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January 2005
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Metis Digital Library Workflow System
http://www-serl.cs.colorado.edu/metis/index.html One of a number of interesting services and tools funded by the NSDL, Metis is “a workflow system designed to support the workflow needs of digital libraries.” This Java-based application seems ot only work against its own internal store of users, but different events and roles can be configured to perform actions such as [...]
PLANET Digital Repository
http://ants.etse.urv.es/planetdr/ On the surface just another repository project, but of interest to me because it is a current project from outside of Canada that seems to have picked up the Edusource Communications Layer (ECL) developed by Marek Hatala and others as part of the Edusource project. This is the second piece of information I’ve had [...]
University of Arizona's DLearn – DSpace-based LOR
https://www.dlearn.arizona.edu/index.jsp I have wondered out loud a few times whether anyone was attempting an LOR on top of DSpace. I got some lukewarm responses but nothing very concrete to back up DSpace’s own claims that it could be used as one. Today I stumbled across this – I don’t know for an absolute fact, but [...]
New EdTech blog – Tim Wang's Education Blog
http://blog.loaz.com/timwang/index.php A warm welcome to the blogosphere for a new Ed Tech blogger from B.C. Tim Wang is a Flash developer with the Arts Computing group at U.B.C. For those of you not familar with their work, these are the folks behind a set of Flash-based learning tools they call ‘Learning Object Template Tools,’ including [...]
Fangs: The Screen Reader Emulator Plugin for Mozilla
http://www.standards-schmandards.com/index.php?show/fangs A few years back now my colleague Dr. Bruce Landon brought a blind student with him to one of our BC Ed Tech gatherings to have him demonstrate accessing a course within a CMS via the screen reader JAWS. JAWS is, as far as I know, a market leader and often held up as [...]
Network EducationWare – Open Source Synchronous A/V Conferencing Software
http://netlab.gmu.edu/NEW/ O.k., maybe I’m missing something here. This Java-based software, developed by Dr. Mark Pullen and others at George Mason University, provides synchronous audio and video conferencing capabilities, along with an annotatable whiteboard and slide upload. It also permits you record your sessions for future playback. It’s open source. It’s been around since 2002. I [...]
Celebrate Evaluation Report Available
http://www.eun.org/eun.org2/eun/en/ Celebrate_Relatedprojects/sub_area.cfm?sa=4688 In case you somehow overlooked it, CELEBRATE (Context eLearning with Broadband Technologies) has been a rather massive 30-month demonstration project (June 2002-November 2004) co-ordinated by European Schoolnet and supported by the European Commission’s Information Society Technologies Programme. It’s task was seemingly to examine all things ‘learning object’ to determine the extent to which [...]
Distributed Tagging and Auto-Complete – an example
http://www.dwelle.org/avar.cgi From a somewhat hysterical slashdot thread examining the user generated tagging systems in Flickr, del.icio.us and the like came a reference to this little experiment to introduce auto-completion and suggestion of del.icio.us tags based on a user’s previous tags. This is a step in the right direction – if it can start to pick [...]
E-Learning and Sustainability – Report by Graham Attwell
http://www.ossite.org/Members/GrahamAttwell/ sustainibility/attach/sustainibility4.doc I am kind of surprised this hadn’t been posted on yet as it makes such extensive reference to ideas being promoted in ed tech blogs, but I couldn’t see any references so far. This report by Graham Attwell “commissioned by the University of Bremen as part of its contribution to The European Commission [...]
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