elearning2.0 linklog

"The primary vehicle for requirements elicitation in XP is adding a member of the customer's organization to the team. This customer representative works full time with the team, writing stories -- similar to Universal Markup Language (UML) Use Cases -- d

"the upcoming global launch represents a major milestone in the stability of the underlying technology. With a stable platform in place, developers can turn their attention towards building iname services that benefit us inamers.

Currently, this plugin has limited support for the following microformats:, hCard, hCalendar, hReview, xFolk. Unlike Smartzilla, my plugin doesn’t support exporting to their native formats - right now I’m more interested in seeing who is using microfo

brief S5 talk introducing microformats and their history, with appendix on principles

[on Jan 19]..we repointed beta.cnx.rice.edu at the live backend. Now, beta uses all the data from the live server but has the added bonus of new community features. On beta, you cannot create new communities, but you can join communities and participate i

"PAS 78 sets out best practice for organisations commissioning public-facing websites and is the result of a year-long collaboration between the Disability Rights Commission (DRC) and the British Standards Institution.

I have been dipping into writely.com and numsum.com, a free online spreadsheet.. [such] fresh competition could persuade many users of the attractions of alternatives that are not only free but simpler and more versatile than the complex products on offer

academic papers, including semantic-web/ontology and IMS Learn-Design / big-repository stuff. some with pdf downloads

(cited by dai griffiths et al as justifying special repository-tech for LD resources]... "presents an ontology based approach to integrate learning designs and learning object content. The main goal is to increase the level of reusability of learning de

"in this paper we advocate the use of ontologies to explicitly specify all learning designs, learning objects, and the relations between them, and show how this use of ontologies can result in more effective (semi-)automatic tools and services that increa

This paper reports initial findings from a study that used quantitative and qualitative research methods and custom–built software to investigate online economies of reputation and user practices in online product reviews at several leading e–commerce

we can survey the ground traversed by Web 2.0 projects and discussions in order to reveal a diverse set of digital strategies with powerful implications for higher education.2 Ultimately, the label “Web 2.0” is far less important than the concepts, pr

"The Usability Exchange website launches on 16 March 2006... ...to provide instant user testing with disabled users. Organisations can now find out what disabled people think of their website by logging on to www.usabilityexchange.com. This launch come

tips and comments

sublimely po-faced 'history' + you can point your teenagers at it as a homework resource :o} .."As many people know, today's Internet has its roots in the huge silk and cotton mills which grew up in the 19th century during the Industrial Revolution."

neat ajax enhances OPAC example... "serendipity code now considers keyword phrases returned by answers.com, instead of just single keywords.  As an example, here's what appears if I try searching for the film "Faraway, So Close" on our OPAC

Here are some directions in library search (is this the right word?) we are likely to see over the next while. And remember this is about 'and' not 'or'. New value will emerge from the combination of a variety of approaches to create more engaging, functi

I talked about search, share and subscribe [see prev post], as potential user requirements. I notice a growing tendency to describe services in terms of three verbs. Here is an alliterative line up for the catalog: rank, recommend and relate

A service that would search in all 12 of these engines at once would be a great human indexed web to challenge the current traditional search engines.

This is more a wish than a prediction but I am betting that there will be one killer search engine for all the social bookmark services, someone to do for bookmarks what Technorati does for blogs

Rumors are buzzing today that the long awaited, almost acquired photo facial recognition service Riya should be moving out of private alpha and launching a public beta sometime today. The main site is currently down and “asks for your patience”, which

In the eLearning world, blogs represent the pendulum swinging the other way. Their growing popularity is a reaction against the bulky nature of most course management systems -- Who needs a $60,000 LMS to announce that donuts will not be served at next we

An early alpha release of Firefox 2.0 has been quietly released. I don’t care if it is an alpha, it has to be more stable than v.1.5. I’ve downloaded it and its working swimmingly so far on my Mac. In fact I am writing this post with it.

RSS news reading has, to date, revolved around the metaphor of email. myBroadSheet is a different solution for a different type of person. It can broadly be described as an RSS news reader for those who want a news reading metaphor their used to.

digg.com is a social news site and del.icio.us is a social bookmarking or tagging site. Below you can observe a live view of the action on these two sites without having to reload your browser

"yes, it'll be on Social Software beyond weblogs but surely it'll be about blogs too... will address researchers, developers, the community of users, the business and educational world and everyone interested in the phenomenon and the tools of social soft

61 page pdf report including links to what were then interesting projects. for CANARIE Inc. Study Team David Porter Joanne Curry Bill Muirhead Nick Galan

I've been looking for a simple way to make presentations that link my slides with my voice. I may have made some progress. Phil Pickering suggested (comment 7) the idea at Doug Kaye's Blogarithms. I implemented it, using Keynote and iMovie, as follows

wanted to record a session while it was happening, and somehow have it synced with the slides automatically. Stir in some ideas from Lawrence Lessig, Dan Chudnov.. and I think I have the pieces coming together for a different kind of presentation softwar

The era of monolithic Learning Technology Systems is over. Rather than building large, closed systems, the current focus is on flexible architectures that provide interoperability of components and learning content, and that rely on open standards for inf

What is collaborative filtering? Technically, it's an algorithm for matching people with similar interests for the purpose of making recommendations. In non-technical terms, it's a system for helping people find relevant content. Unlike search, where you

Why do people tag? For many, tagging is for sharing their own information and watching others. Even if you tag mostly to remember your own stuff, it is difficult to remain untouched by the presence of others. This article will explore how tagging lets us

[+ other repts]..UK admissions officers gather stakeholder perspectives on e-Portfolio.. strong support for the concept of a smart, non-monolithic course documen data entered once, extracted and transformed to meet the needs of different audiences

Almost every university department has to create, track and distribute reports on students' progress. It's much easier to do this on the web than on paper. Some departments and universities already have their own applications to solve this problem, most d

Scuttle supports most of the del.icio.us API. Almost all of the neat tools made for that system can be modified to work with Scuttle instead. If you find a tool that won't let you change the API address, ask the creator to add this setting. You never know

..involves: microchunking your content, taking advantage of open standards, employing microformats, letting users subscribe to all kinds of RSS feeds, freeing your content via APIs and other means, designing for re-use of information, monetizing it, and m

[on viedoEgg March 20 kaunch].. Posting photos to the Web has become as easy as sending e-mail, thanks to websites like Flickr and Picasa. But digital video, despite its growing prevalence online, is not yet as idiot-proof. VideoEgg has plans to change th

it struck me that following tags is like conversation in some ways: in each case, you get hints and pointers, you fork in different directions, you are at the intersection of a variety of interests, and you are woven into a fabric of reference which may h

This module made in partnership with box.net and is a part of an ambitious projet to build a web 2.0 service ecosystem. If you own a box.net account you can log in but if you don't you can in one click create one automatically. No more hassle and multiple

Library 2.0 is a concept of a very different library service, geared towards the needs and expectations of today’s library users. In this vision, the library makes information available This paper builds on those core ideas, proposes solutions and c

pitching a new commercial product apparently a bit open in response to library2.0 trends.."Library software vendors (including Talis) will not be insulated from...disruptive trends. Vendors need to recognise that value is shifting. Libraries and those tha

this didn't happen: "The new license that will accompany the Open XML format with the standards organization will go well beyond traditional standards licensing and will be very positive for the vast majority of developers, even open-source developers."

analysis of the impact of cheap and available pseudonyms on the evolution of cooperation. Specifically, they analyze the behavior of the well known tit-for-tat (TFT) and probablistic tit-for-tat (PTFT) strategies in evolutionary game theory when players h

experimental co-tagging / shared linklog portal for a teachers' college. some v good and well-described links on web + edu + systems

in educational technology, there have always been "emerging trends.".. at this juncture, the range of possibilities on the horizon is particularly rich. There was a heightened sense of excitement, creativity, and possibility in the room that I continued t

users upload media files of any type, tag them, and either keep them private, share with other or make them public. But eSnips is also allowing bookmarking of web content, from a whole page to a line or paragraph. Others can comment on each piece of media

sad but funny exchange between bug report and analysts (it turns out that firefox is not flawed),, "This privacy flaw has caused my fiancé and I to break-up after having dated for 5 years..when he went to log-in under his dating sites (jdate.com, swingl

PurpleSlurple transcodes Web pages by inserting anchor tags , which appear as Purple Numbers, at each structural tag, ,

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Over a million home pages have been created on Netvibes, and the service is available in a ton of languages. They are working on an API now that will allow for third party widgets to be created as well. Netvibes is headquartered in Paris and London. My o

[mm evaluating soon]"ConceptQ is the first personal research and discovery tool that enables users to efficiently analyze web search results as well as identify the most relevant Keywords, Phrases and Topics within a document.

“Search Like You Think” Approach; Conversational “Personal Search Advisor”; One-Page Result

currently 4 "brain friendly" tech-training books available - award-winning and prominently endorsed - ought to be worth tracking if the writing quality, common-sense and cognitive-load-reducing know-how are like their blogging :o)

In Rojo you can save items and tag them, this aggregates into a bookmark type folksonomy, see Rojo Today. This is no longer sorted only by most recent but by popularity based on voting, that’s right now you can vote for the stories, even if you don’t

in a paper entitled Where’s the Search? Re-examining User Expectations of Web Objects, A. Dawn Shaikh and Kelsi Lenz revisit a previous study where they looked at user’s expectations for certain standard features of a web site, such as the "Back to ho

In early February the news broke about the US National Federation of the Blind (NFB) bringing legal action against Target corporation for not making their website accessible despite being made aware of the problems.

Simply stated, I’d like to extend the clipboard user model to the web. The Concept Development team has created a screencast of a Live Clipboard demo, and a simple web page-based demo that you can play with. Hopefully this will convey more vividly some

"Podcasts include Scott Wilson giving a very non technical overview of webservices in education, John Casey talking about the use of IMS Learning Design as a staff development tool and overviews of a number of the SFC transformation projects.

w.bloggar supports several blog tools and services. It also supports any custom tools that implements Blogger API or metaWeblog API. Because w.bloggar runs over the Windows GUI, it allows the user to edit posts without being connected to the Internet. Po

The look, feel, and functionality of Microsoft Word, in a completely web-based AJAX platform. Try ajaxWrite today, and experience first-hand how AJAX applications are changing the way the web works, and redefining the software industry

lovely! choice of visible, infrared or elevation graphics; also Regions Mountains Plains Spacecraft Canyons Ridges Stories Dunes Craters

Mesh will take place in Toronto at the MaRS Collaboration Centre the 15th and 16th May 2006.

The tag for all blog posts, flickr pics, etc. is going to be CIL2006. If you're attending and blogging Internet@Schools East sessions, add the tag ISE2006. This will help everyone to keep track of what's going on at the conference through all the social s

BorrowMe is a place where people from local communities and trusted circles will borrow almost anything from one another — and will lend the things that collect in boxes and on shelves in basements and in garages in virtually every city and town.

Thanks to everyone who participated in ETech 2006--it was an eye-opening, inspiring experience. Check out news, photos, and speaker presentation files from the event. And save the date for next year--we'll be back March 26-29, 2007

This user interface, and the code behind it, is provided as an example for the benefit of microformat open standards developers, and to demonstrate the clear one to one correspondence between microformat fields and microformat code. The code generated by

This user interface, and the code behind it, is provided as an example for the benefit of microformat open standards developers, and to demonstrate the clear one to one correspondence between microformat fields and microformat code. The code generated by

This user interface, and the code behind it, is provided as an example for the benefit of XFN developers, and to demonstrate the clear one to one correspondence between XFN relationship values and the code that can be used to represent those values. XFN C

This page is a starting point to gather information, resources and links for UNESCO IIEP-OER (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization - International Institute for Educational Planning - Open Educational Resources initiative)

Welcome to the Mind and Brain Portal. This is an interdisciplinary point of entry to such related fields as the philosophy of mind, neuroscience, linguistics, and psychology.

Tara Hunt, Riya’s chief blogger, says on her personal blog that they’ve had a million photos uploaded just two days after launching. Wow, that’s a lot of pictures. Congratulations (again) Riya

"now the inner city high school graduate, the single at-home mom, the physically-challenged career aspirant, and the struggling entry-level employee can move up the economic ladder with an online education enabled by government monies.

Welcome to a unique genre of education materials. This website promotes innovative hands-on Activities that you can experience across a range of interests, at varying degrees of complexity, and at a low price—all with common paper plates.

"Imagine talking the editors of the New York Times, PC Magazine, Newsweek, and thousands of other publications into creating editions tailored just for you.

extensive, well-written intro to syndication.. " Introduction: What’s New Online? How Most Webfeeds Work Main Advantage: Webfeeds Save You Time Getting Started: You Need a Feed Reader Subscribing to Webfeeds Finding Good Webfeeds For Publishers: W

[accessible biz-centric intro to syndication]... In a world of content overload--with E-mail always pushing information and thousands of Web sites pulling us--more people are using RSS readers to cope. The grassroots technology, used for the past few year

I aim to add one new puzzle each week. They range over geometry, probability, number theory, algebra, calculus, trigonometry, and logic.  All require a certain ingenuity, but usually only pre-college math.  Some puzzles are original.

[very pretty form design].."The online classifieds edge player edgeio has released an update tonight, that points to the future of Structured Blogging. Now edgeio users don't need to physically do tagging on their blogs, or in fact even be a blogger, in o

Beautiful data tables, clean charts, crisp text, tasteful icons. They use font sizes and shades of grey wisely. The leading on their longer articles is spot on too. It’s really the gold standard in information-heavy web design. Well done.

COinS are actually included in the HTML code on the web page using OpenURLs. This allows other processors—such as your web browser—to find the citation metadata and generate links to other resources that are accessible via OpenURLs

significant in several ways. One important one is that is one route by which you can connect a discovery experience in one environment back to the ability to find an instance of the discovered item, or a service which will provide it, in another environme

I still need to research the specification in further depth, but it's been relatively easy to add a prototype to our OPAC. Here's how it displays in Firefox using the Openly OpenURL Referrer extension:

This can be accomplished thanks to OpenURL, a powerful technology that packages bibilographic information into a format that many internet services can understand. OpenURL Referrer can produce links for Google Scholar Results and Web COinS

"I just got to keep talking. And one of the — there’s word of mouth, there’s blogs, there’s Internet, there’s all kinds of ways to communicate which is literally changing the way people are getting their information. And so if you’re concerned

[actually sweet! - shows Grazer and bitty browser].'I must say that I am truly impressed by the number of potential useful applications that these type of tools can open. And while I had been having a hard time in the past trying to make sense of the true

[free but embeds its ads - be great to have an open-source alternative] Example 1: Navigable Blogroll; 2: Embedded Search Box; 3: Serve and Share Remote Feeds and Live Content; Bridge the gap between the handheld Web and the regular Web

LOADS of tagged quotes - 999 by Ambose Bierce for instance. Good views and feeds; looks very useful.. home | tags | authors | recent | popular | search | tools | blog | help

One of the most campus-like elements is a thriving program called "Tech Talks" - regularly scheduled presentations offered by Googlers or our guests on a wide variety of subjects. Any Googler can attend a talk on, say, "Collecting Meteorites in Antarctica

This collection of movies constitutes a pilot program for what is anticipated to become a much wider cooperation, and future expansions could also include Google helping the archivists make portions of their massive collection of texts available online. T

31,918 items to date ; many kinds of film - a vast resource and growing. RSS etc available

This collection is open to the community for the contribution of any type of video, many licensed using Creative Commons licenses. Please feel free to contribute your movies! (Uploaders, please try to set a Creative Commons license as part of the upload p

Hosted by Mike Bullivant, a scientist from the Open University, this novel and exciting series enables a small group (approximately 6), including school children, graduates and senior scientists to probe important scientific and technological concepts wit

an extensive resource, series presented by Alan Alda...Click on the appropriate icon to: Watch FRONTIERS online Read the show transcript Visit the show Web site View teaching guides

Grazr has opened it’s first project, the alpha version of the Grazr web panel, to public testing.... --- sweet little tree-browser.. Step 1) Enter the OPML/RSS URL to use. Optionally you may also adjust the height, width, font and font-size Grazr will u

100's of resources

The first beta build of version 2.0 is now available for download! the application does not look much different outwardly but there are many code rewrite under the skins. As this is beta software, bugs are expected so please do not try this out unless you

an important milestone - 1 million members and counting since their launch on November 11, 2005. while this is still just a drop in the Myspace bucket of 60 odd million members, its still a lot of people using the service after a very short period of time

But after meeting the founders and getting a first hand look at the deep features, it’s clear that it is more than just the next teen blogging hangout. There are advanced features that will appeal to a much larger audience.

hmmm - tagworld seems to be getting mainstream marketers' attention? big contest to get a song placed in the new sam jackson film (which sdeems to feature snakes on a plane :o)

wonderfully thorough ( I have not yet checked it in detail, mind :o) - 1000+ items in 68 categories. Maintained in the openBC web2.0 group but I cannot find reliable permalink for its ongoing data there... this link is to a static copy but will likely be

Our objective is to make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet. We are a totally volunteer, open source, free content, public domain project.

This release is intended for testing purposes only; we do not recommend deploying it to production servers. The final release of version 2.0.0 is planned for Sunday, April 16th 2006

Online blogs supporting LiveJournal, Blogger, Movable Type, WordPress, and more;2-D Quartz rendering technology making graphically rich journals;Nested, multiple journals and Entry Keywords efficiently organizing your entries. Have one for your work log,

The National Repository of Online Courses project supports the development and distribution of high-quality online courses to a worldwide audience. Through collaboration with a community of academic institutions, NROC has created a library of 28 high-qual

We are pleased to have Dr. David Weinberger, author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, as this year's keynote speaker. premier gathering place for information architects. Everyone who touches on IA is welcome to shar

Donna talks about [Lakoff's] concept of basic level categories— you generalize up from them and down to the specifics. She wonders whether tags are often BLCs, accounting for their popularity. (audience: probably, if the taggers are typical of the group

According to ComputerWorld, the company that supplies Google Earth with their satellite imagery is undergoing a drastic upgrade to its satellite imagery. DigitalGlobe, who processes over 105 satellite image strips per day, is upgrading their storage facil

Based at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), the Decentralized Information Group is lead by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web. DIG includes researchers who are leaders in technology and public policy domain

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