We are working with e-learning a lot at the moment, mainly on integrating reading/resource lists into the learning environment. We are making some progress on this (although unfortunately it’s all behind closed doors, so I can’t demonstrate here).

Anyway, one idea which came up was that quite often references are not saved for the ‘reading list’, but rather put into the course material at the appropriate point. We thought it would be a great idea if it was possible to just ‘drag’ the reference from the library system by a very short, simple, snippet of code, which could be embedded in any webpage.

This isn’t 100% ideal (it still requires some ability to edit html), and after seeing the stuff that Art Rhynol has just come up with for his Lookup Helper, I’m quite jealous. However, since I’m talking about web material here, it doesn’t seem much of a stretch to say ‘and now paste in these 2 lines of code’.

So, how about a solution similar to the one Andy Powell and Pete Cliff came up with for RSS-xpress Lite. This is seems really neat – just very simple.

Speed could be an issue, but I’ll worry about that later…