Technology

Tweakings

Issues to fix for making the site provide ever better value to our users

What does eLearning mean to learners and developers!

We all agree that the Learning through informal ways always have higher retention and recall then the formal learning sessions. and therefore the current eLearning (WBT and CBT) industry in the Web 2.0 era is putting more emphaisis on making the learning experience as much as informal by using various fun games, online live interactions, etc. Some times the objective is not fully well treated by the budget/time requirement and to some extent by available technology.

 

There are many ways the industry is catering to this need is produce of second life concept, virtual worlds, video blogging, Avtars ets and the others tools like Flockpod - Social Learning on the spot, kind of tools really helping a lot in achieving the objective.

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How to jump-start a vortex of innovation?





To stir a vortex of innovation, by jump-starting the propeller,

engage first the center.  read more »

What harvest can also be!

Tagged with:
Yesterday evening I was reading through some of the blogs, and one that I go to now and then is the one of David Sibbet. He has many professions and passions, and one is about graphic recording. Look at this blog post with a little video, and you get a sense of what harvesting can be... Scroll down and up in the blog to read more about it...

Evolutionary Nexus as an infrastructure for transition managers

 

This message started out as an email reply to Erik Mathijs' blog post on the Art of Hosting Transtions, and when I finished writing it, I realized that more people maybe interested in it, so decided to post it here.

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Look-and-feel

Requests, offers and suggestions for the continuous improvement of the look-and-feel of the Nexus site

Tags, tagging, taxonomy, categories, and vocabularies, their settings, access and display

Here we coordinae site development issues related to tags, tagging, taxonomy, vocabularies in Drupal, and their settings, access and display.

Wish List

Here is a beginning collated wish list for the Evolutionary Nexus site. 

There are two good ways to incorporate your suggested improvements to this page:

  1. edit the page directly to contribute a change to the proposal
  2. use the "add new comment" feature to talk about your ideas and/or the reasoning behind the changes you make.

Please do not simply delete items. We have to come up with a good way to prioritize.

1. General

  • Bookmarks (at comment or topic level or wiki page)
  • More profile info such as phone # and location (also bio, files such as resume, link to home page). There's a profile.module built in, and another one with different capabilities - http://drupal.org/project/members
  • Clarify read/write auth controls and policy
  • Very obvious visual clues to tell you whether you're on a wiki page, forum, blog, etc.
  • Replace or supplement the current taxonomy with open tagging capability, like del.icio.us or Flickr
  • RSS/Atom feeds for blogs, forums, wiki RecentChanges, etc.

1a. Navigation  read more »

Salon photos on Flickr; tagging


Nancy White and Kevin Kelley have posted photos from the salon on Flickr. If you upload your photos to Flickr, please also tag them with evolutionarysalon (i only took a few photos, but will add mine soon).

Flickr is a website that lets you upload and share photos with other people. They have software you can download which makes it very easy to upload many photos at once.

Tagging is an increasingly popular way of categorizing things which lets you make up your own categories (tags) without restricting you to a preset list, and lets you apply as many tags as you like to each photo or other item. We also call this a folksonomy (rather than a taxonomy), because the resulting category system is generated bottom-up, emerging through the collective actions of the people tagging things in ways that make sense to them. Evolution in action!
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Small Pieces Loosely Joined

The general thinking in this approach is to use different software / systems which each focus well on one particular medium or task, and link them together. This benefits from the great diversity in the larger software world. Some starting suggestions if we were to make our own mashup (please add your input):

Wiki: OddMuse (because Lion and Brandon are familiar with it)

Blogs: WordPress, or maybe blosxom

Forums/mailing lists: ?? [maybe phpBB --HD, AC]  read more »