I neglected to mention this when it came out, but here's a link to Education for a Digital World, the book from Commonwealth of Learning that I was involved with, coauthoring 3 chapters and acting as a contributing editor.
Commonwealth of Learning - Education for a Digital World
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I've just been checking out the DSpace introductory video. It looks like a great way to make an institution's research searchable at low cost. It's popular worldwide, with many sites in Japan, including Kyushu University and Nagasaki University. For open access content, note that the DSpace foundation recommends that it should also be listed in [...]
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Stephen Downes links to a list of Australian Open Access repositories and asks for a similar thing for Canada, which leads to a comment pointing to a list of such repositories from all over the world. I'm sure there must be some very useful stuff hidden away in some of the repositories listed.
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I tried out the Wordle service today, having come across a recommendation in the Edublogger. It gives a graphic display of the most frequently occurring words in any feed or chunk of text. I fed it our WinK student blogs mega-feed.I suspect that it might only be handling recent posts, as words like [...]
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I recently obtained Dialogue with Bakhtin on Second and Foreign Language Learning, edited by Hall, Vitanova, and Marchenkova. One of the chapters*, written by Karen Braxley, has some interesting things to say about appropriation of genres, and its relationship to plagiarism. The students whose experiences and views form the main subject of the [...]
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