Archive for June, 2006
Creative Commons Organisation provides you with a valid legal text in the jurisdiction of the country you want to allow users to use your work without committing an infringement of the copyright law.
Continue Reading June 29th, 2006
The word “repository” tends to suggest something big and centralised, set up to deal with the needs of large institutions, or even whole education systems. Typically people imagine them being hosted on big humming boxes tended by people in white coats who have got lost from a Gary Larson cartoon. But it doesn’t have to be like that. The OpenDock project sees a repository as a thin layer which sits between your file system and the rest of the net, controling access and providing information on what is being shared. The problem with this kind of approach is that people’s personal computers are not always on the net, are sometimes behind firewalls, or (as in my case) tend to be hijacked by teenagers whose fingers are trembling with messenger withdrawal.
In order to tackle this problem, the OpenDock repository (baptised opendocument.net) will be installable on any hosted web space, so long as it runs PHP and a database. That way anyone can make their files available reliably to the rest of the world, with the bandwidth and capacity that they choose.
The repository also provides extra information about the resources which are stored. An IMS Learning Design parser will be integrated, so that when you are sharing educational resources the activities which can be carried out with them will be visible to the people who are searching. This is a module in the repository system, so it would be easy to adapt the system for any other XML data posted about the resources.
This paper describes the system which is being built, and which will soon see the light of day. Keep an eye on the Bazaar, we’ll be posting the news as soon as it is available.
June 20th, 2006
The trials and tribulations of trying to publish multi media on the web - can anyone advise me?
Continue Reading June 18th, 2006
Anne Oestergaard reportrs on a debate in the Free and Open Source software community on the “male mono culture issue”.
Continue Reading June 18th, 2006
Trailer for a Bazaar seminar on issues regarding data ownership.
Continue Reading June 14th, 2006
At May 15, 2006 the first “Show-me day” of the Bazaar project took place successfully at University of Cologne. Fourteen teachers were introduced in creating, exchanging and re-using e-learning materials with Open Source software tools. The participants came from schools and institutions for further and vocational training of the Cologne region.
The Show-me day started with an introduction to open content by Carsten Kozianka from the Cologne team. Carsten explained how one can safely copy, modify and redistribute Open Content in combination with its own learning material. Equipped with an own computer and online connection every participant could verify how easy it is to add a creative commons licence to an own image or text file.
The second part of the Show-me day was dedicated to hands-on experience in creating e-learning content. Matthias Kunkel demonstrated how to turn a simple text file into an multimedia-enhanced e-learning module by using OpenOffice with the add-on iLEX and the learning management system ILIAS. At the end of the event Carsten presented how to create and format WIKI pages as an alternative way to create content for educational purposes.
Due to the deep interest of the participants and their wish to continue this exchange of information and experience, the Bazaar team Cologne decided to open an ILIAS stall for all participants of the Show-me day and for all people interested in creating e-learning content with ILIAS.
June 7th, 2006
Derek Morrison detects an increasing dissonance, however, between attempts to ground Technology Enhanced Learning work in connections, communities, and learning/social networks, and the, now open, declarations by some of our institutional leaders (and others) that e-learning is about the ‘industrialisation’ of learning
Continue Reading June 5th, 2006
This is my Position Paper on Personal Learning Environments for next weeks PLE meeting in Manchester
Continue Reading June 1st, 2006
Today The Bazaar launches new functionality to all Stalls. We have implemented a new component for organising online meetings.
The new component has the following functionality:
- Simple meeting scheduler
- Allow access to all Bazaar members or your Stall members only
- High performance chat-service
- Seperate notepad for writing notes during the meeting
- Clear meeting transscripts in html and txt
Stall-holders: To add ‘online meetings’ to your Stall, create a new page using the ‘chatbox’ template.
Bazaar-members: You can testdrive ‘online meetings’ in the Demo Stall.
June 1st, 2006
