It’s going to be a slow day here at EdTechPost, so….
“Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure.” – The Mishnah
“The ink of a scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.” – Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)
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Pointers to Elearning Glossaries
http://www.edtechpost.ca/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/
EdTechPost/ELearningGlossaries
As part of the background research for the Edutools project I am constantly on the lookout for new elearning glossaries with which to compare definitions of terms. Here is a list of the ones I know about (in a wiki, so feel free to add if you want) – most of them are generic ‘elearning’ glossaries though there are a few specific to ‘metadata’ and ‘learning objects’ here too. – SWL
Hysterical blog graphic
http://awd.cl.uh.edu/blog/blob-blogWeb2.gif
Ginger at Almost Audacious IT ran a blog workshop aimed at faculty recently, for which she produced the above hysterical graphic. Ginger says “I just swiped the graphic from the classic ‘The Blob’ movie and did some magic on it in Flash by tracing the bitmap. ” The ‘just’ sounds a bit modest to me – this perfectly captures the frenzied pitch that has accompanied a lot of the blog hype of late. – SWL
Lionshare – educational P2P file sharing
http://lionshare.its.psu.edu/main
“LionShare is an academic P2P system which will assist in the distribution of academic materials through the university’s network and beyond. The primary goal of LionShare is to provide a means for collaboration among faculty, students, departments, and eventually multiple universities.” Don’t have a lot more info on this – just one of a few nuggets brought back in a friend’s trip report from Educause.
Postscript – as a follow on, this article mentions a partnership with both OKI and the Canadian-based edusource project.- SWL
NameProtext – crawling your site to protect against trademark violations
You kind of knew this was happening somehow, but here’s the public face of it. Check your server log analysis for ‘unrecognized agents’ with the name “NPBot http://www.nameprotect.com/botinfo.html)” and this is who it is; a bot that scours the web for unauthorized uses of brand names and trademarks. I expect this is a very small example of all the bots currently keeping tabs on what you say. (Although apparently it honours robots.txt, so…) – SWL
Use Voidstar’s “GoogleNews-to-RSS” here
http://www.edtechpost.ca/gnews2rss.php
Julian Bond at Voidstar (the man who brought you the original RSSify) has created a simple PHP script that converts Google News searches to RSS (I say ‘simple’ but I doubt I could have written it). You can use it from his site, but he’s asked folks to download and install in on their own servers to help conserve bandwidth and server demands. I’d been using it and so installed a copy on my own server. It took about 30 seconds. If you want you can use it too, though this isn’t intended as an open invitation to the entire internet. Maybe’s there’s another way to do this (I’ve seen the email alert service for Google news) but I haven’t found it yet. Depending on what kind of stuff you’re looking for, google news can be a pretty decent source. Here is a look at the feeds I’ve created (the ‘Google Feeds’ folder). – SWL
Attractors?
“Studying self-organization is equivalent to investigating the attractors of the system, their form and dynamics.” – http://www.calresco.org/sos/sosfaq.htm
If the ‘blogosphere’ is a self-organizing system, what are its attractors, their forms and dynamics? – SWL
Internet FAQ Archives
It’s difficult to believe, but I expect there are now many users on the Internet who have never participated in one of the oldest forms of ‘online community’ – Usenet Newsgroups. In large part I expect because of the influx of spam, but also with the rush to other forms of communication and community, Usenet groups don’t get the recognition, nor I expect the trafffic, they did in their heyday…
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Now that’s a trip report!
http://blogoehlert.typepad.com/eclippings/
2003/11/techlearn_trip_.html
Mark Oehlert lets us know that Michael Parmentier’s notes from the recent TechLearn 2003 are now online. Having tried to produce conference notes myself, I am awed at the thoroughness and real usefulness of these notes. One can actually get a sense of what each of the speakers was focused on, and even an overall sense of the conference. A great model to emulate in the future. – SWL
EEVL News and Job Aggregation pages
http://www.eevl.ac.uk/onestepnews/
EEVL is a U.K.-based Internet Guide to Engineering, Mathematics and Computing. Proving that they obviously ‘get it,’ they’ve produced two new aggregation services, one for industry specific news from over 20 focused sources, and another that aggregates job postings in engineering, mathematics and computing science.
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