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There's been a kerfuffle in the wider blogosphere lately about Dave Winer's decision to quit blogging. Basically, there seem to be a bunch of people who can't live without reading Scripting News every single day, and are pretty much begging him to reconsider. Michael
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That said, here are some web 2.0 services that I think might have their uses in education. As ever, I'm not advocating the use of centralised, commercial applications in education; I believe localised open source software most often provides the best solutions. However, the approaches below have
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Lately I've been feeling more and more jaded about the web. It's not that it's not an amazing invention that's changing the world - clearly it is, and we've only begun to glimpse the possibilities of a connected world. The problem
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/11/dabbledb-online-app-building-for-everyone/ Create web-based database apps with no programming whatsoever. Nice.
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I'm going to break with my usual programming to announce my love for the Magnetic Fields album 69 Love Songs. Normally they're not my thing, and I haven't warmed to any of their other albums, but every single track on this one is just
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True wireless access to the Internet may be the next frontier in the information revolution. Until recently, wireless access has been purely for the home or business: the connection still ends up at a wireless router, which in turn is connected to the Internet via a wire. We keep ours
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Here's something I've been thinking about for a while, that I'd like to throw out to the wider community. There doesn't seem to be one place for us all to read about new announcements in the e-learning space or discuss the
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Gasp! LiveJournal is to introduce advertising. This wouldn't be such a big issue had they not been insisting they would never introduce advertising for the seven years they've been around. This is another illustration of the difficulties of funding an open source project. LJ has been
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It's very rare that I'll find myself endorsing a Microsoft technology, but this may be genius: And what of the promise beyond weblogs for feed-based publish and subscribe? Today’s user experience is certainly constraining what might be. After thinking about this for a while
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Steve O'Hear writes about Elgg in the Guardian: The learner-centric approach and social networking aspect of Elgg make it very different from more traditional virtual learning environments (VLEs), which are usually structured around courses, timetables and assessment. "Whereas Elgg is learner-centred, the VLE systems tend
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http://www.myyearbook.com/index.php File this somewhere between Facebook and MySpace - it's the latter, but filtered by school era and aimed specifically at students. Includes a special account for educators.
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http://developer.yahoo.net/ypatterns/ Best usage principles for a bunch of different development scenarios. Valuable.