Update on Learning Activity Management Systems

Seb Schmoller’s fortnightly mailing provides the latest news on Learning Activity Management Systems (LAMS), which I touched on last year. The LAMS concept, developed in Australia, now has a web site, from where you view a four-minute Flash demonstration of LAMS in action and download the open source LAMS software. Seb has more details on […]

Freesound project: Flickr for sound samples

The freesound project enables people to share sound samples under a ‘sampling plus’ Creative Commons licence. The site is clearly heavily indebted to Flickr, which has set the standard for sharing and community facilities for photographs. You can see this in freesound’s approach to tags (cf. Flickr tags), comments and forums. One difference is that […]