Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Integrating Library Reserves and Course Management Systems: Aleph, RSS, and Sakai. This is pretty neat - a presentation describing the use of RSS to display library course reserves through CTools, the Sakai-based course management system (Sakai is an open source learning management system). Good discussion, along with results from a pilot project. What I like was the ease with which a short PHP script was able to set this up. Via Scott Leslie. By Susan Hollar and Ryan Max Steinberg, EDUCAUSE Midwest, March 21, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 11:27:32 PM      Google It!.

Balch Internet Research and Analysis Toolkit. Charlie Balch has created a public domain, open source, online survey system called BIRAT. By Charlie Balch, March 29, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 10:22:09 AM      Google It!.

Social Life of Students. You can't say this too many times: "What we need to do is rethink our curriculum in terms of interaction, create a consistent, generic toolset that supports the needs of the students and instructors, and instill community practices from end-to-end in the curriculum." Why? Because "it takes more than one class/quarter/semester to start becoming a proficient denizen of the socially networked community." Via James Farmer. By Chris Lott, Ruminate, March 28, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 10:13:17 AM      Google It!.

Yahoo 360. Yahoo takes a big step toward the semantic social network with a service that blends social networking with blogs. Yahoo 360 is now available in beta. You can connect to your instant messenger, post your photos (unlimited storage, says the web page), display your LaunchCast radio, and more. I've set up a page on the service. Access is by invitation - but if you send me an email, I'll send you an invite (please allow me a few hours to do this). By Various Authors, Yahoo, March, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 10:10:39 AM      Google It!.

School Bans Blogs. Some days you think you're making progress. Others, less so. A high school principal "has banned access to Myspace.com, a blogging site. The reason? Well aside from legitimate concerns about kids publishing personal information, the prinicpal says blogging is not an educational use of computers." By Will Richardson, Weblogg-Ed, March 29, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 10:06:59 AM      Google It!.

Online, Anything and Everything Can Be a Museum Piece. The age of MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art, is over. The age of MoOM, the Museum of Online Museums, is upon us. By By SARAH BOXER. [NYT > Technology] 10:03:39 AM      Google It!.

Freelancers Hit the Jackpot. Publishers agree to pay up to $18 million to settle a dispute over stories that found their way into online databases. By Rachel Metz. [Wired News] 9:47:05 AM      Google It!.

The architecture of intermediation. When Steve Mallett recently cloned del.icio.us to creat de.lirio.us, the predictable controversy ensued. Here's a capsule summary: Good! del.icio.us is closed-source, the world needs an open-source social bookmarking service. Bad! Geez, what a lame ripoff! Rather than taking sides in this debate -- which I can't do, because I sympathize with both positions while endorsing neither -- I'd like to try to broaden its scope. ... [Jon's Radio] 9:35:03 AM      Google It!.