Category: Social Software
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The Commons (or why flickr is awesome)
In following up on my idea for using flickr to create an image collection for Wooster, I happened to revisit The Commons. I had visited it when it was first announced and looked at some of the images put up by The Library of Congress, but I had not been back since. I was surprised…
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Pipes in education
See it is not about copyright.I’m sure all of you are aware of Yahoo!’s Pipes product. I am very interested in it and how faculty can take advantage of it. However, I have not had the time to sit down and play with it. D’Arcy Norman has had some time to play with it and…
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Maybe the kids aren’t as hip as we think
Kevin Lim had an interesting post a while back. He was describing his recent experience in discussing the use of social media in corporations. In his post Kevin states, “I was quite disappointed with the lack of awareness to a lot of things I mentioned.” I wish I could say that I was surprised to…
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What would be good additions to Moodle
After looking at some of the things on Solution Watch, I see a few that would be great additions to Moodle. The functionality of Gradefix, mynoteIT, NoteMesh, Diigo, Google Video, and Flickr added to Moodle would allow for some really cool pedagogical uses of Moodle. I’ll have to comb through Moodle.org and see if any…
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More free music
I was reading through the 200 RSS articles from today when what to my wandering eyes should appear but jamendo and free music for your ears. jamendo is a social music site where users rate artists and tag songs. Accounts are free and the music is free. If you like the music you can make…