Tuesday, January 31, 2006

bookmarklet LibraryLookup Greasemonkey Script for Victoria Public Library. http://www.edtechpost.ca/gems/GVPL_LibraryLookup.user.js O.k., o.k. already! I am showing my age/lameness. In my exuberance over learning that my local library's catalogue was now searchable via Jon Udell's famous LibraryLookup bookmarklet (and trust me, I can get pretty exuberant), I forgot how terribly passe and 2003 that was. Apparently time has moved on since then; last year Udell released a small Greasemonkey script that searches your libraries catalogue in the background and adds a link if the book is available right on the Amazon page. If you happen to live in Victoria, you can grab my ever so-slightly modified version of that script at the URL above and install it in your Greasemonkey-enabled Firefox browser. And turns out this post isn't so out of date after all - if you are really keen, Udell released the extra souped-up version of the script (which requires you to get your own Amazon-API) on January 26th. Soo coool! All praise Udell. - SWL [EdTechPost] 7:12:29 PM    comment

influence Critic's Notebook: MTV's Focus on Colleges Streams Into Your PC. Videos, attitudes and interactivities converge at mtvU Über, MTV's new broadband network, programmed exclusively for college students. By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN. [NYT > Technology] 2:51:26 PM    comment

eLearning platform model Microsoft OS Smart Phone for Developing Nations. [Slashdot] this may be the real future of eLearning -- TV and keyboard as plugins -- UCompass could be the CMS vendor to watch -- BL 2:41:28 PM    comment

web services The Screening Room, episode 1.  Today I'm introducing a new feature called The Screening Room. It will be a monthly series of screencasts exploring new software that strikes me as both interesting and important. I expect these screencasts to run 15 or 20 minutes -- enough time to go fairly deep into each subject, but highly compressed relative to the several hours of raw interview and demonstration material that I'll have captured for each one. ... [Jon's Radio] 2:25:12 PM    comment

browser as desktop Google Toolbar v.4. [Slashdot] 12:55:49 PM    comment

IP Microsoft Loses Office Patent Dispute. [Slashdot] 12:46:38 PM    comment

assessment e-Assessment Lit Review. I saw this literature review on e-assessment pointed to by Jeremy Williams (The Authentic Assessment Website), and thought I'd better mark this one down. I love Jeremy's description; he calls it "... little UK-centric, but a jolly good read all the same." Literature Review of E-assessment (A Report for NESTA Futurelab, Jim Ridgway and Sean McCusker, School of Education, University... [Michelle's Online Learning Freakout Party Zone] 12:36:04 PM    comment