Saturday, November 25, 2006

University of California: campus seminars, courses and events available online

Berkeley is the preeminent public research and teaching institution in the World. the curricula of 130 academic departments span the wide world of thought and knowledge.

Available video collection:

Courses -http://video.google.com/ucberkeley.html#courses
Arts & Humanities -http://video.google.com/ucberkeley.html#arts_humanities
Global & Public Affairs -http://video.google.com/ucberkeley.html#global_public_affairs
Science & Technology-http://video.google.com/ucberkeley.html#scitech


World Trade Center (WTC) (9/11) (LIVE)-25 Min.

"ALEX JONES - TERRORSTORM"
www.INFOWARS.com

www.WTC.com


WTC/World Trade Center/9/11/September 11


Dedicated for the people who perished on September 11, 2001.


Tool: Web Conference:1VideoConference


Web2.0 unified communications software for Asterisk PBX supporting web, phone, MSN, Skype, and Jabber clients video conference. This VoIP, VVoIP, audio, data & video conferencing collaboration platform for is based on C#, WPF, WinFX, XAML, & .NET 3.0.

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Tool:Open Source -surveillance system-Senriska - for your library Security




Software for camera surveillance with motion detection; works with any USB or IP camera. On motion detection, the program starts recording and a message is send via email and/or SMS.this surveillance system can watch your home, office, or any area you want. The motion detection feature automatically starts and stops recording video and can send you a message. Supports any regular camera, including USB cameras and video capture cards.

You can use for your library

2006 AIDS Epidemic Update-UN Pulse

The UNAIDS and World Health Organization annual AIDS epidemic update reports on the latest developments in the global AIDS epidemic. With maps and regional summaries, the report provides the most recent estimates of the epidemic’s scope and human toll, and explores new trends in the epidemic’s evolution. Available for download in full (pdf, 1.9 MB)

http://data.unaids.org/pub/EpiReport/2006/2006_EpiUpdate_en.pdf


or in sections.

Friday, November 24, 2006

Emails, cellphone calls and instant messages received by modern workers can reduce their IQ-UK Research

"The relentless influx of emails, cellphone calls and instant messages received by modern workers can reduce their IQ by more than smoking marijuana, suggests UK research.

Far from boosting productivity, the constant flow of messages and information can seriously reduce a person's ability to focus on tasks, the study of office workers found.

Eighty volunteers were asked to carry out problem solving tasks, firstly in a quiet environment and then while being bombarded with new emails and phone calls. Although they were told not to respond to any messages, researchers found that their attention was significantly disturbed.

Alarmingly, the average IQ was reduced by 10 points - double the amount seen in studies involving cannabis users. But not everyone was affected by to the same extent - men were twice as distracted as women.

"If left unchecked, ‘info-mania’ will damage a worker’s performance by reducing their mental sharpness," says Glenn Wilson, a psychiatrist at the University of London, UK, who carried out the study, sponsored by Hewlett-Packard. "This is a very real and widespread phenomenon."

Dimdim as an E-Learning Tool


Dimdim is an open source web conferencing product with features like Application, Desktop and Presentation sharing with A/V streaming and chat. No installation is needed on the Attendee side and all features are available through a web browser.

features :-

* Presentation and Document sharing: Interactive real-time Collaboration over
documents and presentations allows enhanced expression and exchange of ideas.
* Audio and video sharing
* Application sharing: Full screen
* White board and Annotations: Realistic interactive collaboration
* Chat
* Polls
* Question manager: Question manager which is like a moderated Q&A setup
* Record and Archive

E-Learning: Teachers can conduct classes as web conferences so that physical presence of the teacher as well as students is not necessary. Also the archived sessions can be used by students for later reference as well by the teacher as a teaching tool. Integration with Moodle(Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package http://www.moodle.org/) will be available soon, while integration with other software like Sakai and dotLRN is being explored.


Dimdim is available under Mozilla Public License

1.1(http://dimdim.com/license/Dimdim-MPL.txt) with attribution.

Attendees can use either Internet Explorer 6 or Firefox 1.5 while Presenters can use Internet Explorer 6 or Firefox 1.5 on Windows (XP/2000/2003) only.

Source: http://www.dimdim.com/

For Download:http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=176809

Demo :http://www.dimdim.com//index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=71