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Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day: KallOut

"KallOut is the first application to bring "selection-based search" to any web page, email, presentation, document, spreadsheet or PDF. Unlike other search methods that are trapped inside the browser, KallOut serves up content from the most popular sites on the web inside floating information palettes). Using only your mouse, you can now avoid the disruption of launching a browser and let KallOut bring you the best the web has to offer."

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Web Worker Daily » Archive 6 Free Ways to Track Down Site Issues «

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The Blog Readability Test. What level of education is required to understand your blog?

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Build Your Own Workplace to Go

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Directory of Experimental Library Tools Sites (RSS4Lib)

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21Classes – Free Classroom and Education Blogs - Home

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The Tagging Toolbox: 30+ Tagging Tools

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myIPneighbors.com Reverse IP Domain Check DNS Tool

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Top 25 Web 2.0 Apps to Help You LEARN | OEDb

Tags: learning, mashups, rss, tools on 2007-06-20 and saved by31 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Ple - LTCWiki

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Connectivism Blog : It's not about tools. It's about change. By George Siemens. 6/12/2007

Tags: change, communication, human-networks, incomprehensibility, learning, policy, schools, specialization, tools on 2007-06-15 and saved by9 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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those of us in the educational technology space draw on terms and concepts straddling numerous disciplines - psychology, learning theory, technology, and social trends (Freire/Illich-type power issues with a smattering of democracy and undertone of power and opression thrown in) - each generally viewed to be fairly incomprehensible, but when carefully blended, is absolutely alien to the daily thinking habits of most people.
If your experiences mirror my own, chances are you have only a few colleagues within your organization where you can have a conversation of this nature. Most of your "intellectual colleagues" are probably part of a social network you have created through blogs or other social technologies. So, here we are - more optimistic than educators have been in a long time, feeling that many of the tools we have at our disposal represent the beginnings of a true revolution in education (though we are periodically rebuked by those "who have seen it all before" and are happy to remind us that the same conversation was happening with radio, TV, and whatever else).
But the victories feel a bit hollow. Teachers are talking blogs. We want them to talk educational reform. Administrators are talking about "learner-centric". We want them to talk policy, faculty contact hours, preparation time, and open networks.
We are at a point of transition - will our tools be absorbed by education systems, and then become part of the problem?
the language of our discipline will continue to render our activities impotent. Will the change come only from conference-tour academics that adopt current trends and present them without passion for change to an audience seeking to hear what's new in tools, but not what's new in process
I'm concerned that the current tone of talk about read/write web tools in the conference circuit is one of shoring up an approach to teaching and learning that is fundamentally at odds with how people learn and interact.
Or put another way - we are seeking a window dressing solution when it is the house that needs to be renovated.
It's the change underlying these tools that I'm trying to emphasize. Forget blogs...think open dialogue.
Forget wikis...think collaboration. Forget podcasts...think democracy of voice. Forget RSS/aggregation...think personal networks.
Parents understand the importance of preparing their children for tomorrow's world. They might not understand RSS, mashups, and blogs
Society understands the importance of a skilled workforce, of critical and creative thinkers. They may not understand wikis, podcasts, or user-created video or collaboratively written software
What would success look like if we achieved it? What would classrooms look like? How would learning occur? We require a vision for change.
What is your vision for change?
Elaine Garofoli:
My adult students are mostly open to my enthusiastic embrace of collaboration and the need for shifting to a "power to the people model", but they invariably come back with the realities of the limitations of the K-12, or corporate, or non-profit, or community college environments in which they are employed.
I am intrigued with David Weinberger's notions of the power of the "new digital disorder",inherent in which is a power shift from a centralized locale to a locus within the individual.