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1899 - Se ratifica el Tratado de París, España cede Cuba, Puerto Rico y Filipinas a los EE.UU.
El Tratado de París, por el que España cede formalmente Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, las islas Marianas y Filipinas a los EE.UU., se firmó en París el 10 de diciembre de 1898, pero no es hasta el 11 de abril de 1899 cuando fue proclamado en Washington. Esto supone el fin de la tramitación legal de un tratado por el que España renuncia definitivamente a sus posesiones ultramarinas como consecuencia de la Guerra hispano-estadounidense (también llamada la Guerra hispanoamericana, que (...) From martinalia.com | Gestión de Contenidos on April 10, 2005 at 10:55 p.m..

Ideas for better conversations
...I'm coming to believe that good conversation, like good collaboration, is a skill, and, just as a lot of practice dancing badly does not make you a better dancer, just talking a lot does not necessarily make you a better conversationalist (in fact I suspect it may make you worse at it, by entrenching bad habits). If it's a skill it should be possible to learn it and teach it. And, while the seven 'purposes' of c From Seblogging News on April 10, 2005 at 10:50 p.m..

Simulations in Learning
One of the so-far unfulfilled promises of e-learning is the proliferation of easily-created inexpensive simulations that help bring the application of learned skills into a realistic context. From eLearnopedia on April 10, 2005 at 9:52 p.m..

Conversation on three continents
The videoconference started at 8:00 a.m. in Bloomington, Indiana, so it was afternoon in Budapest and evening in Hong Kong. There were about a half dozen students at each location, along with a faculty member in Hong Kong and another in Budapest. A student in Bloomington moderated the session. In Indianapolis, a couple of dozen faculty members from across Indiana watched on, hoping to see how they could improve the global element of their courses using this technology. After the... From Weblogs in Higher Education on April 10, 2005 at 9:52 p.m..

Twisted 2.0
I was so busy doing other stuff so that I completely missed the release of Twisted 2.0. It was a large transition from a monolithic framework to a modular framework (there is a FAQ about this change). I wish I had the time now to test it. From owrede_log on April 10, 2005 at 9:47 p.m..

Exemplary Online Educators: Creating a Community of Inquiry
This paper outlines the initial findings of a qualitative study that asked students who study online their perspectives on why they recall certain online educators as outstanding. From eLearnopedia on April 10, 2005 at 8:46 p.m..

Making E-Learning Accessible
Steven Price explains the key issues to bear in mind when developing accessible e-learning. From eLearnopedia on April 10, 2005 at 8:46 p.m..

Podcasting de la Cadena Ser
La Cadena SER comienza a ofrecer servicios de podcasting: La SER en mp3 y Podcasting en la SER. Fuentes: RSS y RDF. Vía: La Tejedora.... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on April 10, 2005 at 8:46 p.m..

Order of magnitude question: Foul balls
Between five years in the 1990s, how many attendees per year were injured by foul balls hit during baseball games in Fenway Park? A correct answer is any within 10x up or down. Oh, that's too easy. Make it 5x. Select between the X's to see the answer: X     From 36 to 53     X... From Joho the Blog on April 10, 2005 at 6:48 p.m..

And then there were four
Here's the big announcement I've been teasing you with: We are thrilled, tickled, pleased-as-punch, and ecstatic to welcome Dirk Morrison to the faculty of Educational Communications and Technology! This is exciting for all of us in the EDCMM community for... From Rick's Café Canadien on April 10, 2005 at 5:53 p.m..

Educational reform and the power of trusted ideas
Since last summer I have spent quite some time trying to understand why I feel more and more alienated by the underlying ideology of the discourse on educational reform in the German (and European) university system. To me it is quite amazing, though not surprising, how neo-liberal propaganda has changed the mental and structural environment for formal "education" in recent years.The following quote from a lecture of Gregory Bateson (Ecology and Flexibiltiy in Urban Civilization, 1970) seems to describe pretty well what is going on:... in mental evolution, From Seblogging News on April 10, 2005 at 5:50 p.m..

The Experience of Language: Expression and Perception
Simon J. Ortiz has written an essay in Genocide of the Mind: New Native American Writing that reveals compelling insights into the experience of language. The focus of the essay is to compare the Native Indian to our traditional English... From Experience Designer Network on April 10, 2005 at 4:58 p.m..

Prisoner #425684932A
Continuing my mild obsession with Michael Jackson's face: If he goes to jail, how many weeks could he possibly survive? [Technorati tag: MichaelJackson]... From Joho the Blog on April 10, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..

Detoxifying The Child-Raising Environment: A Means for a Return to Power for Democrats
Summary: After reading of a tragic alcohol and car-based death of a popular, generous, but out of control, South Des Moines teenager I read Barbara Dafoe Whitehead's article "Closing the Parent Gap" , and I agree with her. "It's the culture, stupid" is probably the top-runner as an explanation for Bush's return to the Whitehouse. Introduction From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on April 10, 2005 at 3:48 p.m..

Greatest game in history - Now with a sandbox!
Garry.tv has a Half Life 2 mod that lets you use the game's astounding physics engine and its existing objects to build Rube Goldberg-like machines, pose rag dolls, etc. I haven't tried it yet, but it looks amazing. [Technorati tags: halflife2 mods]... From Joho the Blog on April 10, 2005 at 2:48 p.m..

Bittorrent marketplace
Prodigem, a legal torrent site, has announced a marketplace that will let you upload a file and sell bittorrent access to it. So, if you had, say, a video of your band performing its hit "Download Me, Baby, and Then Why Doncha Set Me Free?" that you wanted to sell, you'd upload it to Prodigem Marketplace and slap a price on it. Prodigem takes 10% plus the PayPal fee and passes the rest on to you. It's DRM-free once you've downloaded it: It's just a file that you can redistribute as you see fit. And they're contemplating an interesting licensing... From Joho the Blog on April 10, 2005 at 1:48 p.m..

Top twelve spammers revealed - Iain Thomson, VNunet
The United States is still the world's largest spam generator, but other countries are catching up fast. Since the start of the year over 35 per cent of the world's spam has come from computers inside the US, according to figures from security specialists From Techno-News Blog on April 10, 2005 at 12:47 p.m..

A cable modem by any other name ... - Forbes
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the Federal Communications Commission's appeal of a decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals as to whether cable modems are a "telecommunications service" or an "information service." The appeals court ru From Techno-News Blog on April 10, 2005 at 12:47 p.m..

Philadelphia plans nation's first citywide Wi-Fi network - Reuters
The city of Philadelphia will become the largest U.S. Internet "hot spot" next year under a plan to offer wireless access at about half the cost charged by commercial operators, city officials said Thursday. Last year, officials unveiled a pilot scheme o From Techno-News Blog on April 10, 2005 at 12:47 p.m..

Sampling Ajax in a CMS
Tony Byrne has created a screencast that outlines how Ajax is being used in CMS products (Ajax stands for Asynchronous Javascript and XML over HTTP). To quote: Ajax as a term and an approach has become mildly controversial, but remote... From Column Two on April 10, 2005 at 11:45 a.m..

Closed Loophole Hasn't Cut Subsidies for Student Loans
Months after Congress unanimously passed a law to cut back on what it called excess subsidies to student loan companies, federal payments to lenders are as high as ever. From New York Times: Education on April 10, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Technology: the perfect storm for portals?
Charlie Wood has written a blog entry on the uncertain future of portals. To quote: The enterprise portal industry stands squarely in the path of three converging forces, any one of which could be devastating. Together, they might be fatal.... From Column Two on April 10, 2005 at 6:47 a.m..

Let America Govern The World
We all know that the New World Order is coming, in fact most probably it has already come and gone. Yes. That is the speed which things move at these days. In fact these days aren't even these days any more but those days. Because they have already been and gone. Anyway America is a big country, we all know that. The population of the USA stands at around 295,786,000 according to this source. That is more than enough men, women and children to successfully rule the world for many millennia. The figures are incontrovertible. From kuro5hin.org on April 10, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Google Sightseeing
Well this has been a popular post, but if you haven't seen it yet, Google Sightseeing is a terrific little blog which harnesses the use of Google Maps and Keyhole satellite photography. People can suggest a location for Google Sightseeing,... From Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on April 10, 2005 at 12:55 a.m..

Submit RSS Feeds
A new RSS directory is at RSS Network. While the site includes a search function that searches both feed items and titles it is designed with a directory structure in mind making it easy to find topic specific RSS feeds. Submit your RSS Feeds. From RSS Blog on April 9, 2005 at 11:59 p.m..

Another satisfied Microsoft customer!
Last month, I posted on the Neowin Forums that Microsoft was suing David Zamos, an Ohio chemistry student, for selling his two unopened academic version copies of Windows and Office on eBay. He earned $143.50. To whit: Microsoft, which reported $38 billion in sales in the past year, alleges that Zamos' eBay sales amount to unfair competition. In the company's suit, its lawyers accuse Zamos of copyright infringement for the eBay sales and contend the sales have "resulted in losses to Microsoft and an illicit gain of profit'' to Zamos. Further, the corporate lawyers said, "Mi From silentblue | Quantified on April 9, 2005 at 11:54 p.m..

Damn you, Monty Hall!
My son and I spent a little time this afternoon on the Monty Hall paradox, a topic we'd discussed a couple of years ago. Unfortunately, it takes me 20 minutes to understand the explanation, and I only understand it for 4 continuous seconds. Here's the situation. You are asked to pick one of three doors. Donkeys are behind two of them, and a new car is behind another. After you choose your door, but before it's revealed to you, Monty Hall (the emcee) opens one of the doors you didn't choose and reveals a donkey. He then asks if you'd... From Joho the Blog on April 9, 2005 at 11:48 p.m..