There have been a couple of recent articles in The Guardian (Can Amazon turn e-Book Mainsteam?) and the BBC (Amazon Offers New Kindle for the UK Market) about Amazon’s imminent release of a UK Kindle and Amazon’s claim that some form of e-book tipping point is imminent. Does anyone know…
The deadline for free Ning sites passed in July and any free Ning sites have to be upgraded to a paid plan by 20th August this year or risk deletion. The site eg-353.ning.com which I created for the HEFCW funded enhancement peer-support project is doomed unless I pay the $19.95…
I don’t have an iPad, but if I did, I’d be very interested in Flipboard. But I’ve gotta ask, why isn’t this a web app? Last time I looked, the web browser was still more ubiquitous than Apple’s new toy. Thanks to @AJCann for the link.
Graham Atwell (@GrahamAtwell) has highlighted a sequence of video interviews recorded by Joyce Seitzinger (@catzpyjamasnz) at the recent (first?) Personal Learning Environments (PLE) conference recently held in Barcelona. The videos are part of her What My PLN Means to Me” project. The Three Letter Abbreviations PLE and PLN seem to…
A great learning resource from the University of Bergen. I’ll definately be adding this to my project briefings. The video is in Norwegian, so you might want to watch it at YouTube where you can see the subtitles in English. It also raises the bar on what a learning resource…
Drupal is an open source CMS framework that can and has been used to build all kinds of web sites (including Obama’s www.whitehouse.gov). It can also be used to build educational sites with elements of social networking (see Drupal in Education and Bill Fitzgerald’s book Drupal for Education and e-Learning,…
Those of you who have been losing sleep over the withdrawal of free-Ning and its likely impact on the HEFCw funded enhancement project “A Peer Support Network” need worry no longer. The pilot social network EG-353 Research Project has been re-born, like a phoenix rising from the ashes, as a…
“A nation’s treasure is in its scholars” – Chinese proverb. In an idle moment, I took the time to scroll through all the blog postings in the Learning lab community blog. I didn’t count them, but apparently there are 155 golden nuggets published since July 2007 by the small (but…
A brief survey of alternatives to Ning with comments. Please feel free to extend the list. Cloud Hosted The following were recommended by JP in a discussion “The Best, Most Reliable and Trusted Freemium Social Network Alternatives.” on the Ning Creators community site. I haven’t tried any of them. Ning…
The recent Ning announcement was a particular blow to the HEFCw funded “Peer Support Network” project. It couldn’t have happened at a worse time: the 2009-2010 engineering research project is nearly over and the allocation process for 2010-2011 is about to begin. We need to roll over the students immediately,…
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