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Kids, Wanna Make Xbox 360 Games?
Microsoft opens Xbox development to the masses today, and plans summer workshops to teach middle-schoolers to make 360 games. In Game|Life. From Wired News on August 30, 2006 at 10:46 p.m..

SpiralFrog Is Latest Crazy Frog
The hype over the free, ad-supported SpiralFrog music service is hoo ha -- the service will soon be recalled as a fad, just like last year's Crazy Frog. In Listening Post. From Wired News on August 30, 2006 at 9:46 p.m..

BitTorrent Pirates Marooned
A new device capable of detecting and throttling encrypted BitTorrent traffic hits the shelves. The game of cat and mouse between ISPs and BitTorrent users continues. In Monkey Bites. From Wired News on August 30, 2006 at 9:45 p.m..

Teachers as Learners Part 27
The whole integrating technology discussion that many have been chronicling of late has been sticking in my craw for a couple of reasons. First, a couple of weeks ago I had a bad teacher day while I was doing some training, the kind that really gets me pessimistic about how difficult a road this is [...] From weblogged News on August 30, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Do You YouTube?
What better way to comment on a video on YouTube than with a video on YouTube? In Table of Malcontents. From Wired News on August 30, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Rants 'n' Raves: Solo Nuke Hunt
Readers assert that the DIY nuke detector works independently, lament fear of terrorism and insist that some Indians buy gadgets in the legal market. From Wired News on August 30, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Bookmooch
John Buckman of Magnatune has started a new service called Bookmooch. You list books you're willing to give away. If someone wants it, you send it (at your expense) and get a credit which you can then use to mooch a book from someone else. The service is free. Sounds pretty cool, even if it does encourage the "soft piracy" of giving books away without further compensating the author :) [For the sarcasm-impaired: The smiley face is there to indicate that I don't really consider it piracy. I'm going to be sad — and angry — when DRM leaves it... From Joho the Blog on August 30, 2006 at 5:49 p.m..

Leonard Low - Find Out About Anything... Anywhere - Mobile Learning
It has been a while since one of my thoughts has been called "eerily prophetic..." - in this case, though, it's quite something to see one of my thoughts depicted in picture. "Perhaps one day," writes Leonard Low, "we may have mobile devices capable of telling us what we're looking at and providing us with learning opportunities relating the world around us to the learning paths we've set for ourselves." [Link] [Tags: Online Learning] [OLDaily on August 30, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Alfred Essa - Oklahoma State Boots Blackboard - NOSE
It's probably unrelated to the lawsuit, but Oklahoma State has decided to drop Blackboard in favour of Desire2Learn, showing that there is at least one university out there not afraid of Blackboard's supposed patent. Alfred Essa also looks at Blackboard's claim that it supports open source - and laughs. As Charles Severance, the Executive Director of the Sakai Project, OLDaily on August 30, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Jo McLeay - Blogging Across the Curriculum - The Open Classroom
"Yes, you heard that right. Not maths or literacy across the curriculum but blogging. And why not?" It's a good point, and raises to mind once again the thought that the separation of learning into 'classes' is very artificial, and that a person's online presence should cut across these disciplines, and indeed, even school years. [Link] [Tags: Web Logs, Schools] [OLDaily on August 30, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Robert Paterson - Trusted Space - What I Think It Means - Robert Paterson's Weblog
Sometimes, when I think back on my school days, I think of myself and my friends as having formed, at least for a time, some sort of fellowship as we trekked through common obstacles. Why have the 'teams' at work never felt like that? They don't really mean anything; "Groups are accidents of geography, of conception or of finances." This article explores the different ways people travel together. Maybe not the final word on the subject, but it should offer some insight into the complexities of collaboration and teams. Oh, and I cannot let this post go by without echoing quote fr From OLDaily on August 30, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Brian Lamb - Grand Theft Education - Abject learning
Brian Lamb posts the lion's share of a Harper's article on games and learning. Some interesting thoughts, and this caught my eye: "What we mean by literacy is changing. If you look at books like The Da Vinci Code, a lot of what it does is appropriation-of a painting, or a historical text-and annotation, with this whole cottage industry of providing the footnotes: the TV specials, the books. To me, there's a question hanging over our conversation, which is: What kind of writing do we hope to teach? We might like to teach kids to write like Proust, but no one writes like Proust an From OLDaily on August 30, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Garr Reynolds - From Design to Meaning: a Whole New Way of Presenting? - Presentation Zen
I might have just noted and logged this item, as I would usually do, but it resonates so well with the article I wrote this morning I cannot let it pass by. I liked especially the section on empathy and the idea of symphony (what I would describe as patterns or pattern recognition). [Link] [Tags: ] [Comment] From OLDaily on August 30, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Stephen Downes - Things You Really Need to Learn - Half an Hour
Your school will try to teach you facts, which you'll need to pass the test but which are otherwise useless. In passing you may learn some useful skills, like literacy, which you should cultivate. But Guy Kawasaki is right in at least this: schools won't teach you the things you really need to learn in order to be successful, either in business (whether or not you choose to live life as a toady) or in life. Here, then, is my list. This is, in my view, what you need to learn in order to be successful. [Link] [Tags: OLDaily on August 30, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

YouTube on Your iPod
A new shareware application saves YouTube videos for playback on your iPod or PSP. Plus: Download the classics from Google Book Search. In Monkey Bites. From Wired News on August 30, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..

Star Burst Caught in Real Time
A NASA satellite catches the action as a massive star smashes to smithereens. It open up a whole new universe to astronomers. By Kristen Philipkoski. From Wired News on August 30, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..

Online Games Market to Hit $4.4 Billion by 2010
The online game market is set to exceed $4 billion by 2010; gamers are identified in six distinct groups, each with compelling buying power distinctions. From ClickZ Stats on August 30, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..

Bookmooch
John Buckman of Magnatune has started a new service called Bookmooch. You list books you're willing to give away. If someone wants it, you send it (at your expense) and get a credit which you can then use to mooch a book from someone else. The service is free. Sounds pretty cool, even if it does encourage the "soft piracy" of giving books away without further compensating the author :) [For the sarcasm-impaired: The smiley face is there to indicate that I don't really consider it piracy, and I'm going to be sad — and angry — when DRM leaves... From Joho the Blog on August 30, 2006 at 2:49 p.m..

Macintosh Ultra-Portable
I have seen the future. And it is an ultra-portable laptop from Apple to rival the Sony TX series of two-pound super-tiny laptops. My sources for this prediction do not come from anywhere near Cupertino, so nobody should get in any trouble for this little announcement. In fact, it's not an announcement at all. Just a prediction. Intel chips with built-in RAM and WiFi, cooler operating speeds, and generally heavier new models of MacBook (heavier than previous Powerbooks, actually) all indicate a bifurcation pending. The other predictive factor is that wh From rushkoff.blog on August 30, 2006 at 2:45 p.m..

Sun Shines on Fuel Plants
Two new facilities use solar power to produce hydrogen and biofuels, showing progress in the quest to add a little sun to your fuel tank. In Autopia. From Wired News on August 30, 2006 at 1:45 p.m..

On Education: Upon Further Reflection, a Few Random Thoughts
Dear teachers and students, dear principals and counselors, as the new school year begins, let us reflect. From New York Times: Education on August 30, 2006 at 1:45 p.m..

Korean Women Protest Sexpo
It's not the sex they object to. It's the focus on straight males. In Sex Drive Daily. From Wired News on August 30, 2006 at 12:45 p.m..

A Pet Loo for Poochie
The "backyard in a box" solves your housebound dog's toilet troubles. In Gear Factor. From Wired News on August 30, 2006 at 12:45 p.m..

Another personal library manager
Gurulib.com is a free service that lets you build a list of the items in your personal library by scanning in the barcodes of your books, CDs, etc. You can review them, sort them, and track who's borrowed them. You can also ask Gurulib to inform you when a book has dropped to a price you want to pay. It uses genres rather than tags; tags would be a nice addition. LibraryThing.com, which is free for the first 200 books, seems to be more advanced in its features and has a bigger community using it. It doesn't let you scan... From Joho the Blog on August 30, 2006 at 11:46 a.m..

Culver City offers "free" wifi with just one price: Your First Amendment rights
John Mitchell has an excellent explanation of Culver City's announced terms for offering free wifi access to "the Internet." It's free, but they get to decide which sites you can go to. Further, by pressing the "yes" button, you explicitly agree to waive your First Amendment rights. From a legal standpoint, it is the same as if the Culver City public library were offering you free access to newspapers, but was first clipping out the articles it didn't like and making you agree not to sue for censorship if you wanted to read what was left. President Bush was perspicacious... From Joho the Blog on August 30, 2006 at 11:46 a.m..

Nerdcore Hip-Hop Hits the Streets
It's all about the Booleans for these hacker MCs: Sample some of the sickest flows to ever come out of the BBS ghetto. By Roger Thomasson from Wired magazine. From Wired News on August 30, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

Blurb.com Gets Book Smart
In the latest Book 2.0 dust-up, a startup helps bloggers self-publish in hardcover. Is it just vanity publishing, or a warning shot for an old-fashioned industry? By Jeff MacIntyre. From Wired News on August 30, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

What's Next, Ramen Noodles?
Some of the recording industry's copyright arguments can easily be applied to popular food, and they still don't go down easy. Commentary by Jennifer Granick. From Wired News on August 30, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

A Robot That Walks Like a Gorilla
Our three-part series on cheap, plastic robots concludes with the Robotikits Jungle Robot, a stump of voice-activated plastic and metal that resembles an encephalitic R2-D2. Commentary by Lore Sjöberg. From Wired News on August 30, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

Calling Bluff on String Theory
It was supposed to reconcile atoms with space-time. Now, Lee Smolin wants to unravel the unifying approach. By Adam Rogers from Wired magazine. From Wired News on August 30, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

CableCard Swipes at Set-Top Boxes
A recent court ruling paves the way for you to throw out your cable TV decoder and use the space for something else -- like a TiVo Series3. But the technology has its drawbacks. By Chris Kohler. From Wired News on August 30, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

TiVo Tastes Some Sweet Revenge
Between court rulings in its favor and partnerships with major cable providers, things might finally be looking up for the embattled DVR pioneer. By Chris Kohler. From Wired News on August 30, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

'Social norms' strategy aims to tame bullying
Researchers say that middle-school bullying could be curbed by showing that it's not normal. Christian Science Monitor | Learning on August 30, 2006 at 5:45 a.m..

Teacher's radical 9/11 views raise red flags
A university lecturer casts doubt that terrorists plotted the attacks. Is that academic freedom? Christian Science Monitor | Learning on August 30, 2006 at 5:45 a.m..

Backstory: Cracking the college code
A program in Seattle helps inner-city kids trying to start a new family tradition - going to college. Christian Science Monitor | Learning on August 30, 2006 at 5:45 a.m..

New year, new school concepts in New Orleans
Charter schools, student input, hope - and controversy - are hallmarks of the revamped school system to come. Christian Science Monitor | Learning on August 30, 2006 at 5:45 a.m..

Refining data tables
Luke Wroblewski has written an article on how to present data tables. To quote: Many articles have been written on what is probably the single most ubiquitous interface element within Web applications today: the form. Forms justifiably get a lot... From Column Two on August 30, 2006 at 4:47 a.m..

So you want to be an interaction designer 2006
Dan Saffer has written an article on becoming an interaction designer. To quote: Five years ago, Robert Reimann wrote a seminal article for the Cooper Newsletter called "So You Want To Be an Interaction Designer." Like many people, I read... From Column Two on August 30, 2006 at 3:47 a.m..

The Feng Shui of Crowds
Andy Carvin is asking people to help him decide how to lay out his and Susanne's new apartment by downloading a copy of the apartment plan and uploading an edited version of it. All I know is that he ought to hang Bradsucks' guitar — decorated via a similar process — in a prominent place [Tags: open_source_design bradsucks andy_carvin]... From Joho the Blog on August 30, 2006 at 12:49 a.m..

Keyspan Launches Skype Phone
The entry-level handset aims at home and office users. In Gear Factor. From Wired News on August 30, 2006 at 12:45 a.m..

Napster Responds to Wired News
Bill Pence, Napster's chief technology officer, questions the wisdom of proprietary music DRM in his response to a recent Wired News column. In Listening Post. From Wired News on August 30, 2006 at 12:45 a.m..

Dispute on Loan Consolidation
Big lenders are accused of dragging out the time it takes to process applications for consolidated student loans so the lenders can keep charging higher interest rates. From New York Times: Education on August 30, 2006 at 12:45 a.m..

Unlikely Dorm Mates at Barnard
Barnard College has built a dormitory where faculty members occupy the same floors and share laundry facilities and common space with students. From New York Times: Education on August 30, 2006 at 12:45 a.m..

SAT Reading and Math Scores Show Big Decline
Officials of the College Board dismissed the suggestion that students were getting tired out by the new three-part test. From New York Times: Education on August 30, 2006 at 12:45 a.m..

Plazes goes mobile
Plazes has released a mobile version of their locator application. It allows to find places and access point nearby: Read more on the Plazes blog.Related: From owrede_log on August 29, 2006 at 11:47 p.m..