The 'Minutes' content type allows the attachments of minutes to events. You cannot add minutes through the 'Create content' page, but must add them through the actual event.

To add Minutes, open the Event and use the command link listed at the bottom of the post. Look for 'Post minutes to this event'. If you see 'View minutes', this means minutes have already been posted. View them and edit if you wish.

If you are using the 'Board Meeting Minutes' Book page method, please make sure you select the eLerning term 'board' to make sure the post appears in the main 'Minutes' listing.

To restrict visibility to Board members only, be sure to set the 'Grants' permissions appropriately. There's a 'Grant' FAQ entry for this as well.

The Association for Learning Technology's annual conference, ALT-C 2008, brought together over 700 delegates and more than 100 speakers from all over the world. Catherine Dhanjal reports on some highlights from the conference.

Here are some highlights from the ALT conference: a report on two presentations from the business sector, and a fascinating seminar on the divide between businesses who use internet and communications technology (ICT), and those who don't.

More at: http://www.trainingzone.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=191719&d=680&h=608&f=626&dateformat=%25e-%25h-%25y

Jane Hart's articles and list of free applications for eLearning.

More information at: http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?author=Jane%20Hart

A wide variety of free tools are available for eLearning!

Software Applications for eLearning!

The American Association of Community College’s Instructional Technology Council (ITC) has just published its 2007 Distance Education Survey Results, covering data from 154 U.S. community colleges. And there’s a lot of interesting stuff in it. Here are the headlines that I drew from it:

More at:

http://mfeldstein.com/bad-news-for-blackboard-good-news-for-moodle/

One of the most frequent questions I get asked, especially by those in smaller businesses, is “where do I start?” Getting off the ground in social media can be like trying to eat an elephant all in one sitting, but it doesn’t have to be.

So I’ve taken some of my best practices for getting started, and packaged them into this free e-book called Getting a Foothold In Social Media: A Get-Started Guide for Small and Medium Businesses. I focused it on this group because they seem to have the fewest resources and most questions, but by all means, I think many of the tenets remain the same no matter what size business you’re in.

More information at: http://altitudebranding.com/getting-a-social-media-foothold/

 
The OLPC Linux Based Laptop Wins International Design Award
http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/mobile/11401/olpc-linux-based-laptop-wins-international-design-award

"COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Yesterday, the Linux based One Laptop Per Child was presented an INDEX: AWARD for winning the Community category. The INDEX: AWARD is presented every other year, and in addition to the glory, each award comes with a €100 000 prize. INDEX: AWARD operates with five categories, which refer to the context for which the designs are intended: body, home, work, play and community.

Second Life - Virtual World Radio Network http://www.vwrn.net

Second Life' radio station emerges http://news.com.com/8301-13577_3-9765807-36.html

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2. Click on the 'Create content' menu item on the upper right.

3. Select 'Announcement'

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Technology Resources

Open source is a set of principles and practices that promote access to the design and production of goods and knowledge. The term is most commonly applied to the source code of software that is available to the general public with relaxed or non-existent intellectual property restrictions. This allows users to create software content through incremental individual effort or through collaboration.

M-learning

OLPC'a goal: To provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves.

The project's origins go back more than four decades to the early days of computing, when most machines were still the size of small dinosaurs, and almost no one dreamed they would ever be suitable for children. But pioneering thinkers like Seymour Papert disagreed sharply, and over time led the long march from radical theory to reality proving the immense power of the personal computer as a learning tool for children.

Read more at: www.laptop.org

View timeline at: http://laptop.org/vision/progress/