Archive | May, 2009

Google Wave – Google’s next killer application?

30 May

Image by liako via Flickr Google’s newest prodcut which was announced at the Google I/O this week is called Google Wave. They build an incredible tool for collaborative work and integrated services like email, instant messenging, collaborative editing, an incredible spell checker which checks the context of words in order to correct spelling. Other really [...]

[paper accepted] – Will Personal Learning Environments become ubiquitous through the use of Widgets?

25 May

Few time ago we got the review on our paper submitted to the 9th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies (I-KNOW ’09). The paper is titled “Will Personal Learning Environments become ubiquitous through the use of Widgets?” and was accepted as follows: We are pleased to inform you that your paper Title: Will [...]

Designing for Change: Mash-Up Personal Learning Environments

19 May

In order to describe what this article is about I cite Fridolin Wild, Felix Mödritscher and Stein E. Sigurdarson: In this article we first clarify key concepts and assumptions for personalised learning environments. Afterwards, we summarise our critique on the contemporary models for personalised adaptive learning. Subsequently, we propose our alternative, i.e. the concept of [...]

[video] – Trouble with the Twittersphere

7 May

Just found a nice video about twitter and it’s users called the Twittersphere. (via blogdrauf.de) Related articles by Zemanta Immorality and Twitter (scientificamerican.com) Getting sucked into Twittersphere… (localglobe.blogspot.com)