Category: "Open Source"
Nov
18
Jane Hart has made a fantastic contribution to the learning professional's community with her ongoing top 100 tools list. During this week's Learning Trends conference she takes that list and pulls out the "25 Free Tools Every Learning Professional Shoul… more »
Jul
14
I use a lot of templates from places like Open Source Web Design. Often these templates come with the source files for the graphics/images. Often these have the extension .psd ie. they're Photoshop files.
If I needed to edit the graphics, I had two op… more »
Sep
20
Via Jane Knight. What's the future for Microsoft Office for everyone except large corporates? Now that IBM has released Lotus Symphony - a full "office" suite of tools (Documents, Presentations, Spreadsheets) - there's no real need for anyone to buy MS O… more »
Jun
14
Integrating Moodle and ExponentCMS
Learning, Technology, Open Source, Moodle 1 feedback » 3318 viewsDuring the past couple of weeks I've been working on building a major intranet site. It's based on two systems (ExponentCMS and Moodle), which naturally brings the challenge of providing a seamless experience for users.
As with all integrations there… more »
Sep
05
Curverider Conference Review
Open Source, Change Management, Social Networks, Teacher CPD 1 feedback » 4349 viewsI was really pleased I managed to get to Edinburgh for yesterday's Curverider Conference. As others mentioned during the day, it was like a meeting of people who've known each other for a while. Even though I had never met any of them before, there were… more »
Aug
23
Seb Schmoller reprints a key section from Stephen Weber's book about Open Source projects (which don't have to be just software).
The section describes the critical factors for success, and specifically looks at the motivating factors for participants… more »
May
09
Free stuff in a commercial world. Guest Contribution from Mark Berthelemy.
Technology, Open Source Send feedback » 18603 viewsSeb Schmoller asked me to write this article on the place of free services and open-source software in the commercial world.
The key thing brought out in it is the need for people to understand the business model that sits behind the free stuff. If th… more »
Nov
18
Worldbridges - Global Webcasts Podcasts & New Media
Learning, Open Source, Schools, Podcasting Send feedback » 1358 viewsIf you have any interest in the ways the technology and education can interact then listen to the shows on Worldbridges.
The "brainstorms" gather a group of 5 practioners together, from across the world, and across the educational community (from prim… more »
Oct
07
I thought there might be a problem when everything started slowing down during a day spent working on the web. Turns out that Firefox has a bit of a memory leak . It can be controlled using the instructions below (from the fusion94 website):
1)Type ab… more »
Sep
06
Seems to be getting lots of recommendations and good reviews. more »
