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June 2006
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"A House Half Built" – Happy Canada Day
http://www.walrusmagazine.com/ article.pl?sid=06/05/16/0247214 If you’ve never read it before, I highly recommend The Walrus as one of the best Canadian “general interest” print mags out there (they post back issues online). In the June issue they published a piece by former Saskatchewan premier Roy Romanow titled “A House Half Built” on the shaky future of Canadian [...]
Map of Sakai Stakeholders
http://www.dr-chuck.com/sakai-map/index.php Want to know where Sakai is in production and who the other partners are? Check out this map from Chuck Severance, recently named the head of the Sakai Foundation. An interesting point that Dr. Severance points out in this short video is that 46% of people paying into the Sakai foundation are not in [...]
Futurelab paper on Social software and learning
http://www.futurelab.org.uk/research/ opening_education/social_software_01.htm I wanted to like this paper but was frustrated with the first 12 pages or so, mostly because it is just review of the ‘social software’ field and forrays into how knowledge and learning are changing à la Downes and Siemens. Nothing particularly wrong with it, just nothing that new. But it was [...]
PROWE (Personal Repositories Online Wiki Environment) Project
http://www.prowe.ac.uk/index.htm JISC-funded project that sets out to examine “in what ways could wiki and wiki-type environments be useful and useable as personal and informal repositories to support professional development within part-time tutor communities of practice?” While I think a lot of us already participating in the edublogosphere might think the answers self-evident, I am definitely [...]
alt-i-lab 2006 presentations available
http://www.imsglobal.org/altilab/index.cfm If you’re an elearning standards geek then there’s lots to sift through in this collection of presentations from the recent Alt-i-lab 2006 sessions in Indiana. And if you’re not, then be warned that forcing yourself to go through these is likely to aggrevate any masochistic tendencies you may already harbour. Part of me really [...]
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Worth Reading – The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism and its Discussions
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/lanier06/ lanier06_index.html Apologies if you’ve seen this too many times now, but it is really worth the read. Actually, the important bit is not just the initial article by Jaron Lanier (“DIGITAL MAOISM: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism“, though you do have to read it for the rest to make sense) but more [...]
Dynamically Wikipedia-fying Text: Drawdoc and Wikiproxy Greasemonkey script
http://nagle.u1i.net/drawdoc/autolinker.php and http://wikiproxy.whitelabel.org/greasemonkey.html Both of these accomplish pretty similar things – take an existing web page, and turn proper nouns/key terms into links to wikipedia automatically. Drawdoc is currently a web-based app (but not hard to see how it could be a service instead) that employs Yahoo’s term extraction service to identify the salient terms [...]
UMW's Bluehost/Fantastico Experiment
If posts by the cogdog, blamb AND Jon Udell weren’t enough to convince you, then take MY word too and run, don’t walk, over to Gardner Campbell’s blog to listen to a 45 minute recording from their latest faculty academy on using a 3rd party hosting solution and application ‘control panel’ as a way to [...]
UBC Arts Flash-Based Learning Tools available for download
http://www.learningtools.arts.ubc.ca/index.htm must…get…back…to…work…just…one…more…post… Like I said, “affable tools for rich media manipulation” – a few years back I wrote about the availability of some Flash-based authoring tools from the UBC Arts Computing group. Since then, they have created many more; in addition to the original timeline tool, they’ve developed a multimedia learning object authoring tool, a [...]
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