Cybernetics

Interesting quote about Cybernetics from WIkipedia:
Pure cybernetics
Pure cybernetics studies systems of control as a concept, attempting to discover the basic principles underlying such things as

- Artificial intelligence
- Robotics
- Computer Vision
- Control systems
- Emergence
- Learning organization
- New Cybernetics
- Second-order cybernetics
- Interactions of Actors Theory
- Conversation Theory

It has inside Learning organisation!
And furthermore: Learning organisation related with Knowledge management
We should dig in more into it :)

What is our mind?

Really nice article about brain,mind and mindmapping
Available in:
- electronic version
- book version
- mind map version
Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

Books

Well spending A LOT of time in reading I got some opinion. I think the that more 150-200 page total is a BAD book.
WHY? Because you are loosing structure of information in such a book. The idea or method or technique or whatever should be easy to understand. You can have many thing to say, but if you writing something it should be something in conclusion not a bla bla bla.
Does it mean if you have to say a lot you should CUT it? Not at all! Idea is making really good structure of data and data visualisation. Making a book it's not a RACE - make it short, informative - easy to use. If you have Many thing to say, make a "categories" chapters of books - not chapters inside of book.
One of greatest modern professors of physics Stephen Hawking "each equation halves the book sales rule", I believe the Size of book affect almost the same rule.

So make it SHORT, INFORMATIVE and EASY - do not think about time because if it's good book, yuo will present it fro many future generations ahead.

Fedena

Project Fedena is the open source school management system based on Ruby on Rails. It was initially developed by a team of developers at Foradian Technologies.



Also available some screencasts:

1. Introduction
2. Login to Fedena
3. Academic year migration intro
4. Create academic year
5. New Academic Year
6. Timetable
7. User management
More information here http://www.projectfedena.org/about

My opinion it's kind of promising project for school or college, will see what will be in future with it...

Free Dean’s Office(Электронный деканат)

Free Dean's Office (Электронный деканат) - это модуль для среды дистанционного обучения Moodle, который добавляет возможность управления процессом обучения, типичным для российских школ, колледжей и ВУЗов. Free Dean's Office позволяет оперировать такими объектами, как "Предмет", "Дисциплина", "Группа", "Семестр", "Учебный план на семестр", "Итоговые оценки по дисциплинам", "Расписание очных занятий".
Free Dean's Office является свободным программным обеспечением и распространяется под лицензией GNU GPL.
Подробности тут -> http://www.deansoffice.ru/
А тут можно скачать -> http://sourceforge.net/projects/freedeansoffice/

Notes

Great article about taking notes, more usefull for research and science than for pure education.
How to Take Notes like Thomas Edison