Guardian Unlimited Researchers at Southampton have been looking at open access to published research. “, Prof Harnad’s plan, which has already been put in place at his own university, calls for all academics who have had research papers accepted by journals to place information about the paper – such as its title and author, known…
Blogging IT and EDucation
Space setter
Guardian Unlimited Yet another review of blogs, this time in the Guardian by Mary Branscombe – she’s looking primarily at MSN Spaces. The article then goes on to look at the greater power you could have if you have MS Server 2003 installed – and use SharePoint from that….
COL Learning Object Repository
The Commonwealth of Learning an organisation based in Canada focussing on learning within the Commonwealth, has just opened this LO repository of materials from across the commonwealth. A number of online databases of learning content or Learning Object Repositories – have been created around the world including CAREO, MERLOT and EdNA. COL has worked…
Online's top 25 search engines
The Guardian has reviewed a set of search engines, Google, Yahoo! and MSN feature of course, as well as some less heard of sites. I’d heard of IceRocket, though only because I’d seen it reviewed elsewhere, but Mooter was one of those listed that was new. It’s another like Clusty that not only groups things…
Posting for profit
Chalk another one up for the bloggers. Less than a month after claiming that American forces had deliberately targeted and killed journalists during the war in Iraq, CNN’s chief news executive, Eason Jordan, resigned. A typical media story, except his comments were not reported by the mainstream media, but on a weblog, an online diary….
Multi User Weblogging
incorporated subversion ? Multi User Weblogging An overview of multiuser tools. The blog reviewing them, incorporated subversion, is described by the author … Ive been writing here (or hereabouts) since March 2003 and you can generally expect to find me rattling on about technology, communications, training, design, education, social software, open sourcing, pedagogy and everything…
Encyclopedia of Educational Technology
Encyclopedia of Educational Technology This seems to be a pretty comprehensive site. According to the home page: The Encyclopedia of Educational Technology (EET) is a collection of short multimedia articles on a variety of topics related to the fields of instructional design and education and training. The primary audiences for the EET are students and…
CETIS-Getting to grips with Learning Design
CETIS-Getting to grips with Learning Design This is a report of a workshop held – looking at using Reload to generate XML. It sounds as if the users have found it not very easy / intuitive/ etc etc….
Northern Voice
Northern Voice A whole conference on Blogging! Some of the articles look useful, I’m hoping to have some time to read them in a little more detail later….
Digital Photography, Slideshows, and Blogs
MLX Package #1500: Digital Photography, Slideshows, and Blogs This is one of the packages available via the Maricopa Learning Exchange. It’s a workshop for creating Digital images, and then sharing them via a Blog/ Wiki. There is an example of a slideshow created using jClicker – also from Maricopa….