elearning2.0 linklog

cute squirrels speak the lines you enter... you get an animated gif (permalink to) with a sequence of squirrel-talking speech bubbles, one per line of text you enter. cannot change images

Features include powerful Page and Panel layouts, (including styles for a real comic-strip look), streamlined image selection, cropping and placement, authentic speech balloons (enhanced by a built-in professional quality comic lettering font), captions a

brief but lively and user-ccentric, with some good links...'Have you ever seen one of these or these while viewing a webpage and clicked on it only to see (to your horror) a screen of seemingly unintelligible code appear before your eyes? Quickly you ru

note to self: dig here for technique for in-order presentation-to-set workflow

[I had to listen for some minutes without visuals while the Flash downloaded; load the page again when visuals start if that happens] ... useful but not polished runthrough of features [via abject learning]

faster start / smaller filesize version of Jason Toal's google-reader screencast. started quickly for me (unlike the high-rez version :o)

'..an important paper. It is both academically respectable, readable (though a little longish for time constrained Deputy Ministers and the like) and 'gets it' without being fanatical or evangelical. Send it on to those who can help affect this change.

'..he does a really fine job of demonstrating the strengths of the application, including some snazzy interface goodies, clustering feeds, and the RSS output of starred items (which gets outputted on his personal page and elsewhere)

pitched clearly and vividly to make sense to busy executives or corporate trainers. a useful resource... 'Most corporations over-invest in formal training while leaving the more natural, simple ways we learn to chance.

..'I'm curious about what it might mean to look at the world by foregrounding objects rather than subjects. Making things public implies that we understand what makes a thing significant, and what a public is. These are important considerations for teache

[also NB great use-case descr + plea for s/w help with it]..'[We need] a place in the day where students can experiment and socialize and maybe process. They need a class where applications become more important than content. Students need time/chance...

'CBC Radio’s Michael Enright sits down with me to talk about how to interview someone, how to be interviewed, and he confesses his most embarassing interview moment. A must-listen for anyone who makes podcasts or are interested in radio.

(CEDH)..'1. What tasks will your students be expected to perform after completing training? 2. What do they need to learn to perform these tasks? 3. How will you know how well they are learning? 4. How can you most effectively facilitate student learning?

'If people perform better when they have a mix of modalities and methods of learning, what defines the most effective mix? ...suggests 5 critical ingredients for blended learning, and uses both traditional and modern instructional design to back it up.

With CCRT you can validate and import your own IMS Learning Design packages and play these in the integrated web player - not intended to be used in a real life deployment- should be considered an introduction to the possibilities of IMS LD and CopperCore

'argues that first time eLearners often experience cognitive overload in the early stages of an online course and it is suggested that this is a likely contributor to high drop out rates, particularly in terms of those withdrawing within the first few wee

'example shows how the RSS feed from my blog is rendered into a PDF file and other formats are also available. When students use blogs and websites as a part of their studies and wish to submit them for assessment, the University gets bogged down by quali

'XFruits makes possible the Mashup RSS creation in a very simple way thanks to the Composer. You can assemble the bricks together so as to build your own feed-based service. "xFruiter" service's users are referenced.

find the option to enter a username and password, then enter your Google Account username and password...Windows: BottomFeeder · FeedDemon · NewsGator · NewzCrawler · SharpReader | Mac OS X: BottomFeeder · NetNewsWire · Shrook 2 | Linux: BottomFeede

52 items as of jul 7 06. nice collection, well worth revisiting/subscribing

links to 29 presentations in microsoft ppt and summaries of days1-3 in MS word format.

Dai Griffiths, Raymond Elferlink & Edwin Veenendaal brief preliminary workshop paper on plans for the opendock project.. 'The OpenDock project is introduced, and the approach to supporting the sharing of online educational resources outlined. The function

'I am not leaving Plone by any stretch of the imagination. I get paid to work on Plone while at Google, which means I get a full day every week — paid — to work on Plone exclusively. This is more than I have right now (believe it or not).

'[Note: This is a project I did for a class on social and communicative aspects of the internet, taught by Chuck Kinzer. Not a 'real' study, but you might find some of the literature review and listed resources helpful. You may also want to check out a mo

'..point of distributed classification systems (DCSs eg del.icio.us, flickr).. aggregation of inherently private (tags and what they describe) has public value.. I explore 2 aspects of intersection: open affordances of DCSs; linguistic properties of tags

1: Bookmarks and Descriptions: del.icio.us/html/username/?extended=body&tags=no&rssbutton=no| 2: Bookmarks Only: ?tags=no&rssbutton=no | 3: Bookmarks and Tags: ?&rssbutton=no | 4: Increase the Bookmark Count to 100: ?&rssbutton=no&count=100

'What follows is the result of several months of observation, notes and contemplation. Google is successful because Google works on projects that are important. I don’t mean this in the sense that they work on philanthropic tech projects that warm our h

[NB they are looking hard at social software - doesn't seem just another VLE]..'Pedagogically based on constructivist learning theories that puts more emphasis on self-organised learning, social networking, and the changing roles of educators.

[FP6-IST start 10/05] - "innovative, inclusive, interactive & intercultural learning Campus".. 'The objectives in iCamp are driven by pedagogical, technical and social challenges.. a learner-centred space where students and educators will work collaborat

Ralf Klamma, Thomas Burg, Karsten Ehms, Ton Zijlstra .. 'demonstrating tools for Social Software (Media Base) and tagging issues..practitioner-perspective: two speakers contributed to the topic by highlighting aspects in different areas

'This release, while outwardly very similar to Plone 2.1, has a number of important changes under the hood which will hopefully pave the way for many exciting things to come.

The point of AFLAX is that you can do all of your Flash development in JavaScript, which also gains you the ability to seamlessly mix the two worlds (JavaScript and Flash) with a single language. AFLAX hides all the communications to the Flash object so a

'To maintain a high level of security, the Authentication Proxy interface, AuthSub, enables the application to get an authentication token without ever handling the user's account login information. Using the proxy, the user of the web application logs in

'What's cool about it? You can click on any site in the left-hand column to pause the slide show and surf around. When you're done, simply click PLAY, and it will begin right where you left off. Perfect for Web 2.0 couch 'taters. But if you're antsy and w

[DH: 'I personally like this visualization because it assembles a comprehensive picture of the elements of Web 2.0 and how they relate, including a backdrop with key examples. It does this in a way that shows the physical aspects of Web 2.0 and how they c

' tracking Microsoft and Google's recent efforts to achieve leadership in the potentially high-stakes world of Web-based identity. The goal: To provide a single, common user credential that is trusted, secure, and widely supported across the Web and with

'WebQuests have continually evolved since their start nine years ago. Of course the web itself is also evolving and as new forms of web-based interaction emerge, it makes sense for WebQuests to incorporate them as long as they have a pedagogical justifica

'We offer an RSS (really simple syndication) feed of Innovate articles. The feed includes each article's title and synopsis as well as a link to the article on our site.

[need to register here for webcast live participation (mmedia breeze meeting is platform)] 'Innovate is a leading online journal exploring the creative use of information technology (IT) to enhance educational processes in all sectors (K-12, college and u

could be very useful introductory materials for tech/ped professional development of educators/trainers.. a webcast open 'meeting' for most articles in the online journal and archives of past meetings

14 items... see also tags IMS , edutech and standards. See Gytis' main account for many more resources on modern ed-tech / elearning2.0 etc

(448 items as og jul 10 06) - some resources on IMS-LD for opendock project, but also much broader coverage of resources on modern developments in ed-tech and pedagogy the web2.0 way

49 items as og jul 10 06.. covering Ithink as part of project work for iCamp (IST project to build standards-enabled OSS _LE) - broad range of standards incl ed-tech big standards and small-loose web/web2 standards. good resource

(early coppercore prez..'initial implementation of a system for managing and using IMS Learning Design (LD) to represent online learning activities. LD ..a flexible way to represent and encode learning materials suited to online learning while neutral to

'activeCollab is an easy to use, web based, open source collaboration and project management tool. Set up an environment where you, your team and your clients can collaborate on active projects using a set of simple, functional tools.

..'..without all the detailed explaination, scroll down to the "Quick visual walkthru LAMS Integration with other LMSs" section. If you want to know what you are doing and how the integration works, read all the sections in this guide.

tips on :: philosophies | Thinking | strategy | elearning | readwrite | styles | motivation | presentation

resources on strageties | process | development (esp effective web development ) | evaluation | assessment ..'Virginia Tech's Faculty Development Institute (FDI) focuses on learner-centered instructional design.

'Edinburgh's two day event highlighting the very best in using ICT in Learning and Teaching to provide a truly 21st Century education returned once again to the Murrayfield Conference Centre. If you didn't manage to get there, just see what you missed.

[always wanted to dig VSM; this is a chance to test squidoo-lens UI/structuring with something I want to learn :o] ..'especially concerned with the applicaton of cybernetics to the field of organizational design, management and control

commentary / intro for v eccentric (eg gratutitous 'neuro-' prefixes) but possibly brilliant long pdf by FCC senior economist. 'Presence' not in usual 'who's there?' sense, more 'what else are they doing?' mobile comms / IM / telephony emphasis

'state of copyright law as it applies to instructors seeking to use, modify, or redistribute materials for educational purposes + overview of Creative Commons, initiative that overcomes some of the constraints and ambiguities of traditional copyright law

'we describe how teaching and learning have changed across oral, print, and secondary-oral paradigms; after addressing controversies over the use of wikis as scholarly and educational resources, we advocate the use of wikis as a teaching and learning tool

'detailed definition of social software + explain importance of studying it in an educational context; I then illustrate and discuss my particular experience in teaching a course on social software with social software in a manner consistent with what I h

My position paper for the June 6 CETIS meeting. Also in pdf, linked from this post.

'This article provides a detailed description of the basic technique, with some focus on using the technique for more complex sites. This article does not cover some issues such as the use of online tools, which will be covered in a future article.

1 General repositories | 2 National and international repository initiatives | 2.1 Subject-specific natl repositories | 3 Regional and institutional repository initiatives | 3.1 Subj-specific reg and inst repositories | 4 Individual repository initiatives

[see also "oer" tag in del.icio.us] Links + short descriptions. Practical information, such as the number and type of resources available, licensing information and any usage restrictions, is also included in italics at the end of each entry.

We are extending the code from the ABC project. Features that we are adding include: | Amazon-like recommendations | Doubling speed using upload capacity of friends | Real-time P2P video streaming | Showing the locations of other downloaders of the same c

We don't just want you to redesign the bbc.co.uk homepage, we want you take it all the way back to the drawing board… Throw out the existing content, throw out the existing focus, throw out the existing expectations, limitations and assumptions

[as ever, pithy and spot-on].. 'Do you really need to worry about scaling to 100,000 users today if it will take you two years to get there? People often spend too much time up front trying to solve problems they don’t even have yet. Sometimes it’s be

[rave from TC but still v slow and feature-crippled as of jul11-06].. BUT GREAT COMBO OF BOOKMARKING AND UPLOADING + convenience of using phones/email to post notes and images..'Markaboo is for saving far more than just URLs...photos and notes can be save

'Google Checkout offers an easy and trusted checkout option that enables shoppers to purchase from participating stores with a single Google login. It also works with Google's search advertising program, AdWords, to help merchants acquire new customers an

'Consumers with a Google account can type their credit card and billing information into Google Checkout once and then pay for purchases thereafter with practically one click on any Web site that features the system, Kamangar said. As things now stand, he

'So is the new Google Checkout a Paypal killer? ..knowing Google, it will be very competitive and extremely user friendly. That combined with the integration with all of Google's other products like AdWords, Google Base, and Gmail, make this one mean tool

[mashable?] Night Of The Living Dead (1968); The Mark Of Zorro (1920); The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934); The Phantom Of The Opera (1925); The Iron Mask (1929); The Outlaw (1943); Dressed To Kill (1946); The Amazing Adventure (1936)

map hosted by them..blog it / email it / editable - vcool learning activity?..'Post the map on your blog or website. Quikmaps hosts your map, so you don't need to sign up for a 'google maps api key', or anything like that. All you need is a blog. Don't ha

[see also flickr group pool for bird ID].. 'What bird was that? Ask BirdBrainTM, our easy bird identification tool. Find and post the best places to find birds. Discover clubs, stores, and birders in your area. Explore GeoBirds' on-line field guide

XCRI is a JISC-funded project that aims to define a vocabulary and appropriate technology bindings (e.g. XML, RDF) for describing course-related information that encompasses course marketing, course quality assurance, enrolment and reporting requirements

simple 30-q printable q'aire, 5-pt scale of agreement; sort into Visual * Tactile * Auditory * Kinesthetic; + Group * Individual

*Environmental: light,sound,temp,room design.  *Emotional: planning,persistence,motivation,responsibility.  *Sociological: pairs,peers,adults,self,group,varied.  *Physical: perceptual,mobility,intake,time of day.  *Psychological: global/analytic,impul

'Web people will benefit by having a rigorous seven-step process to follow for creating faceted classifications, and librarians will benefit by understanding how to store such a classification on a computer and make it available on the web

'There are five sections: Recommended, Background, Not Relevant, Example Web Sites, and Mailing Lists. Background material is either introductory, advanced, or of peripheral interest, and can be read after the Recommended resources if the reader wants to

averaging > 50 items/day; fairly high signal-noise; some good links some common some discoveries (many eyeballs :o); looks like almost all the taggers are in web dev / ed-tech or library / computer science

used to be at maricopa domain.. 'Feed2JS web site provides you a free service that can do all the hard work for you-- in 3 easy steps. Use our simple tool to build the JavaScript command that will display the feed you want... You are welcome to run your f

The Resource Discovery Network is the UK's free national gateway to Internet resources for the learning, teaching and research community. The service currently links to more than 100,000 resources via a series of subject-based information gateways (hubs).

Intute is a free online service created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in our database and write high quality descriptions of the resources. The database contains 113579 records.

'UKOLN are particularly keen to maintain a directory of RSS channels in the UK HE/FE community, the UK cultural sector (galleries, libraries and museums) and in related organisations.

[open to all but see feedtojs.org] 'UKOLN has developed an RSS channel viewer as part of RSSxpress. This is being used by the RDN to enable our users to place RDN RSS Channels, such as "Behind the Headlines" and the RDN News, on to their own Web pages.

great resource for helping discover interesting feeds..'community-driven effort to gather syndicated news...very complete set of web services...readable master list...Reviews and pointers to syndicated tools and sites...Articles and tutorials on syndicati

quite extensive API - ought to be able to make good use of this...'Basic Functions / Personal List Functions / Suggest Return Values / Error Return Value... The XML-RPC endpoint is http://www.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php.

sigh.. otta check out what can be done with MM/Adobe Breeze - esp re meetings :0] ..'See how to easily convert PowerPoint slides into interactive instructional media in minutes. Gain time-saving tips and techniques for creating dynamic, web-based training

Most Yahoo! Web Services that support JSON use common parameters for generating and working with JSON output... | Get JSON Output with output=json | Use Callbacks with callback=function | JSON versus XML

[v pretty + responsive] Wordpress Plugin - SpiffySearchWP_1.1.zip OR Hack It Yourself (recommended) To get started, save a copy of ss.js and ss.css to the same directory on your local hard drive. Then copy this to the HTML file of your choice:

[+ active blog. NB cool ajax] 'demo of Evergreen's online catalog is located at demo.gapines.org. A bleeding edge online catalog, with all of the latest, greatest features we're working on, is located at dev.gapines.org. The staff client in downloads.

'I thought I would have a general discussion of some of the fun code I’ve been exploring. OPAC development has been interesting as of late in part because of its evolution into an almost fully dynamic client side application.

754 modules. tags, popular, comments etc.. some interesting / best practice using APIs/json etc...

'Syndication is an effective and popular method for providing and aggregating content. GData provides a way to expand the types of content that Google can make available through syndication; in particular, it lets you use the syndication mechanism to send

low-bandwidth but high SNR. small team. hope to see API doc here someday :o)

'check the source HTML code of this page, you might notice that this is some kind of JSON with padding (JSONP) call. Actually, you can check what feed data is sent from Google via following URLs

this also serves to document that the named services *do* support JSONP callbacks! good learning/fildding tool

good intro to js aspects for trad codeheads + extensive links to serverside implementations, documentation, docs in other languages etc

very extensive coverage of modern service-oriented techie tech papers (but comprehensible by trad codeheads?).. many *many* papers of interest here from some great hardworking bods + some big players

'examples of how to use a SPARQL sever to easily extract and format data from RDF documents, such as RSS feeds, FOAF documents, photo sharing sites, or the BBC Catalogue. The new version of ARQ supports JSON, so it looks like the pieces are all there..

'trends in web app development driving increased uniformity across services. SPARQL query service= flexible/standard mechanism. Ease of integration with AJAX environments makes SPARQL a strong candidate to become the standard query language of the web.

from my bookmarks... this combination seems to be selective enough to provide a simple list of good readers, where the content pointed to is readable by non-techies

this is a work in progress. I am adding to the site in the order presented in Bringhurst's book, one principle at a time... subscribe to an rss feed for notification of new additions. I am excluding those principles which are not relevant to the Web

..'In years gone by this could have been put down to the technology, but now the web has caught up. The advent of much improved browsers, text rendering and high resolution screens, combine to negate technology as an excuse.

£75, 9-5:30. 'some of the worlds best speakers... Clearleft have put together a fantastic day of inspirational and educational talks on APIs, mash-ups and the ephemeral Web 2.0... we're pleased to announce this years d.Construct 2006 schedule.

'They're words that creepy marketeers use. They imply something to be commodified, harvested, taken advantage of. They're words I used to hear a lot while doing community consulting, and always by people who wanted to make, or save, a buck.

Web Services*2 | APIs | Mash my Flex up (open-source Flash | Accessible Web Applications in a Post Web 1.0 World | Understanding Folksonomy (Tagging that Works) | Designing the Complete User Experience | After Party

'To ease the creation of open source tools, the community also documents features of the Flash Platform such as protocols and file formats. It is essential for the core protocols and file formats of Flash to be open if the platform is to see widespread ad

'We started the project back in February, and have racked up nearly 3000 images of 2000 words..still accepting entries.. in time, once the dictionary has more words, there could be plenty of applications for the content. Images copyright of their owners

[priceless voluntary documentation effort!] online feed aggregator with heavy use of JavaScript and pretty quick loading of the latest feed data from around the web. Google's AJAX front-end styles back-end data published in the Atom syndication format

..'based on Del.icio.us tags and the Del.icio.us JSON feeds, which enable any web site anywhere to programmatically integrate public tagged bookmarks from Del.icio.us into their sites in any fashion they well please.

a tad crude though :o] ..Use the map controls to locate your home. Click a point close to it.Now copy the snippet below into your FOAF file. Insert it inside the main ... block!

clever move for flock, reaching the myspace millions, good for pb getting cool tools, also good for spreading web2.0 good practice [note to self - must check pb api?]

'Photobucket is offering a free web browser co-created with Flock that makes it easier than ever to upload and share images. This browser provides drag and drop uploading, seamless direct linking, photo sharing and photo streams, web search and much more.

fascinating evolution of practice among them kiddies2.0 - they are eager and willing to learn a bit of html to embed by hand in their myspace etc :o] 'Practice your HTML codes and take advantage of Photobucket's free image hosting and photo publishing

'free plugin that can be implemented in minutes giving any Web site image and video hosting and publishing functionality at no additional cost. It’s a simple IFrame that lives on your website, allowing your members to access and publish images and video

'Darren Crystal: The typical Photobucket user uses their content on various sites such as, Ebay and craigslist and social networking sites like MySpace, Friendster, Neopets, and places like that. They also use us on any of the numerous message boards and

[me wondering why impossible (?) to deduce or discover a member's url as in flickr - MA sez pb is just a backend :o] ..'not designed to be a destination site.. focused on easy uploading and posting to other sites. 63% of all media links to sites like MySp

Feeds 2.0 is a Web 2.0 personalized RSS aggregator. It incorporates a learning engine so that it does much more than show posts as they come in. Instead, it prioritizes incoming information according to the user's interests! [currently in private beta]

[sadly, trans versions only nice on v light bgs] You may use these free animated GIF spinning wait icons to indicate a process may take a little while. This type of busy indicator has become very popular on sites such as Technorati and other Web 2.0 sites

yup! - and why slight, light, simple and easy to get along with is what standards should be :o] ..'helping us get to Web 2.0 fundamentals.. understand why it's such a game changer - the Web is rapidly evolving and is increasingly being shaped by its users

Dion Hinchcliffe analyses issues in corporate uptake...'Enterprise Web 2.0 platforms are increasingly available today. The question really is, will your enterprise catch the wave in time?

high SNR (professionally produced :o) - some gems in here for those struggling to change their organisations' practices from within... good on theory / network effects as well as tech and trend tracking

'MapSurface has a widget called the Dashboard which can be loaded into web pages sitting above the general content. It is basically a secondary 'in context' interface. I have used this interface to display web page activity information, but it could also

[perhaps a tad eccentric] not-for-profit organization - researching, developing and distributing best practices and the best resources for using ICT to accomplish greater access to education. [+ aggregates in useful-if-wellknown feeds/planets]

'A wiki is a website where users can add, remove, and edit every page using a web browser. It's so terrifically easy for people to jump in and revise pages that wikis are becoming known as the tool of choice for large, multiple-participant projects

quotes joshua p: 'From now on I’m going to call this idea the “Del.icio.us Lesson”. This is the lesson that personal value precedes network value: that selfish use comes before shared use. We’re seeing it more and more everyday in services like De

lovely UI, v shiny. Joined. tonyH recommends. loadsa opml. 'Portals are community sites about specific topics. You can: Bookmark the best content | Read and write blog entries, ask questions in forum or IM | Save keywords and quickly scan search results

'is it any good? Well, the design and usability aspects are very impressive - it’s a lot of fun to use. And letting your users build your service for you is obviously a smart move. But I think all these “user-generated portals” have failed to learn

Zimbio has a nested OPML URL for each topic..I didn’t know you could customise them. you can even sort the items in each node…now that’s customisation. ..similar to picking and choosing folders of feeds or single feeds from your RSS Reader to make O

'Qumana is an easy-to-use desktop blog editor, enabling you to write, edit and post to one or more blogs...Qumana features include easy text formatting and image insertion, simple Technorati tagging, and advertising insertion with Q Ads

'It's long been known that Mac OS X is the cutting edge of mass-marketed GUI technology. This is part 1 of two videos where Windows Vista is being described by Microsoft, while the features that have been long implemented into OS X are easily seen

could be v cool for student blogs/portfolios? ..MMFlash blogsidebar plugin + service for very easily creating webcam-ish vlog "feeds"... v attractive (until mug like mine gets in :o).. research project open to using/joining.. hooks to flashmeeting

'although the big hoo-haa on JSON right now is as a light-weight data-exchange format that multiple languages can easily understand - it simply makes sense just to use it on a structual level - even if you aren’t exchanging data...JavaScript is back and

new logger control. _File Uploads_ ajaxian via Connection Object. Better D&D performance. Color animation. new .extend method and better docs for managing inheritence. Minor changes and enhancements throughout. new cheat sheets

veery cute.. 'One of the unique things about Drosera, like the Web Inspector, is that over 90% of it is written in HTML and JavaScript. This is a true testament of what you can do with web technologies today and the rapid development that WebKit allows

'highlights the node on the page as it is selected in the hierarchy. You can also search for nodes by node name, id and CSS class name.. unique feature: root DOM hierarchy by 2-clicking a node to dig deeper. This lets you easily manage large nested pages

'2 ways to get UoL. download as uol package or **as zip with copy of the CopperCore runtime, including SLeD, with the UoL already published**, a run set up and users assigned, so you can start running the UoL straight away. Download the file, unzip it to

'What companies don’t seem to understand is that, as I shall discuss later in this article, training is a wonderful last step in bringing about changed organizational and personal behavior, but a pathetically useless first step

mentions merits & current flaws in 30 Boxes,Pageflakes,Protopage,Goowy,Netvibes,Documentum| Gives long-term reasons: 1. Easily deployable|2. Easily updatable|3. Goes anywhere a browser goes|4. Thin, thin, thin|5. Application-level functionality in browser

'As we begin to collect evidence that portfolio construction itself can be a reflective process and one of social construction of knowledge, the age of portfolios is beginning to dominate our assessment landscape. The advantages of creating portfolios ele

Portfolios represent the next logical step in applying performance assessment to constructivist learning theory.. rely on the learner as an active player in representing what they have learned through a purposeful collection and explanation of their work

[little package of tips-tools..'Reflection requires thoughtful and careful reporting and analysis of teaching practice, philosophy, and experience. Understanding why an activity or practice was productive or nonproductive in the classroom is a key element

7 papers covering practice and progress + intro + commentary assessing the Current Status of Electronic Portfolios

'focuses on how learner expectations influence spaces, the principles and activities that facilitate learning, and the role of technology from the perspective of those who create learning environments: faculty, learning technologists, librarians, and admi

This site enables you to: Try out Learning Designs for yourself without installing any software | Learn more about Learning Design through links to partner and other sites | Find out about our work and our projects on Learning Design

combines my basic-intro-materials tag ( high SNR - intros for newbies + essential tech-tracking 270+) AND my social-bookmarking tag (118+ - pretty comprehensive on sites/services, tech-trends and tagging practices [though see also my categorising/xx tags)

Tony is an active & creative researcher in social bookmarking in education at the OU.. his links on social bookmarking are well worth browsing if you need an introduction to the tools, practices and ideas, and well worth tracking if you're already expert

[this in their blog which is worth watching - me to-do imagine mashable group activities]... staggeringly cool implementation of a great idea. Rotate the globe in all planes with your hands, rotate support table to see time-changing surface. egs geologi

TOC: Introduction: Home | Overview of training content and objectives | Content Packaging training: Introduction continued | Part I: Creating Your Own Content Package | Part II: Resources | Part III: Self-Assessment

'..by using peer review as other presses do, the university hopes to make its books “count” in tenure reviews. Also announced plans to take on the textbook industry, offering print-on-demand textbook versions of scholarly resources it has been assembl

'provides a simple web services interface to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. It gives any developer access to the same highly scalable, reliable, fast, inexpensive data storage infrastructure that Amazon uses

'some of our successes: SmugMug is using Amazon S3 to deal with the scaling requirements brought on by success, adding 10 terabytes of new photos each month without investing in new hardware; Microsoft is using Amazon S3 to make software available to stud

[via jisc news] 'introduces the fundamental components that are necessary to get on with the business of integrating disparate IT services. Each of these key components is then discussed in detail and a relevant case study from academia examined in each c

[vis jisc news].. comments: "Paul has gone far beyond writing a mere conference report. This will be a genuine contribution to the thinking within colleges and universities in the UK on the whole issue of open source sustainability."

'While one third of UK universities have an Open Access repository to house digital content such as research papers, pre-prints, theses, working papers, conference proceedings, teaching materials, etc., most have very little content in them

'Developed by the RDN (Resource Discovery Network) Virtual Training Suite, the tutorial offers practical advice on evaluating the quality of websites and highlights the need for care when selecting online information sources to inform university or coll

[to me the RCUK report seemed hedging; this statment from JISC is toothier].. 'JISC warmly welcomes the statement, and looks forward to working with RCUK, with publishers, learned societies and other partner organizations towards our common objectives

'A number of research funders now have rules in place which make deposit in an open access repository a requirement of any grant. Other funders make a strong recommendation for deposit, or may make additional funds available for publication in an open acc

opensearch standard's home page..'OpenSearch is an open format with a Creative Commons license. Rather than reinventing the wheel, it uses the simple and very popular syndication formats RSS and Atom, along with a document describing the search engine.

consists of: | OSDescription files: XML to identify and describe a search engine | OSQuery Syntax: describe where to retrieve the search results | OSRSS: format for providing open search results | OSAggregators: Sites that can display OpenSearch results

how to make a firefox search plugin for an opensearch-friendly service.. 'A MozSearch search plugin is an XML file that describes the search engine, its URL, and the parameters that need to be passed to that URL.

'OpenSearch search engines can return search results in a human-readable XHTML format thus it is easy to apply a well-defined layer of semantic markup to indicate the underlying meaning of that content.

'RSS 2.0 creates network effects that go way beyond the relationships between A9 and its search partners. The work I did to export RSS 2.0 search results accomplished the integration with A9, but it also dramatically expanded InfoWorld’s RSS surface are

'OpenSearch makes it possible for any content provider to export the functionality of its local site search engine to other Web sites.. most of the time, the best search engines for a site are the ones written by those that know the content the best"

'I'm thinking of doing [an OpenSearch implementation] to advance the structured search and structured blogging.. Without structured search there's no reason to produce microcontent; without microcontent there's nothing interesting about structured search

The IEEE document is the Working Draft 6.1 Learning Object Meta-Data (LOM) Scheme working document of the IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee LOM Working Group. The document lists the meta-data elements and how they are organized hierarchically

ponderous, overblown & long since overtaken by the people's tech; but here you go..'This Best Practice and Implementation Guide also provides a brief description of IEEE P1484.12.3 Draft Standard for Extensible Markup Language (XML) Schema Definition Lan

We are working on the problem of discovery of learning content, "learning objects" stored within dedicated learning content repositories, learning content management systems or digital libraries... we do not have any common solution for discovery and acce

'The JISC IE was developed using a service-oriented approach: it encourages machine-oriented services to be exposed on the network so others can develop applications that call on those services. It is very much in line with the concepts behind Web 2.0

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+ 18 branches of static content documenting/introducing areas of standards coverage.. also link to huge (2.5MB, 538pp] PDF-file dump (of the 18 branches) - prev a DG ENTR eEurope standardization project

'The conference theme - Transforming knowledge - will provide an orientation for the keynote addresses and for invited symposia and panels. It may also be taken as a reference for the topics of sessions organized by the EERA networks.

News| Conference Theme| Call for Proposal/Registration Form| EERA and networks| Keynote addresses| Programme| Abstracts| Pre-Conference| SSRE/SGBF| Organising Committee| Social events| Advice to presenters| Contact| Hotels| Travel| Venue| Geneva| Links

ECER 2006 at the EERA site, which also links to the previous conferences

focus of Jorum is to build a 'community for sharing' whereby resources used by the community were also created by the community. You can register for one or both of 2 strands: Jorum User - Getting resources out | Jorum Contributor - Putting resources in

PDFs: Automated Metadata Report | Preservation Watch Report | Repository Systems Watch | Technical Frameworks and Infastructures | Digital Rights Management Watch | Open Source Learning Object Repository Systems | Digital Preservation Report

3 strands; 1: analysis of what Jorum is currently doing. 2: initial assessment of what it could do. 3: overview of other some systems, services and products which claim automated metadata generation as either a direct or indirect output of their aims.

What tools, pedagogies, teaching & learning strategies do we need for the future? Where does LAMS fit within the new models? ..Where will Learning Design standards take us now? What can we learn from efforts to create generic learning design patterns?

The call for papers is now open. We invite proposals which address the main theme: Designing the Future of Learning, and preferably one of the sub-themes, but papers that generally address issues around e-learning and LAMS are also welcome.

Our Analysts deconstruct songs looking for hundreds of different traits, covering things like vocals, rhythm, instrumentation, harmony, melody, sound production and lyrics. Remember, the Music Genome never generalizes about artists' repertoires; each song

Responses are invited from HE and FE institutions, partners and other relevant organisations and associations. The responses will be analysed and fed into the final version of the strategy due for publication in November/December 2006. Please send respons