EduGluSWAN

Wordpress and reusing open content


 * David Wiley's OCW in WP proof of concept: http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/464


 * Jim Groom's import of OCW into WP: http://bavatuesdays.com/proud-spammer-of-open-university-courses/


 * (Based on Tony Hirst's disaggregation of MIT OCW into RSS: http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/010236.html)


 * Also interest at Penn State to use Movable Type as an Open Content Toolset.


 * Andre Malan's Add to BDP Wordpress Plugin - http://andremalan.net/2008/03/add-to-bdp-rss-wordpress-plugin/

CourseBlogging


 * UMWBlogs, such as Intro to New Media Studies


 * Students or other participants can add their own RSS feeds to allow for Three models for aggregated course-blogging.

MediaWiki


 * COSL's Send2Wiki - original development page at http://cosl.usu.edu/projects/mocsl/send2wiki -- most current code at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Send2Wiki


 * UBC-OLT is working on a MediaWiki extension that will allow segments of a MediaWiki to be rendered as JSON embed code or as an RSS feed. For example, this segment is rendered live on this page. (More tweaking on this is required.)

Remixing open content


 * D'Arcy Norman (U of C) - http://eduglu.learningparty.net/, background and a screencast.


 * Cole Camplese's: Pligg site and Drigg site


 * Bill Fitzgerald (http://openacademic.org), Aggregator Recipe


 * UBC-OLT EduGlu Lite: http://enej.test.olt.ubc.ca/ink/ink (presently not working)

The Social WAN


 * David's posts On fully distributing the social network, Becoming a Node on the Social WAN (FYI, Gardner Campbell asked me to pass on his interest.)


 * Justin's posts Turning WordPress into a social butterfly, Note to Facebook, Myspace and Other Social Silos: DIE, Disposable communities, Connected communities


 * Jim Groom on WPMu as an Educational Network - http://bavatuesdays.com/wpmu-as-an-educational-network/


 * Wikia open-sources a social networking toolset, MediaWiki extension here.

Other flavas


 * Some serious interest in an intercontinental jam between the UK Open University's Social:Learn group and those of us here ...reasonable chance of funding here in BC to support a working coding/meeting...


 * Justin is doing a WPMU thing for Teachers without Borders, and is prepared to set up a Prologue theme as a possible framework to get us all sharing.


 * Social media portability primer


 * 35 Lifestreaming apps including


 * http://rick.jinlabs.com/code/rss-stream/


 * http://elliottback.com/wp/archives/2006/12/14/lifestream-wp-plugin-for-wordpress/


 * http://kierandelaney.net/blog/projects/simplelife/


 * FeedForward - the JISC group, "an application that enables individuals to make better use of the information environment, with a unified workflow that enables the selection, scanning, sorting, annotation and sharing of resources from a range of sources, both 'informal' (such as blogs) and 'formal' (such as bibliographic databases and institutional repositories)."


 * OER Feeds - Open Education sites with RSS feeds - http://oerfeeds.info/