Call for Chapters: New Book on Free and Open Source Software

“Free and Open Source Software for E-Learning: Issues, Challenges and Successes” is due this year by IGI Publishing. More information about how to submit proposals for this upcoming book can be found at:

http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=563

A few new applications

All free and open source applications by way of Andrzej:

–Animoto (web application that combines images, videos and music to create digital narratives)

http://animoto.com

–PicPick (digital imaging software with screen capture and image editor features)

http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/PicPick-Download-69160.html

–Adeona (tracking software for laptops)

http://adeona.cs.washington.edu

Faculty Views on Social Networking and Web 2.0

Today, Thomson Publishing, an academic publishing company, released the results of a survey they conducted using more than 600 college professors. The findings showed that majority of professors don’t use social networking sites and Web 2.0 tools for instructional purposes, although they are familiar with some of these sites. More results are at the following website but unfortunately they didn’t publish complete results.

http://www.thomson.com/content/pr/tl/tl_high_ed/New_Media_Tools_Faculty_Survey

One thing I found interesting was number of faculty members who have their own blogs (10 percent) are not that different from general population (US) who have blogs (8 percent).