Knowledge in the Public Interest (KPI)

Presented on TED.COM, filmed Feb 2010 and posted April 2010. Wujec discusses his experience using the Marshmallow Challenge in team-building exercises. Observing the challenge 100s of times, he sees that kindergarteners do better than recent business school grads (better at prototyping, less jockeying for leadership), CEOs do well, but do even better with an executive admin on their team because facilitation is important. High stakes (he's offered a cash reward) works better once the team has acquired skills; high stakes with no skills is a disaster.

Presented by Dean Shareski and posted by Wesley Fryer on October 11 2010, this is the 2010 pre-conference keynote to the K12 Online 2010 conference. Shareski discusses how the advent of the internet has facilitated sharing about educators and their colleagues.

Produced by VideoUserManuals, 2010. This is a manual for developers who create websites using WordPress (as a CMS). There are some helpful tips; they even share their own standard process for new site development.

BuddyPress is an LMS application developed using WordPress.

Diana recommended this site, too, as a tutorial in our expanding use of WordPress.

This blog is "a hub for developing WordPress plugins for Education."

Diana recommended this site as a WordPress tutorial, as we move forward in our use of WordPress.

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 Lanwitches on Langwitches blog, March 29, 2010. This blog post includes a slideshow that describes 70 web-based tools that might be of interest to educators. The tools are only roughly categorized. As the author notes, "It is not about the tools, it's about the skills." That said, there are some interesting tools here.

This is a commercial site that offers "integrated open source learning services." Of particular interest to KPI are some of the Moodle-related offerings incuding ELIS (Enterprise Learning Intelligence Suite). The company offers a variety of services (hosting, learning services, webinars), as well as blogs.

By Chris Riedel, in THE Journal, Jan 22 2010. Specific tools are mentioned, including GSCC favorites like Jing and Prezi.

Kaltura is an open source video tool that has plug-ins/modules for many popular open source tools including Moodle and WordPress.

This wiki offers an evolving collection of technology tools for collaborative work and online education. It is maintained by Margaret Riel and faculty and others from the Masters of Arts in Learning Technologies, Graduate School of Education and Psychology from Pepperdine University. There are a variety of tools and other useful links here -- watch out for currency, though. When visiting the site on 4/1/10, the last update had been Dec 2009.

Screen capture software that also allows editing.

GIMP is open source image manipulation software.

Tutorials for GIMP image manipulation software.

Phoebe, a "pedagogic planner" is, per the website "a web application designed to provide inspiration and practical support for learning design." In addition to building learning designs in Pheobe, users can also look at the learning design of others.

From it's About page, Protégé is an open-source platform where users can "implement a rich set of knowledge-modeling structures and actions that support the creation, visualization, and manipulation of ontologies in various representation formats."

iRubric is a tool that helps faculty design rubrics for assessment. This tool is part of the Rcampus suite of opensource tools.