Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Sloodle

Sloodle - Learning Systems for Virtual Environments

Sloodle is an Open Source project which integrates the SecondLife® multi-user virtual environment and the Moodle learning-management system. Sloodle provides a range of tools for supporting learning and teaching to the immersive virtual world; tools which are fully integrated with a tried and tested web-based learning management system used by thousands.

Sloodle
Sloodle on Second Life
SecondLife Education Wiki
Moodle

For those who want to add dimension to their learning environments.

Monday, August 25, 2008

Show Yourself Widget

ShowYourself is a simple to make, easy, free and fun utility to help establish your identity across the web. Have a MySpace account, Facebook, and Gmail? Combine all your profiles on the web into one attractive widget that you can put on your blog, your MySpace or anywhere on the web. No account required.

ShowYourself was created by Dustin Bachrach who, according to his blog, "Is an 18 year old Rice student and developer for both OS X and the web". You can check out his post from March 18, 2007 when he released ShowYourself http://dbachrach.com/blog/2007/03/18/showyourself-updated-to-v11/

Thanks Dustin!

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Gather your words and Wordle them

For everyone who needs a collage of words check out Wordle.

Below is a Wordle of the many tech tools I play or work with. Where would we all be without Google and the ability to work collaboratively with a variety of tech tools?



You can paste in text, the URL of any blog, blog feed, or any other web page that has an Atom or RSS feed, or enter a del.icio.us user name to see their tags. Then you can tinker with the formats and fonts then decide if you want to keep it or discard it.

Wordle was created by Jonathan Feinberg who credits his employer (IBM) for allowing him to develop this and now share with the rest of the world.

The images you create with Wordle are yours to use in any way you choose. You may print T-Shirts, business cards, brochures, what have you. On the other hand, when you place an image in the gallery, anyone else can use it too! So if you want to keep it to yourself, print it out without saving it. The images created by the Wordle application are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Check out the details from Wordle’s FAQ page: http://wordle.net/faq

Images created by the Wordle.net web application are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.

If you use a screen-capture, PDF, or other image representation of a Wordle on this site, you must attribute the image to http://wordle.net/.