Library Stuff has a great list of Q and A sites. You have a question, ask it there and maybe you’ll get an answer. Most seem to suffer from the lack of quality control you’d expect. John has thought about doing something like this using legal ed as a background. “Would someone explain estoppel to me?”, that sort of thing. Could work since focus would help with quality.
The Other Fedora: Open Source Document Repository
Tom Bruce recommends this for building repositories of things like course syllabi and presentations.
Fedora
Fedora open source software gives organizations a flexible service-oriented architecture for managing and delivering their digital content.
Second Mention of Classcaster on corante.com
I added a comment to the page reminding the author that Classcaster is actually the system that CALI Radio runs on. It is important for people to know that this is not a one blog pony:)
The terrific Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Education has been featuring lectures and other educational materials at CALI Radio, otherwise known as the ClassCaster, for several months now.
A natural extension for podcasting. Between Lawyers: technology + culture + law
Plog Is Now Lifetype
pLog, which provides the blogging power for Classcaster, has changed its name to LifeType.
LifeType Development Journal
The formerly known as pLog project has decided to get a facelift including a new name, new image and new logo. This facelift is related to the project’s cooperation with Amazon, current owners of the “plog” trademark in the United States. On behalf of the project, we would like to thank Amazon for their collaboration and help. Other companies would have chosen to sue but instead Amazon decided to cooperate and had a lot of patience with us.
Facebook: A Social Network Success
On the reason why the first generation of social networks failed (as compared to MySpace and Facebook), he thinks that they have not focused on providing a set of utilities to their audience, they were merely about creating connections.
Software Only: The Facebook unplugged at Stanford ETL
This is a great article on the folks behind Facebook and how it is put together. The above quote makes me wonder: how can CALI create a social network among law students, among law faculty, amng law librarians? What utilites can we provide that would ignite a community and a social network?
Podcasting Gaining Steam in Higher Ed
Students in the designated classes subscribe to the lectures by going to the CSS Web site and copying a link into their iTunes or a similar program. After that, the program automatically picks up each lecture after it’s recorded. The student simply goes to his or her personal computer, opens iTunes and either listens to it there or transfers it to a portable MP3 player.
uwnews.org | University of Washington News and Information
Add U of Washington to the growing list of colleges and universities that are using podcasting as a tool for distributing course material to students. It makes a lot of sense. Here’s my question: what about law schools? CALI is trying to provide law schools with tools to do this, but uptake seems to be limited. I’m not sure why folks don’t want to try this technology now before they start getting battered by students and faculty who want it. It is a bit frustrating.
PHP Voice – Classes for dealing with voice in PHP apps
I wonder if I can break this?
freshmeat.net: Project details for PHP Voice
PHP Voice (formerly known as PHP VXML) contain four classes that assist in developing voice application using PHP. It supports Speech Synthesis Markup Language 1.0, Speech Recognition Grammar Specification 1.0, Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML 1.0, and Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 2.0.
Classcaster Launched
Well, I got this out the door today. We went from concept to product in right around 6 months. I suppose I should say I not we since I did the actual development myself.
In a nutshell, Classcaster is a turn-key blogging, podcasting, audio-blogging, telephony solution aimed at education (that is CALI’s mission after all). Yep, on this one system you get a blog, podcast ready, the capalbilty to call in posts, RSS2 feeds with enclosures, an embedded Flash player, automatic generation of posts once a call is complete. Pretty cool. Next is an ISO version so you play along at home:)
www.cali.org – CALI Spotlight
CALI is excited to announce the immeadiate availability of Classcaster. Classcaster is a course blogging and podcasting system that provides faculty, librarians, and staff of CALI member schools with a new way to interact with students and communities. A Classcaster blog provides authors with tools for posting not only traditional blog articles but also tools for podcasting and sharing any documents and/or files with students and communities. Members of the CALI community interested in using Classcaster should first visit the Classcaster FAQ for instructions on using the system.
Duke Schedules a Podcasting Symposium
Looks like Duke is getting into this big time. Thanks to Patty for posting this to teknoids.
Duke Podcasting Symposium :: September 27 – 28, 2005
Duke University is pleased to announce that we will be hosting the first-ever academic symposium on podcasting from September 27-28 of this year. The two-day event will feature a hands-on podcasting workshop, as well as panel discussions of the economic/business, legal, political, journalistic, and cultural impacts of podcasting by bringing together prominent members of the podcasting community with policymakers, scholars, and media experts.
Aqua Data Studio – Possible Replacement for SQLYog
Database query tool – Aqua Data Studio is the query analyzer that works with Oracle, DB2, Sybase, MySQL and more.
Aqua Data Studio is a database query tool and administration tool that allows developers to easily create, edit, and execute SQL scripts, as well as browse and visually modify database structures. Aqua Data Studio provides an integrated database environment with a single consistent interface to all major relational databases. This allows the database administrator or developer to tackle multiple tasks simultaneously from one application.