links for 2008-02-20

• KNFB Reader
  here’s an interesting device for the visually impaired (and literacy challenged) – a combo of digital camera, pda and text to speech engine. I wonder if our disabilities officer has some cash in the budget for a trial? knfb also have a version that works
  (tags: knfb tts speech Accessibility)
• Scientist postulates 4 aspects of ‘humaniqueness’ differentiating human and animal cognition
  interestingly, I spend most of my time trying to get my student to understand and apply these 4 things – I suspect that we, like the ‘animals’, are mostly operating using the “laster beam” intelligence mentioned in this release.
  (tags: human intelligence cognition science)
• Ning – Create your own Social Networks!
  create, customize, and share your own Social Network for free in seconds. A semi-open source social networking platform
  (tags: blogging bookmarking collaboration communities e-learning forums freeware networking podcasting socialmedia socialnetwork socialnetworking socialsoftware tools webservice ning)
• Scribd
  a flex/flash based document sharing site touting themselves as the pdf killers of the web 2.0 world – could be worth taking for a spin if the TAFE firewall doesn’t lock it out first
  (tags: documents ebooks pdf e-learning files flash flex hosting scribd sharing)