[IAEP] Some thoughts and questions...

[Valerie Taylor]

Continuing a conversation... Categories and OERs and Activities.

The story so far - Diigo is a good model for collecting links, making
notes, adding categories/tags, sending emails of updates to
subscribers. But Diigo is proprietary and the free version has many
limitations and restrictions to be a solution here. So...

Activities pages have a share using Delicious - is it free and open
enough to use as part of an interim solution? There are lots of tools
and APIs for Delicious.

In addition to reviews and categories, having subscriptions is a good
way to get the word out. Diigo has this built in. The automatic
gathering up of newly identified and/or reviewed entries into an email
"newsletter" that is sent to subscribers is nice, especially if the
subscriber maintenance is mostly automated.

Another automation of links / reviews / commentary > subscription newsletter
http://www.downes.ca/news/OLDaily.htm
As I understand it, his software gRSShopper does a lot of the work -
other than the monumental task of reviewing post, articles, software
and writing 5-10 reviews every single day for years
http://grsshopper.downes.ca/description.htm
He said he limits his comments to about 100 words - seems to be a
reasonable guideline. Using something like this to get people to
suggest / review OERs and/or provide high-level overviews of Activity
uses would create a network effect - what can it do? what is there to
do?