Many of you will probably not even remember that for the past two and a half years I worked on a software tool: The Distributed Learning Project. We did not keep the entries on the development blog current but the project proceeded. The project is a collaboration that Tom Leonhardt and I started in 2004, later joined by Chris Barr, and supported by grants from the Educational Technology Center. 

The Distributed Learning Project (DLP) will be a piece of software that you can download and customize to your field of research. Share Widely is an implentation of the DLP in the area of new media research. 

The tool enables open knowledge exchange in new media research and production. Individuals as well as groups of researchers and self-learners can create, share, edit, find, and re-use content related to media art.

Share Widely interconnects chunks of knowledge from different departments, disciplines, universities, cultures and professions to propel new media research.

Share Widely approaches its Beta version now. Download a screenshot of the current interface.