of 'Web 2.0' and asks what it means for libraries and related organisations. We are seeing the emergence of Web-based services that pull data from a wide range of back-end systems to deliver value to u

Schools need a system which is simple to use for the teachers as well as the students; one that is secure; which does not require dedicated tech support. And all this without using data servers because the powers-that-be frown on schools setting up server

SchoolTool and SchoolBell are usually easy to install on Linux, Windows or Macintosh computers, but if you've got a high speed internet connection and a CD burner, the easist method may be one of these bootable LiveCD's.

Professionals often think tags are covalent with folksonomies because their minds have been poisoned by the false dream of ontology, but also because tagging looks too easy (in the same way the Web looked too easy to theoreticians of hypertext.) Not only

[news re del. planning eg Delicious is adding social networking].."Joshua Schachter of del.icio.us spoke twice at the Berkman Center yesterday. Both sessions I thought were excellent: Joshua is a low signal-to-noise communicator, he's working on important

a totally new type of theme with many interactive options for your visitors and also for you as webmaster. It’s expandable and offers much powerful functions and features never seen before in the WordPress Community. Enable your visitors to recreate the

[new, social *and* mobile].."Welcome to PixPulse, a new mobile media network that instantly shares your photos and videos with friends on your own PixPulse Channel.

The morguefile contains photographs freely contributed by many artists to be used in creative projects by visitors to the site. To acknowledge the artist's accomplishments, we ask that you credit the photographer when possible. Any questions regarding lia

Trey Martindale and David Wiley introduce the new tools and possibilities. Good intro links. Plain html

A project of The Institute for the Future of the Book. In this networked age, the printed textbook has likely reached the end of its useful life cycle, but a robust digital competitor has yet to emerge. The next ext project seeks to encourage the creatio

Users create and edit Wiki entries with the aim of becoming a collaborative, useful, balanced and relevant resource.

presentations list, covering ed-tech / elearning2.0 tech, blogs, rss, wikis in education... some links

mostly a linkroll on social software tracking for use in [english lit.] education..Todd Blake Finley, PhD - Associate Professor of English Education English Education Program, Bate Hall #2120 Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education

[see also their lionshare p2p project] Our WebLion product provides Zope/Plone web site administrators and developers at Penn State with Policy AD54-compliant page design that you can download, install and use. Penn State Policy AD54 establishes style gui

Open source projects are proliferating throughout higher education. This trend raises hopes for new business models, opportunities for collaboration, questions of sustainability and long-term viability, and challenges for the potential adopters. This sess

oishii! polls the del.icio.us front page every 5 minutes, and returns all sites bookmarked by at least 30 people. In the spirit of facilitating self-organization, oishii is a kind of pheromone trail allowing me and others to find the resources other membe

yup! the definitive collection, and updated regularly. Dig in here to find clients, visualisations and novel mashups ( some of which work :o)

informative scoop from the announcement beta.."Office Live is a set of free, ad-supported productivity tools for businesses that will really help the small guys. The service will also have a premium subscription product that will have “less” ads..Ther

good selective list of typography resources.."u can spend your whole life obsessing over type. It’s a craft with an awesome history and practicing it well often takes designers on a sort of quest that never seems to end. The strategies are both infinite

Don't you just love it when small, loose pieces come together into great and vivid feature-experiences? Graham Attwell has just posted to his KNotes-based blog from the web-based shared editing environment Writely. This is the kind of unexpected feature e

we found that there weren’t many resources or guidelines for how encryption or authentification should be handled (either in feeds or in readers/aggregators). I did some testing and came up with the following results for HTTPS/SSL encryption and HTTP Au

If you would like to know whether your favorite feed reader has implemented the necessary precautions against common attacks, simply subscribe to the free RSS Security Check. It currently checks and reports the 12 most common vulnerabilities. More checks

There has been much talk about "RSS security". The problem is, that's such a vague term, and you can't really make much progress until you actually break that down into what you really mean. So let's give that a shot.

Two enterprise RSS providers are teaming with XML security company Reactivity to provide secure RSS features that could allow the technology to be used for everything from notices of credit card transactions to supply chain management, according to Andrew

Using Macromedia Flex, a development environment for Flash applications, Jack Waknitz created a portfolio for me. We started wiith my ELGG FOAF profile and some feeds from my Flickr site. Jack added "Document" references to the FOAF that point to the Fl

out-of-date but extensive! Cats:LO-examples; repositories;(archives/library) software; e-learning Standards; Standards Organizations; Tools; Metadata; taxonomies;ontology software; vocabularies; using RSS

The Pew American and Internet Life Project research suggested that 12 to 17-year-olds look to web tools to share what they think and do online,and much more likely than adults to read and have a weblog.A third said they shared their own work - artwork, ph

flickr slideshow from my talk given by audio at the OpenDock project kickoff meeting this morning, Nov 4 2005. Web2.0-wise service/feature planning for a new IMS Learn-Design resource repository

[like collabrank but slick-looking?].."Yoono helps you find web sites, RSS feeds, and experts on your favorite subjects. Complementary to classical search engines, yoono indexes the bookmarks of web users and gives you a thematic search which is both more

[includes dadgad etc guitar parts discussions - nice resource] .. " Some of the tunes are well known, and some are more obscure. It's this mixture of the familiar and the new that makes for a good session.

FOAF is a way to describe yourself -- your name, email address, and the people you're friends with -- using XML and RDF. This allows software to process these descriptions, perhaps as part of an automated search engine, to discover information about your

The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project is about creating a Web of machine-readable homepages describing people, the links between them and the things they create and do.

[still being updated].."This specification is an evolving document. The bulk of this document is now generated by combining the RDFS/OWL machine-readable FOAF ontology with a set of per-term documents. The remaining sections require serious attention; we

the giant social network site.. adding new inthebox featuresall the time eg grouper p2p filesharing, classifieds, shout-outs, slideshows...

a tad obsolete but a classic SVG example; explore graphs of knows-ness (do not think co-depiction everworked).."Enter a persons in the foaf world email address (e.g. libby.miller@bristol.ac.uk, or jim@jibbering.com etc.) and then explore who they know, an

[early description of project, +links].."Edd Dumbill explores an XML and RDF application known as Friend-of-a-Friend (FOAF). FOAF allows the expression of personal information and relationships, and is a useful building block for creating information syst

"Friendster has tumbled in popularity as other networks such as MySpace have grown. But in its hunt for new members, Friendster has dusted off my recommendations and reissued them to my friends. Who says I'd want to recommend Friendster now? And who says

Amber Thomas and Andrew Rothery explore how online repositories are being used to store and share e-learning content, and show how taking the user perspective might challenge the emerging approaches to repository development.

This seminar aims to disseminate the work of 4 of the E-Learning Framework reference model projects, namely LADIE, FREMA, XCRI and COVARM. The reference models will be related to ELF toolkit and a demonstrator projects, and to the EU UNFOLD project which

"At Odeo, we've started to think beyond the radio paradigm that dominates today...I call these people "casual content creators." It's not just that they're amateur or part of the great, unwashed, Long Tail. It's that they're playing a different game.

Our goals for the first phase, Paperbag (we have to wear paperbags over our heads since we're so embarassed to let these bugs out into the wild), mostly involve stability, security and making things works the way they are supposed to. The second phase, Co

We are trying really hard to make some architectural improvements in the short term. For example, we are refactoring our RSS service to improve performace - this should dramatically enhance your feed viewing pleasure. Beyond that, we are busy improving m

[alpha?] Getting your own KickRSS feed is simple: enter a feed name, your email address, and a password twice. Click on "Create Feed", and you're done! Once you've done this, you'll need to use the Modify box to log in and add individual feeds to your Kic

[very featureful].."Xinha (pronounced like the Warrior Princess) began as a stop-gap fork of the InteractiveTools.Com htmlArea WYSIWYG editor, but due to popular demand it has spawned into Xinha, a generally better version of htmlArea version 3, with a mu

"This is an informational document. Although technical in nature, it attempts to make the concepts involved understandable and applicable in real-world situations. Because of this, some aspects of the material are simplified or omitted, for the sake of cl

Please post your questions as soon as you can. I may have a short runway before recording... Chris Messina and I are working out the timing for a recording on Flock, the not-so-Cocoa project you've likely been reading about and possibly beta testing. Chr

AWIS provides data feeds to developers who wish to incorporate Alexa data into their site or service. In your travels you may have noticed Alexa data popping up in unexpected places across the Web -- on AdBrite, before you buy an ad you can see the seller

When students post their faces, personal diaries and gossip on Web sites like Myspace.com and Xanga.com, it is not simply harmless teen fun, according to one New Jersey Catholic school principal.

A Personal Blink is an online space where you share your "Wisdom" on anything that interests you. Unlike a blog, you can automatically add external news, pics, videos & more right into your Blink. It's like your own multi-media publication! Plus it's easy

not sure what this is - excentric self-pitch - could be big wiki-wami/squidoo-ish... also useful services for rss rehosting / merge + wikipedia rss + social bookmarks with discussion?

[nice styling options even!] Their are 4 simple steps to convert a feed: 1. Find a Feed; 2. Enter Feed URL into Feed Convertor; 3. Customize Feed Features (optional); and 4. Generate Javascript to place on your site or blog. It's real easy so lets get sta

Amazon Mechanical Turk provides a web services API for computers to integrate "artificial, artificial intelligence" directly into their processing by making requests of humans. Developers use the Amazon Mechanical Turk web services API to submit tasks to

[cool idea - v like ask-a of old; so-named from the famous fake automaton; site too busy currently].. "HIT stands for Human Intelligence Task. These are tasks that people are willing to pay you to complete. For example a HIT might ask: "Is there a pizza p

"These programs would combine their already available systems of searching books online with a commercial component that could revolutionize the way that people read books. The idea is to do for books what Apple has done for music, allowing readers to buy

"This is a great step forward and will hopefully increase the adoption of Creative Commons (CC). On the other hand, I don't see CC mentioned on the page and having only two choices is limiting, considering the various other licenses that people are likely

Your email address is your account. You will receive a link to set up & send your first Say-So. Use your Say-So Manager to edit, moderate & delete your Say-Sos.

Nate Steiner tells me that Twinsparc has launched Say-So, a free-form discussion generating tool. They have more details about how it works here. Nate says "The main focus of the tool (and reason for making it) is to allow anyone to gather feedback on an

a bit academic for most end-users, but useful for academics who need familiarisation with history and concepts

by deputy head of IT division, Lithuanian Labour Exchange.. insight into the process they adopted for choosing an open source Content Management System...The first investigations into selecting a CMS began early on in the summer of 2004. At that time we d

good points!..'Instead of content interoperability and portability between systems, we basically have vendor lock in, the very thing the freaking specs were supposed to help avoid! And that just got a world worse too with this consolidation. David Davies

[active, bluechip membership]..'The Consortium's mission is to promote general understanding of and provide mechanisms to allow interoperable calendaring and scheduling methodologies, tools and applications to enter the mainstream of computing.

LAMS creates digital lesson plans that can be run online with students, as well as shared among teachers. The LAMS Community allows teachers to share and adapt digital lesson plans, and discuss their experiences of using LAMS.

..commemorate the end of our service at the University of Twente (1987-2005). The book expresses our philosophy about technology and learning after many years in the field. The first part of the book gives this overview; the second half gives a personal r

white papers on massive virtual environments for learning, UI-experiments etc, 'Croquet: A Collaboration System Architecture','Croquet: A Menagerie of New User Interfaces','Enabling Social Dimensions of Learning Through a Persistent, Unified, Massively Mu

The Teaching with Technology Today project consists of a web-based NEWSLETTER and WISLRNTEC, a companion listserv where members discuss technology, pedagogy, and student learning. TTT was instigated by the UW Learning Technology Development Council; it re

Originally developed at MIT, .LRN is used worldwide by over half a million users in higher education, government, non-profit, and K-12.

sponsored by Microsoft Research, is aimed at achieving broad, substantial, and sustainable impact on higher education through information technology. iCampus incubates innovations for labs, classrooms, and campus communities at MIT and promotes their diss

With Microsoft Research, MIT iCampus Outreach seeks faculty and institutions looking to adopt new educational tools. The Outreach project will provide the software tools, supporting documentation, and guidance to assist higher education institutions to su

..users have been wondering about lack of upgrades recently for the MacOSX version. It's quiet, because I'm working on an ecto 3 as well as another app. So it's very busy. ecto 3's timetable will be about two months. Most likely early 2006 (time just flie

'Your so-called redesign is a travesty, a tragedy, and an embarrassment. Your prior store was not only far more beautiful visually, but was a magnificent example of standards-based design. Perhaps more importantly, the site was also accessible under the U

[via d'arcy norman dot net] - niallkennedy in the audience took good photos during the preview; useful as instant headsup in viewed at1hz. Warning: the Dark Side is using the blue in their slides - truly garish 'design' of these presentations :o]

'Steve’s presentations were always technically complex, but designed to seem simple. The stage was always black, the curtains were black, the desk, credenza and demo pedestals were all black. The mechanisms that rolled the demo stations into place, or r

'Educating people for a democratic society is cultural work. Teachers must become border crossers. We need to be creatively flexible because even if curriculum is standardized, our students are not. Teaching is more than methodology. It begins with unders

Perhaps the most influential thinker about education in the late twentieth century, Paulo Freire has been particularly popular with informal educators with his emphasis on dialogue and his concern for the oppressed

infed is an open, independent and not-for-profit site put together by a small group of educators [about us]. Give us your feedback; write for us. Check our copyright notice when copying.

large collection of resources on/for informal learning, alphabetically organised..infed is an open, independent and not-for-profit site put together by a small group of educators [about us]. Give us your feedback; write for us. Check our copyright notice

python code for dailylinks in PyBlosxom. Full Unicode safety. support for multiple del.icio.us feeds, with tag by author. tagging the PyBlosxom entry with the aggregated/unique tags from the del.icio.us entries

v cute spoof CC-like license

[blogger's intructions to end-users on using template tags to configure their profiles... useful model for knotes?] ..'There are a number of tags you can use to display information from your profile in your blog. Here's a quick list:

another model of member profile on YA blogging service.

[nov 6 05 = Total accounts: 8,713,856, updating in last 30 days: 1,372,241... wow!] The following statistics may be interesting for some of you. Note that for speed, most of this page is only updated every 24 hours. However, certain parts are live. Raw da

eg user profile for livejournal (though not typical), interesting also because of press attention... 'This semester because of financial reasons, I'm living at Bobst Library, trying to make it on my own in this heartless city we like to call New York. I'

Founded in 1998, Planetwork: Convenes a unique forum exploring the most critical issues affecting civil society in the context of the strategic use of the Web and information technologies; Attracts a multidisciplinary community of highly skilled social ch

At Opinity, you can Build : Verify, mobilize, and consolidate your reputation / Search : Discover someone's reputation to make informed decisions / Review : Tell the world about your online experiences

SOC is pleased to announce the "IETF Journal", a new Internet Society publication produced in cooperation with the Internet Engineering Task Force. Our aim is to provide an easily understandable overview of what's happening in the world of Internet standa

"Yahoo has released a beta of their new super swanky mapping program, clearly a salvo fired in the direction of Google Maps. It uses Flash (instead of Ajax), and it by-and-large feels like Google Maps, except for one key exception: the ease of creating ro

The Mozilla Links Newsletter is a monthly publication covering topics about the Mozilla open source project and their products: Firefox, Thunderbird, Mozilla Application Suite and Camino, the Mozilla Foundation, other Mozilla projects and marketing. Only

Most Web browsers are equipped with multi-lingual support. A more vital and infinitely more delicate task is to understand the unspoken language of a culture, which is deeply rooted in a system of values, beliefs, and expectations that ultimately shapes a

[even more useful, enjoyable and o-so-true than usual from CPU :o]..'You don't have to be the Brad Pitt of apps, but you should still make the effort to be pleasant looking. At the least, you should be clean. That whole "it's what's inside that counts" th