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Long Live the Errors Made in Print
I was interviewed on radio today about
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia where anyone can contribute. I said that Wikipedia's most interesting feature is that it's
updated and dynamic even though it's an encyclopedia. The thousands of contributors serve as an "invisible hand" to guarantee that errors are rectified and facts are updated pretty fast. I basically spoke in favor of Wikipedia.Still, there's always the nagging doubt. Is Wikipedia as trustwo From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on January 26, 2005 at 10:54 p.m..
Jay aggregates WebCred
Jay Rosen asked the attendees at the WebCred conference to send him an email describing something the conference change changed their mind about. He has stitched the replies into three posts: 1 2 3. He also points to Dan Gillmor's excellent Reagan-esque call for newspapers to tear down the walls around their archives. Jay calls it a "must read." I agree. [Technorati tag: webcred]... From
Joho the Blog on January 26, 2005 at 10:48 p.m..
Bogus Contest: Truth in Britannicas
From the TimesOnLine, by Alexandra Blair: A SCHOOLBOY with a fascination for Poland and wildlife has uncovered several significant errors in the latest -- the fifteenth -- edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Lucian George, 12, a pupil at Highgate Junior School in North London, was delving into the volumes on Poland and wildlife in Central Europe when he noted the mistakes. The first was the assertion by the internationally acclaimed reference book that the small town of Chochim, in which two battles were fought between the Poles and the Ottoman Empire, now lies in Moldova. "Wrong," said L From
Joho the Blog on January 26, 2005 at 10:48 p.m..
A sleepy DISH Network receiver
Now that I'm living in the wilds of New Hampshire, I've been required to turn to satellite for my television reception requirements. My housemates and I ordered the DISH Network and opted for the DISH player with DVR (receiver model 522). After only a few days, we decided that the DVR feature wasn't as user-friendly as TiVo and I purchased a new TiVo. Soon we discovered that more often than not, when we went to watch a taped program, all that TiVo had recorded was a floating DISH Network logo. It appeared that the DISH receiver had (unbeknownst to TiVo) turned off. I called DI From
megnut on January 26, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..
Saving the already-saved Social Security system
I received some feedback via email regarding my post, No smoking gun in Iraq from January 13th. One reader wrote: Gee, I remember back in 1998 the Clintons and just about every Democrat in Congress were screaming that the budget "surplus" should only be used to "save Social Security." If you believe Social Security needed saving back then and doesn't now then you must believe it has already been saved. Well, who saved it? Clinton didn't do anything, so the only answer can be George W. Bush. So following the logic of the Democratic talking points that Social Security is not in From
megnut on January 26, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..
SOFIA
Score another direct hit for open content in education!
SOFIA launches with eight courses. With complete course information, video, and a nice look and feel, this is a *great* contribution. From
autounfocus on January 26, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..
Sophisticated Phishing schemes
Kay Pilcher pointed out
this CNN article on how phishing schemes are getting more sophisticated. Apparently these crooks are now installing entries in host files on compromised desktop systems so that even if the unsuspecting person types in their own From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on January 26, 2005 at 10:02 p.m..
Academic use of blogs increasing.
Those of you who have been following our Open source enterprise weblogging series of postings may be aware that, in contrast to the "let's dominate the VLE market" ethos which has been supported, by default, by a significant part of... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on January 26, 2005 at 9:55 p.m..
THE MISSING INSTRUCTOR
The text-based interaction of e-learning arguably creates more work for an instructor. That, coupled with the lack of face-to-face contact with students, makes teacher absenteeism easier to rationalize (and harder to notice). Online instructors often go absent from their classes... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on January 26, 2005 at 9:55 p.m..
Wikiversity
Welcome to the Wikiversity, a free, open learning environment and research community. Online courses are being created as a form of co-operative and interactive exchange of knowledge. Wikiversity is still being designed and discussed, see some ideas about Wikiversity. Wikiversity... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on January 26, 2005 at 9:55 p.m..
Excess all Areas
Excess All Areas only shows you some of the common effects of taking different drugs. You can never predict what will happen if you take drugs. How you react will depend on your physical and mental health, the people you're... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on January 26, 2005 at 9:55 p.m..
Finding Our Way
Finding Our Way: Better Understanding the Needs and Motivations of Teachers in Online Learning Research among K-12 educators participating in 6-week online professional development modules of study provides insight into their needs and motivations. 324 educators participated in this research... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on January 26, 2005 at 9:55 p.m..
Passion for Learning
The best learning occurs in a stimulating, active, challenging, interesting, engaging environment. It's how the brain works. The best learning occurs when you move at least some part of your body. The best learning occurs when you're actively involved in... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on January 26, 2005 at 9:55 p.m..
Google Video Search
Well, this one will be all over the web shortly. Google has a beta video search service. It indexes videos using close captions, and displays images captured from the video at the point of the caption. By Various Authors, Google, January, 2005 [
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OLDaily on January 26, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..
Wikiversity
The idea is to create a university (or at least, online university content) out of a wiki. Scott Leslie
writes, "O.k., I admit I chuckled when I first saw this, but heck, I regularly turn to Wikipedia now for quick reference info (as does the
Gurunet desktop reference app I use to check word definitions) so maybe this is one of the faces of open education to come. Not much there yet, though there is a page with some ideas on
OLDaily on January 26, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..
Networks for Newbies: A Non-Technical Introduction to Social Network Analysis
It's 115 slides, but the download is light and it doesn't take long to view them all. But you'll want to revisit this presentation, as it offers a comprehensive look at social network analysis with a clear exposition and pages of worthwhile references. If you don't have time, at least look at the first five slides, which are of fundamental importance. After reading this, take a look at
this post on Mathemagenic talking about blog network visualization. Or
OLDaily on January 26, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..
Pachyderm Asset Management
D'Arcy Norman is working on a PHP script that will create a basic asset management tool. He writes, "I'm thinking a version of this PHP asset management app, running on top of a simple asset metadata database, may form a valuable Small Piece, patterned after del.icio.us, but giving us the ability to extend for our purposes." I think he's right. P.S. Note Norman's new
permanent website. By D'Arcy Norman, D'Arcy Norman Dot Net, January 21, 2005 [
OLDaily on January 26, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..
Lessons from the NLII Conference
We may have left the conference, but that doesn't mean podcasting ends there. University of Missouri student Kyle Palmer and graduate Sarah Ashworth asked around before everyone left and found out what they plan to take back to their campuses. We had a great time podcasting. Thanks to everyone who joined in the fun! From
EDUCAUSE Blogs - on January 26, 2005 at 9:01 p.m..
Post Conference Interviews with the NLII Student Panel and Their Colleagues
Attached is a sixteen minute MP3 of a series of post conference interviews with the student panel and their colleagues. Among other things, sessions on Personal Response Systems (aka Clickers) and security and privacy were of particular interest. This is my first podcast, so bear with me if you encounter any problems. It has been years since my days in the studio as a student e
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EDUCAUSE Blogs - on January 26, 2005 at 9:01 p.m..
Worth1000.com
Being an art teacher in my past life this site struck me as being very cool. Worth1000.com | Photography Contests | Are you Worthy,,¢ | contest Here are some samples.... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on January 26, 2005 at 8:55 p.m..
Finding Mavens in Usenet (Ross Mayfield)
Yesterday I had a long chat with one of the humans at Microsoft, Marc Smith, who runs the Netscan project which provides analysis of Usenet. During our conversation he shared how they are using social network analysis to identify... From
Corante: Social Software on January 26, 2005 at 8:49 p.m..
Should Your Next CEO Be a Philosopher?
What differentiates a winning company from an also-ran? For many analysts and investors, the answer involves technology, which increasingly permeates every step of a business's operations. But according to a Wharton professor and an Israeli venture capitalist, a company's ability to understand its customers' philosophical outlook may be as vital to its success as R&D and other efforts. From
Knowledge@Wharton on January 26, 2005 at 7:58 p.m..
Hank Paulson Sets His Sights on China, More Teamwork and an Eventual Rise in M&A
When it comes to the current state of the U.S. economy, Henry Paulson, chairman and chief executive of Goldman Sachs Group, is an optimist. Unlike some commentators, who see the economy as mired in a hangover that it can't quite shake, Paulson might describe it as a groggy giant, rising slowly from a nap. Paulson, who spoke January 12 at Wharton, acknowledges that the economy faces challenges -- less-than-robust growth, hefty trade and federal budget deficits, and a slumping dollar, among them -- but suggests that economic conditions are far better than two years ago, when he last spoke a From
Knowledge@Wharton on January 26, 2005 at 7:58 p.m..
Older Workers: Untapped Assets for Creating Value
The days when an executive could look forward to a leisurely retirement out on the golf course are over, thanks to a possible looming job shortage, a graying population, low savings rates and an insecure Social Security system. The impact of these factors on both workers and companies was the subject of the Symposium on Older Workers, co-sponsored recently by the AARP Global Aging Program along with Wharton's Center for Human Resources and Boettner Center for Pensions and Retirement Research. Speakers included AARP CEO William D. Novelli, Olivia Mitchell, executive director of Wharton&apo From
Knowledge@Wharton on January 26, 2005 at 7:58 p.m..
The Mega-Deals Are Back in Commercial Real Estate
Investors who had fled bricks-and-mortar industries such as real estate during the dot-com and telecom bubbles have now returned with a vengeance. As a result, lots of capital is available for massive real estate deals, according to Wharton professors and industry experts who spoke at a meeting organized recently by the school's Samuel Zell and Robert Lurie Real Estate Center. Complexity and risks are high in such transactions, but so are the potential rewards. From
Knowledge@Wharton on January 26, 2005 at 7:58 p.m..
Few Survivors Predicted: Why Most Airlines Are Caught in a Tailspin
Delta Airlines cuts fares in a price war that Merrill Lynch estimates will sap $2.5 billion in revenues from the six largest airlines. US Airways and United file for bankruptcy, and almost every other airline --Southwest is one of the exceptions -- reports significant losses. The cost of oil remains stubbornly high, adding significantly to cost pressures. The question is: How do you fix an industry littered with walking zombies? One answer, say Wharton faculty, is to let some of the sickest carriers die -- and stay dead. From
Knowledge@Wharton on January 26, 2005 at 7:58 p.m..
An End to Global Textile Quotas: Watch China Sew Up the Market
On Jan. 1, the Multifiber Agreement -- which for 30 years allowed nations to place quotas on the amount of textile and clothing imports allowed into their countries -- expired for members of the World Trade Organization, the multilateral global trade body. The elimination of global textile quotas is expected to drive garment production to China, benefiting consumers in North America and Europe at the expense of developing nations where apparel manufacturing has become a bridge to an industrial economy, according to Wharton faculty and other analysts. From
Knowledge@Wharton on January 26, 2005 at 7:58 p.m..
Reaching Today's Consumers
The recent Wharton Marketing Conference, entitled "Pioneers in Marketing," looked at new ways to find and influence the ever elusive consumer. Fragmented markets, borderless competition and what's referred to as "market overload" are making it harder than ever for the $1 trillion global advertising and marketing industry to come up with creative approaches to help differentiate and sell their products. Participants in Knowledge@Wharton's coverage of this event spoke on topics that included promoting global brands, responding to new definitions of "luxury," pricing and positioning for From
Knowledge@Wharton on January 26, 2005 at 7:58 p.m..
Corporate Fraud on Trial: What Have We Learned?
The high-profile corporate scandals involving former WorldCom CEO Bernie Ebbers and former Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski are back in the news, refocusing attention on corporate fraud and inviting such questions as: What has changed since these allegations emerged a few years back? And will the criminal trials of these two men, under way this week, serve as a deterrent to other high-profile executives who might be tempted to forget the rules of fair play in corporate America? From
Knowledge@Wharton on January 26, 2005 at 7:58 p.m..
Yet Another Challenge to Paid Newspaper Classifieds
Last weekend I
noted the Bakersfield Californian spin-off free-classified site,
Bakotopia. Whether other newspapers will copy that approach is debatable, but it's a logical reaction to the entrance in newspaper markets of free-ads powerhouse
Craigslist, which has been successfully stealing away newspaper classifieds, especially in (but not limited to) the merchandise categories.Yet another free-classifieds competitor From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on January 26, 2005 at 7:54 p.m..
Bloglines Problems - Seriously Concerned
http://mfeldstein.com/index.php/weblog/comments/223/ I am a huge fan of Bloglines and use it ever day (some people even claim I have an RSS 'habit' and need help). So I have been increasingly concerned with the weird behaviour I have seen over the past weeks in Bloglines. Specifically, I've noticed feed counts getting updated but the feed contents not displaying when you go to read them unless you specifically force it to display the last x days. The other problem I've reported is that the Bloglin From
EdTechPost on January 26, 2005 at 6:51 p.m..
P2P fashion
The Annenberg School of Communication is holding a conference called "Ready to Share" (not "ready to wear" ...get it?) to explore the way the fashion industry remixes styles without anyone getting their ultra-glamorous knickers in a twist. We have something to learn from the fashion industry. If it were like the music industry, someone would have claimed a copyright on wearing your cap backwards.... From
Joho the Blog on January 26, 2005 at 6:48 p.m..
Gunner Palace
Gunner Palace looks like it might be good. It's a non-political documentary about the life of our soldiers in Baghdad. (Yeah yeah, I know everything is political.) The trailer maybe has a couple too many ironic shots, and the rock 'n' roll soundtrack of the second trailer is too expected, but those seem like trailer artifacts. They're sending me a "screener" - I feel so Hollywood! - so I'll let you know...... From
Joho the Blog on January 26, 2005 at 6:48 p.m..
Blogosphere subscription trends
We've all seen the hockey-stick curve that shows the blogosphere growing like gangbusters. But I haven't seen much on subscription trends, so I took a look at the public information available in
Bloglines. For a given feed you can ask Bloglines to show not just the count of subscribers, but also -- for the "public" subscribers who allow this information to be shown -- their usernames and the dates when they began subscribing. ... From
Jon's Radio on January 26, 2005 at 6:46 p.m..
OLS News
Lots of news about our Open Learning Support project today, with more coming in the weeks ahead. First, our
integration with Rice's
Connexions project has turned on. There is now OLS-style discussion available for every single module in the collection (over 2200). Also, the source code for OLS has finally made its way to SourceForge; find it at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ols-usu. Finally, as the OLS integration with the outreach portion of
autounfocus on January 26, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..
Off to FETC '05
I'm off to one of the biggest educational technology conferences in the US today--the Florida Educational Technology Conference. Looking forward to Carl Hiaasen's keynote speech tonight and to seeing which way the winds are blowing this year in the world of ed tech. It's possible that I'll post a bit here while I'm there, but that depends on having time and getting web access. We'll see. :-) From
Brain Frieze on January 26, 2005 at 5:55 p.m..
Sundance online
If you love film, you probably wish you could be at the Sundance Festival right now. At least I wish I could be. But there's an online festival for those of us outside of Utah, and it is a terrific... From
Rick's Café Canadien on January 26, 2005 at 5:53 p.m..
Uncovering Users In Your Own Organization
Interesting perspective
this: "There is a wealth of information at your fingertips in your own office, and surprisingly, some of it is usability-related. You can optimize your internal resources by understanding where and how you can find UI information about your users within your own company. To provide context and practical guidelines, this article presents examples of how to mine internal resources at a large enterprise software company." From
elearningpost on January 26, 2005 at 5:46 p.m..
Writing & Editing Grab Bag
Here are a few items on the theme of writing, editing, and content rights that have caught my attention lately... TOP OF THIS LIST: "Any fool can learn to write for an audience," e-editor, Nov. 29, 2004. I've worked on a lot of style guide projects, and this article nails precisely a key point which is wholly omitted in most conventional in-house style guides: The first duty of the author is to write for the audience. A skilled editor is needed to handle the rest. Editing (real editing, not just proofreading) is not optional! It's a mistake, usually, to expect most writers to be thei From
Contentious Weblog on January 26, 2005 at 4:55 p.m..
Postponing Berkman session tonight
It's crappy out and getting crappier. Um, I mean, Boston is being blanketed with innocence made crystalline. So, I'm postponing tonight's Web of Ideas session until Feb. 2. Damn snow.... From
Joho the Blog on January 26, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..
Visualizing the collective brain (Seb Paquet)
Following a suggestion of mine, Alf Eaton has built a visual interface to the tag landscape that is collectively produced by del.icio.us users, basically feeding the “related tags” listings from del.icio.us into a TouchGraph browser. Here’s a screenshot I made,... From
Corante: Social Software on January 26, 2005 at 2:49 p.m..
Watermark art
Rageboy discovers some found art (finds some discovered art?) on a site that sells stock images cheap.... From
Joho the Blog on January 26, 2005 at 1:48 p.m..
Media Industry Weblogs
Según el informe 2005 Online Media Outlook (PDF) de Avenue A/Razorfish: Five Best Blogs to Read about the Media Industry 1. Adfreak 2. Adrants 3. Searchblog 4. Search Engine Watch Blog 5. PaidContent VÃa: Mediabriefing.... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 26, 2005 at 12:51 p.m..
Ready, Set, Blog!
Respuestas simples a las preguntas de siempre: ¿qué es un weblog?, ¿por qué escribir un weblog?, ¿cómo comenzar un weblog?, es la propuesta del sitio Ready, Set, Blog! - The blogging phenomenon explained y de su correspondiente Readysetblog.com Blog. Una... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 26, 2005 at 12:51 p.m..
Personalentwicklung und Zugang zum e-Learning
Dieser Artikel liest sich wie eine ausführliche To-Do-Liste, anknüpfend an die in Lissabon im März 2000 formulierte Vorgabe, Europa bis 2010 zur wettbewerbsfähigsten und dynamischsten Wissensökonomie der Welt zu machen ("Europa muss/ soll ..."). E-Learning ist auch Thema, aber nur... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on January 26, 2005 at 12:51 p.m..
Broadband: High Speed, High Spend - Rob McGann, Clickz
The number of U.S. at-home broadband users increased 36 percent in 2004, accounting for 55 percent of the total U.S. at-home users by the end of December, according to the latest data from Nielsen//NetRatings. If this robust adoption rate continues, From
Techno-News Blog on January 26, 2005 at 12:49 p.m..
Immigrants in our Midst
Digital, that is. From
Jenny Levine: HereÂ’s the punchline, though. As I was reading the essay, the kids came home and Kailee excitedly told me how today her class had watched a video of President BushÂ’s inauguration.We talked about it for a while, and then I asked how they had watched the video, wondering if the teacher had grabbed a webcast. But no, Kailee said a relative of her teacher had recorded it on video and lent it to her, which really surprised From
weblogged News on January 26, 2005 at 12:47 p.m..
Immigrants in our Midst (Part 2)
Losing our accents, that is. From
Amy Bowllan's Kew Forest Libra/Tech Blog: Why am I so..."oh myish?" Well , I know just 5 years ago I could never have received soooo MUCH information without jumping through hoops. The educational blogs also let me know that there are communities of people ALL OVER THE WORLD sharing information and appreciating where we are in the 21st century. Please take your time while you sift through these web sites. You will find yourself saying "Oh My! There's so From
weblogged News on January 26, 2005 at 12:47 p.m..
More details on the Apple Digital Campus
I'm lucky to be a part of one of the first five universities involved in the Apple Digital Campus. It's given me a chance to help think and talk about innovation in and outside of the classroom. Now all higher education institutions are invited to join as well. University of Missouri student Kyle Palmer gives us some more perspective and details about the Apple Digital Campus and how you can get involved. From
EDUCAUSE Blogs - on January 26, 2005 at 11:59 a.m..
The Real Educational Malfeasance
Here in Florida we heard a state official toss the educational malfeasance phrase out last week when discussing upcoming changes to policies that would end "social promotion". (More on this later.) But there's a little-discussed educational tragedy apparently happening all over our state and I suspect it is nationwide. We are graduating people who cannot count to ten. I witnessed this sad state of affairs just last night, standing in the express lane at the grocery store, where... From
Brain Frieze on January 26, 2005 at 11:54 a.m..
Hollywood Ready for P2P Showdown
Entertainment companies line up allies to support them in the Grokster case, while peer-to-peer backers say the technology is good for much more than illicit trading of copyright files. From
Wired News on January 26, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
The Microsoft Memo
Bill Gates hires open-source icon Linus Torvalds? That was just the beginning of Redmond's hybrid strategy to face the free software age. Fanciful prognostication by Gary Wolf from Wired magazine. From
Wired News on January 26, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Hartley Changes Tune at Sundance
Independent filmmaker Hal Hartley has had success going the studio route, but now he's trying something different -- low budget, with a quick DVD release. Jason Silverman reports from Park City, Utah. From
Wired News on January 26, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Ancient Macs Make Modern Art
British artist Richard Bolam is part of Europe's techno-art avant-garde, but he uses some pretty old technology: classic Macs and HyperCard. By Jason Walsh. From
Wired News on January 26, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Opera, the Forgotten Browser
Firefox gets all the attention these days, but it wasn't the first to fight the Internet Explorer hegemony. Nor is it alone: Opera is still plugging away. By Michelle Delio. From
Wired News on January 26, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Improvised Bombs Baffle Army
IEDs -- improvised explosive devices -- are taking a big toll in Iraq, and the Pentagon is struggling to find methods to counteract them. By Noah Shachtman. From
Wired News on January 26, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Academics give lessons on blogs
Ben and I have been pushing weblogs within academia - here in the UK - for the past 16 months with very little success. It seems that finally it might be catching on. Academics give lessons on blogs [ Version... From
ERADC Blog on January 26, 2005 at 9:54 a.m..
The Third International Conference on the Book - Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK - 11-13 Septe ...
The Third International Conference on the Book - Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK - 11-13 September 2005. The conference will address a range of critically important themes relating to the book and its surrounds, including the past, present and future of publishing, libraries, information, literacy and learning in the information society From
Peter Scott's Library Blog on January 26, 2005 at 9:48 a.m..
I've changed things here
Over time I have managed to mess up my configuration of Movable Type, mostly as I tried to recover from the comment spam floods. I'm tired of dealing with errors, and with not being able to turn comments on. So now I've completely reinstalled MT, using version 3.14 (the latest and greatest) at a new address: http://staff.washington.edu/oren/weblog2/ The RSS feed also has this new address: http://staff.washington.edu/oren/weblog2/index.rdf I exported the database and imported into the new installation, so absolute URLs to previous entries have changed (this From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on January 26, 2005 at 7:00 a.m..
Jim Goldberg at Pace/MacGill Gallery in NYC
My old college roommate
Jim Goldberg is currently having an exhibit of his photography at the Pace/MacGill Gallery on E. 57th St. in New York. I sure wish I could go see the show - Jim is an amazing and courageous artist, and he's worked hard at his art for a very long time. There's a nice
brief review of the show in the Village Voice. If you're in Manhattan, go by the gallery and see the show. From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on January 26, 2005 at 7:00 a.m..
Progress on calendaring standards
Last week I attended a meeting of the
CalConnect Calendaring Consortium (well, I attended the first day of the meeting and then had to go off to a workgroup retreat of our Learning Technologies group at the wonderful
Sleeping Lady retreat center near Leavenworth, WA). While I'll wait for the official press releases and reports from interop testing so as not to steal anyone's thunder, this meeting saw significant real progress made in achieving interoperability between disparate calend From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on January 26, 2005 at 7:00 a.m..
It's a lousy ski season in the Northwest
Yesterday was supposed to be the second week of ski lessons this year for my almost-seven-year-old son, but we got cancelled yet again. While the California resorts have been
buried in snow, our local Northwest resorts have struggled to open at all. So far this season we've had either wet weather or cold weather, but not the two together. So yesterday Snoqualmie Pass ended up with nine inches of new snow, but that got topped w From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on January 26, 2005 at 7:00 a.m..
Interview with Mitch Kapor
Dan Updegrove sends along this nice
interview with Mitch Kapor in news.com Mitch has become a wonderfully influential person in the high tech Internet community, as well as continuing his role of encouraging social responsibility among us, and it's nice to see him get more widely known. It's especially nice to see him give Mitchell Baker her props for her amazing quiet leadership work at the Mozilla Foun From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on January 26, 2005 at 7:00 a.m..
Joel on Software Pricing
Tim Bray points out
this terrific (if long) article from Joel Spolsky from last month on software pricing. Anyone who's at all interested in how to price software or online services really needs to read this whole article. A sample: And, in fact, you can't even be sure that the demand curve is downward sloping. The only reason we assumed that the demand curve is downward sloping is that we assumed things like "if Freddy is willing to buy a pair of sneakers for $130, he is c From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on January 26, 2005 at 7:00 a.m..
[NLII 2005] NLII Annual Meeting in New Orleans
I'm on a very quick trip to New Orleans for the annual meeting of Educause's National Learning Infrastructure Initiative. Somehow there ended up being 9 people here from the UW, and the keynote talk is by John Bransford, a UW professor in Education, talking about the Learning Sciences and Technology. I got in late, so I missed the opening reception, but I caught up with most of the UW gang for a nice paella dinner at Lola's out on Esplanade. I'll be blogging as much as possible from the conference today. From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on January 26, 2005 at 7:00 a.m..
[NLII 2005] John Bransford on the learning sciences and technology
John Bransford began by calling attention to the National Academy studies on
How People Learn and two new publications, How Students Learn and Preparing Teachers for a Changing World (which will be out in February). John is a terrifically engaging speaker with great examples. How have the learning sciences helped us understand teaching and learning? The Expertise literature is helpful here - an intricate connection between what you know about a subject matter and how that affects your ability to make inferences and From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on January 26, 2005 at 7:00 a.m..
[NLII 2005] If Higher Education Listened To Me...
This is a panel of students from the University of Central Florida, talking about their experience of higher education. Good quote so far - "If I can't Google it, it's not worth knowing". Sheesh. They all agree that all courses should at least have course materials (readings, syllabi, etc.) available online. From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on January 26, 2005 at 7:00 a.m..
Web Services and SOA in higher ed - what's the state of the art?
I had a brief conversation this morning with Richard Katz about the state of Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures in higher education. My going-in opinion was that lots of web services activity is happening in all sorts of places within institutions. Richard's take is that there's a lack of progress on, or even discussion of, component based architectures for essential institutional services, and that the new large open source efforts like Sakai and Kuali are, to a large extent, rebuilding the same monolithic approach to business systems that we'v From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on January 26, 2005 at 7:00 a.m..
[NLII 2005] Bob Kvavik on Student Use of IT
Bob Kvavik is talking about the findings from the ECAR Survey of Student Technology Use. They surveyed freshmen and seniors for this. One of the differences found was that seniors use specialized software (spreadsheets, presentation software, discipline-specific software) a good deal more than freshmen. That's due to the use of those applications in the courses within a major that causes students to use that kind of software. It's interesting to think about this in the context of John Bransford's talk this morning - students are using these kinds of From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on January 26, 2005 at 7:00 a.m..
[NLII 2005] Plans for tonight
We're gathering a group of folks to go out to dinner and hear music tonight here in New Orleans. We're going to meet at 7 in the second floor lobby of the Intercontinental and head way uptown to
Jacque-Imo's for soul food, and then hit the Maple Leaf to hear
Papa Grows Funk. Maybe we'll see you there! From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on January 26, 2005 at 7:00 a.m..
[NLII 2005] Cliff Lynch on Learning Management Systems
Cliff gave a terrific talk on how many places are missing the boat on several fronts with Learning Management Systems. My notes: Acutely different cultural viewpoints that are now colliding in the realm of so-called 'learning management systems'. What are the connections between learning management systems and the broader educational landscape? LMS got on the radar of librarians about two years ago, when it was noticed that LMS were getting installed all over the place and being managed in a "policy-free" environment, getting information into them from library-ope From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on January 26, 2005 at 7:00 a.m..
Flickr Vancouver collaborative photo map
Cool. Must try this!From
Flickr: Vancouver.: QUOTEhere's collaborative aerial map of vancouver, which i made so that i could geolocate some images i took when i visited in may. by clicking on the areas under the tacks you can 'zoom' in. then you can add notes to those images with the text format [photo]flickrimageID[/photo] and your images will appear whenever someone clicks "expose photography locations"UNQUOTE From
Roland Tanglao's Weblog on January 26, 2005 at 6:51 a.m..
What We're Doing When We Tag
(with apologies to Meg's
"What We're Doing When We Blog")... Discussions of "
folksonomy" are meme-ing across the blog-space and I am disappointed that it is yet another round of issues being encamped in dichotomies. I am picturing something like a "Meta Data Professional Wrestling Smackdown" (imagine a deep booming voice, not mine as no signs of any string of "ummmms") bellowing:
cogdogblog on January 26, 2005 at 6:47 a.m..
Secure Remote PC Access: MyWebEx PC
WebEx Communications Inc., well-known for its flagship online meeting application, WebEx, has taken an aggressive step into the PC remote control service sector. On Jan 24, 2005 they launched MyWebEx PC, a web-based PC remote access service aimed squarely at... From
Kolabora.com on January 26, 2005 at 5:53 a.m..
Web of Ideas: Everything is miscellaneous
Tonight I'm going to lead another session in the semi-regular series at the Berkman Center. This time, I'm going to try out a presentation I'm giving in a couple of weeks at a conference. The topic has something to do with taxonomies and tagging. (Yes, it will repeat some material in the dinner talk I gave last week, and a bunch of stuff from the Library of Congress speech. But it will have new stuff on tagging.) It's 6-7:30pm at the Baker House (map). It's open to the public and pizza will be served.... From
Joho the Blog on January 26, 2005 at 5:48 a.m..
Artists of the Living
Quote: Irene Claremont de Castillejo (bold and italics are mine): Only a few achieve the colossal task of holding together, without being split asunder, the clarity of their vision alongside an ability to take their place in the materialistic world.... From
Experience Designer Network on January 26, 2005 at 4:53 a.m..
Housecleaning and New Blogger
Curb Cut Learning would like to welcome the new Coordinator of Distance Education at the
Institute for Community Inclusion, Alvaro Tobar. Alvaro comes to us from Boston University and has some great distance education experience. Along with the redesign, I also changed how comments are accepted on the site. We have been using the excellent
MT-Blacklist Plugin which does a great job, but we have now added
TypeKey authentication as well. You From
Curb Cut Learning on January 26, 2005 at 4:46 a.m..
Google Video Search
A short while back, I blogged a short post on Yahoo! Video Search. Now it seems Google has released Google Video (Beta). Looks like it will be impressive as Google eventually plans to organize the "thousands of programs that play... From
Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on January 26, 2005 at 2:55 a.m..
Words on OpenText
Our university held a gala event at the Royal York Hotel featuring Tom Jenkins, the CEO of Open Text Corporation. They're into enterprise content management systems (ECMs), and with $100 million in the bank and $100 million spent on R&D last year, are doing very well to boot. Jenkins has a background in Engineering Physics, plus a Masters in Engineering and an MBA. He spoke to us on a variety of topics: On Sarbanes-Oxley Spitzer may be the McCarthy of our era. "We live in litigious times." He feels that the strictness of the rules dissuades companies from taking risks and innovating. On b From
silentblue | Quantified on January 26, 2005 at 2:54 a.m..
Cutting the Chord to Threaded Discussions
I typically have one night course in my workload -- a course that meets one night per week, for a three hour seminar. Since a lot can happen in a student's learning in the week between class meetings -- from new discoveries in research to myriad questions that pop up... From
PEDABLOGUE on January 26, 2005 at 2:51 a.m..
Ontology repudiates Philology (Kevin Marks)
I'm very impressed that we have been debating bottom-up vs top-down, hierarchic ontologies vs tag sets for a week now, and no-one has yet quoted Borgès' tagsonomy. The point that struck me today is that many of the objections to... From
Corante: Social Software on January 26, 2005 at 2:49 a.m..
Teacher moves her mission online
Donna Johnson knows what it's like to be looked at as a kid who's not very bright. To be underestimated, shoved in the back of classrooms and judged by teachers before they even meet. That's why she started Kentucky's first... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on January 26, 2005 at 1:54 a.m..
Pupils enjoy online options
Techno-phobes may prefer to learn in a traditional classroom, but online education is only a click away and offers virtual advantages that transcend time and space. "My students are all over the place. I have some in China and they're... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on January 26, 2005 at 1:54 a.m..
What’s the Problem?
This A List Apart
article is about Use Cases and how they can be used to clarify project goals or requirements. I'm a big fan of use cases and constantly use them to communicate and guide my intranet designs. Software engineers regularly employ use cases to draw high-level conclusions but I find their implementation is a little too complex (activity diagrams, forward engineering and all). I draw out use cases to answer a few simple high-level questions: Who are the users and what will they accomplish. This art From
elearningpost on January 26, 2005 at 1:46 a.m..
Re-posting the podcast
I'm posting the location of the podcast that Rob Wall and I did on January 16, as much for posterity as anything. We discussed -- what else-- podcasting, but particularly in education. http://stigmergicweb.org/index.php/archives/category/stigmergicweb-podcast/... From
Rick's Café Canadien on January 26, 2005 at 12:54 a.m..
I wanna know
I've been madly podcasting during this entire conference... And now I'm sitting back and watching our team of reporters, Sarah Ashworth and Kyle Palmer edit our final piece. It's 5:30 and the conference is really officially over in 30 minutes... But for most, it ended 5 and a half hours ago. So I sit here in the lobby of the hotel as I look at the number of hits to the various podcasts I've uploaded. I'm proud so many people hit the audio files. We've worked hard and learned a ton about how to do this podcasting thing. I'l From
EDUCAUSE Blogs - on January 26, 2005 at 12:01 a.m..
Ask Tony: CMS implementation models
Tony Byrne and Lisa Welchman cover the topic of CMS implementation models in his latest "Ask Tony" column. To quote: What are some of the common milestones (in a general sense) that are used for a typical large-company/agency Web CMS... From
Column Two on January 25, 2005 at 11:47 p.m..