This has been a quiet blogging week due to FLACSO México‘s visit to the University of Minnesota. The visit has been very busy, and highly productive. This morning, Education Futures contributor Dr. Cristóbal Cobo (read his blog) presented his ideas at a University of Minnesota’s Institute for New Media Studies and Digital Technology Center research [...]
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Posts Tagged ‘ Web 2.0 ’
Journalism 2.0 at Minnesota
9/16/2007
This post is a little bit off topic, but it’s good to point out excellent examples citizen journalism –or Journalism 2.0. Many civil service workers at the University of Minnesota are on strike. One of our picketing colleagues, Tom Elko, posted an excellent video of his observations over the past week: More at Tom’s blog…
Planet Web 2.0
9/10/2007
Cristóbal Cobo writes that his book, co-authored with Hugo Pardo, “Planeta Web 2.0, ¿Inteligencia colectiva o medios fast food?” (Planet Web 2.0: Collective intelligence or fast food?) is available for download under a Creative Commons license. In this volume, Cobo and Pardo reflect on whether the Web 2.0 trend is a creative phase, based on [...]
Sidebar widgets for Leia
7/25/2007
Okay, okay…!! I’ve been getting lots of emails from WordPress bloggers looking for a copy of my widgetized adaptation of the Leia theme. I’ll try to get a sanitized edition (with EF-specific stuff removed) available for download sometime in the near future. In the meantime, you can insert this code snippit into your theme’s sidebar.php [...]
A question on linking open courseware to faculties
5/17/2007
The Online Education Database published their list of “Top 100 open courseware projects.” This list demonstrates that there is a lot of content available, encompassing in the fields of agriculture, arts, architecture, archeology, audio & video, biology, botany, chemistry, civil engineering, economics, electronic engineering, general engineering, Earth sciences, geography & geology, history, languages & linguistics, [...]
Blidget: Blog meets widget
2/1/2007
This seems like a good idea. From Crunch Gear: Widgetbox, a marketplace for Web widgets, now lets you quickly and easily build a widget for your blog. Called Blidgets, they combine the power of RSS feeds with the “easy page integration of widgets.” The Blidget Maker auto-discovers RSS feeds, images and descriptions for the blog [...]
Solution Watch: Comment tracking with coComment
2/6/2006
Solution Watch writes about coComment: The way it works is very simple. When you signup to coComment, you are given a bookmarklet that you are asked to add to your browser. Then, the next time you come across a blog post that you want to comment on, click on the bookmarklet before commenting. You will [...]
FCW: Government 2.0
5/21/2005
From FCW.com: Eggers: Government 2.0 “Students can now get personally tailored education without attending special schools or classes. It’s even possible to eliminate much of the guesswork involved in deciding which learning approach works best for each student. Using artificial intelligence, the computer can adapt to the pace, complexity and direction of the learning experience [...]
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