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It's been a long week. Way too much thinking. I'm tired. So instead of holding forth on some convoluted idea in my brain, here instead is a list of some edu-blogs I've Furled of late. Weblogg-ed - The Read/Write Web... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on January 28, 2005 at 9:55 p.m..
Matrix for the Learning and Skills Sector
"The matrix is an online tool, developed by NCSL and Becta, which facilitates self-evaluation and action planning. Use the matrix to review your current position against a set of levelled statements. There are exemplars available that place the statements into... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on January 28, 2005 at 9:55 p.m..
Plagiarism: Owl website
Academic writing in American institutions is filled with rules that writers often don't know how to follow. A working knowledge of these rules, however, is critically important; inadvertent mistakes can lead to charges of plagiarism or the unacknowledged use of... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on January 28, 2005 at 9:55 p.m..
GLOBE is making progress
I have announced here earlier the GLOBE consortium, a collaboration between ARIADNE, Education.au, eduSource Canada, MERLOT and NIME. For ARIADNE, this has led to the development of federated search into MERLOT, EdNA and Pond - also from within the ARIADNE... From
ErikLog on January 28, 2005 at 9:52 p.m..
Relative Effectiveness of Computer-based and Human Feedback for Enhancing Student Learning
The Spring, 2005, issue of the
Journal of Educators Online is now available. I cite one article, this one looking at the effectiveness of computer-based feedback on test results. The not so surprising conclusion: feedback doesn't work if the students don't read it. More generally, the feedback has to be useful to the students, and what students want is feedback that tells them whether they got the answer right. Of course, studies measuring the effectiveness of automated feedback have had wildly varied results. This is what we would expect when the From
OLDaily on January 28, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..
A Conceptual ramework for e-Portfolios
Scott Wilson
points to this diagram of e-portfolios and comments that it "clearly places ePortfolio outside the organization." George Siemens
writes, "I'm excited by what is coming out of eportfolio projects (Elgg in particular) - they seem to be aware of how learning has changed (definitely more aware than most academic institutions)." Which is as it should be. By David Tosh, January 27, 2005 [
OLDaily on January 28, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..
Cheap Eats at the Semantic Web Café
I love the use of nature photographs in this article to run a parellel threat interspersed with the discussion, which is an aggregation and summary of the critiques of folksonomies. The author's main intent is to defend the careful creation of metadata, and the sloppy and sometimes spammed metadata used in folksonomies is clearly not that. But from where I sit, folksonomies - as implemented by Technorati Tags - conflate two things: first, the idea of user-created classification, and second, aggregation of those classifications by what amounts to a 'push' technology. My take is t From
OLDaily on January 28, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..
Baby’s Own Blog
Never mind Look Who's Talking. Now it's Look Who's Blogging. Joshua Pohl's proud parents have bought him his own domain and outfitted him with his own Baby Blog. Only three entries so far, and only one in Joshua's "voice," but that's not bad for a one-week-old. I'm sure this is not ... From
Gardner Writes on January 28, 2005 at 8:56 p.m..
The New Yellow (Pages) Make the Old Look Beige
What is it about old industries that they just can't seem to adapt to major technological and market changes? That's often the complaint about the newspaper industry, of course, that while some newspapers are innovative online, they just can't keep up with the really smart pure-online companies that are stealing away big chunks of their revenue.I was reminded of that business fact of life when looking at some really nice new services that debuted this week. First,
Yahoo! Local released a cool feature that allows you to send listing in From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on January 28, 2005 at 7:55 p.m..
New issue of my newsletter
I just published a new issue of my (free) newsletter: January 28, 2005 Trees vs. Leaves: Tagging may be shaking the leaves off of taxonomic trees, affecting not only how we organize ideas and information but how we think about organization itself. Bridge Blogging: A new effort tries to break through the national boundaries implicit in the blogosphere. Links: Some funnish stuff. Bogus Contest: Wikipedia topics.... From
Joho the Blog on January 28, 2005 at 7:48 p.m..
China's Internet Quiet on Zhao Ziyang
Intense policing has stopped until now a public outburst on the Internet, after former leader
Zhao Ziyang passed away. Initially, hundreds of comments turned up on different weblogs, such as
cnblog.org, where more than 460 comments were registered before the section had to close down. At its archive, this section is still visible. One Beijing blogger visited the house of Zhao to mourn him and described his feelings.As in other cases, the public security (as t From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on January 28, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..
NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Will Be Webcast
It's really, truly, finally, actually happening. College basketball fans will be able to watch out-of-market games in the 2005 NCAA Division I
men's basketball tournament between March 15 and April 4. This breakthrough online coverage, available for a single fee of $19.95, will allow anyone with a high-speed Internet connection to watch the live CBS Sports NCAA Tournament broadcasts from outside their area on their computers.
College Sports Television has a multi-year agreement with
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on January 28, 2005 at 5:54 p.m..
I Got a Fax! I Got a Fax!
Remember fax machines? You probably still have one in your office; maybe you even use it now and then to send something. I use mine to fax in my monthly hand-written time sheets to Poynter HQ in Florida. But I rarely get incoming faxes any more. Indeed, I now question why I pay several dollars a month for an Internet fax service (to receive faxes on my computer instead of on a fax machine) when some months I don't receive a single fax.This morning I actually received a fax and it took me by surprise. It was a press release (...)
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on January 28, 2005 at 5:54 p.m..
RSS Blips on the Maricopa Radar
I saw today that RSS might be starting to meme its way across our system. It takes time. This morning I got a call from a faculty member asking where she can get software to see RSS. I sent her googling in "Desktop RSS Aggregator" not recalling which of the 90 or so ones is "best". In an hour, I got an email from a web developer at one of our colleges as one of their committees wants an "RSS feed on their committee page featuring 3 random MLX items related to instructional technology." Good signs indeed. Next thing I know, someone will want to use a wiki. From
cogdogblog on January 28, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..
Politics-Oriented Software Development
A brief guide to software development in the real world. Aimed mainly at new developers: experienced programmers already know most of this. This guide is for hands-on programmers, not managers. From
kuro5hin.org on January 28, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..
Online Porcupines: Pricky Business (Online Vermin, Part 1)
The online porcupine has much in common with its rodent cousins. Both sport a coat of sharp quills which cover it entirely save for the face and soft underbelly. In the rodent version, these quills are modified hairs. In the online version, these quills are linguistic... (NOTE: This is an installment in my "Handling Online Vermin" series about addressing people with poor online communication habits.) From
Contentious Weblog on January 28, 2005 at 4:54 p.m..
Forward Interview
Forward, our slick campus alumni magazine, ran this excellent feature story (note: 500k .jpg image) on me this Fall, after I won the Bram Stoker Award in Alternative Forms for my free horror fiction-oriented e-newsletter, The Goreletter. The interview is quirky good fun -- it opens with a few offbeat... From
PEDABLOGUE on January 28, 2005 at 4:51 p.m..
WESTCAST 2005 CONFERENCE
The College of Education, University of Saskatchewan is pleased to host WestCAST 2005 annual conference on February 16-19, 2005. The theme is: Creating the Future * Bear Pit: perspectives on the future of education * Keynotes: Aboriginal Teacher Education /... From
Rick's Café Canadien on January 28, 2005 at 3:53 p.m..
Proyectos de George Legrady
Imprescindible la visita a los Proyectos de George Legrady mostrados hoy en las V Jornadas sobre Arte y Multimedia: Making Visible the Invisible, Pocket Full of Memories, Slipper Traces y A Catalogue of Found Objects. Los materiales que presta una... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 28, 2005 at 3:52 p.m..
Pi: Order of magnitude quiz
Hiroyuki Goto holds the record for reciting the value of pi. How many digits did he memorize? To win, you have to come within an order of magnitude. Prize: The satisfaction of know you guessed good. Drag-select between the X's to see the answer. X ————In 1995, he recited over 4,200 digits. It took him 9 hours. ———— X... From
Joho the Blog on January 28, 2005 at 2:48 p.m..
A Big Squared Circle Flickr Poster
Check out this flickr spawned creation, the
Squared Circle Poster. It is a mosaic of 2600 photos from the flickr
Sqaured Circle Group (photos of circular objects inside a square image): This
image was made by compositing 2600 photographs and arranging them in a fibonacci spiral, a form commonly seen in plants, such as sunflowers and pinecones. The image was produced by Jim Bumgardner using images from the Square From
cogdogblog on January 28, 2005 at 2:48 p.m..
Researcher vs. blogger: researcher influence
Inna Kouper on disadvantages of participant observation as a research method (in relation to reading Milroy, 1987):The researcher may be unable to fit the data in a wider context without additional broader studies. Participant observations can be very demanding in time, energy and emotional involvement. There might be a lot of "unanalyzable" data because the researcher has to record everything and then sort it out. Personal characteristics play essential role and can skew the sample (e.g. males attracted to a From
Mathemagenic on January 28, 2005 at 1:52 p.m..
Ontological fingeprinting: documents or people
Anjo gives
a bit of insight into our internal discussions on uses of ontologies:
Andy Boyd came up with a wonderful new term: "ontological fingerprinting" and to illustrate how imaginative he is: zero hits on Google! Suppose one has an ontology (lexicon, thesaurus) and some software that can determine whether the terms in the ontology are present in a document. Applying the software, one gets a "fingerprint" of the concepts in the ontology for a given From
Mathemagenic on January 28, 2005 at 1:52 p.m..
One Down, A Billion To Go
Okay, so
"nofollow" is "nomiracle"... but today I got confirmation from a site in Span that one or molecules of spam were stomped: Hello Mr. Levine Sorry for the long time without news about our "problem" but we've been very busy making changes in our network in order to fix it. During this week we've changed almost all our network architecture and replaced two machines that should have been the ones that were originating this situation. Now, we're sti From
cogdogblog on January 28, 2005 at 1:48 p.m..
My IPod, My Self
Marketing professor Markus Giesler has some colorful ideas about Apple's music player. He argues it transforms listeners into 'cyborg consumers,' plugging them into a 'hybrid entertainment matrix' where they can achieve 'technotranscendence.' By Leander Kahney. From
Wired News on January 28, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
The Lock Busters
They've never met a padlock -- or six-pin paracentric cylinder -- they couldn't crack. Live, from the lock-picking championship of the world. By Charles Graeber from Wired magazine. From
Wired News on January 28, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Cybersex: Seek and Ye Shall Find
Like good sex in the real world, quality virtual sex takes time to develop. It may have gone underground, but cybersex is thriving in fantasy worlds. Commentary by Regina Lynn. From
Wired News on January 28, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Portable Gaming, Sony-Style
The Japanese release of Sony's stylish and powerful handheld gaming system packs a litany of impressive features -- and a few questionable design choices. Chris Kohler goes hands-on with the Sony PSP. From
Wired News on January 28, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Tolkien Gets Ringing Endorsement
A new documentary about J.R.R. Tolkien's ardent fans traces the author's impact on pop culture, from '60s hippies to current-day movie fans. Jason Silverman reviews Ringers: Lord of the Fans. From
Wired News on January 28, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Friday, January 28, 2005
Much like The League, I have time to write, but nothing to write about (a few topics did pop into my head, but I did not have the will the elaborate on those ideas). From
RHPT.com on January 28, 2005 at 6:52 a.m..
In the clearing stands ...
This seventeen year old senior, Benjamin, sauntered into the library office yesterday, said "Hey!" in his beginning level Mandarin, and flopped on the couch. One of his teachers mentioned last week that Bennie, against his parents' wishes, was joining the Marines. Benjamin and I had words. In English. Benjamin reminds me of my brother, Tom. They're both sweet, strong, naive. Three of us brothers got drafted during Vietnam. Tommie was the only one who did Army time in combat. He has diabetes from
exposure to Agent OrangehomoLudens III on January 28, 2005 at 4:46 a.m..
Film review twin-pack: DECASIA and Bodysong
Last night, I went to my local cinema for what was advertised as an experimental film double-bill. The films offered were DECASIA (USA, 2002) and Bodysong (UK, 2003). The introduction to these films informed us that they had not been shown as a pair before, but they work well together: each is composed of "found" material and not specially filmed footage, neither features any discernable plot, speech or narrative (perhaps arguable in the case of Bodysong, see below), both are accompanied by excellent musical scores and both are artistic in a way that most cinema fare is not. From
kuro5hin.org on January 28, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..
Rethinking the Syllabus
I adored Terry Caesar's article, "Against Syllabi" recently posted to Inside Higher Ed. In it, Caesar argues that the course syllabus has become so overridden by legalese that it's been rendered meaningless: "It seems to me that we have become unsure about what not to put on syllabi because we... From
PEDABLOGUE on January 28, 2005 at 1:51 a.m..
Recombinant Innovation
Art Kleiner has written a
review of Andrew Hargadon's new book, How Breakthroughs Happen: The Surprising Truth About How Companies Innovate. There are 'two innovation imperatives' in this book: connection and control. When it comes to connection, "entrepreneurs and inventors are no smarter, no more courageous, tenacious, or rebellious than the rest of us. They are simply better connected." And many of these connections are weak connections -- "Innovators don’t benefi From
elearningpost on January 28, 2005 at 1:47 a.m..
Enough with uploading to the Macromedia Flash Exchange
I finally reached the boiling point regarding uploading Flash components to the exchange. For the past few months, I've been trying to upload my FREE state machine component, help files, and examples. I routinely get some type of parsing error about not recognizing the MXP (if I upload just the MXP, I get a note from the QA team saying they don't know how to use it--talk about a vicious cycle!), and when I complain to Macromedia, they tell me it is a known bug and just keep trying. Well I'm sick of trying and frankly it is very disrespectful of Macromedia not to make the slighte From
FlashSim on January 28, 2005 at 12:51 a.m..
How bosses reveal their attitudes towards employees
According to
this EBF article, the behavior of bosses towards perceived underperforming employees can have a long lasting effect on them. In the so-called Pygmalion studies over recent years, employees are randomly assigned to two groups and new supervisors are told that one group of employees has considerably greater potential than the other. The supervisor’s false beliefs about the capabilities of the ‘better’ group produce real performance differences over time, suggesting that e From
elearningpost on January 28, 2005 at 12:46 a.m..
