elearning2.0 linklog

pinpoints issues; starting a crucial process from edu/community-portal perspective..'interested in payoff: a) the ability to swap different social bookmarking systems in and out of a hybrid environment b) the ability to create a distributed social bookmar

entertaining intro to modern web issues..'David Weinberger, one of North America's best known experts on "blogging" and coauthor of the bestselling book, "The Cluetrain Manifesto" (2000). Weinberger is also author of "Small pieces, loosely joined: a unifi

Thousands of specks, scattered or sprayed on the person or surfaces, will collaborate as programmable computational networks called Specknets. Computing with Specknets will enable linkages between the material and digital worlds with a finer degree of spa

astute musings on how to combine LMS-like and social-software-like features..'This postings addresses these issues and considers social software as a tool to implement this interface as an overlay network

This case study reports on the ongoing successful integration of an open source VLE at a college in North Wales. At Deeside College in Connah's Quay, staff and students have readily embraced the NLN Materials across the whole curriculum. This provision is

civil-service initiative; might be awful but might be good - have to check it out. see Deeside college article in Ferl for more

The NLN materials are a collection of bite size chunks of e-learning content that are free for use in the FE and ACL sector in the UK. They're centrally held and commissioned from professional content vendors, but are meant to be used in any college or ce

It provides information, advice and guidance to those working in the sector and is designed to complement the rollout of effective e-learning and related support into ACL.

v int EG of heavy-duty connotea use..'This tag is my daily blog-like posting of the key articles and resources on avian flu and the risk of a human pandemic. It is extensive, and is intended either to be consulted by subcategories, or ideally as a daily n

This page identifies tools that are currently available, with descriptions and links to their sources, and tools that are currently under development. More will be added as they become available. We welcome your comments to contact@doi.org.

as we attempt to emulate the fast-growth success of the Web 2.0 darlings, we need to zero in on the parts of the DNA that actually create this noteworthy new value...why didn’t we see Web 2.0 offerings popping up years ago? Because these older attribute

annotated graphical concept-map/timeline, with list of sources. 'As Tim O’Reilly’s Meme Map shows, Web 2.0 services share many attributes. But which create competitive advantage and prompt fast growth? By tracking the services that embrace Web 2

no mention of RSS ! .. [might be unfair/wrong but] looks like a very portals0.8x take on space of solutions (all in one portal as well as all in one view).. but int for the case it makes re problem space ..'This article explores some of the issues curren

links to 2 roughly-cut MP3 files..'I talk about open learning and open source software and why these are important for the provision of a public education. The interview was conducted by Olga Teunis.

Ken Thompson and Robin Good Today's virtual teams have yet to realize their full potential. They could learn a lot from Mother Nature's teams. Ken Thompson and Robin Good explain what teams can gain from Mother Nature's tips.

'A half-hour of all-new drivel from Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington. You can listen whenever and wherever you want as these weekly shows are offered as handy iPod-friendly digital files for up to four weeks after they're first posted.

MP3 file for epsiode one -- MP4 also available, also RSS podcast stream for either format..'There's a digression into the extra sensory perception of early hominids. Oh, and some Monkey News of course. Plus strange tales about lethal drinking vessels and

Here are a few of my creations for your delectation and delight. You will probably want LDRAW or MLCAD or a compatible program if you want to follow my directions actually to build any of these...

George Dyson visited Google last week at the invitation of some Google engineers. The occasion was the 60th anniversary of John von Neumann's proposal for a digital computer. After the visit, Dyson recalled H.G. Wells' prophecy, written in 1938:

We focus on the educational modelling languages framework, and propose a life cycle model for learning scenarios and describe the different aspects of a learning scenario through a second model. We also look at the functions that could be made available t

These tools exploit the IMS Application Profiling Guidelines which offer the prospect of refining (i.e. profiling) a variety of e-Learning technology specifications so as to better meet the needs of a target community, but without breaking underlying inte

With Etna, you can edit any XML document, like in any word processor. The only condition is to provide the corresponding RelaxNG schema, and a CSS stylesheet to display it into the editor. You can provide the schema, directly by registering it into the "n

also Understanding and Solving Internet Explorer Leak Patterns;Event Cache;What are closures?;QuirksBlog: How do I create a memory leak test script?;QuirksBlog: More on creating memory leak test scripts;QuirksBlog: Creating memory leak test scripts - take

Mistakes made when developing with Ajax. This list is editable and made collaboratively, anyone can add to it or edit it, or check out the original post.

free. supports pod/filecasts. many features. 'If you have never run RssReader before, not running Windows 2003 or the latest Windows XP version and never installed the free Microsoft .NET framework (What is Microsoft .NET framework?) you first need to dow

This is the link-log to accompany my elearning2.0 weblog. My del.icio.us shared bookmarks are collected daily and posted here. I hope eventually to pull in my shared citations from Connotea and CiteULike as well.

video clips; pdf reports..'The project tested the hypothesis that m-learning strategies and mobile phone technology motivates and supports the retention of disengaged youth in learning programs and facilitates the development of lifelong learning skills t

The class will perform a state-of-the-art review of social software tools, applications, and theory, focusing on a critical assessment of the affordances of social software.

elearning-reviews provides those interested in research on elearning with concise and thoughtful reviews of relevant publications. The most important goal is a well-balanced selection of seminal publications as well as interesting up-to-date publications

I’m very please to announce the shortlist for the 2005 international Edublog Awards. Over 60 nominations forms went into providing this year’s list – which gives a very good overview of the quality, diversity and scope of how blogs are being used to

The book is concerned with the content of online learning, rather than the technology. She pitches her book beyond the hype of e-learning, a reason for me to want to analyse it in greater detail. I finish with a few comments on the applicability of Salmon

four key areas: enabling learners to make informed educational choices; diversifying and acknowledging different forms of skills and knowledge; creating diverse learning environments; and developing learner-focused forms of assessment and feedback

[ useful for non-north america & UK where raw googlemaps poor ].. 'More than 2 000 000 places all over the world are divided into many geographical categories according to continents, countries and administrative regions. Coloured region contours, direct

[ now ] ..'anyone can visit Squidoo, find lenses, claim lenses, and build their own. We're thrilled to open our doors to the public, and to let everyone use the platform that you've been helping us test and improve these last few weeks.

v nicely written..'SOA itself is used in multiple contexts within the software industry with confusing, differing and even conflicting definitions. How can SOA be described in an architectural manner that is abstract of all implementations?

The JISC Information Environment allows the end-user to discover, access, use and publish digital and physical resources as part of their learning and research activities. Discovery to delivery (D2D) is the process by which an end-user moves from identify

The trouble with this indicator is that if you aren't looking for it it seem like the natural order of things .. [but] the finely-tuned herd instincts that get selected for in the Ivy League or the posher UK universities make them flock to the latest bubb

If the Web is the platform, then as much of the data that isn’t entirely application-specific must be exposed in such a way to allow it to be devolved to other parts of the Web. ..for the system to be robust, there will be more work on caching, and less

very useful case study, clearly written: big company wants fast access to big files from many locations and were quoted tons for a star network. 'why not use web cache' - indeed.

could be very useful as part of other web interfaces?..'eg Reading a slashdot feed given the feed url: rssread http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot / Using a feed that has already been YubNubed: rssread {url rssslashdot} rssread {url rssbbcnewsuk}

Copy and paste from Excel, or choose from readymade templates | Share it securely on the web | End "dueling versions" | See calendar and map views | Break out of the cells | Add file attachments, notes or anything else on the web | Your data is yours

This post explains how to install and use the alpha version of the script that will be packaged with Reblog 2.0 Alpha.For those unfamiliar with xFolk, it is a microformat for tagging links and creating distributed social bookmarking systems.

[Ning-ing requires coding]..'Everything else required modifying code intensive php pages. Examining these, it quickly became apparent that I was going to have to spend some time with the API documentation to make any real progress beyond showing Ann Arbor

the main blog is useful too, but especially this department - frequent posts tracking development and opinion of social / learning / 2.0 software and of emerging patterns of use and practice..'The community engine helps organizations thrive in the interne

project at Michigan's Ross School of Business that is designed to remove classroom limits on student participation - simple pinciples:;Require everyone participate.;Move most class participation online.;Structure online participation to be self-organizing

The best part is that not only is the post/bookmark content re-syndicated, but so is the blog category or del.icio.us tag …this means that you can view or discover posts by category (these categories seem to be a total of the categories in everyones bl

We continue our conversation and talk about "Not School". This amazing 5 years old, multi million pound sterling a year, project sounds radical, and it is radical, but in this episode Stephen Heppell also points out that the learning outcomes of "Not Scho

Interview-Hugh Osborn;Interview-Deneen Frazier Bowen;Applying Gaming and Simulation Techniques to the Design of Online Instruction;Designing e-Portfolios To Support Professional Teacher Preparation;Building Techno-Pedagogical Skills in Preservice Teachers

examines the power structures currently in place in education. I interviewed her after seeing her presentation "The Natives Are Restless," a series of sketches that dramatically illustrate the division between most educators and their students. Bowen advo

'discuss the development process behind the Army Captain's Career Course-Distance Learning, a course that provides realistic training scenarios that replicate the actual work environment of officers in the field. They provide a number of considerations fo

'our primary design goal for the Teacher Education program at USC was to develop an integrated e-portfolio system that could interface with existing campus-supported technologies and function as a dynamic instructional and knowledge management system. Fig

'describes the teacher education program at the University of Lethbridge. It incorporates technology and pedagogy into online coursework that allows preservice teachers to develop technical, critical, and reflective thinking skills simultaneously.

' a startling hypothesis by Hugh Osborn. He argues that a small group of the right educators and other leaders could start the evolution of our education system into an innovative, 21st century model for about the cost of developing a couple of textbooks.

[neutrality disputed.].'Educators, the theory states, can reach all of their students only by adapting their teaching program to meet all the types of intelligence that their target audience possesses. Various books and educational materials are marketed

'Each studio has a unique orientation, where the fundamental idea is that a mix of different disciplines will create new results and new ways of working. Examples of orientations are: games, smart products, sound, energy, trends and learning.

the Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization - Standards Activity Committee (SISO SAC) and the Learning Technology Standards Committee (LTSC), are embarking on a joint project to investigate and produce standards for interfaces between SCORM-bas

full-ish report with links [audio, web, pdf]: Introducing the e-Framework Systems Integration e-Portfolio Repositories Assessment Learning Design Personal Learning Environments Collaboration and innovation What Reference Models exist? Themes and report ba

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

Administrators, learning designers, and teachers are facing a new kind of learner - someone who has control over the learning tools and processes. When educators fail to provide for the needs of learners (i.e. design learning in an LMS only), learners are

The Open Educational Resources Archive is a collection of educational content including coursework, study guides, exercises, and recorded lectures. It is meant for students, teachers, and self-learners at all levels.

IJOSE provides an open, intellectual space for new ideas of thought and writing dedicated to closely explore how Open Source, Open Standards and Open Content to be integrated with or even contrasted against the future of education. It is an influential in

To encourage participation and reward great answers, Yahoo! Answers has a system of points and levels. The number of points you get depends on the specific action you take. The points table below summarizes the point values for different actions. While yo

The following is a list of all the Ask-A sites organized by their subject matter. The list is in alphabetical order of subject, and then title name. There may be more than one site with the same name listed, but each link leads to an individual resource

We're excited to be working with the Yahoo! Search team - they definitely get social systems and their potential to change the web. (We're also excited to be joining our fraternal twin Flickr!)

'Yahoo, in addition to launching a flurry of new products in the last few months (and the pace seems to be accelerating), now owns the two most important tagging properties on the web - flickr and del.icio.us.

right-on protest re complexification of sign-up after yahoo bought flickr..'Now consider the signup screen for Flickr after Yahoo (which in true megaplex style requires three redirects and clicking signup twice, both on Flickr and the Yahoo-Flickr site)

good points made, eg 'Like all good web services, Delicious is elegantly simple, truly useful, and subtly powerful. It doesn't try to do too much, and it delivers its core service -- bookmarking -- reliably and well. The Delicious API has made possible do

like we've done with Flickr, we plan to give del.icio.us the resources, support, and room it needs to continue growing the service and community. Finally, don't be surprised if you see My Web and del.icio.us borrow a few ideas from each other in future.

solid, insightful, informed analysis of issues related to [$30-40 million?]the yahoo-del.icio.us deal..'del.icio.us’ value is in its userbase and its userbase was continuing to expand. If Yahoo can maintain or increase del.icio.us’ rate of growth, Jos

links to ppts, html and MP3s: Making Published Materials Accessible | Innovative Practice with Mobile & Wireless Tech | Landscape Study on Use of Mobile & Wireless Tech | The m-learning Project | Designing for Formal, Non-Formal & Informal m-Learning

Today, Alexa is releasing the Alexa Web Search Platform Beta (websearch.alexa.com), effectively opening up the Alexa Web Crawl and ushering in a new era where anybody can create new search services without having to invest millions of dollars in crawl, st

Users can search and process billions of documents -- even create their own search engines -- using Alexa's search and publication tools. Alexa provides compute and storage resources that allow users to quickly process and store large amounts of web data.

incl: academic social book marking with Unalog|Archimède: Canadian institutional repository|dbWiz: federated searching for academic libraries|Open Journal Systems|remote patron authentication|Creating digital library collections with Greenstone|

useful list; their design goal is to hide generality/complexity and make specialised-to-community tools.. 'CanCore suggests that tools for metadata editing and management should generally expose their users to as little of the complexity of LOM element na

If you are not using PHP or Perl (and can't wait for us to produce a library for you!), read on for details on how to interpret the XML files and generate editing interfaces and displays for the microcontent formats.

'I’m bullish on TagWorld. And some of these features quite frankly appeal to a much larger audience than teenagers and young adults. The market for an online music locker with a portable player is wide open. TagWorld can take this market.

The announcement of the Structured Blogging initiative was yesterday and there is already a lot of buzz and discussion going on in the blogging community, some praise and some critique. Any discussion is good as it allows us to work through any issues. He

latest from this tb-ping-hinging topic-aggregator, mostly (all?) from Second Post. as of dec 16 05 a good source for analysis and trends/reaction re structured blogging and related work

[IMS thinking of entering 21st century?? :-]..'We've introduced this blog to encourage more general interaction between IMS and the e-learning specifications/standards development/adoption community. Like all blogs, the benefit is determined by the level

importance of the feed item and the ability to leverage the structure of the feed to build a bridge between web services and the content item. FeedFlare is our initial effort to make this vision a reality; if you're a publisher or podcaster who shares th

use Alexa's servers and processing power to mine its index to discover things - perhaps outsource the crawl needed to create a vertical search engine. Or build new kinds of search engines, and anyone can run that new service on Alexa's platform, should th

articles: Five Views of the Archive, Ingest and Handling Test [editorial + 5 articles ] | Parallel Worlds: Online Games and Digital Information Services | Open Access Federation for Library and Information Science: dLIST and DL-Harvest

1 - Install OpenOffice.org;2 - Install Microsoft’s Office HTML Filter 2.0;3 - Open the Word document in Open Office and Save As a web page;4 - Run the HTML Filter on the resulting page;5 - Remove the unnecessary, but oddly remaining font tags;6 - Rejoic

We will utilitize the recently announced See it now feature in GMail to convert Adobe PDF documents into html files. In addition to PDF, you can also convert all Microsoft Office Document formats (MS Word .doc, Excel .xls, Powerpoint .ppt, Rich Text Forma

..you can easily start or join one of these conversations using your Blogger blog. We've had plenty of fun reading what people have had to say about our own sites and the sites we visit every day, but best of all is when we discover new groups of people i

YourDailyFeed.com is a blog that features a unique or interesting RSS feed everyday. From comic strips to coupons, we will have something interesting for you everyday.

The idea was to find out the fastest browser(s) at performing the major tasks that browser engines are expected to perform. The basic requirements were HTML, CSS, JavaScript, basic DHTML and images - if the browser engine was not capable of performing the

It's free. (But your wireless plan might still charge, so you might want to check with your provider first.). It's smart. It can handle attachments like photos and .pdf files. should work on most web enabled mobile phones with a wireless data plan.

This specification does not define additional vocabulary. It describes an agreement over how to use existing vocabularies in combination to increase interpretability among software that publish and consume bibliographic data in a web-based setting.

[links to upload and to service-generating tools]..'our system relies on the idea of dynamically converting BibTex files - a standard for publication metadata - into news channels, following the same format that is used to syndicate and push news items to