By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. efest - eTLC2009
Selena at learning elearning has been providing blog coverage of the 2009 efest conference currently taking place in Palmerston North on New Zealand's North Island, including notes on the unconference and a talk from Derek Wenmouth (his blog). More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Why Use Twitter? Notes for My Journalism Expo Twitter Training
I'm doing a social media workshop tomorrow for the Atlantic Journalism Awards conference here in Moncton - the local newspaper called it the 'Tweeting Workshop' - and so this item seemed like a good thing to clip and save. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Video File Formats, What and When to Use
What I like about this item is that it doesn't try to be an encyclopedia or to analyze all possible options. Instead, it addresses directly the question: what video format should I use. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. New Study On Use of Web 2.0 Applications in Classrooms
A new report on Leadership in Web 2.0 for Education has been released. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Middle East Special Issue of IRRODL
Terry Anderson introcudes this new issue of IRRODL - a nice weekend work of reading for those interested in open and distance learning in the Middle East, with papers mostly from Turkey and Jordan. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Open Opportunties, Open Threats?
"It's highly unlikely that those who have invested considerable finance, effort, and reputations in the construction of a hard and soft proprietary infrastructure are willingly going to change horses," writes Derek Morrison. It's a bit like switching from fossil fuels. Even if the alternatievs are better, or even cheaper, there's just too much invested in the existing infrastreucture. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. CCL Update
Canada's national organization for educational research, the Canadian Council for Learning, is on the bubble, its future in question. Its mandate was extended a year without additional funding, so the five regional knowledge centres - Aboriginal Learning, Adult Learning, Early Childhood Learning, Health and Learning and Work and Learning - will no longer be funded as of July 6. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Adams 50 Skips Grades, Lets Kids Be Pacesetters
Now you can level-up at school as a school district in Colorado does away with grades and semesters. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 10+ Web Tools To Save Your Butt In School
Some useful resources here - one site features printable notepaper, another site creates your bibliography for you, another is a to-do list, yet another is a flashcard sharing site. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Year of the Cloud
George Siemens puts his stake into the prognostication arena with this post on 'the year of the cloud' - cloud computing, to be precise. He decides to embrace the cloud to answer some questions: "How will my communication and information processing habits change when I don't need to confine myself to a particular computer? What types of software do I need when I don't want to be tied to a particular laptop?" More...