<![CDATA[In the e-Learn magazine there is an exellent article E-learning 2.0 By Stephen Downes http://elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=articles&article=29

Stephen mentions ELGG in the article:
"It also begins to look like a personal portfolio tool [18]. The idea here is that students will have their own personal place to create and showcase their own work. Some e-portfolio applications, such as ELGG, have already been created. IMS Global as put together an e-portfolio specification [19]. “The portfolio can provide an opportunity to demonstrate one’s ability to collect, organize, interpret and reflect on documents and sources of information. It is also a tool for continuing professional development, encouraging individuals to take responsibility for and demonstrate the results of their own learning” [20]. ”

e-learn magazine
http://elearnmag.org/index.cfm]]>

<![CDATA[This weekend we had a distance learning conference in Iceland, I administered one session about microteaching on the Internet. I started the session with short introduction

Here is the conference web
http://ut.vefurinn.net/dagskra.htm

Here are links for my session:
http://starfsfolk.khi.is/salvor/cv/orkennsla15okt05.htm

Here are the flickr photos from the conference
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/fjarkennsla

I asked all of those who had photos to put them up at flickr.com and tag them with "fjarkennsla". This is a nice way to teach people how useful social bookmarks/ folksonomeries can be.

On October 8th I gave presentation at a educational research seminar at our university. My presentation was about open source.
Here are my slides:
http://starfsfolk.khi.is/salvor/opensource.htm
I also had a poster about screencasting.

I am now preparing to go to Canada next weekend, I will attend the e-learning conference in Vancouver.
Also preparing contribution to Nordiske stemmer (on-line conference) and Fum conference in November and international conference in Copenhagen in December. I am on sabbatical this semister.]]>

<![CDATA[Two big players on the Internet have launced new services. This kind of points to what these companies think are important.

Google have launced beta version of Google Reader, it is online rss feed aggregator, just like Bloglines but not as advanced.

Yahoo has launcer podcasts.yahoo.com

This is beginning of RSS era.]]>