Drumbeat/events/Festival/program/EducationalBrowser

The browser, as the ultimate place where content is rendered and over which the user has control, offers one of the best platforms on which to build a personal learning environment, one which brings educational encounters with both content and learners to *whatever the user is viewing at that time, regardless of initial intent.*

In many ways this is what has driven the Jetpack for Learning projects; yet even before these there were many plugins and other browser add-ons (bookmarklets, Greasemonkey scripts and toolbars) that helped end users augment their web experience with Open Educational Resources and other educational opportunities (e.g. http://www.edtechpost.ca/wordpress/2007/09/27/oer-client-tools/). And already, there exists in the form of Firefox Collections (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/) a simple way to create ready-to-download packages of add-ons that can educationally augment a users web experience.

This session has three aims:

1. identify existing add-ons and collections of add-ons that augment an end users learning through the browser
2. create working collections of these add-ons
3. identify the gaps - what are the functionality, which can be general or specific to a discipline or a site or content source, that can usefully and easily be added through a browser enhancement and that could become the target for future development funding.

Join us to help figure out where the "Educational Browser" stands now, and where it could go.