Get your daily dose of literature

The book nerd in me was doing cartwheels when I got a hold of this service. DailyLit provides bite-sized chunks of public-domain, classic literature sent straight to your inbox or RSS reader.
From the site:
So How Does it Work?
It’s really simple.
1. Find a book you want to read
2. Enter your email address
3. Click subscribe
What more could [...]

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7 Things You Should Know

This a great series of resources produced by EDUCAUSE entitled 7 Things You Should Know. It provides a solid, concise summary for a truckload of Web 2.0 technologies and principles, as well as downloadable pdfs with contextual examples, uses of the technologies and origins. A great resource for all those needing to get their head [...]

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ccLearn – Creative Commons for Education

Creative Commons, the non-profit organisation who helped us all break the shackles of oppressive copright restrictions, has branched further into the field of education through their new ccLearn initiative.
From the site:
ccLearn is a division of Creative Commons which is dedicated to realizing the full potential of the Internet to support open learning and open educational [...]

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Welcome to Sloodle

With a greater uptake of open-source Moodle happening here in the WA VET sector, it may interest some people to know that some bright sparks have decided to look at combining Moodle with the 3D online environment of Second Life.
From the site:
Sloodle is Open Source. We develop learning tools and structures for educators exploring 3D [...]

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Thoof

Another social bookmarking platform on the Intermanet, but this one is a little different to Digg and Reddit in that, wiki-style, it allows users to edit (and hopefully improve) posts and descriptions.
From the site:
Thoof is a website that offers interesting news articles, websites, videos, photographs, and other links from around the web. Everything on the [...]

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The top list of hated Internet-spawned words

Living in an era where world events, emerging technologies, hobbies, cat food, those little aglets on your shoe laces, seemingly EVERYTHING needs a creative, pithy name or description, it’s little wonder that many of these terms soon become as pleasant to the ear as a rusty bullethead nail.
The Interweb certainly must shoulder its own fair [...]

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Fancy a trip down memory lane?

I don’t wish to alienate any non-West Aussie readers, but I’m sure all those who lived in Perth during the 80s and early 90s remember these classic educational advertisements produced for Channel 9 Perth. And for those who are seeing them for the first time, I hope you enjoy. I know I did. At least [...]

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Growing a bountiful Wiki

Wikis aren’t exactly a new word in training anymore, but just because they’re being eaten up with the hunger of a starving seagull on a hot chip, doesn’t mean they’re being done well. So what can one do to get the good groundings for an effective Wiki?
Danny Horn (the brains behind the most excellent Muppet [...]

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