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In my external blog, WebToolsforLearners   I have pointed to Christian Long's Blog, think:lab and, in particular, his post Blogging and the Changing Environment of Education and Collaboration. For a selection of excerpts to give you a taste of his fine writing and his observations, check out my post.   

This article outlines emerging collaborations between social software tools like technorati and del.icio.us and major news organizations like PRNewswire and the Washington Post.

Click Here for Yahoo News Wire Feb 21, 2006

Helio, which will launch in the U.S. this spring, is a joint venture between Korean wireless carrier SK Telecom and Internet service provider EarthLink. The CEO of the venture is Sky Dayton, founder of EarthLink and Boingo Wireless.

Helio's wireless offerings, designed to make the virtual-network operator a hub of a connected group of users, is anchored by MySpace, a community of some 55 million members who chat and share music, photos, blogs, and other content online.

 

About Aperto Website 

"Aperto was created by WebCT co-founder Sasan Salari, who left WebCT in January 2006 after eleven years. Sasan saw a significant interest by higher- and further-education institutions to embrace the use of new community-building technologies in conjunction with their LMS.

Many of these technologies - blogs, wikis, podcasting tools - are being developed as open source products, but until now, no concerted effort has been made to integrate such tools with the commercial learning management systems." [Poster's note: Aperto's first effort focuses on WebCT-Elgg integration].

 

 Click Here for Ruckus Press Release


"Internet2 today announced that Ruckus has joined the consortium as a corporate member and will collaborate with the Internet2 community to develop and test ground-breaking content distribution and authentication technologies to enable fast and legal intra and inter-campus sharing of multimedia materials."

 

 

I came across an interesting tool called profcast earlier today. It allows you to hook up a mic, run your powerpoint in class, and it automatically creates an enhanced podcast with chapters, XML, and all! What's the catch? Well, for one it's currently Mac only. I've also been unable to get it to work, but that might be user error...