For Web. 2.0 lovers here is a fantastic Web directory to browse, pick and choose. I have taken a tour of Vidipedia (free video encyclopedia anyone can edit), put my name down for Dandelife (a social biography network) and Quizlet (a tool for learning vocabulary) and will see if I can contribute with some quotes … Read more
Upcoming is another social networking service online. It’s a global collaborative event calendar, where all the events are added by the community (The Power of Many). Some of the features include: Browsing through events happening in your area (your Metro) Posting of events to Upcoming.org to share them with your friends Syndication of event calendars … Read more
A week before my classes at school begin, still on holidays and already swamped, with so many things happening all over : EVO sessions (I’m co-moderating Open Webpublishing and following Evogaming and Evovideo), preparing this year’s school schedule and classes at school, giving presentations online (for the BaW07 session and B4B, networking on various social … Read more
This is going to be a new year packed with challenges, good resolutions and good surprises 🙂 The first one has just arrived from Amazon.com – I offered myself a gift for X-mas: a hardcover copy of The New Media Reader. It is thick, heavy and looks very interesting . It also sports a CD … Read more
The Webheads are experimenting with Chinswing, which allows you to play audio clips sequentially and automatically, creating a virtual dialogue as though participants were in a room responding to each other in real time. Have your say and answer David Winet’s questions on webcams and Second Life, or tell Michael Coghlan how you would use … Read more
From the Webheads Group list, Moira Hunter has just sent a link to a neat advent calendar displaying Web 2.0 tools.
Leigh Blackall has just pointed to Wikiversity, a community hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities. He and Bronwyn Hegarty from Otago Polytech have taken the initiative of building a new course on Wikiversity – Facilitating Online. They envisage starting with material suitable for novice facilitators … Read more
Unbounded Freedom is a very recent blog and also a guide to Creative Commons thinking for cultural organizations by Rosemary Bechler, a freelance writer and commissioning editor who helped to found Open Democracy. The guide can be downloaded from the Counterpoint, the cultural relations think tank of the British Council.
Check out Future Learning Environment, a web-based learning environment being developed by the Learning Environments for Progressive Inquiry Research Group from UIAH Media Lab, University of Art and Design Helsinki and led by Teemu Leinonen, whom I met during the FLNW unconference. FLE3 is an open source and free server software for computer supported collaborative … Read more
Please update your feeds! Now that WordPress offers an import and export feature, I have moved all the content from all my blogs to Wide Open Spaces. Open house. See you there !