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NLII Annual: Education Unplugged: Mobile Learning Comes of Age
Inquiring minds that don't have time to comb the backways of higher education looking for emergent technologies find the living is easy here in New Orleans this week. Innovators and madmen seem to be wandering the halls letting us know what's new, possible, a glimmer in the eye of a prenatal beast of change. And if you're lucky, you run into the thinkers that spend their time trying to make meaning of these new technologies. I volunteered to be the convener for two of these people and signed up early enough to get my wish, so here I am at Ellen Wagner and Robby Rob From
EDUCAUSE Blogs - on January 24, 2005 at 11:01 p.m..
Web Conferencing Review: Live Conference PRO
Live Conference PRO, developed by Professional Global Marketing, is a powerful low cost web conferencing and live presentation tool that allows meeting presenters to collaborate in real-time with invited participants. It integrates several well designed facilities including full-duplex VoIP audio,... From
Kolabora.com on January 24, 2005 at 10:54 p.m..
Study tour to China, May 7-25, 2005
This may be your year to take the China Study Tour May 7-May 25, 2005 Information Meetings: Wednesday, February 2, 12 pm in Education 3101 and Thursday, February 3,4 pm in Education 3101 Focus of the tour: The transformation of... From
Rick's Café Canadien on January 24, 2005 at 10:53 p.m..
Tim Wang's Education Blog
Ich habe keine Ahnung, wer das ist und wie lange er noch durchhält, aber Tim Wang berichtet bzw. bloggt über e-Learning in China, so z.B. mit Meldungen über die Anstrengungen der chinesischen Regierung, ein Online Training Network für ihre Mitarbeiter... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on January 24, 2005 at 10:51 p.m..
Moodling around in anger - some initial reflections
Ein kurzer Erfahrungsbericht über eine Einführung der Open Source-Plattform "Moodle", in dem besonders der schnelle und umfangreiche Support der "Moodle"-Community hervorgehoben wird. Zusammenfassend heisst es: "I'm not saying Moodle does not have its limitations, but it largely does what it... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on January 24, 2005 at 10:51 p.m..
Numbed by the Numbers, When They Just Don't Add Up
Not really a column about online learning, but the lessons in this article ought to inform anyone with an interest in media or public policy. Without context, numbers lose their meaning, and often, the reader must supply the context. For example: "When Harvard announced that it was allocating $2 million more to financial aid for poor students, bringing the total to $82 million a year, was it really being generous? Well, in 2004, $82 million was about six days' income from the Harvard endowment, and the heralded $2 million increase that prompted this fairly prominent article was the equiva From
OLDaily on January 24, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..
ElearningEuropa
From their email: "The elearningeuropa.info portal has changed its look and structure. The aim of these changes is to provide a new navigational structure making it easier to find content and enhancing the possibilities of participation. The process of reconstructing the portal is taking place gradually. New sections and functions will be added over the coming months." No RSS feed. By Press Release, ElearningEuropa, January 24, 2005 [
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OLDaily on January 24, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..
Access to Knowledge (a2k) Treaty
WIPO is considering a possible treaty on
Access to Knowledge as part of the development agenda (
Summary) at a conference being held February 3-4 in Geneva. Some
suggestions are posted on an A2k-specific mailing list. The proposal, submitted by Brazil and Argentina, states, "A vision that promotes the absolute benefits of intellectual property protectio From
OLDaily on January 24, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..
Putting It All Together: Identity Management on Your Campu
Notes from what appears to be a conference session on the management of student identities on the university computer system. Big problem number one: all the good identities (user names that match the person's name, for example) are gone. Some discussion of authentication and identity management systems (IdMS). This item is worth a quick read, but it should be a blog post somewhere, not a PDF stored in an institutional repository. The EDUCAUSE abstract is still written in future tense, which is a bit funny. By Thomas J. Barton, A. Michael Berman, Amy K. Brooks and Bret L. Ingerman, EDUCA From
OLDaily on January 24, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..
IMS Publishes Service Oriented Architecture Whitepaper
Wilbert Kraan summarizes
this paper, which was presented at Alt-i-Lab last summer, and has just been published by IMS. The topic of the paper is software services, that is, mechanisms for application programs to interact with each other. The authors describe a framework of consumer oriented services (that is, services described from the point of view of the consuming application), which may be software-specific (think of a Firefox plug-in, for example) and provider oriented services, which are software-neutral (think of a web page, for example - these From
OLDaily on January 24, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..
Open Source Enterprise Weblogging
Derek Morrison explores the mysteries of WordPress MU installation, and that he is up to part three suggests that there are mysteries aplenty. WordPress is an open source blogging application; the 'MU' stands for 'Multi User' and allows an enterprise - such as a university - to allow multiple users to create blogs.
Part one,
part two (which details the mysteries of installation),
OLDaily on January 24, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..
In Praise of Simpler Standards?
Such a pleasure that Scott Wilson has joined the blogosphere, and we're still in the heady first few days of his blog where every topic is new (it gets harder in the second year, when you realize you made the same point before, somewhere). In this item, Wilson outlines other values he thinks are important in specifications work are: utility, precision, free, open and clarity. He then looks - critically - at how e-learning specifications stack up. Personally, I think that the e-learning specifications will have to be rewritten. This column is a good example of some of the reasons why: scop From
OLDaily on January 24, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..
Blogging in Higher Education
Interesting session going on right now at the NLII meeting: Beauty and the Beast: Bringing Blogs into Higher Education. Take a look--there are session comments on the blog questions. Also: Segue is Middlebury's CMS, available for free at Slashdot. From
Gardner Writes on January 24, 2005 at 10:01 p.m..
What technology works
Our roving reporters Sarah Ashworth and Kyle Palmer walked around and talked to conference participants and asked what kind of technology they've used that's worked. From
EDUCAUSE Blogs - on January 24, 2005 at 10:00 p.m..
NLII Annual: Overcoming Barriers
Why is challenging our old assumptions so hard? So many great speakers, new ideas, new ways of thinking about teaching and learning here at the NLII annual and I'm ready to lay my head down at 3:20pm. Instead, I come listen to Ron Bleed do an excellent, convincing, data-driven job of indicting higher education for it's 16 week, 9-5, M-F commitment to traditional, inflexible scheduling. The "traditional student" is rare in higher education today and the farther from young, single, child-less, residential, part-time work for beer money student, the farther from likely From
EDUCAUSE Blogs - on January 24, 2005 at 10:00 p.m..
My dinner speech
Benjamen "Theory of Everything" Walker has moved the mp3 of my after-dinner speech to a new home. Download Stream Thanks, Benjamen, for recording it and posting it.... From
Joho the Blog on January 24, 2005 at 9:48 p.m..
DiMA, NetCoalition, CDT File Neutral Amicus
See here. Here's the summary of the argument: "It is critical to preserve the Sony defense, which allows technology vendors to innovate without fear of liability imposed simply because their socially valuable technologies are misused by third parties to infringe copyright. This Court should emphatically reject the Seventh CircuitÂ’s attempt to engraft a nebulous balancing test onto the venerable Sony defense, From
A Copyfighter's Musings on January 24, 2005 at 9:47 p.m..
Progress and Freedom Foundation Amicus Brief for Petitioners
See here. Summary: "Consumers have two strong interests: (1) Avoiding inhibitions on technological progress; and (2) Fostering the production of content by providing incentives to creators.... The Ninth Circuit focused totally on the need to avoid any inhibition on technology, and in so doing it lost sight of the equally important consumer interest in promoting content.... Also, the Ninth Circuit was mistaken in its application of the "capable of substantial non-infringing uses" language From
A Copyfighter's Musings on January 24, 2005 at 9:47 p.m..
Coming up for air
I'll soon be migrating to another weblog platform (likely b2e) that will hopefully allow more control over the comment and trackback spam that has been the downfall of this environment (for me). Without the ability to comment, weblogs become a much narrower communication channel. I don't have time to clean up the garbage, so I ultimately just turned commenting off. It wasn't long after that that my posting became even more infrequent than it was before. Anyway, I'll try to manage the migration as well as I can. I'll post my notes here as I go. From
Stand Up Eight on January 24, 2005 at 9:01 p.m..
The Podcast That Ate My Blog, or, NLII Day 1.5
The next session starts in 25 minutes. I want to blog about some sessions I saw this morning. There's no time to write it out, so this podcast will have to carry the load here. Load of what? Ah, dear reader/listener, that will be up to you, and posterity, to ... From
Gardner Writes on January 24, 2005 at 9:01 p.m..
Wiki Land ... My Reactions
Another great session ... this time about how WIKIs can impact teaching and learning. "Adventures in WikiLand," by Brian Lamb from U of British Columbia ... More on that in a minute ... one of the great things about the presentation is that it is more of a
demo than a death by PowerPoint. He started at his own wiki and I went back to the root directory and found that
UBC has a whole blogs initiatives going on and then on to
Universit From EDUCAUSE Blogs - on January 24, 2005 at 9:00 p.m..
Online Advertising Up
eMarketer
predicts that U.S. online ad revenue will rise in 2005: "Spending on rich media advertising, including interstitials, would leap to around $1.02 billion in 2005, up from $796 million last year. All online ad spending in the United States would reach $11.3 billion in 2005, up from an estimated $9.4 billion last year. Paid search will show continued strength, with $4.69 billion spending in 2005, compared to $3.93 billion in 2004."Also interesting in the statistics section,
Int From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on January 24, 2005 at 8:54 p.m..
From the Feedback Grab Bag
Feedback is a mixed bag, and one lessons I may have learned is that you are never going to please an audience as wide as the one on the web. So among the many places we collect feedback, some recent ones have just caught my eye. First, from our
Writing HTML tutorial, we have more than
3500 feedback messages assembled over the last 10 years. And we do not just keep the nice ones, added soon will be today's gem: I hate your projects that you let mingus use I From
cogdogblog on January 24, 2005 at 8:48 p.m..
1st Video Blog Festival
The Video Blog Festival is dedicated to honoring videos that were shot for the purpose of showcasing it in blogs. The Video Blog Festival is devoted to the "art" of making videos for video blogging, and not to the politics of what is the best video blog website around. From
unmediated on January 24, 2005 at 7:55 p.m..
P2P PSTN?
The first time I ever spoke with Jeff Pulver was years back when he was trying to find volunteers for his "original" Free World Dialup idea. While it eventually became this free VoIP phone system where users could dial other FWD members for free, the original plan was much more interesting. The original idea was to get a bunch of users to connect their traditional phone service lines to a VoIP network, and create a "free" VoIP phone service that terminated calls via the nearest available volunteer's node. In other words, the system would be mostly VoIP, just like FWD is now. However, From
unmediated on January 24, 2005 at 7:55 p.m..
Citizens' media, citizens' movement in Iraq
Iraq the Model announces the start of the Friends of Democracy web site with reporting from citizen journalists in Iraq in
English and
Arabic (using the Arabic-language blogging tool underwritten, with your help, by
Spirit of America). Go read reports from the street, from Iraqis. At the same time Spirit of America plans to highlight their coverage of the electino next Sunday with an event in Washington; details
unmediated on January 24, 2005 at 7:55 p.m..
The New Media Police: You and Me?
On-air personalities at a NY hip-hop radio show joined
the ranks of racist DJ s when they aired a musical parody that mocked South Asian tsunami victims, using racial slurs "chink" and "Chinamen," and calling drowned victims "bitches." Emmis Communications-owned WQHT/Hot 97 broadcast
the song during the "Miss Jones in the Morning" show. Station Manager John Dimick has since
unmediated on January 24, 2005 at 7:55 p.m..
Blizzard 05: Citizen Journos come of age
This is the watershed moment for me.
Our coverage of Blizzard 05 was viewer-driven. We had so many pictures from viewers that my inbox crashed. They sent us video. We took phone calls from viewers for an hour who went out with yardsticks to give us snowfall totals from all around New England. As I wrote below, our first pix of coastal flooding came from viewers. MSNBC also took advantage of the citizen journos and has a
gallery posted. (Gralnick, again, thanks). I can&apos From
unmediated on January 24, 2005 at 7:55 p.m..
As Sites Add Tags, Tagtextual Advertising Will Follow
Here's new evidence that 2005 will be the year of folksonomies - commonly known as tags.
Metafilter, a popular community weblog that anyone can contribute to, has just incorporated
tags. Metafilter's tags are simply free-form keywords people have used to describe their posts. They are
launching tags to create "a great bottom-up way of organizing everything that has ever been posted to MetaFilter." The larger a word is, the more From
unmediated on January 24, 2005 at 7:55 p.m..
Inspirational Message Collection
The Saskatoon Catholic Cyber School shows a weekly inspirational message on it's home page. These messages are now available in a collection websites. These messages are constructed by our Father Andrew Wychucki. Inspirational Messages for SCCS... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on January 24, 2005 at 7:55 p.m..
Whither VW's Suicide Bomber Commercial?
I've
noticed several stories in recent days about the in-poor-taste Volkswagen video ad, where a suicide bomber drives a VW Polo in front of a cafe and blows himself up -- but the car contains the blast and he kills only himself. The tagline: "Polo: Small but tough." (A U.K. ad agency has taken credit for the commercial, but it's not clear who commissioned it; VW disavows it.) From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on January 24, 2005 at 7:55 p.m..
David Bollier on make-your-own culture
David Bollier wonders when the phase transition from mass-manufactured to make-your-own culture will take place: Given the lamentable decline of the mainstream media, the appeal of the emerging make-your-own culture should be obvious. The new culture consists of blogging (amplified by blog syndication and news aggregators); collaborative websites and archives; social networking software; meta-tagging innovations like
Flickr, the photo-sharing site, and
Del.ici From unmediated on January 24, 2005 at 6:55 p.m..
Searching For Download Profit
Turns out 99-cent downloads are no way to make money, or so
top music execs told the International Herald Tribune at Midem. Sony BMG's Thomas Hesse calls the quasi-standard fee "an introductory offer" -- "a fair way to begin the business" but, at 99 cents, it's difficult for all of us to make a decent living. ... In the longer term, we believe music is worth more. And we should resist the temptation to price music down to zero just because we're competing with free." From Chri From
unmediated on January 24, 2005 at 6:55 p.m..
MoonEdit: multi-platform collaborative text editor and backchannel tool?
MoonEdit: multi-platform collaborative text editor. Cooperative multi-user text editing over the internet. Every co-author can edit the shared document at any time, from any place, and at the same time! There's no need to send files via FTP or to compare documents when multiple users need to make changes to it independently.
From
unmediated on January 24, 2005 at 6:55 p.m..
Free-ESL-Blogs.com
These are custom made blogs especially for ESL teachers and students. Here you'll find blogs from teaching in Japan to living in Greece to studying in China to... well all kinds of stories from all around the world from both... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on January 24, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..
Disaster Warning System Endorsed
An early warning system would have made all the difference. Instead of being swept to their deaths by the Dec. 26 tsunami, tourists in Thailand and villagers in Sri Lanka could have been alerted to run for higher ground. Even... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on January 24, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..
News Website VG Nett Second Only to Its Paper Edition
Norwegian news website
VG Nett is now read by more people than the paper editions of the traditional runners-up,
Dagbladet and
Aftenposten. In the fourth quarter of 2004, VG Nett had a daily readership of 820,000 people, while Dagbladet had 789,000 (paper edition) and Aftenposten had 733,000 (paper edition).The only paper bigger than VG Nett is the parent itself, VG (Verdens Gang).Says Internet pioneer and former Dagbladet.no From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on January 24, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..
No Ads for the Well-Heeled
No one in my family watches TV commercials because there's been a
TiVo in our house for several years. (The fast-forward button is worn way down.) Now, we're adding
Sirius satellite radio service, so we'll be rid of radio commercials; Sirius offers 65 channels of commercial-free music.As digital video recorders and subscription satellite radio spread to more and more households in the years ahead, this is going to have a profound effect on broadcast advertising, of course. We often talk here about
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on January 24, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..
NLII Annual: Student Session
"If Higher Educatilon Listened to Me" Stream of reaction to the STUDENT PANEL I'm listening to... Huge room. Cold. City of NO abnormally cold and hotel slow to adapt. Stayed out too late listening to incredible local jazz musicians wander onstage at Donna's last night, so my blood also might not be running as well as it otherwise might. No matter. These students have great stuff to say. I teach, so I've heard it before, but there's value in making the tacit very explicit for any faculty (or the administrators that determine policy for teaching and learn From
EDUCAUSE Blogs - on January 24, 2005 at 6:02 p.m..
Bitman Video Bulb
No, it's not high tech chapstick or a mentholated nasal inhaler-- it's a Video Bulb.
Ryota Kuwakubo is a device artist. His wearable LED animation Bitman, a cute little guy that dances around within the confines of the display edges, has gotten plenty of attention in the art- From
unmediated on January 24, 2005 at 5:56 p.m..
HOWTO convert TiVo-to-go files to MPEG files
TiVo's new DRM system allows you to move video from your TiVo to your PC, but not as a plain MPEG file that you can slice and dice and watch in the player of your choice. Here are step-by-step instructions for converting TiVo-to-Go video to MPEG files.
Link (via
Waxy) From
unmediated on January 24, 2005 at 5:56 p.m..
Two-thirds of net users could walk away from search-engines
Boingboing's Cory Doctorow writes: "Pew has just released an amazing-looking study on Internet search behavior. Two factoids from the exec summary left my jaw hanging: Nearly half of searchers use a search engines no more than a few times a week, and two-thirds say they could walk away from search engines without upsetting their lives very much.... Only 38% of users are aware of the distinction between paid or "sponsored" results and unpaid results. "
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A VC: Sell Side Advertising
"There will come a time, and not so long from now, when advertisers will just post their ads, plus some data about them, and how they want them to perform, and how much they are willing to pay for leads generated by them, and the net will do the rest." From
unmediated on January 24, 2005 at 5:56 p.m..
Dear Teacher-To-Be
We're making connections using weblogs! My fifth grade blogging students posted "Dear Teacher-To-Be posts. My GSU students (who will be our future teachers) are just now learning about blogging. They replied in the comments section to the students. EduBlog Insights... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on January 24, 2005 at 5:55 p.m..
First Blog: NLII at New Orleans
Sure. Why not? I'm recording on my laptop, but NLII has given me wireless in the meetings so I'll share with this/their/my community on what I've been seeing. Bransford keynote reinforced what so much of us have been thinking. Learner-centered means acknowledging that all students don't learn the same, want to learn what you're lecturing on. Expertise in a subject can mean specialization and choosing what you learn. Here's some of what I captured. Check the NLII Review later for more coherent summary. How people learn (book) as a conversatio From
EDUCAUSE Blogs - on January 24, 2005 at 4:54 p.m..
Why Blogdigger Groups are Cool
If you like to read weblogs, you should definitely take some time to explore Blogdigger. This search/resource site offers many interesting features related to finding and using webfeeds. One particularly cool feature I want to share with you is Blogdigger Groups. This tool allows you to combine the contents of two or more blogs -- so the combined content is easily accessible in one place... From
Contentious Weblog on January 24, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..
The New Dot-com Boom
After playing footsies over the ownership of
SportsLine.com for years, Viacom increased its minority share and bought the sports news site for $46 million last August. In December, the Washington Post bought the online magazine
Slate for more than $15 million. And today, the electronic publishing division of
Dow Jones & Co. Poynter E-Media Tidbits on January 24, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..
Reading What Others Read
So, we've established (haven't we?) that reading what people write is now only half of the fun on the Read/Write Web. Even more importantly, it's only half of the learning. The other half is reading what people read. Blogs were a start in the RWOR front due to the deep linking that blogging (v.) usually builds upon. To read blogs well is to many times find yourself clicking through sites following a thread of an idea, watching it de-evolve back to the original post. This entails a different kind of reading literacy, one that requires quick assessment of source reputation, sk From
weblogged News on January 24, 2005 at 3:47 p.m..
Users Confuse Search Results, Ads
Now, isn't
this surprising: "Only one in six users of internet search engines can tell the difference between unbiased search results and paid advertisements, a new survey finds." From
elearningpost on January 24, 2005 at 3:46 p.m..
Notes on NLII strategic plan
-Opportunities to leverage expertise via alliances and partnerships with various groups and institutions. Models for engagement and value-added incentives between educational, research and corporate entities. -Development of a research, development, and evaluation framework for all educational technology initiatives. Provide the R, D, & E templates to organizations and institutions to formatively assess and benchmark their progress (i.e. possible collaboration with SRI and NSF for strategic funding opportunities). -Provide opportunities for formalized research and evaluatio From
EDUCAUSE Blogs - on January 24, 2005 at 3:00 p.m..
I Can't (Blah blah blah blah) Read Long (Blah blah blah) Academic Papers
I admit it- the web has ruined my ability to read long papers. Okay, that is a cop out. But like conference presentations that are 90% background and bullets, in reading published papers, I get the twitch very quickly if I cannot find the concrete, the stuff I can see, touch, click, feel, experience. Hence
Feasibility of Course Development Based on Learning Objects: Research Analysis of Three Case Studies: Learning objects offer potential for cost and time savings (Downes, 2000; Hodgins, 2003;Wiley, 2002 From
cogdogblog on January 24, 2005 at 2:47 p.m..
NLII 2005 Day One
I don't think I'll ever need to eat again. But I should really speak to the NLII annual meeting, and not just to the New Orleans milieu, although, well, whew, what a town. Appetite city. As wonderful as the food has been, though, the intellectual feast has already topped it. The session ... From
Gardner Writes on January 24, 2005 at 2:01 p.m..
RSS Daily News
Looking for information on RSS News Feeds, Products and Services? This is the resource! RSS Daily News is a member publication of BWE Publications, which is a subsidiary of Broadband Wireless Exchange, Inc. The mission of RSS Daily News is to bring leading edge resources to the finger tips of executives in many types of organizations as well as the average electronics consumer who is searching for information on broadband wireless technology, products and services. Their goal is to provide a wealth of information for others to access, evaluate and eventually bring i From
RSS Blog on January 24, 2005 at 2:00 p.m..
Desulting the Consultants
Having worked as a business and educational consultant, and therefore becoming familiar with consultant-speak, it soon occured to me that consultants often create solutions to problems that don't exist - or at least they didn't exist before the consultant arrived.... From
Experience Designer Network on January 24, 2005 at 12:58 p.m..
FireFox continues gains against IE - Jim Hu, CNET News
The popularity of alternative Web browser FireFox continues to rise at the expense of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, according to a new study. From the beginning of December through mid-January, 4.78 percent of Internet surfers studied by online meas From
Techno-News Blog on January 24, 2005 at 12:50 p.m..
Safe E-Mailing for Dummies - Michelle Delio, Wired
Citibank is worried about you. PayPal is peeved and is about to pull the plug on your account unless you take action right now. EBay is perturbed about your latest auction purchase, Visa is fretting that someone may be up to no good with your credit From
Techno-News Blog on January 24, 2005 at 12:50 p.m..
Wi-Fi takes over in homes - David Becker, CNET News
Wi-Fi now rules the roost, according to a new research report concluding that wireless technology has gained a slight edge over Ethernet cables in home networks. The survey, by research firms Parks Associates, found that 52 percent of U.S. households From
Techno-News Blog on January 24, 2005 at 12:50 p.m..
A New Route To Racial Diversity
Robert M. Gates, president of Texas A&M U., speaks to minority students who were brought from urban high schools to his campus. "It was clear to me," he says, "that we needed to do something that represented a dramatic departure from what we had been doing in the past."(Photograph by Patric Schneider)
THE DEBATE OVER 'DAME HELEN'No other critic of poetry has had the public impact of the rigorously untheoretical Helen Vendler. Whether that impact is for better or for worse depends on your point of view. From
Chronicle: free on January 24, 2005 at 11:50 a.m..
KMAZ
At the request of Kate Andrews, I'm forwarding the details on her upcoming Brisbane workshop: KMAZ™: Knowledge Management A-Z. This one-day workshop will cover a pile of interesting topics: After action reviews Best practice transfer Codification Communities of practice Expertise... From
Column Two on January 24, 2005 at 11:47 a.m..
Welfare to Work Success Model
The Essential Skills Certificate program serves mostly young single mothers who have difficulties becoming employed or maintaining employment due to barriers such as low levels of education, and the high cost of childcare.... From
Adult/Continuing Education on January 24, 2005 at 10:50 a.m..
Disaster Warning System Endorsed
A 168-nation U.N. world conference on disaster reduction backs an effort to set up a warning network for the Indian Ocean. It's an extension of a decades-old system in the Pacific. From
Wired News on January 24, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Stem Cell Lines Compromised?
Nonhuman molecules from the culture medium used to grow stem cells have contaminated the human embryonic stem cells available for research, a new report shows. From
Wired News on January 24, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Users Confuse Search Results, Ads
Adults in the United States tend to be naïve about how search engines work, according to a new study. The research shows only one in six web searchers can differentiate between paid ads and unbiased search results. From
Wired News on January 24, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Liquefied Natural Gas: How Safe?
Industry watchers expect as many as a dozen new LNG terminals to be built in the next decade as imports increase. The possibility of a devastating fire from an accident or terrorist attack may be the toughest obstacle facing the industry. From
Wired News on January 24, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Taming the Wild Slide
Avalanches and landslides appear to be untamable forces of nature, but humans can keep big things from falling on their heads with a variety of strategies. By Daniel Terdiman. From
Wired News on January 24, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Many Faces of the Mac Mini
Though available for only a few days, Apple's versatile Mac mini is already being put to a wide array of uses, from server racks to in-car computing. By Leander Kahney. From
Wired News on January 24, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Wild Things Are on the Beach
Artist Theo Jansen uses cheap materials to make clockwork creatures that walk, feeding on gusts of wind. He calls it evolution, others call it mesmerizing. By Lakshmi Sandhana. From
Wired News on January 24, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Gambling Sites Hedging Bets
Super Bowl Sunday is two weeks away, so online gambling venues are getting ready. Not just for the usual rush of punters, but to also fend off denial-of-service extortion schemes. By Michael Myser. From
Wired News on January 24, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Graeme Daniel
In response to a reader's request, this edition of WWWTools for Education explores the connections between Neuroscience and Brain-based Education, and looks at how people are implementing these ideas in current educational practice. From
wwwtools on January 24, 2005 at 9:52 a.m..
Finalistas de los Bloggies 2005
Ya se ha publicado la relación de finalistas de los Bloggies 2005. Los 5 candidatos que compiten en cada categorÃa fueron escogidos, entre los más votados, por un panel de 150 bloggers (en el que tuve el gusto de participar).... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 24, 2005 at 8:51 a.m..
The end of Hubble?
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) will probably die before 2010 due to insufficient financial resources to service it. There is no official announcement by NASA yet, but it is expected for 7 February 2005 during the presentation of the 2006 budget. (Sources: BBC, Space.com). From
kuro5hin.org on January 24, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..
Six month workshop calendar
Ok, now that we've announced all our workshops, we've pulled them all together into a handy six month workshop calendar. This allows you too see exactly what, where and when we will be running our events.... From
Column Two on January 24, 2005 at 4:47 a.m..
100 Bloggers: Draft - The Value of Weblogging
I have been asked to participate in an interesting project called 100 Bloggers organized by Jon Strand. I have the pleasure of participating on Robert Paterson's chapter, which also includes Cynthia Dunsford and Jeremy Hiebert. What follows is a 1st... From
Experience Designer Network on January 24, 2005 at 3:58 a.m..
All conferenced out
Went to both the McMaster World Congress and CUTC 2005 this week. Who knew that personal development could be so fun? Highlights: Richard Camilleri, President of CanWest, talked about the "20-step rule"; you can tell a great deal about a company's creative potential by walking twenty steps into its headquarters and seeing if anyone is having fun. Exceptional people are often masters of more than one trade. That we learned when corporate raider Eric Rosenfeld launched into his own renditions of timeworthy Broadway showtunes, including Chicago's "Mr. Cellophane" (aka "Institutional Inv From
silentblue | Quantified on January 24, 2005 at 3:54 a.m..
Barry's Posts from India
I thought I'd put Barry's reports from India back up, especially since Norm Lepage wants to be reminded of how warm he is, compared to us. The first report is here, and the second report is here.... From
Rick's Café Canadien on January 24, 2005 at 3:53 a.m..
My Saturday Spent in School
I spent my Saturday in school, not furthering my education, but paying my penance for
zipping by a photo rador van last month. That's right, I did an 8 hour course from the
National Safety Council, in lieu of paying the full fine, going to court. Sitting in a cramped hot hotel conference room with 50 other "violators" (and paying $120 for the pleasure) was the best option to wipe the ticket from my record. In some ways, you have to feel for th From
cogdogblog on January 24, 2005 at 3:48 a.m..
100 Bloggers: Draft - The Value of Weblogging
I have been asked to participate in an interesting project called 100 Bloggers organized by Jon Strand. I have the pleasure of participating on Robert Paterson's chapter, which also includes Cynthia Dunsford and Jeremy Hiebert. What follows is a 1st... From
Experience Designer Network on January 24, 2005 at 2:49 a.m..
So, when I'm on the computer these days, I'm not b ...
So, when I'm on the computer these days, I'm not blogging. I'm not even paying much attention to my bloglines account. I'm frequently not doing homework either.See, I'm really big into cooking. And the one of the best way to get the freshest vegetables is to grow them yourself. Thus started my garden addiction. Now, starting in late December, the seed catalogs (which my hubby refers to as "porn") start rolling in. First, the big companies, and later my favorite ones, like
Seed Savers and
blog.IT on January 24, 2005 at 2:48 a.m..
Here's a preview of the conference
Welcome to New Orleans and the NLII Conference! I'd like to introduce Sarah Ashworth of University of Missouri's Public Radio Station, KBIA-FM and University of Missouri student Kyle Palmer. They found out what you can expect during the conference... Enjoy. From
EDUCAUSE Blogs - on January 24, 2005 at 1:00 a.m..
Kiddie Records Weekly
If you are interested in vintage childrens' recordings (e.g., Robin Hood, Uncle Remus, Tom Thumb), this is the site for you. Kiddie Records Weekly has been digitizing some of these classic recordings for several weeks now, and there are more... From
Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on January 24, 2005 at 12:55 a.m..
About Our Blog ...
We're using a customized version of an open source, BSD licensed product called .Text (dottext). We contracted much of the work out to Dave Burke. He's been great to work with and had already done some significant work on the software for his own blog. Going forward, we hope to make a number of enhancements, but I'll add more on that later. For more information about .Text visit:
Dave's Blog Entries on Customizing .TextEDUCAUSE Blogs - on January 23, 2005 at 11:59 p.m..