tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145097832024-09-05T23:50:19.301+02:00Interesting things on the net that have something to do with social software, folksonomy and the likes.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger112125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-73532224561511344072008-11-07T13:09:00.001+01:002008-11-07T13:10:27.924+01:00

My current website is at http://www.koopaladvies.nl Mijn website is te vinden op http://www.koopaladvies.nl

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ccLearn was 'publicly' launched during the Sakai conference in Amsterdam in June of this year (picture). Fortunately they have made some progress. ccLearn is partnering with Google to create a so-called "Web-scale open education search". Please check it out at:Open Education Search — ccLearn Institutions have done amazing work creating and publishing OERs on the web, but the infrastructure to

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There is a great test for your ego: "Everyone is guilty of ego propping now and then. Some people are more guilty of the practice than others. Below is a test that will analyze how important you think you are."Go to http://technosailor.com/the-technosailor-self-importance-test.I am like Matt Mullenweg.... apparantly.

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[dit is een oproep in het Nederlands] SURFnet is wel erg druk om SURFgroepen te promoten.... Nu staat er het volgende op SURFgroepen (bron): "Oproep: help mee aan de SURFgroepen campagne by SURFgroepen Portal Site Administrator 19/09/2007 16:58Misschien heb je de radiospotjes al gehoord, of de advertenties gezien: SURFnet voert campagne om docenten en onderzoekers bekend te maken met

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Gerard werkt aan Fontys Hogescholen, en heeft goed weblog, vind ik! Zie bijvoorbeeld dit bericht over video en powerpoint. En Gerard gooit er meteen ook maar tien tips over wiki's tegenaan.

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David Wiley, who works at Utah State University (USA), has a great weblog, called iterating toward openness. This title is quite right I think; only by iterating, which implies making mistakes etc, we will reach more openness. One other aspect of David Wiley that I like very much, is that he sets an example of who to "do" openness. He just does it!So, today he is starting his "Introduction to

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We all know Google Docs (do we?). But innovation moves quickly in this era of Web 2.0. So, the next big thing is Buzzword. On eHub they call it The First Real Word Processor for the Web. The killer feature of Buzzword, apparantly, is that that what gets printed is exactly what's on your screen (or the other way around). Buzzword does this by using Flash technology. Don't get excited, yet,

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... gets mainstream by 'funding' by, in this case, the German central government. More at heise online - German Wikipedia receives state funding :"German edition of the open Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia will be receiving state funding. Germany will be setting aside part of its budget to improve information about renewable resources in Wikipedia. Over the next few years, several hundred

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image-mosaic Originally uploaded by wytze Just a quick note here. Recently I discovered Image Mosaic Generator. This is a really great tool (dunno if it should be labeled social software though, is it?) for creating beautiful mosaics. What do you think of this picture? I like it and it is really damn easy to create.I just wish that you could ask to make a mosaic based on just your own photo's

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There is some great stuff to be found everywhere on the web. The last thing I found (thanks Wilfred!) is a video on how and why to use a wiki. The video is made by CommonCraft, a web strategy consulting firm based in Seatlle (WA).So here is the 4 minutes of video:

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Last week I got alerted by Flickr that my Pro account would expire soon. This means that I have been using Flickr for 2 years already. Time flies when you are having fun.This alert started me to think why I should renew my account. Well, here are my reasons:1/ I love the usability of Flickr! This is how a website should work. It is really so thought-out. There are (almost) never too many clicks

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I am catching up on quite a few weblogs through Bloglines. I seeseveral posts on the joy of using RSS and readers like Google Reader. But that is not what I want to address here.I would really like to point you to an interesting post on the blog of Erik Duval. I am a regular reader of the blog by Erik Duval, of elearning standards fame. He is from Belgium, if you didn't know yet.Erik is really

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This a short message. I am Away From Keyboard (AFK). Will be back in a few weeks. And this is also post # 100 in this weblog!

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Sometime ago I wrote (I think) on this weblog something about Netvibes as the means of creating a Personal Learning Environment. Now, Michele Martin brings this theory into practice, and writes about Reorganizing My Personal Learning Environment . A great read! And a recommended weblog too, which I have added to my Bloglines right away.

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George Siemens points to a very interesting post on the weblog by Ross Dawson. I've seen Wilfred Rubens refer to this post by Ross also.I particularly like the comment that Siemens makes: "Organizations (..) are generally too unaware ofthemselves and their strengths and expertise. Social software cangreatly aid the "coming to know oneself" that most larger corporationsneed...but too often,

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This is just alittle sidenote... Well, not really. This is about blogging within an organisation. Sun Microsystems is a great example. The recent restructuring of the company was announced through a weblog. See also this article in Dutch in Emerce - Business nieuws: Sun Microsystems reorganiseert via weblog CEO "Technologiebedrijf Sun Microsystems neemt de organisatie van het bedrijf grondig op

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Yesterday I was posting some pictures on Flickr, when I noticed a new feature. It is called Collections. This is the answer to a question that has been around for a looooong time, about nesting of sets, and subsets etc. So I created a Work-related Collection for you.

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YouTube is getting (we all know that) a lot of attention these days. Recently a Dutch education institute joined YouTube, instead of creating their own videochannel or whatever. Check out this channel. A quote in Dtuch: "De CABK, ArtEZ academie voor beeldende kunsten, is eigenwijs zoals een kunstacademie behoort te zijn en denkt: if you can’t beat them, join them. Is het huidige internet

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Jaaaaa, er begint iets te borrelen op de UT. Lees de ingezonden brief van Casper Hulshof in de UT Nieuws van 8 maart 2007: "Met enige verbazing en ergernis las ik hetkorte interview met Sander Smit (UT-Nieuws, 22 februari) over WindowsVista. (..) Terwijl de gemeente Enschede opopen-source software overstapt schenkt onze zogenaamd innovatieveuniversiteit een miljoen of wat aan Microsoft, met als

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Through Stephen Downes i noticed the word "xFruit". Clicking on it, i arrived at a great example of a Web 2.0 service. Didn't you always want to have a handy tool to convert your weblog in a readable PDF (including working links)? Or to create an email notification based on RSS?Well, then it is the right time to start experimenting with xFruits. They offer these kind of services. I did this

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A very interesting post by Willem van Valkenburg (in Dutch) on the way a teacher made use of a wiki and Google docs.Check out Docent te modern : "Het komt niet vaak voor dat de studenten klagen dat docenten te geavanceerde tools voor ze gebruiken. (..) zeker omdat het om informatica-studenten gaat, die bezig zijn met hun master."

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I just found a great Netvibes contender, which is called eyeOS. A quote from their websi: "Welcome to eyeOS.info, where you can create and use your own eyeOS Virtual Desktop. With eyeOS.info all your data is available where ever you have Internet access and a standards compliant browser."This is really something here.! Let me explain. You can download the source for this virtual desktop and

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I just read the weblog by Marja Verstelle. She is present at the ELI 2007 annual meeting, as far as I understood. I wonder what she picked up at this presentation: EDUCAUSE | ELI 2007 Annual Meeting | Father Google and Mother IM: Confessions of a Net Gen Learner Ofcourse, if others want to fill in here, that's fine with me.

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D'Arcy Norman, from the University of Calgary (Canada), has a great weblog for everyone interested in elearning and such. There's is always something interesting on his weblog.One of his last posts is about CAREO, a repository that was offline for 9 months. His post is pretty disappointing: "(..) I think it's a pretty impressive statement about Institutional Repositories that something that was

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So, this must be the year 2007 then! This will be a great year. There are lot of predictions for this year pouring in through my Bloglines. One recurring prediction is that social software will finally get mainstream for and in education. I sure hope so!A teacher in Seattle, Mark Ahlness, starts of his new year with a great illustration of the aforementioned prediction:"My 8 and 9 year old third

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