Edtechpost by Scott Leslie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Canada License.
Cite
May 2007
You are browsing the archive for May 2007.
thagoo – meta-search for social bookmark sites
http://www.thagoo.com/ So this kind of seems like a good idea, a site which allows you to search tags across a large number of social bookmarking sites, but somehow I expect I’ll use it as much as I use “meta-search” engines, which is to say, not at all. If I knew I was getting the best [...]
Current list of U.S. eLearning Patents and Patent Applications
http://www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/IMM/I070524P.pdf I believe, though could be mistaken, that this valuable list of current US e-learning patents was created by Jim Farmer at im+m. This next comment goes in the “Scott complaining about something that is free” bin, but Jim, is there any way you could maintain this (if that is what you are doing in) [...]
My Twitter Cycle
With apologies to CogDog, It’s been fun, but for me, my experiment with Twitter is done. I tried briefly to encourage a mass migration of Twitter pals to Jaiku, but didn’t have the social mojo to accomplish it, and in truth, it didn’t appeal to me that much – too “busy,” not as simple and [...]
Have you told your faculty about the Creative Commons?
I run a repository service in B.C. (god, why does that always feel like the start of a stereotypical A.A. confessional, “My name is Scott and I am a recovering Learning Object Repository manager…”) We currently support sharing materials under two different licenses, either the Internet-wide Creative Commons (specifically the Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Canada flavour) [...]
BibliOdyssey
http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/ Total non-sequitar (how is that any different than usual, Scott) but BibliOdyssey, a trove of “Visual Materia Obscura” and Eclectic Bookart, took me back to my undergraduate days. As part of a Milton class my professor took us to Western’s rare book room to see some illustrated editions there. For the next 3 years [...]
Study Stickies – Some Thoughts on Effective "Web 2.0" Annotation Systems
http://studystickies.com/ Amir Michail, the developer of a new service called Study Stickies, wrote an email asking me to look at and comment on his new service. Study Stickies is a ‘social’ note taking service for students. It allows them to enter info about textbooks, vodcasts, podcasts, PDFs and URLs and add study notes, linked to [...]
Recent Comments