elearning2.0 linklog

[progress! - their own site since march 06 - binaries for os-x etc] Frontier was originally a commercial product published by Userland Software. In September 2004, it was released as open source under the GPL license. For details, see Frequently Asked Que

Making things is part of being human. Whether you make bikes, kites, food, clothing, protocols for biology research, or hack consumer electronics, a good way to show "How-To" is critical. Instructables is a simple and fast way to share projects with a mix

"This paper is focused on exploring the inter-relationship between two key trends in the field of educational technologies...

very terse blog collecting bits (sometimes vaguely) related to vicarious learning. there is also a planet and a slightly more verbose blog within blog ( odd non-standard approximations of blogs/bookmarks :o)

the more verbose blog within the terse linksblog ( at blog/page/blog, which sounds so weirdly right that someone ought to grab it as a domain name :o)

free GPL PHP/mySQL; many languages; includes almost any feature you could expect from a blog tool, and more Check out the features, not to mention third party plug-ins!

Microformats and RDFa show all the classic signs of an upcoming ''de jure'' vs. ''de facto'' standards dispute. On the microformats side is a loose aggregation of bloggers and Web 2.0 hobbyists and a small sprinkling of commercial interests, forging ahead

high-volume & slick; obvious possibilities in education. instructions for embedding in myspace etc... BUT NO API??? (could not find in their site or progr web)... scrapable embed-spec UI?

cottage industry around customizing your MySpace layout.. edge feeders - hosting services that feed into MySpace via code snippets and web widgets. You can also think of MySpace in terms of specialists and aggregators,MySpace an aggregator for your intere

[YA UI library - not particularly pretty or responsive in my first try].. 'The UIZE project was started in April 2005 and is a work in progress. Documentation is slowly starting to catch up with the code development. Please forgive it's incomplete nature.

'chock full of reflection and links and thinking, and it’s just pure quality (..In preparation for her day at Kennesaw State University last week, Anne put together this

embeds a lovely rockyou slideshow of exemplary blogs + sidebar of very useful links to the rest of her talk on good-practice blogging in ed

However, the recent videos section is far more limited than YouTube’s - instead of listing the very latest submissions, it appears to show a random selection of videos from the last few days. Perhaps Google didn’t relish the thought of policing a near

This session will present three case studies that highlight Drupal as a flexible, open source content management platform, one that can enable richer interaction and collaboration both among students and teachers in the classroom and among colleagues teac

Much like MIT has OpenCourseWare distributing curricular materials for college students worldwide, our Howtoons are OpenKidsWare, with practical build-it projects letting kids learn-by-doing, MIT-style!

Nice intro to best-of options in Web Based Readers, Desktop Based Readers and dreamware spec of a Rich Internet Application Reader... 'argely written by Ryan Stewart, a guest blogger on Read/WriteWeb. I've added my own Best of Breed picks for each categor

'This file has now been broken-down into RSS readers by platform: Ajax, Windows, Mac, Linux/Unix, Cross-Platform, Web-Based, Blackberry, Pocket PC, Mobile Phones, e-mail, Other or not-yet-determined [a bit techie in feel so poss not for naive endusers]

'BeyondLabels Blog is focused on supporting technology enhanced multicultural education to combat social exclusion in both formal and informal education

Glenn Hardaker on Flickr ... will be part of contentbase for the MC-DIP project

...'With support from the project team, a module tutor drew up and published Learning Designs using the SLeD/CopperCore system. The student class group logs in to the SLeD system during seminar sessions.

'The project is one of the very first times that an IMS Learning Design running on CopperCore and SLeD has been used with a live, assessed course. We ran a second year module in Multimedia for 15 students on the Multimedia Technology course. The trial w

nice features. eg see rockyou.com/faq ... loads of RSS ( top 10, 5 most recent, news... ).

The principal author and undisputed champion of this approach is Jason Fried, president of 37signals. Originally a boutique design studio founded in 1999 to build Web products on a for-hire basis, Fried has led 37signals through a startling transition ove

Remember outsourcing? Sending jobs to India and China is so 2003. The new pool of cheap labor: everyday people using their spare cycles to create content, solve problems, even do corporate R & D.

Whyville has places to go, things to do, and of course, people to see. Whyville has its own newspaper, its own Senators, its own beach, museum, City Hall and town square, its own suburbia, and even its own economy - Whyvillians earn "clams" by playing edu

Create your own ad free fully featured WordPress blog at edublogs.org. Including free Yacapaca assessment tool from the Chalkface Project. In addition to a free blog, all users also get an ad free wikispace!

frequent posts on good practice; many real-world example links... good resource

DOM Scripting Task force have been busy writing and reviewing books, teaching and presenting at conferences and workshops, and preparing for upcoming events; focusing on the responsible use of JavaScript, as well as accessible JavaScript. Here’s an upda

The system offers an easy to use "direct manipulation" user interface. Project Pad software is available both as a set of Sakai tools and as a stand-alone web application.

[note to self - dig into these refs]

If you have bibliographic data for a journal article and would like to find the DOI, please use the form below. The form is a guest query interface to the CrossRef system for individual DOI retrieval. This interface is not intended for automated querying.

nice front-end aggregating from many blogs. also some helpful top-level links. may make a good intro-to-blogs resource

'The Amazon Feed Generator is not affiliated with Amazon.com, but does use Amazon Web Services. Like this? You might like Amazon Hacks.

My presentation this week on Web 2.0 and the Global SOA at the SOA Web Services Edge conference in New York City afforded an opportunity for me to spend some quality time on the subject and really organize my thoughts. Increasingly, this has been a subje

If you haven’t heard of Flock, it’s a web browser based on Firefox that has special features that keep your social life up-to-date. Some of the features in Flock are unlike any other browser, and make you wonder why other browsers haven’t done these

'The fact that I was only very recently employed on an extremely successful project to promote and roll out Moodle across the same county, funded by the Local Education Authority, obviously makes me wonder what's going on with the radically restructured L

This is your chance to wow the world with your ideas; your chance to build better systems on top of library data; your chance to demonstrate the value and the power of libraries; your chance to take library information and display it in exciting new ways;

"The best, most ridiculous, most redundant graphical implementation of ASCII!" - Open a terminal and type: your-host:~$ telnet ascii-wm.net 2006 ....press ENTER and enjoy the game!

google's entry in clipping services - plugins for FF1.5+, IE6. Sharable or private. multiple notebooks... 'You can add clippings of text, images and links from web pages to your Google Notebook without ever leaving your browser window.

[mature beta now?]..Search that learns from your users. Results uniquely relevant and tagged for your community. Buzzcloud of searches your users care about. Add a swicki to your site or blog in easy steps... Customize it. Train it. Add it to your site.

'Digg, the collaborative tech news site, will soon branch out beyond geekdom. At a Web 2.0 panel at the eBay Developers Conference today, President Kevin Rose said that in the next month or so, the popular site--where people vote on stories submitted by o

useful intro to web2.0ishness for IT dept types. collabroation,blogs,rss etc for beginners 'Originally published by Kathleen Gilroy and Bill Ives, on June 1st, 2006 as "Transforming Your Intranet" on the Ottergroup.com web site.

"But, where do I post my profile so that everyone else in the company can see what I am about?" Apparently he had been a daily user of the Facebook and MySpace social networking systems and he just assumed that a big corporation would have a similar syste

going to cover three “next level” things you can do in del.icio.us, two of which I had not even checked out before last week. I am sure there are more treasures in there, and remember that just about everything… no make that everything displayed in

story of his [economics prof] session with 6 enlightened uni IT staff scoping the tech for uncoming course - very good issues raised about loosely-couple but goal-led & co-ordinated activities

'Get Stuff / Create / Share: Upload your own video, photos and music; Explore shared content; Grab what you want. Create your own movies or Remix someone else's to make your own version. Publish your movies to your friends or Share them with the world.

'I still have a deep seated love for flickr and will use it largely for my own photos, which, aham, are photos, photos, photos. But my web 2.0 heart is saddened that going big may be a big ankle weight for the groovy people that once were flickr.

ya social photo beta; seems progressive [cogdogblog sez cool features coming]; geo-slant? But standards-busting + sluggish javascript-links UI in homepage :o(

'unAPI only provides the few basic operations necessary to perform simple clipboard-like copy of content objects across all sites. It can be quickly implemented, consistently used, and easily layered over other well-known APIs.

based on my OAI-PMH plugin, but unlike its ancestor, the unAPI server is properly plugged into Wordpress’s methods of accessing blog postings. Functionally, it does everything the spec says it should do to distribute oai_dc and MODS records for every bl

..'Suppose I’m blogging about a book, maybe using a book review microformat, and I want you to see your local library’s holdings of that book when you visit my blog posting. And suppose you want the same thing. You could just use Book Burro, of course

Stephen from Ultraversity's brief summary/notes on the CETIS meeting last week. [I must try to post my own when I get a spare ghour or two]

' "Messy" learning is part trial and error, part waiting and waiting for something to happen, part excitement in discovery, part trying things in a very controlled, very step by step fashion, part trying anything you can think of no matter how preposterou

attempt to use Flickr to assemble and present a comprehensive visual guide to birds, with some rules about photo composition/content

I'm very pleased to announce the technology preview of Technorati microformats search for contacts, events and reviews, and Pingerati, a microformats ping distributor to support and grow the microformats ecosystem. Microformats are the key building block,

World Map of Video Blogs -original map that attempts to plot every vlog. -GeoVlogged Map of Videos -for locating specific video posts. -Geo Finder -Submission tool to plot markers on the map. -Google Earth Data -Network links for an amazing application.

The Library 2.0 Gang is a regular conversation amongst leading commentators with diverse views on the concepts of Library 2.0. There are a set of forums on this site, dedicated to discussing issues arising from the programmes.

'These are my initial ideas. The main thing is that the LMS is no longer a replication to the Internet with compromised functionality, but a pluggin to it with increased functionality. If a user chooses to use hotmail instead of student mail, no worries,

Call them "Family 2.0" sites--places for people who may feel a little strange hanging out with the teenybopper set on MySpace. While big family-friendly sites have been around for a long time, few of them have taken advantage of newer Web technologies, ev

Family 2.0 you know of or you are about to launch?, feel free to let me know… need an angel investor, an advisor on your board, licencing our VIBEngine software that runs Minti or have a business opportunity, feel free to get in touch…

One example is WhyVille , an on-line community dedicated to learning through exploration and communication... Another example to look out for is Imbee which will go live later this year, is designed to offer a safe place for kids as young as 8 and 9 years

Desktop application feel in a web-based diagramming solution, Add collaborators to your work and watch it grow, Link to published Gliffy drawings from your blog or wiki, Create many types of diagrams:, Flowcharts, UI wireframes, Floor plans, Network diagr

'Could you have a use for a free, incredibly easy to use, web based and therefore potentially collaborative flow chart/concept mapping tool? Who doesn't have a need for such a thing. I love this tool. Gliffy.com I love you!!

'In many cases, students communicate more, construct original content more, and more often collaborate virtually with other people, than do their teachers. Those teachers who pretend to stand on higher ground, appear, to many of their students, to be stan

useful - some thought went into this. terse Executive Summary: The Two-Minute Bottom Line, further ord into 12 parts / 49 topics + notes.links.refs - PDF AVAILABLE

pdf version, 67pp... useful - some thought went into this. terse Executive Summary: The Two-Minute Bottom Line, further ord into 12 parts / 49 topics + notes.links.refs

very usefully + tersely made points on the value that timely, concentrated blogging adds both to the content and to the bloggers' learning.

wonderful + vivid account of some real teaching/learning/blogging..'I send this chronology along because I think many do not realize the impact, both on the students and the teacher, of what is happening in some corners right now. This was my day:

[also note exemplary practice constructiing the podcast+notes] Clarence Fisher teaches grade 7/8 in northern Manitoba. He has been expermenting with many of the web 2.0 tools for over a year. This year he truly implemented them into his daily routine.

Fisher found that it was the control that was preventing classroom blogging from working to the degree that he wanted. Therefore, he switched to Farmer’s Wordpress-based blogging service for students, a system that is open, where student blogs immediate

'the new story of 21st century education in workshop settings. From these conversations, I realized that we need to refine the story, or at least the focus and message of our stories. So I’d like to take this opportunity to suggest some common focal poi

[right-on + comforting :o]..'Daily posts are a legacy of a Web 1.0 mindset and early Web 2.0 days (ie12 months ago!). The pressure around posting frequency will ultimately become a significant barrier to the maturity of blogging. Here are 10 reasons why.

SketchUp Pro 5 $495 Google SketchUp (free) is an easy-to-learn 3D modeling program that enables you to explore the world in 3D. With just a few simple tools, you can create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking proje

handy!

'You can download our Master Thesis Groups in Social Software: Utilizing Tagging to Integrate Individual Contexts for Social Navigation (PDF, 120 pages, 2MB). Find a summary below. We will release our prototype GROOP.US, soon.

Flock is a free, easy-to-use web browser built on fast and secure Mozilla technologies. Share photos, get your news, blog freely, and search your world with Flock. Flock makes it easier than ever for you to connect with your friends. Download the first be

'These live events are held in online rooms where participants can interact via voice-over-IP, text chatting, and synchronized browsing. Everyone is welcome to participate in OPAL programs. Usually there is no need to register. Nearly all OPAL program

'Mid 2006 finds the academic research community engaged in an ideological and fiscal war related to Open Access publishing. Open Access requires that the full text of publications be made available at no cost to anyone on the open Internet. Recent positio

'a long post, because the issues are complex, and I hope people will read to the end. I'll do my best to set the record straight, and to answer some of the comments and questions that have been flying around. I apologize to Tom for the unnecessary lawyer'

still a few months away from launching, but I spoke with Munjal this evening and he gave me an overview of what to expect from the service. It will be a “visual search engine” - give Riya an image and it will return image results that are similar from

'comprehensive feature set, including multiple authors, internationalization, templated output, and an open plugin architecture.. Serendipity is a PHP-powered weblog application which gives the user an easy way to maintain an online diary, weblog or even

Apple Computer's "Digital Tools for digital students" website includes good info and great video interviews with both teachers and students on the realities facing digital immigrant teachers in classrooms today

..'Bruno Latour's latest book, Reassembling the social: An introduction to actor-network-theory. His goal in this introduction to ANT is to "redefine the notion of social by going back to its original meaning and making it able to trace connections again"

'The central theme of these postings look into Latour’s redefinition of the social. Latour sees the ’social’ not as a static configuration but as an aggregation of actors and objects (that use to be subsumed under the word ‘actant’ but I didn’

'This article has been modified from Alexandra Samuel's Choosing Effective Del.icio.us Tags and Ruby Sinreich's Why Nonprofits Should Use Tags.

'.this useful little tool will scan your page and show you the results, as well as provide useful page data such as word density, meta keywords, links, etc.

[via edtechpost] 'Tony Lowe (Webducate) created an interactive version of the 'matrix of blog uses in education' with a cool innovation - in addition to a pre-existing list of "uses," which the user can drag and drop into their chosen quadrant of the matr

'Inspired by Scott Leslie’s original matrix of some uses of blogs in education I have produced a new version. As you will see it also owes much to this Dutch version which Scott Leslie highlighted recently on his blog when writing about a further excell

blog with intention of delivering intro material on web2.0 ( but seems to me to be too cluttered to make such an intro in itself :o) .. may be useful source of intros/pitches/slants?

['You can download this chapter in PDF format, along with the first three chapters of the book, if you'd prefer to read it offline]

very few here but might become a resource. not to be comfused with whoever has the account 'del.icio.us / scottwilson / by Scott Wilson' :o)

'This year the recommended tag for all content relating to the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2006 is 'iwmw2006'. This tag can be used for all your bookmarks, blogs and images

'Just back from IWMW 2006, a very interesting event for me as its a totally different group of people there from the e-learning crowd I'm used to, and it was extremely encouraging to see institutional IT and web managers showing so much enthusiasm for web

'NooZ leverages the Rojo Platform to enable NooZrs to submit and vote for web pages and articles. You can see the top vote getters on the front page of NooZ.com and in various categories. As the first user-rated news site for MySpace we do some cool new

seems to have lots of free space on offer. USP seems to be email-friendliness and UI for folks who like email apps. Another of the web2-but-looks-like-outlook pitches? myspace messiness instead of flickr shinyness? must check it out

AOL entry in google-video/youtube arena? ..'It's easy to upload your odd, unusual, newsworthy, cool, neat or otherwise great videos and share them with the world -- or at least, your friends. And don't forget to create a 'Click' ultimate remote control mo

..'Many popular guestbook and forum programs allow users to submit posts with html and javascript embedded in them. If for example I was logged in as "john" and read a message by "joe" that contained malicious javascript in it, then it may be possible for

likely defunct ( no posts since nov 05) but good resources well described on theoretical issues and general trends and analysis

'This webtext is as much toolbox as it is anything else. We present it in a variety of forms and in various voices and registers, choices we have made to make sure that everything here can be appropriated. Used, that is, by you.

downloaded the latest version of Flock... come a long way since I first looked at it, at the start of the PLE project... interesting to see how... Plex has followed a similar approach to Flock - perhaps a validation of our using a pattern-based approach?

screenshots annotated - Scott Wilson's reflections on Flock and PLEX recent development

OpenLayers makes it easy to put a dynamic map in any web page. It can display map tiles and markers loaded from any source. MetaCarta developed the initial version of OpenLayers and gave it to the public to further the use of geographic information of all

theme is "The next generation", with ten parallel streams focusing on next generation learners, learning, providers and technology. keynotes:Diana Oblinger, Tim O'Shea, Stephen Heppell. invited speakers:Terry Anderson, Phil Candy,Gilly Salmon, Chris Yapp

[from jQuery Blog] 'This is a great example of the short code that’s possible using jQuery, while still making something that’s quite cool.

[worth digging into]..'jQuery is a Javascript library that takes this motto to heart: Writing Javascript code should be fun. jQuery acheives this goal by taking common, repetitive, tasks, stripping out all the unnecessary markup, and leaving them short, s

'My employers think they own me. Corporations think they can buy me...For half an hour I can write and think what I will, without regard to who is watching, who is reading

extensive discussion began june 14, including interesting positions from yahoo/flickr folks

..'latest version of Picasa with the Web Albums feature is free.. free to use Picasa Web Albums for posting, sharing and viewing photos..You need an invitation to post and share photos on Picasa Web Albums. You can sign up for an invitation using your Gma

56 (curently) 'notable' sites... table of site / focus / user count / registration policy + separate link to dating sites list, with refs

'Combining the best of wikis, blogs, and forums, Wetpaint is the canvas where everyone gets a brush. From personal expression to collaboration, Wetpaint empowers you to connect with others on whatever you're passionate about.

56 pp. Geoff Stead: Mobile technologies Bill Sharpe: The ambient web Paul Anderson: The future of human-computer interaction Leon Cych: Social networks (incl Web 2.0 technologies adapted for education) Michael Philpott: The broadband home

'We plan to release as free documentation all teaching and organizational material related to this European Master, so other Institutions in other regions can benefit from them. We also welcome any other Institutions who would like to join in the project,

[yes, there really does seem to be a Master's degree *about* open source software :o] includes [june 06] recent discussion on the gender in floss issue, with pdf links

small thread noting debate on gender-based exclusion, some recent docs and upcoming talks, and 'lively debate going on' on mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list

June 13, 2006 - The GNOME Foundation is offering USD$9000 to female students in order to promote the participation of women in GNOME-related development...money originates from GNOME's participation in the Google "Summer of Code" program (code.google.c

'I do not say this to start a new long debat in this tread. But it has become obvious that the 1% participation of women in FLOSS is embarrassing and we need to have a look at why this is the case and make some cultural changes.

'Following almost two years of redevelopment, the LAMS Foundation is pleased to announce the beta release of LAMS V2. The beta release demonstrates a wide range of new features, as well as significant improvements in architecture, scalability and robustne

'You can import Microsoft Word and OpenOffice documents. Export documents created in Zoho Writer as PDF/DOC/HTML files. Zoho Writer allows versioning. No need to keep multiple copies Create, edit or re-format documents using our WYSIWYG editor

Educ@guardian supplement today in printed paper. Long feature on whiteboards impace..'One answer to improving the impact on attainment may be a revised approach to how teachers are themselves trained to use the boards.

Educ@guardian supplement today in printed paper... 'Many believe the web has entered a second phase, where new services and software - collectively known as web 2.0 - are transforming the web from a predominantly "read only" medium to one where anyone can

'In all seriousness, Cal is one of the best software developers in the world, bar none, and he's also great at explaining complex ideas in a clear way. If you're interested in this stuff, there is no better book on the market today. Get it.

'I wanted to create something that anyone could easily reuse on any project: a style sheet that, when applied to a correctly marked up HTML form, would produce the basis of the required layout. So here it is—my attempt at portable, accessible forms.

gee shucks :o} Kind words on my PLE position paper from Jay Cross. He makes some good points, too :o)

"The good systems-effects only emerge when usage becomes rich and plentiful - and that depends on an ecology in which the individual parts are simple, focused and easy to get along with, and in which the interoperability architecture makes very lightweigh

covers several kinds of functionality incl 'mail to post - Standard feature in many blog packages (see blogcomp for a comparison) Movable Type Doesn't include it so you can use QMAIL2MT.PL (PERL) or mail2entry (python) to do it. deals with attached image

' If your website mentions events — including reservations, appointments, conferences and shows, Google Calendar can help your users find this information and easily add it to their own calendars. This guide explains all the options.

'Springboard is a fast, light, easy-to-use Windows application for easily and quickly sketching and annotating storyboards for film, video, animation, or other dynamic media.

You will master storyboarding in three different ways. 1) You will do a “reverse storyboard,” making a storyboard for a commercial that has already been made. 2) You will shoot a video from two storyboard examples. One will be taken from a simple comi

Taxonomy Strategies LLC is an information management consultancy that specializes in applying taxonomies, metadata, automatic classification, and other information retrieval technologies to the needs of business.

very sweet, shiny, web2-y feel + interesting ambition and features, clearly informed by pedagogical ambitions. FLE3 based? Plone site. Finnish/Baltic origins? must look closely

Metadot uses mod_perl for blazing-fast speed. Metadot runs on Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X and Windows 2000 and XP. It is built on the LAMP software stack that includes Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl. It is also compatible with Oracle.

[not 'that' kind of 2.0 :o] ' provides new strongly-typed input fields, new attributes for defining constraints, a repeating model for declarative repeating of form sections, new DOM interfaces, new DOM events for validation and dependency tracking, and X

PPT slides from Oleg Liber's inspired presentation which opened the public day of CETIS' PLE meeting. Very useful for communicating meaning of web2-for-learning/personal-elearning to educators or to those who manage tech decisions and planning [368KB]

Slides introducing the analysis and architectural thinking that led to PLEX and CETIS' ple-ref-model document. Includes most of the original cloud diagrams from various authors in one slideshow.Also neat 'patterns' slides & intro to services ecology [2.2M

Allpeers is a Firefox extension that creates a simple, persistent buddy list in the browser. Initially, interaction with those buddies will be limited to discovering and sharing files - If you choose to, you can share any file on your network with one or

AllPeers is a free software which combines the strength of Firefox and the efficiency of BitTorrent to create a media sharing powerhouse... decide which media files you want to share with whom and to maximise your privacy, communications are encrypted.

active still. currently 20ish items tagged by 5 users (cdmilligan, tlever, robynjay, Neil_Ballantyne, iainjwallace) some of which I had missed in digging for opendock project & standards/IMS-LD

good source of resources, links, design-tutorials etc for problem-based learning

'Are you frustrated by Learning Management Systems that separate online course interaction into separate web-functionality areas? Tired of having to put your discussion in the "discussion forum" section of your online course - because it was convenient fo

links to coverage on blogs, flickr, etc of the recent conference which featured social-software/open-content/web2 gurus and which attendees seem to have loved

This HTML text editor brings to the web many of the powerful functionalities of desktop editors like MS Word. It's lightweight and doesn't require any kind of installation on the client computer. Because it is Open Source, you may use it however you want

Output formats: Macromedia Flash, Standalone EXE, PDF, PostScript, HTML or any of the above image formats. Use Flash/html for the web, EXE for distributing to PC users and PDF for printable manuals. Multilingual support: Works in English, French, German,

88 features noted with progress status: headings= Overall features | Authoring Environment | Monitor Environment | Learners Environment | Administration Environment | Activity tools |

auth | blogs | contacts | favorites | groups | groups.pools | interestingness | people | photos | photos.comments | photos.licenses | photos.notes | photos.transform | photos.upload | photosets | photosets.comments | reflection | tags | test | urls |

If it doesn't spread, it's not an effective tool, so let it die on the vine. The goal is to foster critical thinking about experiences, not to force yet another tool on anyone.

links to Helen Barrat story about burning portfolios after graduation + stephen downes and d'arcy norman reflections [Learning Community Environments - and other stuff; Glen Davies]..'As mentioned in the previous post, the same danger is there with the PL

The page is scaled so that the smallest thing on it, the electron, is one pixel. That makes the proton, this big ball right next to us, a thousand pixels across, and the distance between them is... yep, fifty million pixels (not a hundred million, because

particularly suited to groups of 4-8 students. incorporates an environment which supports a multi-phased activity (e.g. preparation, interaction and summary) and the use of particular dialogue games that foster 'academic' discourse and thinking.

lots of writing here incl radical impossibility of teaching etc.. 'This site is a set of web resources designed to connect you to contemporary issues, debates and controversies in cultural practice and theory.

[via doug noon] also available as pdf 14pp 32KB ..'The people who are building technology into education and learning, will have to heed these lessons. Otherwise, we may end up reproducing the very structures of learning that have inhibited fundamental ch

[via colin milligan].."Some good starter questions from M Feldstein, which draw some clear answers from James Dalziel - esp about LAMS2 as a lesson planning tool (just as good for sequencing online and offline activiites) as well as an elearning system. A

The Centre for Recording Achievement (CRA) is a national network organisation and a registered educational charity. It seeks to ‘promote the awareness of recording achievement and action planning processes as an important element in improving learning a

2 resources: updated 26.05.2006 - General literature search. updated 31.05.2006 - Design patterns and medical related e-Portfolios

[via ferl]..'The report provides a brief overview of current e-portfolio developments in relation to both the management of assessment evidence within programmes, and the development of a repository of evidence of lifelong learning progress and achievemen

'This guidance toolkit is being developed, as part of the JISC/NSF funded DialogPlus project, to guide and support teachers as they create, modify, and share learning activities and resources. For more information about the project, visit the DialogPlus h

'The DialogPlus project develops and deploys reusable digital learning nuggets through the Alexandria Digital Library. The project combines the efforts of geographers, education specialists, and computer scientists at Pennsylvania State University and the

[PDF 296KB hosted at opencontent.org] 'Describes an online self-organizing social system (OSOSS) which allows large numbers of individuals to self-organize in a highly decentralized manner to solve problems and accomplish other goals. Topics include scala

A Report for Futurelab. Julian Sefton-Green, WAC Performing Arts and Media College.. 'This review focuses specifically on children's informal learning with technologies outside school. It brings together the existing research in the field to create a map

The add-in downloads the Creative Commons license you designate from the Creative Commons Web site and inserts it directly into your creative work. Creative Commons supports a number of languages.

Categorised by Type of e-portfolio : Assessment portfolios (6) - Personal development portfolios (14) - Reflective portfolios (9) - Showcase portfolios (4). Also by the context of user scenario and by country

[argues that it is fine to link external MP3s from RSS] Jared Benedict & Jon Udell have apparently received the equivalent of take-down notice from the producers of NPR's This American Life for linking to NPR-hosted MP3s from their RSS..

'U3 is a software company. We have software that lets you run applications from a flash drive without installing anything on the computer that you are plugged into. U3 gives you a built in framework for installing, managing, running, stopping, host cleani

'100% FREE unlimited storage. Import Microsoft PowerPoint(.ppt) or OpenOffice Presentation(.sxi). WYSIWYG editor. Flickr integration = Pull publicly shared images from your Flickr account into your presentation.

(CC by-nc-sa-2.0, or buy printed)..'In this book, you’ll find Google-related games, cartoons, oddities, tips, stories and everything else that’s fun. Reading it, you won’t be the same searcher as before! (From the author of Google Blogoscoped.)

all too true... amusing piechart as rant

[ visionware screenshots imagining uformats handled like rss in safari location bar].. 'In a nutshell, I want to be able to easily take advantage of Microformats. I want to know about and get that information with the same ease as RSS Feeds, and I want it

'I’ve released the design rather than build it as I have no knowledge of writing Firefox extensions and it’s likely too complex to use as a first ‘teach-myself-XUL’ project...design is intended to focus on the user interacting with the information

'Recently there have been many really good user interface ideas and suggestions for working with microformats. This page serves to collect and document them so that we may be inspired by and iterate on each others' works.

'Collage helps users in the process of creating their own (collaborative) Learning Designs starting with existing patterns. These patterns are called CLFPs (Collaborative Learning Flow Patterns) and represent broadly accepted techniques that are repetitiv

links: Description of the scenario; Our approach to implement scenario; The ready-to-run Unit of Learning, based on Jigsaw CLFP. sshots: Authoring the scenario (a Unit of Learning packaging a Learning Design) with Collage. Executing the UoL with Gridcole

This paper introduces Collage, a high-level IMS-LD compliant authoring tool that is specialized for CSCL (Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning). Nowadays CSCL is a key trend in e-learning since it highlights the importance of social interactions as a

presentation at Workshop on Current Research on IMS-LD Valkenburg, September 22-23, 2005, by members of GSIC / EMIC Group University of Valladolid, Spain

'This worksheet is a kind of tutorial that intends to familiarise users with Collage by means of an example. The worksheet includes three sections. Section 1 presents the rationale of Collage, namely, what is the purpose of the tool. Section 2 is devoted

'This colloquium originated as the Moodle Learning Design Book Study group in the spring of 2005. A large group of academics, students, and practitioners studied the IMS Learning Design specification over a period of months, then wrote a paper which was p

'Three years in the making, Inform 7 is a radical reinvention of the way interactive fiction is designed, guided both by contemporary work in semantics and by the practical experience of some of the world's best-known writers of IF.

[MM Flash tool] The tool and allows an instructor to select a level of student performance (Bloom’s level of intellectual performance) via a drop down menu. When a selection is made, info related to the choice is pulled into the interface from an extern

[ digg is reaching out to non tech readers + redesigned, and hoping to get similar systems effects. link to podcast interview + 'Digg has raised $2.8 million in venture funding '] 'Digg 3.0 will launch Monday, June 26, in the morning PST. The launch is b

'If you like widgets, there’s about to be a whole lot more of them available for use in your blog or profile page. If you’d like to develop widgets and have some one else deal with the details, this could be for you. If you’re unfamiliar with widget

[my own grown daughter surprised me with this] Does that mean high-authority bloggers are out of touch with the bulk of users? It may; it may also mean that being interesting doesn’t equate with mass adoption. (TechCrunch is 11:1 Flickr:Photobucket)

'This eportfolio conference focuses on real eportfolio users who are the authors or recipients of eportfolio stories. We have attracted a diverse range of speakers who will be sharing their inspiring work from primary school through to university educatio

[ if this shows up tomorrow in the opendock and mc_dip accounts, the chron jobs are working :o]..'Yesterday we wrote a script (python) which we've started using to copy items with certain tags between mutually trusting accounts. We've run it to create the

'The Flamenco search interface framework has the primary design goal of allowing users to move through large information spaces in a flexible manner without feeling lost. A key property of the interface is the explicit exposure of category metadata, to gu

'Video from my talk at the Open University.. (I'll provide an audio MP3 file as soon as I can)..view the slides right on the video, which uses a nifty two-screen display, or download the slides.. or read Tony Hirst's excellent summary notes

[very pretty screencast demo/walkthrough of this clever bit of UI research - though hard to keep straight face during 'pile manipulation' :o] 6:49 min

'..I attended three separate PLE related event over the last couple of weeks: a talk at the OU by Stephen Downes, and a couple of CETIS events on PLEs. Here at last is a summary (in note form) of the things I took away from the first of these...

looks interesting/innovative - must check it out - ability to organise 'collections' and share in different motifs like 'list' 'blog' 'photo album' ... wiki-wami-ish?

links to a web-app and a greasemonkey script that..'take an existing web page, and turn proper nouns/key terms into links to wikipedia automatically... notes implications fpr expressiveness in learning materials

wonderful brief nuggets of info from the searches I tried on it..'We created Backstage as your door to the music universe that lies behind Pandora. Search for an artist or song to start your exploration.

Rico.Corner.round(element);... Rico.Corner.round(element, {color:"transparent",compact:true,border: '#00ff00',corners"tl br",blend:false}...

'..will support individuals, groups and organisations in Europe in lifelong competence development by establishing the most appropriate technical and organisational infrastructure, using opensource standards-based, sustainable and innovative technology

partners' portal for IST-TEL project.. WG areas etc + open:PhD Network, Becoming an associated partner, Conferences, Workshops, Events,Open Forum: Questions, Discussions & Support, Help for users to use this website,

relatively current super-wiki for LAMS 2 development

'The Australian Service for Knowledge of Open Source Software (ASK-OSS) provides a national focal point for advice, management, governance, storage and dissemination of Open Source Software (OSS) for research and higher education. ASK-OSS provides unbiase

must dig & mash.."The philosophy of open access and sharing knowledge is a wonderful fit with the founding principles of The Open University and with the University's very strong commitment to opening up educational access and widening participation. The

'no functional specifications document. We suggest building the interface first and using the actual screens as the functional spec. There are times, however, when the interface doesn’t provide all the information required for the programmer to hook it

Valuable links esp to truly useful tools and visualisations, also to interoperability and architctural issues

[take seriously] 'All OpenID does is provide a way to prove that you own a URL (identity)... but recipients of your identity can then learn more about you from any public, semantically interesting documents linked thereunder (FOAF, RSS, Atom, vCARD, etc.)

might be a winning mix of service features.. looks like you can use email/mobile/web to upload photos or music and tag them, or use for web content bookmarking... why better than mashing flickr-ecto-del etc though?

[NB plone site so maybe they've got plone membership hooked up to openid??] - developer site for openid libraries etc

OpenIDStatus OpenIDServers OpenIDLibraries OpenIDLobbying OpenIDResources OpenIDWishlist OpenIDTemp OpenIDFAQ

as ever with swik,good terse description and very astute terms used in aggregating news related ...'While nothing in the protocol requires JavaScript or modern browsers, the authentication scheme plays nicely with “AJAX“-style setups, so you can prove

simple and usable.. cute feature: 'In the historylist you can see recently created buttons. They can be modified again, just click on it.

As we looked to the future, the cost of offering top-quality enrichment courses at affordable prices was not sustainable over time. We offered 110 online courses from Oxford, Stanford, and Yale Universities to over 10,000 participants from 70 countries du

'MySpace is ranked first with 13% of the market, while Bebo is second with 11.98%. Third place Piczo has 5.87%...Hitwise shows that Bebo is ahead of MySpace on pageviews and average session duration, but it still lags MySpace in terms of visits.

obvious big potential - must watch..'give URLs and detailed information in one click so that it can be viewed later, on the phone, at that person's leisure. It's also seen on more and more business cards

'Photobucket is a lot less impressive than Flickr, but they were smart enough to hook into MySpace from the start - the crucial differentiator... sites like Slide realized that putting a MySpace logo on your front page and making an easy-to-use widget cre

'One of the tools that would be useful in this respect would be a paced feed delivery system, an idea Stephen Downes and I were bouncing around when he was over here a couple of weeks ago. (A couple of extra features we came up with were the ability of th

The CreateChange site has been renovated and provides more compelling evidence for the very significant change in scholarly production and dissemination made possible by the Net. A great resource for academics and librarians!.

'View from JD/ PM: Patterns/ JD: Re-using learning designs: Early Lessons from the LAMS Community/ PM: Generic v Specific/ JD: The LAMS Community to date/ HB: Comment on Patterns/ PM: It may not be right but/ JD: LAMS for discussion/ Points for a wider di

'I find this interesting for so many reasons. Diana Laurillard's conversation framework is hardly high theory (in the sense of Weber eg) but it is a form of abstract theory applied to learning and teaching in the electronic domain. I have found it hugel

'Big companies have for years installed industrial-strength content management systems in the hope of sparking collaboration among workers. There was just one problem: People didn't use them.

1. What is open source software? 2. Is free software the same as open source software? 3. How does the open source world work? 4. Can I try some of this open source software? 5. What else is available and where can I find it? 6. Stay in the loop

This page and other PLE pages in this wiki (see below) have been constructed and are maintained by Mark van Harmelen.

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'Questionnaires have long been used to evaluate user interfaces (Root & Draper, 1983). For a handful of questionnaires specifically designed to assess aspects of usability, the validity and/or reliability have been established, including some in the follo

brief overview of the 'what is a PLE, how is it different from a VLE, and what might it look like'? issues

cute html form ( thanks to confluence the superwiki folks ) to set up rss1,rss2 or atom formats from your choice of available spaces and content types. other options feedsize etc. atom format is full-content and very readable (have not tried the others)

as of june 28 06 : 35 different users have tagged 75 items ( 55 unique items ) ... ( Learning Activity Management System ) - useful for tracking the trackers :o)

much bookmarked through may-june, I thought this might be interesting, but it is just another stripped-down box-y VLE (they cleverly did the shiny graphics thing on the front-page making it *look* 2.0 :o) cheap hosting though so may be useful for clubs

69 bookmarkers (as of June 28 06) of Mark van Harmelen's PLE wiki. This makes it a useful tracking tool to see who is tagging with what tags. Looks as if there is hunger for a one-stop reliable introduction/linkslist for PLE

'First of all, I think that you need two tags for a given conference event, assuming that it is an annual or otherwise regularly held event. One tag should apply to the conference as an organization or concept. For instance, for the North Carolina Educati

'BlogBridge Library provides you with a space to manage feeds using a metaphor I described previously as akin to a bookshelf. What really appeals to me is how this sort of display might be useful in managing the display of contents feeds from online journ

odfReader is a simple plugin for Mozilla Firefox which allows you to view OpenDocument format files (at the moment, just .odt files) within the Mozilla browser.

78 items is a lot - this bookmarker has been very thorough, so I suspect the linkslist is a substantial resource

'In June 2005 RCUK published a draft position statement on 'access to research outputs'. RCUK Executive Group received many comments on this statement. In the light of these, it is now publishing an updated position paper on this matter (PDF, 76KB).

'Writing dynamic web applications today is a tedious and error-prone process; you spend 90% of your time working around subtle incompatibilities between web browsers and platforms, and JavaScript's lack of modularity makes sharing, testing, and reusing AJ

'it also includes a test harness (see Figure 1) that will execute the Java code inline with a test browser, allowing you to step-through debug, profile and unit test your Ajax front end in your favorite IDE or at the command line.

We are going to use this blog to publish official updates, GWT tips and tricks, and notify the GWT developer community of new releases. The easiest way to be notified of changes to GWT is to subscribe to our Atom feed.

'This review is intended as a timely introduction to current thinking about the role of computer games in supporting children’s learning inside and out of school. It highlights the key areas of research in the field, in particular the increasing interes

Scott W tagged the positon papers with this tag and others have adopted it. I've included some related materials I'd tagged CETIS-PLE-mtg-june06 (which I'll continue to use for more obscure posts)