By Boone Gorges as part of WordPress NYC Meetup, May 18 2010. This is a brief slide presentation explaining the value of WordPress MultiSite and how to use it.
Similar to Wordle, this tool also enables users to create tag clouds. However, on this site, your tag clouds can take on forms (including apple, dove, heart, and star). You can also apply fonts and themes.
Though their primary audience is K-12, EduDemic offers social media/web 2.0 tools that are of use to students and teachers -- many applicable to the education world beyond K-12 as well.
By Chuck Frey, posted to Mind Mapping Software Blog October 21 2008. This blog concentrates on mind mapping software. In this post, they make recommendations about software that will be useful in project management, though presumably some PM tools will also include such mapping features.
By Elinor Mills in the InSecurity Complex column of CNET News, posted July 15, 2010. Mills presents a variety of password storage solutions, from the "old school" (on a scrap of paper in your wallet) to desktop, web-based, and USB-based solutions. There are links to many of the key players, as well as to earlier CNET articles.
From TopTenREVIEWS, 2010. There is a comparison chart of 14 leading password management software solutions. Scroll beneath the comparison chart for a brief article outlining why someone might use this software and what to look for when evalutating. Unfortunately, the solutions presented here range in price from $15 to $75. There are no free solutions presented.
Originally prepared by Robin Good and Daniele Bazzano for MasterNewMedia, and first published on June 29th, 2009. This guide offers some of the advantages of self-publishing, along with reviews of 15 companies that produce self-published books.
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching. This resource hosts communities for members to contribute and share learning and teaching materials. The communities are categorized by higher education disciplines. In addition to contributing materials, members can comment about outside learning materials that are used, share information about themselves and knowledge about their discipline, put together personal collections to use in the classroom and become a Peer Reviewer of learning materials in member's discipline.
In addition to discipline communities, there is the Community of MERLOT Partner Academic Support Services (COMPASS). This community is made up of ePortfolio, Faculty Development, Library and Information Services, Online Courses and Pedagogy. The ePortflio Portal centers educational resources around ePortfolio use in higher education, among students and faculty.
Partner Communities like GLOBE extend the MERLOT network. The Global Learning Objects Brokered Exchange (GLOBE) alliance was established between ARIADNE Foundation in Europe, Education Services Austrailia, LORNET in Canada, National Institute of Multimedia Education (NIME) in Japan and MERLOT with the goal to "work collaboratively on a shared vision of ubiquitous access to quality educational content."
The majority of MERLOT members are faculty/instructors and the balance are students, campus administrators, librarians and other members of higher education who are concerned with online learning materials, technology, teaching and learning, and innovation.
On PBS NewsHour, April 20, 2010. Jeffrey Brown interview with Mary Spilde and Hilary Pennington about the increased focus on boosting graduation rates in community colleges. Remedial education, innovative technology models and standards for accountabililty are topics covered.
By Hilary Davis in Library in the Leadpipe, November 11, 2009.
This post is an exploration of how data visualization can help libraries make more informed decisions.
By Rose Holley, in D-Lib Magazine, March/April 2010, vol 16(3/4). This article looks at crowd sourcing -- more than "social engagement," the author defines crowdsourcing as individuals collectively working towards a common goal (e.g. correcting a news article) -- and how libraries might direct engagement in crowdsourcing.
In many cases, "crowdsourcing" (as per author's definition) is what we (KPI) are trying to accomplish with our Jams and other online engagements. The author offers a great checklist (with examples) for how to engage your "crowd" in your project. SM