Posts from — March 2007

Csikszentmihalyi starts doctoral programme on happiness:
According to the Los Angeles Times, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author of the 1990 bestseller “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience” and a pioneer in positive psychology, is leading a new doctoral programme on happiness at Claremont Graduate University (in California).

“The PhD program in the emerging field of positive psychology marks an advance for serious research into human happiness and related quality-of-life concerns. It’s an arena drawing the attention of psychologists, as well as neuroscientists, economists and even political scientists.”

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this seems to be a great idea to me.

TextArc.org Home:
A TextArc is a visual represention of a text—the entire text (twice!) on a
single page. A funny combination of an index, concordance, and summary;
it uses the viewer’s eye to help uncover meaning.
Here are more detailed overviews of the interactive work
and the prints.

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interesting tool.

TALL blog » Blog Archive » Some real data on Web 2.0 use:
The SPIRE project was originally looking into the possibility of using peer-to-peer technologies in UK HE and FE for informal sharing but switched to a more Web 2.0 focus as it became clear that these types of services where already having an impact on the tertiary education sector. They also appear to be where most of the informal sharing and collaboration is taking place online these days.

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how are students using web 2.0?

Sim Neighbours:

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sim neighbors tells you which sims are on the same server as your sim. it’s cool

Main Page – Pentabarf:
Welcome to the Pentabarf Wiki.
This wiki is used for documenting and supporting Pentabarf, the open source conference planning software.

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Pentabarf is a conference management system. it looks pretty nifty… it is a rails program.

Living knowledge – The international Science Shop Network:

Communities building knowledge:
innovation through citizens’ science and university engagement

August 30 – September 1, 2007- Paris (France)
(Ecole des Mines de Paris)

This conference will provide a forum where information on community based research, carried out in both community and academic settings, can be shared and developed. It will reflect the social impact and scientific and democratic value of research from a range of disciplines including social, natural, physical and technological sciences. This conference will be of interest to people who are active in, or interested in, the field of community-based research.

Main conference themes:
- University engagement with communities
- Citizens’ science and social movements
- Research policy – from local to global
- Innovation and citizens – added values for communities
- Participatory processes in science and technology
Within the five main conference themes different topics can be discussed.

You’re invited to submit a short proposal for a contribution at the conference

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This appears to be an interesting conference.

» 25 Code Snippets for Web Designers (Part2):
25 Code Snippets for Web Designers (Part2)

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handy

Ajax Tutorial Top List – Free tutorials, articles, examples for web 2.0:

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The Summer/Winter Schools should help interested students and academicians as well as individuals working in the private sector or in government, to understand better the global Internet Governance controversy and to get a comprehensive and structured knowledge on the various aspects of Internet Governance. It is organized by a consortium of European Universities and in close cooperation with UNESCO, the Diplo Foundation and the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). It offers a one week course (40 hours) and covers the political, legal, economic, socio-cultural, technological and other dimensions of the governance of the Internet. Each academic lecture will be followed by a Q&A Session. There will be smaller workshops and round tables in the evening for interactive communication with faculty members and leading experts from governments and industry which will be invited for special presentations followed by a daily “Snacks & Wine” for informal interpersonal discussion. The Summer School is followed by an international academic symposium, August 4 – 5, 2007

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It should be interesting… maybe I’ll be able to use my Fellowship money for it, I could use another fellowship at this rate.

Open Source Software in Education Series on Terra Incognita – WikiEducator:
elcome to the Open Source Software in Education Series project site. Thank you very much for your interest in this project. The goal of the project is to collect and expose the thoughts of practical innovators in education who can provide insights on the impact of OSS in a forum that allows for some commenting and discussion. It is then my hope to make the postings and comments available as Open Educational Resources on WikiEducator. I imagine these resources being used in a number formal and informal educational setting across disciplines.

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This looks like it will become an excellent resource.