Google finally gets into the Wiki game by re-launching the product they acquired last year (JotSpot) under a a new name: Google Sites. See this description of the product via TechCrunch blog. I'll be trying it!

I discovered this post via Google Alerts that I have set up for "learning design". ( If you don't use Google Alerts...you should. Basically setup a term or phrase and everytime anyone on the internet posts something with that word ... requirement of the class is to set up a blog account and keep a biweekly reflection jounal to discuss the week's readings and ... for a couple reasons... 1) There are courses out there that are actually encouraging grad students to blog...very cool ... learning professionals that read my blog to check out the blogs from Shelley's class, and comment. Encourage them.

This post isn't about Google Gears as much as it is about what it signals to the learning industry. When I get more ... , why not just build that capability right into the browser? Google did. Its called Google Gears and its just another ... . But now Google Reader functions OFFLINE...bye bye client side readers. Remember, MOST of what we learn and know ... wiki and blog functionality, but chances are your IT department already has that covered and launched, or plans too in the ... release of Google Gears MediaWiki (and ALL wikis for that matter) become infinitly more powerful once they re-code to ...

... collect updates content (blogs, news feeds, podcasts, vodcasts, multimedia, etc.) Google Gears allows learners to view ... then click the Wikipedia entry for whatever you’re “googling.”  I think this is certainly true of many ... actually sick of Google. Although it is a huge part of my personal learning and work environment I’m just well, blah. I think this general blah came from a few too many “according to Google…” sightings. Don’t you just want to say, “Google is not a person.” According to the Google search I just did…might ...

Rich Hoeg, author of the eContent blog , sent me some links that I think are worth sharing. My favorite is a link to his post showing some Engineering Domain searches Rich created with Google Co-Op . Wink is a very cool little screencapture tool I've never heard of before. Its Windows only, but at least its freeware. Thanks for sharing, Rich! This is some great new stuff!

I rely pretty heavily on Google Blog Search to help me find people who are citing blog posts of mine so that I can see that kind of conversation. Unfortunately, it looks like Google Blog Search has decided that they will now include the entire contents of the web page rather than just the contents of the RSS feed. What this means is that I now get links to every post where the author includes my blog in their blog roll. This completely defeats my purpose. I want a nice ... intentional, but it's been happening for a while. I actually left Technorati for Google because Google appeared to be doing ...

Lively Google has started a SecondLife type virtual world called Lively.  I am loading it now. The avatars in the pictures look really interesting, kind of Tim-Burton-Esc". It is taking a little time for the "room" to materialize, but still pretty cool.  There is a lot going on. I think they wanted to make sure that it wasn't like SecondLife. I am sure this will be the topic on conversation for some time to come in the blogesphere. Blogged with the Flock ...

Let the battle begin! Remember Netscape? As most everyone knows, Google has entered the browser wars with Chrome. A blog I regularily monitor, DemoGirl , has a great, high quality screencast which demonstrates Chromes' key features.

... tool and it's free to download. So, why am I using it in preference to Google's own Blogger editor? Let me tell you ... much more robust than Google's, which provides me with all sorts of formatting glitches and problems. It is ...

... when finished, view your blog and marvel at your genius..... Douglas Bowman beautifully organized and documented the ... . Google News is standard with the template. If anyone has further recommendations for resources to add to my ...

I found a cool new Blogger widget (through blogger) that allows me to put my Shared Items from Google Reader onto my blog homepage. Feed Reader folks: You won't hear me asking this too often since I'm a huge feed reader fan, but please visit my site and take a look. Still trying to find one for Facebook that works correctly.....

... received great feedback and learned new information that bears sharing. Google Chrome The new Google Chrome browser is still in its infancy. Updates will be many and often during its beta phase. Google keeps a news feed to ... , but others are issued to the public. Google Chrome updates itself when public updates are released. I was thoroughly enjoying the speed of Google Chrome when I authored the first post on this topic. However, I've found myself spending ... , email tracking, online favorites, media sharing, a blog editor, a web clipboard, and a number of social networking ...

... technology, and Content development...until now. Has everyone seen or read about Google Apps for Education ? "Imagine ... ideas more easily. With Google Apps Education Edition's free communication, collaboration and publishing tools ... scheme and content. Manage your users through a web-based control panel, or use the APIs to integrate Google Apps into your existing systems. Best of all, it's all hosted by Google, so there's no hardware or software to download, install or ... ... Google Learning Management System ? I didn't either, at first, until I started thinking about it as a techno-geek ...

Tutorial Blog Roll Input Form - Google Docs Blog Roll - Online Viewing (tutorial examples) Should you ever ... Google is going after Microsoft's jugular ... the office suite. If you've not paid any attention to Google's entry into the software productivity suite, now is a good time to familiarize yourself with Google's efforts, particularly when you understand that Google is bringing offline tools to the table ... yes Google is starting to offer software that runs ... way of repeating itself. Setting up yourself to use Google Docs in quite simple. Just go to ...

In writing my blog post earlier this week I saw a blurb in the WordPress control panel about Gears with a link to the WordPress blog . I like bike riding, so the word “gears” got my attention and I followed the link. WordPress is now using Gears to speed up web site load times. What is Gears ? It’s a plug-in and API developed by Google that’s designed to speed up web site load times by caching content on your local computer. It’s sort of ... from the Google Gears Settings. When I allowed WordPress to use Gears it downloaded 212 items to my local computer ...

Google finally forced my hand and made me upgrade to New Blogger. I'll admit to not being entirely happy about this. I was perfectly happy with Old Blogger. That said, I discovered that this forced upgrade solves some unimportant problems that I've been having. 1) Feedburner FINALLY works. I was never able to get the feed to work correctly on old Blogger. For the transition, I deleted the feed and re-added it. I'm using the RSS choice. ONce that is complete, cut and paste the chicklet found in the Publicize section of your Feedburner account into your Blogger Template. These are ...

Fair warning people, if you also read my e-Clippings blog (that goes for both of you), you'll see me post this there ... stories about how Google's stock took a monster hit today (12-20% depending on what time you're looking at). Why ... anything as hard to touch as the value of learning when these freaking idiots are willing to dump Google stock when its ... and appaling. I don't even own Google stock and yet I am horrified by these reactionary market spasms. Someone tell me what fundamental of Google's business changed by 20% overnight? NOTHING!! You (present company and readers excluded ...

I discovered this evening that I should be able to get my Learning2006 Google calendar posted to my blog. But I'm having errors with it. Bummer. You can still get to the calendar HERE . It was working fine in the preview, but alas, it does not appear...heavy sigh.

Just a quick note that I've been using SiteMeter and Google Analytics for a while now on my blog. As I've reached 500 visitors a day on the site, I've found that SiteMeter didn't really allow for the detail information I wanted. It was nice as a quick hit information source and I'd still recommend say it was good as a starter approach to getting statistics. On the other hand, it's tough to beat Google Analytics, especially for the price (free).

... versions of real life. For a complete review of the product check out the review by Jose C Gomez in his blog entry Google Lively Review on his blog josecgomez.com Rather than a platform for 3D training and adventure, the product is currently more like a place to hang out with friends or have a quick conference in 3D...however, I expect Google to keep ... Creating an Avatar in Google's Lively. Ok, so Google did create Google 3D Earth with some pretty cool 3D ... Lively . Here is an article on the release called Google Launches Virtual Reality Site As the article states: ...

... of little pieces of code that may conflict with each other in my blog template (see Karyn's comments in Dr. Karrer's post ). I like Google Analytics. It's pretty and gives me information on site hits quickly. So here's what Google ... subscription services (Google Reader, Feedburner, Bloglines, etc) and add it to the pretty pictures and stats that ...

Tēn� koutou katoa Greetings to you all ( 7 ) ( 6 ) ( 5 ) ( 4 ) ( 3 ) > ( 1 ) Courtesy Google Analytics I've been having fun with Google Analytics recently. I have to say that at first sight the software all looks very impressive. Not being a ... site for only 10 days, I'm new to blogging anyway and this is only my 50 th post - but who knows? Some numbers ... rather than blog site specific. I'm off to Queenstown for three days (dig the scenery on the link!), to ...

... even when I have asked for feedback). I have people that follow my blog; I know this from both statcounter and google ... Blogs for Learning . Interestingly, when I prepared the notes for this week, I was able to leverage what the course members had produced during the previous week on Social Bookmarks : http://delicious.com/tag/wlning+blogs http://delicious.com/tag/wlning+blog http://delicious.com/tag/wlning+blogging You can read in the link Blogs for Learning about my perspective on using Blogs for Learning and Networking. There's a bit in there on blogging strategies, but ...

... eCornell Research Blog Latest news about all things related to online learning. Google ResearchBlog! Enter search terms below: Subscribe to this blogs feed emagine eCornells Online ... seminar that provided students with hands-on experience working with blogs, wikis, Rich Site Summary (RSS) feeds, and ... blogging applications. Posted by David Shoemaker at 10:22 PM in Corporate Training , ...

Techie notes (my apologies for the lack of pictures). Step 1: Open a Google Analytics account. Having a Google account makes this step much easier. Step 2: Click Add a Website Profile. This link is found in the Website Profiles ... Step 4: You will be given a box with some Javascript to copy and paste into your blog code. I copied and pasted this into ... and /body. It should look something like this: Step 8 : Save the template. Step 9: Go back to Google Analytics. You should see a message stating that Google Analytics is now receiving data. I find that it takes about 24 hours ...

... want it, rather than forcing you to go to a certain space. Official Google Blog The Lively team wants to help ... Noticed a boatload of comments on Google Lively this morning (it was released yesterday). Since I don’t have ... elsewhere on the Internet, including photos or videos. For another, you can embed your Lively area into your blog or, using widgets Google has written, on MySpace and Facebook Web pages. And you can e-mail your friends a normal Web address to ... Life distributed.We should be able to experience it in our environments (such as blogs, wikis, or even LMS’).

... eLearning Technology Tony Karrers eLearning Blog on e ... What does Google Trends tell us? : eLearning Technology Google Trends is quite interesting to play around with to see how different search terms have been used within Google. For example, I looked at eLearning as compared with Knowledge Management... You can see that eLearning ... Technology - 10:32 AM   2 comments links to What does Google Trends tell ...

Well if that just isn't the most cryptic sort of blog title. While cruising the feedreader last week I stumbled upon a similar analysis using Google Trends, however I can't remember who it was. I'm sorry to not link to you. (In the great world of blogging I will pay it forward with several unnecessary linktributions.) But i found this little graphic interesting. While Blog(s) and Blogger(s) are gaining in popularity... ...the act of blogging itself is not growing much at all. Am I reading too much into this? Perhaps we don't even need to read into it and we simply accept it ...

Major in learning "It's easy to educate for the routine, and hard to educate for the novel. Keep in mind that many required skills will change: developers today code in something called Python, but when I was in school C was all the rage. The need for reasoning, though, remains constant, so we believe in taking the most challenging courses in core disciplines: math, sciences, humanities." Google's advice to students [Quotable] NetNewsWire, JotSpot, Git, Google, old Texas sayings, etc. - (37signals) Great quote via 37Signals blog.  Google knows that new employees ...

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