EduGlu Sandbox

Have just been looking at the new Open University Student Home Page. It's had a 'fresh, clean' redesign and kindly they've "placed the information most important to you in prominent places".

Here's an idea though...

How do 'they' know what's most important to me??

Well, very low tech m-learning that is.

Our books (and the rest of our possessions) have just arrived back from Australia and oh boy how much I LOVE having them back!  There really is nothing quite so beautifully portable as a book.  It's light.  It's accessible.  It's portable.  It's user-friendly.  It's joyous!

Last week, a call went out for government data mashup ideas, along with a list of government data APIS: Show Us a Better Way.

Here's another thought along the lines of the CMC same/different time/place grid as applied to Twitter I mentioned in Twitter and "Desynchronous" Communication... Twitter seems to be all over the place if you plotted a scatter chart opf different interaction modes on these axes:

In an OLDaily post last week (University Learning = OCW + OER = FREE! which picked up on a blog post of the same name by Zaid Ali Alsagoff (University Learning = OCW + OER = FREE!) and which contained a comprehensive

Okay, another take on the Digital Worlds uncourse blog trackback graph... To what extent do the emergent structures "respect" my use of blog categories (which have RSS feeds associated with them, and so are automatically published as discrete linear lists in their own right?)

In several previous posts ((I'll let you find them for yourself ;-), I've posted about various tools for plotting trends in search engine queries, twitter posts and so on. In today's roundup, here are some job trend plotting services - 'cos at the endof the day, formal education is about getting people prepared for, and into, work... right?