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High school students need college prep.
Most high school students say they plan on going to college. Yet they fail to put in the necessary time and academic effort before graduation to succeed in college, according to a special report from Indiana University's High School Survey... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on May 11, 2005 at 10:54 p.m..
Project Management Coordinator - Barrhead
Project Management Coordinator size=3>EDUCATION 1 href="http://www.education.gov.ab.ca/">Education , Barrhead - We are seeking an Elementary/Junior High educator with strong organizational and communication skills to facilitate the design and development of print and electronic learning resources to support regular and alternative delivery... From
Rick's Café Canadien on May 11, 2005 at 10:53 p.m..
Manipulative devices
"To the extent that one person construes the construction processes of another, he may play a role in a social process involving the other person." Kelly here distinguishes between construing merely the behaviour of the other person as opposed to the necessity of construing his construction processes. The construing of mere behaviour (as if people were automata) does not generate social processes but rather lead to the development of manipulative devices which attempt to assert the myth of instructive interactions. The alternative is to construing the other's construing pro From
Seblogging News on May 11, 2005 at 10:49 p.m..
Google Acquires Dodgeball (Clay Shirky)
Google, the publicly held Mountain View, CA firm best known for its search engine, has acquired dodgeball, a social networking tool for mobile urbanites and one of the earliest examples of mobile social software. The next paragraph contains one hundred... From
Corante: Social Software on May 11, 2005 at 10:49 p.m..
Why Kuro5hin's Editors Need to Grow a Testicle
Or What You Can Do to Keep K5 From Becoming the Next Adequacy the ghost of rmg said regarding the response my comments have elicited in Earn High by Playing it Clean: this is the reason that people who produce decent content left this site in droves. these people are targetted precisely because they take pride in what they do -- which is to say, they do a good job at it. these are the people who are vulnerable to these sorts of tactics because people with self-respect, i.e. people who care about what they do and try to do a good job, are not willing to put up with that kind of crap and From
kuro5hin.org on May 11, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..
Action and reflection should complement each other
Action and reflection should ideally complement and support each other. Action by itself is blind, reflection impotent. Before investing great amounts of energy in a goal, it pays to raise the fundamental questions: Is this something I really want to do? Is it something I enjoy doing? Am I likely to enjoy it in the foreseeable future? Is the price that I -and others- will have to pay worth it? Will I be able to live with myself if I accomplish it?These seemingly easy questions are almost impossible to answer for someone who has lost touch with his own experience. If a man From
Seblogging News on May 11, 2005 at 9:50 p.m..
Blogvangelizing on the Radio
The REAL radio, that is, as in WHYY in Philadelphia where today on
Radio Times the topic was the future of the newspaper industry. So I figure "what the heck, I got something to say about the future of newspapers" and guess what... Now the best part has to be what the expert guest says after I hung up. (Guess you have to listen to the whole thing, huh?) Not a podcast, just
a link to the MP3. Too funny...
Radio Times the From
weblogged News on May 11, 2005 at 8:47 p.m..
The Newspaper Columnist as Talk-Show Host
We've long noted the evolution of the newspaper industry as it expands beyond print. For instance, many newspapers now routinely produce video for presentation online, in some cases competing directly with TV news. Now there's another example: a newspaper columnist who is hosting a talk show on the Web.Washington Post Metro columnist Marc Fisher has begun doing a
weekly, unscripted audio call-in show each Tuesday at noon (U.S. Eastern time). Washingtonpost.com users can From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on May 11, 2005 at 7:56 p.m..
See Why Blogs Make Bad TV
Where can you go to get hard-hitting analysis of how major broadcast news organizations are leveraging weblogs in their coverage? Comedy Central's The Daily Show, of course! In a recent segment, host Jon Stewart and correspondent Rob Corddrey lampooned on-air blog reading by CNN, MSNBC, and other TV news outlets.This is one case where humor makes the point far better than straight commentary. Definitely don't miss this one. The segment can be viewed via
Crooks and Liars (Windows Med From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on May 11, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..
¿Compartimos las búsquedas en Internet?
Estoy probando ahora un buscador que me parece que merece la pena tener en cuenta: eurekster. Llevaban ya algún tiempo funcionando en fase beta, pero el servicio ha madurado y yo creo que ha llegado el momento de explorar sus posibilidades. La verdad es que tengo la misma impresión que tuve en 1999, cuando probé Google por primera vez: creo que esto puede ser importante. Y es que cambia el concepto de búsqueda, porque los resultados se van refinando en función de las preferencias de las "redes de (...) From
martinalia.com | Gestión de Contenidos on May 11, 2005 at 5:55 p.m..
A Fierce Debate Over Classified Aggregators
The new-media discussion list for the Newspaper Association of America is having a vigorous discussion about whether to allow
Oodle.com -- or other sites that aggregate classified ads from multiple sources -- to "scrape" newspaper classifieds.It's an interesting question from a legal standpoint. (In a case involving eBay, a judge
prohibited an auction aggregator from "spidering" eBay's content.) But as a practical matter, Oodle From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on May 11, 2005 at 5:54 p.m..
An Excellent Use of Technology
I was using Google yesterday to track down an old news story (about a lawsuit involving online auctions). One of the links I found was to a story on CNET.com -- through which I discovered a very cool feature that I think is relatively new, though maybe I've missed it before. Those clever folks at CNET are capturing information from inbound search engine links and then using that information to construct a "Welcome Google user" list of other relevant stories on the site From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on May 11, 2005 at 5:54 p.m..
Online Newspapers' Audience Climbs Modestly
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new report by Nielsen//NetRatings, conducted for the Newspaper Association of America, shows a 3.1-percent increase in the audience size for online newspapers in the last year. According to the report, 29 percent of American Internet users read an online newspaper in March 2005 -- or about 44 million people.Besides the overall upward trend, the report cites an increase in page consumption -- from 41.5 pages per person for the month of March 2004, to 47.9 pages in From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on May 11, 2005 at 5:54 p.m..
Mobile Web Initiative
El World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) ha lanzado la Mobile Web Initiative: an endeavor to make Web access from a mobile device as simple, easy, and convenient as Web access from a desktop device. Ver: W3C Launches "Mobile Web Initiative".... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on May 11, 2005 at 5:51 p.m..
The Color of Sand by Night
The problem is that my eyes are full of sand. And not a few errant irritating grains. No, I mean that the sheer weight of the sand I am buried under has caused my eyeballs to collapse and my ocular cavities have filled entirely with sand. Sand is pressing against my retina as I record this. You might think that the pain would be unbearable. You would be right, at least for a while. There does, however, come a time when you have to ask yourself just what exactly 'unbearable' means. After bearing an unbearable pain for a certain number of years, say five in my case, you must acknowled From
kuro5hin.org on May 11, 2005 at 4:45 p.m..
Fundacionesandaluzas.org, Parlamentoandalucia.es, Luz84.com, Fotoacuatic.com y Buscamusica.org, premiadas como Mejores Webs Andaluzas de 2004
Cibersur ha dado a conocer las webs ganadoras de la VI Edición de los Premios Cibersur a las Mejores Webs Andaluzas, que cuenta con el patrocinio de la Consejería de Innovación, Ciencia y Empresa de la Junta de Andalucía y con la colaboración de RTVA y la empresa Legitec. En la VI convocatoria del concurso, las premiadas con el sello “Mejor Web Andaluza” han sido Fundacionesandaluzas.org, Parlamentoandalucia.es, Luz84.com, Buscamusica.org y Fotoacuatic.com en las categorías de, Asociación, (...) From
martinalia.com | Gestión de Contenidos on May 11, 2005 at 2:55 p.m..
Next-Generation CMS
From Course Management to Curricular Capabilities: A Capabilities Approach for the Next-Generation CMS... From
ERADC Blog on May 11, 2005 at 2:54 p.m..
BBC eases feed use
BBC eases rules on news feed use The BBC has opened up its content more so that people can use news stories and headlines on their own sites via RSS. Revised licence terms mean other sites can integrate RSS feeds from the BBC without offline contract negotiations, as was previously the case. From the BBC site. Go, Beeb! I did enjoy, however, the caption under the photo illustrating the story. The photo shows a woman with her laptop in a cafe. The caption: "People like to get information when they want and wherever they are." It might as well... From
Joho the Blog on May 11, 2005 at 2:48 p.m..
Iranian bloggers blog meeting with a blogging presidential candidate
Global Voices aggregates Iranian bloggers blogging a meeting with a reformist presidential candidate who writes his own Persian blog. This is pretty fascinating. Check Adventures of Mr. Behi (in English). Omid Memarian (Iranian Prospect) writes that it was the most open candidate meeting ever, perhaps an example of the openness of the Net affecting the openness of the real world. Global Voices' daily roundup also points to a powerful, provocative piece by Martin Mbugua Kimani (African Bullets & Honey) called "Confessions of a Middle Class Kenyan" (with comments here).... From
Joho the Blog on May 11, 2005 at 1:49 p.m..
(re) Descubriendo blogs
Una selección periódica, muy personal, de buenos weblogs de hoy y de ayer. Activismo Bitácora de Jorge Cortell DeepLinks: Noteworthy News From Around the Internet Global Voices Online: Global Voices is an international effort to diversify the conversation taking place... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on May 11, 2005 at 12:52 p.m..
Horizontal Classrooms
Like him
or not, I have to say that I've been getting a bit of an education from Thomas Friedman's
The World is Flat, and I'm finding more and more connections between the global leveling he describes and the classroom. At one point he writes about how in this new world, it's not just the little guy (i.e. bloggers) who can suddenly start to act big, it's also the big guys who can s From
weblogged News on May 11, 2005 at 12:47 p.m..
Wikis And Blogs As Instruments Of Citizen Participation
This morning, as I was driving inside the Rome traffic on my way to the office, I realized something interesting, about blogs, wikis and all these new forms of grassroots communication. Photo credit: Robin Good Blogs and wikis can be great enablers for local district and community support and they could easily offer much greater opportunity for citizen participation to key issues and problems to be addressed locally. The whole reasoning was sparked by a traffic event.... From
Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings on May 11, 2005 at 11:49 a.m..
The "Face" of Blogging
Now I have nothing against blonde hair and blue eyes (my mother was Swedish, ya know) but this isn't quite what comes to mind when I think of blogging. Oy. I need to get over it, already, I know... From
weblogged News on May 11, 2005 at 11:46 a.m..
Suit Stymies Stem-Cell Gold Rush
Financing for California's Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the agency charged with doling out big bucks for stem-cell research, grinds to a halt -- thanks to a lawsuit questioning the group's legality. From
Wired News on May 11, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
New Moon Hides in Saturn Rings
Astronomers have discovered yet another moon circling Saturn, thanks to striking new images from the Cassini spacecraft, reproduced here. By Amit Asaravala. From
Wired News on May 11, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
A New Multiple Personality Mess
Credit reporting agencies make mistakes, and that could mean there's more than one of you out there. It's time to set your records straight. By Gary Wolf from Wired magazine. From
Wired News on May 11, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Put Some Wisdom in Your Pocket
A new cell-phone-based application aims to place boundless knowledge in the palm of your hand. One potential downside: relying on other users' expertise. By Rachel Metz. From
Wired News on May 11, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Escargot? Oui. Google? Sacre Bleu
What's behind recent Gallic outrage over the search giant's digital library? Start with France's failure to keep pace with American geek prowess, but don't forget Europe's fears about who'll be writing the planet's history. By Bruce Gain. From
Wired News on May 11, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
New Game Consoles Set to Shake E3
Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo get ready to show off their latest, greatest machines. But will the powerful next-gen gaming systems be a hit with consumers and developers? By Chris Kohler. From
Wired News on May 11, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Who owns the comments?
I was catching up with my friend Michelle yesterday when I realised I had not read her blog for a while. These posts caught my attention: Owning Comments.. Comments Follow-up & Rubrics too... "For web-based e-portfolios, the reviewer goes to... From
ERADC Blog on May 11, 2005 at 8:54 a.m..
Change or Die
"All leadership comes down to this: changing people's behavior. Why is that so damn hard? Science offers some surprising new answers HYPHEN and ways to do better. ... The conventional wisdom says that crisis is a powerful motivator for change.... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on May 11, 2005 at 7:50 a.m..
Mental Models For Search Are Getting Firmer
Jakob Nielsen on
elements of search : Search is such a prominent part of the Web user experience that users have developed a firm mental model for how it's supposed to work. Users expect search to have three components: A box where they can type words A button labeled "search" that they click to run the search A list of top results that's linear, prioritized, and appears on a new page -- the search engine results page (SERP) From
elearningpost on May 11, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..
A Vision of Terror
This is cool: "A new generation of software called Starlight 3.0, developed for the Department of Homeland Security by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), can unravel the complex web of relationships between people, places, and events. And other new software can even provide answers to unasked questions." From
elearningpost on May 11, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..
Blogs in Education 3.0
Will Richardson followed up on my
Sunday post with his own comments on creating a culture of contribution in our schools where our students' work is not only celebrated but put to use in meaningful ways.
# And his post attracted a comment from Terry Elliott which included this thought about the... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on May 11, 2005 at 5:51 a.m..
Til human voices wake us
I actually had a phone conversation from another blogger today. You may live in a different world, but here in my world bloggers trade emails once every few months, and they never have coffee or talk to each other on the phone. Maybe I should get a life. But we talked about the thin local blogging scene and batted around a few ideas about how it might catch a spark or two. The ideas would require getting out and about, meeting people, offering to teach neighborhood organizations to... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on May 11, 2005 at 4:48 a.m..
Validating an entire site
Pete Giraffe has written a blog entry on how to validate an entire site against W3C standards. To quote: Recently I had a situation where I wanted to validate a large collection of pages. A customer has a rather large... From
Column Two on May 11, 2005 at 3:46 a.m..
One stop subscribing
OK, I'm a day late on kudos to
The Huffington Post. But given the rate of posting around here, better late than never. I may stop job hunting, DSL scrounging, and
NWP blog building long enough to again write regularly. Then again, it's not like a lot of somebody elses aren't saying it all, more often and better. LOL! Just go read HP' From
homoLudens III on May 11, 2005 at 3:45 a.m..
Flackster is backster
Michael O'Connor Clarke has started up his blog about PR again. Yay! The new entry is the first in a series called "The Seven Deadly Agency Types." And on the topic of PR blogs, I checked in with Richard Edelman's only to find out that last week he blogged a conversation he and I had. That'd be perfectly ok, of course, even if (disclosure statement!) I weren't on retainer to Edelman PR, but I feel bad that I fled the country immediately afterwards and thus missed the interesting discussion of the post. I argued that PR needs to get out... From
Joho the Blog on May 11, 2005 at 1:48 a.m..
Yahoo! Makes Strong Music Subscription Push
See
News.com's and
Postplay's reports on Yahoo! Music Unlimited. According to the latter, for as low as $5/month you can get a Janus-DRM based portable subscription, and they will not provide a non-portable option. I think it's a smart move to simplify the offering in that way. On a broader level, great to see some real price competition. From
A Copyfighter's Musings on May 11, 2005 at 1:48 a.m..
2005 David C. Smith Award
The Council of Ontario Universities (COU) invites nominations from universities across Canada for the 2005 David C. Smith Award for Significant Contribution to Scholarship and Policy in Higher Education in Canada. The recipient will be invited to deliver the annual... From
Rick's Café Canadien on May 10, 2005 at 11:53 p.m..