links for 2007-05-02

• Networks, Connections and Community: Learning with Social Software
  The research investigates the use of social software in teaching and learning and in capability building and contributes to our understanding of the ways in which the development of social softwares broadens opportunities for organisations to deliver flex
  (tags: collaboration web2.0 socialsoftware e-learning eLearning tools)
• Wiki Pédagogie
  Un wiki est un outil hypertexte collaboratif fort accessible et d’une très grande simplicité, qui remet en question et rend plus complexes les notions classiques de paternité d’une oeuvre, d’édition et de publication. Le détournement des pratiq
  (tags: socialsoftware pedagogy wiki)
• CityNews: Cyber-Bullying Law Introduced In Ontario
  Ontario introduced a new legislation Tuesday to add cyber-bullying to the list of offences for which a student can be suspended or expelled from school.
  (tags: cyberbullying law)
• Open Letter to Linden Lab « PacificRim Exchange(-)
  Stories started popping up all over Digg.com yesterday about an open letter to Linden Lab asking that they correct five critical flaws with Second Life.
  (tags: secondlife Second_Life socialsoftware)
• Les TIC peuvent améliorer les résultats scolaires des élèves
  survivre avec des ordinateurs dans sa classe, c’est un peu comme cohabiter avec un éléphant, c’est stressant, c’est encombrant, c’est dérangeant. Que fait-on d’un éléphant ? On essaie de le dompter sinon de l’apprivoiser. Il en est ainsi des technolo
  (tags: technology web pedagogy)
• Off Course-On Target: Joomla! et Zude
  Joomla! seems to be tremendously flexible in the way almost anyone (low skills like me) can create any form of content and have it show up however you like it.
  “Zude’s drag-n-drop Web authoring/remixing make it the Switzerland of the social Web”
  (tags: web2.0 tools)
• How To Build An Enterprise 2.0 Culture - Empowering Everyone to Have a Voice and Starting Small
  (tags: enterprise2.0)
• Why Enterprise 2.0 Won’t Transform Organizations - Harvard Business Online’s Tom Davenport
  The absence of participative technologies in the past is not the only reason that organizations and expertise are hierarchical. Enterprise 2.0 software and the Internet won’t make organizational hierarchy and politics go away.
  (tags: Enterprise2.0 Web2.0 organisation)
• Why Enterprise 2.0 Won’t Transform Organisations - And Why We May Have Gotten It Wrong Once More!(-)
  Enterprise 2.0 empowers them to collaborate, share their knowledge and innovate with others placing the focus on what I feel is the key fundamental aspect that will make organisational hierarchy and politics go away: The people themselves!
  (tags: Enterprise2.0 web2.0)
• Supreme Court Strikes a Major Blow for Patent Reform at e-Literate
  the central issue was the meaning of “obviousness.” The reason that the word is important in patent law is because an innovation that is deemed “obvious” is not patentable.
  (tags: law patent)
• More on the Supreme Court Ruling at e-Literate
  if a problem is fairly well known in the market, and if there are a fairly small number of fairly well-known methods for solving similar problems, you can’t get a patent just by being the first to apply the known solution to the known problem.
  (tags: law patent)
• A Methodology for Web2.0 collaboration Experiment (in reluctant organizations)
  Any methodology that hopes to help improve collaboration in an organization needs to be very adaptable, modest in resource demands, sponsored, and attuned to the complexity of collaboration challenges. I think I’ve come up with a methodology that meets th
  (tags: Enterprise2.0 collaboration organisation web2.0)