Will links to a story posted by a (one of his? creative writing?) student, scroll down for feedback from peers... interesting use, looks cool!

[James Farmer's Radio Weblog]

The cited item is an excellent example of the collaborative use of weblogs in education. This can be extended to many fields beyond writing.

12:34:59 PM    

A Socio-Technological Approach to Sharing Knowledge Across Disciplines.

By popular demand (OK, OK, for the two of you who asked for it), here's an electronic version of my thesis (PDF, 4 Mb) which I defended in early May. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to compile the LaTeX source into a copy-pastable document (any tips on how to do that are welcome!). [Seb's Open Research]

11:54:32 AM    

Open Education

We've changed the platform for Open Education (from PostNuke to Drupal). With Drupal, every new user automatically has his/her own blog...Work Groups can be syndicated individually (same with specific categories)...chat and discussion forums are available...and the community book (like a wiki) also looks promising.

Here's a series of syndication links: (if you're new to syndication, download a news aggregator like SharpReader...and copy/paste these URLs into the aggregator)
- Main Site: Open Education
- All Work Groups
- Advocacy Work Group
- External Relations Work Group
- Learning Objects Work Group
- Open Standards Work Group
- Software Work Group
- Templates Work Group
- User Experience Work Group
- Web Site Work Group

[Elearnspace]

11:53:17 AM    

This asynchronous, online course from Virginia Tech is designed to provide you with the necessary resources to begin investigating the process of designing instruction to enhance student learning. [Ed Tech Dev]

Cool, the more open materials the better... it does kinda bug me though that ID often deemed to be something you can package up so nicely. I mean, who'd offer a resource or website on 'How you write curriculum' or 'How you teach' (cue influx of such sites :o). Well, OK, who would write them and expect them to be taken seriously...

Having said this, I've only had a cursory glance at the above!

11:47:04 AM    

Aral Balkan wrote a tutorial showing how to build an RSS aggregator in Flash. [Scripting News]

11:45:54 AM