Friday, 11 December 2009
Open Education Repositories
If we are going to leverage the advantages of open source to create the perfect learning materials and experience then we need more of these resources:
Open Learning Initiative
MERLOT
NROC
MIT Open Courseware
Open Learning Initiative
MERLOT
NROC
MIT Open Courseware
Student Homework/Lecture Sharing
- Do we need to change the way we teach when there are sites like this?
- Does this mean we cannot have continuous assessment and we have to have exams?
- Do we have to think about what we want education to do?
- When does it go beyond collaborative learning?
Course Hero
GradeGuru
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Analysing the Social Web
My God Andrew Keen will have a heart attack. Now we can trace who is influencing the social web through twitter analytics
Klout
Klout
Designing an Information Infra-structure
- Lucene - text search engine from Apache
- The MEAP book for Lucene in Action - including twitter for the authors!!!
- Grails - Web 2.0 Development Platform used with Groovy.
- Groovy - An agile language for the Java Platform
- Python - The language under Plone
- Ruby on Rails - Simple Web Development
- Ruby Programming Language
- Zimbra/Zimlets - Open Source E-mail and Collaboration Tools - Replaces Exchange
- Django - Python Web Framework
- Terracotta - Deploy the Cloud
- CouchDB - Document oriented database
- LingPipe - Linguistic Analysis of Human Language
- General Architecture for Text Engineering - GATE
The Beginning of the End for Murdoch and Microsoft
It seems that Google and Open Source Media have caused Rupert Murdoch and Microsoft to hit the panic button that will actually lead to their own destruction.
Murdoch made a mess with MySpace which has been overtaken by Facebook since he took it over and so now he is loosing money across almost all of his operations he wants to try and charge for his content. This looks like sound business (If you read Andrew Keen you would think Murdoch was being ripped off PS DON'T). He has been attacking the BBC hard as one of the main suppliers of free-content while forgetting that it was only because he had the BBC on board that he managed to leverage any success with Sky Digital and destroy the hapless ON Digital. Now the BBC are not handy allies but a threat to his new pay model of the internet. Now he wants to get the news out of Google and to do this he has allied with Microsoft and Bing.
Microsoft will pay him to not let Google index his media output. It is a deal made in open source heaven as the two can bleed each other dry while everyone moves to alternative media sources. The UK gets to ditch the Sun which is losing its touch anyway and there will be no more Fox. It gives me the same happy feeling as AOL/Time-Warner, as I know Rupert has finally lost his touch. The people will decide with their clicks, do they want a Google dominated world or a Murdoch/Microsoft world? I know which one my money is on.
FT article
Slashdot article
BBC article
Boing-Boing article
Murdoch made a mess with MySpace which has been overtaken by Facebook since he took it over and so now he is loosing money across almost all of his operations he wants to try and charge for his content. This looks like sound business (If you read Andrew Keen you would think Murdoch was being ripped off PS DON'T). He has been attacking the BBC hard as one of the main suppliers of free-content while forgetting that it was only because he had the BBC on board that he managed to leverage any success with Sky Digital and destroy the hapless ON Digital. Now the BBC are not handy allies but a threat to his new pay model of the internet. Now he wants to get the news out of Google and to do this he has allied with Microsoft and Bing.
Microsoft will pay him to not let Google index his media output. It is a deal made in open source heaven as the two can bleed each other dry while everyone moves to alternative media sources. The UK gets to ditch the Sun which is losing its touch anyway and there will be no more Fox. It gives me the same happy feeling as AOL/Time-Warner, as I know Rupert has finally lost his touch. The people will decide with their clicks, do they want a Google dominated world or a Murdoch/Microsoft world? I know which one my money is on.
FT article
Slashdot article
BBC article
Boing-Boing article
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
Nearly Open Game Building
This is how to get children to build their own games by making a site to create their own platform games.
http://ben10-gamecreator.cartoonnetwork.co.uk/
http://ben10-gamecreator.cartoonnetwork.co.uk/
How to make computing funny
If you ever had to try and teach something like SQL there just comes a time when you know you have lost the will to live and your students have lost you sometime before this. But there is a site with some geek humour that can make your students think and you smile.
Think Dilbert only even more geeky!
http://xkcd.com/
Think Dilbert only even more geeky!
http://xkcd.com/
Interactive Agent Based Models
Agent based models make simple and effective models for ecological and population based models as well as models in the social sciences. Modelling4all is a site dedicated to making these models accessible.
Saving and Playing YouTube and other Flash Media
You need to get the DownloadHelper plugin for Firefox to allow you to save the *.flv files from YouTube so that you can play them in your own media player.
Most media players do not support playing .flv files and you need specific codecs. There is ffdshow which is a set of Flash codecs but much easier to set-up and better to use is GOM player.
Most media players do not support playing .flv files and you need specific codecs. There is ffdshow which is a set of Flash codecs but much easier to set-up and better to use is GOM player.
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