I am using OneNote and Mindjet for organising my research project.
I quite like this add-in – http://mindjetlabs.com/cs/files/folders/mindjet_labs/entry1382.aspx
It’s still developing in progress, but I see the future – software starts to talk to each other, like us.
JISC’s annual review is published online today. The review concludes one year of achievement in the key areas of JISC’s activities and includes podcast interviews with senior JISC figures and the chairs of its committees during the academic year 2006-2007.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/annualreview07
I am reviewing as well…
Professor Diana Laurillard from LKL gave us a seminar today.
It’s a very interesting seminar.
I sketched a useful learning flow from the seminar for myself:
where does pedagogy fit into it?
technology -> learning technology -> An optimal use of technology –help?–> innovative design for learning (learning design) –cause–> social learning/collaborative learning –result–> learning experience
“Gmail’s good, but it could be better.”
This extension improves Gmail in quite a few ways – like adding saved searches, attachment icons, label colors, keyboard macros, a filter assistant and right-click conversation previews. Good news is that they updated the extension to work with the current interface of Gmail in 8 November.
Being puzzled by numerous online social networks, I always feel that the online world needs a guru to lead the way of bridging them together. That is what Google just launched. Google announced a new set of APIs, through which the access to user data of different social networks can be given to developers. The world could be connected better.
I am working on scholarly research networks. I define this kind of networks as closed open-social networks? I think scholarly research networks should be social at this first place.They also should be open to some extend. Different from other social networks, they need to hold a closed boundary which assure better quality of communication. I hope I can thank Google for this help in my research and wish I could extend this open social network concept to a further closed open-social-network framework among scholars.
What is OpenSocial?
OpenSocial is a set of common APIs for building social applications on the web. These common APIs mean that developers only have to learn once in order to start building social applications for multiple websites, and any website will be able to implement OpenSocial and host social applications.
“Dynamic profiles redefine what users should expect in terms of how they can represent themselves in a social or business network,” said Todd Masonis, Co-Founder and VP of Products for Plaxo. “We believe that users should have full control over what they share with whom – and that the catalog of widgets that they can choose from should be as open and diverse as the web itself. We are excited to support in dynamic profiles any application written to Google’s just–launched OpenSocial APIs. ”
