http://openedweb.com/blog Education and Technology Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:47:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/02/16/mods-make-swcms-suitable-for-k12/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/02/16/mods-make-swcms-suitable-for-k12/#comments Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:37:17 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1143 I have been experimenting with the open source social bookmarking application Social Web CMS for a little over a week. SWCMS is a Pligg fork. Last year, I had worked with Pligg trying to modify it for K12 use. In order to make a social bookmarking application suitable for many in the k12 environment, content [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/02/16/mods-make-swcms-suitable-for-k12/feed/ 2 http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/02/08/new-developments-in-foss-bookmarking/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/02/08/new-developments-in-foss-bookmarking/#comments Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:21:16 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1083 It has been about a year since I began considering Pligg, an open source social bookmarking server application, for K12 education. In that time several events have taken place in the world of open source social bookmarking applications. Social Web CMS forked from Pligg, and Reddit released its code as open source. Having discovered this, [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/02/08/new-developments-in-foss-bookmarking/feed/ 5 http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/02/03/dark-clouds/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/02/03/dark-clouds/#comments Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:50:00 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1074 A few clouds darkened on the Internet late last week. According to Cnet, Pageflakes and Revver abruptly went off line Thursday followed by Magnolia on Friday. PageFlakes is an ajax widget based personal portal and Revver is a video sharing site. Both are owned by Liveuniverse. Magnolia is a social bookmarking site. On Friday, Liveuniverse [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/02/03/dark-clouds/feed/ 7 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/11/28/social-bookmarking-in-education/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/11/28/social-bookmarking-in-education/#comments Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:52:15 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=742 Social bookmarking tools allow users to store and share bookmarks on the Internet so that they are accessible from any computer connected to the net. There are a number of popular free commercial social bookmarking sites including del.icio.us, Furl, Digg, Stumbleupon, and others. Of course, my emphasis has been upon open source alternatives to these [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/11/28/social-bookmarking-in-education/feed/ 0 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/11/26/nyscate-presentation-open-source-web-20-applications/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/11/26/nyscate-presentation-open-source-web-20-applications/#comments Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:35:03 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=727 On Tuesday, November 25, I presented Open Source Web 2.0 Applications at the New York State Association for Computers and Technology in Education (NYSCATE). I was very excited to share some of what I have learned in the past year regarding web based applications such as WordPress, Elgg, Pligg, Posh, Gallery, and many others. I [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/11/26/nyscate-presentation-open-source-web-20-applications/feed/ 7 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/07/02/pligg-an-overview/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/07/02/pligg-an-overview/#comments Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:28:09 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=45 Having installed Pligg, I’ve had an opportunity to give it a trial run as a user. Pligg is an open source social bookmarking application that imitates Digg. Users are able to submit stories or links to share with others with tags and descriptions. Submissions are approved by an admin, then users can vote or comment [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/07/02/pligg-an-overview/feed/ 1