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Uncontrol that conversation

I’ve been reading The Word of Mouth Manual: Vol 2 by Dave Balter of BzzAgent, which interested me because: 1) it is available free as a PDF although you can buy it for $45 through Amazon 2) he is one of the few people I know of who usefully ...


Mogulus

2gether08 - “a festival of ideas, popular technolgies and progress” is streaming live today using Mogulus which allows you to set up your own online tv channel, with real-time video mixing and access to a graphics library to help make ...


Entrepreneurs and new media

My friend Jose from thinkjose.com just started a thread on seesmic.com from the MIT Enterprise Forum Entrepreneurs Organisation Entrepreneurial Masters Programme (pause for breath) on ‘What would you tell 60 entrepreneurs about new mediaR...


Moodle made easy

No the navigation hasn’t been sorted but if you are a teacher and you like the idea of running you’re own virtual learning environment with ready-to-go tools like discussion forums and learning journals, quizzes and student progress tr...


iGoogle OpenLearn

OU Corporate & Employer Services have recently released a Fact of the Day iGoogle widget. Add it to your iGoogle homepage and benefit from a snippet of knowledge and a link to an OpenLearn study unit every day. Employers love bite-sized learn...


UnLtdWorld ResearchLab

I was speaking to chief strategist Alberto at UnLtdWorld today about the upcoming release of their API for the ResearchLab. The Lab currently gives a pretty static view on their members data showing the interests, locations and services of the soc...


Digizen: social networks and education

Check out the report on digizen on social networking services in education. High five to the Open University course profiles app on Facebook, which gets a mention under Profile-based social networking services. Includes examples of all our best fr...


Copy cats

It’s amazing what you’ll find when you are browsing the web. I just found a fictional account of the lives of the OpenLearn team on YouTube. Now I know we said the materials are free to copy under a Creative Commons license, but not ou...


How to… do OER

The UNESCO OER Community are in the middle of a 2 week discussion about creating an OER Toolkit. From this I’ve discovered that The University of Art and Design in Helsinki facilitated a free and open 10 week course earlier this year on Comp...


Video sites for education

I’ve been doing some work in understanding how we might use video sites like YouTube to distribute learning materials and build awareness about open educational resources. When we started talking about YouTube and how other universities are ...


UNISUL traduz OpenLearn

UNISUL - a university in Brazil - have translated the OpenLearn study unit Information on the Web into a Portuguese study unit. Big thanks to them for showing the power of using a Creative Commons license to publish educational resources freely. T...


NBC News launches multimedia learning platform

Based on research by the MIT Education Arcade, iCue launched a few weeks ago to provide free online education, entertainment and learning through peer networking to learners aged 13+. Users can draw on video and gaming resources from the US based ...


Discussion on OER toolkit

UNESCO is launching an online discussion on the finalisation of an OER toolkit. It takes place from the 16-27 June and anyone can comment on the Do-It-Yourself/Do-It-Together’ resource aimed at building capacity for local OER development and...


OpenLearn is an internet fave

Just been checking how the OpenLearn site has been used while I’ve been away and it was nice to see us appear on AllMyFaves as this site aims to highlight the creme de la creme of the internet. Obviously the author has impeccable taste I ju...


Back to the future?

Coming back to work after being on leave is what I imagine entering the Big Brother house to be like. You’re not quite sure what is waiting for you behind the office door - a round of applause or a bunch of lunatics running round like headle...


Farewell…

…dear readers. I am going on leave and its a no-computer-access-remote-island-kind-of-leave. Ok, I might sneak back a couple of times, but you don’t have to worry about my safety should you not hear from me in a while. In case of withd...