elearning2.0 linklog

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[note to self - dig into these refs]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

handy!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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