Continuing a conversation... Categories and OERs and Activities. The story so far - Diigo is a good model for collecting links, making notes, adding categories/tags, sending emails of updates to subscribers. But Diigo is proprietary and the free version has many limitations and restrictions to be a solution here. So...
Activities pages have a share using Delicious - is it free and open enough to use as part of an interim solution? There are lots of tools and APIs for Delicious. In addition to reviews and categories, having subscriptions is a good way to get the word out. Diigo has this built in. The automatic gathering up of newly identified and/or reviewed entries into an email "newsletter" that is sent to subscribers is nice, especially if the subscriber maintenance is mostly automated. Another automation of links / reviews / commentary > subscription newsletter http://www.downes.ca/news/OLDaily.htm As I understand it, his software gRSShopper does a lot of the work - other than the monumental task of reviewing post, articles, software and writing 5-10 reviews every single day for years http://grsshopper.downes.ca/description.htm He said he limits his comments to about 100 words - seems to be a reasonable guideline. Using something like this to get people to suggest / review OERs and/or provide high-level overviews of Activity uses would create a network effect - what can it do? what is there to do? _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
