I have moved this blog

Wanted more freedom and so moved this blog to:
http://www.mengos.net/wp/

Please bookmark this page instead!

office alternatives

Naturally we know OpenOffice. Now there is also NeoOffice for the Mac OSX.  Very cool.

MIT’s open access research and other open scholarly resources

MIT has done it again. After the MIT courseware and open source courses online, now it has created a space for researchers on Dspace which was “built to save, share, and search MIT’s digital research materials”. It even has theses collections. That is a fantastic resource.

Here are some more resources:

• Sofia from Gavilan College
• Connexions: where you can gather modules and compile a course. It also has open textbooks.
• Merlot: a repository of materials, animation, research and everything you need to build a course
• Open Michigan

Publishing venues and open online journals:

• JOLT: Journal of Online Teaching and Learning
• Virtual Center for Online Learning and Research.
• The Journal of Visualized Experiments [JOVE] [medical and sciences oriented]
• PLOS [Public Library of Science]. Submit research and it is peer reviewed.
• IJLM International Journal of Learning and Media. MIT
• Vectors University of CA.
• Center for History and New Media. It also has several projects, one of them is Project Zotera [to help save and organize your bibliography]. Another is providing digital tools for research, and a third for online curricula. It even has a search tool called Syllabus Finder!

photoshop alternative

Web-based alternative  to photoshop: Pixlr. I keep losing it in my bookmarks and even when I search bookmarks I cannot find it – so here it is in all its glory.

Even more fun is Sumo Editor… soooo cool!! link

impact of facebook

If ou ever doubted it, here are the stats for Facebook use across the globe.

http://img41.yfrog.com/img41/2347/facebookwqi.jpg

Talk about influence!!