I’m feeling passionate about "disruptive" technologies tonight, so I thought I’d share some GreaseMonkey scripts that could be used within a Learning Management System.

5. Check links with Link Checker

Link Checker crawls links on a page and uses color codes to indicate whether a link is valid or invalid.

4. Print the full path of links with Annotate Links

Adds a print stylesheet that annotates links and displays the full path at the bottom of the printed page.

3.  Search Wikipedia or a dictionary with LookItUp2.

Inline search and results display within any LMS page.

2. GreaseMonkey for Chemistry

Great for Chemistry courses.

1. Social Network Analysis Tool for Blackboard and Vista (WebCT)

Infers social structure from forum posts in a discussion forum and outputs to the NetDraw .vna format for further analysis and visualisation. In total non-biased fashion, I list my own script at No 1.

Edusprouts is a blog that showcases educational widgets, known as Sprouts built with Sproutbuilder. Sprouts are interactive flash movies that can be embedded just about anywhere (including the LMS) and can contains the familiar YouTube “share” button. Widgets make better Learning Objects!

I am going to use “The Presentation Randomizer“. It is not what you think! It is similar to the Hamish and Andy “2 become 1″ idea, where at the sound of a buzzer they have to complete each others sentences while doing a gotcha call. Now to convince my co-presenter…….

I’m pretty impressed by Glogster - I’d describe it as a multimedia mashup tool with an artistic twist. You know, if I think about it, Glogster encompasses everything an eportfolio system needs - to not portray the student as bland, boring and average. ….So I’m off to plot my glogster page so that I can totally express myself.

The fact that most of the sites I find useful have no substantial revenue model, really really scares me. Especially in these times of finacial uncertainty, when Venture Capital is obviously going to run out. How much longer can these sites survive without returning a profit?

“Four Reasons to be Happy about Internet Plagiarism” is both confronting and controvercial. I agree with all 4 points. On a side note, Ryerson University has fun animations to explain academic integrity: “The Illustrated Guide to Academic Integrity“.

Edupunk - the anti ppt and blackboard movement, or rather the avoidance of ppt and blackboard. Start the revolution NOW! More info: http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=44760

I love the Experience WII Ad - it shakes up the rectangular ad banner in a big way. It is quite disruptive, but gets away with it. Good internet marketing. A lot of ppl I chat to, just don’t get internet marketing and the potential it has to shake up traditional marketing channels? Those that get it, get it in a big way and those that don’t, don’t get it at all. Alas, if only I had gotten that Internet Marketing position that I applied for in 2006…

Yes, due to a technical glitch, Lady Gaga had to lipsync to Just Dance on Sunrise (Channel 7). Lady Gaga can’t lipsync very well, which really is not a bad thing. Lada Gaga sings well live - just accept it.

I’ve finally got round to putting my presentation from the Blackboard Asia Pac 08 conference up on Google Docs.