links for 2008-09-14

• The Transition Handbook – free edit version – Appropedia: The sustainability wiki
  Welcome to a rather exciting new venture for the Transition movement. Since the Transition Handbook was published in March 2008, it has been a very popular guide to the idea, now being published in a number of languages as the Transition movement spreads around the world. As these ideas are tried and tested in many cultures, contexts and different scales, the idea is to invite those who have actually been experimenting with it on the ground to rewrite the book.

  We invite you to contribute your wisdom, experience, successes, failures and insights to the second edition of The Transition Handbook, writing on the sections you feel you have insights to add. So, peak oil buffs and systems thinkers will be drawn to Part One, those with a background in psychology, addiction and the psychology of change to Part Two, and those with practical experience with active Transition iniatives to Part Three. Although I retain the editorial overview, the idea is that this becomes a truly collab..

  (tags: sustainability resilience transition)
• Xiphos » Blog Archive » Martin Weller talks with Talis about educational technology and the Open University’s SocialLearn Project
  "In our latest podcast I talk with Martin Weller, newly named as Director of the Open University’s ambitious SocialLearn Project. We talk about the role of ‘Web 2.0′ technologies in Higher Education, before turning to a discussion of the Open University’s ambitions for SocialLearn.
  During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;
  43 Things
  Cloudworks
  Disrupting Class, and my podcast with the authors
  Stephen Downes
  eduGlu
  Everything is Miscellaneous
  HEFCE
  Brian Kelly
  Learning Object
  OpenLearn
  Open University
  School of Everything
  George Siemens
  Slideshare
  SocialLearn
  Sun Microsystems
  UK e-University Project review

  This conversation was conducted using Skype on Friday 12 September, recorded with Ecamm Network’s Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband."

  (tags: podcast OU education)