The+'Educational+Browser'+-+The+Movie+Script

Scene 1 - Why browser based enhancements and augmentation represent the mechanism that is most under control of the user and the last place where content can be altered before it is finally rendered, and thus represents massive opportunity for extremely local (and personal) customization of OER materials

Scene 2 - How Extensions Bookmarklets Greasemonkey (and non-Firefox alternatives)

Scene 3 - What FIND / PERMIT NOTE/ANNOTATE LINK TOGETHER DISCUSS STORE CITE REUSE TRANSLATE

Scene 4 - FIND - CustomizeGoogle create custom search targets using Google toolbar - OCW Consortia search, OER Commons, or Google Custom

Scene 5 - NOTE/ANNOTATE

Wikalong - http://www.wikalong.org/ [|Trailfire] - [|http://www.trailfire.com]
 * search for and then follow a 'trail' from another user, for instance a path through some OER resources specific to a topic
 * create your own paths, leaving annotations on each page that appear as you return to them and allow you to follow them again
 * see other's annotations on pages they have added to trails
 * connect with other users who have trailmarked a page - leave a comment, follow their trails

Scene 6 - Research wikipedia lookup - http://wle-blog.blogspot.com/ wikiproxy - automatically create a link to wikipedia for any "Proper Noun" - lookup any word in a dictionary by right clicking - a la http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/7715

Scene 7 - Find Related Resources http://www.oerrecommender.org/

Scene 8 - Change how they experience your site http://amrangaye.org/blog/2007/03/14/mit-ocw-video-downloader/ on http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Biological-Engineering/20-010JSpring-2006/Videos/ download OCW videos instead of streaming them

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Scene 10 - How to distribute browser-based customizations to end users in addition to the normal routes, institutions and other education support organizations might consider - customized browser distributions - service that converts greasemonkey scripts to full on extensions - customized toolbars

Scene 11- And finally, why is this important to OER providers - not only is it important for OER providers to understand how their content can and will be augmented, mashed up and altered by end users using client-side browser enhancements, but - what makes you think users are going to be coming to your sites in the first time. You need to figure out how you can become the source of information that augments OTHER internet sites and services - e.g how can resources from within your OER site or course augment end users experience of wikipedia, or of other sites where they are already seeking knowledge and learning - some basic steps go a LONG way to ensure that end users and developers can build these capacities THEMSELVES, ON TOP OF YOUR SERVICES. If there's a key message, is that many of these augmentations are examples of the lesson of the programmable web, that if you make things available with even a modicum of accomodation, your end users will constantly delight and surprise you in the unanticipated ways they make use of your material. You do NOT need to do it all.
 * decomposable/non-crufty URLs
 * persistent URLs!
 * linkability in general (the more precise the better)
 * RSS feeds
 * clean XHTML
 * Microformats where they make sense [e.g. REL for tag links]
 * REST-based web services

Scene 12 - See more examples http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/Educational+Browser http://del.icio.us/nessman/opened_presentation