Week o’ Links: 2008-12-07

Social Media Classroom — Howard Rheingold’s social media classroom project (based on Drupal) is being “released” for use as a download and eventually a hosted app… The SMC is also hosting a community of educators interested in social software and education.

Play Auditorium — Auditorium is about the process of discovery and play. There are no right or wrong answers

Citeline — “…a service to facilitate the web publishing of bibliographies and citation collections as interactive exhibits and facilitate the sharing of this type of data.”`

Spark | CBC Radio | Your Homework: Make Wikipedia Better — Chris Jensen teaches Religious Studies 110 at the University of Saskatchewan. And this year, the class project was to make Wikipedia better. Specifically, Chris’s students worked together in small groups to research, edit and improve the quality of “Wikipedia articles that were either overly brief or lacking in credible information, with the aim of increasing the quality of Wikipedia’s coverage of East Asian religions.

The DO Lectures | Speakers — More Ted/Gel style videos– some interesting topics and speakers

Processing 1.0 — Processing has been officially released. “Processing is a programming language, development environment, and online community that since 2001 has promoted software literacy within the visual arts. Initially created to serve as a software sketchbook and to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context, Processing quickly developed into a tool for creating finished professional work as well.”

Mindmaps Directory – page 1 of 74 — A boatload of mindmaps for inspiration, contemplation, demonstration, x-tion

Using Wikipedia in the Classroom: an OA medium for research and student work — his presentation was one of several presentations delivered at the First International Open Access Day event held on October 14, 2008 at UBC. In support of the open access movement, the UBC Library joined with

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Scott Leslie December 7, 2008 at 6:57 am: if you ever get a version running, let me know. I tried and it failed to install properly (there were clearly some hard coded dependencies left in the distribution I tried) and others I talked to had similar experiences. It looks interesting but green

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