elearning2.0 linklog

Delicious is easy to use, but it lacks any kind of serious documentation. Its interface is simple, which I find attractive, but it has that ubergeek slashdot unfriendly look to it. So, here’s the way to do it nice and easy:

Original article at TimYang.com. Basically, you can perform any task with RSS that requires search or information retrieval from a server. Automatically and repeatedly. I use this list to convince people to start using an RSS feed reader. There’s more t

Original article at TimYang.com. Basically, you can perform any task with RSS that requires search or information retrieval from a server. Automatically and repeatedly. I use this list to convince people to start using an RSS feed reader. There’s more t

This site allows anyone to subscribe to any RSS / Atom feed and receive the updates in their email inbox. You can get more technical information at the blog (e.g. download source codes, updates).

Tips on getting the squid caching server to record hits in the same style as apache

QuirksMode.org is the personal and professiona site of Peter-Paul Koch, freelance web developer in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It contains more than 150 pages with CSS and JavaScript tips and tricks, and is one of the best sources on the WWW for studying

Also if you want to be able to produce custom logs for statistical analysis by webalizer and other similar programs you may want to apply the custom_log patch.

This document describes reverse proxies, and how they are used to improve Web server performance. Section 1 gives an introduction to reverse proxies, describing what they are and what they are used for. Section 2 compares reverse proxy caches with standar

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All the examples on this site have been reduced to only their essential code, and you will find the source displayed on each page to hopefully make it quick and easy to understand the inner workings of the CSS. Feel free to steal all the code you find on

PageRank Explained

I'm a corporate architect in Sun's CTO team, with a particular interest in identity and security

I'm Architect of Identity and Access at Microsoft

Here are some Google Scholar deep-system hacks and bookmarklets for Internet Explorer and/or sidebar extensions for Mozilla Firefox compiled from the WEB4LIB mailing list:

This document and the APIs herein are subject to change at any time. Sorry,

I had committed 100% to the “rich, deep metadata is beautiful” mantra, drinking the IMS/IEEE LOM Kool-Aid™. I’ve built Large Applications that have been designed entirely around handling the complexity of this rich/deep metadata, and trying to abs

The Learning Network for Learning Design (LN4LD) is intended as platform to learn and exchange information about the IMS Learning Design specification and its application. Here you will find units of learning and discussion forums dealing with various asp

The UNFOLD project is supporting the adoption of open eLearning standards for multiple learners and flexible pedagogies

Over the past few weeks I have met and talked with many people about e-Portfolio and the main points I have learned are

I'd forgotten about this; in most ways better than using flickr images :o) S5 is a slide show format based entirely on XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. With one file, you can run a complete slide show and have a printer-friendly version as well.

In his presentation, noted strategic futurist Wayne Hodgins will articulate a grand vision of a future of learning and the three grand challenges which are as audacious as they are achievable. A vision where literally every person on the planet experience

Africa is a key theme of this year's G8 summit. This is an overview of some of the economic challenges facing the continent.

D’Arcy gets to the meat as regards multi-user weblogging and I can’t hold back (even though I have a million other things to do)…

The HTML+SMIL profile integrates a subset of the SMIL Boston specification with HTML. It includes the SMIL Boston modules supporting animation, content control, linking, media objects, timing an synchronization, and transition effects. The SMIL Boston fea

The BBC is giving web developers and designers outside of the organisation access to its content so that they can "create cool new things".

It takes the hassle out of staying up-to-date, by showing you the very latest information that you are interested in.

nicely comprehensive but terse info on all the services offered by Google, with links

The following materials provide high-level, introductory discussion about the DOI; detailed coverage of policy, operations and technology; and a description of the components of the DOI System and its underlying technology.

Portfolio learning is a self-directed, student-centered process, through which you have the opportunity to talk about yourself, what you are doing in your particular program(s) at NSCC and where you want to go in life

Digital portfolios are tools of communities looking for critical differences. Its members use expressive tools to present themselves and invite critique, comment and guidance from their community. Digital portfolios hold the “between” of “before”

A PURL is a Persistent Uniform Resource Locator. Functionally, a PURL is a URL. However, instead of pointing directly to the location of an Internet resource, a PURL points to an intermediate resolution service. The PURL resolution service associates the

WAG the Dog (or the WAGger, for short) was developed to help you access library resources from external websites, such as Google Scholar. The WAGger will rewrite appropriate hyperlinks to route through the library proxy server [learn more], find books in

A Web user visits a site such as Yahoo! Search or Google and enters a search phrase that matches the title of a library-owned item. The returned search results include a link to the Open WorldCat "Find in a Library" interface, where they can enter geograp

Dublin Core celebrates its tenth anniversary this month. OCLC Research congratulates the Initiative on its decade of successful hard work, and wishes it the best to come.

Loosely coupled systems allow pieces to be written with less interaction between developers. Reading things like Wikipedia's entry on Loosely Coupled might make you think that this is something new, but I remember developers at OCLC talking about it 20 y

Web Design patterns

People are capturing and storing an ever-increasing amount of digital information about or for themselves..This article provides a commentary on current research and emerging services in this area and discusses potential implications for individuals, libr

Zniff uses human information from normal internet users, such as yourself, to find and rank web pages. The results you see on Zniff are from a collection of about 2 million bookmarks gathered by the users of the Spurl.net bookmarking service.

Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology Volume 30(2) 2004: “Beyond Learning Objects.”

This set of web pages will describe and discuss the use of technology to support alternative assessment from a number of perspectives. Developed and maintained by Dr. Helen Barrett, Assistant Professor, Educational Technology, School of Education, Univers

The TaskStream collaborative web-based productivity tools for organizing and managing shared practices through electronic portfolio and web page creation, instructional design, and professional development provide learning communities with the tools and i

REFLECT - A research project to assess the impact of electronic portfolios on student learning, motivation and engagement in secondary schools.

I have created this blog to discuss my ideas on electronic portfolios to support lifelong learning. I hope to share some of my concerns about the current direction of electronic portfolios in High Education and K-12 schools.

BlogBridge is a new kind of client-based RSS reader and aggregator, which works on PCs, Macs and Linux boxes, is open-source and integrates a number of great, innovative features.

This workshop will bring together researchers and interoperability experts from different communities (E-learning, Information Systems, Database, Semantic Web) interested in making educational systems interoperable. The workshop will deliver a state-of-th

PROLEARN is the first initiative to integrate the variety of perspectives on personalized and adaptive learning. Currently there is no technical standard for the communication between the various personalized adaptive learning tools as well as no metadata

Like mood rings and fanny packs, like mullets and the Macarena, the weighted tag clouds meme popularized by Flickr and Technorati is about to cross a permanent cultural shame threshold. Brilliant as the idea remains, faddishness is choking its air supply.

For those who seek a smarter way to research, Questia offers the largest online collection of books and articles from authoritative academic and commercial publishers.

.."if it's tech, it's here..."

CONFOTO is a repository for conference photos and associated metadata. This service provides a tailored photo browser and a generic RDF browser for people, events, and other related resources. CONFOTO is Semantic Web application, it allows you to add rich

This post announces release candidate 1 of xFolk, an xhtml microformat for social bookmarking as popularized by del.icio.us and a growing host of other services. Microformats are conventions for conveying information on the web in a way that is easily mac

“Social software is stuff that gets spammed.” Not a perfect definition, but servicable in its way.

In a little more than a week since it launched, Yahoo's MyWeb 2.0 social search engine has already become a haven for tag spam. A closer examination of the most popular tags reveals that crapware, nhw: bad crapware, nhw: bad and nhw: dangerous are among t

Planet Web 2.0 aggregates the weblogs of the Web 2.0 community. Web 2.0 is about sharing rich data through open, loosely coupled services, enabling new and exciting applications and modes of collaboration.

Planet XMLhack aggregates the weblogs of XML hackers and commentators. It is made using RDF technology, with the Redland toolkit

We've just begun rolling out support for tagging items for others. To do so, use "for:username" where username is the name of the user you want to send the item to.

extisp.icio.us text gives you a random textual scattering of a user's tags, sized according to the number of times that they've used each of them, and leaves you to draw your own insights from the overlapping entrails.

Cocoalicious is open source, available under the terms of the BSD License. If happen to have an iPod (and who doesn't these days?) and you'd like to support Cocoalicious development, you might consider purchasing an $8 license for PodWorks, my iPod song t

delicious.js - JavaScript interface to the del.icio.us API

choose-tag-from-options

I've written an Internet Explorer extension to allow you to use Internet Explorer's rright-click/context menu to search for a page, link or text in Technorati.

Scrumptious is a Firefox extension for use with del.icio.us, a social bookmark manager. It makes it easy and convenient to add bookmarks with accurate metadata tags to del.icio.us from Firefox. After installation, you can open Scrumptious by choosing View

Search for your favorite events, Organize your events using unlimited calendars, Use EVDB's SmartCalendars to find events relevant to you, Subscribe to events and venues with RSS and iCalendar, Publish calendars to your website, Add new events and venues

... by del.icio.us Categorizer - reconstructs a hierarchic ordering for your del.icio.us links using set theory.

I attended the geo microformat BOF session downstairs. As there are so many ways for people to refer to a location in what they publish on the web, it's about time for a structured way of tagging locations.

This is a google map showing the location of KnowNet, Bangor

Under my categories heading on the left sidebar I have included:, , See my bloglines subscriptions, , Search my bloglines subscriptions (search box), , Import my bloglines subscriptions

The following files allow you to view, edit, and format OPML files in a web browser

loadaverageZero is dedicated to the latest standards in Web Accessibility, Design and Programming using client-server Open Source technology. It grew from a seed of an idea I had many moons ago, but I haven’t had the time until now to sit down and get t

The Outline Processor Markup Language (OPML) is a simple XML language for describing arbitrary lists. It is used primarily for exchanging subscription lists of RSS feeds (or “blogrolls’) and for importing and exporting similar lists from news feed rea

..started as a reaction to the sites cataloguing Firefox extensions. Many excellent plugins for Safari have been developed, but because Safari doesn’t have an official ‘extension architecture’, many don’t know of these extensions.

Jots is a collaborative bookmarking system that allows you to Store, Share and Discover relevant links. Store your own links and choose whether to share them with the world, with a select group of people or just for yourself to use. Discover new links bas

... more than 50 js links collected in this new service in 2 weeks; might be worth watching

DjVu (pronounced "déjà vu") is a new image compression technology developed since 1996 at AT&T Labs to solve precisely that problem. DjVu allows the distribution on the Internet of very high resolution images of scanned documents, digital documents, and

photos from the First Connectionist Models Summer School, Pittsburgh 1986, via Yann LeCun

review of a project using their own intranet tool

At last! They want a range of structured 'entry' types for weblogs

won an award... Worth testing for robustness against busy fingers, semantic markup and MSIE:o) I just tried it in firefox editing and entering breaks near blockquote, cite and DL elements without causing harm

+ explains what a combo box is :O) ...the combo box is used in almost every common Windows application. The place where you type the URL in the browser, the way you change the font in Microsoft Word, they’re part select, part text input and they’re gr

the original adaptive path essay ... Ajax isn’t a technology. It’s really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways. Ajax incorporates:

Welcome to FILExt, the file extension source. FILExt is a detailed database of file extensions and programs that use them. FILExt is not a general support site. A search on the database here might very well result in multiple possibilities; it will be up

JPEG JFIF, which is what people generally mean when they refer to "JPEG", is a file format created by the Independent JPEG Group (IJG) for the transport of single JPEG-compressed images.

seems to support ordering... PictureSync is a convenient utility that simplifies batch uploading your photos and video clips to online services, - directly from your image-management application or files, whilst preserving your own valuable annotations an

if you'd like me to serve as your filter and aggregator of Long Tail comment around the web, just copy the "syndicate this sidebar" link into your favorite feedreader

EXCELLATRONIC COMMUNICATIONS:: I've come up with a method, that makes adding GeoTags to your Flickr images, and then submitting the images to the geobloggers.com site a slightly more automated process.

also has wiki - The Open Science Grid (OSG) Consortium was formed in 2004 by teams from U.S. universities and national laboratories in order to build and support a production quality peta-scale Grid infrastructure for large scale science

In general if you link to a page on WikiPedia on fixed reference the link will always point to the same thing (the saved snapshot of WikiPedia on a given date), with a proviso that if after putting up a fixed snapshot we find illegal content, copyright vi

seems better than others for techie acronyms like OFS :o) ...Find your Acronym by simply entering your acronym in the search box on the left side of this page

Index your del.icio.us bookmarks using Spotlight. Updates every half-hour. Includes URL, title, description and tags

Connexions now supports the OpenSearch specification. This makes it easier to directly access Connexions content from other search sites. See it at A9.com, Amazon's new multi-source search site

probably the most important open-source education project... "Connexions is a rapidly growing collection of free scholarly materials and a powerful set of free software tools

CNXML is a lightweight XML markup language designed for marking up educational content. The goal of CNXML is to convey the content of the material and not a particular presentation. This has many benefits

As new resources are constantly popping up, watch this space for changes. I've tried to order stuff as logically as possible. I've even used a pukey highlighter colour to...um highlight my what I think are the essentials.

useful for timings... [ See exactly what an HTTP request returns to your browser

World Postal Codes and Other Useful links

FXConverter (Foreign Exchange Currency Converter) is a multi-lingual Currency Converter with up to date exchange rates provided from leading market data contributors and is filtered for validity. To get the exchange rates for any of the 164 currencies, se

... 2005 Overture Services, Inc.

great news resource - not just for us expat cannucks

WWII in Halifax NS; slideshow based on his book

hardcore tech-interview style riddles and mathematical puzzles. daily high-quality forum discussions. Milli0ns served

hardcore tech-interview style riddles and mathematical puzzles. daily high-quality forum discussions. Milli0ns served

well-written news and quick analysis on web microformats, identity etc

This is a proposed data model that I’ve been working on in the context of an ISO/IEC e-learning standards workgroup. Such proposals and drafts are not generally posted publically, here goes.

This article aims to give you an introduction to the foundations of remote scripting, in particular, the emerging XMLHttpRequest protocol. We'll then walk through an example application that demonstrates how to implement that protocol, while creating a us

cute; hard work done to keep accessible fallbacks; pretty examples - wanted this for ages for, eg, kid questionnaires

Greasemonkey script, securesyndication.user.js that looks for encrypted content and, using the private key we provide, will decrypt the content when we view it

Since 2001, PDF Online (formerly goBCL / goHTM) has been providing quick and free document conversion into PDF and HTML formats

Roy Peter Clark from Poynter Institute has posted up 50 tools [which is to say, 'techniques'] that can help you when you do any kinds of writing

What we basically agreed on is that we need to get the word out. JavaScript is ready for its proper role in modern, standards based websites. During the conference we found plenty of evidence that there is much interest in JavaScript, if only people could

SchoolTool is a project to develop a common global school administration infrastructure that is freely available under an Open Source licence

Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic.

partnered with the Internet's leading search providers - Google, Ask Jeeves, Yahoo! and LookSmart - to feature the world's best search engine along with our full portal offering...all without banners, pop-ups, video ads, direct marketing and privacy conce

Edubuntu aims to be an Ubuntu version suitable for classroom use. The aim is to deliver a turnkey solution that enables time-poor educators with mid-range technical skills to set up a computer lab and/or establish an online learning environment with as f

http://www.headshift.com/archives/002498.cfm

People who generate syndication feeds have a choice of feed formats. As of mid-2005, the two most likely candidates will be RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0. The purpose of this page is to summarize, as clearly and simply as possible, the differences between the RSS

for 37 signals' Backpack sinmple project management system: Use Backpack? Got a Mac? Got OS X 10.4 (Tiger)? Then you should check out this Backpack Dashboard Widget by Chipt Productions.

JavaScript Archive Network is a comprehensive resource for Open Source JavaScript libraries and software

Dive Into Greasemonkey is a book about programming with Greasemonkey, a Firefox extension for customizing web pages. Read it online for free. .

It's the small pieces loosely joined philosophy applied to directories, and it works. There is no official top level of the directory, but many people think of Adam Curry's ipodder.org directory as the top level.

Free Computer Science Ebooks and Resources - A Link Collection

Number of services: 128.

Web superservices provide essential functions for solving problems (such as search, storage/archive, security, pooling of information, notification of changes, identification of relationships, analysis of memes), are available on the web as public or near

The eXe project is developing an off-line authoring environment to assist teachers and academics in the publishing of web content without the need to become proficient in HTML or XML markup. The project is funded by a grant from the Tertiary Education Com

Eduforge is an open access environment designed for the sharing of ideas, research outcomes, open content and open source software for education. You are welcome to use our community resources or start your own project space.

In this English version, started in 2003, we are currently working on 9,721 textbook modules.

The ELF is an international effort to develop a service-orientated approach to the development and integration of computer systems in the sphere of learning, research and education administration.

Think of the Sakaipedia as a collection of articles organized by topics of interest to Sakai users, administrators, designers, and developers. Those of you who are familiar with Wikipedia will recognize the inspiration behind this effort.

Apparently, Atom 1.0 syntax spec is now at the end of the runway. Whether it takes flight or loudly ignored, they don't seem to realize that pedantic assertions like the below undermines their work:

lively debate from implementor point of view [ The problem is that Atom has serious failings which all stem from the same cause - Atom is made for consumers, not producers.

What I like most about Atom is its careful delineation of the kinds of content that can be included in a feed, including: plain text, HTML, XHTML, XML, and externally-referenced resources. This dovetails very nicely with what I used to call microcontent,

to get the feel of Web logs and blogging, visit some of these sites...This page is under development; feel free to suggest your own finds

Adds Word Processor like functionality to web forms, including opening and saving form entries as files.

One particularly cool feature I want to share with you is Blogdigger Groups. This tool allows you to combine the contents of two or more blogs – so the combined content is easily accessible in one place…

we think it's the best news feed and blog aggregation system - bar none! Not only will BlogBridge let you subscribe to your favorite RSS feeds, it will also help you sort through your existing feeds and help you discover new feeds.

As the thickest member of the WaSP ATF, I’ve been having a bit of a think about what the terms Accessibility, Standards, Semantics mean, trying to reach a working definition of the three terms, and how they inter-relate (while the other ATFers do hard w

The Summer of Code is Google's program designed to introduce students to the world of open source software development.

Creating text-only versions of websites to improve accessibility is a double edged-sword. It can remove a limited range of accessibility problems, but at the cost of creating new accessibility problems and destroying other accessibility benefits. It can't

In this article we will look at creating well structured tables that are also accessible. The styling of tables will be discussed in a later article.

Many forms out there fail for one reason: The webdesigner has incorrectly assumed what a visitor has installed.

Danga Interactive, who created LiveJournal and memcached, is working on a new decentralized single-signon system called OpenID. Similar in principle to Six Apart's TypeKey or MSN Passport, OpenID will allow you to assert a single identity to any OpenID-su

Clients on the web that want to verify your identity: ask for your blog or FOAF URL. ("bradfitz.livejournal.com") fetch your blog HTML, find your FOAF URL, fetch your FOAF, find your identity server, then ask the identity server if you're who you said you

Welcome to Spectaclar, a community for open source development of user management for web applications

A reBlog facilitates the process of filtering and republishing relevant content from many RSS feeds. reBloggers subscribe to their favorite feeds, preview the content, and select their favorite posts. These posts are automatically published through their

reFeed is a PHP-based server-side RSS aggregator/reader that allows for quick, easy, iterative filtering, editing and re-syndicating of posts. Its output is an RSS feed that contains numerous metadata necessary to re-publish posts with appropriate attribu

With the webOutliner tool installed, or if you're reading this from the demo site, this page becomes a real outliner.

The CMS Directory is a state-of-the-art knowledge base with a user-controlled faceted classification scheme. Most web directories (DMOZ ODP, Google, Yahoo) hard wire their category hierarchy

Stellar course management system is an integral part of evolving educational technology at MIT. The Stellar development team works within the MIT infrastructure and with outside educational initiatives to create a platform for building both traditional an

In an effort to boost the quality of scripting on the world wide web, the Web Standards Project (WaSP) today announced the formation of the WaSP DOM Scripting Task Force.

a mailing-list posting of mine has definitive information that everyone is overlooking: screen readers work better with valid HTML

On how the accessibility of data tables can be improved + describes a test into the effective accessibility of different ways to mark up complex data tables.

The Web Standards Project forms task force to promote industry support for Web Standards; WaSP to collaborate with Microsoft to promote Web standards and help developers build standards conformant Web applications.

The problem is that screen readers are just that: they read what’s displayed on the screen for a sighted user. In other words, they let Internet Explorer render the Web page, scrape the visual result, and read that. I will acknowledge that in the tables

Welcome to Staccato, where we feature music that probably won't get you sued. All tracks are available under a Creative Commons license. So is the show, of course.

At the moment JavaScript suffers from outdated, uninformed, and inaccessible development methods which preclude it, and therefore web development in general, from attaining its full potential. The WaSP DOM Scripting Task Force proposes to solve this probl