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Avoiding link rot

November 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments

We have all experienced link rot  (even if we don’t call it that). 

Webcite is an antidote, explained here in Wikipedia. Initiated by an author or citer, a web page is archived publicly so that the link can be preserved for any article that cites it.
I haven’t used it yet, and would be interested to know how others […]

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Tags: Learning Technology · Research

Women in Open Source - Call for Papers

September 11th, 2007 · No Comments

http://www.knowandnetwork.org/francesbell/weblog/81.html
Southern California - where else?
How about submitting a paper to this?
The Southern California Linux Expo is proud to announce their Second
Women in Open Source Conference. The conference will be held on February
8th, 2008 at the Westin Hotel near Los Angeles International Airport.
Widespread acceptance and participation by the user community has
established SCALE as a premiere Open […]

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Tags: Research

Learning and Internationalism

September 6th, 2007 · No Comments

On Tuesday afternoon, I attended the short paper session on Learning and Internationalism. Alannah Fitzgerald presented the first paper, Social computing and the microcredit activities, brought to our attention by Professor Yunus, 2006 Nobel prize winner. Learners are exposed to examples provided by the Overcoming Poverty network, tagged and aggregated via […]

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Tags: ALT · ALT-C 2007 · Information Systems · Research

Social Spaces for Learning

September 5th, 2007 · No Comments

Agnes Kukulska-Hulme introduced the symposium by using images to explore the tensions between personal space and social space in mobile learning, showing how people seek out spaces that suit them and what they are doing, amenable contexts for working or learning.� Across the world, different technologies are offered and positioned to suit cultural contexts.� […]

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Tags: ALT · ALT-C 2007 · Research