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Building the user-centered web | Ben Werdmuller
The audience of this talk is a social network; so are your friends, colleagues, interest groups and so on. Social networking tools facilitate social networks. The universe of social tools certainly includes web applications with social functionality, but
CK-12 - Next Generation Textbooks
CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook," CK-12 intends to pioneer
Fredericksburg Academy Blogs
Wow, imagine that, a cheap, open education at the high shool level that is nurtured and supported by a forward-looking technologists, some awesome teachers, and a supportive administration. That’s what it’s all about, and while doing this stuff is not ne
A Difference: My Class Blogs: Part 1
On Monday two new blogs started up, the AP Calculus AB: Without Bound blog is still going strong.
This is what I did the weekend before the blogs went live:
BBC NEWS | Technology | Web users 'getting more ruthless'
In 2004, about 40% of people visited a homepage and then drilled down to where they wanted to go and 60% use a deep link that took them directly to a page or destination inside a site. In 2008, said Dr Nielsen, only 25% of people travel via a homepage. Th
20 Great Widgets to Enhance Your Tumblr Blog
The 20 widgets we’ve gathered below are not meant to be used en masse on Tumblr blogs, but one here or there might enhance what it is you’re trying to communicate to your readers. Why not share a podcast, photography, or maybe even a great work of art? Wi
activity strea.ms
An effort to develop an Activity Stream protocol for syndicating activities taken in social web applications and services, similar to those in Facebook's Newsfeed, FriendFeed, the Movable Type Action Streams plugin and elsewhere.
Google, Facebook, MySpace and More Meet to Talk Activity Streams - ReadWriteWeb
Last night at the offices of blogging software company Six Apart, engineers and social media specialists from a number of companies large and small met to discuss proposed standards for the future of "activity streams" - the system of displaying recent ac
Web 2.0, Personal Learning Environments, and the Future of Learning Management Systems | EDUCAUSE CONNECT
This ECAR research bulletin details the arguments emerging in the blogosphere and elsewhere both for and against the learning management system. It examines whether the LMS is destined to continue as the primary means of organizing the online learning exp
New Media Predictions 2008: What Online Independent Publishers Should Expect From The Future - Part 1 - Robin Good's Latest News
New powerful publishing and content distribution tools will make their debut in 2008 while some of the existing technologies and services will greatly refine, consolidate and expand their present offerings.
PLE net and Social Network Operating Systems « Personal Learning Environments
The concept of a Personal Learning Environment (PLE) exists, but actual PLEs only exist as theoretical combinations of skills, methods and tools. The concept of a Personal Learning Environment Framework gets it even farther from some actual system.
Helcat Rants and Ramblings » Ready, Set, GO!
We have prepared for the launch of a one-to-one tablet program for cylindersthe last 1-3 years depending on how you define the start date which for some is when we renewed the discussion and for some is when the board said yes. The launch occurred this we
Creating Personal Networks as Learning Outcome | Virtual Canuck
To date most of the PLE implementations I have seen have been aggregators of RSS feeds, with not much more functionality than a iGoogle or Pageflake portal. The paper “Designing for Change: Mash-Up Personal Learning Environments” by Fridolin Wild, Felix M
Half an Hour: My Digital Identity
In this address to the 2008 e-Portfolio Conference I consider the sorts of questions that might be asked about a student’s identity in an e-portfolio system and the factors that inform the answers to those questions. Rather than being answered with a simp
Personal Learning Environments: Challenging the dominant design of educational systems
Current systems used in follow a consistent design pattern, one that is not supportive of lifelong or personalization, is asymmetric in terms of user capability, and which is disconnected from the global ecology of Internet services. In this paper we prop
The Blogs at Penn State
You can use your personal web space to create: Academic Blogs- Document your university experiences. Take notes. Connect with classmates, colleagues, professors, and advisers; Portfolios - Plan and reflect upon your learning at Penn State. Show samples o
Mahara
Mahara is an open source e-portfolio system with a flexible display framework. Mahara, meaning 'think' or 'thought' in Te Reo Māori, is user centred environment with a permissions framework that enables different views of an e-portfolio to be easily manag
The Bamboo Project Blog: My Personal Learning Environment
Lately I've been fascinated by the concept of personal learning environments. As an instructional designer and trainer, I've spent a lot of time trying to develop learning experiences for other people. But through my own personal experiences with Web 2.0
e-Portfolios at Penn State | e-Portfolios at Penn State
In its simplest terms an e-portfolio is a collection of evidence. Students use their personal Web space account to plan, reflect upon, and then publish evidence of what they've learned at Penn State. Students use either the Penn State Blog or common web p
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