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ERCIM: TEL

The latest issue of ERCIM News (#71, Oct 2007) has a special feature on Technology Enhanced Learning with a couple of dozen articles including one on TEL in FP7 (can’t find that one online - you’ll need the full pdf here. It does link to a FP7 website

Next issue (Jan’08) is the ‘Future Web’ with a call here.

Mozilla PRISM

Anyone who uses Firefox for specific apps might be interested in this product from Mozilla Labs, PRISM:

http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/11/prism-prototype-now-available-on-mac-and-linux

It enables a single window display of the app (url) you select, saves it as a shortcut so it can be run like any other app and drops all of the screen detritus associated with the browser. I started using it over the weekend for Google Mail, Calendar and Docs and had no problems. Enjoy.

ThinkPlace

I wonder if this would work for Emerge as a place for people/teams to share ideas and coalesce into proposals:

alphaWorks Services | ThinkPlace | Overview

ThinkPlace is a Web application for facilitating innovation through idea generation, collaboration, and refinement. ThinkPlace is unlike a suggestion box; when used within a company, it shares ideas within the entire company. By providing a common place for sharing, refining, and recognizing ideas, ThinkPlace encourages all employees to innovate and to collaborate on further improvement of the ideas. Even if employees don’t have an idea to post, they can look around, collaborate, rate others’ ideas, or find ideas for their own use. ThinkPlace also invites suggestions for improvements.

ThinkPlace provides customization options, including the ability to tie into existing LDAP-based mechanisms for identifying users as they log in to the application.

Weblogs and Social Media 2008

Be nice to get some papers into this from the Emerge project (advance website)…

Second International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

Call For Papers

The rapid creation and consumption of social media content continues to drive the evolution of the Internet and the Web. Social media content now accounts for the majority of content published daily on the web.

As the space evolves, researcher and industrial practitioners find themselves at a key point for collaborating on research, implementation and deployment of a wide range of analyses and applications. The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media invites researchers in the broad field of social media analysis to submit papers for its second meeting. Following in the tradition of earlier workshops and the first meeting in Boulder, USA in 2007, we anticipate an exciting, high quality event which will bring together academic and industrial practitioners to present and to discuss new research, applications, thoughts and ideas that are shaping the future of social media analysis.

the Depot

Supporting scholarship in the digital age - the Depot launched : JISC

A major JISC conference being held in Manchester this week will mark an important milestone in establishing institutional repositories across UK education and research.

The conference, which begins today at ManchesterUniversity, sees the launch of the Depot, a national JISC-funded repository based at EDINA in the University of Edinburgh. This will enable all UK researchers to deposit their academic papers and other outputs under terms of Open Access, including those whose institution does not yet have a repository. The new service, with its simple message and advice to “put it in the Depot”, represents an important step in the development of a scholarly communications environment for UK education and research.