del.icio.us bookmarks for Tuesday October 03 2006
03-October-2006
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CETL Reusable Learning Objects - The Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning; funded by HEFCE to develop a range of multimedia learning objects that can be stored in repositories, accessed over the Web, and integrated into course delivery
London Metropolitan University is the lead site, in partnership with the Universities of Cambridge and Nottingham. Teaching staff and multimedia developers are busy completing the next phase of learning objects for students to use from October 2006. Londo
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RLO-CETL Newletter #1 | Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) in Reusable Learning Objects [PDF file, 4pp, 1.2MB]
'news from each of the partner sites + some of the learning objects already developed by the partners, such as Qualitative and Quantitative Research, Reflective Writing, Confidentiality, Maths for Biologists and Probability and Inferential Statistics.
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del.icio.us bookmarks for Friday October 06 2006
06-October-2006
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Powerset [much hyped new search engine] unique innovations in search rooted in breakthrough technologies that take advantage of the structure and nuances of natural language.. building a large-scale search engine that breaks the confines of keyword search
'By making search more natural and intuitive, Powerset is fundamentally changing how we search the web, and delivering higher quality results. Powerset is a Silicon Valley startup currently operating in stealth mode. Please check back in the near future f
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Powerset and Natural Language Search | Barney Pell's Weblog: 'we are going to look back 5 to 10 years from now and say: "remember when we used to search using keywords?".. hard work to get there, but that's what we're working on at Powerset!
'Powerset has unexpectedly become the subject of a recent blogstorm, initiated by an article on VentureBeat.. with people coming down on both sides of the "search is great, nobody can compete with Google" vs. "search is broken, go for it" divide (for the
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del.icio.us bookmarks for Saturday October 28 2006
28-October-2006
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LiveSlideShow.com : Windows/Mac app for creating self-playing online slideshows for quicktime. $69.95 (Educational: $49.95 USD) Easy to add audio. Can synch video to slides
LiveSlideShow 3 is the easiest way to take your digital photos and transform them into dazzling and powerful presentations. LiveSlideShow offers Macintosh & Windows users the most effective presentation tool for digital images available to consumers today
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SlideShare: upload / tag presentations as social-content.. SlideShare is open to everyone. Anyone can join, upload and view slideshows..you can embed slideshows into your blog / websites.
Looks very promising! See also zoho. Nav by My Slidespace | Latest | Popular | Featured | Topics & Tags
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RISE - Learning is for Everyone. South Wales eportfolio-based (Careers-Wales progressFile) DLE for lifelong learners. Euro ESF & Obj1/3 funded
Welcome to RISE, the adult learning forum that listens to its learners. RISE is a unique service offered throughout Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Newport and Torfaen which meets the individual needs of each and every learner.
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RISE Launches a New Learning Platform | Dysg Blog: The RISE Learning Network launched its new Digital Learning Passport on 24 October 2006 in Cardiff; a learning platform to enable learners to manage their courses over different educational institutions
The RISE Partnership, the largest adult learning network in the UK, has been established to enable learners to have their say in the facilities and provision that are available across the 5 Counties of Gwent + develop curriculum to meet these requirements
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del.icio.us bookmarks for Monday October 30 2006
30-October-2006
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The time is right to move towards open access, said Director General of CERN Dr Robert Aymar at the opening of the two day JISC conference held in Oxford this week | JISC News 9 October 2006
..'Keynote speaker Professor John Houghton (VU, Melbourne) presented an analysis of the wider benefits of opening up access to research outputs. There are strong economic reasons for exploring and implementing more open models of scholarly communications
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OpenDOAR - the Directory of Open Access Repositories - has released a trial search service for academics and researchers around the world which allows full-text searching from its list of repositories | JISC News Oct 30 06
The trial service has been made possible through the recent launch by Google of its Custom Search Engine, which allows OpenDOAR to define a search service based on the Directory’s holdings. OpenDOAR’s approach to quality assurance helps to minimise sp
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