elearning2.0 linklog

Hpricot is a very flexible HTML parser, based on Tanaka Akira's HTree and John Resig's JQuery, but with the scanner recoded in C (using Ragel for scanning.) I've borrowed what I believe to be the best ideas from these wares to make Hpricot heaps of fun to

[does someone track gv's markup pattern as in apple sherlock of old?] Functionality includes: retrieve a list of current top videos| search for a list of videos matching a set of search query parameters| retrieve full detailed info on a specific video

'Pupils should learn how to be better learners, aided by their teachers and parents and perhaps "active retired" people. The role of the national curriculum and of exams should be reviewed. Education Secretary Alan Johnson: no child to be "left behind".

'Unfortunately, many SOA developers are far too quick to dismiss REST because it doesn’t fit with their favorite tools, because their favorite programming language doesn’t directly support it, or because they believe REST is just HTTP. Even if you bel

Wikieducator was initiated in Dec 2006.. practical solution for collaborative authoring collaborative authoring capabilities o Mediawiki software; eXe's capabilities to recontextualise wiki content using educational elements called instructional devices

'focus on best practise examples: "packaged" course units | stand alone material for eLearning content production (pictures, videos etc.) | internet encyclopedias/archives with open access | community developed material (eg. free textbook, wikieducator)

'The key challenge for the Review Group was to consider how the education system, not just individual schools, might enable learning and teaching to meet pupils’ needs most effectively. Our recommendations focus on what is needed to effect systemic chan

partners: Italy (5), Cork (2), Romania, Slovenia, Catalonia. Work-Based/informal slant? also to produce collections of Learning Objects concerning how to: develop and use LOs (meta-LOs),run work-based learning paths, recognize competencies acquired in in

aha! JSON *can* get number of saves ( that had been undocumented afaik :O) - instead of 'bookmark this', it also shows N bookmarkeers of the content and popular tags (esp useful for blog main pages aot entries ?)

brief but comprehensive - darned good for communicating principles of good practice..'We developed these as part of the BBC2.0 project. I've been meaning to publish them for a while since they were signed off by the BBC board. They're perpetua

This meticulously researched book, which grew from a much buzzed-about article in the Harvard Business Review, puts into plain language an undeniable fact: the modern workplace is beset with assholes. Sutton (Weird Ideas that Work), a professor of managem

Our goal is to create a multilingual platform for free quality educational information.The focus is on creating and publishing information, where people can benefit from in their daily life, such as for work, business, hobbies, saving money, etc. 4 months

'The best way to achieve that goal is to change the classroom from a lecture hall dominated by a "sage on stage" to smaller social groups that allow students to creatively participate in the research themselves, he said... A crucial step in the process is

[Mohamed Amine Chatti] According to Google, "you can select any combination of these services, and customize them with your school's logo, color scheme and content. You can manage your users through an easy web-based console or use our available APIs to i

for Administrators: Google Page Creator / Administration Console (customise/brand look&feel/manage users/integrate via APIs) | for Students: Gmail / Google Calendar / Google Talk / The start page  -  Easily create a unique, dynamic place for students

Tools&Services: Web Search | Earth | Book Search | Maps | Docs & Spreadsheets | Blogger | SketchUp | Calendar | Picasa | Personalized Homepage | Google Apps for Education | Google Teacher Academy

COULD BE GOOD/BIG NEWS FOR PLE-DEV! 'make use of microformatted information it finds in feeds or bookmarked pages in the following way: any event information found in feeds or on pages is pulled out, aggregated into a dynamically generated ICAL feed, and

encourages social interaction to help users find others with similar interests.. processes incoming data for tags embedded in the data & includes those tags as part of the description of each entry | encourages the formation of groups | KEEPS feed data

v pretty out of the box but of course v extensible, VERY important for rapid dev/embed of web-service-savvy educational sims etc.. HTML Canvas: Safari 2+, Opera 9+, Firefox 1.5+, IE 6 (in emulated mode) | SVG: Opera 9+, Firefox 1.5+ (see note), IE6 with A

Machine tags have a namespace, a predicate and a value. The namespace defines a class or a facet that a tag belongs to ('geo', 'flickr', etc.) The predicate is name of the property for a namespace ('latitude', 'user', etc.) The value is, well, the value.

"We are learning in and through our interactions with others while doing real things," Seely Brown said. "I'm not saying that knowledge is socially constructed, but our understanding of that knowledge is socially constructed."

(must hand-enter a username to start; shows transitive relations too).. Legend: nodes=[Green: main person | Orange: current person (last clicked) | Lightgray: unexplored people | Size: number of fans] lines=[Red: 2-way fandom | Blue,Yellow: 1-way fandom]

'Watch Your Mouth' monitors the BBC's 'Have Your Say' website and detects when comments get censored. Revisionista monitors news websites and detects when articles change.. versions are viewable and the changes are highlighted.. suggest other feeds to us.