Monthly Archive for December, 2004

http://www3.telus.net/~kdeanna/mlearning/

I don’t know for a fact, but I believe this decent set of articles and pointers to resources on ‘Mobile Learning’ is the result of some class work in Athabasca University’s Master’s in Distance Education program. – SWL

http://www.ualberta.ca/~pbinkley/gso/

As soon as Google Scholar hit the streets there was quite a stir in the library community and various ponderings about how to tie it into existing library systems, so it was inevitable that someone would develop this, but this quickly!!! A Firefox extension which, when you perform a Google Scholar query, also sends queries to your institution’s OpenURL resolver, and in cases where your University owns a licensed copy of the cited article creates a link directly to it. Too cool! – SWL

http://www.campus-technology.com/news_article.asp?id=10299&typeid=155

Nothing really that new in the article except a nice graphic to illustrate the cost breakdown of commercial software vs. open source projects.

I wish they would have cited where the data was from on which the cost breakdowns are based.- SWL

http://www.citeulike.org/

That edubloggers links feed has already paid off a number of times – this morning Alan furl’d this new site, in essence del.icio.us for academic citations.

So what not simply use del.icio.us instead. Well you probably could, but the advantages seem to be:
- the “most active” tags that have currently emerged come much more from the world of scholarly jargon (jargon’s not always a bad thing, you know)
- a nice feature specific to academics, the site allows you to export your collection to either BibTeX or Endnote to help build a bibliography.

Will it take off? Who knows. It does offer RSS feeds on keywords; for instance, here’s one on self organization. – SWL

http://raymondyee.net/wiki/WikiSpam

For all those continuing to struggle with the fustration of wikispam, Raymond Yee has a collection of pointers on (where else) his wiki to possible automated solutions. Why not add your own. it’s a wiki after all? – SWL