Group items tagged

#Grou.ps (http://grou.ps/) "# Buddypress (http://www.buddypress.org) # Pligg (http://www.pligg.com/) # Elgg (http://www.elgg.org/) # LovdbyLess (http://lovdbyless.com/) # Mixxt (http://www.mixxt.com/) # Insoshi ( http://github.com/insoshi/insoshi) # Xoops (http://www.xoops.org/) # Community Engine (http://www.communityengine.org/) # Astrospaces (http://sourceforge.net/projects/astrospaces/)"

"Its point is that the old one-size-fits-all education model is not as well suited to growing up in the Web age as the custom fit that new technology allows"

Reading news is a huge part of what people use their tablets for, and as Pew's report points out, those users are more engaged and often consume more news content than they did before. Tablets are beginning to supplant PCs and, to a lesser extent, print media as a source of news and long-form content.

"In a move that will surprise very few, Encyclopedia Britannica is expected to announce that it will no longer print its 32-volume set of printed encyclopedias, the New York Times reports. This comes 244 years after the iconic reference books first went to press. The usefulness of such reference materials has been on the decline for years, especially since the advent of Wikipedia. Whatever flaws its open, crowd-sourced editorial model may invite, Wikipedia is generally regarded as a comprehensive and mostly-accurate source of information, which can be accessed for free."

"I want to tell you about one of my favorite things on the Internet. Storify is the best way to gather tweets, comments, snippets and images from all around the Web and put them into one post. It's a new way of blogging that lets all your Internet friends participate."

Me entrevistaban el otro día acerca de la web 3.0, la web semántica y me resultaba difícil, a pesar de la experiencia en varios talleres sobre el tema, acercarla al usuario sin mencionar la primera aplicación que se ha encargado de ello: Twine.

Aviary, the company behind a suite of collaborative web-based image editing software, has released a Firefox plug-in that's a must-have. Create an account at Aviary, download the plug-in called Talon, and within minutes you'll be joyfully clipping full and partial screenshots into the very full-featured Aviary web editor. It's so easy, but at the same time so full-featured, that's a real pleasure to use.

This is such a great use of AAC and Ask. com to build questions. Also demonstrates use of intllikeys overlay and use of email. Could even use with twitter to do status updates for family and friends!

The Chronicle's Marc Parry spoke with Department of Education spokesperson Sara Gast, who said that the Creative Commons headline was, sadly, misleading, and that the DOE will not necessarily spend that $2 billion on open educational projects.