A nice Social Software wiki by Sébastien Paquet... [elearnspace blog]

Seb Paquet has started a wiki on social software... cool. There is an open invitation for folks to chime in. Good resources!

"SciQ just went live. It's a K-12 theme for CAREO that is being used to push learning objects into the classroom in Alberta."

Go see the one of the products of D'Arcy's (and many others at U of Calgary) long hours of work and an actual implementation of learning object respository software! Exciting stuff! - SWL

- from [D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog]

[EdTechPost]

Canada seems to be an active place for developing new education cms. Besides, the site is cool! Built with Apple Web Objects

Weblogs, Journals, and RSS via Seb Comment: Resource page for searching blogs, RSS feeds, metadata collectors, etc.... [elearnspace blog]

Do Bookmark this!!!!

Reminder. Paul McCann asked me to remind him (and other Chicago-area bloggers) when the upcoming presentations by Jim McGee and David Weinberger were scheduled, and this morning I got a message from Eric Sinclair renewing the plea for that reminder. So here we go: Jim will come to Seabury on Thursday, April 10, to talk about sharing knowledge via blogs (the title of his presentation will be, [base "]Thinking in public [~] Can you do that? Is it safe? Is it wise? Weblogs in organizations.[per thou] He[base ']ll be in the Seabury Lounge, I think, and the presentation will start at 7:30. David Weinberger... [AKMA[base ']s Random Thoughts]

I'll be sharing some thoughts, observations, and questions about how weblogs are beginning to be used as one more tool to help make knowledge work more effective inside organizations. The perspective I've been poking at for some time now is what happens when you begin to revisit the idea of knowledge management from the point of view of making individual knowledge workers more effective.

Think of it as knowledge management with a small k. The wave of solutions offered under the rubric of knowledge management prior to weblogs was largely driven by vendors with a centralized, top-down, organization centric view of the problem. At best they were attempting to solve the problem of knowledge management (whatever that might be) from the perspective of the organization, not the perspective of the knowledge workers doing the knowledge work. A good portion of the resistance to these knowledge management efforts is sensible resistance to extra work that has no demonstrable payoff for me as a knowledge worker.

I started experimenting with weblogs and precursors to weblogs several years ago and began to publish a public weblog about 18 months ago. I've found the notion of weblog as backup brain to be a powerful metaphor for finding the value of weblogs to the work of an individual knowledge worker within an organization. 

One of the central things that occurs with this strategy is that you have to start learning how to think in public. That certainly can feel like a risky thing to do. In some organizational settings it might well be risky. But I'm increasingly convinced that developing that skill will be an important aspect of what organizations must learn to do to survive and thrive in today's world.

[McGee's Musings]

It seems as this early stage of adoption, which it is, education bloggers are asking essential questions of themselves in regards to, "Why Blog?" Due to circumstances or better obstacles and trials, is having educators deepen their committment to blogging by any means necessary. We see any number of the EBN educators also question public institutions on why they choose to sit on the sidelines in terms of hosting and vision. We are seeing educators find hosting for themselves and their students. If we are not seeing free hosting supported by higher education, it is in part due to a "climate of fear". You can name the fear.

HelloWorld. HelloWorld Comment: Part of my current fascination with social networking tools...a product that displays "messages, people, transfers and nodes geo-contextually."... [elearnspace blog]

Windows users can try this out. Wow. The screenshots make it look inviting. There is mention of publishing to a cloud, etc. Sounds like they borrowed some the features of Radio... Since, I am a Mac person.. no luck until the OSX release.