Tuesday, February 07, 2006

browser as desktop Opera 9 with Widgets and BitTorrent Now Available. [Slashdot] 10:56:48 PM    comment

decision making BC ELN Using Blogs to Brainstorm their Strategic Planning process. http://bceln.blogspot.com/2006/01/ about-electronic-brainstorm-wild-ideas_31.html Kudos to the BC Electronic Library Network for trying the interesting experiment of using Blogger as a mechanism to facilitate collectively brainstorming by their members. As I understand the model, staff from the participating partner libraries are invited to either comment on posts, or log into Blogger using accounts that ELN has set up for them that can make new posts on the main brainstorming blog, all of which will be fed into the larger Strategic Planning process. Nice model for a consortia to use as it keeps it open and public but hopefully still provides some autonomy and flow. Will be interesting to see how it works, and at the very least may be a step in exposing some additional librarians to the technology (not that most of them need this, we are lucky to have an amazingly sophisticated bunch in our province.) - SWL [EdTechPost] 10:05:05 PM    comment

eLearning student services Advanced Placement Program Gains Visibility in High Schools. In recent years, the program has expanded dramatically, becoming a way for high schools to expose students to college-level work. By TAMAR LEWIN. [NYT > Education] 10:02:38 PM    comment

eLearning Supporting Empathy in Online Learning with Artificial Expressions - Michael J. Lyons, Daniel Kluender, and Nobuji Tetsutani, IFETS. Motivated by a consideration of the machine-mediated nature of human interaction in web-based tutoring, we propose the construction of artificial expressions, displays which reflect users’ felt bodily experience, to support the development of greater empa [Online Learning Update] 11:30:58 AM    comment

search plus office utilities New Google Service to Blend the Gmail and Chat Features. Joining the instant-messaging service with the Gmail program is the latest indication that Google has sights on the broader communications industry. By LAURIE J. FLYNN. [NYT > Technology] 11:19:27 AM    comment

VoIP Zoep Goes Open Source. [Slashdot] this will go a long way to making the firefox desktop the most productive environment -- this has interesting implications for mobile workers/students with usb phones -- BL 11:02:26 AM    comment

eContent mapping Gathering and exchanging email threads. Twice in the past few weeks, once for business and once for a personal matter, I've had to collect and transmit a set of related email threads. In both cases, the Gmail query that produced these collections searched tags (what Gmail calls labels) as well as Subject: or From: fields. For example, one of the queries looked like this in Gmail's user interface: in:school teacher1 teacher2 where in:school refers to the virtual folder created by assigning the school tag, and teacher1 and teacher2 are the names of teachers. ... [Jon's Radio] this could be a compelling reason to use Gmail -- BL 10:44:42 AM    comment

IM Google Adds Chat To Gmail. [Slashdot] 10:39:45 AM    comment