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[document changing rapidly] WHATWG is a growing community of browser vendors (Apple, Mozilla, Opera), web developers.. interested in dev of next generation of HTML - specifically to allow authors to write and deploy applications over the Web

sad tale beginning '..brand-new oh-so-1997 website of the Department of Trade and Industry, built by Fresh 01 and Fujitsu for a cost of £200,000, yet fails to meet a reasonable level of accessibility, even though it is clearly required in the specificati

links to 2.7MB PDF doc + 6 sept docs for sections: Data and information creation| Preservation and curation| Search and navigation| Virtual research communities| Networks, compute and data storage| AAA (authent'n/authoris'n/account'g), middleware & DRM

really has to be seen to be believed

THE LIST: fast, arbitrary node-matching API | better error reporting | mutable DOM prototypes | bring IE event system in line with the W3C event model | CSS: implement generated content | fixing CSS bugs | various form control fixes | ...

nice resource for brave non-techie web authors.. 'The Embedded HTML Media Generator is provided AS-IS. No warranty is implied or extended with respect to its accuracy or utility. Feedback is welcome, but we will only be able to respond to questions from U

ahh... our mate Fiona's grandmother Sofka in a new book by cousin Sofka.. Sofka Zinovieff's grandmother, a Russian princess turned card-carrying communist, led an extraordinary life - the consequences of which are still being felt down the generations

'We learn through our interactions with others and the world, he says, and there’s no more perfect medium for enabling this than an increasingly open and organized World Wide Web.

'Microsoft started the project at SourceForge last year, relying on three partners to develop the code that lets a user open and save word processor documents in two different formats.

over a quarter of online Americans - 28% - had tagged content such as a photo, news story or blog.. for users of social networking sites it is just an obvious tool to navigate around the sites they visit.

'Teresa Burgess studied a longlasting listserv community of nurses and found 8 critical components; shared purpose, trust, guidelines, humor, flexibility, accessibility, expert facilitation, and storytelling. All of these seem important but there is littl

'This 99 page document overviews a Delphi study in which Zarb engaged 12 virtual communities ‘experts’ to get a collaborative sense of their sense of the factors that promote and constrain participation in virtual communities of practice (VCOP).

"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.

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.

[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

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

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

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 ?)

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

Adobe recognizes that customers have built Web applications that depend on ASV being available for download, and although Adobe does not plan to develop ASV further, we plan for the existing versions to be available for download as long as our customers..

toptags: TIS-resource teacher-tools classroom-ideas multimedia integration TIS-article blogging edtech staff-development freeware tutorials assessment web2.0 podcasts PowerPoint webdesign tools NCLB science tech-literacy video-editing math online-learning

[like placeopedia??] - but can add hotspots with annotations - seems intended for use in wikipedia entries, but does not originate there. See dropdown at topright for links to blogs, faqs, data layer for Google Earth.

based on assertions made by MS senior staff during MIX06 - follow link to his longer post on Chris Wilson’s Talk on Web Standards / The Future of Internet Explorer

requires javascript download, includes tips to avoid syntax problems.. enables browsers which already recognize these grammars in XHTML5 to render similar structures when found in HTML4 documents.

In the digital age, that responsibility includes exploring new publishing technologies and economic models to improve access to scholarly work. Wide circulation adds value to published work; it is a significant aspect of its claim to be knowledge.

students learn to apply reflective thinking to their experiences, generating meaning and recognising the next steps they need to take.. considered as a way of organising student work.. will fail.. emphasis on meeting standards for competency will endanger

finally FL is blogging :o) ... "the innovation-in-education blog.. a place to discuss and debate the issues in e-learning, teaching with games, social & collaborative learning, personalisation, learning spaces and much more.

Editor’s Note: This carefully researched study compares weblogs to other discussion tools. It provides insights and alternative points of view to support the academic value of blogging tools for discourse and opportunities these tools offer beyond curre

"my wishlist for JavaScript library developers or maintainers. Before you start.. you might want to give these points some thought. For library users.. see how much work has to go into using a library or how to pick the right library for the job at hand.

..will install open source e-learning repository software and adapt it so that it connects to the Reload Learning Design editor, making the editor a front end for the repository. The system will allow groups of practitioners to share Learning Designs

"There is still much work to be done to finish off some advanced SVG features such as animation and SVG fonts. With your help we look forward to many great uses of SVG throughout the web and Mac OS X!

very useful for constructing those nifty but obscure iframe and script src parameters :O)

'Develop a prototype online planning tool.. offer users flexible and guided paths through the planning process.. access range of models, research findings and examples of innovative learning designs.. encourage them to explore new approaches and tools in

..Phoebe tool ContentPackaging e-assessment e-learning LAMS LDToolsProject PhoebeWiki planning ReferenceModel ACETS DialogPlus journal keywords LADIE LearningObject LearningOutcomes LearningTheory map mind objectives online tagging UseCases Vocabularies