Tuesday, March 08, 2005

Hi Geoff, You might like to check out the "Open Conference" site at www.pkp.ubc.ca/ocs. Open Conference Systems (OCS) is a free Web publishing tool that will create a complete Web presence for your scholarly conference. It has been developed by the Public Knowledge Project at the University of British Columbia to improve the scholarly and public quality of research online. OCS will allow you to: create a conference Web site compose and send a call for papers electronically accept paper and abstract submissions allow paper submitters to edit their work post conference proceedings and papers in a searchable format post, if you wish, the original data sets register participants integrate post-conference online discussions I haven't used it myself but I was directed to it just recently by ou IT Manager, and UBC is a renowned distance education university. Heather   found this on the moodle site bulletin board 8:01:02 PM    comment [] Engadget explains how to make your own annotated multimedia Google map. [Scripting News] 7:49:17 PM    comment [] Controversial U.N. Landmine Ad [Edu_RSS] 7:42:17 PM    comment [] From 1 to 43 Things. How many balls can you keep in the air at once? Two? Three? 43? also leads to a link for collaborative products and elearning articles From Amazon ==> Robot Co-op ==> 43things.com. Back in December I wrote about 43 Things here on The Social Software Weblog, and received 36 comments. Nine more comments and I would reach a nice symmetry on that post. Today Seattle Times writer Kristi Heim does a good job of covering the genesis of 43 Things and Josh Petersen et. al. over at The Robot Co-op. Weblogs, Inc. RSS feeds brought to you by Userplane Apps: Live communication applications powering the world's leading online communities. [The Social Software Weblog] 11:43:50 AM    comment [] Breaking Down the LMS Walls [Edu_RSS] 11:01:28 AM    comment [] Hugh's drawings continue to make me laugh. I love GapingVoid, the home of the little drawings on the back of business cards done by Hugh Macleod. Warning, some of them have adult language. Here's a sample from today: [Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger] 10:50:44 AM    comment [] Annotating the planet. When I finished making the interactive version of my neighborhood tour, along with a screencast, it was clear that Google Maps is every bit as revolutionary as my first instincts told me. Not because Google invented a new geospatial engine or compiled better data. They didn't. But simply -- and yet profoundly -- because Google Maps is a framework we can all use to annotate the physical world. In the very near future, billions of people will be roaming the planet with GPS devices. Clouds of network connectivity are forming over our major cities and will inevitably coalesce. The geoaware Web isn't a product we buy; it's an environment we colonize. There will always be markets for proprietary data. But the real action will be in empowering people to create their own services, with their own data, for their friends, family, and business associates. Google Maps isn't just a service, it's a service factory. Radical openness is the key. It's been only two weeks since it launched and already the colonization has begun. Thanks to open XML data formats and open Web programming interfaces, people have figured out how to animate routes, create custom routes with their own GPS data, and display GPS data in real time. Microsoft could have enabled these same kinds of things years ago. Its TerraServer has been up and running since 1998. But despite Steve Ballmer's infamous monkey-dance chant, developers haven't flocked to TerraServer. What's Google's secret? Web DNA and no Windows tax. [Full story at InfoWorld.com] ... [Jon's Radio] 10:48:11 AM    comment [] Healthcare Consumers Rely on Consumer-Generated Content [Edu_RSS] also refers to a Jupiter Research study on how consumer connect and gain information.  not ust a shoulder to  cry on, duh!! 10:42:03 AM    comment []

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