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Moving UseMod Wikis Lock, Stock, and Barrel
You can have your wiki and move it too. Several times this past year (and well this past week) I have had reason to move an entire UseMod wiki to another server. It is easy and tricky at the same time, and I think I have it all figured out now. One need was to have copies of the wiki as backups and to run locally from my laptop (I run all my web apps on my personal unix G4 powerbook). This was useful for example, when we presented at the League For Innovation conference in New York City that wanted $700 bucks for an internet connec From cogdogblog on March 29, 2005 at 10:48 p.m..

Comment on the Intranet Roadmap
I've just received some further comments on the Intranet Roadmap, as follows: "James Robertson wants to arm intranet teams with the proven techniques needed for building intranets. His Intranet Roadmap identifies the core activities that generate key designs and deliverables.... From Column Two on March 29, 2005 at 10:47 p.m..

Balch Internet Research and Analysis Toolkit
Charlie Balch has created a public domain, open source, online survey system called BIRAT. By Charlie Balch, March 29, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] From OLDaily on March 29, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

Identifying and Developing Learner-Centered Practices
When I was in school we did book reports. They weren't learner centered then, and so I am wondering how they become learner centered today. So also with some of the other learning activities listed in this document: drill and practice, field trip, test and quiz. Learner-centered, it seems to me, becomes something different when viewed through the lens of instruction. How, for example, is this a principle of learner-centred learning? "Explicit outcomes are giv From OLDaily on March 29, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

Social Life of Students
You can't say this too many times: "What we need to do is rethink our curriculum in terms of interaction, create a consistent, generic toolset that supports the needs of the students and instructors, and instill community practices from end-to-end in the curriculum." Why? Because "it takes more than one class/quarter/semester to start becoming a proficient denizen of the socially networked community." Via James Farmer. By Chris Lott, Ruminate, March 28, 2005 [OLDaily on March 29, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

What Can We Learn From This? A Request for Participation
I will let Albert Ip explain it in his own words: "I have written a post re: the process of how an independent web development fight against the litigation of a big corporate. This true story itself is a nice reading - but fairly long. You may like to allocate an afternoon to do this. After reading the story and BEFORE reading my lessons learnt, I would like you to post YOUR own lessons learnt in the comment section of my blog post. Then you read my lesson learnt. If sufficient people participate, then we would have a collection of different lessons learnt from the same true story. Hopefully, From OLDaily on March 29, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

International Journal of Education and Development using ICT
The first edition of the International Journal of Education and Development using ICT has launched, providing provides free and open access to all of its content using the Open Journal Systems software. No RSS feed, or none that I can find. By Stewart Marshall and Wal Taylor, eds., March, 2005 [Refer][OLDaily on March 29, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

Computers Make Students Better Test Takers, Says Study
As the ADL news report summarizes, "Give a student an Apple, a new study says, and you will see a better grade on that next test. The more students used computers to write school papers, the better they performed on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment Systems (MCAS) English/Language Arts exam, claim researchers at Boston College (BC) and the University of Massachusetts, Lowell (UML). But the more students used computers to play games, Web surf, chat with friends or create PowerPoint presentations, the worse they did on the non-computerize From OLDaily on March 29, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

Yahoo 360
Yahoo takes a big step toward the semantic social network with a service that blends social networking with blogs. Yahoo 360 is now available in beta. You can connect to your instant messenger, post your photos (unlimited storage, says the web page), display your LaunchCast radio, and more. I've set up a page on the service. Access is by invitation - but if you send me an email, I'll send you an invite (please allow me a few hours to do this). By Various Authors, Yahoo, March, 2005 [OLDaily on March 29, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

Time For The Recording Industry To Face The Music
Comprehensive report (which should be forwarded to Canadian lawmakers, as my readership inside Parliament is minimal) on the history and nature of peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing. The author writes, "This report explains why public policy should embrace peer-to-peer technologies. It examines the history of technological innovation in communications and the piracy panics they cause among entrenched incumbents... The paper reminds policymakers of the historic lesson that technological innovation promotes political, cultural, and social development, and economic growth." PDF. By Mark Cooper, Con From OLDaily on March 29, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

Third CETIS/LIFE Codebash Goes Public
A Codebash, much like an ADL plugfest, is an event where vendors and developers meet and see whether their products actually interoperate. "Anything from various flavours of content packages, IMS QTI question items, metadata records and (web) services such as SRW, RSS and Atom were posted on a dedicated site and tested." Many files, links, summaries and even pictures. By Wilbert Kraan, CETIS, March 29, 2005 [Refer][OLDaily on March 29, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

RSS Quick Start Guide Update
Just a quick pointer to newly posted version 1.5 of the RSS Quick Start Guide for Educators. It adds some new information on Furl and del.icio.us feeds, begins a list of cool uses for RSS, and fixes some broken links. At last count, the guide has been downloaded over 2,500 times...Cool! Please let me know if you see any corrections or have any additions to suggest. Enjoy! From weblogged News on March 29, 2005 at 8:47 p.m..

NextD journal
I just came across the NextD site - an organisation located in New York - with some interesting interviews - the latest with Richard Saul Wurman. NextDesign Leadership Institute was created as an experiment in innovation acceleration. We wondered if it might be possible for a small team of practicing designers to help speed the rate of adaptation, by graduate design education, to the radical events unfolding at the leading edge of the marketplace, that are impacting design leadership today. We optimistically guessed that it might be possibl From owrede_log on March 29, 2005 at 8:47 p.m..

WebDev is "hard stuff"
Jeremy Zawodny with an interesting post about the return of client side web programming. I did my diploma with heavy use of DHTML in 1997. I wanted to do it cross-platform and I stopped to support anything but Internet Explorer after my doctor told me I should try to back-off from what I currently do a bit. It wasn't just a nightmare - it was practically impossible to do. Many years have passed and things look different. The support of DHTML inside the browsers is much better - but that obviously did not really help to From owrede_log on March 29, 2005 at 8:47 p.m..

DVD format update: Apple joins Blu-Ray
In the latest development in the unfolding DVD next-generation format conflict, Apple has joined the Blu-Ray camp. Its competitor, HD-DVD, remains a significant alternative.... From MANE IT Network on March 29, 2005 at 7:59 p.m..

Plagiarism Brokering via Instant Messaging
Nate Kushner's blog reports an amusing story of how he received an instant message from a college student looking to commission a term-paper on Hinduism (via Boing Boing). Kushner ended up writing a "silly" paper, riddled with intentional errors and... From Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on March 29, 2005 at 7:56 p.m..

Mac tags
Why is it that it seems many more Mac owners decorate their laptops with stickers than do PC notebook owners? Maybe it's because we PC owners want to be able to re-sell our notebooks while Mac owners assume they're going to own their machines till they wear them down to the rims. [Technorati tag: macintosh]... From Joho the Blog on March 29, 2005 at 7:48 p.m..

GlobalVoices
Rebecca and Ethan are leading the Tuesday lunch session at Berkman. They're explaining Global Voices, an attempt to crack open the little shells we live in so we can hear, well, global voices.There are all sorts of issues to be resolved: Internationalized software, free anonymous hosting, and identifying "bridge-bloggers" who "have feet in two worlds." But, it's getting going now. They even point out that there are instances when they're getting international news via bloggers faster than the MSM; they're developing a network of bloggers on the ground around the world. The From Joho the Blog on March 29, 2005 at 7:48 p.m..

Elpub Digital Library
http://elpub.scix.net/cgi-bin/works/Home Een digitale bibliotheek met alle papers (sinds 1997) van de ELPUB conferenties. De papers zijn fulltext toegankelijk na gratis registratie. Onderwerp van de papers is electronisch publiceren in wijde zin. Veel papers over digitale bibliotheken en repositories, maar ook het digitaal editeren komt aan de orde. From CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on March 29, 2005 at 6:59 p.m..

Yahoo 360: Where Are You?
I'm rather intrigued -- and confused -- by Yahoo's newly unveiled Yahoo 360 personal information service (in beta). It's been getting considerable buzz. I'd like to try it out. However, where exactly is it? OK, here's a little PR 101: When you debut a new online site or service, make sure your site (especially the home page) is definitely up and running before and during the buzz... From Contentious Weblog on March 29, 2005 at 6:55 p.m..

WebCT announces participation in IMS Tools Interoperability Working Group
http://www.webct.com/service/ ViewContent?contentID=25561480 I'm sure the chattering masses (hey, I don't exclude myself from this grouping) will have something to say about this one - yea, as the prophets foretold, in the year of the mark of the sign of the beast, the 'evil empire' took control, yada yada yada - but from where I'm sitting, if there's a way that 3rd party learning tools can interoperate with different learning environments that is not based on proprietary API From EdTechPost on March 29, 2005 at 6:51 p.m..

Is There a Magazine in Your Future?
Have you seen the Magazine Publishers Association's "vision of the future"? It's amusing and a bit silly, but worth pondering. The slickly designed website features predictions of a future of floating bathtubs and hovering robots that pick up trash in the park. And, of course, people are still reading printed magazines.Uh-huh, sure. ... Obviously the designers of this campaign to promote magazines weren't really trying to predict the future. (A more plausible vision of the futu From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on March 29, 2005 at 5:54 p.m..

Should your blog have a business?
If your web content attracts people like you, you might be able to create something they want. From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on March 29, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..

Owukori interview
Ethan interviews Sokari Ekine, "a Nigerian feminist, human rights activist and scholar who blogs from her organic farm in Almeria, Spain, south of Madrid." (She also writes an African tech blog.) Fascinating. It's a big world. [Technorati tag: nigeria]... From Joho the Blog on March 29, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..

Cooler! More Frivolous? Dynamic Flickr Speller For Your Web Page
Regarding the recently blogged More Frivolous Fun: Spelling with Flickr, there is a new feature that you can use a small chunk of cut and paste JavaScript to put in the source of your web page, and have it dynamically create a different set of flickr-ed letters on every page reload... think of it as a dynamic logo. As noted in the comment from Eric the site creator, you can now use his script to generate a logo dy From cogdogblog on March 29, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..

School Bans Blogs
Steven Cohen e-mailed me this link to a story in the Rutland (VT) Herald about a jr/sr high school principal who has banned access to Myspace.com, a blogging site. The reason? Well aside from legitimate concerns about kids publishing personal information, the prinicpal says blogging is not an educational use of computers. Um, I weblogged News on March 29, 2005 at 5:47 p.m..

A school that logs on for studies
In a pioneering effort to take literacy to a higher technology medium, a school in Rajasthan has replaced pen and paper with computers. The Central Public Senior School in this tribal belt here relies almost completely on computers, reports Grassroots... From Teaching and Developing Online. on March 29, 2005 at 4:54 p.m..

School harnesses power of texting
Principal Michael McMenamin wants to send students text messages to tell them how pleased he is at something they have done or maybe to tell them to pick up litter. "It would be a really neat way of communicating. I... From Teaching and Developing Online. on March 29, 2005 at 4:54 p.m..

Advice for Entrants in Best News Website Competitions
Forty-seven volunteer judges (I'm one of them) are toiling away reviewing entries in this year's EPpy Awards, the annual competition that identifies the best online news operations worldwide, as the judging deadline nears. (Winners will be announced at the Interactive Media Conference and Trade Show in New Orleans on June 9.)As I work through my entries, I've noticed that some entrants are hurting themselves while others give themselves an edge.The category I'm judging is one that requires me to review entire w From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on March 29, 2005 at 4:54 p.m..

SunGard Data Systems to be Acquired by Private Equity Group
http://tinyurl.com/5nhll Many of you will have run into Sunguard through one of their fairly recent acquisitions, SCT Banner, THE SIS on many higher ed campuses. Not sure entirely what the implications of this acquisition are, but it seems like more and more acquisitions and consolidations are afoot. - SWL From EdTechPost on March 29, 2005 at 4:51 p.m..

General Inquirer applied to blogs
Berkman's Henrick Schneider at the Tuesday morning informal get-together talks about some quick research he's done using General Inquirer, "A computer-assisted approach for content analyses of textual data" by Philip Stone. It's a dictionary-based approach with over 10,000 words and 180 categories. (GI has a blog.) E.g., it found a strong correlation between the optimism in the first speech given by presidential candidates and the outcome of the elections. Also, the pessimism in popular songs and newsmagazzins predicted decreased consumer optimism and economic recession. Henrik From Joho the Blog on March 29, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..

2nd Indonesian Quake: MSNBC Leaps in with Blog
On Monday, Indonesia was hit with its second recent major quake. Soon afterward, MSNBC had an Earthquake Witness Weblog up and running, featuring reports e-mailed in from the region. The content is rather minimal (despite the site's slick design), but still a useful complement to traditional journalism. I'd like to see more of this kind of response. Is your news organization ready to instantly leverage citizen journalism in response to unexpected major news events? From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on March 29, 2005 at 3:54 p.m..

West Wing's indoor and outdoor voice
My wife and I have been catching up on TiVo'ed West Wings and the pattern seems obvious: The ones on the campaign trail are good while the ones inside the White House suck. The cause seems just as obvious: Without the natural drama of a campaign, the writers are at a loss. Adam Sorkin's genius was his ability to create compelling scripts out of two elements that traditionally are drama-free: a group of people who like one another and political issues/ideas. The new writers have fragmented the group and are relying on ridiculous plot twists: CJ's elevation to chief of... From Joho the Blog on March 29, 2005 at 2:49 p.m..

My Dentist Has an RSS Feed
Two years, a year ago, it was noteworthy when feedless-sites were worth announcing they had added an RSS feed. Is it really newsworthy anymore? There is some sort of tipping point at work here, just curious if the threshold has been lost. It takes me back 10, 11, 12 years ago when the first web sites were popping up. Every (almost) new site was nesworthy in its presence, announced in the NCSA Mosaic What's New Page. I recall combing through my multimedia magazines, noting the first companies that From cogdogblog on March 29, 2005 at 2:48 p.m..

Electronic communications bill adopted by Belgian parliamentary committee
A Belgian parliamentary committee has voted unanimously in favour of a bill transposing the package of EU directives on electronic communications into Belgian law. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on March 29, 2005 at 12:55 p.m..

Dutch ISPs protest tapping remuneration reduction
The Dutch finance minister has proposed a significant reduction in the remuneration internet service providers receive for costs incurred in the provision of internet taps on subscribers suspected of crimes. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on March 29, 2005 at 12:55 p.m..

Google to acquire Urchin
Google has announced it is to acquire Urchin Software, a San Diego website analytics provider. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on March 29, 2005 at 12:55 p.m..

Blog Books Binge
So I've been seeing this link to amaztype for a few days and finally decided to have a look at the results for a "blog" search on Amazon. Sheesh! There are dozens of blog related books out there suddenly. Who knew? Like Road Blog: When the Websters leave Normal, Illinois, for a family holiday, Austin and Ashley get pulled r From weblogged News on March 29, 2005 at 12:47 p.m..

Steps to Create RSS
RSS, or Really Simple Syndication as it is commonly known, is a technology that gives webmasters the ability to easily distribute and publish syndicated content on the Internet. It seems like all Internet businesses now have RSS feeds available; at least your competitors do. You have finally made the decision that you have to have one. Where do you start? Complete Article - Steps to Create RSS From RSS Blog on March 29, 2005 at 11:59 a.m..

HDTV service in 10m homes worldwide
HDTV services are currently widely available in only five countries: Australia, Canada, Japan, the United States, and South Korea, but rarely available in Europe. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on March 29, 2005 at 11:55 a.m..

Swisscom bids for Cesky Telecom
Swiss incumbent telco Swisscom is participating in the bidding process to purchase a 51.1 per cent stake in Cesky Telecom. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on March 29, 2005 at 11:54 a.m..

Tandberg TV to supply European telco with TV over DSL system
As part of a €4m contract to an unnamed European telco, Tandberg Television is to deliver an MPEG-4 part 10 (H.264/AVC) video head-end, and deploy its EN5930 encoding system to support ingest and delivery of MPEG-4 AVC video, as well as enable MPEG-2 encoding. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on March 29, 2005 at 11:54 a.m..

Swisscom Mobile launches nationwide EDGE network
The mobile broadband network permits high-speed data transmission over mobile phones on the NATEL network and increases mobile bandwidth from 30kbps to up to 200kbps. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on March 29, 2005 at 11:54 a.m..

Two Welsh villages have analogue TV signal turned off
As part of a trial digital television switchover that aims to offer up lessons on how to proceed with the wholesale switchover of the UK scheduled for sometime before 2012, the villages of Ferryside and Llansteffan are to receive only digital television reception from today. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on March 29, 2005 at 11:54 a.m..

Elgg released open source
It is now available - Elgg version 0.1 alpha has been released as open source software under the GNU Public License. At present documentation is limited to install instructions, however, this will be rectified shortly! For more details, visit the... From ERADC Blog on March 29, 2005 at 11:54 a.m..

All the news robots pick - Stefanie Olsen, CNET News
Chalk it up to a difficult week for Google's automated news service, which aims to best traditional newspapers with mathematical algorithms and robots crawling the Web. The Web search giant was hit with a lawsuit from French news agency Agence France Pre From Techno-News Blog on March 29, 2005 at 11:49 a.m..

Display tech aims for a brighter future - Richard Shim, CNET News
They've been around for years in traffic lights and alarm clocks. Now light-emitting diodes are bright enough to illuminate high-end electronics such as pricey flat-panel TVs--and consumers, electronics companies and LED makers stand to benefit big. Take From Techno-News Blog on March 29, 2005 at 11:49 a.m..

Ericsson sues Sendo
Ericsson has sued Sendo, claiming the UK handset manufacturer has not signed licensing agreements for its GSM and GPRS handset technology. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on March 29, 2005 at 10:55 a.m..

Microsoft, Commission agree to name for Windows edition without media player
After ten proposed names, each of which were rejected by Brussels, the Commission proposed the name 'Windows XP Home Edition N', with the 'N' standing for 'not with media player' and Microsoft has agreed. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on March 29, 2005 at 10:55 a.m..

Thief Swipes More Than a Laptop
A computer stolen from UC Berkeley carries a personal-data payload, exposing nearly 100,000 people to the possibility of identity theft. From Wired News on March 29, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..

La Vida Robot
How four underdogs from the mean streets of Phoenix took on the best from MIT in the national underwater bot championship. By Joshua Davis from Wired magazine. From Wired News on March 29, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..

Either a Borrower or a Lender Be
A new U.K. website called Zopa aims to hook up two distinct groups of people -- those with spare cash and those looking to borrow some. The auction-style exchange could give banks a run for their money. By John Papageorge. From Wired News on March 29, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..

Baseball Hunts for Right Stuff
The search for an edge on the diamond goes beyond strength and talent, as gear geeks go extra innings researching materials in players' equipment. Bulletproof batting gloves, anyone? By Michael Myser. From Wired News on March 29, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

Baby Sputnik Flies the Coop
A cosmonaut launches a mini-satellite by tossing it from the International Space Station. Also: NASA's comet-smashing Deep Impact spacecraft can't see so well.... The world's first solar sail remains earthbound. By Amit Asaravala. From Wired News on March 29, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

RFID Cards Get Spin Treatment
Sensitive to privacy concerns associated with RFID, the Department of Homeland Security wants to call the tags in its new employee ID cards -- and, potentially, U.S. passports -- 'contactless' or 'proximity' chips. By Mark Baard. From Wired News on March 29, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

Secure Flight Faces Uphill Battle
The third incarnation of the government's airline passenger pre-screening system still fails to meet nine of 10 criteria, according to a new report, even though the government plans to roll out the system in August. By Kim Zetter. From Wired News on March 29, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

MSNBC Covers Quake With Earthquake Witness Weblog
Yesterday, Indonesia was hit with its second recent major quake. Soon afterward, MSNBC had an Earthquake witness weblog up and running, featuring reports e-mailed in from the region. The content is rather minimal (despite the site's slick design), but still a useful complement to traditional journalism. I'd like to see more of this kind of response. Is your news organization ready to instantly leverage citizen journalism in response to unexpected major news events? From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on March 29, 2005 at 9:54 a.m..

Browsercam
Browsercam is a useful service for web developers. The trial period is short - only 24 hours - but still worth checking out.... From ERADC Blog on March 29, 2005 at 9:54 a.m..

Council Rebuffed on Hearing Over New Antibullying Law
The New York City Department of Education issued a letter to the City Council's Education Committee saying the Dignity for All Students Act was illegal. From New York Times: Education on March 29, 2005 at 8:46 a.m..

Group Seeks Resignation of Columbia University President
The call for Lee C. Bollinger's resignation came as the university awaits a report on charges of intimidation of Jewish students in classes in Middle East studies. From New York Times: Education on March 29, 2005 at 8:46 a.m..

Thief Takes Laptop With Berkeley Data
A thief has stolen a laptop computer containing personal information about nearly 100,000 alumni, graduate students and past applicants at the University of California, Berkeley. From New York Times: Education on March 29, 2005 at 8:46 a.m..

C-SPAN, a highly underrated resource
C-SPAN, the Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network, was created by the cable television industry in 1979 to bring the affairs of congress to the public by televising the US House and Senate floor debates and selected committees. In the last couple of years, C-SPAN has put together an impressive collection of programming and offerings including Internet broadcasts and full, live coverage of all unclassified U.S. Senate committee hearings. From kuro5hin.org on March 29, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

US Supreme Court to hear crucial digital copyright case this week
The Supreme Court of the United States is scheduled to hear arguments this week in a high profile digital copyright case. In MGM Studios v. Grokster a group of movie studios sued Grokster , a popular peer-to-peer file-trading program, arguing that the software enabled enormous infringements of the studios From NITLE Tech News on March 29, 2005 at 7:58 a.m..

ICT & Teacher Education: ETC Report
A few weeks back, there was a report released by the Education & Training Committee (Victoria, AU) titled "Step Up, Step In, Step Out" which emerged from the "Inquiry into the Suitability of Pre-Service Teacher Training Courses". A portion of... From Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on March 29, 2005 at 5:55 a.m..

Quick-response blogs and professional standards
A colleague and I gave a brief introduction to blogging and blogging software at school today, and I realized what a pleasure it was to be able to point to one thing in particular -- the way people in fields like library technology and law have been able to turn the software into powerful tools for quick response to their changing fields. It's admirable, it's one of the essential kinds of blogging, and it's hard to imagine that this sort of practice is going to go away any time soon.... From Weblogs in Higher Education on March 29, 2005 at 3:52 a.m..

The Enterprise Blogosphere (Ross Mayfield)
InfoWorld’s coverstory is The Enterprise Blogosphere. The whole thing is wrapped up in a nice .pdf. I absolutely love this quote: “Blogs and wikis play opposite roles,” says Martin Wattenberg, a researcher on the collaborative user experience team at IBM... From Corante: Social Software on March 29, 2005 at 3:49 a.m..

Internet extends limits of learning
It isn't unusual for Ted Peck, a student at Hawai'i Pacific University, to skip class. In fact, it's the norm. Peck is among a growing number of students stepping out of the traditional classroom environment in favor of Internet-delivered courses.... From Teaching and Developing Online. on March 29, 2005 at 2:54 a.m..

Hybrid classes cast their Web.
With four children younger than 5 and three jobs, Martha Bugher said she barely finds time to breathe. Sleep? She forgot about that long ago. "Speedway makes really good coffee," she said, sitting in a cushy chair at Indiana University... From Teaching and Developing Online. on March 29, 2005 at 2:54 a.m..

Specialty high school courses a mouse click away
High school junior Kelly Covello wanted to take college physics her senior year, but she was out of luck. Her school didn't offer it. But under a new program beginning this fall, Park Ridge High School will offer students such... From Teaching and Developing Online. on March 29, 2005 at 2:54 a.m..

Business data point (Clay Shirky)
Just got email from a headhunter looking for leads for a ‘VP of Social Computing,’ whose job will include building and managing a staff of 75-80 (!) people. No word on what the company is (though it’s obviously large) and... From Corante: Social Software on March 29, 2005 at 2:49 a.m..

New Scholars Research Symposium
Graduate students and faculty are invited to attend a "New Scholars Research Symposium" on Friday, April 22, beginning at 2:00 p.m. Final details will be sent to you as soon as arrangements have been made. Arranged by the Faculty Policy... From Rick's Café Canadien on March 28, 2005 at 11:53 p.m..