tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145097832011-04-21T23:45:32.890+02:00Here you will find my discoveries regarding social software, folksonomy, tagging, web 2.0 and the likes. In some cases I will point to a specific use in education, sometimes I will not. If you wish to comment, please do! That's one of the reasons why I created a weblog, and not a static website.<br> --- Wytze Koopal ---Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-73532224561511344072008-11-07T13:09:00.001+01:002008-11-07T13:10:27.924+01:00

My current website is at http://www.koopaladvies.nl Mijn website is te vinden op http://www.koopaladvies.nl

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-90410511157642137892007-12-11T11:21:00.001+01:002007-12-11T11:21:21.486+01:00

ccLearn was 'publicly' launched during the Sakai conference in Amsterdam in June of this year (picture). Fortunately they have made some progress. ccLearn is partnering with Google to create a so-called "Web-scale open education search". Please check it out at:Open Education Search — ccLearn Institutions have done amazing work creating and publishing OERs on the web, but the infrastructure to

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-49083017359182967782007-09-23T17:53:00.000+02:002007-09-23T17:55:43.744+02:00

There is a great test for your ego: "Everyone is guilty of ego propping now and then. Some people are more guilty of the practice than others. Below is a test that will analyze how important you think you are."Go to http://technosailor.com/the-technosailor-self-importance-test.I am like Matt Mullenweg.... apparantly.

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-29050351952920869712007-09-21T14:22:00.001+02:002007-09-21T14:22:36.947+02:00

[dit is een oproep in het Nederlands] SURFnet is wel erg druk om SURFgroepen te promoten.... Nu staat er het volgende op SURFgroepen (bron): "Oproep: help mee aan de SURFgroepen campagne by SURFgroepen Portal Site Administrator 19/09/2007 16:58Misschien heb je de radiospotjes al gehoord, of de advertenties gezien: SURFnet voert campagne om docenten en onderzoekers bekend te maken met

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-48645730727498795532007-09-05T09:33:00.001+02:002007-09-05T09:33:43.214+02:00

Gerard werkt aan Fontys Hogescholen, en heeft goed weblog, vind ik! Zie bijvoorbeeld dit bericht over video en powerpoint. En Gerard gooit er meteen ook maar tien tips over wiki's tegenaan.

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-5047161769611429652007-08-27T12:36:00.001+02:002007-08-27T12:37:15.840+02:00

David Wiley, who works at Utah State University (USA), has a great weblog, called iterating toward openness. This title is quite right I think; only by iterating, which implies making mistakes etc, we will reach more openness. One other aspect of David Wiley that I like very much, is that he sets an example of who to "do" openness. He just does it!So, today he is starting his "Introduction to

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-54457475731497583572007-08-23T13:55:00.001+02:002007-08-23T13:55:41.385+02:00

We all know Google Docs (do we?). But innovation moves quickly in this era of Web 2.0. So, the next big thing is Buzzword. On eHub they call it The First Real Word Processor for the Web. The killer feature of Buzzword, apparantly, is that that what gets printed is exactly what's on your screen (or the other way around). Buzzword does this by using Flash technology. Don't get excited, yet,

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-946513376185478432007-06-27T14:49:00.001+02:002007-08-27T12:37:32.260+02:00

... gets mainstream by 'funding' by, in this case, the German central government. More at heise online - German Wikipedia receives state funding :"German edition of the open Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia will be receiving state funding. Germany will be setting aside part of its budget to improve information about renewable resources in Wikipedia. Over the next few years, several hundred

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-37527952479966732372007-06-21T16:07:00.001+02:002007-06-21T16:09:39.523+02:00

image-mosaic Originally uploaded by wytze Just a quick note here. Recently I discovered Image Mosaic Generator. This is a really great tool (dunno if it should be labeled social software though, is it?) for creating beautiful mosaics. What do you think of this picture? I like it and it is really damn easy to create.I just wish that you could ask to make a mosaic based on just your own photo's

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-39753875164650343932007-05-31T12:10:00.000+02:002007-05-31T12:14:12.682+02:00

There is some great stuff to be found everywhere on the web. The last thing I found (thanks Wilfred!) is a video on how and why to use a wiki. The video is made by CommonCraft, a web strategy consulting firm based in Seatlle (WA).So here is the 4 minutes of video:

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-91767884052054081932007-05-29T09:57:00.000+02:002007-05-29T15:37:59.413+02:00

Last week I got alerted by Flickr that my Pro account would expire soon. This means that I have been using Flickr for 2 years already. Time flies when you are having fun.This alert started me to think why I should renew my account. Well, here are my reasons:1/ I love the usability of Flickr! This is how a website should work. It is really so thought-out. There are (almost) never too many clicks

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-62062650674732270402007-05-22T16:09:00.001+02:002007-05-22T16:09:57.170+02:00

I am catching up on quite a few weblogs through Bloglines. I seeseveral posts on the joy of using RSS and readers like Google Reader. But that is not what I want to address here.I would really like to point you to an interesting post on the blog of Erik Duval. I am a regular reader of the blog by Erik Duval, of elearning standards fame. He is from Belgium, if you didn't know yet.Erik is really

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-12881205964651556732007-04-24T19:35:00.000+02:002007-04-24T19:36:44.371+02:00

This a short message. I am Away From Keyboard (AFK). Will be back in a few weeks. And this is also post # 100 in this weblog!

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-51017663051987100362007-04-20T16:00:00.001+02:002007-04-20T16:01:15.880+02:00

Sometime ago I wrote (I think) on this weblog something about Netvibes as the means of creating a Personal Learning Environment. Now, Michele Martin brings this theory into practice, and writes about Reorganizing My Personal Learning Environment . A great read! And a recommended weblog too, which I have added to my Bloglines right away.

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-32420178793905834792007-04-16T17:02:00.001+02:002007-04-16T17:04:16.778+02:00

George Siemens points to a very interesting post on the weblog by Ross Dawson. I've seen Wilfred Rubens refer to this post by Ross also.I particularly like the comment that Siemens makes: "Organizations (..) are generally too unaware ofthemselves and their strengths and expertise. Social software cangreatly aid the "coming to know oneself" that most larger corporationsneed...but too often,

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-63641810741670724312007-04-03T12:58:00.001+02:002007-04-03T12:58:26.665+02:00

This is just alittle sidenote... Well, not really. This is about blogging within an organisation. Sun Microsystems is a great example. The recent restructuring of the company was announced through a weblog. See also this article in Dutch in Emerce - Business nieuws: Sun Microsystems reorganiseert via weblog CEO "Technologiebedrijf Sun Microsystems neemt de organisatie van het bedrijf grondig op

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-52171219613839309602007-03-23T13:23:00.000+01:002007-03-23T13:37:08.988+01:00

Yesterday I was posting some pictures on Flickr, when I noticed a new feature. It is called Collections. This is the answer to a question that has been around for a looooong time, about nesting of sets, and subsets etc. So I created a Work-related Collection for you.

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-52462604791199213882007-03-19T17:15:00.001+01:002007-03-19T17:15:22.218+01:00

YouTube is getting (we all know that) a lot of attention these days. Recently a Dutch education institute joined YouTube, instead of creating their own videochannel or whatever. Check out this channel. A quote in Dtuch: "De CABK, ArtEZ academie voor beeldende kunsten, is eigenwijs zoals een kunstacademie behoort te zijn en denkt: if you can’t beat them, join them. Is het huidige internet

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-30879778127821549092007-03-09T13:03:00.001+01:002007-03-09T13:03:46.564+01:00

Jaaaaa, er begint iets te borrelen op de UT. Lees de ingezonden brief van Casper Hulshof in de UT Nieuws van 8 maart 2007: "Met enige verbazing en ergernis las ik hetkorte interview met Sander Smit (UT-Nieuws, 22 februari) over WindowsVista. (..) Terwijl de gemeente Enschede opopen-source software overstapt schenkt onze zogenaamd innovatieveuniversiteit een miljoen of wat aan Microsoft, met als

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-3900091566312370832007-03-02T09:20:00.000+01:002007-03-02T10:20:20.135+01:00

Through Stephen Downes i noticed the word "xFruit". Clicking on it, i arrived at a great example of a Web 2.0 service. Didn't you always want to have a handy tool to convert your weblog in a readable PDF (including working links)? Or to create an email notification based on RSS?Well, then it is the right time to start experimenting with xFruits. They offer these kind of services. I did this

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-80417267078009178522007-02-23T16:51:00.001+01:002007-02-23T16:51:51.892+01:00

A very interesting post by Willem van Valkenburg (in Dutch) on the way a teacher made use of a wiki and Google docs.Check out Docent te modern : "Het komt niet vaak voor dat de studenten klagen dat docenten te geavanceerde tools voor ze gebruiken. (..) zeker omdat het om informatica-studenten gaat, die bezig zijn met hun master."

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-39107857194019081232007-02-21T12:55:00.001+01:002007-02-21T12:55:32.175+01:00

I just found a great Netvibes contender, which is called eyeOS. A quote from their websi: "Welcome to eyeOS.info, where you can create and use your own eyeOS Virtual Desktop. With eyeOS.info all your data is available where ever you have Internet access and a standards compliant browser."This is really something here.! Let me explain. You can download the source for this virtual desktop and

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-6660622729959518142007-01-23T17:06:00.001+01:002007-01-23T17:06:52.781+01:00

I just read the weblog by Marja Verstelle. She is present at the ELI 2007 annual meeting, as far as I understood. I wonder what she picked up at this presentation: EDUCAUSE | ELI 2007 Annual Meeting | Father Google and Mother IM: Confessions of a Net Gen Learner Ofcourse, if others want to fill in here, that's fine with me.

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-31080197401580982702007-01-15T11:19:00.001+01:002007-01-15T11:19:35.956+01:00

D'Arcy Norman, from the University of Calgary (Canada), has a great weblog for everyone interested in elearning and such. There's is always something interesting on his weblog.One of his last posts is about CAREO, a repository that was offline for 9 months. His post is pretty disappointing: "(..) I think it's a pretty impressive statement about Institutional Repositories that something that was

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-88610589156099026802007-01-04T12:45:00.001+01:002007-01-04T12:46:49.015+01:00

So, this must be the year 2007 then! This will be a great year. There are lot of predictions for this year pouring in through my Bloglines. One recurring prediction is that social software will finally get mainstream for and in education. I sure hope so!A teacher in Seattle, Mark Ahlness, starts of his new year with a great illustration of the aforementioned prediction:"My 8 and 9 year old third

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1167736845772622102007-01-02T12:20:00.000+01:002007-01-02T12:20:45.850+01:00

Ben Werdmuller (of Elgg fame) pointed me to a great video. It shows off the user interface of the the OLPC - One Laptop Per Child - project. It really looks great, and has some similarities with the Elgg user interface. Ben writes on The Internet is People: "This social networking UI for the One Laptop Per Child ($100 laptop) project is amazing". See for yourself what you think.The video

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1166784797266629022006-12-22T11:53:00.000+01:002006-12-22T11:53:17.356+01:00

Just a quick note here. There is a great example of the use of a wiki in K12 education here in The Netherlands. It is called WikiKids (only in Dutch). They have taken the Mediawiki software and adapted it for use by kids. And now they are starting to create a online encyclopedia by and for kids. It is a great example of kids that work together with other kids, as well as with teachers.

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1166695073362811072006-12-21T10:57:00.000+01:002006-12-22T13:52:40.883+01:00

After a few weeks of inactivity on this weblog (but not on my other weblogs! check Dutch Sakai, or Twente Open Source Standaarden), I thought I should revitalize it. And since this is the end of the year 2006, I sounded good to me to start with a little reflecting.So I started with reading what I wrote about when I started this weblog (is that sentence correct?).I wrote about TagCloud, back in

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1165151170996137862006-12-03T14:06:00.000+01:002006-12-03T14:06:11.006+01:00

.flickr-photo { }.flickr-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } atlantaoverview, originally uploaded by wytze. Next week I will be attending the 6th Sakai conference, which is being held in Atlanta, Georgia (USA). All details are on http://www.sakaiproject.org/conference. It will remain quiet on

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1163779473750146522006-11-17T16:57:00.000+01:002006-11-28T09:36:40.946+01:00

.flickr-photo { }.flickr-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } blogprofile,originally uploaded by wytze. Lilia Efimova has a great weblog. She is working in The Netherlands, but she is "(..) Russian. So far I work in the Netherlands, but one day will go back. I like this "between two countries"

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1162371427362082322006-11-01T09:57:00.000+01:002006-11-01T09:57:07.406+01:00

David Wiley (from the US) has a very comprehensive website, including a weblog (ofcourse!) on open educational resources (or OER in short). His blog is called iterating toward openness. David compares the current situation of OER with a university website: "Can you imagine being asked to calculate the ROI of a university website? Can you imagine what your perception of a university that didn’t

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1161700318885967792006-10-24T16:31:00.000+02:002006-10-24T16:31:59.340+02:00

Derek Wenmoth from New Zealand has pointed me (through Bloglines) to a very interesting post on blogging as a professional. The question is Should all learning professionals be blogging?: "The Learning Circuits Blog has posted a Big Question for October which is 'Should all learning professionals be blogging?'. "I can only agree with the reasons he sums up. For example "it's helped me establish a

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1160395989942001162006-10-09T14:13:00.000+02:002006-10-09T14:13:09.993+02:00

I am certainly not the first to higlight this excellent weblog by a company called auinteractive, which is run by guy called Markus (that's all I get from his website/log). He sums up 10 Things That Will Make Or Break Your Website. Really some excellent stuff we all should be much more aware of! Most of the this top 10 is like reading the things that make up Web 2.0. For example: EASY is the most

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1159385170246285032006-09-27T21:18:00.000+02:002006-09-27T21:26:10.256+02:00

For several months I've been following a really really great weblog, which is calledOUseful Info. The author is Tony Hirst. As with my previous post in this weblog, Tony is very much into the newest social software stuff that is out there. I like this!The last thing that Tony has tried out and documented on his weblog is Dapper. This seems like a very very powerful service to screenscrape almost

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1158823122639829072006-09-21T09:18:00.000+02:002006-09-21T09:18:43.613+02:00

I have sort of gotten into the habit of starting up Bloglines before anything else (well, sometimes i forget and start with my email client), when I arrive at my desk. Today was no exception. And I came across CogDogBlog » Barking » Google Home Tabs: "I’ve had the personalized Google home page set on all my browsers for a while, but just recently noticed that you can now add tabs to organize and

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1157985754176430812006-09-11T16:42:00.000+02:002006-09-11T16:42:34.303+02:00

The last two weeks have been quite busy for me. Last week i was present at the very succesfull first European Sakai Days, that were organized at the Lubeck University of Applied Sciences in Germany. I delivered a workshop about issues that we should work on within Europe, regarding Sakai. Therefore this weblog was a bit neglected. But here we are again!I've been following some Finnish

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1155494014117430672006-08-13T20:33:00.000+02:002006-08-13T20:33:34.126+02:00

Will be back on August 29, 2006.

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1154600001033234772006-08-03T12:09:00.000+02:002006-08-03T12:28:25.426+02:00

There are two upcoming events that I would like to promote here. They are both free of charge (except for your own time, but I really think this is worth your time!).First of all I would like to point you to the first-ever European Sakai Days that will be held in Lübeck, Germany. This conference will feature a rich list of topics for those who already know what Sakai is. But you will also be

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1154424484544707532006-08-01T11:28:00.000+02:002006-08-01T11:28:07.233+02:00

Derek's Blog: People Aggregator: "New forms of social networking services are coming thick and fast at the moment - and here's another, PeopleAggregator . PeopleAggregator is the product of 3 years of self funded work by developer Mark Canter."So, because i read a weblog by someone in New Zealand (yeah, the world is flat!) i was pointed to a new social software tool. It sounds very promising

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1152790264281023972006-07-13T13:31:00.000+02:002006-07-13T13:31:04.300+02:00

Social software at work, could have been the title of this post. I think that I pointed you to our campuswiki (that is entirely maintained by students on a voluntary basis) a few months ago.But now I found an even greater example of the power of social software for educational purposes. This is called the SamenvattingenWIKI, where students can upload exams for all courses that we have on our

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1151420414720402902006-06-27T17:00:00.000+02:002006-06-27T17:00:14.746+02:00

There already has been quite an extensive online discussion (debate?) on a great post by Graham Attwell that really is worth a read. At least you should read the article on Personal Learning Environments (PLE) that he published a few weeks ago: "This paper will not answer all (..) questions. Instead it seeks to explain why the idea of the PLE is so appealing and what are the social and

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1150270287721336662006-06-14T09:31:00.000+02:002006-06-14T09:31:27.780+02:00

Stephen Downes is back from hiatus for some time already. Always great to read his weblog (or even better: his RSS feed in my Bloglines account).Stephen writes about what is happening with Flickr. The fact is that they are getting more and more into the Yahoo way of doing things: "So typical. A small company (Flickr) is bought by a large company (Yahoo!) and becomes coarse, unreasonable and

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1149861855989750702006-06-09T16:04:00.000+02:002006-06-09T16:04:16.020+02:00

On the excellent eHub site by Emily Chang I just found out that they recently have added Croquet in their listings, which is cool: "Croquet - A new open source software platform for creating deeply collaborative multi-user online applications. It features a network architecture that supports communication, collaboration, resource sharing, and synchronous computation among multiple users. "I saw

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1149682955793389082006-06-07T14:22:00.000+02:002006-06-07T14:22:35.880+02:00

Here we are again! I had a great time in Vancouver, where I met a lot of interesting people. Reports of the presentations that I visited can be found on the other weblog, http://sakai-nl.blogspot.com. One thing that really inspired me was a talk by Charles "Chuck" Severance, who was appointed Executive Director at the conference. Together with Andreas Wittke we made quite some progress in the

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1148960820146371452006-05-30T05:45:00.000+02:002006-05-30T05:47:00.160+02:00

This week I will be one of the many people visiting the 5th Sakai Conference. So keep your eyes on the other weblog, where short reviews will appear (if all goes well).

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1148037926290287252006-05-19T13:25:00.000+02:002006-05-19T13:25:26.350+02:00

Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~: "This is a neat idea I hadn't run across before. 'A Google jockey is a participant in a presentation or class who surfs the Internet for terms, ideas, Web sites, or resources mentioned by the presenter or related to the topic."Stephen points to a great resource on the Educause website (they have more!). I would like to call this Web 2.0 in the classroom or

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1147441058629700872006-05-12T15:37:00.000+02:002006-05-12T15:37:38.703+02:00

If you want to have a laugh (sort of) on what Web 2.0 could become, some sort of overhyped phenomenon, then read This is not your older brother's Interweb!: "What the hell is Web 2.1 RC 1 ?" Very funny post, great to read when you are doing your Friday afternoon boring stuff to close the week...

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1146478087822865342006-05-01T12:08:00.000+02:002006-05-08T16:59:37.040+02:00

I guess that Web 2.0 awards are awarded as much as there are pragmatists that are jumping on the bandwagon of "Web 2.0". Anyway, i just found another roundup of awards for the newest and the coolest services to be found on the web.There are some surprises (at least for me): e.g. Hipcal for the "Personal Organization" (and 30Boxes not even in the top3) category or Stumbleupon for "Social tagging"

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1145606572033704382006-04-21T10:02:00.000+02:002006-04-21T10:02:52.073+02:00

I found this great list of notetaking services on the weblog of Solution Watch aka Brian Benzinger. Fifty Ways to Take Notes » Solution Watch: "So I started thinking about all the services I’ve used for taking notes and thought it would be a good idea to share them with you and while I’m at it, to make a list of any others that I find."Great resource! Thanks for sharing, Brian.

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1145267089127687002006-04-17T11:44:00.000+02:002006-04-17T11:44:49.140+02:00

Just a quick reference to TrendMatcher tussen ICT en Onderwijs: A Really Simple Service Bus: "Verder klikken brengt je bij een formulier waarop je je e-mail adres kunt achterlaten. Dat schiet dus niet op! Even Googlen (ja, dat doe ik met een hoofdletter!) brengt je gelukkig wel verder, namelijk gewoon naar de rest van de site die achter dezelfde URL zit: http://www.rssbus.com/prebeta.aspxDaar

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1145176649501993012006-04-16T10:37:00.000+02:002006-04-16T10:54:00.473+02:00

Well, I dunno if this is really social software.... But Google Calender is software that makes use of all sorts of innovative software technologies, so for me that sort of qualifies. Really nice! I have just started to explore. Importing an *.ics file is a breeze. Adding public holidays is easy, they can be added with one (or two?) clicks. Adding an event is so easy. This works really good. I

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1144920119731045822006-04-13T11:21:00.000+02:002006-04-13T11:21:59.763+02:00

I use Bloglines as my tool to keep uptodate on the news, but there are other webbased feedreaders. A complete overview and review can be found at TechCrunch » The State of Online Feed Readers: "A feed reader, the most common solution to consuming synidcated content, saves the user time by monitoring countless sites and sources and providing near real-time updates to one location."Go read for

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1144915324301042532006-04-13T10:02:00.000+02:002006-04-13T10:02:04.346+02:00

08.39: Arrival at the University of Twente. Bad news travels fast: we have no internet connection!08.48: I am quite happy: all my documents are still available to me, since I have them synchronized to my local hard disk every time I log off.09.02: I have cleaned all my temporary files and documents on my hard disk. That really feels good. Let’s do some more cleaning up!09.04: The coffeemachine is

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1144844386216538482006-04-12T14:19:00.000+02:002006-04-12T14:19:46.283+02:00

I am a huge fan of del.icio.us! I just am.So far I have collected quite a few links over there. It is just so easy to bookmark now, especially with the Firefox extension. The things that for me have to do with what elearning 2.0 is or should be, are also (ofcourse!) on my del.icio.us account. Just go to del.icio.us/wytze/elearning20 to find out what i have collected so far.And start using

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1144533386707760312006-04-08T23:56:00.000+02:002006-04-08T23:56:26.766+02:00

Elliott Masie has a great piece on things that a LMS should be able to do: Making Your LMS Dance. One nice sentence in this piece: "LMS, I want you to integrate into our social networking systems. Sometimes, the source of knowledge is not a class but a conversation with a colleague down the hall."Thanking http://www.elearnspace.org/blog for the pointer.

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1143643620391417262006-03-29T16:47:00.000+02:002006-04-04T14:53:18.460+02:00

I just found a very nice article that shares some great ideas on how a (public) library could promote open source, and by doing that could stay ahead of budget cuts. It was published in the blog OpenOffice.org Training, Tips, and Ideas: Public Libraries, Open Source, and World Domination: "So needless to say, it's a good idea to think about how libraries can adapt and grow and become the kind of

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1143122654263909962006-03-23T15:04:00.000+01:002006-03-23T15:04:14.310+01:00

.flickr-photo { }.flickr-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Kom naar het grote ELO spel, originally uploaded by wytze. Nog een paar dagen. De repetities zijn in volle gang. De koelkasten worden gevuld. De kostuums worden doorgepast. Het geluid en het licht worden nog eens gecheckt. De stoelen

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1142853715861967682006-03-20T12:21:00.000+01:002006-03-20T12:21:55.890+01:00

I am a regular reader of some very interesting weblogs on elearning and such. Some of them are in Dutch (check http:/www.bloglines.com/public/wytze for all that I try to read, in Dutch and English). To name a few webloggers that I like: Melle de Vries (recently discovered, very nice), Patrick Klaassen, Michiel Duyvestein and Wilfred Rubens. But today I want to point especially to Margreet van den

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1142414576229054752006-03-15T10:22:00.000+01:002006-03-15T10:22:56.260+01:00

From the 37signals team, that has some great web 2.0 products on the "shelf" (you can't really say that, can you, of web 2.0?), there's is some great news for lovers of free, but still-very-useful-even-in-business-environments, software. It is called Campfire. I haven't tried it yet... but this seems very promising. The totally-free-for-life version, allows up to 5 persons simultaneously.In their

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1142333823742834402006-03-14T11:57:00.000+01:002006-03-14T11:57:03.796+01:00

For those Dutchies out there, who want a very readable and understandable introduction tot Web 2.0, I highly recommend the online Magazine B R I G H T. They have a feature on this subject, which was published way back (!?) in December 2005.So, check B R I G H T :: 06 :: Web 2.0: Software wordt sociaal: "‘The network is the computer’, luidt een oude slogan van servermaker Sun. Wat toen een

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1142237761973179482006-03-13T09:16:00.000+01:002006-04-06T00:59:38.606+02:00

WikiVille: 21st Century students building a world-story of life in our home towns. It's time to unpack and move in to WikiVille!Great idea by Will Richardson!Sort of reminds me of what we have here on the University of Twente, the campuswiki (only in Dutch so far). This only gives you information on our campus and surroundings. But what a great idea to expand this worldwide. Hopefully it doesn't

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1142105253034282912006-03-11T20:27:00.000+01:002006-03-11T20:27:33.106+01:00

I've been fiddling around a little bit with Writely, a real Web 2.0 app. It is basically an online wordprocessor with a lot of nice features, such as public documents, and more authors for one document. The Writely Blog writes: Some of you have been worried about our future here at Writely. (..) Thankfully, your donations won't be necessary, for one very exciting reason: Writely is now part of

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1141673305908591452006-03-06T20:28:00.000+01:002006-03-06T20:29:49.996+01:00

.flickr-photo { }.flickr-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } CIMG0302,originally uploaded by wytze. I am back from a beautiful vacation in Sri Lanka! These were days well spent. I enjoyed beautiful weather, lots of fish for dinner, and some sunbathing. And the famous Lion Lager.This picture

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1140006533278924342006-02-15T13:28:00.000+01:002006-02-15T13:28:53.290+01:00

I almost on my way to Sri Lanka. See you again in March....

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1139484141735877212006-02-09T12:22:00.000+01:002006-02-09T12:22:21.790+01:00

Interoperability: "Why Interoperability Matters to everyone involved"I just came across this website by the Open group. It has some great content. Just read this piece on interoperability: it should matter to everyone. Not just the consumer (or buyer) of software and information, but also to the supplier!

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1139339835441912232006-02-07T20:17:00.000+01:002006-02-07T20:17:15.456+01:00

I just came across the weblog by David King, who writes:"Has anyone seen this job ad? The job title is NextGen Librarian - wow. It could also be titled the "Library 2.0 Librarian," I think."Just read it, and you will also see that the institution that posted this job, already responded publicly in the weblog by thanking for the free publicity. That's the way to go, Wayne State University!!!!

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1139214199854538062006-02-06T09:23:00.000+01:002006-02-06T09:24:39.016+01:00

I am regular reader of the weblog by Derek Morrison. Which is called Auricle: "For, at least the part of the world which is 'wired', we are fast reaching a point where we no longer need to visit physical spaces to acquire much of what we want or need. That, in turn, will change the nature of the physical spaces that are required and the roles/location of people who are required to support and

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1138807204416021212006-02-01T16:20:00.000+01:002006-02-01T16:20:10.876+01:00

Through Niels Maes of Citowoz (thanks Niels!) I was reminded to pick up on George Siemens and his theory of connectivism. Siemens has started the Connectivism Blog. Just a quote to get you interested: "When educators fail to provide for the needs of learners (i.e. design learning in an LMS only), learners are able to 'go underground' to have their learning needs met."What he means is that if

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1138790045282656362006-02-01T11:34:00.000+01:002006-03-28T11:03:39.983+02:00

SurveyMonkey.com : "SurveyMonkey is both a powerful solution and a tremendous value. Compare our prices to any of our competitors...you'll find that SurveyMonkey is tough to match!"Ok, agree, this is not exactly social software, is it? But is, at least to me, a great example of where we are heading: software as a service for a monthly fee. And here, you can get a free basic subscription, where

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1138713563316318982006-01-31T14:19:00.000+01:002006-01-31T14:48:24.030+01:00

One more thing in Dutch, is that OK with you? The SURF Foundation has published her proposed plan for the coming years 2007 until 2010. SURF :: Concept SURF-Meerjarenplan 2007/10: "Het werkterrein van SURF is in de loop der jaren sterk verbreed. Dit komt ten dele door de nog steeds groeiende impact van ICT in het dagelijks leven. Maar het gevestigde en gegroeide vertrouwen van de

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1138635792032827682006-01-30T16:40:00.000+01:002006-01-30T16:43:12.046+01:00

For today, I just wanna point you to two shiny new services, in the real Web 2.0 spirit, that I recently joined for testing purposes. They both can be joined for free. Ofcourse always read their privacy policies if you also want to join:1. Rojo: "Rojo means 'RSS with mojo' and in this spirit our company is dedicated to providing the best feed reader around so that busy people can discover and

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1138360560639048262006-01-27T12:16:00.000+01:002006-01-27T12:16:00.673+01:00

Marijk van der Wende: Onderwijsinstellingen moeten zelf eigenaar worden van elo: "Een ho-instelling heeft allerlei systemen. Naast de elo bijvoorbeeld voor administratie van verschillende zaken zoals cijfers. Eigenlijk zijn dat allemaal kant-en-klare pakketten, waarvan de interoperabiliteit laag is."Yes, this reference is not in English. But this is an interview on our current state of affairs

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1138283879754765082006-01-26T15:55:00.000+01:002006-01-26T14:57:59.770+01:00

Ok, testing with Writely seems to work OK.Have you tried it yet? Check Writely !

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1138281289027186552006-01-26T14:14:00.000+01:002006-01-26T14:14:49.063+01:00

Innerphaze » Blog Archive » Ajax Office Chart: "I thought it might be helpful to have a simple chart to summarize my Ajax Office review. " That's how Dan McCrea introduces a breed of Web 2.0 apps that sure might scare Microsoft... Well, maybe not.But then again: if you don't want to spend your money on a license fee for Microsoft Office, then turn to these apps. Some of them are real competitors

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1138190743829355482006-01-25T13:05:00.000+01:002006-01-25T13:05:43.900+01:00

Alright, you sort of know what RSS is and maybe you use a feedreader to keep up with all those blogs, that spit out RSS feeds at ya.But do you know what else you can do with RSS? Well, I just found out that there is a service that can convert your email into RSS. Isn't that cool?A very nice list of what else you can do with RSS, can be found on a weblog by Rich Ziade. The title of his article is

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1138006352837484472006-01-23T09:52:00.000+01:002006-01-23T09:52:32.856+01:00

Ning | Home: Front Page: "Ning is the easiest way to create your own social web apps on the Internet today. And it's free!"Is it really? I didn't try it out, yet... But maybe later.

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1137754496776642222006-01-20T11:54:00.000+01:002006-02-06T21:24:29.710+01:00

Have I already mentioned here that i like Netvibes a lot? I mean a lot!!!I just found one other, sort of competitor. It is called BlinkList: "'BlinkList is Social Bookmarking merged with People Powered Search and Expert Recommendations... all wrapped in an elegant interface'"

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1137409436358238702006-01-16T12:03:00.000+01:002006-01-20T21:22:24.696+01:00

Through the weblogs of some collegues on the other side of the world I keep current on issues regarding the fact that a lot of schools in Australasia are blocking all sorts of websites and weblogs. And we are not talking about China here, but about Australia!I especially recommend Leigh Blackall and James Farmer if you are also interested in these issues. James recently started nonscholae.org: "

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1137056208912194752006-01-12T09:56:00.000+01:002006-01-12T09:56:53.153+01:00

No, this is not one more nice piece on what e-learning 2.0 is. This is a very nice roundup by Godfrey Parkin about what really should make us change drastically the way we work. I just added his fine blog to my blogs on my Bloglines subscriptions. Check it out at http://www.bloglines.com/public/wytzeParkin's Lot: E-learning grows up: "the life expectancy of any training course is rapidly

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1136477499740023602006-01-05T17:11:00.000+01:002006-01-05T17:11:39.783+01:00

Great stuff, that came to me through the famous eHub by Emily Chang. It is called Wanabo. I didn't try it out yet, though. Something for the weekend.... :-)A quote:Wanabo "Wanabo helps you build an effective and alternative window into your site using tagging ». Its the easiest way to bring the power of folksonomies and the 2.0 Web to your online presence."

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1136378047822694602006-01-04T13:34:00.000+01:002006-01-05T03:19:48.893+01:00

Happy New Year to everyone that reads this (I don't know who is reading this....)I just stumbled on a very neat webapp. It is RSSCalendar.com : "Sharing your calendar with family, friends, and co-workers has never been easier. When you create a calendar event, an RSS Calendar Channel (or Feed) is automatically generated."Yeah right, i thought.... but it really works very nicely. Just see the

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1134384070512294742005-12-12T11:41:00.000+01:002005-12-12T11:41:11.306+01:00

A very nice list of best of Web 2.0 software is to be found on this weblog. If you want to get started, start here. But even for Web 2.0 addicts, there will be something useful here. Very nice.

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1133536043545119222005-12-02T16:07:00.000+01:002005-12-02T16:07:23.603+01:00

ProgrammableWeb is what it is: "ProgrammableWeb is a web-as-platform reference site and blog delivering news, information and resources for developing applications using the Web 2.0 APIs." This, together with eHub, will let you stay up-to-date on Web 2.0. Very cool.

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1131979040477888002005-11-14T15:37:00.000+01:002005-11-14T15:37:20.526+01:00

Have you seen http://www.netvibes.com/ ? This seems to me like a sort of SuprGlu: a completely customizable starting page, simply for yourself. I will try this one out, for sure. The company is based in France, BTW. I came across Netvibes by courtesy of a weblog at the Open University of the UK; http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/005219.html (he, didn't they recently tell us that they are have

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1131721590336144742005-11-11T16:06:00.000+01:002005-12-02T22:07:10.073+01:00

This came up today as one of the most popular reads on del.icio.us, tagged with 'folksonomy'. It's a long item on what IBM is doing. Very interesting for all the people interested in social software and the likes. Source.

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1131611244815913442005-11-10T09:27:00.000+01:002006-01-24T16:25:32.593+01:00

Leigh Blackall, whose weblog I've been reading for some months now, just put a nice article about the long way we still have to go. Leigh refers to an excellent article by Alan Levine, where he states that "One of my peeves is the pervasive use of email as a sole communication means. What I am referring to as almost daily, there are 4 or 5 fully formatted HTML, graphic laden emails about various

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1131364302778493012005-11-07T12:51:00.000+01:002005-11-07T12:51:42.820+01:00

Please take the time to read the How to Save the World "The Social Networking Landscape" by Dave Pollard. This is an excellent piece on trying to define what social software is about. Not in a textual way, but in a mindmapping way. I need to do more with mindmapping, that's for sure.

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1130942565992701052005-11-02T15:42:00.000+01:002005-11-08T09:53:33.453+01:00

I said it before on this weblog. You really should add this website (or RSS feed) within your attentioncloud whatever (?): eHub by Emily Chang. "Thanks to Pierre Stanislas, creator of Atiki for this email interview posted October 24, 2005."

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1130752596882386582005-10-31T10:56:00.000+01:002005-10-31T10:56:37.056+01:00

A new word, but a very fascinating one. Do you know the concept of Feedbooks? Just start reading at the excellent weblog by Leigh Blackall from Australia: http://teachandlearnonline.blogspot.com/2005/10/feedbooks.html "A feedbook is a living text. Students are getting material that is new. The material may surprise the instructor, but it gives them things to discuss, a real platform upon which

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1130491661371045852005-10-28T11:06:00.000+02:002005-10-28T11:27:41.380+02:00

I just posted this through Flock, the new kid on the blo(g)ck.I'm trying to grasp what I can do with this. Need to read this: http://www.flock.com/fiveways/togetstarted/13.php

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1127818824761022232005-09-27T13:00:00.000+02:002005-10-03T12:40:40.043+02:00

The site speaks for itself:"eHub is a constantly updated list of web applications, services, resources, blogs or sites with a focus on next generation web (web 2.0), social software, blogging, folksonomy (..) "At the time of writing, it listst 120 resources.... and rising.

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1126508147353057652005-09-12T08:55:00.000+02:002005-09-12T08:55:47.366+02:00

Their own text says it all: "Revealicious is a set of graphic visualisations for your del.icio.us account that allow you to browse, search and select tags, as well as viewing posts matching them." This must be number 5 (or so) of tools that visualize your del.icio.us entries. I wonder which one works best. Any comments?

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1125577126661805882005-09-01T14:18:00.000+02:002005-09-01T14:21:57.653+02:00

The weather is quite hot over here, right now (about 80 degrees Fahrenheit or 26 degrees Celsius).But, i just found this very cool tool, that makes posting and tagging interesting things on the web to your del.icio.us list a one-click affair. Very very useful indeed!Go to http://ejohn.org/apps/sheep to check it out and start using it!In their own words: "Lazy Sheep is a del.icio.us bookmarklet

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1125476518555889152005-08-31T10:21:00.000+02:002005-08-31T10:21:58.566+02:00

DeWitt Clinton tells us what Web 2.0 will be like: "Web 2.0 is about giving that data meaning and thereby setting it free. Web 2.0 is the syndication of data, and syndicating it in such a way that anyone, anywhere can use the results. Web 2.0 does not lock the consumer (who also becomes a producer) into rigid use cases — it intentionally forfeits that control in favor of much greater returns." I

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1125302790884685832005-08-29T10:06:00.000+02:002005-08-29T10:06:30.913+02:00

Since del.icio.us is here, others make use it in innovative ways. The idea is simple: since there are a lot of people around the globe who put their bookmarks in there, you can 'easily' derive conclusions from it. What's hot and what's not, in a bottom-up way. Decided by the people, and not by the news agencies or te TV networks. So, check out for example: 1. CollaborativeRank. Here you can see

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1125064819865017742005-08-26T16:00:00.000+02:002005-08-26T16:01:50.816+02:00

Ok, i am back from vacation.Today i stumbled across a few articles (if you will call them that way) that argue that Shirky is overrated, as a response to his blog that stated that Ontology is overrated.Check out, for example:Atomiq: Market populism in the folksonomies debate.

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1123402079047070712005-08-07T10:07:00.000+02:002005-08-07T10:07:59.053+02:00

Until August 22. See you then!

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1123152633855454582005-08-04T12:50:00.000+02:002005-09-01T14:21:10.276+02:00

I found a very provocative post by Derek Morrison on the Auricle weblog.Derek argues that we are all walking in a sort of tunnel, because of limitations of current VLE's.Just a quote: "(..) VLEs are pretty poor content aggregators but yet, in the absence of alternatives, they've taken on that role in education by default. But yet, in the non-education world, I can set up my RSS aggregator and

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1123065432555367512005-08-03T12:37:00.000+02:002005-08-03T12:37:12.566+02:00

The newest folksonomy tool is calledCloudalicious. Here you can watch how Tagclouds develop over time. Try it with something that has at least 50 other people that have tagged the site or article on del.icio.us. Otherwise you get very strange (?) results.

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14509783.post-1122547874486526012005-07-28T12:51:00.000+02:002005-07-28T12:51:15.586+02:00

Recently I reread the news on Edusite that one of our oldest universities in The Netherlands (The University of Leiden) has started to use weblogs for educational purposes. I will try to give a very short description in English of what is developing there (all text etc is in Dutch). There is directory available of the weblogs in use there. At the moment there are 8 staff and 5 students actively

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0