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open sourceYet another silly attack on WikipediaSubmitted by Dominik Lukes on Tue, 24/06/2008 - 00:37.
Categories: national curriculum | online education | online resources | open source | philosophy of education | use of technology for learning | web 2.0
What was the last time you found something eggregiously inaccurate on Wikipedia? And if the biggest problem in education is the occasional inaccurate information what happened to the skills focus of the last decades? UEA Library Catalogue now supports Zotero for easy bibliography collationSubmitted by Dominik Lukes on Mon, 09/06/2008 - 23:47.
Project: Education and Technology | Research IT Skills
Categories: Firefox addons | open source | research skills | research tools | skills | software | technology
Great news for anybody out there who's using the free bibliography too
'One': UK's version of OLPC?Submitted by Dominik Lukes on Mon, 18/02/2008 - 22:02.
Project: Education and Technology
Eee PC is one cheap laptop available in the UK that could be great for education. Now, here's the possibility of another one which at 100 pounds is even more affordable. We'll have to see if it lives up to its promise.
Zotero gets even more usefulSubmitted by Dominik Lukes on Thu, 07/02/2008 - 19:43.
EndNote's main competitor Zotero's main advantage (apart from being free and improving fast) is being able to 'scrape' citations from websites saving us the effort of retyping them. But it can only do that from websites that use a certain standards (such as this site) or that were specifically encoded for Zotero. These now include CiteULike and LibraryThing which have a lot More books become public domain in 2008Submitted by Dominik Lukes on Sat, 05/01/2008 - 19:01.
Categories: education reseach | open source
This Canadian website lists authors whose work has become public domain on 1 January 2008. This will vary country by country but the Internet will probably be introduced to them as early as possible. The list includes works by authors like Walter Runciman, Philip Snowden, Elihu Root, Amelia Earhart (presuming she really died), Maurice Ravel, Alfred Adler, Edith Wharton, and hundreds more. XO Laptop 'buy one, donate one' initiative launched in the USSubmitted by Dominik Lukes on Mon, 12/11/2007 - 19:10.
However well or ill-advised the One-Laptop-Per-Child movement is from a development and literacy perspective, this charitable approach can both raise awareness of the disparities in the online world and spread some cool looking laptops around the community. If it wasn't available just in the US, I'd buy one! Open Source to UK schools?Submitted by Dominik Lukes on Tue, 30/10/2007 - 09:56.
The BBC reports on Becta's warning for schools not to sign licencing deals that exclude other software. Hopefully, this will mean more Open Source software at Schools. Particularly given the great advances of consumer friendly distributions of Linux such as Ubuntu. |
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