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Tuesday, April 05, 2005
While I was at the airport the other day, a display showed all the various things one cannot carry into an airport/plane. From
RHPT.com on April 5, 2005 at 10:57 p.m..
Elgg is open for general registration
Elgg - the Personal Learning Landscape is now open for general registration. A huge thank you is due to all the people that helped out while we were in close testing. We will continue to add more features. The system... From
ERADC Blog on April 5, 2005 at 10:54 p.m..
Life is all about choices
This is so true - everyday we are making choices; some small and insignificant, others perhaps life changing. Having recently turned down an excellent sounding job, working with people I really respect, in my favourite city I think much of... From
ERADC Blog on April 5, 2005 at 9:46 p.m..
Constructing, using and evaluating e-portfolios
Constructing, using and evaluating e-portfolios: Sharing collective experience and building opportunities for future collaboration Date: 10th - 11th May 2005 Location: Goodenough College, Central London, UK.... From
ERADC Blog on April 5, 2005 at 9:46 p.m..
I was born with beta firmware
When a spider is born, it already knows how to spin a perfect, spiral web. Cats already know how to catch small fast-moving succulent critters, clean themselves vigorously, and act snooty. It's called instinct. But why don't humans have any sophisticated pre-programmed instructions? We're supposed to be the kings of the jungle! Even a stupid gazelle can walk within minutes of its birth. By its first hour, it's already begging its parents for a cellphone. Instead, for the first several years of our lives, we are only capable of extremely low-level tasks, such as complain lou From
silentblue | Quantified on April 5, 2005 at 7:56 p.m..
I finally acknowledge my limits
When I decided to run the Paris Marathon last fall, I did so for two main reasons: I was all hopped up on the running junk after the NYC Marathon and wanted to try another and wanted to try and go faster, and I wanted an excuse to go to Paris. As the fall turned into winter though, I found I was less psyched for running. I turned my attention to skiing and, whether from exhaustion or lack of training, or over-training, or who knows, I found that whenever I did run, I had a bad run. I never felt good, either during the jog or after. I know for many people that's always the case, but for m From
megnut on April 5, 2005 at 7:45 p.m..
Universities to digitize early American newspapers
The National Endowment for the Humanities announced at the end of March that it will grant six institutions a total of over $1.9 million in grants in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), "a new, long-term effort to develop an... From
MANE IT Network on April 5, 2005 at 6:58 p.m..
Drexel University sells technology services to other institutions
The Chronicle of Higher Education published a password-protected article on Drexel University's practice of selling technology services, including management of online courses, e-mail, and business and financial systems, to about 40 other, mostly small, institutions. Lansing Community College also sells... From
MANE IT Network on April 5, 2005 at 6:58 p.m..
Brainfingers
I think this would be a very cool system to try to see if it could be used by some of our students or developers at the cyber school. Brainfingers... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on April 5, 2005 at 6:55 p.m..
BlogPulse Conversation Tracker
When a blogger publishes a post and other bloggers link to it, the post becomes part of a conversation. The initial post is the "seed" of the conversation. What happens next is fascinating. Posts linking to the seed are themselves... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on April 5, 2005 at 5:55 p.m..
Keeping Kids Safe, Part 349
So I guess you could say that I'm getting a bit defensive these days about people questioning the safety of using blogs in the classroom. Last week it was the Vermont principal. Yesterday it was the English supervisor at my... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on April 5, 2005 at 5:55 p.m..
Google to Offer Video Uploading
Google co-founder Larry Page announced yesterday that Google soon will begin hosting a video-uploading service for users. This should make for an interesting playing field with other competitors like
OurMedia.org.On a related note, reading this led me to try typing in
video.google.com. It would appear that Google's video search service is up and running. I typed in "Seinfeld" and found a number of partial scripts and screen shots. The service lists when the episod From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on April 5, 2005 at 5:54 p.m..
[berkman] Vietnamese online paper
This morning during the "fellows hour," we hear from Tuan Nguyen who founded Vietnam Net (English version) in 1997, an ISP and content provider. He began in 1995 by putting together computers, installing linux, etc. In 1997, the government officially permitted people to connnect to the Internet. The site now has 1.5M viewers/day. (Vietnam's population is 85M. About 5M people in Vietnam are on the Internet. About 6M have mobile phones.) The site has a newspaper license which enables its reporters to go anywhere and talk with anyone. The leaders of the party provide "guidelines" rather than From
Joho the Blog on April 5, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..
Rehashing the same stale file sharing argument
Over on Dangerousmeta I saw a link to this Op-Ed by Daniel Henninger from the Wall Street Journal,Can Justice Scalia Solve the Riddles Of the Internet? Without profit even the digital world will break down. Having recently read the excellent profile of Justice Scalia in The New Yorker (which frustratingly doesn't appear to be online), I was curious to read the article. I was disappointed to discover it rehashed the same old fallacious arguments about people "stealing" music online, and worse, that it got mired in questions of morals. One would expect the article, beginning with its subti From
megnut on April 5, 2005 at 4:45 p.m..
Adam Curry gets a Tablet PC
Pioneer podcaster (and former MTV VJ) Adam Curry has a new Tablet PC, and he's describing it and trying it out in his April 3 Daily Source Code podcast. He's pretty candid about its advantages and disadvantages, but in general quite enthusiastic. It's not surprising that Curry's Mac user fans (Curry's been a Mac-only operation [...] From
Gardner Writes on April 5, 2005 at 4:00 p.m..
Instant Message Worm Spreading
Just in case e-mail-based viruses and worms weren't bad enough, the Chod.B worm is now propagating using MSN Messenger instant messages. Like most effective worms, the new Chod variant uses "social engineering" to aid in its spread. In this case, the worm reads the IM addresses from the infected user's contact list and sends the user a message saying something like... From
Indiana IT on April 5, 2005 at 3:55 p.m..
Chirac Leads Charge Against Google
French president Jacques Chirac is seeking the support of English and German governments in a multi-million Euro effort to counter Google's initiative to index 15 million books in the English-based libraries. Chirac sees the Google move as relegating the French language and culture to a "quaint regional peculiarity,"
according to Expatica.com.Chirac has asked his own culture minister to ratchet up the digitization of From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on April 5, 2005 at 3:54 p.m..
Berkman Signal to Noise conference
This one looks different — Fan fiction, dance, machinima, deviant art, remixing, mashups, On Friday. Open to all ($20 admission fee) but you need to register ahead of time because the space is not infinite. [Technorati tags: berkman s2n]... From
Joho the Blog on April 5, 2005 at 3:48 p.m..
Google Maps surprise
Go to Google Maps. Select an address. Have it plot directions to another address. Click on "Satellite." Omigod. [Technorati tags: google maps]... From
Joho the Blog on April 5, 2005 at 2:48 p.m..
RSS Articles
We've have been amassing quite a collection of
RSS articles in an easy to navigate collection. The articles each discuss different aspects and nuances related to RSS. From
RSS Blog on April 5, 2005 at 1:59 p.m..
On professors blogging at Crooked Timber
Crooked Timber aggregates blogs written by academics. This recent post consists of one professor thinking about her reasons for blogging: Blogging... does give license to write in a freewheeling way, to speculate, to polemicize and to give a bit of... From
MANE IT Network on April 5, 2005 at 1:58 p.m..
The Internet Pope
3 Quarks Daily wonders if the Internet could influence the selection of the next pope by setting up a wiki where the webosphere could educate itselff about the 117 people who cast their votes in the Sistine Chapel, and then pepper them with opinions. Sounds like a waste of time as an attempt to affect the decision — the process is cloistered on purpose — but a worthwhile exercise in citizen journalism. Besides, do you think maybe as a Jew I kinda lack the standing to be listened to on this particular topic? Now, when it's time to select a... From
Joho the Blog on April 5, 2005 at 1:48 p.m..
A Slew of NY Times RSS Feeds
Ok...so you're too lazy to actually go and create your own personalized search feed for New York Times content? (Go
here and add source:new_york_times to your search terms. Tough, huh?) Well then this site is for you. The
Annotated New York Times will supply you with hundreds of
search specific feeds to Times content, including the ever popular subjects "bars," "beer" and "bombs and explosives." (I' From
weblogged News on April 5, 2005 at 1:47 p.m..
USA Today Does Wikis
Pretty
interesting article in yesterday's USA Today on the growing uses of wikis in government circles. Get this: The communities of practice wiki is not the only one drawing federal officials' fascination. Patrick Hogan, learning technologies program manager at NASA, depends on a wiki site to program NASA software. An open-source program, NASA World Wind, lets users look at satellite imagery. They can peer into the Grand Canyon or follow the Nile River from its source, Lake Vic From
weblogged News on April 5, 2005 at 12:47 p.m..
How Big Can Apple Get?
Some interesting trivia and insights into the direction that Steve Jobs is taking Apple can be found in this month's copy of
Fortune magazine. Or read the
summary of the article at Jeff Powell's Nozce ti Ipsum bog. I never knew that Final Cut Pro started as a Macromedia product. Hmmmm. I'm betting that with the success of Flash... From
Brain Frieze on April 5, 2005 at 11:55 a.m..
El NTY anotado por los bloguers
El NYT comentado por la blogosfera: The Annotated New York Times, permite búsquedas por titulares, autor y tema e incluye un impresionante repertorio de fuentes RSS de artÃculos del NYT clasificado por temas y autores. VÃa: pointblog.... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on April 5, 2005 at 11:51 a.m..
New feed for this blog
If you're interested, there's a new feed for my blog, via Feedburner. This new feed combines both my main posts to this blog, along with my "mini- blog", that is, thinks I bookmark and comment on. The feed to subscribe to is "http://feeds.feedburner.com/MartindaleTeachableorg":http://feeds.feedburner.com/MartindaleTeachableorg . I'm finding that I add more content to this blog as quick [...] From
Martindale Matrix on April 5, 2005 at 11:49 a.m..
Low Threshold Applications
Low Threshold Applications, is a collection of 44 (at last count) teaching tips, tools, or procedures that teachers can incorporate into a learning environment. The site's tagline says it well: "...an application of technology that is reliable, accessible, easy to learn, non-intimidating and (incrementally) inexpensive." I added this site on my aggregator. More on low threshold applications [...] From
Martindale Matrix on April 5, 2005 at 11:49 a.m..
Educause community blogs
Educause has a new beta service--a blog for any Educause member. So far maybe 20 or so people have begun blogs there. It's a nice idea, and seems to be well-implemented, with a slick user-management and profile service. However, I'd much rather have control over my blog posts, and interface, rather than use this service, [...] From
Martindale Matrix on April 5, 2005 at 11:49 a.m..
Podcasting 101
Time to write about podcasting. It's about 6 months old now, and the content available is greatly expanding. Podcasting is recording or otherwise creating audio on one's computer, and then posting the resulting file (usually as an MP3) on a server, so listeners can download it. "Big deal", you say, "I could do that fairly easily, [...] From
Martindale Matrix on April 5, 2005 at 11:49 a.m..
Bye bye, professor
Here's a Chronicle story on a recent presentation at the League of Innovations, claiming professors are on the way out--to be replaced by instructional software. Note to self: polish up programming skills, update passport, and begin house-hunting in Bangalore. Eye-catching idea about the professors. I just read a post from Alan Levine on how this [...] From
Martindale Matrix on April 5, 2005 at 11:49 a.m..
Streaming audio vs. podcasts
James Farmer has a nice piece here on why streaming audio of lectures is not such a great idea. incorporated subversion » Why you have wasted all that money you’ve spent on streaming lectures From
Martindale Matrix on April 5, 2005 at 11:49 a.m..
WebCT as Big Brother
From the Chronicle: Big Brother at Brown?: Most professors at Brown University view WebCT, the popular online course-management system, as a useful tool, but some students see it as something more sinister. That's because the software includes a feature that lets professors see how much time individual students are spending on their course Web sites. While most [...] From
Martindale Matrix on April 5, 2005 at 11:49 a.m..
$100 Laptop from Negroponte and MIT
I've been following this development for a while, and it's picking up steam. Free OS software (Linux) is part of the cost reduction plan. Here's the MIT site about the laptop program. Yahoo! News - Group Puts $100 Laptops in Poor Countries From
Martindale Matrix on April 5, 2005 at 11:49 a.m..
Students Use Next-Gen Downloads - Associated Press
College junior Kyle Taylor is downloading hundreds of songs by No Doubt, Bruce Springsteen and others onto the Compaq laptop in his cramped dormitory room. With a few more clicks of his mouse, Taylor is watching commercial-free Seinfeld episodes on his co From
Techno-News Blog on April 5, 2005 at 11:48 a.m..
Keeping Kids Safe, Part 349
So I guess you could say that I'm getting a bit defensive these days about people questioning the safety of using blogs in the classroom. Last week it was the
Vermont principal. Yesterday it was the English supervisor at my school. Oy. Let me first say that it wasn't so much her as it was a reporter who had been contacted by one of our advanced journalism students who was looking for someone to mentor her in her Weblog. The reporter, who had not been previously contacted by anyone at the school, proceeded to call the English From
weblogged News on April 5, 2005 at 11:47 a.m..
A new approach to conference learning
This article describes an engaging approach to devise workshops and conferences where participants' specific pain-points and objectives are targeted: "Instead of using third-person case studies as the context for a problem-solving exercise, we drew from our participants’ actual needs. A template was e-mailed to early registrants, asking them to identify key points of their business challenges--the cha From
elearningpost on April 5, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Discs Are So Dead
Two new formats aim to bury the DVD, but web distribution will kill them all. By Robert Capps from Wired magazine. From
Wired News on April 5, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
What Search Sites Know About You
Search engines have long tracked user activities through anonymous cookies. But as Google and other search engines get into e-mail and social networking, embarrassing search terms may be traceable to individuals. By Joanna Glasner. From
Wired News on April 5, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Newsreaders Cut to the Chase
News junkies can find plenty of sources on the web for the latest news. That's great, and it's a problem. John Gartner takes a look at how newsreaders can help cut the clutter. From
Wired News on April 5, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Finding Gold in Found Video
The Found Footage Festival celebrates snippets of home movies and bad instructional films. Strung together into a movie screening-cum-comedy show, the event may be heading to the West Coast. By Harmon Leon. From
Wired News on April 5, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Metabuscador de tags: Tag Central
El metabuscador de tags Tag Central genera resultados con referencias de: 43 Things Goals Del.icio.us Links Flickr Photos Furl Links Jots Links Smugmug Photos Tagsurf Discussions Technorati Blog Entries VÃa: Véase además Relacionado: Tags & folksonomies: etiquetas semánticas y taxonomÃas... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on April 5, 2005 at 8:52 a.m..
How to Battle the Coming Brain Drain
Der Titel verrät bereits, worum es geht: Wenn die baby-boomers die Unternehmen verlassen, sind häufig auch ihre Erfahrungen und ihr Wissen verloren, wenn nicht rechtzeitig Vorsorge betrieben wird. Der Artikel zählt Maßnahmen auf, mit deren Hilfe Unternehmen wie General Electric... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on April 5, 2005 at 7:51 a.m..
Brian Lamb, Learning Objects, Wikis, Flickr, RSS-- They Wanted it All (No Fooling)
Last Friday we had an eager audience for Brian Lamb's visit for our
Dialogue Day on Learning Objects, Wikis, And Other Curious Things. I'd say this blog summary is delayed as
some people really despise things posted on April 1, but I have some other excuses. First of all, you can find
Brian's presentation materials on our Ocotillo Learning Objects wiki, which From
cogdogblog on April 5, 2005 at 7:48 a.m..
New feed for this blog
If you're interested, there's a new feed for my blog, via Feedburner. This new feed combines both my main posts to this blog, along with my "mini- blog", that is, thinks I bookmark and comment on. The feed to subscribe to is "http://feeds.feedburner.com/MartindaleTeachableorg":http://feeds.feedburner.com/MartindaleTeachableorg . I'm finding that I add more content to this blog as quick [...] From
Martindale Matrix on April 5, 2005 at 2:48 a.m..
Low Threshold Applications
Low Threshold Applications, is a collection of 44 (at last count) teaching tips, tools, or procedures that teachers can incorporate into a learning environment. The site's tagline says it well: "...an application of technology that is reliable, accessible, easy to learn, non-intimidating and (incrementally) inexpensive." I added this site on my aggregator. More on low threshold applications [...] From
Martindale Matrix on April 5, 2005 at 2:48 a.m..
Educause community blogs
Educause has a new beta service--a blog for any Educause member. So far maybe 20 or so people have begun blogs there. It's a nice idea, and seems to be well-implemented, with a slick user-management and profile service. However, I'd much rather have control over my blog posts, and interface, rather than use this service, [...] From
Martindale Matrix on April 5, 2005 at 2:48 a.m..
Podcasting 101
Time to write about podcasting. It's about 6 months old now, and the content available is greatly expanding. Podcasting is recording or otherwise creating audio on one's computer, and then posting the resulting file (usually as an MP3) on a server, so listeners can download it. "Big deal", you say, "I could do that fairly easily, [...] From
Martindale Matrix on April 5, 2005 at 2:48 a.m..
Bye bye, professor
Here's a Chronicle story on a recent presentation at the League of Innovations, claiming professors are on the way out--to be replaced by instructional software. Note to self: polish up programming skills, update passport, and begin house-hunting in Bangalore. Eye-catching idea about the professors. I just read a post from Alan Levine on how this [...] From
Martindale Matrix on April 5, 2005 at 2:48 a.m..
Streaming audio vs. podcasts
James Farmer has a nice piece here on why streaming audio of lectures is not such a great idea. incorporated subversion » Why you have wasted all that money you’ve spent on streaming lectures From
Martindale Matrix on April 5, 2005 at 2:48 a.m..
WebCT as Big Brother
From the Chronicle: Big Brother at Brown?: Most professors at Brown University view WebCT, the popular online course-management system, as a useful tool, but some students see it as something more sinister. That's because the software includes a feature that lets professors see how much time individual students are spending on their course Web sites. While most [...] From
Martindale Matrix on April 5, 2005 at 2:48 a.m..
What
I've been trying to put into words what's wrong with certain CMS discussion interfaces (Bb, WebCT, and now Sakai), and it turns out Michael Feldstein has expressed it quite well. From
Martindale Matrix on April 5, 2005 at 2:48 a.m..
$100 laptop
I've been following this development for a while, and it's picking up steam. Free OS software (Linux) is part of the cost reduction plan. Yahoo! News - Group Puts $100 Laptops in Poor Countries http://laptop.media.mit.edu/ From
Martindale Matrix on April 5, 2005 at 2:48 a.m..
"Getting Dropped is the New Getting Signed"
Samuelson Clinic Fellow
Jack Lerner forwarded me a colleague's quotable message, originally posted to the lawfuluse listserv: "On Saturday evening I went to a local music haunt [in Nashville] featuring indie pop bands. I struck up a conversation with a local musician at the bar, who had great familiarity with the ways in which new technology makes the middleman role of major record labels less necessary and desirable. He told me that, among his contemporaries, the eme From
A Copyfighter's Musings on April 5, 2005 at 1:45 a.m..
StepTwo Designs has a
StepTwo Designs has a new briefing on the
paired interview technique: "A paired interview is a method of collecting information from several people at the same time who represent the target audience. The paired interview is not two interviews being conducted simultaneously. The emphasis of the paired interview is to create a dynamic in which the participants interact with each other. In so doing, they validate or clearly identify differences in working practices and terminology." From
elearningpost on April 4, 2005 at 11:46 p.m..