http://www.elib.at/edu.sci/blog Open repositories, eLearning, society and technology. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:45:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Students are often the first indicator for a major social change. Therefore it is telling, how fast the student protests fire up all  around the world. Protests in Austria, being the first country where there are protests at nearly all major universities, may ignite responses far beyond what students and ... http://www.elib.at/edu.sci/blog/?p=91 When talking about electronic information, devices are always at the core of acceptance. This has been shown by Apple, who successfully competed against illegal Download-Sites with the iPod in combination with iTunes. Here some readers for mobile reading that I found on Amazon - not much, but a start. But ... http://www.elib.at/edu.sci/blog/?p=89 Journalists need to stop being so lazy and unimaginative. Here are 22 ideas for changing the way news is produced. Dan Gillmore from the Guardian formulates them in his blog-article: The new rules of journalism http://www.elib.at/edu.sci/blog/?p=85 The Creative Commons Licencing model is explaned in this great series of posts from Advisign. Interesting for the German-speaking netzien. Teil 1 “Sinn und Zweck von Creative Commons” Teil 2 “Wie funktioniert eine Creative Commons – Lizenz?” Teil 3 – “Eigene Creative Commons-Lizenz erstellen” Teil 4 – “Vorteile, Gefahren & weiterführende Links” http://www.elib.at/edu.sci/blog/?p=83 Klaus Graf argued in his german weblog Archivalia, that wikipedia is also about science (not only popular science), because science is also about structuring of information and not only about scientific theory. This said, only about 1% of all articles published can be scientifically used... Klaus Graf hat in seinem ... http://www.elib.at/edu.sci/blog/?p=81 To build an eLearning system that is in consistency with user's needs, it helps to watch the latest trends and developments. This is especially true for all developments on the p2p front, as file sharing behaviour is a good indicator for what users want. Now, don't get me wrong - ... http://www.elib.at/edu.sci/blog/?p=76 Do you no longer own a TV, get your news directly from the net and perhaps have a website or blog? Then you might be a digital native in the best sense of the word.Check out these two great blog-posts (koehnetopp / netzpolitik in German). Digital literacy is another important term ... http://www.elib.at/edu.sci/blog/?p=74 We presented the launch of the edu.sci portal at the FNM-A (Forum Neue Medien Austria) Conference at the WU Vienna (July 1st 2009). We got a lot of interesting feedback and impulses for further tools to integrate. Interesting were also the keynotes, which support the conclusions we drew from operating elib.at ... http://www.elib.at/edu.sci/blog/?p=72 For German-speaking readers: Manipulation des Index . Wissen.schaf[f]t.Freiheit?! Eine tour de force durch die schmutzige Welt der Information von Gernot Hausar. Ein Aufsatz im Rahmen des Projektes "Enzyklopädie" an der Uni Wien. Erscheint im Rahmen des Netzmagazins "Telepolis" unter dem Titel: Sicherheit statt Freiheit (Gernot Hausar). Abstract: Der Index in seinen ... http://www.elib.at/edu.sci/blog/?p=70 We don't have to re-invent the wheel - so after playing arounbd with a variety of Facebook-Plugins, following this post are the ones which seem to be promising. The reason for facebook-integration is clear: convenience!!! While it is a privacy problem to a certain extent, it is also the fastest ... http://www.elib.at/edu.sci/blog/?p=65