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Feldstein on why open source and agile development will allow new technology to come on stream really quickly.

See esp slides 20 and 35 onwards about the unmeasured value in open source.

"This site is aimed at students. It concerns when to reference sources in written course assignments."

"Open Cobalt Alpha is the first step in a long term project to make available to all people a free and open source platform for constructing, accessing, and sharing virtual workspaces for research and education. This 3D multimedia wiki technology makes it easy to create deeply collaborative and hyperlinked multi-user virtual workspaces, virtual exhibit spaces, and game-based learning and training environments that run on all major software operating systems. By using a peer-based messaging protocol to reduce reliance on server infrastructures for support of basic in world interactions across many participants, Open Cobalt makes it possible for people hyperlink their virtual worlds via 3D portals to form a large distributed network of interconnected collaboration spaces. It also makes it possible for schools and other organizations to freely set up their own networks of public and private 3D virtual workspaces that feature integrated web browsing, voice chat, text chat, and access to remote desktop applications and services."

Hey guys. Just watched a live session online at Cisco w the developers of this system, still in development, but interesting differentiators vs 2Life, e.g. peer-to-peer, nested worlds, oh and its open-source. Thought yaz might be interested in tracking it.

"Gephi is an interactive visualization and exploration platform for all kinds of networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs.Runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Gephi is open-source and free"

Can we start to connect this with Moodle? Is it possible? "Now, all of your Google Sites content can be accessed using the Google Data protocol. That means porting over an old webpage or backing up an existing site got much easier! In fact, check out our open-source Google Sites import/export tool that does just that. So what can you do with the Google Sites API? Glad you asked! The API supports most of the functionality found in Google Sites, which includes the ability to: * Retrieve, create, modify, and delete pages and content. * Upload/download attachments. * Review the revision history across a site. * Display recent user activity."

"Now, all of your Google Sites content can be accessed using the Google Data protocol. That means porting over an old webpage or backing up an existing site got much easier! In fact, check out our open-source Google Sites import/export tool that does just that. So what can you do with the Google Sites API? Glad you asked! The API supports most of the functionality found in Google Sites, which includes the ability to: * Retrieve, create, modify, and delete pages and content. * Upload/download attachments. * Review the revision history across a site. * Display recent user activity."

Michael Feldstein writes an incisive post against statements by BB that open source - specifically Moodle - is inherently bad, dangerous and will ruin your institution. Must read!

Class2Go is an open source platform(LMS?) is to be integrated with the edX platform and released on Github from June 1 2013. Will be interesting to see what its like...

"Booktype is a free, open source platform that produces beautiful, engaging books formatted for print, Amazon, iBooks and almost any ereader within minutes. Create books on your own or with others via an easy-to-use web interface. Build a community around your content with social tools and use the reach of mobile, tablet and ebook technology to engage new audiences."

"Archi is a free, open source, cross-platform tool and editor to create ArchiMate models."

"Telescope was created to provide an easy, free, and open-source way to set up a community. "

"Here on the Guardian's data team, we've wanted to help you visualise our data and create new viz styles for a long time. And now, thanks to some great work by the Guardian's Interactive team, that dream has moved one step closer. This week, developers Alastair Dant and Alex Graul launched the first part of the Miso project. In this piece, Alex explains it is a "Set of Open Source tools designed to make it faster and easier to create high quality interactive and data visualization content""

"Zeega is an open-source HTML5 platform for creating interactive documentaries, open archives and inventing new forms of storytelling. Zeega makes it easy to collaboratively produce, curate and publish participatory multimedia projects online, on mobile devices and in physical spaces. Zeega is in early alpha."

"Mozilla is reportedly working on an open-source operating system for tablet devices and smartphones that will support its revolutionary "Do Not Track" feature on mobile."

Start of a project at Bolton Uni to data warehouse with Linked Data components.

Search engine for educational video lectures & talks from a variety of sources.

Stanfords open source learning platform - although this seems like a page of blah and can't find a download link or access to the code...

RT @marksmithers: Good analysis of Google's Course Builder by @PhilOnEdTech http://t.co/wNTJ0TGD #MOOCs

How to broadcast laser graffiti with regular gear.

collection of video tutorials on different software tools from a range of sources although all the ones I have looked at so far are from Youtube. But menus/index provides an easy way of finding what you want