elearning2.0 linklog

3 Plazes APIs: * Plazes API: Query Plazes for data via webservices. * Plazer API: Building custom Plazer software that provides presence and location * Plazes Shared Library: provides the Plazer API functionality as binaries for Windows, Linux, Mac OS-X

not much yet but certainly worth tracking ( aug 1 06 )..'19 posts tagged 'MUTL06',, Tony Hirst's ISBN greasemonkey script seems the only entry so far, other posts are general background

[docs/api-key/blog/etc]..'some of the Platform services, eg deep linking to OPACs, can easily be used by non-programmers. advanced services include searching and manipulating the information held in the Silkworm Directory or querying Talis Source holdings

*that* bill .. see esp 'SEC. 3. CERTIFICATIONS TO INCLUDE PROTECTIONS AGAINST COMMERCIAL SOCIAL NETWORKING WEBSITES AND CHAT ROOMS.

[the bill]..'defers definition of 'social network websites', but implies that it could include all blogging platforms, webmail and Wikipedia.. ( + links to More from danah, TechCrunch, ZDNET and Technorati)

'In a keynote speech to leading technology executives, Rod Smith, IBM's vice president of emerging Internet technologies: ..transform the way productivity applications are developed using the ever-expanding palette of Web 2.0 components available for free

'These five styles are: Presentation Mashup: | Client-Side Data Mashup | Client-Side Software Mashup | Server-Side Software Mashup | Server-Side Data Mashup:

'I hope we can use this as an opportunity...perhaps Tony Karrer is correct and that we are at the point of technology disruption, and we'll see the LMS displaced by simpler technologies with different non-functional characteristics

'Let's use all those wonderful Web 2.0 tools for learning, not schooling. Blackboard spent a lot of time and money filing for this patent and they can have it, because it has no value. It's no longer about online courses, it's about learning and performin

how much worse can these guys get?...'patents corresponding with the U.S. patent have been issued in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore and are pending in the European Union, China, Japan, Canada, India, Israel, Mexico, South Korea, Hong Kong and Brazil

much improved since last I looked... worth checking out. same company has commercial site-search plugins and visualisation tools for other app-domains

'Apache Axis2 not only supports SOAP 1.1 and SOAP 1.2, but it also has integrated support for the widely popular REST style of Web services: the same business logic implementation can offer both a WS-* style interface as well as a REST style interface sim

'Code Assist on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS languages | Outliner that gives a snapshot view of your JavaScript, HTML, and CSS code structure | Error and warning notification for your code | Support for Aptana UI customization and extensions

'The importance of design.. is underestimated in many educational projects to do with social software and personal learning spaces.. by personalisation I mean 'silly' personalisation. If I want my page to be a lurid pink then I expect to be able to do tha

blog-like / planet-like coverage of intro material especially, highly selective about articles. Includes link to his edited booklet introducing web2.0 ( a useful resource for meme-spreading in orgs )

'Featuring case studies and how-to articles by leading practitioners: Miles Berry, John Bidder, Mechelle De Craene, John Evans, Peter Ford, Josie Fraser, Steve Lee, Ewan Mcintosh, Alan November, Chris Smith, Dai Thomas, David Warlick, Shawn Wheeler

[from the inquirer] scanned copy of the complain against Desire2Learn. see esp 'prayer for relief' at end for damagessought and sn 10 for descr of infringing products ( all D2L products based on the D2L learning system or platform )

Abstract: A system and methods for implementing education online by providing institutions with the means for allowing the creation of courses to be taken by students online, the courses including assignments, announcements, course materials, chat and whi

expires 2022..'The patent was issued under the title "Internet-Based Education Support System And Methods" and relates to course management systems which provide an easy-to-use and scalable system with multiple user roles in an online learning environment

started 29 July 2006 Mfeldstein; lots of edits to aug 3, as long-time ed-tech developers document their own and other known systems. esp dense in 90s, earliest 1960. MUST-ADD REM+FC + ensure IMS is noted (this tech was so common it needed interop stds :-)

the usual excellent round-up of the ed-tech community's commentary, + his own analysis + personal affront at similarity of BB's own description of their patented system to his earlier paper on 'The Assiniboine Model'

..'In So What Exactly Are Library Feeds Good For? I showed several screenshots that demonstrated how a wide variety of library related feeds could be aggregated using an OPML file and displayed within the Grazr OPML browser.

We are looking forward to merging in the porting patches from KDE, and to merging general improvements from KHTML that are not yet in WebKit. Working together with KDE and our friends from Nokia, we can continue to build a world-class web rendering engine

they'll be patenting the PLE next :o) ..'Blackboard Backpack allows you to easily download course material which your instructors have placed on the Blackboard Academic Suite™ for use when you aren’t online. This frees you up from the Internet!

'..a pattern solves a problem such as motivating students, choosing and sequencing materials, evaluating students... A number of educators have been involved in the pedagogical patterns project for several years. Contributions are eagerly sought and membe

In addition to the basic features that are expected of screen readers, such as being able to identify headings, links, images, etc. and providing navigational assistance, Fire Vox provides support for MathML and CSS speech module properties. It also works

Early Bird | Spiral | Consistent Metaphor | Toy Box | Tool Box | Lay of the Land | Fixer Upper | Larger Than Life | Student Design Sprint | Mistake | Test Tube | Fill in the Blanks | Gold Star | Grade it Again Sam

'In the past, visually impaired Google users have often waded through a lot of inaccessible websites and pages to find the required information. Our goal is to provide a more useful and accessible web search experience for the blind and visually impaired.

'Many of the CSS-based tabs I’ve seen suffer from the same generic features: blocky rectangles of color, maybe an outline, a border disappears for the current tab, a color changes for the hover state. Is this all CSS can offer us?

'using structured HTML and simple CSS, it is possible to create visually appealing drop-downs that are easy to edit and update + cross-browser - and no JavaScript is required! (Actually, a tiny bit of JavaScript is needed, but it’s not what you think.)

[see also the blackfate blog] This wiki is being set up as a source of information and resources on the issue of Blackboard's patent.. educators are invited to join and contribute, and to post to the associated edublog, http://blackfate.edublogs.org.

[see associated wiki - included in blog as cute wikispaces wordpress sidebar plugin] - includes contenful entries on Blackboard Patents in Australia and Informing IP Australia of Prior Art

'OLDaily full coverage: because it's a bit hard to follow, full coverage of the Blackboard case is being provided on a separate page (full coverage will continue on OLDaily as well, don't worry)

sadly there is no extant server running the REM environment but I'll attempt asap to run a server snapshot and screenshot some examples of (a) groupware and roles from firstClass integration (b) social-bookmarking & flexible/structured social metadata

'REM takes a unique approach to tele-learning by creating a rich multimedia environment to support learning through collaboration, interaction and conversation. Implicit in REM’s view of education and training is a belief in constructivist principles of

from mfeldstein.com, where he also lists as among the likely infringers: ANGEL, Bazaar, Desire2Learn, dotLRN, eCollege AU+, IBM Workplace Collaborate Learning, LON-CAPA, Moodle, Saba Learning Suite, Sakai, SumTotal Enterprise Suite, WebCT

'The goal is to create a system that will allow the characteristics of OSS code and documentation to be easily collected and searched by everyone, while still being distributed and shared by all participating repositories

incl existing publications as P.A. | USPTO and P.A. | Make data more valuable as P.A. | Guideline for Developers | ensure your program can be used as P.A. in 20 years | Tagging Prototype | Easier searching for P.A. | OSSTag | A Social Tagging Engine

'3 patent quality initiatives identified thru collaboration among USPTO, IBM, OSDL & others in the Open Source community & software industry: 1. Open Source Software as Prior Art (this website) | 2. Community patent review | 3. Patent quality index

a new feature [as of aug 06] ... encouraging use of the del explicit network -- eg of display = I am Mike_Malloch on del.icio.us... I have 39 people in my network... I have 64 fans... Add me to your network

'at Edutools we can show a continuous development of the feature set that we use to compare these products from 1996 onwards - with changes and modifications over time, but it has been a relatively consistent point of comparison for almost 10 years now

how cute is this! arrow keys to bank, dive and climb, a-z to control speed, space to fire :o)

..when you've become more experienced, there is a built-in programming language, which gives you the full flexibility of creating games with Game Maker. Game Maker can be used free of charge. Do anything you want with the games you produce, even sell them

Highlighted features definitely include some later claimed in the blackboard patent! Compares Learning Space, Virtual-U, WebCT, Top Class, Web Course in a Box, CourseInfo (which became Blackboard)

We’ve designed the PeopleAggregator to lay the groundwork of a foundation platform we call an Identity Hub. We plan on supporting major open ID systems to create federated authentication layer. We then plan on layering on top of that platform import/

set up by desrie2learn itself. Useful collection of pdfs **about the patent** as well as about the case. Not open for comments..'If you do believe you have Prior Art that would be of assistance please email it to PriorArt@Desire2Learn.com

'This 63-page document is the combination of both the Complaint and the Patent. The Complaint itself is only 4 pages; the remainder is the Patent.'... (v useful pdf - all there ready for convenient printing :O)

'The move - a blow to rival Yahoo - gives Google exclusive access to one of the most popular sites on the Internet, and follows Google's $1 billion deal to provide searches on AOL. The deal is all cash.. the deal feathers back if traffic goals are not met

'Alright everybody, we're kicking off over here at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Be sure to bookmark this URL, as even though we're doing a little pre-game coverage now, this is where it's all gonna go down when Steve takes the stage at 10:00AM

overview of UK state of commercial web2.0 - awareness/ uptake by big sites (beeb, newsies etc) + emerging social startups scene

'A custom search engine can be created that searches just a few defined sites, and/or entire web.. can include a specific default search term, exclude certain keywords, etc. Once completed, can be integrated directly into a website via a code snippet.

'features include a slight redesign, allowing users to clone and modify any other search engine (there are about 150,000 user-generated search engines available), and other changes. Also, you no longer need to register to use most features of the site

'Watch Apple CEO Steve Jobs kick off the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote preview of Mac OS X “Leopard” from San Francisco's Moscone West. See the video-on-demand event right here exclusively in QuickTime and MP

New in Leopard, Time Machine takes you beyond the backup.. with Spaces, you can organize your windows into different groups.. Dashboard adds new widgets that make the Web a one-click affair.. Spotlight for Leopard: search across network-mounted folders

This web page provides information on common software tools available on personal computers and/or the Internet to facilitate assessment FOR learning (classroom-based assessment) in electronic portfolios

'Remember, teens took over MySpace and made it their own. Try to respect that you're on their territory. "You don't want to create controlling situations, because what these kids are trying to do is create a space outside of parental control," Boyd says.

'I have been following MySpace since its launch in 2003. Initially, it was the home to 20-somethings interested in indie music in Los Angeles. Today, you will be hard pressed to find an American teenager who does not know about the site, regardless of whe

'The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to   make an easy but powerful global information system. The project started with the philosophy that much academic information should   be freely available to anyone.

eg 29.36% Dublin Core 15.71% XHTML 11.92% Blogger Atom API Extensions 11.88% Blogger Draft Extension 11.16% RSS 1.0 Content Module 8.39% Well-Formed Web Comment API 5.35% RSS 1.0 Administrative Module 3.85% FeedBurner Extensions 3.74% MSN Spaces...

'Beyond Web search, Search Builder includes Site search and News search.. generate the code you’ll need to add your search engine to your site. You also have control over the look and feel of the search box and search results

'The final release is expected in the next few weeks. See "Check for Updates" in the "Help" tab of Parallels menu bar... the 1st solution that enables users to run Windows and other OSes at the same time as OS X on any Intel-powered Mac without rebooting

Open source software and technologies, social media and Web 2.0 help aggregate people and content... new standards which will help inter-connect social networks as well as new standards to extend blogging and the notion of a universal "blog this" button.

'In partnership with the Higher Education Academy, JISC, the National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research and SURF, the Centre for Recording Achievement offers this international seminar on the theme of researching and evaluating PDP and e-portfol

'bring together leading practitioners and researchers to develop a community of practice.. Establish a forum for the sharing of evaluated practice.. Help build a more robust evidence-base to underpin effective implementation and use of e-Portfolios an

project is funded by the Danish Research Agency from 2004 to 2007. The project's aim is to design a framework for persistent-world games where new concepts and new forms of play can be developed and explored, using open source technology.

'Oklahoma State University (OSU) has announced signing a contract with D2L after they beat out Angel, WebCT, and Blackboard... Interestingly, the two finalists were D2L and Angel, even though both BB & WebCT were (and still are) already in use at OSU

The Five Services: 1. Student Centered Learning (enhanced student research tools) 2. Social Networking 3. Outcomes Management (stats tracking) 4. Lifelong learning (offering E-portfolios for life) 5. Extending the platform (Learning Objects Catalogue)

[what are the evil braindead up to, going on as if they not only understand elearning2.0 but are innovators?? do they smell money in student social networking? plan to get into service-for-colleges market??].. this PR hypes their 4 new development areas

+ quotes testimony of Kimberly A. Moore to the House Judiciary Committee: "Forum Shopping in Patent Cases: To the extent that there is any doubt about the existence and pervasiveness of forum shopping in patent cases, let me offer some empirical evidence

'FlickrStorm is a better search for Flickr! It works by looking for more than what you enter to find related and more relevant images... Be suprised! ... and check back here for more magic in the future.

Web developer extension | Firebug | Aardvark (dom-hilighting) | Colorzilla (eyedropper tool) | Fang (screenreader-sim) | Link Checker | Measure It | Screen Grab | Fire FTP | HTML Validator

note to self - must ensure KNotes plays nicely - can integrate directly 9 see cp integrated and co-compatible badges

'These fonts are the commonly accepted set of 9 “safe” fonts for use in web design. While common on both Windows and Macintosh platforms where they were provided with the Internet Explorer web browser, they are far from being either common on unix

'frequency with which these fonts were found in each operating system was then obtained, primarily from the codestyle font survey or, if unavailable there, from the visibone font survey.