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Attempt to Consolidate All Weblogging with MarsEdit and NetNewsWire Input
Summary: I am making a 'strategic' self-organization move. If this move works as I hope it will, I will be writing entries for any of my online content in MarsEdit... choosing on the fly which of the RU categories or other weblogs I'm using to Use. Those weblogs are: This one -- with several categories (CMS, Ecology/Marine Ecology, EdSped, Evaluation, Notes, Philosophy, Seeds and Weblogging. A site reserved for "Spirited" Entries and Dialog" For very big From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on March 5, 2005 at 10:47 p.m..

Ready for a Virtual Course Management System?
Since they surfaced on college campuses a decade ago, online course management systems have grabbed the attention of the K-12 world. The first generation of systems, also called e-learning platforms, gave instructors a handy way to post homework assignments and... From Teaching and Developing Online. on March 5, 2005 at 9:53 p.m..

Gov.: Tech could save small schools
West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin believes distance-learning technology might be the answer to the dilemma of how to expand curricula throughout the state without sacrificing small schools to consolidation. eSchool News online... From Teaching and Developing Online. on March 5, 2005 at 9:53 p.m..

What Makes an Online Group Project Work?
In this paper, we examine factors that make an online group project work. We asked the students in an online class to share their past group experiences at the beginning of the semester. We then used the categories derived from... From Teaching and Developing Online. on March 5, 2005 at 9:53 p.m..

Newspaper experiment
Starting on Sunday, the Columbia Missourian will be experimenting with a downloadable version of the newspaper that means to move beyond the norms of the scrolling browser window to a new sort of interactive display. I'll be taking a look -- free registration required. It's called the Weekly EmPRINT Edition. From Weblogs in Higher Education on March 5, 2005 at 9:50 p.m..

E-Learning in Europe - Results and Recommendations
Dieser Report ist bereits über ein Jahr alt (Nov 2003), aber in diesem Januar neu aufgelegt worden. Es geht um eine Bestandsaufnahme der e-Learning-Projekte und Erfahrungen, die im Rahmen von Leonardo da Vinci, dem Aktionsprogramm der EU für die berufliche... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on March 5, 2005 at 9:49 p.m..

Lustloses Lernen
Die Stiftung Warentest hat vier Lernprogramme zum Thema Projektmanagement untersucht und bescheidene Noten ausgestellt: von 3,3 (ibis acam) bis 4,1 (SkillSoft), also befriedigend bis ausreichend. Bemängelt werden u.a. inhaltliche Lücken, die Art der Vermittlung, die Gestaltung und die Interaktionen. Also... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on March 5, 2005 at 9:49 p.m..

Presentations
Links to presentation web sites can be found at... http://del.icio.us/timlauer/pw5... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on March 5, 2005 at 9:48 p.m..

Nightline blogging piece now scheduled for Tuesday
ABC's Nightline has been working on a piece about blogging. Rumor had it that it was going to be shown this Thursday. The new rumor is that it will be shown this Tuesday.... From Joho the Blog on March 5, 2005 at 9:47 p.m..

Blogging in Omaha
I got wind of young edubloggers at the Willowdale Elementary School in Nebraska, and I've happily Furled these new examples of elementary school examples. There's Mrs. Greenwald's first grade blog where they are covering a whole bunch of topics, Mrs. French's fifth grade class, Mrs. Sanborn's fifth grade class, and weblogged News on March 5, 2005 at 8:47 p.m..

Wired Article About Wikipedia
Wired 13.03: The Book Stops Here Jimmy Wales wanted to build a free encyclopedia on the Internet. So he raised an army of amateurs and created the self-organizing, self-repairing, hyperaddictive library of the future called Wikipedia... Now Wales has brought forth a third model - call it One for All. Instead of one really smart guy, Wikipedia draws on thousands of fairly smart guys and gals - because in the metamathematics of encyclopedias, 500 Kvarans equals one Pliny the Elder... This month's Wired has a very good article about Wikipedia and some of the people who write the articles fou From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on March 5, 2005 at 7:45 p.m..

Quality Improvement, Quality Assurance, and Benchmarking: Comparing Two Frameworks for Managing Quality Processes in Open and Distance Learning
This article compares the frameworks in terms of their scope, institutional application, structures, and method of application, and then considers what implications the similarities and differences between the frameworks have for their use. From eLearnopedia on March 5, 2005 at 5:49 p.m..

Elements of Effective e-Learning Design
This paper highlights the elements of effective design that we consider assist in the development of high quality materials in a cost efficient way. From eLearnopedia on March 5, 2005 at 5:49 p.m..

Madrid democracy & terrorism conference
For reasons that are unclear, but I wasn't inclined to argue about them, I've been invited to a "summit" on "democracy, terrorism and security" in Madrid next week, me and my close personal friends Rebecca MacKinnon, Ethan Zuckerman, Dan Gillmor, Joi Ito, David Isenberg, and Bill Clinton...you know, the same old crowd. About thirty of us (excluding Bill) are in a group talking about the Net, democracy and terrorism, not a topic I know a lot about. I presume there will be some arguing in favor of tightening security on the Net in order to prevent terrorism, an approach me... From Joho the Blog on March 5, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Technorati finds related tags
At the beginning of next week, Technorati will launch a new tag aggregation feature: When you search on a tag, you'll be shown a list of "related" tags. The relationships are automatically discerned by the software, analyzing the other tags used by people tagging the same set of pages and photos. Dave Sifry let me play with a beta of it, and the suggested tags were generally quite relevant. There are two types of relationships the "related" tags help with. First, they suggest slightly divergent topics so you can browse off the path you were heading down. Second, they help... From Joho the Blog on March 5, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Jef Raskin - RIP
Here's a fascinating piece, passed along by Todd Zazelenchuk. All Mac users and proponents of user-centred design should lower their flags to half mast. ------------------------------------------------------- Take a listen to this NPR story about Jef Raskin...the man considered to be the... From Rick's Café Canadien on March 5, 2005 at 1:53 p.m..

Wists (David Weinberger)
Wists seems to be del.icio.us except an image you choose from each page you bookmark serves as its identifier. Pictures instead of text. Also, it lets you specify other Wistians as your friends. Brian Dear (thanks for the link!) says:... From Corante: Social Software on March 5, 2005 at 1:49 p.m..

Internet: The Mainstreaming of Online Life
Web-browsers have been a commonplace of the online experience for approximately a decade, and in some ways, everyday use of the Internet has transformed certain aspects of modern life. This fourteen-page report from the Pew Internet & American Life Projec From Techno-News Blog on March 5, 2005 at 12:45 p.m..

New Browsers, Same Unwanted Ads - Joanna Glasner, Wired
For internet users seeking to avoid exposure to spyware and intrusive ads, the prevailing wisdom among net security experts has long been that a good first step is to switch from Microsoft's Internet Explorer to an alternate browser. But now that million From Techno-News Blog on March 5, 2005 at 12:45 p.m..

Netscape launches browser beta - Matt Hines, CNET News
Netscape has released a public test version of a Web browser that includes antifraud technology, with hopes of challenging Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser dominance. The company, a division of media giant Time Warner's America Online subsidiary, sa From Techno-News Blog on March 5, 2005 at 12:45 p.m..

SEC Launches ChoicePoint Probe
Two top execs are under investigation for dumping stock in the troubled company before security breaches in its database were made public. From Wired News on March 5, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

Kazaa Assets Frozen in Australia
Officials from Sharman and Altnet agree to restrictions until the judge returns from vacation to hear arguments. Patrick Gray reports from Melbourne, Australia. From Wired News on March 5, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

Feds Catching Up With Proxies
The government agency in charge of the .us domain says anonymous registration was never supposed to be allowed, but the agency only noticed it was happening years after it began. By Kim Zetter. From Wired News on March 5, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

Arf Arf.... Is This Thing On?
I'm back. I think. The last two days have been technically the worst of my career. This is a long story. The bottom line is that this blog is now running on a new URL http://realgar.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/alan/ but things are forarded nicely (.htaccess redirect) so all links to http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/alan/ end up here. But that is just the last end around of a completely frustrating 32 hours. And the timing could not have been worse. In about 9 hours I fl From cogdogblog on March 5, 2005 at 8:47 a.m..

Harvard at Top of List of Donations to Colleges
Contributions to colleges and universities rose to $24.4 billion, led by Harvard and Stanford with more than $500 million each. From New York Times: Education on March 5, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Audit Describes 8 Years of Looting by L.I. School Officials
The top officials of an affluent Long Island school district illegally diverted at least $11.2 million in taxpayer funds, a state audit says. From New York Times: Education on March 5, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Sobriety Tests Are Becoming Part of the School Day
A few districts around the country have quietly begun to integrate breath-testing devices into the school day to prevent student drinking. From New York Times: Education on March 5, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

School District May Have Hard Time Recovering Losses
With the release of a long-awaited state audit, prosecutors and local officials have an intricate map tracing how $11.2 million was looted from the Roslyn school district. From New York Times: Education on March 5, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Yale Cuts Expenses for Poor in a Move to Beat Competitors
Yale University said that it would no longer require parents earning less than $45,000 a year to pay anything toward their children's educations. From New York Times: Education on March 5, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Strivers Sharpen No. 2's for Different College Test
The universe of college admission testing has been changing, with more students opting to take the ACT to boost their score. From New York Times: Education on March 5, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

The Grand VideoCasting Future: Watching Me Say Ummm
With podcasting going from zero to tech trend in 6 months, some are hedging bets that videocasting is already accelerating. So here is the CogDogBlog evolution. We go from reading my typos in a blog to listening to me say "ummm" as a podcast to watching me say "ummm" as a videocast to a 3D real-time hologram o From cogdogblog on March 5, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

SoFIA Releases First 8 Open Content Courses
Sofia (Sharing of Free Intellectual Assets) intends to do for the community college level what MIT's Open Courseware offers for upper division courses- free, open content courses you can use in whole or part. Free with Creative Commons licensing. The first 8 courses are available from their gallery: The pilot grant open content initiative, Sofia (Sharing of Free Intellectual Assets), was initiated in March of 2004 under the leadership of Vivian 'Vivie' Sinou, Dean of D From cogdogblog on March 5, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Wow! What a Portfolio-lific Day
Just wrapping up from today's event "ePortfolio Dialogue Day: Digital Stories of Deep Learning for Students and Faculty" with our excellent guest Helen Barrett, and it was a rousing success. Wish I could have been blogging it all, but other duties called. Helen gave an outstanding overview of the eportfolio landscape, and hammering the not so subltu or semantic differences between assessment for learning versus assessment of learning, andcogdogblog on March 5, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

I've been Skyped, Flossed
A few weeks ago I was audio interviewed via Skype by Teemu Arina, a 1 hour plus session between me in Arizona and Teemu in Finland that was remarkably clear, had no dropouts. In an almost heroic effort, Teemu edited this to a pod/webcast, painstakingly removing my frequent "umms" as well as abstracting my free form meanders to a coherent set of possible ed tech futures. Thjis is now posted on a new site FLOSSE (Free/Libre and Open Source SoftwarE) which is a "pocogdogblog on March 5, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

To My Spelling And Academic Superiors Way Up North
Oh dear, I have a spelling and grammatical error on the introduction of a web page. It is the end of civilization as we know it, and it exemplifies how horribly inadequate, shameful, and without merir the entire US educational system really is. I must humbly apologize to all my US fellow educators, as my errant typo has apparently signified the death sentence of all ideas, accomplishments from south of the Canadian border. This is according to an email feedback message that flew in today: I find it interesting and quite disturbing that a community college student or From cogdogblog on March 5, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Now the iPodless Podcaster
Day number 578 without an iPod... No, I have no intent to start regular podcasts, enough other people with velvety FM radio D.J. type voices that never say "ummm" are at it already. There is no time to jump into this endeavor. But never say never. On the other hand, twice or more or in the last week. I have included references to .mp3 files in a blog entry, and there is no reason those could not be made podcast-able. So to investigate what it would take, should ever a leap month appear in my calendar, here is a simple recap of how easy it was to add the proper RSS tags to my From cogdogblog on March 5, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Site Submission Bookmarklet Maker Hits Tool Number 10
My web site submission multi-tool, which rolls a selected set of JavaScript submission tools into one, has hit its tenth tool. Thanks to those who have made recent suggestions. This means, you can build your own browser bookmark submission tool that includes all or any from: Furl del.icio.us Frassle Connotea cogdogblog on March 5, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Stark Raving MAD
I owe my sarcastic streak to a boyhood influence of MAD magazine - the codebook to becoming a solid porcupine internet citizen. But Doug Gilford's Mad Cover site is an over the top homage to friends of movie spoofs, Roger Kaputnik, Spy vs Spy, and the fold in covers. The site goes as far as to include scanned magazine covers back to 1952-- now that is fan-atacism: cogdogblog on March 5, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

How Not To do e-Customer Service: "Call Us"
Our local telephone service provide, Qwest, has these smarmy tv commercials with customers gushing how great the Qwest "Spirit of Service" is. I will not be starring in any of these soon. Regular CDB readers will know we periodically bark and growl about bad online customer service, so here is chapter 22 in the novel. Three times in a 30 day span our home telephone service wigged out and went dead. It is no longer a big deal since we average one cell phone per occupant. And Qwest was fairly good at dispatching a repair person in a From cogdogblog on March 5, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Shelley Is On It: "Using RSS Feeds in English 102" MLX Package
One of my colleagues has gotten bit severely by the weblog / RSS fever--- this is a good thing. Shelley teaches English at Mesa Community College and is experimenting this semester with having her student review resources via Bloglines, and she is crafting an extra credit assignment for them to post entries in the Bloglines weblog (not the greatest blog tool, but good enough for a start). Today she sent me an e-mail describing what she had created, with an attachment of her assignment. Since she has a good sense of humor, and I am just so tired of people in our system only sharing v From cogdogblog on March 5, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Drowning, Drowned, Drown
I am drowning in things to do, things I would like to do, and things I have to do. My workload is more or less double what it was 6 months ago since losing the expertise of Colen, who worked 5 years for us doing part-time programming support and developing much of the MLX and our two other major online application/review systems. Thus the development of the openMLX drags to a slow grind, well, actually, it has not budged since December. Right now, I am administering and programming new pieces of both our online Learning Grants system and an From cogdogblog on March 5, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Skype Blemish?
I like Skype. I like Skype. I like it so much, I wanted to run it on my PC laptop across the desk from me. What I did not like was when I logged in with the account I use on my Mac, I notice that my contacts do not appear, so it seems that they are not stored centrally (like AIM, ICQ), but on my computer. This means that should I get a new computer, want to run this elsewhere, my contacts do not go with me. They need to be re-entered, re-authorized?? Tell me it isn't so? Maybe I am missing From cogdogblog on March 5, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Folksonomic Video: Vimeo
I am supposed to be out the door about 5 minuntes ago when I get to curious to click on vimeo (tip of the blog hat to David Weinberger, thanks for making me later for dinner ;-) In a nutshell, it looks like a filckr for video, and it semms there are a lot of other folks moving "theirmedia" in this direction. What caught my attentions was that vimeo is taking tags applied to video clips, and assembling them dynamically into QuickTime flicks, such as the cogdogblog on March 5, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Wists = flickr + del.icio.us?
I am not sure yet what to make of wists - visual bookmarks, yet another variant following the flickr del.icio.us trail through the mountain pile of folksonomic tag mania. Create a wist account, load a browser bar tool, and when you are surfing and want to track a site in your "collection" (a del.icio.us task), wist offers to create an icon based on any image it can find in the page (quasi flickr-like). Slap on some tags, and see where your tags lead you. There is a friend of a friend thing there too, but I lack friends (apparently). You end up From cogdogblog on March 5, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Mothers Guard Your RSS Feeds, Someone Wants to "Monetize" Them
Look out for your RSS-- as warned the vultures are still circling, and maybe hovering closer to your feeds. It's interesting, curious, and quirky when the PR factories roll new verbs off the assembly line- Moreover's FeedRSSDirect Ads offer this savory description: Moreover Technologies, the premier provider of aggregated online current awareness information, today announced FeedDirect RSS A From cogdogblog on March 5, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Speaking in the key of we
The Shifted Librarian says that she's been concentrating on "using blogs to humanize libraries," which I take to be a way of reasserting human voices in the institution. Any institution is probably tempted to silence some of its clients from time to time, or perhaps wall them off with routines and rules and hierarchies. Libraries suffer from a ready-made stereotype of the silencing librarian as an example of that tendency in any institution. So like any other institution... From Weblogs in Higher Education on March 5, 2005 at 4:51 a.m..

Corporate training and e-learning blog
"Latest news, thoughts, trends, reports, and links focused on learning, instruction, and e-Learning in today's corporate world." Corporate training and e-learning blog The author is Jenna Sweeney.  Jenna is Chief Operating Officer of CramerSweeney Instructional Design, providing professional instructional design services, customized corporate training materials and custom e-learning solutions.Categorisation: e-Learning blogs... From What's New at the e-Learning Centre on March 5, 2005 at 4:16 a.m..

2005 Framework Projects
The 2005 Australian Flexible Learning Framework is funding 15 Projects this year that will provide the nation's public, private and community training providers with greater access to cost-effective e-learning products and resources to support the development and delivery of training that is innovative, widely accessible and tailored to meet a broad range of learning needs. From Australian Flexible Learning Framework News Headlines on March 5, 2005 at 4:16 a.m..

2005 Australian Flexible Learning Framework announced!
A new $15 million 2005 Australian Flexible Learning Framework (2005 Framework) has been announced for 2005. This new 12 month strategy is set to ensure that e-learning becomes a long term feature of Australia's vocational education and training system. With 15 Projects, the new 2005 Framework will build on the successes of the 2000-2004 Framework as well as strike out in some exciting new directions, supported by the Australian Government and all States and Territories. From Australian Flexible Learning Framework News Headlines on March 5, 2005 at 4:16 a.m..

More than AUD$5.5 million in e-learning funding available now!
The 2005 Australian Flexible Learning Framework (2005 Framework) is now offering more than AUD$5.5 million in e-learning funding to support a range of e-learning activities and initiatives in 2005. Five of the 2005 Framework's 15 Projects aim to support vocational education and training practitioners and industry representatives who want to: strengthen their professional development; successfully facilitate an online community; engage with industry sectors; develop an innovative new practice; or develop e-learning products (Flexible Learning Toolboxes). From Australian Flexible Learning Framework News Headlines on March 5, 2005 at 4:16 a.m..

Missed the NET*Working 2004 online conference? Access it now for free!
If you missed the NET*Working 2004 online conference but are still interested in finding out what it was all about, go and check out the huge range of resources now available for free at the NET*Working 2004 online conference platform. The site offers you the chance to satisfy your curiosity about the latest technologies that are being used to deliver vocational education and training, as well as other technology supported resources you might be able to use. Go experiment and discover! From Australian Flexible Learning Framework News Headlines on March 5, 2005 at 4:16 a.m..

Interactive Ochre CD-ROM combats cultural misunderstanding
Interactive Ochre is the newest e-learning resource developed as a multimedia tool to deliver an Aboriginal perspective on cultural awareness training. The CD-ROM, which is having huge success in field trials across Australia, uses songs, vibrant graphics, and interactive learning tools to help public sector employees understand Aboriginal culture. From Australian Flexible Learning Framework News Headlines on March 5, 2005 at 4:16 a.m..

New edition of the Knowledge Tree out now!
The experiences of the Australian Flexible Learning Framework's 2004 Flexible Learning Leaders has been compiled in a special edition of the Knowledge Tree e-Journal of Flexible Learning in VET, issued this week. From Australian Flexible Learning Framework News Headlines on March 5, 2005 at 4:16 a.m..

Invitation to contribute to consultation process for EdNA Online
Vocational education and training practitioners are invited to participate in a consultation process being conducted by EdNA Online to identify issues that could impact information and communication technologies and e-learning. From Australian Flexible Learning Framework News Headlines on March 5, 2005 at 4:16 a.m..

Good anti-spam measures for a Wiki
Like many other Wiki operators, I'm having a problem with "wiki spam" - wildly off-topic entries posted solely in the hope of distorting search engine link counts or attracting gullible customers. As the author of a Wiki implementation, I'm also concerned with how we can change the Wiki software to reduce or eliminate this problem. Three types of solution spring immediately to mind, and I'd be interested to hear of any other suggestions, and also of p From Frank Carver's weblog (Teaching and Learning category) on March 5, 2005 at 4:15 a.m..

Marking work and the lack of self
Just had an intriguing discussion with a colleague about marking and states of mind. Apparently he was once "told off" by a non teacher who felt that marking students work in odd moments (such as while waiting for a bus) was doing the students a disservice. Sometimes, though, the tickle of distraction of needing to be peripherally aware of whether the bus has arrived actually helps achive the ideal egoless state of mind for marking. The task of waiting for the bus can be given to the "I" with all its subjective and personal opinions, while the rest of the full concentration can be g From Frank Carver's weblog (Teaching and Learning category) on March 5, 2005 at 4:15 a.m..

Thoughts about "lifetime web space"
I've seen some discussion recently about "e-portfolios" and the idea of providing everyone with "lifetime web space". See this educause article and comments on it here, and here, for example. While initially appealing, I have some misgivings about the idea, which I'd like to work through here. The basic premise of these suggestions is laudable enough - each s From Frank Carver's weblog (Teaching and Learning category) on March 5, 2005 at 4:15 a.m..

is this the "Golden Age of RSS?"
Alan at 'cogdogblog' is apparently in a gloomy mood about RSS. We've all seen the once proud institutions of usenet, email, the web, search technology, wiki and blog feedback exploited and polluted with the likes of spam. Alan worries that the same will happen to RSS. My take on this is that RSS (and I use the term to include associated feed techologies such as RDF and Atom) may succumb, but that it has thi From Frank Carver's weblog (Teaching and Learning category) on March 5, 2005 at 4:15 a.m..

Marking student papers on the blog radar, watch beurocracy explode!
Via several sources, including A Writing Teacher's Blog, I read about the case of Steve Geluso who was unhappy with the marks he got from his "LA exit exam", so he posted the original submission and the comments from the markers on his blog for comments and support. I'd not heard of the term, but apparently "LA" stands for "Language Arts". I'm still not sure how an "exit exam" differs from any other exam, though. From the point of view of the community of From Frank Carver's weblog (Teaching and Learning category) on March 5, 2005 at 4:15 a.m..

Dual standard on human research?
A while ago, I wrote about the banning of "human research" and some confusions and issues surrounding it. Then last night I was idly watching some food programme on the TV, and I encountered a whole different set of issues. The premise of the item was interesting enough. One of the show's presenters went through a simulated Christmas day to see the effect it has on the body. Before he started he was give a battery of tests including a MRI scan and swallowing a "capsule-cam" which coul From Frank Carver's weblog (Teaching and Learning category) on March 5, 2005 at 4:15 a.m..

Do libraries want your old books?
In one of the comments to a recent article from Sébastien Paquet about Britannica and Wikipedia, I read the following words from Cindy Hoong: Recently I took old books from my collections to two local libraries. They were delighted with the donations. I've often thought that it would be nice to donate old books to libraries, but all the libraries I've tried don't want them. In fact, a fair number of the books in my collection came from libraries! All my local libr From Frank Carver's weblog (Teaching and Learning category) on March 5, 2005 at 4:15 a.m..

When we all use Google, why keep books?
Following from my recent wondering Do libraries want your old books? and longevity and reliability of "lifetime web space", I think I'm now even more worried. I read the following in Bruce Landon's " landonline": For the generation now coming of age, Google defines a sor From Frank Carver's weblog (Teaching and Learning category) on March 5, 2005 at 4:15 a.m..

Viruses in MP3 files? Isn't this just cynical scaremongering?
Via Techno-News Blog I read an article in the Washington post entitled Trouble Can Be Downloaded Along With Music. The premise seems to be that the huge numbers of people who got an iPod or other music player this Christmas will be opening themselves to viruses and spyware if they download music from p2p services and for-free websites. The whole article reads like a cynical bit of straw-clut From Frank Carver's weblog (Teaching and Learning category) on March 5, 2005 at 4:15 a.m..

Communication in the classroom - good or bad?
On some level, it's fair to say that teaching is all about communication. A school or college therefore, being a teaching establishment, should also be all about communication. Strangely, though, communication often seems to become marginalized and even shunned. Although this article may seem as if it is building into a rant about poor communication of operational things like deadlines, room changes, and coursework requirements, that's not my major thrust. Not this time, at least. All these forms of communication are at least understood, although often found lacking. Few s From Frank Carver's weblog (Teaching and Learning category) on March 5, 2005 at 4:15 a.m..

The value (or not) of privacy
It's a common complaint. Everywhere we look, privacy is being eroded. Paparazzi hang from trees and sift through celebrity garbage. TV channels are stuffed with so much "reality TV" that there seems to be a camera crew on every street corner. The person next in line at the post office could be a blogger listening for gossip. Digital cameras and cell phones are continually snapping, and our every financial transaction or movement is recorded in vast corporate and government data warehouses. Arguments range from "I own the copyright on my image and everything about me, and I& From Frank Carver's weblog (Teaching and Learning category) on March 5, 2005 at 4:15 a.m..

Can organizing things using email really break the law?
Via this post at Educational Technology, I read about email potentially violating "open meetings" laws. This puzzles me somewhat, as I'm not really sure what these "open metings" laws are all about. It just seems strange that there are legal forces at work apparently acting to prevent, rather than encourage, efficient communications. Although this is in a so From Frank Carver's weblog (Teaching and Learning category) on March 5, 2005 at 4:15 a.m..

The Future of the Internet in Education
In weblogg-ed I read an interesting discusion of "The Future of the Internet in Education". While I agree with some of it, there are other things that I'm not so sure about. As I mentioned last week, adding communication technology to traditional "classroom" education leads to an enormous amount of new problems. The great majority of my students have access to computers, internet, TV and video, mobile phones, MP3 playe From Frank Carver's weblog (Teaching and Learning category) on March 5, 2005 at 4:15 a.m..

Hand coded HTML or dreamweaver/frontpage?
My software development and expert systems students are also currently facing an assignment deadline for a web design module. This means that I've been getting the tail end of their frustration in the form of "why doesn't this work" questions during my classes. It seems that Robert Niles and Dennis Jerz are also ruminating about this topic. Our web design course uses Dreamweaver. Although I have a copy of Dreamweaver that came w From Frank Carver's weblog (Teaching and Learning category) on March 5, 2005 at 4:15 a.m..

Problems with podcasts on generic MP3 players
I own two standalone MP3 players, both bought largely on the basis of price. I don't listen to music much (I generally find it a distraction that gets in the way of my thinking), but I am keen on listening to what are now tending to be called "podcasts". I have found some problems, though, and I'm wondering if it's just my poor choice of player, or whether all MP3 players are the same. My problem stems from the length of many podcasts. Typical enclosures from IT Conversations or RSS radio shows such as Frank Carver's weblog (Teaching and Learning category) on March 5, 2005 at 4:15 a.m..

Alternate uses for RSS which are not just about "what's new"
Alan at cogdogblog makes some good points about the oft-made assumption that RSS is just about providing a feed of "what's new" from a web site or weblog. Alan gives some examples of using RSS for search results, or for a random selection from a set of resources. I'd like to suggest something more. I spend a good proportion of my working day with a RSS aggregator open. I rely on it to keep me informed of new posts on my favourite blogs, additions to resource collections such as From Frank Carver's weblog (Teaching and Learning category) on March 5, 2005 at 4:15 a.m..

Friki tip: adding "rel=nofollow" to user-entered links
It's been a while since I last posted a "Friki tip". With all the fuss about the new "rel=nofollow" attribute supported by Google et al., I thought it time to let people know just how simple it is to change a Friki installation to add this attribute. As usual, all this can be done without stopping or restarting the server or the application. Go to your Friki data directory (the one you entered when you first started Friki) Edit the file wiki.transform look for the line that generates links from URLs. It's in the "embedded URLs" section, From Frank Carver's weblog (Teaching and Learning category) on March 5, 2005 at 4:15 a.m..

Education vs media/advertsising - is the battle already over?
I read a lot of education weblogs, and a lot of education theory. The current trend in all these writings seems in favour of a learner-focussed approach, where content and curriculum adapt to the needs and desires of the students. I also teach 16-19-year-olds at a local college. Few commentators seem to stop and think about where these "needs" and "desires" come from. I agree with a lot of the analysis which looks at the way typical students will rapidly lose interest in imposed topics, but then spend hours of deep concentration on things that actualy interest them. Patrick Welsh wr From Frank Carver's weblog (Teaching and Learning category) on March 5, 2005 at 4:15 a.m..

Our bounded and remote online experiences
Via incorporated subversion I read about some thoughts on "Our bounded and remote online experiences". It's still burbling in my head, but there are some really interesting ideas brought up. Things that occur to me at the moment are an appreciation for the approach of defining interaction as a mechanism for interpreting and comprehending this experience, a syntax, putting it into a structure, a semantics, which assigns it meaning, and a pragmatics, that gives it a context and use and the w From Frank Carver's weblog (Teaching and Learning category) on March 5, 2005 at 4:15 a.m..

Browsing without an address bar
I just read a blog entry that really resonated with some of my experience teaching computer stuff at a loval college. Guy Dickinson wrote about observing someone who never used the browser address ber, instead preferring to enter URLs (and URL fragments) into google. Using google for this sort of thing seems a reasonably smart choice, although to a tech-head purist like me the extra step of asking a search engine to find the URL that you just gave it seems a waste of resources. However, the problem com From Frank Carver's weblog (Teaching and Learning category) on March 5, 2005 at 4:15 a.m..

P2P File-Sharing Is Good. And It Can't Be Stopped
Marco Montemagno, an Italian new media communication expert, entrepreneur and blogger, who has worked and collaborated with some of the most established media corporations including Italy's RAI and Murdoch's Sky TV network, has just published online a notable P2P manifesto,...... From Learning Educational Technologies on March 5, 2005 at 4:15 a.m..

Visualizing Databases and Spreadsheets: Omniscope And FeatureFinder
Following up on his recent coverage about OmniScope and its upcoming, lightweight, Flash-based counterpart FeatureFinder, Robin Good has just made his audio interview available with Edward Forbes, managing director of Iokio. The interview was held last week. Omniscope 3-step approach...... From Learning Educational Technologies on March 5, 2005 at 4:15 a.m..

Educational Potential Of Video Games: Futurelab Finds Out
According to researchers at Futurelab, a British nonprofit investigating how technology can be used for innovative learning, video games have the potential to be highly effective tools for holding students' attention and teaching them about a variety of topics. Photo...... From Learning Educational Technologies on March 5, 2005 at 4:15 a.m..

Windows Sounds Symphony Orchestra: The Full Remix
This is a Flash video clip that I personally award for the most creative audiovisual sound byte I have seen in recent times. An absolutely great sound performance created with some of the most ubiquitous and underestimated sound performers around:...... From Learning Educational Technologies on March 5, 2005 at 4:15 a.m..

Surf Together With Free Co-Browsing Tool: Jybe
Vendors of professional Web conferencing tools usually pitch their marketing strategies at corporate buyers. Advanced Reality Inc. has taken an entirely different, very challenging and bottom-up approach by releasing a beta version of Jybe, a free browser toolbar plug-in that...... From Learning Educational Technologies on March 5, 2005 at 4:15 a.m..

Sigh...
Why is it that Americans can't even be nice to each other without getting sued? At least some sanity persists... From Relevancy on March 5, 2005 at 4:14 a.m..

Your Passion Should Be My Passion
I so love the premise behind this blog called Passionate. Think about ways you can create experiences for your users, customers, learners, whoever that makes them react passionately to what you're offering them. It's what I've referred to as delight, really surprising people with your good intentions. ... From Relevancy on March 5, 2005 at 4:14 a.m..

Free Mojtaba and Arash
Two Iranian bloggers are facing charges for blogging. Arash is, in fact, still imprisoned. The Committee to Protect Bloggers as well as lots of others in the blogosphere have rallied together in protest. Spread the word. Or at least read the BBC report. From Relevancy on March 5, 2005 at 4:14 a.m..

Noi articole in eJurnalul eLearning
27 ianuarie 2005: eJurnalul eLearning publicat de Timsoft - http://www.timsoft.ro - si e-Learning Centre UK - http://www.e-learningcentre.co.uk - publica doua noi articole - http://www.timsoft.ro/index.php?pagina=ejurnal: From Timsoft on March 5, 2005 at 4:14 a.m..

eLearningBlog
6 februarie 2005: Weblogul Timsoft - eLearningBlog - este acum gazduit pe site-ul Timsoft: http://www.timsoft.ro/weblog; timp de 8 luni gazduirea a fost la weblog.ro: http://www.weblog.ro/timsoft. From Timsoft on March 5, 2005 at 4:14 a.m..

Colectia de RSS-uri romanesti reprezentata functie de Page Rank
11 februarie 2005: Colectia de Webloguri/RSS-uri romanesti http://www.timsoft.ro/index.php?pagina=resurse9 poate fi vizualizata acum folosind tehnica weighted list, ponderata dupa PageRank; intentionam sa ponderam lista si cu alte criterii, de asemenea sa generam o imagine a notiunilor ce apar in webloguri. From Timsoft on March 5, 2005 at 4:14 a.m..

What, if any, suggestions do you have for education?
In answer to questions posed by our local district education council, I'll submit a short list:Involve the community as suggested by Robert Paterson or as Dave Pollard says, "allow learners to connect and transact directly with front-line teachers, enablers, demonstrators, and real learning environments -- From jarche.com - Improving Organizational Performance on March 5, 2005 at 4:11 a.m..

Do You Have a Company Blog Strategy?
According to the Wall Street Journal, "Blogs Keep Internet Customers Coming Back - Small Firms Find Tool Useful for Recognition, Connecting With Buyers". Instead of maligning blogs as being written by a million guys in pyjamas, the WSJ states: The blog as business tool has arrived. From jarche.com - Improving Organizational Performance on March 5, 2005 at 4:11 a.m..

Skype Journal Launches
Stuart Henshall at Unbound Spiral has launched a new community around Skype, the free Voice over Internet Protocol system that lets you speak from one computer to another computer anywhere in the world. You can also call regular telephone number for a very low price.Concurrently Skype growth has accelerated with over 2m active online and some 40m minutes a day. New products both hardware and software for Skype are emerg From jarche.com - Improving Organizational Performance on March 5, 2005 at 4:11 a.m..

Restaurants in San Francisco
I've posted information on a wide range of restaurants near Moscone Center, the location of the CCCC conference in San Francisco beginning March 16. Those interested can find the link on my blog at http://faculty.deanza.fhda.edu/jocalo/2005/03/01 I know we're all going to get food for thought, but some of you may want the other kind too. From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on March 5, 2005 at 4:10 a.m..

First Annual Stitch and Bitch 4Cs
I have made reservations for those who have already confirmed with me that they wanted to come. Drop by if you like, but letting me know in advance so that I can change the reservation would be appreciated. Thirsty Bear is a Spanish restaurant and brewery. It looks promising! Saturday, March 19, 2005 6:30 PM Thirsty Bear 661 Howard St., San Francisco 94105 Phone: (415) 974-0905 From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on March 5, 2005 at 4:10 a.m..

$25,000 for a CMS??? You've got to be kidding!
In Oh, What a Tangled Web..., University Business has a feature describing the need for content management systems on college campuses. Only wait? The feature focuses almost exclusively on expensive proprietary systems. Can't imagine that any CMS is worth $25,000 plus $5,000 a year in maintenance cost with so many good open source apps out there. Bowling Green's and Gonzaga's new websites could easily be done with many open source From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on March 5, 2005 at 4:10 a.m..

The Weblog as the model for a new type of VLE? - Revisited
In February 2004, Auricle initiated a series of articles The Weblog as the Model for a New Type of VLE? based on the contention that the weblog perhaps offered us the basis of a new type of online learning environment; an environment where dynamic communication and knowledge/resource sharing was key. Well I'm back to this theme because there's now at least one emergent example of what I meant. From Auricle on March 5, 2005 at 4:08 a.m..

UKeU: The Final Curtain?
And so the House of Commons Education and Skills Committee report into UKeU deals the final death blow to a wasted opportunity. We're left with a sense of 'snouts in the trough' and a flawed attempt to build a better mousetrap for mice who didn't exist. The leadership at all levels was apparently flawed but, speaking as one who 'was there', there was some really excellent people working in, and... From Auricle on March 5, 2005 at 4:08 a.m..

Taking Notes in the Dark
We were getting ready to screen a film in my Literary Criticism class. I turned out the lights and started the DVD. "How are we supposed to take notes in the dark?" a student asked. Good question. I forgot to coach them on this and regretted it. I stopped the... From PEDABLOGUE on March 5, 2005 at 4:05 a.m..

NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and print ...
NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more From Peter Scott's Library Blog on March 5, 2005 at 4:02 a.m..

Program now available for Intelligence Tools: Data Mining, Visualization - Philadelphia, Pennsylvani ...
Program now available for Intelligence Tools: Data Mining, Visualization - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - June 27-28, 2005 - The focus of this new annual conference is best practice in the derivation of intelligence from data. The meeting highlights the implementation of sophisticated techniques and procedures for gathering, analyzing and presenting intelligence; intelligence that is a vital factor in decision-making in enterprises or in government bodies From Peter Scott's Library Blog on March 5, 2005 at 4:02 a.m..

Cuneiform Tablets: From the Reign of Gudea of Lagash to Shalmanassar III presents clay tablets, cone ...
Cuneiform Tablets: From the Reign of Gudea of Lagash to Shalmanassar III presents clay tablets, cones, and brick fragments inscribed using the ancient pictographic writing system known as cuneiform from the Library of Congress' collections From Peter Scott's Library Blog on March 5, 2005 at 4:02 a.m..

Put It in Writing @ Your Library writers' workshops sponsored by Woman's Day and the American Librar ...
Put It in Writing @ Your Library writers' workshops sponsored by Woman's Day and the American Library Association. The one-day, two-hour workshops are taught by WD writers and library staff and will be held at libraries across the United States on April 12 during National Library Week. Workshops will focus on crafting query letters, developing story ideas and doing research From Peter Scott's Library Blog on March 5, 2005 at 4:02 a.m..

All languages change over time and vary according to place and social domain, as is perfectly illust ...
All languages change over time and vary according to place and social domain, as is perfectly illustrated by these extracts taken from two large audio resources held in the British Library Sound Archive: the Survey of English Dialects and the Millennium Memory Bank. Together, they provide a fascinating overview of spoken English during the second half of the 20th century. Its rich diversity documents both continuity and change, offering many insights into local history a From Peter Scott's Library Blog on March 5, 2005 at 4:02 a.m..

Navigate the World of Patents - One-day patent searching workshop - March 21 2005 - British Library ...
Navigate the World of Patents - One-day patent searching workshop - March 21 2005 - British Library Conference Centre, London - Hosted by the British Library and Thomson Scientific From Peter Scott's Library Blog on March 5, 2005 at 4:02 a.m..

The Good Practice Guide from UKOLN provides advice on standards and best practices to organisations ...
The Good Practice Guide from UKOLN provides advice on standards and best practices to organisations involved in the development of cultural heritage Web services. The content of the guidebook is based on the advice provided by the NOF-digitise Technical Advisory Service (and others) to projects funded by the NOF-digitise programme From Peter Scott's Library Blog on March 5, 2005 at 4:02 a.m..

OPAL (Online Programming for All Libraries), administered by the Alliance Library System, the Mid-Il ...
OPAL (Online Programming for All Libraries), administered by the Alliance Library System, the Mid-Illinois Talking Book Center, and the Illinois State Library Talking Book and Braille Service, has been recognized by WebJunction as a 2005 "Public Access Super Star" for building digital opportunity through community engagement From Peter Scott's Library Blog on March 5, 2005 at 4:02 a.m..

This week's Friday Brain-Teaser from xrefer. Last week's Brainteaser was based on Brewer's Dictionar ...
This week's Friday Brain-Teaser from xrefer. Last week's Brainteaser was based on Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable and this week's is based on Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable, a diverse and entertaining exploration of the linguistic and cultural landscape of the modern world. See if you can answer these questions - the solutions are all in the modern Brewer. Answers here.1. What pseudonym is used by the English pop singer George Alan O& From Peter Scott's Library Blog on March 5, 2005 at 4:02 a.m..

Extreme Bookmarking - Selection From 50 Del.icio.us Add-Ons: WeTaste
A hot technology trend of 2004 was social bookmarking, with the hype primarily circling around del.icio.us, Furl and Spurl. Last week I dug a little into the technical background of del.icio.us and was astounded at the enormous amount of tools...... From Robin Good's Latest News on March 5, 2005 at 4:02 a.m..

Live TV Looks Good On My PC: Rosso Alice
This past Sunday I have been able, for the first time, to see a live sport event in the full glory of my 15.4-inch laptop wide-screen while connected to the Internet. Frankly I couldn't believe my eyes. (c) RossoAlice.it Not...... From Robin Good's Latest News on March 5, 2005 at 4:02 a.m..

How To Create News Radars: Rok Gets The Good' Steps
I just finished listening to Rok Hrastnik's highly recommended interview with Robin about The RSS NewsMaster's Toolkit. The third edition of Robin's e-book is expected to be released within a week from now and describes the exact steps that you...... From Robin Good's Latest News on March 5, 2005 at 4:02 a.m..

PodTreocasting!
Fellow Treo owners &ampndash; check out Quick News, the new version of Hand/RSS that handles podcasts! w00t! Now I can download Greg&amprsquo;s podcasts directly to my Treo 650!BTW, don&amprsquo;t you think Mr. Podcast, Greg Schwartz, should rename himself &ampldquo;The Pod Librarian?&amprdquo;  ;-) From The Shifted Librarian on March 5, 2005 at 4:01 a.m..

Libraries Matter Steps It Up Another Notch
Remember a few weeks ago when I highlighted Libraries Matter, a wristband campaign started by the Alliance Library System here in Illinois? Well, since that time, they've been quite busy. Not only do they now have a Libraries Matter blog with an RSS feed, but they've also added a separate Libraries Matter Gallery photobThe Shifted Librarian on March 5, 2005 at 4:01 a.m..

Chicago Sun-Times Has RSS!
In my RSS presentations, I always use the Chicago Sun-Times as an example because NewsIsFree has been scraping their site for years. I used to be more of a Chicago Tribune reader, but I've become a Sun-Times person because of that feed. Now, though, Steven, IMs to tell me he's found a feed on the Sun-Times site itself! Great news for Chicago newspaper fans! Maybe this will even trickle down to my Sun-Times-affiliated local papers...!< From The Shifted Librarian on March 5, 2005 at 4:01 a.m..

Illinois Educators Conference Blog
What in the World is IceCasting?&ampldquo;IceCasting is an experiment in MobCasting, an idea that Andy Carvin has been exploring lately. The Illinois Technology Conference for Educators (IL-TCE) will be held in St. Charles from March 1 through March 4 and I thought this might be an interesting way to extend the learning.Everyone loves attending confer From The Shifted Librarian on March 5, 2005 at 4:01 a.m..

Moving Past GormanGate
Indulge me for a moment while I play catch-up and note that I, too, have added the &ampldquo;Blog Person&amprdquo; button to the right-hand column on my web site, right above the &ampldquo;RSS bigot&amprdquo; one. I note this mainly because some folks have wondered where it should link to, and I&amprsquo;ve chosen to point to a Technorati search for &ampldquo;michael gorman bloggers.&amprdquo; Lots of people sent me links to the controversy while I was out sick (thanks!), and others have From The Shifted Librarian on March 5, 2005 at 4:01 a.m..

GoUpstate Goes RSS Reader
The Spartanburg Herald-Journal, better known as GoUpstate.com, has joined the parade of clueful newspapers offering their readers RSS news aggregators. Andy Rhinehart and the GoUpstatians are offering a free, downloadable Windows client called the GoReader for &ampldquo;the latest news, weather, auctions, and more delivered to your desktop.&amprdquo; Notice that the word &ampldquo;RSS&amprdquo; doesn&amprsquo;t appear anywhere in there, which is how it should be. Check out their home page for the banner From The Shifted Librarian on March 5, 2005 at 4:01 a.m..

IDG's Patricia Smith interviews me about podcasting and screencasting
In today's 30-minute podcast, I'm interviewed by IDG's Patricia Smith about both podcasting and screencasting. The article is for IDG's internal newsletter, and Patricia graciously (and adventurously!) gave me permission both to record our interview and to publish this podcast in advance of the publication of her story. ...30-minute podcast From Jon's Radio on March 5, 2005 at 3:59 a.m..

Who is talking about what?
When my son was a bit younger, we noticed that when we asked him a question, he'd answer with a question. Inevitably this led to the following exchange: Q: Why do you always answer a question with a question? A: Why does everybody always ask me that? I remembered that yesterday when somebody asked me: "Who do you read on the topic of REST?" I answered with a question of this form: /item[contains(.,'REST')]/title Which, translated into English, asks: "What RSS items have I read that mention REST?". You can run that From Jon's Radio on March 5, 2005 at 3:59 a.m..

The Proposed Amendment of the Egyptian Constitution's Article 76 for Presidential Election Is Only a Back Door for Referendum
Despite widespread excitement about the change, some opposition groups and outside experts called it a limited step that still would not allow truly free elections. They said it was virtually certain Mubarak would stay in power. [PRWEB Mar 1, 2005] From PR Web on March 5, 2005 at 3:58 a.m..

2005 Copyright Awareness Week to Encourage a Greater Understanding of the Rights of Creative People through Education by Recording Stars on the Radio and Teachers
The Copyright Society of the U.S.A. and The National Association for Music Education (MENC) Collaborate on Education Initiative Launching March 21, 2005 [PRWEB Mar 3, 2005] From PR Web on March 5, 2005 at 3:58 a.m..

Paul Campos Blows the Whistle on America's Unhealthy Obsession with Weight in a New Book- "The Obesity Myth"
Is your weight hazardous to your health? According to America's public health authorities there's an 80% chance that it is. From the Surgeon General's office to the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, and our leading medical schools, America's anti-fat warriors bombard us with dire warnings. According to such sources no less than four out of every five Americans maintain a medically dangerous body mass HYPHEN nearly two-thirds of us are said to be overweight, while almost half the rest of us are categorized as too thin. Tune in to the Size Matt From PR Web on March 5, 2005 at 3:58 a.m..

Picture Learners Can't Learn to Spell by writing words 100 times
Students who have difficulty with spelling continue to be required to write words over and over again, even though this has never helped to improve spelling. This article describes a simple method that does work! [PRWEB Mar 3, 2005] From PR Web on March 5, 2005 at 3:58 a.m..

13th Annual Pikes Peak Writer's Conference Brings Big Names
Pikes Peak Writers (PPW) announces the 13th annual Pikes Peak Writers Conference, to be held April 22-24, 2005 at the Wyndham, Colorado Springs. The 2005 Conference will see the return of top New York literary agent Donald Maass, who will lead his acclaimed workshop "Fire in Fiction (And How to Get It There)." [PRWEB Mar 3, 2005] From PR Web on March 5, 2005 at 3:58 a.m..

As Blogs Gain Momentum, Effective Writing Becomes Key to Success - Writer's Gain Visitors and Subscribers with Help from IdeaFisher's Creative Writing Engines
Adding Sizzle to the steak of your blog content, and keeping the creative spark alive after hours in front of the computer takes energy, talent... and sometimes a boost of creative writing juice from programs like IdeaFisher, the Word Association Engine. Initially Developed to create comedy lines, the program has grown legs and is now used by over 362,000 users to craft blogs ranging from the silly to the sublime. [PRWEB Mar 3, 2005] From PR Web on March 5, 2005 at 3:58 a.m..

"Kefaya" Epidemic Democratic Infectious Word Spreading from Egypt to the Rest of Arab World
Bush's Middle East democracy plan has opened the doors to more freedom and has made people more outspoken, giving them a sense of security to use this most dangerous newly found weapon on the streets of Egypt and the Arab world and now it has spread around causing major changes in the political beliefs of these people and in so doing has made an impact with a potential to change their lives [PRWEB Mar 3, 2005] From PR Web on March 5, 2005 at 3:58 a.m..

National Professions Announces the Addition of Broadcast Captioning Distance Learning Program
A nationally recognized distance learning school, National Professions, has announced the addition of a Broadcast Captioning program. [PRWEB Mar 4, 2005] From PR Web on March 5, 2005 at 3:58 a.m..

RK Solutions, LLC In Cooperation With Yavneh Academy Is Hosting a Seminar
RK Solutions, LLC in cooperation with Yavneh Academy is hosting a seminar: Promoting technology integration in the educational environment with Schools-On-I-Net. A panel from Yavneh Academy will provide insight into how their school community utilizes the Schools-On-I-Net platform. [PRWEB Mar 4, 2005] From PR Web on March 5, 2005 at 3:58 a.m..

Salta! "Jump" Into Spanish Marks Grand Opening With Open House
Based in Metuchen, N.J., a new program helps preschoolers lay foundation for learning Spanish. Open house planned, enrollment begins. [PRWEB Mar 4, 2005] From PR Web on March 5, 2005 at 3:58 a.m..

Interest in Online Career Training at UNLV Increases - UNLV Offers Adults New Ways to Improve Careers, Start New Ones
In response to overwhelming interest in online, non-credit, and career training courses, UNLV has expanded its course offerings to accommodate what are considered "hot trend" areas. [PRWEB Mar 4, 2005] From PR Web on March 5, 2005 at 3:58 a.m..

Online Career Training Interest Increases - University of North Dakota Offers Adults New Ways to Improve Careers or Start New Ones
In response to overwhelming interest in online, career training certificate programs, the University of North Dakota and other well-known institutions have expanded their course offerings to accommodate what are considered 'hot trend' areas. [PRWEB Mar 4, 2005] From PR Web on March 5, 2005 at 3:58 a.m..

Five Parenting Resource Guides to help African American Parents Inspire Children to Excellence
NetNia Publishing releases "Inspire! Excellence Parenting Kit" sharing the benefits of effective parenting skills. [PRWEB Mar 4, 2005] From PR Web on March 5, 2005 at 3:58 a.m..

White House Releases Updated National Drug Control Strategy
The Bush Administration continues to focus on three main areas of drug prevention, rehabilitation and law enforcement. [PRWEB Mar 4, 2005] From PR Web on March 5, 2005 at 3:58 a.m..

Carrick Institute - Quality in higher education teaching and learning
The Carrick Institute website will provide a source of information and resources for those with an interest in learning and teaching in higher education. Information and resources will continue be added to the website. From EdNA Online on March 5, 2005 at 3:58 a.m..

EdNA Advanced VET Search Available
education.au and the Australian Flexible Learning Framework (The Framework) have collaborated to introduce the first Australian cross-VET search service. The new VET Advanced Search, available through the EdNA Online website, provides a comprehensive search across a number of authoritative VET resource repositories. These include AEShareNET, EdNA VET categories, NCVER's VOCED research database, and four learning object repositories. The learning object repository searches provide access to Flexible Learning Toolboxes, and learning objects from TAFE Tasmania, TAFE VC and DET NSW's Cen From EdNA Online on March 5, 2005 at 3:58 a.m..

Building University Diversity - Discussion Paper
The Issues Paper considers the changed environment of our current approval and accreditation processes and also sets out a range of issues including: the specific combinations of teaching, scholarship and research which should define universities and other types of higher education institutions; whether there should be provision for 'specialist' institutions covering a narrow field of study in-depth rather than a wide range of disciplines; the role of private and for-profit institutions in the future and to what extent regulation of them should be different to regulation of public or From EdNA Online on March 5, 2005 at 3:58 a.m..

More movies on the way for PSP
Lions Gate will release films for the handheld game player, making it the first third-party studio to support Sony's new UMD media format. From CNET News.com on March 5, 2005 at 3:58 a.m..

Homeland Security picks up missing-kid tech
Agency is to test Amber Alert technology, used to track abducted kids, in program to improve nationwide warning system. From CNET News.com on March 5, 2005 at 3:57 a.m..

More states target violent games
Washington State bill would hold firms responsible for inspiring real-life violence; Arkansas proposal keeps M-rated games out of kids' reach. From CNET News.com on March 5, 2005 at 3:57 a.m..

Athletes trade steroids for surgery
Also: High-tech hunters use new technologies to track prey. [News.com Extra] From CNET News.com on March 5, 2005 at 3:57 a.m..

India's Wipro opens Munich office
It's the third such Wipro center to be set up in Germany, after those in Kiel and Dusseldorf. From CNET News.com on March 5, 2005 at 3:57 a.m..

Gartner: Outsourcing costs more than in-house
Customer service operations sent overseas can cost almost a third more, according to a new study. From CNET News.com on March 5, 2005 at 3:57 a.m..

Internet Awarenesss/Moral Issues in the Digital Age
Today, I was lucky enough to present to the staff at Campbell Collegiate in Regina on the topic of Internet Awareness. I think the presentation was well received, and I am hoping that the teachers will be better prepared to... From Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on March 5, 2005 at 1:52 a.m..

CMS Marketplace in Japan
Tony Byrne has written a few notes on the state of the CMS marketplace in Japan, having just attended a conference there. To quote: Just back from several days in Japan talking to CMS vendors and practitioners. The CMS marketplace... From Column Two on March 5, 2005 at 1:45 a.m..