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January 2009
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Delicious Subject Guides: Maintaining Subject Guides Using a Social Bookmarking Site
http://journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/perj/article/view/328/1375 Too bad the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research articles don’t allow comments, or I would have added “Great idea, and if you combine it with the Google Custom Search engine API like we did on the Free Learning site, you can also turn these ‘subject guides’ into constrained search engines.” [...]
Sni.ps Attribution Tool
http://sni.ps/ Sni.ps is a service that has come across my desk a dozen times in the last year, referred on to me by everyone from trusted colleagues, the director of my org, and the developer himself (with whom I should note I have worked before and consider a friend). I had looked at it briefly [...]
All Major Canadian ISPs Slow Down P2P Traffic (and why you should care)
http://torrentfreak.com/all-major-canadian-isps-slow-down-p2p-traffic-090120/ You might have heard, but the CRTC (the regulatory body for all things broadcast and telephony here in Canada, very roughly equivalent to the FCC in the US) is holding hearings on claims that ISPs in Canada regularly ‘shape’ (a codeword for ‘limit’ or ‘slow down’) traffic on their networks, specifically P2P traffic. And [...]
Video Hosting Solutions and The Challenges of Being Not-American
http://www.video.ca/ Much like Henry Jenkins, I think institutions trying to “recreate Youtube” is not such a great idea (though for me the biggest reason is that our various access controls and inward focus inhibit the very ‘network effects‘ that make sites like Youtube the successes they are.) But… …like my compatriot has already explained, and [...]
3 week SCoPE Seminar on OER
http://scope.bccampus.ca/mod/forum/view.php?id=1222 (I swore I said I wasn’t doing any talks until June, when I head back to Utah for my first trip to the TTIX conference, but somehow I’ve managed to get 3 into my schedule in the next 4 weeks. Aye carumba!) Luckily, the first, this three week seminar on Open Educational Resources for [...]
WordPress for Education Camp – Vancouver version
http://wordcampedvancouver.pbwiki.com/ Just wanted to put a shout out here to any educational technologist and educators in BC who are using WordPress (or WordPress MultiUser) in support of the educational practices, simple content publishing or resource sharing… If you hadn’t heard yet, on Thursday, February 19, 2009 (start time not announced yet, but we’re a fairly [...]
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