“Everything you need to know to connect Radio and Zope via XML-RPC can be found at these three links:” Apologies for all of these blog-tool type posts, I am working on the site infrastructure itself and so it reverts back to its original role as my online knowledge base as I find new things I want it to do and need to remember. - SWL
Monthly Archive for March, 2003
Another tool in the endless battle to deal with the ever growing mass of information we deal with daily. This product uses “sophisticated statistical and linguistic algorithms, [to] pinpoint the key concepts and extract the most relevant sentences, resulting in a summary that is a shorter, condensed version of the original text.” It will be interesting to contrast this approach with the one we tried at the last company I worked at, speed reading software. - SWL
I’ve been using Radio8 since last August, and if I have any complaint about the tool it’s the fact that you end up spending more time searching for documentation than you do actually using it. It desperately needs one central place in which links to all relevant documents, and links to all 3rd party tools, can be found. This post is simply just a breadcrumb that I am dropping so that one day I may find my way back to this collection of community developed tools. - SWL
Yet another open source course management system I’ve recently come across. It is not in fact just chance that all of these are sprinning up on my list - I am actively looking for more right now to review on edutools. - SWL
Not clear that this has been released to the public or for internal use only, but another ‘virtual learning environment’ from the U.K., this time from the Univeristy of Hull. - SWL
http://etutor.sourceforge.net/
And yet another open source CMS found by following the paths laid out in some of the last posts, this one through the University of Ottawa. Not quite out of beta, but it appears to be actively under development and have some institutional support, which is always promising. - SWL
I have no idea why, but the post by Elizabeth Lawley a few weeks back bemoaning the state of CMSes and stating her desire for an open source option seemed to bring responses from every direction. This one contains a host of options, most of which were familiar but there were a few new ones.
- Spaghettilearning.com - out of Italy but seems to have multi-language support, PHP and MySQL-based.
- Xtention.Net - they offer a free version of their LMS for organizations that only need to deal with SCORM objects. It’s ASP, SQL 2000 based.
- MnITS Internet Teaching System - relies on Apache, MySQL, and PHP (and I wonder if it is in fact the same systems as another one out of Minnesota that I am currently looking at named MnMaster?)
I will have to recompile the list I have going at http://www.c2t2.ca/article.asp?item_id=3744 as these are coming out fast and furious. I think some finer cateogires are going to be necessary too, as some of these (moodle, atutor, many others) look a whole lot more than others like what we have come to expect from a full-featured CMS. - SWL
http://h2oproject.law.harvard.edu/index.html
Another open source CMS-type system, this time from Harvard Law School. - SWL
- via [this post at SeriousInstructionaTechnology]
Apparently this is my ‘visual neighborhood’ according to BlogStreet. While some of these seem right on, a few leave me puzzled. - SWL
http://www.e-learningcentre.co.uk/eclipse/default.htm
This is “an information resource website for e-learning aimed at educators and training professionals.” I love finding sites like this from other countries - this one is from the U.K. - as they do truly have a different perspective on this field and you find all sorts of interesting links and products in here that are simply not on the radar screen here in North America (at least not on mine). Large collection of annotated pointers to a wide variety of elearning resources, from tools to implementation guidelines and more - SWL
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