Twitter FavesI had written a review of William Rice’s previous book and noted that it was rather technical. Moodle Teaching Techniques is more pedagogical and gets down to the details of how to develop online courses in Moodle. Moodle adoption is growing and it is probably the most widely-used open source learning content management system in [...]
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I’ve mentioned before that I’m getting a lot of questions about creating “facebook-in-a-box” applications for industry niches or associations. Everyone wants a social network, but on their own terms. I was commissioned to get a community going around the learning industry in our province in 2003, but that endeavour failed, for reasons I’ve noted. I [...]
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The printing press changed our relationship with knowledge and sparked the Protestant Reformation, which one could say helped bring about the Enlightenment and all of those scientific advances (such as real medicine) that we now take for granted. As John Naughton, of The Observer, says of a UK study on information seeking: The study confirms [...]
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Richard Florida, author and blogger, will be presenting a lecture at Convocation Hall at Mount Allison University on 6 Feb ’08 at 7:30 PM. The title of his lecture is “The Creative Class: The Role of the Artistic Community in Building Towns and Cities.†Everyone is welcome and there is no admission charge. Given Sackville’s [...]
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I’ve been asked on several occasions over the past year to see if it’s possible to build a “facebook-in-a-box” for an organisation or association, so I’ve put some thoughts together here. It’s still a work in progress. This is a follow up from a previous post, The Community Goldrush. Implementing a Niche Business Network The [...]
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I really enjoy the Escape from Cubicle Nation blog and now you can prepare your own escape to free-agentry with this audio program and workbook. Check out “3 Steps to break through the fear of leaving your corporate job so you can get on the road to starting your own business“: I have no connection [...]
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I’ve been enjoying CBC Radio’s Spark program that looks at technology and culture. The host, Nora Young, is knowledgeable and runs a great show. I pick it up on air from time to time and have downloaded a podcast or two. As I was listening today, I heard that there was a wiki for sharing [...]
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Flickr has initiated The Commons, initially in collaboration with the US Library of Congress. These beautiful, historic pictures from the Library represent materials for which the Library is not the intellectual property owner. Flickr is working with the Library of Congress to provide an appropriate statement for these materials. It’s called “no known copyright restrictions.” [...]
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I’ve used various social bookmarking tools, such as Furl and Magnolia, but have settled on delicious for a while. If you use many bookmarking applications, as well as rating tools like Digg, you might be interested in SocialMarker, which lets you save a page for filing on several systems at once. SocialMarker lists 31 tools, [...]
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Have you joined yet? From the Facebook group description: In December 2007, it became apparent that the Canadian government was about to introduce new copyright legislation that would have been a complete sell-out to U.S. government and lobbyist demands. The new Canadian legislation was to have mirrored the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act with strong [...]
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