As readers of this blog may remember, I’m a big fan of Flock. Besides solid stability and extensions, its real distinguishing feature is smooth integration of a wide variety of social media tools (e.g., Facebook, Flickr, Digg, YouTube, WordPress.com). Of course, the more I use it, I think about little things that might make it better. Yesterday when I accessed my YouTube account, I thought of how web video has been around for quite a while, and with that age and maturity, we’ve seen other good video tools emerge such as Blip and Vimeo.
I first heard about Blip through Creative Commons and Vimeo has sessions from such notable events as the Future of Web Applications (FOWA) annual conference. It would be nice to see the Flock dev team add these to their already impressive array of tools.
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Flock, Blip, Vimeo
Posted by Phil T at 11:55 pm on February 20th, 2009.
Categories: Software, Tech.
Some interesting sessions at the Southern California Linux Expo this weekend
The current economic crisis perhaps accelerates the interest level in the whole sphere of textbook economics. (From the abstract, it looks like there is some philosophical overlap with Negroponte’s well-known One Laptop Per Child Initiative. Since I teach tech writing, I like the inclusion of FLOSS Manuals — the documentation that ideally makes open source software intelligible to more than just those who speak the language of command line. The other two look good for keeping up on changes related to developments in rapidly maturing alternative learning management systems such as Moodle and Drupal.
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Learning Management Systems, Linux, Open Source, One Laptop Per Child
Posted by Phil T at 12:35 am on February 20th, 2009.
Categories: Online learning, Teaching, Tech.