Internet Technologies for Learning
Saturday, March 27, 2004
Blog Tool
Movable Type is Six Apart's powerful, customizable publishing system which installs on web servers to enable individuals or organizations to manage and update weblogs, journals, and frequently-updated website content.
Friday, March 26, 2004
Search Engine
KartOO
KartOO is a metasearch engine with visual display interfaces. When you click on OK, KartOO launches the query to a set of search engines, gathers the results, compiles them and represents them in a series of interactive maps through a proprietary algorithm
Search Engine
Teoma Search Technology
Teoma means "expert" in Gaelic. And it is our expert ability to analyze and understand the Web as it occurs naturally (in subject-specific communities) that makes Teoma unique, differentiating it from the myriad search technologies crowding the marketplace today.
When an inspired group of computer scientists from Rutgers University founded Teoma in April 2000, they set out to reinvent the way searching the Internet was done. They succeeded, building a search engine that looks at the Web in terms of subject-specific communities. In April 2001, Teoma.com launched, forever changing the way the Web was searched.
Ask Jeeves, Inc. acquired Teoma in September 2001, and by 2002, Teoma's unduplicated reach had grown 175 percent, making it the third-most widely used search technology in the United States, with a reach of over 25% of the Web (according to Nielsen//NetRatings). The rest of the world soon caught on: Teoma now syndicates its search technology to some of the Internet's most popular Web properties, including Ask Jeeves (Ask.com), Excite, InfoSpace and HotBot.
In early 2003, Teoma launched an advanced version of its technology—Teoma 2.0—with improved relevance, new search tools and advanced functionalities. These enhancements are explained in the section entitled Search With Authority: The Teoma Difference.
Friday, March 19, 2004
TextWeaver
After years of debate over the threat and promise of online education, most accrediting and faculty organizations have agreed that no learning activity is more important than interaction between students and teachers. But the software that supports human interaction on the Web is archaic and clumsy. It is time to bring the online discussion forum up to date. This is the purpose of the TextWeaver Project. Sponsored by The Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education of the US Department of Education, TextWeaver will bring new ease and convenience to participation in discussion on the Web.
TextWeaver is an open source product, distributed free for testing and evaluation. This site has been opened as a contact point for all those interested in participating in the creation of a new generation of online discussion software.
Wednesday, March 17, 2004
SRUG - SunRay User Group:
"The mission of the Sunray user group is to provide a site to bring together resources common to Sunray administrators and educators. This common area will allow us to exchange ideas and best practices. By becoming a SRUG member you will be able to share your experience with the rest of the community and enriching this resource. "
Sunday, March 14, 2004
PhpWiki WikiWikiWeb HomePage:
"A WikiWikiWeb is a web site where anyone can edit the pages through an HTML form. Linking is done automatically on the server side; all pages are stored in a database. This may sound rather simplistic, but a Wiki is a very unique way to collaborate on the Web. I set up a few while working at the New York Times on the Web, and the technical staff really took to them in a big way. They wrote 500 pages in just a few months (all to document the internal systems). "
Friday, March 12, 2004
Main Page - Wikipedia:
"From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Welcome to Wikipedia! We are building a multilingual free-content encyclopedia that will always belong to everyone. We started in January 2001 and are now working on 224406 articles in the English version. Join us! Visit the Community Portal or experiment in the sandbox to find out how you can edit any article right now. "
QSR N6
N6 is the latest version of the NUD*IST software, the world’s leading software for code-based qualitative analysis. It combines efficient management of Non-numerical Unstructured Data with powerful processes of Indexing Searching and Theorizing.
Tuesday, March 09, 2004
Wiki: What Is Wiki
Wiki is in Ward's original description:
The simplest online database that could possibly work.
Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between internal pages on the fly.
Wiki is unusual among group communication mechanisms in that it allows the organization of contributions to be edited in addition to the content itself.
Like many simple concepts, "open editing" has some profound and subtle effects on Wiki usage. Allowing everyday users to create and edit any page in a Web site is exciting in that it encourages democratic use of the Web and promotes content composition by nontechnical users.
ILIAS open source:
"The web-based learning management system ILIAS is available as Open Source software under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Universities, educational institutions and every interested person may use the system free of charge and contribute to its further development.
ILIAS has initially been developed in the VIRTUS project of the Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Social Sciences at the University of Cologne. As a client-server system ILIAS allows users to create, edit and publish course units in an integrated system with their normal web browsers."
Sunday, March 07, 2004
ATutor: Learning Content Management System:
"ATutor is an Open Source Web-based Learning Content Management System (LCMS) designed with accessibility and adaptability in mind. Administrators can install or update ATutor in minutes. Educators can quickly assemble, package, and redistribute Web-based instructional content, and conduct their courses online. Students learn in an adaptive learning environment."
