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Digital Rights and Copyright
Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in the MGM Studios vs. Grokster case. The case pits the movie and recording industry against makers of P2P software. The industry argues that the software companies should be held responsible for making software... From MANE IT Network on March 30, 2005 at 10:58 p.m..

Hybrid CSS Dropdowns
Half the article deals with how to make nice standards compliant menus for your web page. The other half discusses how to make them work properly in Internet Explorer. In other words, a typical design experience. By Eric Shepherd, A List Apart, March 30, 2005 [Refer][Research][Ref From OLDaily on March 30, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

de.lirio.us
An open source version of del.icio.us, a system that allows people to make tagged bookmarks. Written in Perl, which adds another project to my growing heap. By Anonymous, March, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] From OLDaily on March 30, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

Greasemonkey as a Lightweight Intermediary
We're still in the early stages of this, but rapidly approaching a time when websites will be manipulated at will by the browser. This item is a description of Greasemonkey, a Firefox extension that lets you create a JavaScript function that is executed whenever your browser loads a given page; the script loads and displays extra data in from another server. In other words, it is very similar to my rotating themes, except that it's called from the browser, not the web page. And you know, I look at this and I ask, where was Microsoft for all those years when Internet Explorer was the From OLDaily on March 30, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

Integrating Library Reserves and Course Management Systems: Aleph, RSS, and Sakai
This is pretty neat - a presentation describing the use of RSS to display library course reserves through CTools, the Sakai-based course management system (Sakai is an open source learning management system). Good discussion, along with results from a pilot project. What I like was the ease with which a short PHP script was able to set this up. Via Scott Leslie. By Susan Hollar and Ryan Max Steinberg, EDUCAUSE Midwest, March 21, 2005 [OLDaily on March 30, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

EVDB
EVDB is a calendaring service that supports RSS feeds of custom calendars. The beta launched today. As the website says, EVDB "helps people find relevant events and share their discoveries with others. We're building a worldwide repository of event and venue data that the whole world can use. Our goal is to help people discover all kinds of events they might have otherwise missed, and to profitably be the best at what we do." I like the idea - but where is the code? Oh - we all go to their site. That's not how it should work. Such systems will begin to work when there are mult From OLDaily on March 30, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

Social Literacies: Some Observations About Writing and Wikis
Short item observing, correctly, that "writing is being treated more and more as a visual entity. No longer is the unbroken, uniform, left to right flow of text the norm. Instead, in the new media especially, text plays a secondary role to images, meandering around them..." The author then considers the question of how people comprehend such writing, especially when, as in a wiki, it is written by multiple authors. It may be a long time before we understand this comprehensively - the traditional linear format could be understood with tools such as syntactic analysis. But in this new form of wr From OLDaily on March 30, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

Laying the Newspaper Gently Down to Die
Newspapers are still as profitable as ever. That, though, is part of the problem facing the industry; as the tsunami bears down on it, close enough to feel the foam, it is hard to escape the feeling that all is normal. Jay Rosen notes, "the fact that it's still (highly) profitable is one of the signs of this death." Same for the music industry. Same for the education industry. But note: the key issue facing us, say people like Rosen and Dan Gillmor, is how to preserve what we value in journa From OLDaily on March 30, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

Centered Communication: Weblogs and Aggregation in the Organisation
James Farmer weighs in with a nice post describing how aggregation networks foster communication in social networks such as intranets. The key, argues Farmer - and he is exactly right here, right in an important and subtle way - is that the networks formed through aggregation foster community in a different, and more effective, way that networks formed through structures such as category trees. The analogy is between the pre-planned city, which stifles community, and the organic city, which thrives on it. Farmer taps not simply into the technology but the underlying principles of information o From OLDaily on March 30, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

Wednesday, March 30, 2005
The old hen and I had dinner with another couple last night, and they rented Fat Albert for all of us to watch. From RHPT.com on March 30, 2005 at 9:57 p.m..

Investigación sobre el estado del e-learning en Galicia.
El Observatorio Gallego de E-learning comienza la fase de recogida de datos en la Investigación sobre el estado de las TIC en educación en la universidad y empresa gallega.... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on March 30, 2005 at 9:50 p.m..

2° MAPA DE MERCADO DE PROVEEDORES DE E-LEARNING 2005
Después del éxito logrado con el mapa de mercado de proveedores de e-Learning 2004, se relanza la encuesta de relevamiento 2005. Si su empresa ya participó en el 2004 ya sabe de que hablamos, si no p... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on March 30, 2005 at 9:50 p.m..

Del e-learning a los e-learnings: un despliegue necesario
Leí una vez sobre la guguelización (de Google) del e-learning, y es verdad que Internet constituye para muchos un magnífico medio de aprendizaje; pero, por seguir poniendo etiquetas y después de haber... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on March 30, 2005 at 9:50 p.m..

Lessig: Writing Not Allowed?
I know, I know. I should just start a Lessig blog. So sue me. The man is inspiring, at least to me. So inspiring, in fact, that after listening to his most recent talk from the 4Cs conference last week, I decided to transcribe the whole thing for further study. (I know...I have no life.) "Writing Not Allowed?" basically asks whether or not the freedoms we have always enjoyed in terms of "remixing" content through writing should apply when writing changes from just text into audio, video, From weblogged News on March 30, 2005 at 9:47 p.m..

Integrating Library Reserves and Course Management Systems: Aleph, RSS, and Sakai
http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/ 666?ID=MWR0566 Hey, I'm as excited about the potential of service-oriented architectures and the 'loosely coupled' appproach as the next guy, but on a regular basis I find myself lamenting the seeming lack of real world working examples one can currently point to. Yet every time I feel this way, along c From EdTechPost on March 30, 2005 at 8:51 p.m..

CFP: Mobile Learning 2005 (deadline for submissions: 1 April)
-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions: 1 April 2005 --... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on March 30, 2005 at 8:50 p.m..

Diploma Universitario en Diseño y Gestión de proyectos e-learning
La Universidad de San Martín y Net- Learning ofrecen este Diploma Universitario modalidad virtual ( 600 horas ) cuya segunda edición comienza el 18/04 con un equipo de especialistas ... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on March 30, 2005 at 8:50 p.m..

Hedlund Reads Yahoo 360 (Clay Shirky)
Marc Hedlund examines Yahoo 360 using Lessons from Lucasfilm’s Habitat (Best. Essay. EVAR.) as his guide, since one of the authors of LLH was Randall Farmer, one of the creators of Y360. Hedlund comes away skeptical, noting that the lack... From Corante: Social Software on March 30, 2005 at 8:49 p.m..

T-Mobile Hungary expands WLAN access to 79 locations
The number of T-Mobile Hungary’s hot-spot access points increased with the addition of Hunguest Hotels’ 21 hotels. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on March 30, 2005 at 7:56 p.m..

Deep Linking to Classified Ads: Is It OK?
"Deep linking," the practice of websites linking to articles "inside" other websites, is for the most part an accepted practice now. While a few news publishers have challenged the practice in the past -- wanting online users to visit their homepages rather than inside webpages first, and trying to use the courts to mandate that -- the courts have pretty much scotched those challenges. Deep linking is OK.But what about deep linking to classified advertising? That's the latest wrinkle, and we'll have to wait and From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on March 30, 2005 at 7:55 p.m..

[f2c] Jeff Jarvis and Bob Corn-Revere
Jeff interviews Bob Corn-Revere, a first amendment lawyer, about the new threats to free speech. Bob says that the Democrats have been even more pro-regulation than the Republicans. The fines have gone way up: 4x the fines this year than in the total of the past ten years. We now have "obscenity light," a vast expansion of scope and vagueness. Jeff recounts his investigation of the 129 complaints that caused the FCC to issue it's largest fine ever, $1.2M. Jeff found that they were written by 23 people and all but 3 were the same. Bob says that the number... From Joho the Blog on March 30, 2005 at 7:49 p.m..

Nutrition researcher was cooking the books
The Boston Globe: "In the worst case of scientific fakery to come to light in two decades, a top obesity researcher who long worked at the University of Vermont admitted yesterday that he fabricated data in 17 applications for federal grants to make his work seem more promising, helping him win nearly $3 million in government funding." [...] "Some colleagues speculated that Poehlman buckled to an exaggerated perception of the pressure to publi From Seb's Open Research on March 30, 2005 at 6:47 p.m..

[f2c] Lafayette, LA
Terry Huval tells about the battle for Lafayette, LA, where a citizen desire for broadband access (via fiber to the home) was opposed by the incumbents who proposed legislation to maintain their monopoly. A judge finally ruled that the public ought to be able to vote on it. [Technorati tags: f2c lafayette huval]... From Joho the Blog on March 30, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..

"Social Literacy" of Wiki Writing
(Via James, who has much to say on this as well...) This piece by Ulises Mejias takes a look at the writing process in wikis as a way to understand the need for what he calls a "social literacy" now needed when tackling collaborative writing spaces. Thus, social literacy...does not refer to the skills necessary to perform in society, but to the use of the resource of writing in social contexts. Social literacy amounts to the textual practices not (as has been tr From weblogged News on March 30, 2005 at 5:47 p.m..

Seven Myths about Voice over IP
This VoIP summary from IEEE Spectrum was cited by the Resource Shelf. It's worth a read: "Simply put, VoIP means doing voice communications over the same networks that we rely on for data communicationsthe local networks that connect to our computers and the Internet that links them all together. If you've ever bought a prepaid phone card, especially one for international calling, you've probably already dialed into a VoIP system without knowing it. By crossing national borders as cheap Internet packets, inste From EduResources--Higher Education Resources Online on March 30, 2005 at 5:47 p.m..

360: The Everything-to-Me Website
Yahoo!'s new "360" service debuted this week in beta form, and (thanks to an invitation from Yahoo!'s Don Loeb) I've had a chance to play around with it a bit. My initial impression is that it's intriguing, and I'm looking forward to seeing where this goes.As I read it, Yahoo! 360 pulls together for the user a personal website; a personal blog; a social networking community; and a Web photo archive. Then there are integrated links to other stuff that you might have used Yahoo! for, such as reviews you've written ab From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on March 30, 2005 at 4:54 p.m..

$18 Million Tasini Settlement Announced
Freelance writers will receive payments for online use of their work prior to 2001 under a settlement in the Tasini v. NY Times case announced yesterday. The National Writers Union, which successfully fought the case up to the U.S. Supreme Court, said writers who had registered their copyrights might receive "up to" $1,500 payments for stories on which they had registered their copyrights, and up to $60 payments for stories which they had not registered.The organizations -- including the NWU, the Authors Guild, and the Amer From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on March 30, 2005 at 4:54 p.m..

Another Goodie: Latest Recommended Links
I've just added another useful bit of content to the right-hand column of this weblog. From any page in this site, look to the right and scroll down. There's now a section called Latest Recommended Links. This section displays the five most recent items I've added to my recommended reading page on del.icio.us. How did I do it?... From Contentious Weblog on March 30, 2005 at 3:55 p.m..

Learning by overhearing
"I just love the Socratic method. It's, like, so informative." - hipster girl, TTC subway From silentblue | Quantified on March 30, 2005 at 3:55 p.m..

Test Prep Tips
By Ron Gross - How to transform stress, anxiety, and panic into energy, stamina, and resourcefulness in preparing for tests.... From Adult/Continuing Education on March 30, 2005 at 3:50 p.m..

Microsoft: Network Security Coming in Longhorn Client - Ryan Naraine, eWeek
Microsoft Corp. plans to fit out-of-the-box NAP capabilities into the Longhorn client due out in 2006. That's the word from Jawad Khaki, corporate vice president of Microsoft's networking and devices technologies division. During an hourlong Web chat to From Techno-News Blog on March 30, 2005 at 3:50 p.m..

Yahoo Fires New Volley in E-Mail Wars - Keith Regan, E-Commerce Times
The larger e-mail size is also the latest example of how far Web portals are willing to go in order to lock in loyalty among users, whose eyeballs advertisers are paying to reach. From search innovations to new ways to integrate instant messaging and e-ma From Techno-News Blog on March 30, 2005 at 3:50 p.m..

Gadgets rule on college campuses - Paul Davidson, USA TODAY
The American college campus, long an oasis of scholarship and coming-of-age, is now being transformed by a more palpable force: an armada of laptops, cell phones and perpetual connectivity. At the University of North Carolina here, where every building a From Techno-News Blog on March 30, 2005 at 3:50 p.m..

[f2c] Lee Rainie
Lee Rainie of the Pew Internet group reports on his group's recent studies. But first he fools us by pointing to the effects of this new technology, except it turns out to be from Elizabeth Eisenstein's study of the effect of the printing press. 136M American adults now use the Internet. That's 67% of Americans. 87% of teen-agers. 50% of home owners have broadband. In a typical day, 82M Americans will be on line. 71M of those use email...9x the number of people who use the postal system. 41M used a search engine. Broadband teenagers are more likely to get... From Joho the Blog on March 30, 2005 at 3:48 p.m..

[f2c] Susan Crawford
Susan objects to the title of the conference because it acknowledges that someone can take the rightto connect away from you. We don't need permission, she aays. "We are here to assert our freedom to connect." We should be optimistic about the state of connection. "Things are flourishing." The content guys, law enforcement and the telcos would like to control the future. We need to uncontrol it. At what level of the protocol stack should the government intervene? To allow design mandates to be put in place by a sovereign is like thought control. To assert we have the right... From Joho the Blog on March 30, 2005 at 3:48 p.m..

Writing = Success, Blogs = Writing
I'm still a little peeved at that Vermont school principal who says that blogging is not an educational activity. It's just such an uninformed statement that I hope it's a misquote. I'd bet the farm he's never blogged, never commented, never even read a well designed classroom blog. Instead it's a knee jerk, blanket assumption drawn from the bad habits of a few kids who have not been taught to do better. And there is enough blame for that to go around. But don't blame the blogs. The fact is, weblogged News on March 30, 2005 at 3:47 p.m..

Decision Games
Here's Jay's account of a project that I'm associated with: decision games. This term was coined by Gary Klein, in his book, Power of Intuition. Decision games are high impact learning events that are aimed at getting learners to practice decision-making skills that are to be exercised in ambiguous, uncertain events such as project management, risk management, competition analysis, emergency management, disaster management, etc. Together with KM experts, elearningpost on March 30, 2005 at 3:46 p.m..

More Miho and Gondry
It seems that a few people liked the Miho Hatori track I posted last week, so here's another one from her, all nice and smooth with Smokey Hormel: Smokey Hormel with Miho Hatori - Blue Glasses (mp3) And here's another very interesting video Gondry did, this time for the Chemical Brothers: The Chemical Brothers - Let F Seb's Open Research on March 30, 2005 at 3:46 p.m..

EMEA enterprise security market up 49% in Q4 2004
The enterprise security market continued its impressive record of growth in the fourth quarter of 2004 to €536m, according to estimates from market analysts Canalys Research. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on March 30, 2005 at 2:55 p.m..

The importance of e-portfolio customisation
There are many reasons why it is important that learners creating e-portfolios are given the means and freedom to cutomise their own e-portfolio. Here is one. This is a quote from one of my research studies: "An e-portfolio might cause... From ERADC Blog on March 30, 2005 at 2:54 p.m..

[f2c] Freedom to Connect
[f2c] Freedom to Connect I'm at a Freedom to Connect, David Isenberg's conference on why network connections are important and how we can get more of them. It's a fantastic list of attendees. David opens by arguing that freedom to connect is a political issue. The Democrats don't like it because they're in the pockets of Hollywood. The Republicans don't like it because they're in the pockets of the incumbent telcos. We need to get political, he says. IRC here. Audio stream here. (By the way, Isenberg broke the "fuck" barrier eleven minutes into the conference From Joho the Blog on March 30, 2005 at 2:48 p.m..

Van Google
I've always admired Google for taking the time to do important things like rotating their logos. I was a little curios when I reached for my favorite web tool today to find something and saw: And of course a quickie search revealed that today is Vincent Van Gogh's birthday. Among other things you get by going sideways from From cogdogblog on March 30, 2005 at 2:48 p.m..

Growing Up With Computers
As another birthday comes closer with its ugly reminder of how short life is, it makes me think of you younger folks. Because while you grew up with computers, my situation was just the opposite - computers grew up with me. From kuro5hin.org on March 30, 2005 at 2:45 p.m..

BBC complains to Dutch website owner over teletext copyright violation
A Dutchman who republishes British sports results from the BBC's teletext pages on his website has been told by the UK public broadcaster to remove the content. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on March 30, 2005 at 1:56 p.m..

Russia launches communications, digital broadcasting satellite
Russia's Express-AM2 communications and digital broadcasting satellite reached its designated orbit this morning, the Interfax news agency has reported. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on March 30, 2005 at 1:56 p.m..

Global internet 'fingerprint' alliance formed to take on internet attacks
A coalition of telcos, network providers, hosting companies and educational institutions, including BT, MCI and NTT, have formed the Fingerprint Sharing Alliance, an industry initiative aimed at helping network operators share internet attack information automatically. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on March 30, 2005 at 1:56 p.m..

T-Mobile, Deutsche Bahn to trial internet access aboard ICE trains
The service, the first such wireless internet service aboard high-speed trains in Germany, is part of the Railnet project, which will also see wi-fi hot-spots installed on a trial basis in 20 German train stations. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on March 30, 2005 at 1:56 p.m..

O2 to promote accessibility for mobile web
UK mobile operator O2 has partnered with accessibility specialists Segala M Test to provide a web accessibility accreditation scheme aimed at promoting better web accessibility for the disabled, the elderly and mobile workers. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on March 30, 2005 at 1:56 p.m..

UK kids get first mobile at 8 yrs old on average - report
There are now 13m young people in the UK with a mobile phone, and as many as 9m of them are under the age of 15, according to statistics published in the Mobile Youth 2005 report. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on March 30, 2005 at 12:54 p.m..

Telecom Italia boosts broadband speed to 4MB
The new service, Alice 4 Mega, offers bandwidth of up to 4 Mbps downstream and 256 Kbps upstream. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on March 30, 2005 at 12:54 p.m..

Tele2 launches Dutch ADSL services
Pan-European alternative telco Tele2 AB has launched ADSL internet access services in the Netherlands using incumbent telco KPN's network. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on March 30, 2005 at 12:54 p.m..

Telenor launches broadband telephony service
Telenor's broadband telephony solution is being provided by Hewlett-Packard. The service charges €6 (NOK49) per month and offers calls to domestic fixed lines for €0.02 (NOK0.15) per call. Calls between Telenor broadband customers are free. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on March 30, 2005 at 12:54 p.m..

ADL's Plugfest 9 Draws 344 Participants from 13 Nations; IEEE Workshop on SCORM Sequencing & Navigation Is Featured
Alexandria, VA, March 25, 2005--The Advanced Distributed Learning Co-Laboratory's (ADL Co-Lab's) Plugfest 9 drew 344 participants from 146 organizations and 13 nations, February 22-25, at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, in Gaithersburg, Maryland.  Plugfest 9 was sponsored by the ADL Co-Laboratory, Alexandria, Virginia.Plugfest 9 Keynote speakers were Robert ... From ADL News on March 30, 2005 at 12:51 p.m..

What Keeps You Up At Night?
Etwas zum Schmökern! Elliott Masie hat gefragt, und 672 Learning Professionals haben ihre Probleme geschildert. Manchmal nur ein Stichwort ("Quality!" oder "Outsourcing!"), meistens aber mehr. Das Ganze geordnet in 12 Kapitel: Von "Content: Design, Structure & Delivery" bis "Other... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on March 30, 2005 at 11:51 a.m..

Trends in North Amercan e-Learning
Einen guten Überblick präsentieren diese Slides eines Vortrags, der auf der diesjährigen LEARNTEC gehalten wurde. Vieles scheint mir auch auf Europa und Deutschland übertragbar zu sein. Was die Autorin hervorhebt: "Important emerging movement to facilitate sharing of learning content is... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on March 30, 2005 at 11:51 a.m..

Freelancers Hit the Jackpot
Publishers agree to pay up to $18 million to settle a dispute over stories that found their way into online databases. By Rachel Metz. From Wired News on March 30, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..

The Cuban Revolution
Maverick billionaire blogger Mark Cuban wants to take the film out of the film industry. And his all-digital vision is coming soon to a screen near you. By Xeni Jardin from Wired magazine. From Wired News on March 30, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..

Acid Eats Away Free Time
The portable version of the popular stealth-infiltration games makes some radical changes to the series' tried-and-true gameplay, losing lots of the punch of its big brother. Chris Kohler reviews Metal Gear Acid for the PSP. From Wired News on March 30, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..

Camping Out for the Grokster Case
Cold and sometimes rainy weather didn't deter some from waiting in line for the Grokster hearing. Pilgrims came from places like Canada and California to watch the historic file-sharing case unfold. Katie Dean reports from Washington. From Wired News on March 30, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..

File Sharing Has Supreme Moment
The debate over file sharing reaches the Supreme Court, where the justices worry about finding a test to measure the infringement potential of new tech and ponder the effects on future inventions. Katie Dean reports from Washington. From Wired News on March 30, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..

Bioterror Victims: Wait to Exhale
People's breath could provide early clues about whether they've been infected in a terrorism attack and might even let doctors identify individuals destined to become Typhoid Mary-style 'superspreaders.' By Randy Dotinga. From Wired News on March 30, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..

MicroRNA Is a Big Topic in Bio
Researchers are devoting considerable resources of late to microRNA, a tiny component of the human genome that can stifle the production of proteins. Scientists say the gene regulator could play a role in treating a range of diseases. By Kristen Philipkoski. From Wired News on March 30, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..

Will Cable Quell the Competition?
In a Supreme Court appeal, the cable industry teams with the FCC to argue that cable-modem broadband is distinctly different from similar telecommunications services. If the argument prevails, cable companies will be able to keep their data pipes to themselves. Michael Grebb reports from Washington. From Wired News on March 30, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..

Effective Management of Distributed Educational Content
Die Zukunft des Online-Lernens liegt nicht in proprietären Learning Content Management Systemen, so der Autor: "These systems usually contain a proprietary authoring system that builds 'courses' by stringing together 'learning objects' stored in a central database. ... Simply linking a... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on March 30, 2005 at 9:50 a.m..

New Paradigms for Learning
Haben wir als Learning Professionals wirklich schon begriffen, dass "corporate employees, particularly knowledge workers, learn three times more from informal experiences than they do in formal courses"?? Und was das für unsere Arbeit und unser Rollenverständnis bedeutet? Für alle, die... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on March 30, 2005 at 9:50 a.m..

A High School Coach Blows the Whistle When Good Just Isn't Good Enough
Roderick Jackson did not set out to be a hero or a martyr or even an unpretentious high school coach who won a Title IX case in the Supreme Court. From New York Times: Education on March 30, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Officials Tighten Rules to Limit School Transfers by Athletes
The Public Schools Athletic League said Tuesday that student athletes who transfer would not be allowed to play their team sport for the first year at their new school. From New York Times: Education on March 30, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

After Suicides, N.Y.U. Will Limit Access to Balconies
In an effort to prevent suicides, New York University will restrict access to balconies in two dormitories, Carlyle Court and Coral Towers. From New York Times: Education on March 30, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Why Educators Falter Before the Enigma of Violence
School counselors, who are better suited than teachers to identify the emotional difficulties of students, are severely outnumbered. From New York Times: Education on March 30, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

A Teacher Sees Herself Younger, and on Broadway
Sister Margaret McEntee's old school in the Bronx is now the setting for the play "Doubt," which opens Thursday night on Broadway. From New York Times: Education on March 30, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Del.icio.us Goes Pro (Ross Mayfield)
Very noteworthy that M2M guestblogger, Joshua Schacter, has quit his very good job to go full time with del.icio.us, the social bookmarking network that all of us are so fond of.  Much of tagging originated with Josh and he deserves... From Corante: Social Software on March 30, 2005 at 7:49 a.m..

How much work is involved for students in online course?
In one of the regular e-letters that I received in my inbox each month, there was an article entitled "Student workload in an online course: Balancing on a rule-of-thumb" (see http://www.ecollege.com/news/EdVoice.learn). The basis of the article was that in a... From Teaching and Developing Online. on March 30, 2005 at 6:54 a.m..

Thinking outside the course
The high degree of tunnel vision exhibited by the leading providers of online learning simply amazes me, so I'm always glad to find another choir member with which to join voices. And today's newest member is Chris Lott. In a recent post to his Ruminate blog, he states why providers of online education need to think "outside the course." That is, online degree seeking students aren't just consuming (err, I mean enrolling in) a d From The Electric Lyceum on March 30, 2005 at 6:54 a.m..

Is Digital Storytelling Hot or What?
Today we announced the opening of registration for our May 16-20 Learnshop "Bringing Digital Storytelling to the Classroom LearnShop"-- with 12 available spots. Check out the chronology: * 08:53:24 AM : email announcement sent * 09:03:22 AM : first registrant signs up * 11:03:24 AM : 12th registrant signs up 2 hours and 10 minutes to fill a workshop. And here I thought people in our system were ignoring system-wide messages. From cogdogblog on March 30, 2005 at 6:48 a.m..

Just like the good 'ol days? Yahoo acquires Flickr
I have to say I have mixed emotions about Yahoo's recent acquisition of Flickr. While I do wander how the incredibly creative, incredibly innovative, and incredibly elegant Flickr team will fare inside the Yahoo behemoth, I nonetheless am glad to see that incredibly creative, incredibly innovative, and incredibly elegant work can still pay off.... From The Electric Lyceum on March 30, 2005 at 5:54 a.m..

Grokster roundups
Tim Anderson was at the Supreme Court hearing on the Grokster case and writes it up without too too much legalese. So does Donna Wentworth at Copyfight. Wendy "Berkperson" Seltzer has a bit at EFF, as well as a photo of her camping out on the Courthouse steps. Would we expect any less from the EFF? Here's the friend of the court brief prepared by three of the Berkman's leaders: The brief urged the Court not to modify the standard it created 20 years ago in its landmark Sony-Betamax decision, which exempted from liability the distributors of technologies - in... From Joho the Blog on March 30, 2005 at 5:48 a.m..

EVDB Goes Live (Ross Mayfield)
EVDB, the events and venue database, took their beta live tonight.  Below is a published Smart Calendar, here is a sample event page.  Go poke around. See that little green button?  I’ll lay odds you will see it more... From Corante: Social Software on March 30, 2005 at 3:49 a.m..

CDB Greatest Hits All 837 of 'em
Since I am pondering doing the MovableType to WordPress conversion, I've done a bit of reflecting on the last two years of blogging. Nothing profound has emerged, but I did start to think about the part of a blog post I spend the most time on (obviously it is not spell checking) -- coming up with a good title. A good post title, grabs attention, sets the mode, and I often tried (in vain) to hit the punny spot. It's worth being original, and just not having a dry, 'just the facts ma'am' sort of title. So I thought, why not p From cogdogblog on March 30, 2005 at 3:48 a.m..

Inevitables
It has been said that a wise individual prepares for that which is inevitable in life. It would make sense then, to follow this line of thought, that if we are attempting to foster wisdom in learning (as well as... From Experience Designer Network on March 30, 2005 at 2:58 a.m..

Weychert lives
Misunderstood genius Rob Weychert, creator of Virtual Stan, has relaunched robweychert.com. Let joy reign. Let columns multiply. Let haikus based on dictionary.com's Word of the Day flourish. From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on March 30, 2005 at 2:48 a.m..

High School bans blogging
Officials at Proctor Jr.-Sr. High School have banned access from school computers to an Internet site that students have been using to post to weblogs, or blogs. Principal Chris Sousa said the decision to block the site from school was... From Teaching and Developing Online. on March 30, 2005 at 1:55 a.m..

Awesome Numbers to Count
Did you ever stop to think about how long it would take to count really, I mean really big numbers? I admit, that I had not until I stumbled onto this little chart:Name (U.S.) Numbers How long it would take to count to this number from 0 ( one count per second, night & day)------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------One 1 1 secon From HSAdvisor.com Featured Articles on March 30, 2005 at 12:59 a.m..

Perseguidos por el Bluetooth
Desde hace algún tiempo me había acostumbrado a ver cómo gran parte de mis compañeros de trabajo (yo me resistía) sincronizaban la PDA y el móvil (teléfono) con el portátil (ordenador) sin intervención de cable alguno, vía bluetooth. Ya más recientemente, la fiebre inalámbrica lo ha invadido todo: desde el hogar (impresoras sin cables, conexión inalámbrica pc-televisión, etc) hasta las estaciones de metro y los centros comerciales (donde la gente intenta ligar enviándose (...) From martinalia.com | Gestión de Contenidos on March 30, 2005 at 12:56 a.m..

Covering The Big One, Part 2
Monday's devastating earthquake in Indonesia gives news organizations a chance to apply some of the lessons learned from covering the South Asian tsunami and earthquake in late December. One of the most important lessons, in my book, is in knowing how to leverage the "army of temporary journalists" who experienced the disasters firsthand. By that I mean, of course, the everyday people who were there for the event and who have stories to tell and photos and videos to share.With massive-earthquake No. 2, we know that many people from outside the region continue to work there as aid From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on March 29, 2005 at 11:54 p.m..

A Lamb Comes to Phoenix
Some might squint at my ethics, but by an interesting sequence of events, this Friday Brian Lamb is coming to Maricopa for a Dialogue Day on Learning objects, Wikis, and Other Curious Things. Brian and I have done a number of great collaborations since we both started chatting at one of those stale lecture format conferences, and have done some (I think) great work since then. So I was rather agreeable when Lisa Young, co-chair of our cogdogblog on March 29, 2005 at 11:48 p.m..