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A chinese blog entry.
I used altavista.com to translate this entry and this is what I got... In the information dark ages the century education system certainly does not conform to the new century student and the technical environment demand but the pattern which... From Teaching and Developing Online. on February 20, 2005 at 10:55 p.m..

The Future of Copyright (Sydney, 3rd March 2005)
Details on the next NSW KM Forum meeting: The Future of Copyright: The role for Creative Commons in enabling knowledge sharing and encouraging innovationWhen: 5.30pm for 6pm, Thursday 3rd March 2005Where: Standards Australia, 286 Sussex Street, Sydney NSW 2000How much?... From Column Two on February 20, 2005 at 10:47 p.m..

Catching Up on the Backblog
Work has been keeping me so busy lately that the list of postable items has been piling up on my virtual desk. I’m going to try to do some catching up over the next week. Let me start by calling your attention to Eric Feinblatt’s new blog. Eric is a… From e-Literate on February 20, 2005 at 9:58 p.m..

Faceted Folksonomies
I’ve been meaning to blog about fac.etio.us but Alan beat me to it. Basically, facetious allows you to create what amounts to a pivot table out of folksonomy-tagged web pages. This is a better solution than creating faceted single tags (e.g., “arthistory:france") that I e-Literate on February 20, 2005 at 8:53 p.m..

How Engaging 21st Century Work Keeps Students Interested in Learning
As part of the school technology funding (half local, half state funds, called KETS), school districts in Kentucky are encouraged to have each of their schools involved with STLP. From eLearnopedia on February 20, 2005 at 7:53 p.m..

Relative Effectiveness of Computer-based and Human Feedback for Enhancing Student Learning
The purpose of this study is to examine the educational impact of presenting various levels of computer-based, online feedback (no-feedback, knowledge-of-response, knowledge-of-correct-response, topic-contingent, and response-contingent) either alone or paired with human interaction in an independent, mastery learning environment. From eLearnopedia on February 20, 2005 at 7:53 p.m..

Seguimiento del Referéndum en la blogosfera
Sitio web del Ministerio del Interior para Avances de Participación y Resultados. 20Minutos: Referéndum Blog: las urnas acuden a las bitácoras Arcadi Espada: Europa. Escrituración en directo, a partir de las 21.00 horas Atalaya: La blogosfera dice Nein Bitácoras.com: Canal... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on February 20, 2005 at 7:52 p.m..

Wikipedia Discussed on NPR Weekend Edition
NPR : Wikipedia's Growth Comes with Concerns This morning National Public Radio's Weekend Edition had a piece on Wikipedia, its growth over the past four years, and the usual pros and cons concerning accuracy and editorial control. I have a longer post about this over at eSchoolNews....... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on February 20, 2005 at 7:50 p.m..

Students' Use of Learning Objects
This paper shows how learning objects have been designed and introduced into campus-based higher education modules, and describes the impact they have had on students. From eLearnopedia on February 20, 2005 at 6:49 p.m..

Reference Guide for Instructional Design and Development
This reference guide is designed to help you apply sound principles of design to the creation of your courses. From eLearnopedia on February 20, 2005 at 6:49 p.m..

Fun of book reading...
There is so much fun in opening a long wanted book after finding the only place it could be ordered and patiently waiting for it to arrive. Fun of waking up and heading for it, before everything. Fun of taking time to read knowing that it would be a long day with lots of things to do. Fun of discovery, noding at every other page - "ah, true.." - and stopping for a minute thinking all about all those association with your own work... Of course, sometimes it's nice to start a day from the blogosphere news, hot and exicting, but somehow this couldn't beat the fun of reading a From Mathemagenic on February 20, 2005 at 6:48 p.m..

Keeping Tabs on Comments in Multiple Author Blogs (MovableType)
With exceptions of newer systems (yes, Drupal fans, that is you), many blog software packages are designed from the perspective of single author weblogs, but with some digging you can expand their functionality for multi-author sites. We've recently released the Low Threshold Applications (LTA) site, recast as a blog from a once manually edited HTML site. To make the index of LTAs by author work, we had to assign the blog entries to accounts for the people that From cogdogblog on February 20, 2005 at 5:47 p.m..

Facets of del.icio.us = fac.etio.us
Interesting- fac.etio.us is a rip, mix, and refeed of del.icio.us. Found by way of John the Blog (a.k.a David Weinberger), fac.etio.us is a product of Sideran Software ("navigation for the digital universe"), a maker of corporate tools that offer: ...intelligent search and retrieval applications lead you easily through oceans of uncharted corporate data to the relev From cogdogblog on February 20, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..

Bloggers meetup
Chapel Hill bloggers have started using MeetUp to get together in the real world. Given the success of the Berkman weekly blogging meeting, it seems like a great idea. Good luck to them. A search at MeetUp on "blog" turns up interesting results: 450 meetup groups for LiveJournal, 34 for Persian Blogging, 54 fgor MovableType, 3 for Video Blogging. It'd be interesting to see how many meetups spawn group blogs... [Technorati tag: meetup ]... From Joho the Blog on February 20, 2005 at 3:45 p.m..

Geld und Wissen: Welche Rendite bringt Bildung?
Anbei noch die Präsentation, die ich auf der LEARNTEC, genauer gesagt: im Rahmen der Sektion M, "Zukunft ohne Risiko? - Wirtschaftliche Bewertung strategischer Bildungsinvestitionen", gehalten habe. Übrigens: die Zahl der Zuhörer schwankte zwischen 15 und 40 ... Jochen Robes, 17... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on February 20, 2005 at 1:48 p.m..

Parents protest radio ID tags for students - Associated Press
The only grade school in this rural town is requiring students to wear radio frequency identification badges that can track their every move. Some parents are outraged, fearing it will rob their children of privacy. The badges introduced at Brittan Elemen From Techno-News Blog on February 20, 2005 at 1:47 p.m..

Microsoft, EBay, Visa Fight Phishing - Paul Roberts, IDG News Service
To make it easier to identify and react to new scam Web sites, Microsoft, EBay, and Visa International are launching a program to share information about online identity theft scams known as "phishing attacks," they said Monday. The companies will use the From Techno-News Blog on February 20, 2005 at 1:47 p.m..

Microsoft Urges Users to Apply New Patches - Paul Roberts, IDG News Service
Microsoft is warning customers about computer code that exploits holes in the company's software and blames security researchers for publishing proof of concept code to trigger the vulnerabilities, which was then turned into working attacks. The company i From Techno-News Blog on February 20, 2005 at 1:47 p.m..

HT 2005 - Sixteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia : Concepts and Tools for Supporting K ...
HT 2005 - Sixteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia : Concepts and Tools for Supporting Knowledge Workers - 6-9 September 2005 - Salzburg, Austria From Peter Scott's Library Blog on February 20, 2005 at 1:46 p.m..

MLX Track Spam: The Annihilator
It's been a while since the spam roaches attached the Trackbacks on the Maricopa Learning eXchange, but I guess they had some extra time after recess to splat their PPC (porn, pills, casino) links into the MLX Sharebacks. I am still resisting closing it down completely, but likely will, as no one really sends non-spam trackbacks. It took about 75 seconds in phpMyAdmin to clean out the spambacks, but I decided as a fun task to build my own web tool to do it even easier. Presenting the Spam Trackback Annihilator: cogdogblog on February 20, 2005 at 8:48 a.m..

Linkroll Added to the Marklet Maker
A commenter suggested I add Linkroll to the bookmarklet marklet maker collection, and that was an easy one to roll into the tool, which puts it up to a choice of 8 different web site submission tools that can be addressed with a click on a bookmark link. Linkroll is another "social bookmarks" site, though instead of tags there are categories, 6 of one versus half a dozen donuts of another. It looks like it has some finer filters possible to put From cogdogblog on February 20, 2005 at 8:48 a.m..

City Considers Lottery System for Admission to Top Schools
The principals of some of the highest performing schools on the Upper West Side have been allowed to handpick students, but that practice may be over. From New York Times: Education on February 20, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Rift Deepens as Professors at Harvard See Remarks
The release of a transcript of the contentious remarks made last month about women in science by Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers has increased the mood of uncertainty on Harvard's campus. From New York Times: Education on February 20, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Times Scholarships Reward Perseverance
The New York Times College Scholarship Program provided 21 winners $7,500 a year for each year of four years of college. From New York Times: Education on February 20, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

A Textbook Case of a School in a Spiral
Enrollment is down, tuition is up, and at St. Teresa elementary school in Queens, the end is near. From New York Times: Education on February 20, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Older Hands Find Place in a New Course
A new initiative gives out-of-work New Yorkers a chance to take classes at an Ivy League university, then puts them to work on projects that use what they have learned. From New York Times: Education on February 20, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

In School Talent Searches, Good Managers Are in Demand
A Wave of retirements and growing pressures make the recruiting of superintendents difficult and pricey. From New York Times: Education on February 20, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Major publisher on educational content for mobile phones
Random House made a move to publish learning content to cell phones. Random purchased a large piece of Vocel , a California company working on pushing elearning content . (via Smartmobs ) From NITLE Tech News on February 20, 2005 at 7:49 a.m..

Take back the web, coninued
Will writes today about the impulse some teachers have to face pedagogical difficulties by cutting the world down to size for students. Facing increased use of shoddy sources grabbed uncritically from the web, for example, some schools respond not by... From Teaching and Developing Online. on February 20, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..

Re: Take back the web.
It's a very nice piece, and one that I'm in full agreement with. As I've stated here numerous times, I'm planning this big freshman introduction to business class. About the third day in the semester I'm planning on having a... From Teaching and Developing Online. on February 20, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..

Info Literacy
Continuing in the theme of the post from a couple of days ago, Will R. posted a great story illustrating one of the persistent problems we have a work. This issue of "how do we get students and teachers to... From Teaching and Developing Online. on February 20, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..

Research on the Web
I see with my children (Grades 5 & 7) that research skills and media literacy are not developed at all in the New Brunswick school system. These are critical skills, especially since there are fewer resources in our school and... From Teaching and Developing Online. on February 20, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..

How to Do Research.
The KYVL for Kids Research Portal - How to do research Home Base... From Teaching and Developing Online. on February 20, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..

The Big Six
The Big 6 is a proven approach to information problem-solving. It helps you succeed in school and life. Use the Big 6 to find, use, apply and evaluate information for specific needs and tasks. The Big 6... From Teaching and Developing Online. on February 20, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..

Why Johnny can't think.
Teaching kids to evaluate information is too hard, so we'll just restrict the information they see. That's apparently the conclusion of one high school principal, according to a post by Will over at Weblogg-ed. Authentic Voice: Why Johnny can't think... From Teaching and Developing Online. on February 20, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..

Technology and Education - Swimming Upstream.
I read this post from Will and thought to myself, if these guys don't get it, then we are up the creek without the proverbial paddle. As this next generation of web technologies really takes hold, the web becomes a... From Teaching and Developing Online. on February 20, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..

Take back the Web...comments
My posts on the state of schools (conclusion reached - they suck, but I think there is reason for hope) seem to be on the same trail where some of the other ants are wondering. Two recent posts from Darren... From Teaching and Developing Online. on February 20, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..

International Copyright Development and Fair Use
This paper covers how International copyright differs from country to country, the development of copyright, the concept of 'fair use' and how all of this affects you as a publisher of content. From Infosec Writers Latest Security Papers on February 20, 2005 at 5:52 a.m..

Usable podcast archives
Most of the talk I've seen about podcasting has focused on ways the audio can resemble blogging done in a lively new medium, sound. So we get the regular posts and the familiar RSS. But if we're going to go to the trouble of making audio, at least some of the things we make might be created with an eye toward later use. With our blogs, at least somebody can run a keyword search and hope to locate a useful older piece, but with audio, there will be next to no useful searching capability... From Weblogs in Higher Education on February 20, 2005 at 4:51 a.m..

The terrible secret of Shuffle
One of my pet peeves in people/technology/processes are a lack of precision. I just got Silverlotus an 1GB iPod Shuffle for Valentine's - one of the first to grace Canadian shores (The box even came with a free song promo for the American iTunes Store). One thing I was struck by was Apple's obsessive detail into the end-to-end user experience. The Shuffle is small, simply designed and solidly built. The earphones are confortable to wear. The iTunes media library software makes buying, sorting, playing and transferring music a breeze. Especially the buying; with three clicks you can b From silentblue | Quantified on February 20, 2005 at 3:54 a.m..

Berger on storytelling
Stories are one way of sharing the belief that justice is imminent. And for such a belief, children, women and men will fight at a given moment with astounding ferocity. This is why tyrants fear storytelling: all stories somehow refer to the story of their fall. So writes John Berger in an essay that Weblogs in Higher Education on February 20, 2005 at 3:52 a.m..

Sci-Fi Eye for the Geek Guy
Quick, think of your favorite sci-fi television or movie franchise or writer (i.e. Star Trek, Star Wars, Dr Who, Dune, HHG2TG, Asimov, Babylon 5, Blade Runner, Lexx, BattleStar Galactica, Flash Gordon, Arthur C. Clarke, William Gibson, Philip Jose Farmer, or Planet of the Apes, Buckaroo Banzai, The Matrix.) Don't think about it too much. I just want you to remember the first one that popped into your mind. Ok, got it? Great. Read on to see if I peg your personality type at all. (Participants receive a handy home version of the game.) From kuro5hin.org on February 20, 2005 at 3:45 a.m..

New searching
Ben has started another crucial part of Elgg: 'find a friend' - this is the search mechanism that allows users to search for others who have a similar interest. Pretty cool! Comment on my Elgg bolg... From ERADC Blog on February 20, 2005 at 2:53 a.m..

iPod Shuffle Hint From My Daughter Karina
iPod Shuffle Hint From My Daughter Karina Originally uploaded by timlauer. My daughter makes a pitch for an iPod Shuffle...... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on February 20, 2005 at 2:48 a.m..

Northern Voice quick post
I'm sitting beside Scoble on the Lightning Tools panel at Northern Voice right now. I just demoed Webjay, and realize I forgot to mention you could put a player on your weblog using the Webjay Wizard, which means visitors to your site can click the play button, listen to your selections, and steal the songs they like by right-clicking the player. Check out my blog's front p From Seb's Open Research on February 20, 2005 at 1:45 a.m..

Metadata for Education - an FAQ
This Metadata FAQ has been developed collaboratively during 2004 by participants from the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, the IMS Global Learning Consortium, the IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee and other organisations including CanCore, ADL, JES and Co and CETIS. From eLearnopedia on February 19, 2005 at 11:50 p.m..

LEARNTEC 2005 - eine Nachbetrachtung
Ich glaube, die meisten LEARNTEC-Besucher werden mit mir übereinstimmen, dass das Innovativste der diesjährigen Veranstaltung der Truck von Luigi Colani war, der diese Woche in Karlsruhe auf dem Messevorplatz parkte. Auch gilt mein ganzer Respekt den Initiatoren des eLearning-Journal,... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on February 19, 2005 at 11:49 p.m..

Information architecture exercises
Peter Van Dijck has posted a collection of ideas for information architecture exercises, to use during a workshop. To quote: I am preparing some information architecture workshops, and Im collecting various types of exercises. I've managed to identify some general... From Column Two on February 19, 2005 at 11:45 p.m..

Role of design and usability
Tom Chi has written an article that provides an interesting perspective on the role of design and usability in a project. It even has diagrams! To quote: If our process is too usability heavy, we are not able to explore... From Column Two on February 19, 2005 at 11:45 p.m..

Computer-aided paper sorting (Caps)
William Hudson (and his company Syntagm) have released a new approach to card sorting: Computer-aided paper sorting. To quote: Appropriate allocation of tasks to users and computers has always been an important part of successful interaction design. In the case... From Column Two on February 19, 2005 at 11:45 p.m..

CM Pros Resource Library
The CM Pros organisation (of which I'm a member) has just published a content management resource library. To quote: The Resource Library aims to provide a single comprehensive collection of content management related information. We have compiled a list of... From Column Two on February 19, 2005 at 11:45 p.m..