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Virtual Teamwork Best Practices: Focus On People
Ralp Phoole has been asking for some public comment to his good post about best practices to enable globally dispersed virtual teams. As he rightly points his focus to communication and interaction approaches that facilitate more effective online teamwork, I... From Kolabora.com on January 29, 2005 at 10:49 p.m..

McK Wissen: Menschen
Es war irgendwann im letzten Sommer, als ich mir in einer Bahnhofsbuchhandlung diese Ausgabe von McK Wissen gekauft habe. Wer es nicht weiss: McK Wissen ist eine Kooperation von McKinsey und brandeins. Das Thema hieß "Menschen", und einige der Artikel... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on January 29, 2005 at 10:46 p.m..

PowerPoint Keynote Goes to the Science Fair
Technology > Circuits > PowerPoint Goes to the Fair" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/27/technology/circuits/27fair.html">The New York Times > Technology > Circuits > PowerPoint Goes to the Fair Technology is changing that annual academic ritual, the science project, as more students abandon poster-board displays in favor of computer presentations. I didn't see too much evidence of this at the recent Glencoe Elementary Science Fair, but would imagine I would see more of this at a high school event. My son is in second grade at Gelncoe and his display was a bit of a hybrid involving a From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on January 29, 2005 at 8:49 p.m..

Another Interesting Use of RSS...
Technology > Circuits > Resource: How Did They Vote? Updates by E-Mail of Congressional Ayes and Nays" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/27/technology/circuits/27reso.html">The New York Times > Technology > Circuits > Resource: How Did They Vote? Updates by E-Mail of Congressional Ayes and Nays GovTrack lets users track activity of specific legislators. It can also send updates via RSS, or Real Simple Syndication. The site collects information from Thomas (thomas.loc.gov), the Library of Congress's legislation-tracking site, and the official sites of the House of Representatives and th From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on January 29, 2005 at 8:49 p.m..

Jade Hiccup
Sometime between 1:00 Am yesterday and 11:00 am today I think this server was down-- I could not ping it nor access any content on it. I was rather worried, knowing that there are many people using Feed2JS for their sites, and the sites will just stay in an endless attempt at loading if the server is not there. My aoplogies if this did happen. The problem is that right now I am at my cabin in Strawberry, where heavy snow has been falling for about 2 hours (it is lovely), and I had no intention of leaving heaven to kick start a server-- and I was not able to cont From cogdogblog on January 29, 2005 at 8:47 p.m..

Word Salad Spam Poetry
Rummaging quickly through my filtered email (some legit things keep falling through), I came across one of those ones with 2 cryptic links and then a whole raft of random words. I think the intent is to try and flood or fool email filters (but this is my un-educated guess, but see The War On Spam for more). Just for fun, I decided to take the words, add a few RETURNS and indents, and present it as "Word Salad Spam Poetry" (word salad being the jumbled of un-relate From cogdogblog on January 29, 2005 at 8:47 p.m..

Friday ^H^H^H^H^H^H Saturday notes
Assorted notes for a Friday Saturday: The del.icio.us page for the Wikipedia screencast lists bookmarks along with common tags. Tags applied by the hive mind: wikipedia, wiki, flash, socialsoftware, screencast, collaboration, history, video, music, web, internet, interesting, cool, blog, umlaut, system:unfiled, via:waxy, animation, judell, wikis Tags applied by me: wikipedia, screencast, umlaut I'll be one of the Jon's Radio on January 29, 2005 at 7:46 p.m..

Universities: Carnegie, Classification and the Advancement of Teaching
The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education is in the process of revising the classification system for college and iniversities in the United States [Note: this entry is the result of a comment left by Chris in Universities: Teaching... From Experience Designer Network on January 29, 2005 at 6:55 p.m..

Universities: Duke, Professors of Practice and Strategic Directions
Duke University's Professors of Practice is an interesting approach to improving the educational environment for student [Note: this entry is an extension of a comment left by Chris in Universities:Teaching The Textbook]. I also took note that the Executive Summary:... From Experience Designer Network on January 29, 2005 at 6:55 p.m..

Seminars via blog
A good, new example of teaching with collaborative web applications appears in the form of social software-enabled seminar. For example, a group of faculty from multiple institutions conducted a seminar on a current literary figure. It's structured as a group... From MANE IT Network on January 29, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..

Learning object from blog-based seminar
A learning objects followup to the previous post: such a blog-based collaborative seminar is useful as a learning object, once enough of it has been published and can be aggregated in a pointable, portable way.... From MANE IT Network on January 29, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..

A Wiki Search Engine or Bottom-up Extortion? (Ross Mayfield)
Cross-posted because this raises interesting questions of leveraging top-down machine generated content on the cheap and trying to make it social not only for monetization — but enclosure and bottom-up participation to enhance quality. This is pretty interesting.  Web’s Biggest... From Corante: Social Software on January 29, 2005 at 6:46 p.m..

NPR : When Web Rumors Run Amok Scott Simon talks with Henry Farrell about weblogs and rumors. Farrell has co-written an article, Web of Influence, published in Foreign Policy. From the article... Every day, millions of online diarists, or "bloggers," share their opinions with a global audience. Drawing upon the content of the international media and the World Wide Web, they weave together an elaborate network with agenda-setting power on issues ranging from human rights in China to the U.S. occupation of Iraq. What began as a hobby is evolving into a new medium that is changing the landscape f From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on January 29, 2005 at 4:49 p.m..

Fake Tsunami Images
These photographs are yet another examples of any images depicting large waves being grabbed and passed around as "real photographs" of the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. These pictures were purportedly taken in Thailand in December 2004, but they actually... From Teaching and Developing Online. on January 29, 2005 at 2:54 p.m..

Fake Tsunami Images
Origins: It seems like any unusual or remarkable photographs connected with oceanic phenomena are being attributed to the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004, and this collection of pictures is more of the same. Although they are genuine images of... From Teaching and Developing Online. on January 29, 2005 at 2:54 p.m..

Blogging and Metanarrative
Links to ilustrate my speech during the clossing session at V Jornadas sobre Arte y Multimedia (an open post): Blogs related to the V Jornadas Official: Metanarrative(s)? Panelists: Connor McGarrigle, Josep Saldaña, Daniel Garrido, Gregory Chatonsky. Audience: Gonzalo Frasca, Bea... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 29, 2005 at 2:51 p.m..

Bildungscontrolling mit der Learning Scorecard
Einen kurzen Überblick über das Konzept der Learning Scorecard liefert dieser Artikel. Wer es noch nicht weiss: "Die Learning Scorecard basiert auf dem erfolgreichen Konzept der Balanced Scorecard von Kaplan und Norton und ist auf die spezifischen Anforderungen des Bildungsmanagements... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on January 29, 2005 at 2:51 p.m..

Favorite phone call so far this morning
[Ring ring] Me: Hello. Her: Hello! Me: Hello! Her: How are you this morning? Me: I'm fine. Who is this, please? Her: It's your mother-in-law. Me: (Sputtering) Oh. Sorry! I didn't recognize your voice. How are you? Her: (Laughing) That's ok... Me: Wait, you're calling on my business line. Her: Is this John? Me: Nope. (laughing) Now you feel the fool! Her: (laughing) I'm sorry! Me: No problem. And give John my best.... From Joho the Blog on January 29, 2005 at 2:48 p.m..

10 Trends für Innovationen im E-Learning
Wolfgang Kraemer und Peter Sprenger von der imc beschreiben 10 aktuelle Trends, "die das Geschäft mit Learning Management in den nächsten Jahren bestimmen werden": "1. Rapid Learning gewinnt weiter Marktanteile ... 2. Insourcing der Lerninhalteproduktion ... 3. Zentralisierung und Standardisierung... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on January 29, 2005 at 1:51 p.m..

Category guilt
In response to AKMA's confession, Dave writes about feeling guilty about not using categories: When he failed to use them a few times, he felt so guilty about it that he stopped using them entirely. Best of all, now those of us who do use tags can engage in Taggenfreude. (Sign of a meme catching on: Bad bad puns. Why? Because they're as easy as falling off a blog.)... From Joho the Blog on January 29, 2005 at 1:48 p.m..

Folksonomy is better for cultural values: A response to danah (Clay Shirky)
danah’s great piece on cultural issues in folksonomy gets to a key piece of the debate, namely that we can’t talk about categorization issues like accuracy without also talking about the culture that created the categories. However, I feel a... From Corante: Social Software on January 29, 2005 at 12:49 p.m..

94 Edublog Links
So I got up early and did some site sprucing, namely updating the Practices page that I have been totally neglecting. That's because I hadn't added my Furl feed for the classroom or school sites that I have been finding lately. Now that I have, there are 94 links on the page, and it will be automatically updated as I Furl along. From weblogged News on January 29, 2005 at 12:47 p.m..

BlogTrace
Anjo shares details about BlogTrace, weblog analysis tool we are working on (as you can see from Anjo's post my main contribution is motivating the work and then going for a vacation :)))  There are too many specific comments I have, so at this moment just an image representing BlogTrace architecture. Read Anjo's post for more details. From Mathemagenic on January 29, 2005 at 11:51 a.m..

Avanti Library Systems has released Avanti MicroLCS version 1.0 beta 4, a Java based OPAC and catalo ...
Avanti Library Systems has released Avanti MicroLCS version 1.0 beta 4, a Java based OPAC and cataloging system. Many things have been changed and improved in beta 4, mostly under the hood. Among these are a much simplified installation procedure, a server management console, a simpler architecture and directory layout, and many bug fixes, optimisations and refinements that make this a rock solid release From Peter Scott's Library Blog on January 29, 2005 at 11:48 a.m..

College to Require Freshmen to Buy Laptop from School - Associated Press
The College of William and Mary will require each of its first-year students to buy a laptop computer from the school. Some Virginia universities, including Virginia Tech and Longwood, already require students to come to school with computers. But sta From Techno-News Blog on January 29, 2005 at 10:49 a.m..

Remembering MyDoom, One Year Later - Paul Roberts, IDG News Service
Computer security experts remembered the MyDoom e-mail worm this week, one year after it tore through the Internet, deluged e-mail systems with infected messages, and set records for infecting vulnerable computer systems. The new worm caused headaches From Techno-News Blog on January 29, 2005 at 10:49 a.m..

Opera, the Forgotten Browser - Michelle Delio, Wired
When he reads the glowing stories detailing the wonders of the fledgling Firefox web browser, Jon von Tetzchner can't help but wonder why his own baby is so often ignored. Von Tetzchner is the CEO of Opera Software, maker of the Opera web browser. In From Techno-News Blog on January 29, 2005 at 10:49 a.m..

Teen Gets Prison for Blaster
In addition to spending 18 months behind bars, a Minnesota teenager who created a variant of the internet worm that hit 48,000 computers will be forced to perform community service and pay restitution. From Wired News on January 29, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

A Century of Einstein
A hundred years ago, Albert Einstein shook up physics and the world with his ideas. Where would we be without them? By Rowan Hooper. From Wired News on January 29, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

My Messy Pile of Leaf Tags
The new Journal Of the Hyperlinked Organization (JOHO) metaphorically paints folksomony and controlled vocabularies as "trees vs leaves": Folksonomies are different in important ways from top-down, hierarchical taxonomies — the shape we've assumed knowledge itself takes. The old way gets some experts together who create a nested tree of concepts into which everything in a particular domain can be slotted. Think of the Dewey Decimal System. Think of the Tree of Life. The new way invites From cogdogblog on January 29, 2005 at 9:46 a.m..

Cornell's Files on '81 Murder Contradict Family's Account
Cornell University released documents yesterday that described contact between campus police investigators and the family of a student murdered in 1981 after the slaying had been linked to Michael Bruce Ross, a convicted serial killer on death row in Connecticut. From New York Times: Education on January 29, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Official Criticizes a PBS Cartoon
Education Secretary Margaret Spellings denounced PBS on Tuesday for spending public money on a cartoon with lesbian characters. From New York Times: Education on January 29, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

PowerPoint Goes to the Fair
Technology is changing that annual academic ritual, the science project, as more students abandon posterboard displays in favor of computer presentations. From New York Times: Education on January 29, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

William A. Bootle, Judge in Desegregation Case, Dies at 102
William Augustus Bootle was a federal judge who, in 1961, set in motion a chain of legal decisions that in a single week desegregated the University of Georgia. From New York Times: Education on January 29, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Stephen Roberts, 89, Cornell Polo Coach, Dies
Stephen Roberts coached Cornell University's polo team from 1947 to 1972 and won eight national championships. From New York Times: Education on January 29, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

New York Plans Test to Affirm Fitness for Jobs
New York is expected to become the first state to issue a "work readiness" credential to high school students who pass a voluntary test. From New York Times: Education on January 29, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

A Few More Critters for Amy's Menagerie (Courtesy of the Porcupine Anti-Defamation Scoiety)
I am a card carrying porcupine. According to Amy Gahtan's new series on "Handling Online Vermin", the internet is swarming with undesirable, nasty "vermin" who apparently threaten the well being of innocent online souls: online media presents a deeply weird juxtaposition of isolation and connectedness, anonymity and identity, parts and whole. In this baffling environment people can be unbelievably brash and vulnerable at the same time. In this realm, the vermin of communication From cogdogblog on January 29, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

A New Association for K-12 Online Schools
I surf the web, I check the bloggers, I belong to numerous listserves and I have not been able to find an online association for K-12 schools. I have seen through my cyber glasses a multitude of Post-secondary associations but... From Teaching and Developing Online. on January 29, 2005 at 5:54 a.m..

eLearning Design Challenge #4
There is a severe drought. Strict domestic water usage restrictions are in place. Your water utility company has invited you to design something for its website or a public-access kiosk to convince people to conserve water and abide by the restrictions. Fines are imposed on people who are caught watering ... From eLearning Design Challenge on January 29, 2005 at 4:56 a.m..

Is Teaching Bad?
Anyway, my point is this: In most of these talks, discussions, and conferences, I've received the impression that "teaching" is nowadays a no-no, and that classes should be run differently so as to encourage student empowerment, decision-making, etc. Of course,... From Teaching and Developing Online. on January 29, 2005 at 3:48 a.m..

Use cases for web development
Norm Carr and Tim Meehan have written an article on the value of use cases for web development. To quote: An especially useful technique to consider is use cases. Use cases provide a simple, fast means to decide and describe... From Column Two on January 29, 2005 at 2:47 a.m..

Maybe they get a continental discount
Yes boys and girls, before the Internet, if you didn't have rich friends with those then-$600 CD burners, you had to have an Asian connection. I personally remember Hong Kong's warez bazaar called the Golden Arcade. Boing Boing reports on crazy Chinese bootlegged DVDs, watching movies in China, and more. Those plucky Chinese manage to make even terrible movies into inadvertent moments of entertainment: "The DVD cases are works of pirate art. They are all made in the same style from hard glossy cardboard. Cheaply made, but professionally graphically designed. They're so uniform, From silentblue | Quantified on January 29, 2005 at 1:54 a.m..

Tryout the prototype of a new course
Many of us have been working for more than a year to pull together a new online course that will introduce new and prospective educators to teaching and learning ideas and approaches. If you'd have any interest in helping us... From Rick's Café Canadien on January 29, 2005 at 1:53 a.m..

issues of culture in ethnoclassification/folksonomy (danah boyd)
I love the conversations that have emerged recently on folksonomy/ethnoclassification/tagging/ontology (see del.icio.us tag folksonomy for a good collection of them). Of course, i’m particularly a fan of skeptical posts that raise the social consequences flag (thank you Liz and Rebecca).... From Corante: Social Software on January 29, 2005 at 1:49 a.m..

List of KM journals
Knowledgeboard has pulled together a list of recommended KM journals. To quote: Welcome to our featured recommended journals section. This provides links to some journals that we would like to recommend to our community. All recommended journals have been kind... From Column Two on January 29, 2005 at 1:47 a.m..

Wow... Adunct Faculty Jumps Feet First Into MLX and ePortfolio
CDB readers may know of the struggles written here to solicit Maricopa people to share their instructional materials and teaching ideas in our Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX) which is at almost 1100 items. Our efforts have included bribery and competition, but have yet to embrace physical threats. If I had a buck for every time someone told me "I am going to take some time next month to get you some MLX items" I'd be retired on my own private island. Ou From cogdogblog on January 29, 2005 at 12:48 a.m..

What a way to start the day
You know things have got to get better when the day starts with the cat barfing into the inkjet printer at 6 am. And they have, I'm pleased to report. From Oren Sreebny's Weblog on January 28, 2005 at 11:58 p.m..

Putting MLX Feeds Where My Mouth Is
I recently wrote some criticism of views that RSS feeds are "only for new stuff", and given that I had a request today for a randomized Maricopa Learning eXchange feed, it was time to put my feeds where my mouth is/was. Before today, the feeds we generate as fixed static files (updated every hours as a cr From cogdogblog on January 28, 2005 at 11:46 p.m..

Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources
This is a valuable compilation of Academic Search Engines and Sources. The pdf file includes well known items such as  Books and Periodicals Online, Google Scholar, and Scirus, but also many other more specialized resources. ____JH http://zillman.blogspot.com/2004/12/academic-and-scholar-search-engines.htmlInternet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation white paper titled "Academic and Sc From EduResources--Higher Education Resources Online on January 28, 2005 at 11:45 p.m..