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+ Light, Agile and Flexible: Collaborating the Web 2.0 Way + Somewhat chaotic presentation (I used the conference backchannel chat again) in which I talk about collaboration with respect to web [...] summary of the session. More from the same conference. Innovations in e-Learning, Fairfax, VA (Keynote) June 4, 2008 [ Comment ]

+ Robert F. Kennedy + Because I have never been to Washington before, I took the day today to take the Metro into the city and to walk around. If I ever [...] them well, and most of all, to wish them peace. Various Authors , Wikipedia, June 6, 2008 [Tags: Flickr ] [ Link ] [ Comment ]

+ Read at Work - Brilliant! + So if the classics are presented in PowerPoint format, do they become OK to read at work? And - one wonders - what would be the ...

+ G-G, Negative Content, and Blogging Rarely Is Ok + I must say, I really don't like Garfield, the comic strip, at all. It's just not funny. Remove Garfield, the cat, from Garfield, the [...] disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life?" Alan Levine , CogDogBlog, June 5, 2008 [Tags: none] [ Link ] [ Comment ]

+ Libpunk + Based on edupunk, "Kathryn Greenhill... has coined the term "libpunk" to refer to technologies which libraries have taken upon [...] Tony Hirst riffs on his video. Kate Pitcher , The Delicious Burden, June 5, 2008 [Tags: Edupunk ] [ Link ] [ Comment ]

+ Q-Tools: An Approach for Discovery and Knowledge Work + This is an interesting way of abstracting the way systems - sch as, say, RSS readers - manage information. Examples of Q-tools [...] generator (creates new information), the peeler, and more. Dave Gray , Weblog, June 5, 2008 [Tags: RSS ] [ Link ] [ Comment ]

+ LETSI Announces a Call for Participation + LETSI - the organization that took over SCORM from ADL - has issued a call for participation "concerning the technical and [...] Press Release , JISC, June 5, 2008 [Tags: Online Learning , SCORM , Interoperability , Metadata ] [ Link ] [ Comment ]

+ Interview with Erik Duval + Erik Duval is president of the ARIADNE Foundation and chair of the IEEE working group on Learning Object Metadata. This interview is [...] rural communities." Part two continues that discussion. Unattributed , EA-TEL, June 5, 2008 [Tags: none] [ Link ] [ Comment ]

+ Virtual Worlds Wike + From the presentation this morning. Various Authors , Website, June 5, 2008 [Tags: none] [ Link ] [ Comment ] ...

+ Loving the Collision, Not Just Hugs/Content + In general, requests for the inherent properties are misplaced ('inherent properties' sometimes also thought of as the intrinsic [...] that people can learn from such a person. Christian Long , think:lab, June 5, 2008 [Tags: Interaction ] [ Link ] [ Comment ]

+ Start Pages As Environments for Self-Organized Learners + Webtops such as Netvibes and Pageflakes are as close as we get in commercial tools to a personal learning environment. This [...] learning environments. Malinka Ivanova , eLearning 2.0 Technologies and Concepts, June 5, 2008 [Tags: none] [ Link ] [ Comment ]

+ D'arcy's Camus Moment + As Martin Weller notes, Camus writes, "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide." Weller adds, "He [...] it has resisted definition to this point. Martin Weller , The Ed Techie, June 5, 2008 [Tags: Interaction ] [ Link ] [ Comment ]

+ iTunes U + This week marks a big increase in the scope of iTunesU. Its expansion to European sources is covered here, with numerous links. It [...] increased its movie audience . Diug Dickinson , , June 5, 2008 [Tags: RSS , European Union , Australia ] [ Link ] [ Comment ]

+ Defining Informal Learning + As definitions go, this is a decent taxonomy describing formal, non-formal, informal and accidental learning. Wolfgang Greller , ...

+ Do You Speak Canadian? + Interesting post partially because of the analysis of what would constitute an appropriate language test and partially because it [...] being proposed by the government. Sad. Arnold Zwicky , Language Log, June 5, 2008 [Tags: Canada ] [ Link ] [ Comment ]

+ Innovations in E-Learning + We had more tornado warnings today - they actually stopped the conference to send everyone into shelter. I took the ...

+ Eduglu Singers Remix Machine + It was hard for me to test this with the sound off (I'm writing this newsletter in an auditorium) but it looks too cool to miss. ...

+ Using Learning Design As a Framework for Supporting the Design + The paper argues "that adopting a learning design methodology may provide a vehicle for enabling better design and reuse of Open [...] Grainne Conole and Martin Weller , e4innovation.com, June 4, 2008 [Tags: Open Educational Resources ] [ Link ] [ Comment ]

+ I Use the Enemy... + Martin Weller's response to Tony Hirst's video on edupunk is a scream. Yeah, I know, I know, enough with the edupunk. But it [...] what's to enforce? Merit badges? Brian Lamb , Abject Learning, June 4, 2008 [Tags: Edupunk , Video ] [ Link ] [ Comment ]

+ Wikipedia & Edupunk + Leaving aside the question of whether 'edupunk' deserves a Wikipedia entry: Dave Warlick notes, "The Wikipedia community works hard [...] Right. Exactly. Dave Warlick , 2 cents worth, June 4, 2008 [Tags: Edupunk , Books , Wikipedia ] [ Link ] [ Comment ]

+ Quine + I cite Quine from time to time in my work. He is broadly influential on my thought, but I cite in particular (a) his ideas on the [...] Bonino , Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, June 4, 2008 [Tags: Networks , Semantic Web , Semantics ] [ Link ] [ Comment ]