NLS alive and well

in spite of it all they went and rolled their own VLE. It launches this semester. Gulp. Fingers crossed

Blogging doctors

Real eportfolios?

Mahara Moodle integration

A short conference piece by danah boyd, made interesting by the use of CommentPress for discussion

Danah, B. (2008). Taken Out of Context: American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics. University of California-Berkeley, School of Information. Retrieved from http://www.danah.org/papers/TakenOutOfContext.pdf.

To what extent is OER part of the cultural imperialism being felt "globally"?

Welcome to the author service of DOAJ - The Directory of Open Access & Hybrid Journals. Here you can look up where to publish your research as Open Access (OA).

OPML file with a list of RSS feeds for various research journals related to education, psychology, and technology and... Making the full text of educational research articles available only to those who pay a subscription is a controversial issue. Researchers in the medical and science communities are taking a lead on this issue. Here are some links to more readings:

OPML file with a list of RSS feeds for various research journals related to education, psychology, and technology:

take a look at some of the most compelling new sites that have launched in just the few short months since President Obama took office: * Data.gov, providing open access to feeds of valuable facts and figures generated by the executive branch. * USAspending.gov, allowing any of us to drill down into the details of spending from various federal agencies. * Recovery.gov, perhaps one of the best-known of the new sites, offering up details of how resources from the Recovery Act are being allocated. * And of course, there's WhiteHouse.gov. You know about that one. What's remarkable about these sites is not merely that they exist; There had been some efforts to provide this kind of information in the past. Rather, what stands out is that they exhibit a lot of the traits of some of the best tech startups in Silicon Valley or New York City. Each site has remarkably consistent branding elements, leading to a predictable and trustworthy sense of place when you visit the sites. There is clear attention to design, both from the cosmetic elements of these pages, and from the thoughtfulness of the information architecture on each site. (The clear, focused promotional areas on each homepage feel just like the "Sign up now!" links on the site of most Web 2.0 companies.) And increasingly, these services are being accompanied by new APIs and data sources that can be used by others to build interesting applications.

Wow