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1973: premio Pulitzer al Washington Post por el escándalo Watergate
El prestigioso diario norteamericano vio reconocido su papel en el escándalo polÃtico que rodeó la revelación de actividades ilegales por parte de la administración republicana el presidente Richard Nixon durante la campaña electoral de 1972. El escándalo nació con el arresto en junio de 1972 de cinco hombres que habÃan penetrado para espiar al Comité Nacional Demócrata en el hotel Watergate en Washington. Después de múltiples peripecias judiciales la implicación de la administración de Nixon se fue haciendo cada vez más evidente. (...) From
martinalia.com | Gestión de Contenidos on May 6, 2005 at 11:47 p.m..
SaskTel YOUTHnetwork
For students: Discover our interactive tools where you can have live online chats with SaskTel experts, play a virtual interview game, or find out what SaskTel is all about. You'll find everything you need to plan the career you've always... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on May 6, 2005 at 11:46 p.m..
TV-B-Gone
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/755e/ Spotted from an ad in sourceforge, this little device lets you turn off any TV remotely. An "educational technology?" Depends on your perspective. A "useful technology?" Well, I travel down to the States a fair bit, and increasingly the TVs in airport lounges are tuned to Fox News. 'Nuff said? Maybe they could just invent one that would disable TVs from receiving Fox News (god, it galls me just to even write the word 'News' after the word 'Fox'!) From
EdTechPost on May 6, 2005 at 8:51 p.m..
Time Travelers Convention
Why not, say some students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who have organized what they call the first convention for time travelers. Actually, they contend that theirs is the only time traveler convention the world needs, because people from... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on May 6, 2005 at 7:56 p.m..
e-toolbox
Welcome to the RSC eToolbox Service. This service is intended for use by post 16 education practitioners interested in enhancing their teaching practice through technology. Within this website you will find information pertaining to a variety of software which can... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on May 6, 2005 at 7:56 p.m..
The Rules
Albert Ip has some positive words to say about Bill Gates, especially his views on education, and provides these rules, attributed to Bill: Learning for 2020: Bill Gate's Solution to American High Schools being obsolete... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on May 6, 2005 at 7:56 p.m..
Designing for the Virtual Classroom.
Over the years, faculty have creatively adapted to the asynchronous, text-based environment of the Web and the online classroom. As a community, we've learned that while e-mail and discussion boards aren't the same as the live classroom, they have their... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on May 6, 2005 at 7:56 p.m..
Where NYPost.com Went Wrong
You may have heard about the brouhaha at
NYPost.com this week over the site's newly instituted user registration requirement. The system apparently wasn't ready for prime time, and many people ran into problems trying to register.A
message on the site at this writing reads: "Due to the large demand, we are currently servicing a backlog in registration data. We apologize for any delays you may have experienced and to save you time, the site will automatically invite you to register From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on May 6, 2005 at 7:56 p.m..
LAMS as a CMS
http://blogs.nitle.org/mane/2005/05/lams_a_new_open_source_cms.html I found this short post by Bryan Alexander at the MANE IT Network personally really useful - I've known about LAMS for quite a while, but had never heard it described as a "CMS." My first reaction was - oh that's just wrong, it's an "e-learning design tool" (oh the sophistry of labels!). But then I went back and re-read the LAMS material. Sure enough, it does have facilities for delivery to students, accounts mgmt, etc. From
EdTechPost on May 6, 2005 at 7:52 p.m..
See you in Hell, Broadcast Flag
The court's decision that the FCC does not have authority to regulate all digital devices is a major victory and a cause for rejoicing. Congratulations to all those who worked so hard to safeguard our Internet from this particular federal agency.... From
Joho the Blog on May 6, 2005 at 7:48 p.m..
See you in Hell, Broadcast Flag
The court's decision that the FCC does not have authority to regulate all digital devices is a major victory and a cause for rejoicing. Congratulations to all those who worked so hard to safeguard our Internet from this particular federal agency. (See Susan Crawford...)... From
Joho the Blog on May 6, 2005 at 7:48 p.m..
Spy vs Spy: The Accountable Net Part II
Last November we wrote about spam, and how that scourge could be addressed (not solved) by a horizontal approach - 'the accountable Net' of interacting consumer awareness, vendor tools, authentication mechanisms and reputation systems, rather than a top-down regulatory approach. This issue of Release 1.0 covers spyware - a serious Net-hygiene problem that is replacing spam as the scourge of the year - and its counterpart, adware. The mechanism to address it is similar: an accountable Net of consumer awareness, authentication mechanisms and branding of ads and their sources, and leg From
Release 1.0 on May 6, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..
Marking email for blogging or not
A recent email from
Robert French contained this line in the standard signature text: This e-mail is: [ x ] private; [ ] bloggable; [ ] ask first. This seems smart and practical -- we should let each other know this kind of thing, and the signature text, a fixed body of text in most email programs, serves as a ready reminder. From
Weblogs in Higher Education on May 6, 2005 at 4:53 p.m..
Learning and acting
We want to live, I believe, at the place where these two quotations intersect: Benjamin Jowett: We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique. Arthur Koestler: Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. Still learning, able to direct our own inquiries, aiming at foundational values,... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on May 6, 2005 at 4:53 p.m..
Citizen-Journalism Sites: Don't Be Boring
As I've been watching content submitted by the public on some of the
new citizen-
journalism sites, I definitely see a need for some education and encouragement to get better and more submissions.No, I don't mean that we in the news industry need to try to turn all our readers into quasi-professional journalists by training and accrediting them. But I do think that citizen-journalism sites should have resource secti From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on May 6, 2005 at 3:54 p.m..
Philly Newspaper Podcasts
Podcasts by newspapers. ... I think we have a bona fide trend here.Philadelphia Daily News online editor Vance Lehmkuhl reports the debut yesterday of a weekly podcast called
PhillyFeed. It's all original content: music, conversation, analysis, etc. -- "not just people reading print stories into a microphone," he says.The weekly podcast was an initiative of the newspaper's editorial page editor, Frank Burgos.PhillyFeed has an
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on May 6, 2005 at 3:54 p.m..
The strange beast that is a University
Sometime I really find universities strange places to work in. For the past two year I have been working in the area of e-portfolios both as a developer and a research student. During this time I have had been lucky... From
ERADC Blog on May 6, 2005 at 3:54 p.m..
Time Travelers to Meet in Not Too Distant Future
Time Travelers to Meet in Not Too Distant Future: "Some students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have organized what they call the first time traveler convention." If you are reading this in the future, please note that it is a potluck... Also the organizers ask that you please bring something to prove you are from the future... Maybe the program from the 2099 World Series...... From
Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on May 6, 2005 at 3:49 p.m..
In the World of NCLB It's All About the Data
This week I cut an advertisement from one of the educational technology magazines I get that featured the tag line: "It's All About the Data". In a fit of institutional subversiveness I tacked it on my bulletin board and added my own tag: "Wrong. It's All About the Students. It's astounding the amount of energy, effort, and money that is now being poured into the testing, evaluation, and monitoring of student testing--all driven by No Child Left... From
Brain Frieze on May 6, 2005 at 12:55 p.m..
7 things you should know about Social Bookmarking
Ich hatte vor einigen Tagen bereits auf dieses Thema hingewiesen, das wunderbar an das vorangehende Bloglines-Tutorial anschließt. EDUCAUSE hat dazu einen kurzen und verständlichen Überblick geschrieben, dessen handlungsorientierte Einführung die Sache auf den Punkt bringt: "Professor Smith does much of... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on May 6, 2005 at 12:51 p.m..
Learning to Learn
Thomas Friedman today in the Times: There's a huge undertow of worry out in the country about how our kids are being educated and whether they'll be able to find jobs in an increasingly flat world, where more Chinese, Indians and Russians than ever can connect, collaborate and compete with us. One answer, he writes, is to learn how to learn. Being really good at "learning how to learn," as President Bill Brody of Johns Hopkins put it, will be an enormous asset in an era of From
weblogged News on May 6, 2005 at 12:47 p.m..
The New and Not So Improved SAT
Unbelievable.
Write a lot, score high. Doesn't matter if it's right. Just write. A lot. SAT graders are told to read an essay just once and spend two to three minutes per essay, and Dr. Perelman is now adept at rapid-fire SAT grading. This reporter held up a sample essay far enough away so it could not be read, and he was still able to guess the correct grade by its bulk and shape. "That's a 4," he said. "It looks like a 4." Which brings me back From
weblogged News on May 6, 2005 at 12:47 p.m..
FCC Pushing 911 Access for All - Reuters
Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin has proposed requiring internet-based telephone services to offer 911 emergency services to customers by as early as the end of September, people familiar with the plan said on Wednesday. After a fe From
Techno-News Blog on May 6, 2005 at 11:56 a.m..
Jeepers Creepers, Bionic Peepers - Cyrus Farivar, Wired
Scientists are helping blind people see again, one pixel at a time. If all goes well, an artificial retina could be commercially available within three years. Artificial retinas have been successfully implanted in six patients, allowing them to see light From
Techno-News Blog on May 6, 2005 at 11:56 a.m..
Weblogs en la empresa: una guÃa para comenzar
Una guÃa en seis pasos para ayudar a los empresarios a explorar el potencial de los blogs como herramientas de comunicación corporativa (la publiqué originalmente en: Emprendedor XXI, abril 2005): 1) Conozca el medio y sus aplicaciones en el ámbito... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on May 6, 2005 at 10:51 a.m..
FCC Pushing 911 Access for All
Calling emergency services using internet-based phones is spotty in some areas and nonexistent in others. Now the FCC chairman wants phone companies to make sure everyone has access to 911. From
Wired News on May 6, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..
Why the World Is Flat
The playing field is being leveled, says globalization guru Thomas Friedman -- from Shanghai to Silicon Valley, from al-Qaida to Wal-Mart. By Daniel H. Pink from Wired magazine. From
Wired News on May 6, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..
This Jade Is a Precious Gem
The Xbox finally has a role-playing game to rival the best that other systems have to offer. Lore Sjöberg reviews Jade Empire. From
Wired News on May 6, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..
Net Helps Do-It-Yourselfers
May is National Masturbation Month. How will you celebrate? Plenty of online events are designed to raise funds, among other things. Commentary by Regina Lynn. From
Wired News on May 6, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..
Plan B: Ignore the Science?
Politics is trumping research findings in the widening debate over Plan B. Several studies show the drug doesn't induce abortions, but that's done little to quell opposition from pro-lifers. By Kristen Philipkoski. From
Wired News on May 6, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..
Your Identity, Open to All
ZabaSearch is a new search engine for finding the unlisted numbers of celebrities, as well as their addresses and satellite pictures of their homes. Trouble is, you're in there too. Is ZabaSearch an invasion of privacy? Xeni Jardin quizzes the site's founders. From
Wired News on May 6, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..
25 attacks a day
An Italian blogger, Gianluca Neri, looked under the blacked out marks on a US gov't PDF and discovered that there are an average of 25 attacks a day on coalition forces in Iraq. See Paolo Valdemarin's bloggage of this. [Technorati tag: iraq]... From
Joho the Blog on May 6, 2005 at 9:48 a.m..
Italy - Day 2
Yesterday, my second day in Italy, was overwhelming. All I can do is list my itinerary, especially since I have only a few minutes this morning before day 3 officially starts. Yesterday I was in Naples. The day began with an an early walk in the area around my hotel, which is a few blocks from the Piazza del Plebescita. (All spellings approximate!) I went up the small alleys as the city was getting started. I wished I had brought a sound recorder just to capture 5 minutes of street sounds as the small stores cranked open and the... From
Joho the Blog on May 6, 2005 at 8:47 a.m..
Caller ID
Recently I had quite a bit of spam trouble on a wiki, so I'm interested in a feature I just noticed on one of the French wikis that
Will Richardson pointed out today. The wiki is
Tuxfamily Wikini, and at the top of the main page (right after "Vous êtes") they post the Internet identification code for the machine you... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on May 6, 2005 at 4:52 a.m..
Change or Die
What if you were given that choice? For real. What if it weren't just the hyperbolic rhetoric that conflates corporate performance with life and death? Not the overblown exhortations of a rabid boss, or a slick motivational speaker, or a... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on May 6, 2005 at 3:54 a.m..
Dome Improvement
Twenty-three years ago, an American philosophy professor named James Flynn discovered a remarkable trend: Average IQ scores in every industrialized country on the planet had been increasing steadily for decades. Despite concerns about the dumbing-down of society - the failing... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on May 6, 2005 at 3:54 a.m..
Full RSS or Not
I was pretty chuffed when Derek Powazek actually posted a comment on my whinge about him not providing full RSS feeds... so chuffed, in fact that I'll reprint it here: "I prefer to only include excerpts in RSS, because I... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on May 6, 2005 at 3:54 a.m..
Change or Die
I finally got a chance to read
this heavily blogged article. This is one of those articles that give me the Aha! feeling. Change and change management has always been viewed as a complicated subject, but as this article shows, it's just about being humane. Here are the three steps: re-frame the reasons for change to make it beneficial, 2) accelerate the change process so that changes are visible, and 3) support the change. From
elearningpost on May 6, 2005 at 3:46 a.m..