Monday, November 20, 2006

Comparing ePortfolio Systems: Satellite Broadcast. On December 7, 2006 from 1:00 to 2:30 (Central Time), I will be part of a streaming video Webcast and Satellite Broadcast on ePortfolios. The program is titled "Comparing ePortfolio Systems" and it is being offered as part of MnSat's ePortfolio broadcast series. More information is available online at: http://www.mnsat.mnscu.edu/programs/compareportfolio/index.html. During the program, I will discuss my role reviewing ePortfolio tools for Edutools. The Edutools Web site offers a feature comparison for seven different ePortfolio products. [Inter/National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research blogs] 11:18:52 PM      Google It!.

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (11/20/06). The latest update of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (SEPW) is now available, which provides information about new scholarly literature and resources related to scholarly electronic publishing, such as books, journal articles, magazine articles, newsletters, technical reports, and white papers. Especially interesting are: "Author Addenda: An Examination of Five Alternatives"; "Building Preservation Environments with Data Grid Technology"; "Improving Access to Research Results: Six Points"; "Improving Access to Research Results: What's in It for the Institution? Can We Make the Case?"; "Is There a Viable Business Model for Commercial Open Access Publishing?"; "Library Access to Scholarship"; "The Open Access Movement in China"; and "Standards-Based Interfaces for Harvesting and Obtaining Assets from Digital Repositories." For weekly updates about news articles, Weblog postings, and other resources related to digital culture (e.g., copyright, digital privacy, digital rights management, and Net neutrality), digital libraries, and scholarly electronic publishing, see the latest DigitalKoans Flashback posting. [EDUCAUSE CONNECT blogs] 11:12:10 PM      Google It!.