links for 2008-06-30
June 30th, 2008
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pranks, hacks, participatory art, flash mobs, and other creative endeavors that take place in public places – gold
links for 2008-06-29
June 29th, 2008
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another one for the feed reader – exploring brain plasticity, mirror neurons, language and brain rhythms
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a 2.5 hour video (not for the faint hearted) on free and open source software. Tenuous links to ethical issues IMO, but very pertinent to the changing nature of society.
links for 2008-06-28
June 28th, 2008
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note to self: pick up a copy of the alternate install disk so I can upgrade the laptop.
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step by step instructions for upgrading from gutsy to hardy ubuntu using the alternate install cd (rather than repeatedly downloading the whole install to update each computer in your home)
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all the tools for creating comic strips… now all I need is the humour, inspiration and design skills
links for 2008-06-27
June 27th, 2008
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an impressive collection of biofeedback device schematics – perfect for those home soldering moments
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a generator that makes it easy for you to embed High Quality MP4 versions of YouTube videos.
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Set up a GroupList to securely share the information, like email, website, facebook, twitter, phone or between everyone in the group. No accounts, no login, just a very simple solution to share information with a group.
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a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free in their own towns and thus keeping good stuff out of landfills. Bathurst has 440 active members
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an online record label releasing exclusive and completely free music from emerging and established artists.
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a lucid dreaming portal/encyclopedia/blog/wiki. What will they dream up next?
links for 2008-06-26
June 26th, 2008
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a concept and content mapping application, developed to support teaching, learning and research. VUE’s pathways feature allows presenters to create annotated trails through their maps, which become expert guided walk-throughs of the information. FOSS
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an online (flash based) powerpoint/presenter application that might be worth a look in some slow class or another.
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a communication space for TAFE NSW ANT2 project managers for project planning, implementation and evaluation details relevant to project managers for the duration of the project (ie: workshop details, project plan [and other] templates, timelines etc)
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Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fconnect.educause.edu%2FLibrary%2FEDUCAUSE%2BQuarterly%2FToolboxorTrapCourseManage%2F46576
links for 2008-06-25
June 25th, 2008
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a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text
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a GNOME2 editor that is dedicated to editing PHP files and other supporting files, like HTML/CSS. It has support for drop-down function lists, hints showing parameters, and syntax highlighting.
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a nicely organised collection of linux apps – plenty to explore without all the cruft presented by synaptic
links for 2008-06-24
June 24th, 2008
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sick of the run-of-the-mill podcasts? UC Berkeley, Stanford, Oxford, Johns Hopkins and Harvard have all contributed podcasts for a huge range of courses. Guaranteed to get you thinking.
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yet another handy list of handy wordpress addons
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one for Ruth about building her digital footprint – by the time she works through this it should be godzilla sized!
links for 2008-06-22
June 22nd, 2008
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I rather enjoyed reading through this discussion of flash based learning objects – it had me thinking about TAFE building yet another repository in a desperate bid to get resources like these out into the workplace, ignoring how useful they might be
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Building a subject evaluation form (or perhaps a web application)? Here’s a good spot to start.
links for 2008-06-21
June 21st, 2008
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some practical recipes and discussion about the Ornish diet which has been used to reduce heart disease and was recently shown to reduce cancer cell expression. I don’t know that I’m quite ready to give up coffee, seeds and nuts yet, but pretty well live
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self published online magazines – a great resource for resume inspiration or publishing ideas
links for 2008-06-19
June 19th, 2008
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a set of wiki pages being built around the Cert IV web design course taught at TAFE. It’s a work in progress where each module is presented with the learning outcomes, suggestions for practice and evidence and exercises.
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another interesting education based wiki – this one limited(?) to the tottering remains of the British Empire
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a video that uses the analogy of planning a camping trip to show how easy fully collborative Web publishing really is. And, moreover, shows that it’s publishing with a purpose.
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some nice (quick) introductory videos on a variety of eLearning technologies – wikis, podcasting, twitter, blogs, google docs, social networking, social bookmarking and RSS. + they can be viewed from inside the TAFE firewall
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web conferencing made easy
