http://elgg.ell.aau.dk/ryberg/weblog/62.html

I just found an online free newsletter/magazine on podcasting (thanks to this posting by Stephen O'Hear [Click to view link]). The magazine looks quite cool and might have good tips on podcasting, both for podcasters and listeners. The website can be found here:

[Click to view link]

Haven't had the time myself to read it and I haven't been up front on updating our own podcasts (which you can find here: [Click to view link]) 

By the way - if you're interested in youth, technology and social networking sites, you might find this MSN mediacast with Malene Charlotte Larsen interesting: [Click to view link]

She did her thesis on arto.dk - a danish social networking site much like MySpace and also hugely popular among Danish Youth. The podcast, unfortunately, is only available in Danish. 

http://elgg.ell.aau.dk/ryberg/weblog/63.html

Thanks to Tiara's blog where she shares interesting links I found a posting referencing a very interesting article from Futurelabs. They do a lot of great academic work, especially in doing review articles and summaries of state-of-the-art research. The title of the article is:

Social software and learning
An Opening Education report from Futurelab
By Martin Owen, Lyndsay Grant, Steve Sayers and Keri Facer
http://www.futurelab.org.uk/research/opening_education/social_software_01.htm

Below is a clipping from the article:

"This paper is focused on exploring the inter-relationship between two key trends in the field of educational technologies.

In the educational arena, we are increasingly witnessing a change in the view of what education is for, with a growing emphasis on the need to support young people not only to acquire knowledge and information, but to develop the resources and skills necessary to engage with social and technical change, and to continue learning throughout the rest of their lives.

In the technological arena, we are witnessing the rapid proliferation of technologies which are less about ‘narrowcasting’ to individuals, than the creation of communities and resources in which individuals come together to learn, collaborate and build knowledge (social software).

It is the intersection of these two trends which, we believe, offers significant potential for the development of new approaches to education."

I haven't read through the entire article yet, but it seems to be doing a really good job in summarizing and presenting some new thought on social software and learning and also on youth and creativity.

http://elgg.ell.aau.dk/ryberg/weblog/64.html

Once again Alice Marwick's blog tiara has been a good resource in providing interesting links (and also Anders Albrechtslund pointed those out specifically for me to see, as I was away on vacation).

The first is a blog on Web 2.0 with links and different postings on web 2.0, which seem interesting. The blog is maintained by Dion Hinchcliffe and a posting on web 2.0 and "network effects" can be found here.

The second is a collection of social network analysis tools (software) tools and different ways of visually representing those. It looks really exciting, though I do have some reservations on using software analysis tools (we wrote an article on that for the networked learning conference as part of a symposium). The collection of tools and visual representations does however look very interesting - but go have a look.

We have just recently installed the new version of Moodle 1.6.1, so I am looking forward to testing some of the features - for instance the integration with elgg.

Ohh and from Ben Werdmullers blog I just found an interesting extension/app called songbird - a media player:

"Songbird is a Web player built from Firefox's browser engine. Songbird is open source, will run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and supports user contributed, cross-platform extensions."

You can check it out at: [Click to view link] - I'll give it a try. Seems my Open Source Player MusikCube takes up quite some resources when playing, so Songbird is worth a try.