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The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons
licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs. This is
what sets freesound apart from other splendid libraries like ccMixter. You can find collections, geotagged sounds and remix the sounds. Great stuff if you want to build geotagging environments.

Acces the search here, I found also very interesting the exploration by tags!

wordle is a nice service to create word clouds check out the one from my delicious account below

I just came across a call for participation for:

Program 1st International Conference on Human Robot Personal Relationship

interesting program. I have not been aware of how far the discussion in this area already go but check out agenda talks like:

• Me Robot, You Jane (Prof.dr. Sally Wyatt, Maastricht University, The Netherlands)
• Improving Human-to-Human Relationships through the Use of Personal Robotics (Mrs. J. Pransky, Kenwood, USA (Video-conference)

So am I blogging or is it my robot

This is an interesting presentation about some background statistics over current “exponential developments” that might get you started on thinking about the future need for education. (youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U)

What happens if you add a school year to education?
According to a European study 5% increase in short term productivity and another 5% in long term productivity will occur. More education leads to more health, happiness, …

A complete study about this find at “Human capital in a global and knowledge-based economy” .

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Hi all I am contributing in 2007 to the following conferences and workshops, with some of them you can also meet me.

Workshop on Contextualized Attention Metadata:
personalized access to digital resources, CAMA 2007 June 23, 2007, Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada

Fachübergreifende Konferenz “Mensch Computer Interaktion”,
Weimar, Germany.

Second European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning,
17-20 September 2007, Crete, Greece

7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced
Learning Technologies, Niigata, Japan.

Invited Session on Recommender Agents
and Adaptive Web-based Systems (RAAWS 2007) at the 11th International
Conference on Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems
KES 2007, Vietri sul Mare 12, 13 and 14 September 2007, Italy

IADIS International Conference Mobile Learning 2007,
Lisbon, Portugal, 5–7 July 2007

11th International Conference on User Modeling (UM 2007),
Corfu, Greece.

IADIS International Conference Web Based Communities 2007
Salamanca, Spain, 18-20 February 2007.

6th IASTED International Conference on Web-Based education,
Chamonix, Frannce. March 14-16, 2007.

I am in the Program Committee for the CAMA workshop on Contextualized Attention Metadata: personalized access to digital resources see webpage at:

http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/cama2007/

it will be at ACM IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in Vancouver.

Organized by Erik Duval, Jehad Najjar, and Martin Wolpers

The new MACE project website is online now. We used Joomla for the page and I like the design realized by the MACE partners. Check out www.mace-project.eu if you are interested in learning objects, federated object repositories, architecture and design, and new things you can do with metadata .

MACE Project Website.