"faceted Wikipedia Search allows users to ask complex queries against Wikipedia. The answers to these queries are not generated using key word matching as the answers of search engines like Google or Yahoo, but are generated based on structured information that has been extracted from many different Wikipedia articles"
"We often talk about games, simulations and other events in learning, but these technologies support only episodic learning. Equally important are those technologies that provide a context for these learning episodes, an environment where students interact and converse among themselves. This paper describes experimentation in the development of distributed online courses and in software - particularly, the personal learning environment - that support the formation of connections between the far-flung pieces of such courses."
"Writing long and complex texts always presents a challenge. You want to concentrate on your ideas and thoughts, without being bothered by any technical aspects of your gathering of information, your citations and bibliography. We were faced with the same problem and saw no satisfying solution out there. That’s why we started the work on WriteFlow. We see it as a totally new way of interacting with your text, your bibliography and your research material. Everything will be at your fingertips and interaction is fast, immediate and automated. Even though WriteFlow is an incredibly complex programme and nearly everything under the hood had to be designed from scratch, it will, at least we hope so, feel just like the word processor you’re used to, making your switch easy and straightforward."
"The IHMC CmapTools program empowers users to construct, navigate, share and criticize knowledge models represented as concept maps. It allows users to, among many other features, construct their Cmaps in their personal computer, share them on servers (CmapServers) anywhere on the Internet, link their Cmaps to other Cmaps on servers, automatically create web pages of their concept maps on servers, edit their maps synchronously (at the same time) with other users on the Internet, and search the web for information relevant to a concept map."
via: http://duerhager.philosophieblog.de/ Argunet wurde speziell für die Erstellung von Argument-Landkarten entwickeln und ist dabei fast so einfach zu bedienen wie ein Mind-Mapping-Tool. Während Mind-Mapping-Tools jedoch viel allgemeiner gedankliche Zusammenhänge abbilden, hat sich das Argument-Mapping-Tool darauf spezialisiert Argumentationen logisch und argumentationstheoretisch zu rekonstruieren, so dass mit Hilfe von Argument-Landkarten die Gründe für und wider einer (oder mehrere) umstrittenen Thesen sichtbar gemacht werden können. Aus eigener Erfahrung kann ich sagen, dass eine solche Argument-Landkarte ungeheuer hilfreich bei komplexen Diskussionen sein kann. Die Argumentation ganzer Bücher können mit diesem Tool rekonstruiert und anschließend analysiert werden.