Category Archives: web-20

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The Semantic Web helps to publish a post

Posted on March 6, 2009 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Image via CrunchBase I just stumbled by chance into Zemanta. The name Zemanta implies some level of Semantic Web, so I was intrigued and installed a Firefox extension. What happened then? Actually, I almost forgot it. Suddenly, when I opened … Continue reading →

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Moodle and Google Apps Integration

Posted on March 3, 2009 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Development Site Moodle Rooms Moodle Rooms announced today 03.03.09 it has produced a Moodle plugin to integrate the leading Open Source e-Learning platform with Google Apps under a single sign-on protocol. Students and instructors are thus able (as soon as … Continue reading →

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Alltop, Popurl & WordPress: a model for publishing

Posted on March 1, 2009 by Antonio Vantaggiato

How to Create your AllTop/Popurls-like Site for Free with wordpress | WPTransformer.com Alltop.com is a web service which edits an aggregation of feeds on the most diverse subjects: for instance science.alltop.com is all about the top science feeds, while italian.alltop.com … Continue reading →

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Educause ELI 2009 Proceedings and Videos

Posted on February 28, 2009 by Antonio Vantaggiato

eliannual09 | EDUCAUSE CONNECT All proceedings from EDUCAUSE ELI annual Meeting 2009 are available at their site (link above). Watch Michael Wesch’s keynote: From Knowledgeable to Knowledge-able: Experiments in New Media Literacy as well as Constance Steinkuehler’s: Virtual Worlds as … Continue reading →

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Twiddla and Web meetings (or classes)

Posted on February 27, 2009 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Organize a meeting and share thoughts on a specific Web page in minutes with Twiddla! Take a whiteboard, add a Web page, invite people, begin to draw, annotate, add maths, whatever. Don’t even need to register! Use widgets, audio, media.

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