elearning2.0 linklog

The MoMB just hit the 1000 entries mark (a tribute to Google) – here is the condensed gallery of all betas, alphas and landing apps so far (#1, #2, #3, #4, #5):

[oops - I could not find a feed link - not very web2.0 of them :-] 639 as of april 1 2006 ( 730 members ) - tagcloud to browse categories. [ hot top all (639) new (31).. hot: today this week

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(btw the google.stanford.edu page from may 1998 seems to be broken at wayback just now) as added as 1000th beta at MoMB

I examined nine web-based feed readers (for previous reviews of each of these, see the TechCrunch Index): Attensa Online;Bloglines;FeedLounge;Google Reader;Gritwire;News Alloy;NewsGator Online;Pluck Web Edition;Rojo

The Innovation Labs are a series of creative workshops for interdisciplinary teams of professional creative technologists, application designers, software developers and interactive media designers. We are inviting independent new media companies in three

[sigh... :-] with the Active Web Reader Customizer, you can now recommend and distribute an RSS reader that includes your feeds and web pages. The user then simply downloads the Active Web Reader with your pre-loaded RSS feeds, saving you money and effort

Active Web Reader is a FREE web feed reader that supports RSS 0.9x, 1.x and 2.x feed formats. It is a lightning fast RSS reader that takes up only 1MB on your PC. An advanced Auto Discovery feature enables you to find RSS feeds while you browse websites u

Bloglines wins but Google Reader, still in beta, is close. Google Reader outperformed everyone when searching for new content but Bloglines interface and usability make it a big winner: Google Reader: 26;Bloglines: 27.5;Newsgator Online Web Edition Free:

req .NET Framework, version 1.1 SP1. Handles all RSS versions, ATOM 0.3 and 1.0, modules like dublin core, content:encoding, xhtml:body, etc; HTTP Authentication support. Advanced threading support allowing you to view connected items together in a threa

the PLE desktop client that we've been developing. We have versions for Windows, Mac and Linux. You'll need to ensure that you have Java installed on your machine. At this stage, there's no documentation or help for the App, so just "hunt and peck"!

Once considered the domain of home-schooled students, K-12 online learning is a fast-growing option for public school students in rural, urban, and suburban areas. Michigan lawmakers are likely to pass legislation soon that will require high school studen

S. T. Georgy, J. G. Widdicombe, and (with the assistance of V. Young) Department of Physiology, St. George's Hospital Medical School, London SW17 0RE, UK; Accepted 1 April 2002. Available online 11 October 2002.

Google supports several advanced operators, which are query words that have special meaning to Google. Typically these operators modify the search in some way, or even tell Google to do a totally different type of search. For instance, "link:" is a specia

[full paper as html + pdf version] This paper examines institutional repositories strategically, from two complementary perspectives: 1) as a natural extension of academic institutions' responsibility as generators of primary research seeking to preserve

The subversion will be complete, because the (esoteric -- no-market) peer-reviewed literature will have taken to the airwaves, where it always belonged, and those airwaves will be free (to the benefit of us all) because their true minimal expenses will be

'Liz Lyon has been doing a lot of work in the areas of research data linking to publications, e-Science, and integrating with research workflow. Here are two of her recent presentations

Typepad will offer users a much easier and seamless way to add side features (feedburner, technorati, Pandora favorites songs,…) to your blog without the necessity to go the service’s website (say Pandora) and do the usual copy/paste of the html code

[full article + pdf - 10500 words but he asks for donations] Richard Poynder reviews its history and current status, and concludes that while OA advocates may have spawned the institutional repository, it might be time for them to walk away from it.

WONDERFUL presentation - beautiful to look at and conceptually spot-on: 9 simple points for creating web apps in the web2 way (in one slide!)

japanese project [Revised BSD license. See the header of source codes] Shiira 1.2.1. It is the Universal Binary...In the future, after Shiira 1.0 is released, we will be evaluating future development of the web browser. I have a lot of ideas for this, but

[not v useful as is, but an eg of webkit+dashboard which may be good for PLE experiments?]You can configure the home page, bookmarks bar, and background color on the preferences panel. Shiira and Safari bookmarks are imported.

We categorize browsers by their rendering engine. For us as developers it does not matter how a browser handles bookmarks, we care how it renders the webpage and how it executes javascript.

These pages represent the most complete, most up-to-date collection of Macintosh Internet applications available anywhere on the Internet. [ categorised; does seem thorough]

representatives from media industries, cultural and educational institutions, and legal and business minds to discuss how to make open content happen better and faster. Intelligent Television has been conducting a year-long investigation into the economic

1) We assume the reader is inherently interested. 2) We drastically underestimate the role interestingness plays (especially in retention and recall).

So after some long discussions with Web 2.0 experts, we've decided to just buy Web 2.0. All of it. All the people, the round cornered boxes, crazy business ideas, and pastel colors. Henceforth, "Yahoo!" will be synonymous with "Web 2.0."

Bookmarklet generation, RSS feeds, and more. Easily add a view into your Lazybase database to your own website. Create new types of items, or use the samples provided by Lazybase.View lists in many ways, on maps or on graphs.Link types together (for exam

Windows, OS X, and Linux. Work with any blogging service - even Blogger.; Add tags for any tag service. Technorati, del.icio.us, or anything else.;Create custom markup. Define your own key combinations for custom HTML markup.;Spell check. Ensure everythin

[much as I love flickr and instinctively loathe this lot, they *do* have rest, rpc apis *and* potentially v useful DAV interface - maybe it's just their lack of round-cornered boxes :o] apis, tricks, hacks, scripts etc documented here

What Is A One-Minute Movie? Find out what it's all about... | Make a One-Minute Movie Basic tips and advice... | Submit a One-Minute Movie You've made your film - now get it to us... | Watch a One-Minute Movie Got a spare a minute? A-Z list of films...

also Accessibility News Disabled people favour accessible sites More news... Accessibility on bbc.co.uk Accessibility Why the bbc.co.uk site supports accessibility Case studies How our users make the web accessible Standards Standards & policie

an educational charity set up in 1995 to advance the educational achievements and career aspirations of Black youth in Science, Mathematics & Technology by engendering the ethos that the pursuit of such qualifications and careers can be fun, empowering an

The show is hosted by Michael Arrington, editor of TechCrunch and features interesting and sometimes controversial new guests on each show. TalkCrunch is part of the TechCrunch Network.

CL2 is closely, very closely, integrated with Gmail. It includes now-standard web 2.0 features - Ajax, subscription feeds for integration with iCal and other desktop calendars, event creation, search, sharing, notifications (including SMS) and more.

[ NOT a VLE nor is it open in web2 way + it costs]..Chalksite was designed for teachers and tested by teachers at every stage of its development. It's specifically created to be the easiest path to online learning for real teachers and students — people

The service that generates these sparklines is available for you to use on your own site. The service is just a simple Python CGI program. If you have the skills you should consider installing the script on your own server. If you don't, then feel free to

utilizes a combination of XAML and C# to control the look and feel of the controls. In this scenario, Sparkle is a very powerful and simple to use winforms designer. How did Sparkle become known as a "Flash Killer" if it is simply a form designer? The

[note missing '/' in his link to ]The resulting document sets out the challenges and opportunities arising from the increasing synthesis of computing and the sciences. The website has a range of materials and a parallel issue of Nature has also appeared.

- Report (pdf format 2.1MB) most suitable if printing onto A4/letter paper or for screen viewing - Report (pdf format 1.4MB) most suitable if printing onto A3/tabloid paper - Roadmap (pdf format 90kb)

[about 20 minutes, weekly] Join host Steve Mirsky each week as he explores the latest developments in science and technology through interviews with leading scientists and journalists.

the classic 37signals spoof identity-generator... swooshy logos, nifty corporate names...

examined the experience of students and staff during the first year of implementation of ePortfolios. 27 students from a cohort of 36 took part..reported at the ePortfolio 2005 conference in Cambridge and is published within the conference proceedings.

According to Tim O'Reilly, creativity is no longer about .. the most visionary executives, but who has the most compelling "architecture of participation" - make it easy, interesting and rewarding to offer ideas, solve problems and improve products?

[but no API??] Dynamic web functions: stockprice, convert New Read/write Excel/CSV/OpenOffice files Reference cells in other spreadsheets New Draw bar/line/pie 2D/3D charts sample Allow multiple people to view or edit the same spreadsheet Display a s

In light of these socio-cultural changes, educators need to “keep abreast of change” and embrace digital learning styles through curriculum design which integrates authentic ways in which students use social media to collaborate and interact with peer

notes this journal article - Online Learning Design That Fosters Student Support, Self-Regulation, And Retention Campus-Wide Information Systems : The International Journal of Learning and Technology, (2005) Volume: 22 Number: 2

as always for citeulike journal entries, offers RSS and instant bibliographic-record-wise social bookmarking

Introduction Contents Favorites  Query Input Understanding Results Special Tools - Get help on searching by clicking on one of the above links, e.g., Introduction or Query Input. Google Guide is neither affiliated with nor endorsed by Google.

[mm must try with kupu / compare with drupal component ] spell correct from any system or computer that has Internet access. There is support for 11 languages. It uses the Google spell checker - probably the best spell checker around! The code is free,

I've spent a long time trying many different approaches at getting rid of MS Word HTML, when importing or pasting text into my content management system, with very mixed success.  Previous efforts involved using the MSHTML Element Dom but this was slow

This new standard aims to take the place of the more more disparate XML-RPC APIs we looked at in Chapter 8. It is part of a larger project that also includes the Atom syndication format, and it looks set to become a widely supported, by standards bodies a

[NB not yet for atom publishing -mm april 03]..'As part of our Atom API support we'll soon be rolling out write access too, using the Atom Publishing Protocol....The screencast is up! (48 min, Flash streaming, 1024x768)

Authentication, Get a list of User's Blogs, Get an Atom Feed of a Blog, Get an Atom Entry of a Post, Create a new Post, Save a Post as Draft, Edit an existing Post, Delete a Post, Blogger Extensions, Failures, Typical Uses, Known Issues

Following the influence of Scott Wilson from CETIS, I have been working on a model of the Future OLE (online learning environment) that illustrates this approach in the New Zealand context - as a means of engaging with principals and teachers about the th

Where I work, the company has a security policy that is stopping many pages from functioning properly - eg built with AJAX - it seems to be any external script file that contains a document.write statement or something similar that could potentially be mi

[mar 21/06]..known about this from the internal Y! news but not being able to blog about it until now. With this piece of news we can now fully rely on my old min-height fast hack trick for IE6 as it will now officially not break IE7. Whoo hoo! Today is a

Back in October, as part of the HUGToB campaign, Josie Fraser compiled a list of the 'Top 10 Moodle Myths'. I've had a go at putting together some responses, as my first contribution to the Moodle docs project.

If you can write an email you can now have a blog. It's that simple. Blog Thing has only been tested against WordPress but it may work with other blog systems that support XML-RPC posting.

Inline registration, Inline Discovery and editing of Plazes, Session Management, Buddy List, Search for people and Plazes nearby, Message notifications, Mac Version is a universal Binary, Open Plaze in Google Earth (Mac only), Integration with iChat (Mac

a quick way of collecting a list of resources is to use del.cio.us through its bookmarklet. So I’ll find a few feeds (the feeds, not the blogs) and tag them “readinglist”. I may want to have more than one list, so I’ll add another tag, for example

Thus, your web browser can fetch XML documents directly from the server, and perform the format conversion locally; thus saving time and bandwidth. AJAXSLT is distributed under the terms of the BSD License. For downloads, news, and other information, visi

[sigh..??] 76 elements in LOM [but] do not describe learning content such that it can be used with the user's needs or circumstances/to support adaptability or interoperability between the learner and the system. The Access4All specification outlines thes

Last week we completed usability tests on the Word importer and the EIP-style module-editing interface - they showed us a number of areas where the interface needs improvement that many of us developing it probably hadn't even considered.

10:00 (for coffee and introductions) to 3:30 pm. confirmed so-far: - Experiences with the Enterprise Toolkits - covering Sweet and Enterprise SDK - discussion - PLEX and XCRI and nice REST webservices (Scott Wilson - PLE Reference model)

We host your OPML files and provide you with personal URL links to your OPML. Files in your private folder are password protected, and files in your public folder are open to others. At your option, files in your public folder can be included in OPMLSearc

[terms say it bookmarks itself when you signup] Use One "Bookmarklet" for all these services: Blinklist, Blogmarks, Blogmemes, Connotea, del.icio.us, Feedmelinks, Furl, Jots, Linkroll, ma.gnolia, Maple, OpenBM, Rawsugar, Shadows, Simpy, Spurl, Wink

allow your company to be dependent on other people's code, their voices, their data, and their personal motivations that can't necessarily be overridden by money...go through each of these dependencies:Open Source, Blogs, XML, Fear of excessive valuation

Enter a domain name or IP address in the box, and the sniffer will show you the HTTP headers that web server returns. This usually tell you what software it is running, and a few other pieces of information.

town meetings on 21 April and 10 May 2006 for those interested in learning about the funding opportunities available. A roadmap provides information on the expected calls and when they will be released. (Please note that the e-infrastructure strand of the

[ no spurious markup! you just need to know in advance of elements (css selectors) you want to treat via js ] three main components: A javascript file, named "niftycornerscube.js", A CSS file, named "niftycorners.css", the javascript calls specific for th

a lot of steps, but the quality of the result is impressive when you consider the work that is needed. If you start with an existing script, you don't need to know much Javascript. Feel free: use my map page as a starting point for your own first efforts.

The Higher Education Academy and JISC are running a near repeat of their massively over-subscribed event held in York in December. This is a great opportunity to explore some of the challenges and opportunities to be found in open source virtual learning

7th grade student told me: “It just got old!” Blogging at xanga.com was all the rave in the middle school earlier this year. With one parent telling me that her 7th grader blogged nightly, that he HAD to visit his friends’ blogs and leave a comment.

interesting one-character tagging practice - used by some others as well so worth subscribing to 'all'... del will of course play in-listing. Good taste... likely open-content?

Just type the name of a CD, or the name of a singer or artist and Findmycover.com will find the CD covers in seconds. Same with DVD's, just type the name of a movie or the name of an actor and Findmycover.com will have the covers in seconds. Easy and qui

nibbling at the interoperability problem and Task Group 3 (Search/Retrieve) has developed the MXG (for Metasearch XML Gateway) protocol.. amounts to a prescribed way to dumb-down SRU, almost all the way to Open Search, in a way that is compatible with SRU

This script will attempt to re-add or replace the display artwork of the selected iPod tracks with artwork from a corresponding album's track in your iTunes library. Read Me is a must read. written by Doug Adams update posted: Dec 29, 2005 latest versio

[free chapter from 37signals' wonderful pdf book] Getting Real is about skipping all the stuff that represents real (charts, graphs, boxes, arrows, schematics, wireframes, etc.) and actually building the real thing. Getting Real starts with the interfac

communities include those based in individual and federated institutions and those that exist across institutions (regionally, nationally and internationally), e.g. discipline based communities, or communities coalescing around use in teaching and learnin

The report is intended to give an initial mapping of learning communities to barriers and enablers to uptake and use of LORs. This extensive and detailed report includes a 2-page Executive Summary.

[invited beta] Regain control! You decide which media files you want to share with whom and to maximise your privacy, communications are encrypted. Forget about complicated setup or obscure user interfaces. If you know how to use a browser you know how t

[where the 'experimental wing of political philosophy' quote was made] Group intelligence can be harvested in different ways for different purposes, from the collaborative filtering of Last.FM, to stay-at-home moms coordinating via MeetUp, to the way the

incl this version of the quote 'Social Software design is the experimental wing of political philosophy, which doesn't know that it has an experimental wing. We are encoding the values of freedom of speech and other democratic fundamentals in our tools. W

[another set of audience notes] 'Clay is proposing building these kinds of pattern languages.'...''Best line of the morning so far: Social software is the experimental wing of political philosophy, which doesn't even know it has an experimental wing'

'Added 10 Mar 2006: just to clarify--I was typing as Clay spoke, so these notes are a mixture of his words and my paraphrases. So before taking umbrage or lauding Clay as a grand master of the English tongue, you should check with Cla

[mostly rubbish] A handy collection of bullets for your webdesign needs. You may use these icons as you wish, but since the bullets are uploaded by anonymous users, some of them might be subject of copyright law.

Tips by person -grouped by the people who benefit from them; Tips by disability - grouped by the disabilities that benefit from them; Tips by design principle; Tips by web browser; Tips by publishing tool

[ingenious workaround] Michael, you may need to change your approach to how those bullets are placed there. Instead of using them as listmarkers, I suggest you try using them as background images in the LI. Change your CSS to reflect the following

I originally posted this list of techniques in May 2004. Since then there have been a number of new CSS techniques introduced for creating boxes with rounded corners, most notably those involving CSS and JavaScript and no images.

Unfortunately the markup required a bunch of wrapper divs. I used behavior.js to locate all elements with a class of “dropshadow” and add in the wrapper divs with some simple JavaScript. The rest gets handled by the CSS supplied in the ALA article

All the basic Flickr features are presented, including how to create and set up your account and profile and how to upload your photos. Later chapters detail more advanced Flickr features such as how to organize your collection, share your photos, utilize

The meeting will include presentations and opportunities for discussion around current work connecting e-portfolio and lifelong learning, including 14-19, FE, and HE, and provisionally will include aspects of policy, case studies centred on vocational and

We've seen rumors that Apple will include virtualization technology in Mac Os X 10.5 (Leopard), but benchmarks like SYSmark and MobileMark don't work well in virtualized environments since they use ultilities that call low level processes (like anti-virus

NOT simply a "dual-boot" solution; rather, it empowers users the ability to use Windows, Linux and any other operating system at the same time as Mac OS X, enabling users to enjoy the comfort of their Mac OS X desktop while still being able to use critic

Hot on the heels of Apple's Boot Camp announcement, Parallels has announced Parallels Workstation 2.1 Beta for Mac OS X, a beta of their virtualization software for Intel Macs. Their software allows you to run Windows in OS X, much like Virtual PC, withou

This video is for the naysayers who believe I accelerated the video somehow, to make it appear faster than it really is. I captured the video this morning around 7:30am (time set by time.apple.com).

Using our APIs, you can easily integrate online videos from YouTube's rapidly growing repository of videos into your application. The APIs currently allow read-only access to key parts of the YouTube video respository and user community.

Macromedia Flash movie of presentation about 10minutes (2-3 mins if you click-through quickly). Very basic intro with some managerspeak. Horrible computer voice reading the text though.

Google offers a variety of services and tools besides its basic web search. This is a partial list of Google's services and tools

2 cute methods detailed for persisting state across browse-away+back-button: 1- write to the history queue using an iframe; 2- serialise into a hidden text field - all browsers will persist huge amounts of text as state of the field

.this is about exchanging ideas... it's about getting a message out. It's about empowering people by giving them a voice. I know not everyone believes what I say is what they think. But like I said before.. ya know.. red and blue is not black and white. W

the new myth is that Neil wrote an anti-Bush "metal folk protest album" in