CETIS have launched a Wiki to cover Educational aspects of Metadata.They state: This Metadata FAQ has been developed collaboratively during 2004 by participants from the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, the IMS Global Learning Consortium, the IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee and other organisations including CanCore, ADL, JES and Co and CETIS. This FAQ provides guidelines…
Blogging IT and EDucation
Academics give lessons on blogs
A report on the BBc site looks at blogging in academia. Blogging lecturers say the technology provides them with easy online web access to students and improves communication outside of the classroom.They mention the same History PhD student who was mentioned in a similar article in the Guardian, back in October. They also look at…
Recording online audio interactions
Derek Morrison has posted 3 articles at Auricle about recording online audio interactions – Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 (Part 1 is linked from 3, but 2 doesn’t seem to be from 3) He looks at both free tools such as Skype, and commercial tools such as iVocalize….
FlickrGraph
Flickr is an online photo storage service that works with Blogs (it’s the one that I used to include the MSc team photo). Flickrgraph is a service that creates social graphs of photos from members photos. This example is from someone who has a lot of photos. YOu can also use the “Who’s online” options…
Microsoft Research: Conference XP
Microsoft Research Learning Experience Project Initially this seemed like a good idea – conference software – free – to allow you to conference between 2 classrooms. However, while the software is free … the hardware required isn’t … Clearly Video conferencing is going to grow and grow, whether it’s just the web cam on the…
Interview with a link spammer
The Register has an interview with a “link Spammer”. A link spammer is someone who trawls a variety of sources, (including blogs) to put links to assorted sites (generally selling things that I’ve no interest in buying)…So the link spammers – who prefer to call themselves “search engine optimisers”, but get upset when search engines…
Can web service technology really help enable "coherent diversity" in e-learning
This quite long article on the JISC eLearning site, looks at web services, and their links with eLearning. The term “web services”, is used by Scott Wilson to cover RSS, iCalendar (a way of sharing calendars, though it’s not XML based as other services are), and IMS Specification for people & groups (XML based). Having…
Tablet PC
Up and running! I’m so pleased, I’ve got it up and running, following the ideas on this thread at TabletPC Buzz (site down at present, but was there before!) Given that most of the sites I’ve read about the M200 discuss the fact that you can’t use the restore CDs if you don’t have an…
International Weblog Workshop
A 6 week workshop, aimed at those using blogs in EFL/ESL teaching. They are using a variety of online services, such as Yahoo Groups, a Bravenet Map (to show where participants are), TappedIn – for chat sessions, and so on. It seems to be as well as a forum for discussing how blogs might be…
NESTA Futurelab – Showcase – Futurelab projects
NESTA Futurelab – Showcase – Futurelab projects Just found this, some pretty interesting interactive things that Nesta are looking at – in the main for schools. Moovl looks fun, I’ve had a go with the demo, and the Savannah project looks fascinating. There are quite a few there that I’ve not had a chance to…