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

We provide free storage and free bandwidth for your videos, audio files, photos, text or software. Forever. No catches.

What Elgg provides learners with is something that Moodle cannot: A more public space that students can call their own, and which is entirely free from teacher and institutional control. Furthermore, Elgg's built-in social networking features encourage co

February 09, 2005 - longish article on AJAX trends

brief review of some of the more obvious gotchas

...the first release candidate of our next generation Firefox browser, to be released later this year, and it is being made available to our developer and testing community for compatibility testing and to solicit feedback. Note: This is not the final rel

Full copyright applies to most stuff on the web. But this search helps you find photos, music, text, and other works whose authors want you to re-use it for some uses -- without having to pay or ask permission.

A lyric fetcher widget for iTunes which can also handle radio streaming titles. The lyrics are saved in “Documents/Sing that iTune!” folder and you can also add your self-made lyrics in there. Sync the folder with iPod’s Notes folder to bring it wit

Graphviz 1.12 (v11) won Best Mac OS X Open Source Product and was runner-up in Best Product to Mac OS X in the 2004 Apple Design Awards. With AT&T Graphviz, you don’t figure out the graph, the program does. Using a simple file format called dot, just de

[integrates with clientside bibtex and graph-viz tools; could suit some working styles very well].. 'A slip-box is really just this: a loose collection of slips stuffed into a box. Each time you have an idea that seems worth remembering you scribble down

Statistical models called hidden Markov models are a recurring theme in computational biology. What are hidden Markov models, and why are they so useful for so many different problems?

Shadows is a social bookmarking service for discovering, sharing and managing information on the web. Shadows supercharges this information with a "Shadow Page" — a community blog for any web page that includes views, ratings, tags, and comments by you,

At OSCON in August, I interviewed Jonathan Schwartz. Here's a transcription of that interview, the audio of which is available on IT Conversations...Anyone who tells you that open source isn't safe is flat-out lying to you. I don't think there's one licen

ClipShack is a community for videophiles; a destination where people can post their video for general public viewing and comment, share clips with friends and family, post video to blogs, share information and feedback with other videophiles and wireless

[ bizarrely the linkslist is in MSWord as a downloadable, with opendocument downloads for recent updates - upload to delicious?] -librarian at Göteborg University collected links and information on Open Access journals for years. His lists contain around

I’ve been tracking a number of sites that offer flickr-like services for video. Instead of writing individual profiles on each of these, I’ve created a quick chart that give a basic overview of the features. I’ve included only those companies that p

World Usability Day was created to help everyone know more about the ways to help create a better user experience of our world. With events occurring around the world, you can find them three ways:

[dunno if safe use of rel att but more distributed than FOAF at least] ..blogs and blogrolls have become the fastest growing area of the Web. XFN enables web authors to indicate their relationship(s) to the people in their blogrolls simply by adding a 're

Sam Beckett on the masthead, eg..'UbuWeb posts much of its content without permission; we rip out-of-print LPs into sound files; we scan as many old books as we can get our hands on; we post essays as fast as we can OCR them. UbuWeb is an unlimited resour

questions encountered to-date by the Educational Technology Expertise Centre of The Open University of The Netherlands (www.ou.nl) and providing answers. Like many specifications, IMS LD is quite voluminous (the three documents in the specification set r

[how do they do that with the embedded links etc???] - a dense little page but full of wonders - good links into more tips for using apple keynote and looks like a great technology or technique underlying it

..If you open an APXL file in a text editor, you'll find that the document is divided into 4 branches underneath the presentation root:presentation metadata, master slide definitions which act as templates for the slides, the slides that contain the conte

some free themes among the downloads, looks like very good tutorial resources and tips

caching tutorial for web dev bods

sensible advice; we've already digested this last year but worth revisiting. see also Optimal cache control [7] - Part 2 and Server-side modifications [8] - Part 3

[loads of tweak tips linked to] Every week we'll show you a speed technique that you can use on your own pages. Speed Tweak of the Week shows how to optimize XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, graphics, and other web page components to maximize web site speed and us

The previous version has been refactored to include a real web service that transmits results from the AjaxPatterns wiki

'Looking at the best practice/process patterns gave me some ideas for Ajax frameworks. Here’s a few thoughts. I know some frameworks already do some of these things, though most don’t, and none do all of them.

Some fear the spike in open source investment is a sign that it might be a bubble about to burst; others say it backs up the model's fundamental viability

form with lots of (mostly naff) backgrounds and fonts - make a graphical banner from your text

Summary: My Day 1 impressions of Windows/Office Live are positive and I think Microsoft is taking up the challenge of an increasingly Web-based software world, while at the same time sticking to their desktop software knitting. I'm particularly intrigued

The big news of the week was Microsoft's announcement of Windows Live and Office Live. Here are some extras and links, to wrap everything up for the week. also on Flash Maps and the Mechanical Turk, Web 2.0 meet-ups all over the world, 2.0 Blog of the We

This case study looks at the use of ICT to assist guidance and support in 14-19 learning provision. The project is about the development, with key partners, of a 3D platform providing an electronic Individual Learning Plan

Richard Howitt MEP has said it is “shameful” that EU institutions have still not themselves widely embraced global web accessibility guidelines, despite urging their adoption on member states.

[ very well thought through points ] ..'Working as an accessibility consultant in an IT company is a very frustrating job right now. Highly publicized lawsuits and deep-rooted accessibility myths leave us with a lot to explain when the final product does

..The success of a navigation device is largely dependent on how easy it is to use. At any time visitors should be able to find out: Where they are; What other things can be found there; Where they can find help in case they get lost

TurboGears is a Python-based framework that enables you to quickly build database-driven, ready-to-extend web applications. TurboGears can be developed on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. It allows you to seamlessly provide HTML or an API for JavaScript to w

good tips collection; some I didn't know.. 'Technorati is a fantastic window into the psyche of the more digitally inclined. Here, in another in my series of hack postings, are 10 ways I get more mileage from T'rati.

[obsolete? NNW has some direct support in 2.0.1]..'an AppleScript for NetNewsWire that allows a user to subscribe to the Technorati cosmos for any individual item within NetNewsWire. Users now have a quick and easy way of staying informed about the latest

My patience with Odeo has run out. Last week Odeo did get its studio product out. It’s visually appealing. But it is so feature poor that it’s effectively a non product. first time I wrote about Odeo was on June 13, 2005. The service actually launched

Microformats can lower the barrier to putting explicit data on the Web. This is entirely in line with the aims of the Semantic Web...Although the microformats initiative puts human-readability first, with the help of the GRDDL mechanism, it is possible to

This is the PLE project at Bolton University, working towards defining the tools for personal learning. The project is being funded by JISC and carried out by CETIS. The project is part of the e-Learning Reference Models programme for the e-Framework. Rea

David Watanabe just released version 2.1 of Inquisitor, a search extension for Apple's Safari web browser, featuring Technorati search integrated right into your browser search box. You can even add Technorati as your default search engine! Just click on

[ as opposed to JISC e-Learning Focus - the elf plonesite of old - since research added to remit] 'The e-Framework is an initiative by the UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and Australia's Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST)

'The JISC / CETIS Conference is an invitation-only conference to be held in Edinburgh on 15th-16th November, which will bring together a group of invited experts in IT infrastructure in education and provide an opportunity to take stock, and collectively

[see also eFramework and JISCinfo sites].. 'This site supports JISC's e-Learning Programme with news and commentary about programme developments.

JISC infoNet has resources that can help you improve the support for, and quality of, learning and teaching in your institution. Our resources are freely available to institutions and individuals in the further and higher education sectors, with this webs

This is the internal server for OpenDock project documentation, deliverables and working documents

This strand of the JISC-CETIS conference will present the work of several projects working in the PLE area, including the CETIS PLE reference model project. It will seek to elaborate the definition, scope and technical options and requirements for a PLE,

This report contains links to the conference presentations as well as presentations from projects and domain maps presented during the second day of the conference. A detailed snapshot of the current state of the e-learning framework and the associated e-

In order to make the promise of 'effective, efficient, attractive and accessible' e-learning a reality, it is necessary for educational practitioners to have access to a wide range of durable high-quality electronic teaching and learning resources. (Campb

The COVARM project sets out to contribute a computer-based description comprising services, specifications and a proof of concept prototype developing one of the components of the JISC eLearning Framework Programme. Our description has a specific focus on

The principle aim of this report is to review and evaluate currently available software tools related to learning design. Whilst the IMS Learning Design Specification (IMS-LD), which we will consider in some detail here, provides a very thorough framework

How? By including the tag system I built that sits on top of Wordpress categories into the theme. Other neat features include an advanced layout, support for multiple plugins, the ability for registered users to add tags, livesearch, ajax commenting and a

The product allows Plone websites to get better visibility for Google search engine by providing it with complete listing of URLs to website content.

'we see an SEO’s job as being to accurately portray a website’s content through clean code, well-written content, and well-organized web sites.

Originally these movies were made available to BPMA (British Postal Museum & Archive) staff only as part of the training/documentation package delivered at the end of the site development.

This site is dedicated to providing a comprehensive guide to the resources about and in support of caching and content delivery on the World Wide Web. If you know of something that we are missing, make sure you tell us about it! This field, like many area

Each of these patterns (which are more general) and techniques (more specific) are intended to help you solve design problems. They're common problems, and there's no point in reinventing the wheel every time you need, say, a sortable table -- plenty of f

[+ more links].. '30 lecturers, teachers and educational developers gathered in Birmingham recently to share their experiences and enthusiasm for LAMS. And there is a lot of enthusiasm. So I set out to find out what it is that tutors can do with LAMS that

LAMS is a new tool for designing, managing and delivering online collaborative learning activities. It provides an intuitive visual authoring environment for creating sequences of learning activities. These activities can include individual tasks, small g

incl: A short outline of the LAMS trial so far (Stuart Lee), What people were hoping for: Analysis of pre-training questionnaires (Liz Masterman), Designing for learning, LAMS in the Future (James Dalziel), Next Steps for the JISC LAMS Trial

Scott Wilson explores technology and pedagogy and suggests that a service oriented approach to system design could lead to greater pedagogic diversity. I've often been asked to defend a statement I once made that using a service-oriented approach to syste

[+ links] 'An exploration of the technologies underpinning the e-learning framework (ELF) for the non-technical among us - this first part looks at the IT world and new technologies

The second part of this guide looks at the relevance of technical frameworks for education, in particular the e-Learning Framework (ELF) In Part One of this guide I explored the development of some new technologies and their significance in the business w

Open source learning environments are becoming widely adopted by educational institutions, this article explores some of the reasons for this trend.

The CETIS pedagogy forum organised a debate to consider the consequences of progress towards eportfolios. the dream of a lifelong learning record is hardly new. Yet considerable political will at the national and European level, combined with an increasin

[JISC Distributed elearning Programme, rounds 1 and now 2 - presented at Cambridge ePortfolios - scresnhots are very attractive!].. 'written in Java using Java 1.4.2+, so should run on all operating systems. You can download versions of VMAP from our file

[very simple and content-centric at present].. 'An ePortfolio is an external-facing website that presents the research, experience, resources and academic interests of a graduate research student. It is owned by the student, and its development is their r

A deliverable of the Lifelong Learner Legal Study, part of the JISC MLEs for Lifelong Learning Programme. A one day seminar hosted by the Centre for IT & Law (CITL), University of Bristol and The Centre for Learning and Teaching at the University of Wolve

[free portolios for all in UK?] Profile.ac.uk is a web-based system which provides a tool to capture, track and assess student learning remotely. The system provides students with individual, secure electronic-portfolios which contain web-forms to guide s

[nice little hotel near KnowNet office]..Telephone:+44(0)1248 354200 Fax:+44(0)1248 354512 Managers Name:Richard Welsh

All the PDP content shown here is available to students in personal, secure, password-protected e-portfolios which can be accessed from anywhere with internet access. When students complete forms, the entries are stored and students can upload and attach

began as a final project for an independent study in educational theory in the Fall of 2002. It will be updated periodically, however, so feel free to send links, updates, and information regarding critical pedagogy resources on the web to currie7772

[sweetly written and to the point - nice intro resources].. 'Writing online is much different from writing on paper. The rules you learned in Freshman Composition don’t all apply. Writing and reading on the Web involves a whole set of issues, freedoms a

One of the key steps in moving towards the implementation of a service oriented approach is the development of reference models. This article is an attempt to understand what reference models are, the role they might play, and to contribute to the discuss

report from the Connecting Teachers and Technologists (Joint CETIS Enterprise SIG and CETIS Pedagogy Forum) meeting held in Manchester in the 18th October 2005. The focus of this meeting was on developing an understanding between the two communities and l

good eg of iterative xml req object... grabs inlinks list then goes off to get the anchor text for each.. *This tool has bugs and is by no means "perfect" and is for "entertainment purposes only"

It may be useful to think of search engines as users with substantial constraints: they can’t read text in images, can’t interpret JavaScript or applets, and can’t “view” many other kinds of multimedia content. These are the types of problems th

CSSVista is a free Windows application for web developers which lets you edit your CSS code live in both Internet Explorer and Firefox simultaneously. By building your sites to work in both IE 6 and Firefox you'll be compatible with 88% of your visitors'

[+interesting comments on validity of alexa stats - which require a windows-MSIE-only download to get counted - and of the comparison in general]..'Digg continues to increase its traffic at an impressive rate, and is clearly set to overtake Slashdot withi

Analyst John Zappe discovered the patent application, which includes screen shots for Google Purchases and Classifieds.Google.com, as well as an interface for posting classified ads.

[good rant on IT practices in big orgs :-]..'One of my peeves is the pervasive use of email as a sole communication means. What I am referring to as almost daily, there are 4 or 5 fully formatted HTML, graphic laden emails about various events and program

A MUST-WATCH ! Jon Udell's voiceover explains in detail what is going on as the screen shows the evolution of a [hilarious-in-itself] wikipedia entry. Talks us through all the aspects of a community emerging to create and maintain content; how the conten

[introduction and useful metaphors / analysis on folksonomy] 'There's a new way of classifying the things in our world and it matters beyond the efficiencies it will bring when we're trying to find stuff.

The product is the wikiCalc program -- a web authoring tool that creates web pages. It is for creating and maintaining web pages that include data this is more than just unformatted prose, such as schedules, lists, and tables. It combines some of the ease

"This coming 'services wave' will be very disruptive," Gates said in an Oct. 30 e-mail to top Microsoft employees, which was seen by CNET News.com. "We have competitors who will seize on these approaches and challenge us."

new web-based hosted service which is fully available for anyone to use right now (nothing to pay), allows to aggregate, splice, filter multiple RSS feeds, automatically remove duplicates, scrape HTML into RSS, archive news, search RSS-enabled search engi

[new site]..'OSS Watch provides unbiased advice and guidance about free and open source software for UK further and higher education. OSS Watch is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee.

[interesting the 'what it is' vs 'what we thought it would be' distiniction - familiar pattern! :-]..'OSS Watch has a new website. The previous website was built around what we thought OSS Watch would become, the new website is built around what OSS Watch

'the notion of "happy programmers" was always more about benefits, perks, or pay... now a lot more people are starting to care--and talk--about things like programming language, API, framework, methodology, etc. The things that keep you in a flow state.

Thoughts and doodles on tools and Web2.0 technologies for distance education and digital libraries, that may be OUseful, someday...

one of the topics I keep doodling about is social bookmarking in an academic context. In this post, I want to start considering how we might use such tools at scale in a managed environment.

I offered to run a workshop on social bookmarking in April next year at what used to be known in the OU as TTAA (Tracking Technology for Academic advantage) since been renamed as the Learning and Teaching Conference. Now, as I haven't yet managed to use

LAMS, the world's leading open source Learning Design system, today announced the release of a new version of the software - V1.0.2. Complementing this release are three LMS integrations, a suite of new services and support contracts from LAMS Internation

CMFLinkChecker does not check any links by itself. [*] The actual link checking is done by an separate process, in fact a separate product, called Link Monitoring Server (lms). There is a public lms available from gocept, http://lms.gocept.com/tp1.

'Putting a movie online isn't hard. However, making sure that it's viewable in a satisfactory way by as many people as possible usually requires more work. Saving every pixel of every frame in a movie would require a huge amount of memory/bandwidth (about

Selenium tests run directly in a browsers, just as real users do. And they run in Internet Explorer, Mozilla and Firefox on Windows, Linux and Macintosh. No other test tool covers such a wide array of platforms. Selenium uses a unique mechanism which allo

I will give an example of using Selenium to test a Plone site. I will use a default, out-of-the-box installation of Plone, with no customizations. The functional test I'll present is written as an HTML table.

[plone site migration / design by Alan Runyan / enfold]

Tony Hirst has written a series of pieces about using social bookmarking tools productively in higher education, beginning with a general entry and then getting much more specific:

One question that vexes many e-learning specialists is, “What is the real difference between course management systems (CMSs), like WebCT and Blackboard, and learning management systems (LMSs), like NetDimensions EKP, Saba, and SumTotal?” Here’s a d

[looks good!]..'gathers your content from popular webservices and publishes them in one convenient place. presents your content with simple, great looking templates which you can customize. is FREE to use!

[an H2O Playlist is a lightly-structured bundle of links, like a squiddo lens or a wiki-wami] ..'Introductory material on Social Bookmarking using Delicious.

[possibly useful squidoo/wiki-wami-like functionality]..'It is a simple yet powerful way to group and exchange useful links to information -- online and offline

H2O playlists are more than just a cool, sleek technology -- they represent a new way of thinking about education online. An H2O Playlist is a series of links to books, articles, and other materials that collectively explore an idea or set the stage for a

nice essay / intro to web2.0 from a special-needs, open pedagogy p.o.v., in the 'playlist' annotated links format..'; What is Web 2.0, and what are some examples?; What are folksonomies and what's so special about tagging?; What kinds of disabilities are

[thoughtful analysis]..'the Authors Guild and the AAP are wrong. Copyright law has been turned on its ear, but it's not Google that did the turning; it's the Internet. Nor is it Google that is exploiting this turn; that title goes to the Authors Guild and

wow! it works..tech crunch says it well: 'hired 30 musicians who have spent years analyzing 400 attributes of songs, like melody, rhythm and vocals. They’ve analyzed over 10,000 artists and 300,000 songs to date. Users pick a band or song to get started

Rich text (WYSIWYG) editing on the web is a difficult problem. Browser-based rich text editors to date have failed to meet users stability expectations or in other ways subtly break the seamlessness of the editing experience. The Dojo Editor widget, writt

Dojo provides components that let you make your sites more useable, responsive, and functional. With Dojo you can build degradeable user interfaces more easily, prototype interactive widgets quickly, animate transitions, and build AJAX-based requests simp

ahhh.. classic vision-of-future-elearning video.. 'inspired by the earlier vision and work of Alan Kay - Knowledge_navigator (15MB Quicktime stream) or play the 61MB MPG version (does not stream, whole file must download before playing). Note that this fi

A call for action on a common preemptive statement against possible European-wide software patents: our help is now needed to submit ideas to draft the statement. Here are some proposed arguments concerning how software patents could potentially harm the

Through the sponsorship of the OUSD P&R, the creation of the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative was formed as a developer and implementer of learning technologies across the Department of Defense (DoD).

[good news - poss basis for Object-Aware/semantic chat experiments by KN].. 'BuddySpace is an instant messenger with four novel twists: (1) it allows optional maps for geographical & office-plan visualizations in addition to standard 'buddy lists'; (2) it

earning designs will be drawn up as IMS Learning Designs to be used in the delivery of at least one Computing module. The project will provide valuable experience of carrying out this process in an organisation other than that in which the toolkits were d

Providing infrastructure for social sharing is a systemic problem, and more complex than we thought Current infrastructure discourages social sharing in communities LD can help in various ways, but we should Distinguish the ways in which we use it Act at

If you are working with IMS Learning Design, or simply interested in the specification, please explore the resources available here, register on this site to recieve updates on Learning Design, and visit our forums and learning activities site at LN4LD wh

[good summarising/links]..12th: Understanding the Learning Design specification and using the tools. 13th: Using and accessing Learning Design; 14th: Implementing the specification in institutions

using APIS and ISIS (Assessment and Sequencing)| using CETIS-ES (Enterprise)| using SWEET.Net (Enterprise)| using SLeD (Learning Design)| using ISIS (Sequencing)| using APIS (Assessment)| sing SLED (Learning Design)

An overall goal for technology development is to create an open source community of developers who have diverse interests and opinions, but all benefit from the access to the same core technology platform, which would include Learning Content Management S

useful resources - 20 or so annotated + fullpages for LON-CAPA, Connexions, Pedagogica and ePortfolios - useful also as insight into SAIL's take on other projects, and SAIL's mission and approach

This is a collection of favorite websites to connect you to further links, provide you with some ideas and help you narrow down a search. I hope that you will find them useful. If you're just beginning to use the Internet in the classroom, never fear. W

Our curriculum projects are designed to meet standards and complement your current science curriculum, and your grade 5-12 students will find them exciting and engaging. A web browser is all they need to take notes, discuss theories, and organize their ar

..the WISE website is to provide educators and other people interested in schools and education with valuable information and resources about important contemporary issues in education and teaching. The information and resources presented here are the pro

This is a discussion page of SCORM and IMS LD, from the perspective of researchers in the learning sciences who develop new learning technologies and substantial learning content, with a focus on inquiry-based pedagogy. Many of these researchers have been

[Reload, CopperCore]..'Fred de Vries explained that the other task for day one was to play around with a few Units of Learning that were prepared earlier. Each of these units are self-contained, fully described learning activity structures, rolled into an

astute little review of Connexions project's basics, backgroun and features; Added by Turadg Aleahmad, last edited by Turadg Aleahmad on Jun 22, 2004

I am a User Interface Designer specializing in web applications. In the past 5 years I’ve designed a lot of web applications, content management tools and various other software and systems. I also do a lot of concept work around future products and ser

Here are some links to other useful careers websites.. org by: Sites for careers teachers and advisers/Sites for students /Links to sponsors and exhibitors at the NACGT 2003 Annual Conference/If you know of another site that could be listed on this page,

astonishing open-access resource - long extracts from radio and TV programmes..'He was a man of idioms and idiosyncrasies, deeply intelligent and a soothsayer. He had prescient knowledge of the Internet. Although educated in literature, Marshall McLuhan w

VLE from U Cologne (see also JOIN Project) ..'standards:SCORM 1.2 RTE-3, AICC, LOM, IMS QTI offered free of charge, for developing and realising web-based eLearning. The software was developed to reduce the costs of using new media in education and to off

Schoolforge's mission is to unify independent organizations that advocate, use, and develop open resources for primary and secondary education. Schoolforge is intended to empower member organizations to make open educational resources more effective, effi

email archives of lively discussion from jan 02 to date.. 'Schoolforge is a foundry. It is where you will find the information, the tools and materials you need to "forge" or make a school and all its parts. All free for the asking (or download), and, in

(insert bad joke about 2.2 meters and Lesser GPL here)

'OSS Watch have just released their latest IPR document, an overview and guide to the GPL. This is their sixth licence-specific document and sits beside their documents on ownership and licensing issues , software patents and dual licensing.

1. Software, Copyright and Licensing;2. Exploitation;3. What is Open Source Licensing?;4. Complex Ownership;5. Contract and Copyright;6. Beyond the Open Source Definition;7. Licence Compatibility;8. Tracking Intellectual Property;9. Summary;10. Further re

js-include; cannot sort by bundle; options: size;max font;colour;min font;colour;title  icon sort alphabetically   by frequency flow cloud list    tag counts;

incl 'General:About del.icio.us;Ways to use del.icio.us;Contact;Feedback;Privacy policy;Copyright policy;Terms of service; Feeds and Tools:RSS;HTML;Javascript;JSON;IE Active Channel;API;Third Party Tools; Site:Navigation;Posts;Media File Types; Tagging:Ta

Bryan Menell is the CEO of Fusion Learning Systems, a company he founded in 2001 that provides a full range of learning services tailored to fit clients specific business goals and learning objectives.

..One licence is an open source licence, permitting the free modification, distribution and use of the software but usually requiring the release of any modifications under the same open source licence. The other licence is a non-open source licence which

In the sphere of education, and in the public sector in general, there is a widely-held view that software patents may hinder interoperability and access to publicly-funded data, allowing proprietary application vendors to keep data standards closed and e

KEILab is the research laboratory of CSP - Innovazione nelle ICT that deals with Learning Technologies, with a particular focus on Knowledge Communities, groups of people who share objectives, work and interests on particular themes and that collaborate t

[important p.o.v.]..'The overarching question to which interoperability standards are a partial answer is how to make e-learning tools that are fit for purpose, innovative and sustainable. Factors such as software development strategy, useability research

A recent article by Stephen Downes about the reuseability of instructional or learning designs in general, and those compliant with IMS Learning Design in particular, caused rather a response in the CETIS Educational Content Special Interest Group (EC SIG

'In order to use a learning design with a set of objects, the learning design must specify the objects to be used, and if the objects to be used are specified, then the learning design is not reusable.

You might have come here off your own back or your teacher might have decided to use this site to set you up with blogs. Either way, welcome aboard… there’ll be plenty coming in terms of community and other tools down the line, for the moment just sig

The folks at Connexions have released the software that powers that site as open source code, so presumably you can now run your own instance. 115 courses/2000+ modules is nothing to sneer at, so clearly some users are willing to use the current set of to

Software to enable authors, instructors, and students to create, select, and assemble modular educational content into collections customized to meet their teaching and learning needs. An Ancient Greek adjective that refers to things stitched or sewn toge

Open-content licenses make all material on the site freely available, and related resources are linked for easy access. While crediting Connexions for these and other valuable features, Downes also identifies limitations in content creation and export tha

del. account appearently shared within connexions developers? interesting use of bundle and tags for courses and modules; canonical links for news, blogs etc

Content should be modular and non-linear / Sharing is good / Collaboration is encouraged

General Information|Working with Connexions|Markup Languages|Teaching with Connexions|Internet Browsers|Content Commons|Technical Tips. For questions about IP (Intelectual Property), license, and copyright, please visit the Connexions IP (Legal) FAQ.

quite an extensive list of general news media coverage of the Connexions project

21 posts as of nov 17 05; Stephen Downes on del.icio.us

17 posts as of nov 17 05; Stephen Downes on Connexions project

This is a brief report outlining the progress made by the DLF Service Framework Working Group (henceforth the SF Group) The Research Library is undergoing foundational change. Recent years have seen major advances in understanding of service needs and sys

slides from talk 'includes the "Wheel of Fortune" according to SETIS conf 05..'

..design and construction of learning activities and the discovery, specification, sequencing and packaging of content | the construction of the environment in which learning activities are to take place and execution of the learning activities themselves

report revealed valuable insights into uses of ICT across the sector and found that the principal potential benefits of LAMS from the practitioners’ perspective lie in improvements to their own practice and in the enhancement of students’ learning exp

The Programme focuses on four areas: e-learning and Pedagogy; Technical Framework and Tools for e-Learning; Innovation and Distributed e-Learning. This new programme offers practitioners the opportunity to be closely involved with its future development.

Documents produced by the LADIE reference model project including:use cases, taxonomies, specifications, literature review as they become available. Selecting the title (marked in red) allows you to download the individual document.

[what for?].. front page realtime popular aggregates del.icio.us, furl, spurl, Simpy, linkroll, OpenBM ... think it's japanese in focus

resource for educators and cultural heritage professionals..find here a fascinating array of digital collections from all subject areas - art to science, literature to home economics - and from all types of institutions such as museums, libraries, and his

MyLibrary@OCKHAM is set of searchable databases (indexes) created from the content of the "hidden Web" for the purposes of facilitating teaching, learning, and research.

The University of Michigan is exploring the potential for deployment of an advanced Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) infrastructure to serve the academic, research, and administrative needs of the University. This web site serves as the repository f

asset archive; learning resources collection [x-with US NSDL]; special collections - large scale collections - quality materials

NSDL was established by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2000 as a free online library which directs users to exemplary resources for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and research. NSDL provides an organized point

The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) is an attempt to build a "low-barrier interoperability framework" for archives with digital materials. It allows people (Service Providers) to harvest metadata (from Data Providers). This metadata is used to provide "val

resources on OAI-PNH. colLib is the collaborative platform for organizing Open Access materials in Library & Information Science (LIS).

OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) is a protocol developed by the Open Archives Initiative. It is used to harvest the metadata descriptions of the records in an archive so that services can be built using metadata from man

[astonishingly js-fiddly, inaccessible and metadata-free page considering :-] .. incl eg BL in members..'The DLF operates through a professional director with a small staff and a Steering Committee on which each member institution is represented. Drawing

My talk at the Open Source for Education in Europe, organized by the SIGOSSEE and JOIN projects, in conjunction with the Open University of the Netherlands. Here are the PowerPoint Slides. Here is the MP3 Audio.

Warwick blogs seems to support the wordpress / structured blogging review templates. This is FAQ for creating reviews TTW in warwick system

We are a JISC funded project (X4L strand B) developing tools to facilitate the use of emerging Learning Technology Interoperability specifications such as those produced by ADL and IMS.

Now the content offered by RSS need not be limited to side blocks or static display units as is presently the case with Drupal and almost all other CMS applications.

'why haven’t we created a Wordpress plugin for creating learning materials and presenting these as human and machine readable resources? Better yet, why stop with a simple authoring system like Wordpress+plugin, why don’t we put something like AFLAX o

AFLAX (Wikipedia Entry) is a method through which developers may use JavaScript and Flash together to create AJAX-type applications, but with a much richer set of vector drawing controls than are available in either Internet Explorer or FireFox. Developer

links to other blogging + RiinaV's take on sessions attended.. about 10 paras.. 'Back with a very good feeling from the NL, where the first Open source for Education in Europe conference took place.

large-scale use of del.icio.us for back-ending a focused resource-base. 600+ comprehensive categories, 1400+ high-quality resources..[my own del.icio.us + connotea accts]..'A large part of the work entailed by the Working Group's report is the comprehensi

our goals:|to raise awareness in the media of digital rights abuses|to provide a media clearinghouse, connecting journalists with experts and activists|to preserve and extend traditional civil liberties in the digital world|to collaborate with other digit

[ ALSO HAS DOI RESOLVER FORM IN PAGE ] 'CrossRef is an independent membership association, founded and directed by publishers. CrossRef’s mandate is to connect users to primary research content, by enabling publishers to do collectively what they can’

Reviews and Annotated Lists,Products -- Software and Systems,Production & Presentation Tools and Services,Organizations and Initiatives,Discussion Lists,Interoperability with Journal Access and Linking Systems,Intellectual Property,Journals about Electron

Designed to ease the process of matching the community with the best content possible, this book provides a starting point for key technologies and the associated tools that make them usable. Introducing the concept of the digital library, Rhyno details t

To improve the accuracy of searching within the PKP System, authors have been asked to index their work, where applicable, by discipline(s), topics, genre, method, coverage, and sample. This allows you to search for "empirical" versus "historical" studies

1043 since 2005-06-12; collabrank 255; much of the usual but many nuggets; either a very well-informed teacher or a very learner-centric techie

the presentation for unveiling Microsoft's new Live Software strategy to the media, held in San Francisco, was one filled with logistical and technical errors, seemed "hurried" to some and ran long over the scheduled time. "It was Ray Ozziea's (CTO) comin

seems to update frequently; loads of new gubbins, figures, etc since last I looked... some of it might make some sense?

did Microsoft invent the wordy, bulletpoint-ridden PowerPoint slide approach, the approach ridiculed by Edward Tufte and so many others? I don't have the answer to that, but judging from the presentation visuals (slides) used by high-profile Microsoft ex

[This post takes up some of the themes that Matt Webb, Paul Hammond, Matt Biddulph and I talked about in our paper at ETech 2005 on Reinventing Radio: Enhancing One-to-Many with Many-to-Many. A podcast of that talk is available.]

[could be very useful for making stream-hosting simple for end-users?].. 'It also includes a link that allows visitors to easily post the mp3 to del.icio.us.

Here are some simple notes for looking at the HP Labs semantic blog. I have written these notes with reference to a simple demonstrator blog, with test data. The demonstrator blog is intended to show the use of semantic web technologies augmenting the blo

Open Source Web Design is a community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information. Helping to make the internet a prettier place! 22 designs posted this week, 1331 designs total!

Microsoft's new approach to synchronizing RSS and OPML, using methods pioneered in Ozzie's earlier work, and keeping the "really simple" approach that's worked so well with networked syndication and outlining, combines the best of our two schools of thoug

IMS Learning Design specification was published nearly three years ago, and the UNFOLD project is near the end of its existence. Much has been achieved in that time in a number of areas, including implementing applications,exploring expressive capabilitie

in Perl, uses PostgreSQL as a database, and Apache for a webserver. Resources are written as simple plugin modules so adding new resources and types of linking is easy. CrossRef support for DOI linking through DOI.org is included, as well as some example

Atom provides a lot more functionality that we need for a "blog post" microformat, so we've taken the minimal number of elements needed. This can (and probably should) be expanded. he "physical" model of hAtom -- the actual writing of elements -- is a lot

Cedefop agreed with the European Commission to organise and host a number of virtual communities to promote dialogue and information exchange on the priorities listed in the Declaration. Communities were set up to provide a platform for members of the tec

JISC project, University of Nottingham + University of Lund..'OpenDOAR will provide a comprehensive and authoritative list of institutional and subject-based repositories, as well as archives set up by funding agencies - like the National Institutes for H

JISC is bringing together a programme of work relating to digital repositories. Its aim is to bring together people and practices from across various domains (research, learning, information services, institutional policy, management and administration,

provides a set of visual components, utility classes and data structures that ease the development of sophisticated cross platform applications. EnFlash is based on pure object oriented ActionScript 2 and takes advantage of XML and CSS.

..'and I've linked it into the Community Directory in the right margin here on Scripting News.

good eg of real end-users managing some content effectively [via yandleblog.blogspot.com/2005/11] 'a fully editable Plone-based website and all the content added by it's owners (3 artists) in Brighton

These are not people walking round with $$ in their eyes and an "I ♥ I.P.O." tattoo on their shoulder. But I can tell you it's more fun to work in IT now than it was 5 years ago.

These good Internet principles are easily corrupted when you bring back "the money". (As a VC, I realize I'm being a bit hypocritical here.) On the other hand, I think/hope Web 2.0 will be a bit better than Web 1.0. Both Tiger and GTalk use Jabber, an ope

themes:1) RSS feeds encompass much more than blogs now;2) Feed becomes input to content on the site;3) Focus on the feed item - attach threads to the item and track it across the Web while it gets remixed and re-published.

You can download this report in PDF format (300 KB) from our Web site. Stay tuned to this weblog for future installments..eg 'Today, however, while almost all blogs still have feeds, there are innumerable feeds that are unrelated to blogs.

' Many terms have been linked with student-centred learning, such as flexible learning (Taylor 2000), experiential learning (Burnard 1999), self-directed learning and therefore the slightly overused term ‘student-centred learning’ can mean different t

looks Plone but isn't even Zope - but 'close' :o]: developed this software using Python, We use Quixote as our application framework. Quixote made it incredibly easy to get a complex site up and running in no time. And makes it easy to maintain.We use ZOD

In Quixote, the templating language is a small extension of Python itself: the aim is to make Web page assembly take maximal advantage of the Python programmer's existing skills.

funds for-profits, nonprofits and public policy efforts that promote: Equal access to information, tools and opportunities, Rich connections around shared interests, A sense of ownership for participants. Because we believe issues are best addressed by th

Teens are often much more enthusiastic authors and readers of blogs than their adult counterparts. Teen bloggers, led by older girls, are a major part of this tech-savvy cohort. Teen bloggers are more fervent internet users than non-bloggers and have more

textually.org is the entry point of three weblogs devoted to cell phones and mobile content, focusing on text messaging applications, picturephoning.com takes a look at a new world where picture & video phones become ubiquitious. ringtonia.com is all abou

[some savvy web2ish discussions]..'facilitating collaborations between artists, academics, soft groups, writers, code geeks, curators, independent thinkers, relationalists, activists, networkers, net mutualists, new media types, new media performers, net

This theme is heavily based on the great Kubrick theme, that comes standard with Wordpress: so most of the work was already done, and the credit goes to the original (super) developers.

month arch incl 3 impressions/roundups posts from conference, links to photos and audio

Google has silently added a Bookmarks feature to My Search History, enabling you to quickly tag and comment any web page you’ve visited. If Google in the future opens this up, letting users share their bookmarks and see bookmarking data in searches, we

'good news for the W3C, good news for the WaSP DOM Scripting Task Force and, most of all, it’s good news for developers. Expect to see a Web API blog in the not too distant future which will have tips’n'tricks for using JavaScript in a standards-based

TALL combines research into elearning with large scale course development. This has led to a distinctive Oxford approach - digital learning material in a rich mix of media supported by intensive interaction with tutors and other students. Our team of spec

I've had a few people come up to me at conferences recently and ask me to compare ELGG and Moodle, and choose between them as if they were somehow mutually exclusive. Indeed, even within the Moodle community itself there seems to be a bit of dismissivenes

+ link to audio, CC attr licensed, ingenious use of flickr, right-on architectural / pedagogical stance..'Click View as slide show. Click an image to reveal notes. Use the controls to slow or pause slides. 11 photos (growing?) see Leigh Blackall Teach and

Why do we need a PLE when we already have the Internet? The Internet is my PLE, ePortfolio, VLE what ever. Thanks to blogger, bloglines, flickr, delicious, wikispaces, ourmedia, creative commons, and what ever comes next in this new Internet age, I have a

[+ intro links]..'Knowledge of learning styles can help both educators and learners improve their effectiveness. In this feature, I recommend sites to help you discover your learning style, and suggest resources describing optimal teaching and learning st

[installer link] To get faster and more convenient access to the documentation, inspired by Mark Hammond’s sidebar, I wrote an updated sidebar for the Mozilla family of web browser

'We are looking back at the way teaching and learning has traditionally been: the educational establishment knows what's best and that's that. No-one will dare not conform to what is provided for within the school environment.

..something the ‘well-designed metadata’ crowd has never understood — just because it’s better to have well-designed metadata along one axis does not mean that it is better along all axes, and the axis of cost, in particular, will trump any other

[the venerable open-content community]..'The MERLOT community is made up of individual members and higher education, institutional, and corporate partners and affiliates dedicated to improving education. Individual MERLOT members support the community by

based in the UK and accessed via standard web browsers. JISC hopes that this service will be a valuable support tool for institutions, staff and students in their efforts to prevent and detect plagiarism

[loads of 'em :o]..'In which there shall appear a compilation of Web sites consisting of jokes, parodies or satire and incorporating unto them Web 2.0 themes motifs and technologies.

This post describes the process of setting up a blog based site for classroom use. In comparison to the pre-configured site available for download, this site is simpler and more open. One of the goals I attempted to meet was to create a site that could be

[tony hirst on next-generation use of social-bm tools for group purposes?]..' So what might such a system look like? I do not anticipate answering this question in this post, but hopefully I'll be able to identify some of the issues...

But the good thing about all of these is that I've had a series of small epiphanies that have made me a true believer in social software. What's that brother's and sisters, can you say it, I BULEAVE! Say it again, I BULEAVE!

here's my modest proposal. Do away with the formal scheduling of presenting papers altogether. I'm not saying do away with presenting your ideas, but do away with the formal schedule that says "at 2 o'clock everyone should assemble in Room 1400 to hear wh

I've barked and moaned previously (see "I'm Bored As Hell And I'm Not Gonna... zzzzz") about the staleness and sad irony of the 50 minute lecture to a passive audience being the primary mode of information sharing at professional gatherings and the minima

back end architecture is actually closer to something like Connexions - all resources are stored as individual learning objects in order to facilitate easy reuse downstream. eduCommons also now includes the social software previously distributed separate

The first format we've learned to tag is MP3, the popular audio compression format. Other common formats — image, video, text, other audio formats — will follow soon. This is an ongoing process, and we welcome your feedback. (You can also read a more

links to CC Browser Plugins | How to Tag HTML pages | How license embedding works in MP3s | Applications integrated with CC | Web Integration Developer's Guide | Using CC Metadata | Tech Challenges

CC Publisher is a tool that does two things: it will help you tag your audio and video files with information about your license and it allows you to upload Creative Commons-licensed audio and video works to the Internet Archive for free hosting.

The 16 articles in this special issue include contributions from France, Germany, Canada, the UK, Cuba, the Netherlands and Spain and cover topics such as the design of LD tools (editors and players), the role of ontologies and patterns in learning design

This article, the second in a two-part series, explores the two most popular forms of open source licenses -- the academic license and the reciprocal license -- and describes the obligations of licensees that accept the terms of each.

This article -- the first of two -- describes the tenets of copyright and explains the intents of an open source license. The second article in this series explores individual licenses, such as the GNU Public License and the Apache License.

implementation was started by Dare Obasanjo's MSDN article: Building a Desktop News Aggregator. This is now an Open Source project. It was hosted on GotDotNet workspace, and lives now at Sourceforge.net. Users interested in contributing to or taking a loo

..'asking me what edgeio is and how it works, and there’s some people out there that seem to have great hints (or that have been talking to the right people - you know, those that have the great hints) - but I’m keeping the suspense level up by saying

the broad folksonomy,like del.icio.us delivers, has many people tagging the same object and every person can tag the object with their own tags in their own vocabulary. This lends itself very easy to applying the power law curve (power curve) and/or net e

1) UK government policy on open source | 2) well-established best-practice in software engineering and management of intellectual property rights (IPR) | 3) current IT best-practice within JISC and higher and further education more broadly

[23 as of 29/11/05] Presentations previously developed by OSS Watch for conferences, workshops, site visits, etc., are available here as PDF files. Please contact us if you would prefer to access the presentation in a different forma

No longer can universities and colleges avoid engaging with the issues surrounding open source software. Pressure is mounting all sides. National and European government policies are increasingly mandating a consideration of open source software in gov

This paper presents the initial idea to leave the beaten track of http/HTML to build the client-server-interaction between learner and learning management system in favour of using IMAP, an open and increasingly common protocol for accessing e-mail.

Fresh from the CETIS Conference yesterday where our Reference Model presentation sparked off a lively debate. Thanks to all those who contributed and helped take these ideas on. Several people asked for the slides so here they are.

essentially the functional distinction between a PLE and any sort of personal tool (e.g desktop aggregators, Flock et al) is non-existant. Instead the distinction is in terms of the priorities for what gets incorporated first and the audiences whose conce

Gervais and his writing partner, Stephen Merchant, will be reunited with their sidekick, Karl "the K Man" Pilkington, who produced their Saturday afternoon show on Xfm. But they have decided to make the programme available for download over the internet.

This project set out to examine the opportunities for and barriers to learning in small and medium-sized enterprises, building on the researchers' existing studies of young people's experiences on the Modern Apprenticeship programme, the project set out t

By reducing the complexity of information, I have created a fast and eyefriendly browser through the free encyclopedia "Wikipedia". Originally this invention was built up for my daughter but now I have expanded it to the world for free as an open source p

This piece is an attempt to shed some cool light on the subject, and to preview some new work that applies the two ideas - ontology, folksonomy - together to enable an Internet ecology for folksonomies.

In order to demonstrate the server capability we also developed some user facing stuff. We have the following demos:2idi I-Broker integrationI-Name Profile Manager | LID interop demo | XDI Viewer | I-Name enabled Outlook Form

Learning technology is being driven rapidly onward by many forces: pedagogic, financial, political, technical, and cultural. key directions for learning technology development: digital repositories;e-portfolios; ubiquitous computing

..I've been trying to find a way to let any page in our domain communicate with live.jot.com through XmlHttpRequests. As it turns out, it is possible, but you have to jump through some hoops.

In response to the textbook industry’s constant drive to maximize profits instead of educational value, I have started this collection of the existing free textbooks and educational tools available online

You've heard all about this fancy JavaScript toolkit called 'Dojo' and you're a fairly experienced developer but this is a new world and you have no real idea how to get it to work for your project. Here's a quick guide to get up to speed with a couple of