http://openedweb.com/blog Education and Technology Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:47:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 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/2008/08/11/posh-admin-controls-appropriate-for-k12-use-2/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/08/11/posh-admin-controls-appropriate-for-k12-use-2/#comments Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:50:55 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=154 Out of the box, the open source portal Posh has administrative controls that make it appropriate for use in a K-12 school setting. An administrator can set the portal so that one must be logged in to view content. In addition, it may be set up so that any feeds must be moderated. By default, [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/08/11/posh-admin-controls-appropriate-for-k12-use-2/feed/ 0 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/07/26/making-more-posh-widgets/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/07/26/making-more-posh-widgets/#comments Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:39:05 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=122 Posh, the open source portal page resembling PageFlakes, comes with a few widgets in its default installation. A handful of other widgets can be found on the Portaneo website. In order to make this software as appealing and as functional as PageFlakes for student, class, or school use, it would be great to have more [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/07/26/making-more-posh-widgets/feed/ 0 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/07/23/posh-open-source-pageflakes/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/07/23/posh-open-source-pageflakes/#comments Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:34:19 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=62 There was a request for an online organizer for a special needs student through which assignments and schedules can be managed. It also needs to allow input or interaction by the student’s resource teacher. PageFlakes came to mind with its slick flexible interface complete with calendars, to-do lists, and rss feeds. The interface would be [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/07/23/posh-open-source-pageflakes/feed/ 7