Saturday, June 18, 2005

Interactive Whiteboards: First listing [Edubloggers Links Feed] 3:09:49 PM      Google It!.

Open Solaris Derivative Available [Slashdot:] 3:03:47 PM      Google It!.

Google Maps Now Cover Whole World [Slashdot:] 11:48:44 AM      Google It!.

e-Learning Framework Toolkits. Here is what the preceeding item should have done instead. Here is a list of projects, their project home sites, and direct links to code (or to downloadables, where code is not available): [site] [code] Assessment Provision through Interoperable Segments (APIS) [site] [code] Brokerage for Deep and Distributed e-Learning Resources Discovery (D+) [site] [code] Integrating Simple Sequencing (ISIS) [site] [code] Middleware for Distributed Cognition (MDC) (previously (?) JAFER) [site] [code] Portal Services Embedder (PSE) (Site reporting a 404) [site] [code] Service based LEarning Design (SLED) [site] [code] Enterprise Web Services with Timetable Extentions for Microsoft.Net (SWEET) [site] [code] Web Services for Reflective Learning (WS4RL) By Various Authors, June, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 9:03:09 AM      Google It!.

Interactive Whiteboards. Blog set up by Joop van Schie to collect information on interactive whiteboards. The first post is a comprehensive resource in itself, liting numerous products, articles, and other resources. If you have something to contribute, send Joop a note. Via pete MacKay, who is on a roll this week. By Joop van Schie, Interactive Whiteboards, June 17, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 9:00:32 AM      Google It!.

Rescuing Social Networking. This link is here mostly for the graphic at the top, a nice conceptual vision of conferencing. But also for this sharp analysis of where social networks have been failing: "existing SNAs offer the user little to do, take too much time, don't provide a customized audience, are socially awkward, and don't provide much that other features of the Internet don't do as well or better." And for the advice near the end suggesting that "what would really make SVP cool would be if we could meter it... [and] automatically bill them and pay us for our time at an agreed-upon rate." Which left me wondering what my market rate would be billed per minute. And whether it would be possible to make a living doing that (methinks not). By Dave Pollard, How to Save the World, June 16, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 8:59:19 AM      Google It!.

Simple Route To Linux On The iPod [Slashdot:] 8:44:05 AM      Google It!.

Finally, MLS RSS Feeds!. With everything else that’s been going on, I didn’t have a chance last week to announce that the RSS feeds for the MLS web site are finally up and running! They’re not dynamic, but you can syndicate every category/subject on our site. On the home page, you’ll find a feed for the last 20 items added to the site, plus a link to a list of all of our feeds. Alternatively, if you’re browsing through a subject, there is an XML button at the bottom of every page just for that subject. For example, if you want to track what we’re highlighting about Video Games and Libraries (including our grant), you can view everything related to that subject, and at the bottom of the page is a link to the feed for what we’re posting to it. I’ve tested the feed in a couple of different aggregators without any problems, so please let me know if you encounter any issues with them. Thanks! [The Shifted Librarian] 8:41:41 AM      Google It!.

It's Getting Cheaper to Tap the Sun. Providing homes with electricity and heat from the sun is getting more buzz than it has in decades. By BARRY REHFELD. [NYT > Technology] 8:36:12 AM      Google It!.