May 24, 2005 at 1:59 pm
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Here is a nice overview of the concept of Social Bookmarking, defined as "The practice of saving bookmarks to a public Web site and ‘tagging’ them with keywords." I’ve been actively using FURL for over a year, and have found it to be quite useful. I’ve also checked out citeulike (not impressed) and del.icio.us . I see more references to Del.icio, and my guess is that it is growing into the bigger players. But I have a lot of resources invested in FURL so I’ve looks, but haven’t really moved over.
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May 19, 2005 at 10:53 pm
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May 19, 2005 at 10:30 pm
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This is just fun! I’ve been looking at several mind maps of personal learning landscapes, and trying to come up with my own version for my online learning. As Friday approaches, at least for the present, I think this might be the most appropriate model:
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May 19, 2005 at 10:13 pm
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It seems Dan Gillmor has started a Journalism project utilizing Drupal: Dan Gillmor moves to Drupal: Bayosphere. Here another interesting service company, Ideascape who is also using Drupal to power their work: Read the rest of this entry »
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May 17, 2005 at 11:09 pm
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This afternoon I participated in a Macromedia Breeze demo session hosted online in, you guessed it, Breeze. In the screen shot below you can see a portion of the window. The software offers the ability for multiple video and audio windows, which can be fed from multiple participants. You also have chat, powerpoint viewer, participants lists, whiteboards, file downloader and other available "pods." Overall the software looked pretty good, and it compared favorably to Webex. I’ve been participating in a great number of Webex sessions lately, and found that I liked the look and feel of Breeze better.
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May 8, 2005 at 7:45 pm
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A newly funded project in Canada involves a partnership between 3 BC Universities to:
..to create a set of policy recommendations, tutorials, templates, and multimedia resources that can be reused by a school that wants to support weblogging and wiki use (and possibly other social software tools) for its own community.
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