Furl http://www.furl.net/ http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.furl.net/member/jayhawk.rss Furl archive. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:14:55 GMT http://www.furl.net/item/24241082/forward http://www.furl.net/item/24241082 Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:57:48 GMT ALA 2.0 Social Software Elgg is an open source social platform based around choice, flexibility and openness: a system that firmly places individuals at the centre of their activities. Your users have the freedom to incorporate all their favorite tools within one environment and showcase their content with as many or as few people as they choose, all within a social networking site that you control. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/24241047/forward http://www.furl.net/item/24241047 Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:56:12 GMT Software ALAideas phpScheduleIt is an Open Source web-based reservation and scheduling system, allowing users to register and then place reservations on any kind of resources, such as conference rooms, machines, computers, etc. The administrative side allows complete control over user permissions, resource data, reservation data, and is has many configurable settings. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/24058771/forward http://www.furl.net/item/24058771 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:02:43 GMT Music Community upload your entire music collection, play it anywhere via internet, and discover new music through friend radio 3 http://www.furl.net/item/24058589/forward http://www.furl.net/item/24058589 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:58:39 GMT SecondLife Community VirtualWorlds The fantasy is what draws people to SL, but the reality is what makes them stay. Behind every avatar there is a person, so the feelings are very real. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/24049490/forward http://www.furl.net/item/24049490 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:12:38 GMT ALAideas ALAconversations Yes, I know that the ALA conference is all about the programs and networking and professional development, but it's also about all the wonderful freebies as well. So, to start off our first ever ALA conference awards, we'll start with the exhibitor tote bags. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/23870877/forward http://www.furl.net/item/23870877 Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:34:57 GMT Education Learning Gaming LTRadditions To Read - Video Games VirtualWorlds The articles that are summarized in this bibliography examine a wide variety of topics including immersion, creation (versus memorization), and game innovation, as well as Csikszentmihalyi's (e.g., 1993) concept of flow. Many of the authors take a constructivist rather than an instructivist approach to the topic and draw from the work of scholars, such as Piaget and Vygotsky. One theme that is repeated throughout many of these articles is the lack of empirical research and the reliance on anecdotal evidence that suggests conceptual learning. While the focus of the articles included in this collection is primarily on the positive aspects of educational gaming, references to concerns, such as violence, bias against girls, and game addiction are included, as well. In general, this annotated bibliography is an attempt to pull together and examine a corpus of the available literature on the topic of virtual worlds in educational settings. It is by no means an exhaustive list of resources; rather, it includes some of the more commonly cited sources related to the use of this type of technology for the purpose of teaching and learning. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/23868890/forward http://www.furl.net/item/23868890 Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:39:32 GMT Software web 2.0 Community Association 2.0 ALA 2.0 Community Server is a web-based community platform that includes a suite of applications to help you quickly and easily build your web community. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/23868820/forward http://www.furl.net/item/23868820 Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:37:29 GMT Marketing Reputation With the explosion of Social Media in the last 6 months, there's a lot of new places that marketers and business people need to start monitoring their reputation on. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/23868732/forward http://www.furl.net/item/23868732 Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:34:24 GMT web 2.0 Innovation ALAissues Enterprise2.0 manifesto The second easiest way is to find ways of allowing this to happen inside the firewall which can be as simple as sticking in some low cost or free tools and then making sure your existing organisation can: GET OUT OF THE WAY 3 http://www.furl.net/item/23868364/forward http://www.furl.net/item/23868364 Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:27:10 GMT ALAissues Enterprise2.0 Avoid turning Enterprise 2.0 into a “thing” and a thing that can be done correctly or incorrectly with a whole load of people telling you what correct is.” As Euan notes, this was the downfall of KM that it has struggled to recover from and was part of the motivation for doing the six KM cases. If you do all of the above it should not be a thing. 3