CTLT and Friends

Where will higher education be the day after the current global economic crisis passes? If you think things will simply go back to the way they were once the economy recovers in a year or two, think again.

see my comments in http://www.nilspeterson.com/2009/02/25/web-20-and-textbooks/

A cool technique for portfolio-on-the-web

I went looking for the ECAR report on LMS & Web 2.0, found this

Visifire is a set of open source data visualization components - powered by Microsoft® Silverlight™ & WPF...Visifire can also be embedded in any webpage as a standalone Silverlight App. Visifire is independent of server side technology. It can be used with ASP, ASP.Net, PHP, JSP, ColdFusion, Ruby on Rails or just simple HTML. No radar charts, but for some things, this might be useful.

from Michael Feldstein advice on LMS migration and selection which does not just apply to small schools

"A recent study by researchers at the University of California, Irvine, found that a third of students surveyed said that they expected B's just for attending lectures, and 40 percent said they deserved a B for completing the required reading. "

Feb 3 First reading, referred to Higher Education. (View Original Bill) Feb 17 Public hearing in the House Committee on Higher Education at 10:00 AM. Feb 18 Executive session in the House Committee on Higher Education at 1:30 PM.

A cyberlaw professor argues that Wikipedia is doomed. The online encyclopedia will need to choose between being "high quality" and "open," but both choices are fraught with risk.

21st century skills, its not about computer skills, its about skillfulness using communication tools.

Facebook:All Your Stuff is Ours, Even if You Quit...from mashable

Welcome to the SIMILE Project's Wiki

Introduction to the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education's "Spaces for Interaction" program. AACE runs conferences, and they are asking how technology can improve the posibilities for interaction at and around conferences.

A funny, personal, and surprisingly moving talk about Tom Waits, Allah, and poems that come like trains of air.

SIMILE is focused on developing robust, open source tools that empower users to access, manage, visualize and reuse digital assets. Learn more about the SIMILE project.

SIMILE is focused on developing robust, open source tools that empower users to access, manage, visualize and reuse digital assets. Learn more about the SIMILE project.

Peg found this but had trouble adding it to our list.

Our goal is to make it easier for people to collect, organize, find, visualize, and share their information. One of the biggest obstacles to such information management is the rigid, centrally-planned information models and user interfaces of existing applications and web sites. The data people use in the real world is rarely so well-formed. It is full of exceptions and idiosyncrasies. Our group develops tools for the web and desktop that can flex to hold and present whatever information a user considers important, in whatever way the user considers most effective.

Social Software and Social Networking. Social software includes a broad range of technologies, such as social networking, social collaboration, social media and social validation. Organizations should consider adding a social dimension to a conventional Web site or application and should adopt a social platform sooner, rather than later, because the greatest risk lies in failure to engage and thereby, being left mute in a dialogue where your voice must be heard.