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Pres Release - High Technology in the Sandpit - EdNA
Launching today to celebrate EdNA's 9th anniversary, the
Sandpit will provide educators with a play to experiment with new technologies, including (to start) Moodle and ELGG. According to the press release, "The development is one component of a major technical and content revamp of the successful site that allows educators to learn and hone their skills the way students do. Also included are podcasting, interactive web forums incorporating instant messaging, and the provision of syndicated content and services to thousands of third party portals." From
OLDaily on November 27, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Robert A. Wisher - ADL Advocate: Making the Vision of Learning Anytime, Anywhere, a Reality - Military Training Technology
I think that I think of "Learning Anytime, Anywhere" very differently than ADL's Robert Wisher. Because in my mind, the phrase includes necessarily "anyone" - but Wisher has a much smaller set of recipients in mind, beginning with the U.S. military, and then expanding through a network of its partners and friends. That is why access control - rather than enabling access - is at the heart of initiatives like CORDRA, and why Wisher envisions "a federation of registries on a global scale" rather than an open and sharable network of open educational resources. Maybe I'm wrong, and maybe From
OLDaily on November 27, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Matt McKenzie - Vista and More: Piecing Together Microsoft's DRM Puzzle - Computer World
The eSchool News this week came out with a very uncritical
look at the upcoming deployment of Windows Vista and the choices educational institutions will have to make. Perhaps a more appropriate read might be this article from Computer World in Vista's digital rights management (DRM) technology. But that's something, I guess, that the promotional pieces will overlook; as the article states, "it's hard to sing the praises of technology designed to make life harder for its users." Vista also realizes the From
OLDaily on November 27, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
David Rothman - LibWorm: Search and Current Awareness for Libraryfolk - davidrothman.net
Launched Saturday, this service resembles
Edu_RSS in many respects, except that it covers libraries and librarianship feeds and podcasts. It's also much larger, culling from some 1100 sources. Can't say I like the name of the service, though - couldn't they think of some other animal? (Historical note: my very first aggregator, coded way back in 1999 or so, was called 'grasshopper'). They have
also added it to the Firefox (my experience doing that with Edu_ From
OLDaily on November 27, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
David H. Freedman - What's Next: The Idiocy of Crowds - Inc.com
This article is getting some traction, but it would have been nice had the author taken the time to comprehend the theory he is criticizing. He writes, "The effectiveness of groups, teamwork, collaboration, and consensus is largely a myth. In many cases, individuals do much better on their own. Our bias toward groups is counterproductive." Well, I would certainly agree with him on groups. But that is not the structure Surowiecki describes, nor is it how social networks are characterized per Watts and others, a distinction I have tried to make clear (with indifferent succes From
OLDaily on November 27, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Aggregating Student Blogs in Google Reader
This isn’t much different from doing it with SuprGlu (in fact it may not be as elegant) but since it’s the first use of a public Google Reader page to collect a classroom full of student blog posts that I’ve seen, here’s a link to it. The posts are from a 6th grade social studies [...] From
weblogged News on November 27, 2006 at 1:48 p.m..
Skype and OS X…&$%^#* Together
I’m really getting frustrated with Skype on a variety of levels. My troubles with 2.0 on my MacBook never got resolved, so I went back to 1.5 and got it working for a while, but now the same thing is happening again. No one shows up online in my list of contacts. Nothing I do [...] From
weblogged News on November 27, 2006 at 1:48 p.m..
Toyota Hybrid Pioneer Killed
Dave Hermance, who led Toyota's hybrid research in the U.S., was killed Saturday in a plane crash. In Autopia. From
Wired News on November 27, 2006 at 1:45 p.m..
German Politics Goes to the Vlogs
Parodies of Chancellor Angela Merkel's stiff, monotone podcast performances make a splash on YouTube, but can they help sway policy? Andrew Curry reports from Berlin. From
Wired News on November 27, 2006 at 1:45 p.m..
Name the Year's Sexiest Geeks
Who blew your mind with their intellect in 2006, giving you that special tingle inside? Get your nominations in for the Wired News sexy geek roster. In Bodyhack. From
Wired News on November 27, 2006 at 1:45 p.m..
Manhattan Projects
As urban populations grow, skylines are rapidly getting taller. Cities like London and Dubai will be scraping more of the sky by 2012. By Patrick Di Justo from Wired magazine. From
Wired News on November 27, 2006 at 1:45 p.m..
Zune, Creative Commons Don't Mix
Microsoft's efforts to loosen up access to closely held music owned by record labels has an unintended consequence: It punishes artists who want to share. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk. From
Wired News on November 27, 2006 at 1:45 p.m..
Army Game Proves U.S. Can't Lose
The developer behind a new military recruitment video game complains that he wasn't allowed to program realistic enemies that learn from their mistakes and adapt to circumstances. By Marty Graham. From
Wired News on November 27, 2006 at 1:45 p.m..
Bad Movies, Killer Right Hook
When the worst movie director ever challenges his web critics to a boxing match, four idiots actually meet him in the ring. By Chris Baker from Wired magazine. Plus: Uwe Boll Pounds the Puke out of a Critic From
Wired News on November 27, 2006 at 1:45 p.m..