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What do we know about Elgg? Looks like a cool open source social network creation tool, like Ning only open source...

We know that Friedman is pilotting it this year. It started out as an eportfolio platform and has transitioned into social networking software. I felt it was missing some important components the last time I looked but it had been evolving rapidly. It would make sense to keep in touch with Paul's group to see what their experience of it is like and to compare it to Buddy Press which we're planning to install with Wordpress as a social networking component - if all goes well with that.

YouTube hack to see related videos in bubble map.

So cool, thanks, David!!! I like how it tracks where you've been, if you load a video. Why don't they share it (or is the hack a backdoor way of doing that?)

Cool new image & text tool

Great article that includes several more academically oriented wiki sites as well as ideas for teaching with Wikipedia.

Exciting and innovative new program that includes courses from the College of Fine Arts, the Carnegie Institute of Technology, and the School of Computer Science. From Wired Campus.

This is a really nice web-based tool for creating multimedia mashups. Careful though, the product is still in Beta which could mean that you'll lose your data or they might start charging for its use.

Getting rave reviews at Sakai10 - web conf application for higher ed built on 14 OS projects.

NYPL Labs has begun testing a light usability testing system to supplement their formal tests, inspired by the Five Second Test method which was devised by Jared Spoo

This looks like an incredible, lightway to get user feedback (IF you have a site that users are already visiting...)

oh, my understanding is that you can also use screenshots and mock-ups, depending on what your research question is! We'll need to try it to understand the ways in which it can be useful.

Webtools for language (free?) using voice recording.

Thought you might be interested in this Prezi of Bloom's taxonomy - very comprehensive overview with an activity at the end, could be embedded into SI or any wiki...

I heard that this morning! Cool thing is that Michael Simon used our wiki system to collaborate on the paper. https://wikis.uit.tufts.edu/confluence/display/GutSlidinginCrawlingiManducasextai/

Mentioned on Wired Campus. It looks like a combination of Google Wave (organized by topics in real-time) and Berkman Center's Live Question Tool. 

Looks great!!! (and maybe a little overwhelming to the average faculty member?) I wonder who/what would be a good use case to try it out? Any thought that Kris might want to give it a try (since he seems to like to throw a lot of things into his class?)

I'm intrigued by this "should I skip class" calculator: http://www.skipclasscalculator.com/ What do you think of it?

can download the article here: http://www.stcsig.org/usability/newsletter/0304-observing.html

We used this tool when I was at the Ed School. In 2005, it looked like the project was going to die (it was grant funded, and money ran out), but it seems like it was made into a commercial product. It was a very powerful process to build onto each others' ideas. I'm even wondering if with a little more functionality, VUE could support this theoratical framework.

We used this tool when I was at the Ed School. In 2005, it looked like the project was going to die (it was grant funded, and money ran out), but it seems like it was made into a commercial product. It was a very powerful process to build onto each others' ideas. I'm even wondering if with a little more functionality, VUE could support this theoratical framework.

Looks very interesting - was the 6 month free trial tempting at all?

Tufts OCW happens to be listed second in this list.

Great list comparing tools for social learning (Twitter, Facebook, Ning, and Elgg). With Ning's new pricing plans, looks like for most non-personal uses, Elgg comes out ahead, however it either has to be downloaded and installed (does that mean your machine would need to be on all the time for folks to use your site?) or you can pay for hosted service.

"Lecture tools" looks like an interesting suite of tools - I registered a Tufts Test class - feel free to join it and add content if you want to experiment with this platform. It's from Michigan, Hannah, do you know this guy (Perry Samson) or his work?