Blogs

This 41 minute podcast features a session from the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference entitled, "Extending Enterprise Authentication and Authorization in Higher Education: Building on the Success of Project METEOR". A PowerPoint slide show is also available for this session.

Enterprise authentication, authorization, and federated trust are increasingly important in enabling access to a wide swath of applications that use campus-based credentials. Their use makes access easier and more secure. A review of the successful METEOR federation and the EA2 Task Force work offer insight on how to move forward.

This session features:

• Timothy Cameron, Project Manager, The METEOR Project, NCHELP
• Charles F. Leonhardt, Principal Technologist, Georgetown University

 

The Jane N. Ryland Fellowship program is an EDUCAUSE grant program that helps build future leaders by supporting IT professionals' attendance at EDUCAUSE events.

Applications for 2009 awards are due November 3, 2008.

• Hear past recipients share their experiences with the Fellowship program and tips for future winners (podcast, time: seven minutes)
• Learn more about the Fellowship program.
• View the list of eligible EDUCAUSE events.

This seven-minute podcast features information about the Jane N. Ryland Fellowship program. This EDUCAUSE grant program was established to expand opportunities for information technology professionals with a financial need to attend EDUCAUSE events, thus helping to build future leaders.

Awards are made on an annual basis, in amounts that will substantially or fully meet the costs of attending one EDUCAUSE educational event that aligns with the professional needs of the applicant and the strategic directions of his or her institution. Fellows select the event of their choice from among the eligible EDUCAUSE offerings described in this brochure. Grant monies are applied first to registration fees, then to transportation and housing costs.

edmodo is microblogging for education. it is a good start for teachers and students.

Results of the World's Best Presentation Contest 2008 - SlideShare Here are the results of the 2008 best slideshare slideshow contest. They provide some excellent examples of making a good internet presentation... Granted, not all of them are as good or as useful as some might want, but nonetheless, I think we can learn from each.

On this podcast we feature a session from the 2007 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference. The session, Defining the Digital Commons: Abstraction of Enterprise Services and Policies Through the Use of a Unified Web-Based User Interface, discusses a methodology for abstracting enterprise services and the policies that dictate them through the use of a Web-based user interface. This establishes a unified tool for publication, storage, and recovery of files that streamlines training and support costs, facilitates innovation, and promotes the continued evolution of enterprise-level solutions. You can also view the slides for this presentation.

The panel includes:

50 virtual worlds is a video for personalizedmedia. It introduces, albeit extremely briefly 50 different virtual worlds and indicates with their introduction some of the possibilities involved in virtual worlds for learning and research.

academia.edu is a new social networking site for academics. It is based out of oxford u and attempts to develop a directory and archival structure of materials. It has an interesting tree-interface. I'm not sure how far it will take off, but i've sent it to a few lists and colleagues in a wide variety of fields have signed up.

Create your own social network, quickly and easily. Elgg allows you to take full advantage of the power of social technology with elegant, flexible solutions for organisations, groups and individuals.[From Elgg.org]

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This is great news. Elgg is what i built learninglibrarians.net out of a few years ago. I used it as a teaching and posting tool, it was excellent. It is now even better.

I've decided to start blogging here again.  I'll be honest, I'm a little vain; I like to see what I've written get wide exposure.  Hopefully I'll write something worth a wider audience than I have on my current work blog. 

I used Creighton's local instance of WordPress to keep notes on creating a Fedora Commons 3.0 test server.  I will keep those notes here, and write about some other projects, too.

In simple, here are my professional growth projects from now (August 30 2008) to the end of the calendar year (December 31 2008):

   1. Get a copy of Fedora Commons 3.0 and the Fez front-end working.

   2. Attempt to move content from EMC's Documentum (ApplicationXtender 5.4 to be specific) to Fedora Commons 3.0.

   3. See what makes better sense:

      - Using an enterprise search tool like the Google Enterprise Search Appliance for federated search, too.

      - Using a federated search tool like DeepWeb for enterprise search, too.

Geolocation, also called geotagging, is the practice of associating a digital resource with a physical location. A photographer, for example, might include the longitude and latitude coordinates for where a picture was taken, allowing others to pinpoint that location on a map.

The 7 Things You Should Know About Geolocation, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative’s (ELI) latest brief in the monthly series, examines how geolocation is increasingly being applied to infrastructure components and end-user devices for the purpose of knowing where people are. This additional layer of location data can make resources much more useful to a broad range of users.

Browse the complete 7 Things You Should Know About… monthly series.

ELI has released a new white paper, Collaboration Tools, by Cyprien P. Lomas (The University of British Columbia), Michael Burke (The University of Tennessee), and Carie Lee Page (EDUCAUSE). This paper discusses how easily accessible and user-friendly collaboration tools allow students to explore, share, engage, and connect with people and content in meaningful ways that help them learn. By relying on the familiar ways students use these tools, faculty can enable new forms of communication and engagement in the classroom, permitting extensions and variations of the informal interactions already occurring in classrooms and hallways, and creating new frontiers for collaboration across geographic boundaries.

This post is not about "naming and shaming" innovative web content providers, who are making great strides in bringing interesting multimedia content to end-users.

It's just a small story to remind us that web 2.0 is not always as "accessible" as we think. For educators, perhaps it's a yet another reason to prefer open content. And it reminds us that commercial constraints and IP issues continue to prevent the web from being as "global" a resource as the educational community would like.

This is how I received the error message: browsing Jason Kottke's popular website kottke.org (now described as "a weblog about the liberal arts 2.0") , I noticed that, in a post about the film Koyaanisqatsi, Jason had linked to the popular video site hulu.com.  But I couldn't actually see the video content - all I got was the above message.

If you have not seen Aza Raskin's video blog entry on the new Firefox Ubiquity tool then you should check it out. Could do more for the basic Web since Netscape.

Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.