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Dave Cormier and Jeff Lebow - Community Forum on DOPA and the Blackboard Patent - Ed Tech Talk
For continuing coverage of the Blackboard patent story, be sure to check this special page. Yesterday's major activity was a Community Forum on DOPA and the Blackboard Patent held on Ed Tech Talk (view the chat transcript, listen to the MP3 audio, part 1). Also read a summary of the meeting by OLDaily on August 7, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Waleed Al-Shobakky - PCs for the Poor - As Good As Their Hype? - All-Africa.com
The debate surrounding the $100 computer continues, with this article pointing out that "six countries -- Argentina, Brazil, China, Egypt, Nigeria and Thailand -- have each pledged to buy one million units." [Link] [Tags: China] [Comment] From OLDaily on August 7, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Paul Reid - Challenging Australian Education Podcasts - Digital Chalkie
Links to podcasts and posters from a recent Australian conference titled: "So what's changed?" including talks by James Farmer and Gerry White. Links to a blog authored by Deane Bullen and Mike Seyfang covering the conference as a whole. James Farmer also writes about his experience at the conference. [Link] [Tags: From OLDaily on August 7, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Charles Nelson - Report: Public Schools Near Private Schools - Explorations in Learning
In case we forgot, "the strongest predictor of academic underperformance is poverty." Whe the reminder? Because the denial is so strong. As in this post, where the very next line is "I wonder how poverty is linked to attitude" and where the author then quotes William Raspberry saying "the gap has less and less to do with racism and more and more to do with the habits and attitudes we inculcate among our children." Except that it doesn't. This sort of attitude suggests that poor children would learn better if only their parents were better parents. But if this were the case, then parenting From OLDaily on August 7, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Christian Long - A Lack of Transparency In the News Aggregator World - think:lab
Christian Long struggles with aggregation, and in particular the work of Jym Brittain. In a comment, Brittain writes, "If you object to your content being syndicated, turn off the syndication function of your blog." It's an issue that occupies many people with RSS feeds (and for that matter Creative Commons licenses). It's something that I addressed recently (and you should also see Tom Hoffman's more recent response to my comme From OLDaily on August 7, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Various authors - Work in Progress - Invitation to Comment - Jisc
Page linking to a large collection of materials from the JISC Trust in Digital Repositories project, with an invitation to comment. Thus I spent my morning today. Begin with The TrustDR Project: a plain-english description for project partners (all documents are in MS Word). It's a good overview with a nice set of references. See especially section 4. But readers should note some themes that permeate these discussions, themes that just don't ring right - the idea that computer scienti From OLDaily on August 7, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

StevenB - Truth In Advertising - Lies We Tell Our Students And Faculty - ACRLog
I reads this item as I was comtemplating a response to the next, and something about it bothered me. And it's this. The author tells us that librarians are misleading us when they say libraries can be like Google. "We will tell people it may take them longer than 60 seconds to find valuable information. We will tell them our library databases are not the same as Google..." And I want to know, why not? Why does it take so long to find stuff? Why isn't the stuff accessible through this collection? Why is it that what the library offers me is mostly a set of excuses and limitations, ins From OLDaily on August 7, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

George Siemens and Stephen Downes - Discussion: Stephen Downes - Elearnspace
George Siemens and I had a nice discussion this afternoon about the changing nature of knowledge. "We started by discussing the need for a new epistemology...explored artificial intelligence, democracy, wikipedia, new models of societal organization, knowledge as a product/process, the nature of learning today, neuroscientific view of cognition, and other light breezy subjects :)." 68 megabytes, but if you give me some time I'll have a lighter version here. Once I download the original. ;) [OLDaily on August 7, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Security Concerns Threaten Brand Loyalty
A new report shows a third of U.S. and European consumers would take their business elsewhere if your company experiences a security breach. From ClickZ Stats on August 7, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..