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How Humble BBS Begat Wired World
From the history books: the rise and brief flash of glory of the Bulletin Board Service (BBS). This article is framed around Jason Scott's BBS: The Documentary, which is destined to become the definitive resource in the field. By Kim Zetter, Wired News, June 8, 2005 [Refer][Research][OLDaily on June 9, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

Freeduc-primary, a Live-cd For Primary School
Hilaire Fernandes announces the availability of the Freeduc-primary and Freeduc-games Linux-based CD-ROMs (ou can download and make your own) loaded with free software for schools. These CDs are designed so that the computer can be booted directly from CD - no installation required. Related: a list of Simple End-User Linux applications. By Hilaire Fernandes, June, 2005 [Refer][OLDaily on June 9, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

News On Demand
Coverage on alternative approaches to news delivery, mostloy centered around the ability of viewers to customize their news service, whether in text or on video. The applications in the educational domain should be clear, and actually, it seems to me that education can and will function as an extension oif these services. Transcript from PBS coverage. By Various Authors, PBS, June 6, 2005 [Refer][Rese From OLDaily on June 9, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

Digital Amnesia
Librarians and people in government will be interested in this conference summary, which looks at the digitization of government resources and library services in Australia. Why the title? As Toss Gascoigne writes, "Government departments are increasingly using the web as their primary means of publication. It's quicker and easier and gives much better access in today's wired world. And they save money by printing fewer hard copies. The problem arises when reports are removed from the web or re-located to a new URL." Via The Networker (EdNA). By Various Authors, ALIA, June, 2005 [OLDaily on June 9, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

Some Uses of Blogs in Education
I don't know when Scott Leslie created this very useful graphic (or even whether he did - it's undated and unsigned - tsk) but it was cited on ITForum today and is well worth a link here. By Scott Leslie, EdTechPost, June, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] From OLDaily on June 9, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

Interface 2005
Summary presentations from ADETA's 2005 conference, Interface 2005. Because I'm still jet-lagged like crazy, you only get notes from the morning. Notes include Mark Milliron on ten emerging insights in education, three speakers describing the 'best of the west' e-learning initiatives in western Canada and Victor Garcia from Hewlett-Packard on inventing the future. By Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web, June 9, 2005 [OLDaily on June 9, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

Boards Get Brains, Chalk Vanishes
Boards Get Brains, Chalk Vanishes: "Schools across the country dump dusty chalkboards for touch-sensitive whiteboards connected to computers. Kids can solve problems, surf the web and even edit video with their fingertips..." Today Wired reports on the rise in popularity of interactive whiteboards. At Lewis Elementary we currently have 6 classrooms equipped with these and with plans to add one more over the summer. The boards aren't cheap and the ideal installation involves ceiling mounts which can be rather expensive. At Lewis we choose to use projectors on carts, but would love to have From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on June 9, 2005 at 9:49 p.m..

My name is not Robert
Went off to the geek dinner on Tuesday night with 200 or so other people and had a great time. It was held just of Trafalgar Square at a Tex-Mex venue, and I get the feeling the poor people downstairs... From Monkeymagic on June 9, 2005 at 8:52 p.m..

SACE 2005 call for papers
From Sheri Gunville: I'm getting presenters together for SACE 2005 and I thought you might be working on a project, or with some students who have great things to share and present. The online presenter form can be found at... From Rick's Café Canadien on June 9, 2005 at 7:51 p.m..

Der Ritter des Internet -- zum 50. Geburtstag von Tim Berners-Lee
Heute wird alles etwas kürzer, weil ich den ganzen Tag auf dem DGFP-Kongress in Wiesbaden gewesen bin - wobei ich zugeben muss, dass ich den Kongress nur zum Anlass genommen habe, um mich mit anderen zu treffen. Kurz deshalb nur... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on June 9, 2005 at 6:51 p.m..

Wiki for project management: good practices, tips and tricks?
I'm looking for experiences and advice of using wiki for a project - any pointers? To be more specific: the idea is to use a wiki as a shared space for both, project management and accumulating projects results. I'm especially interested in the first one: how wiki could be used for planning, coordination and updates? what types of project management pages it makes sense to create? tips and tricks to facilitate active participation? On practicalities: 12 organisations in 5 countries, ~30 people, most with little or no wiki experience... From Mathemagenic on June 9, 2005 at 5:46 p.m..

Invitation to WCET-led ePortfolio Software Research Project
http://www.edutools.info/ePortfolio/notice.pdf Over at Edutools, where I spend at least half my life, we have been quietly trying out a new model for researching ed tech software and helping people get up to speed on different technology issues. Last year we ran the model for the first time while looking at various Learning Object Repository technologies. We've just run the same project a second time, the results of which will be relea From EdTechPost on June 9, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Time setting from the future
My laptop keeps getting set to the wrong time. For example, today after I forced a re-synch using XP's built in facility, I got this response: Note: It's now around 1:45 PM on June 9. If I set the date correctly and use Windows' own time server instead of NIST's, it gets the time and date right. Is the national timepiece off by six days???... From Joho the Blog on June 9, 2005 at 3:49 p.m..

El conocimiento explícito: una nueva leyenda urbana
Leyenda urbana: * Aparece misteriosamente y se propaga espontáneamente en diversas formas. * Contiene elementos de humor o de horror (el horror frecuentemente "castiga" al que se bu... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on June 9, 2005 at 2:46 p.m..

When you're beyond nouveau riche
Ever since I read this article, Old Nantucket Warily Meets the New, the other day, the term "hyper-rich" has been rolling off my tongue. It's only fitting since I'm on Nantucket right now and signs of the hyper-rich abound -- such as the Hummer loaded for a beach assault with stacks of beach chairs and fishing rods on its roof and a cooler mounted to it From megnut on June 9, 2005 at 1:45 p.m..

Free software developers receive cease-and-desist letters
FreeNSK interviewed open source developers Alexander Noé and Zeb who created some free software utilities for Plextor DVD recorders. Noé wrote PxScan and PxView for Windows, while Zeb ported them to GNU/Linux under the name PxLinux. The utilities send special commands to the drives, activating their special features, such as media quality checks. Unfortunately, someone wasn't happy with their efforts, as the parent company of Plextor sent them cease-and-desist letters accusing them of using "unfair commercial practices"... From kuro5hin.org on June 9, 2005 at 11:45 a.m..

Waiting To Be Fired.
I'm one of those vaguely self-destructive personality types you make acquaintence with throughout your life. Admittedly, if I didn't want to be fired, I could have kept my mouth shut. Or more accurately, my fingers under leash. From kuro5hin.org on June 9, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

Apple's Next Test: Get Developers to Write Programs for Intel Chips - JOHN MARKOFF and LAURIE J. FLYNN, New York Times
Steven P. Jobs took the stage at Apple Computer's Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday to tell more than 3,000 of his most enthusiastic fans - and occasionally also his harshest critics - that he was giving them a new homework assignment: to rework t From Techno-News Blog on June 9, 2005 at 9:50 a.m..

The real neural network
David Tebbutt points to some images of neurons that are interesting on level, beautiful at another, and awe-inspiring at yet another. [Technorati tag: neurons]... From Joho the Blog on June 9, 2005 at 9:49 a.m..

Darth Vader, in his own words
This is Darth Vader's story, told in the first person in day-to-day journal form - a penetrating insight into what it's like being a dark tyrannical overlord! The readers play along in the comment sections by impersonating various Star Wars characters. It's well-written and made me laugh in several places. Another fine fruit of the imagination of the one and only MFDH (.ca), whose literary output is recapped in this nifty Seb's Open Research on June 9, 2005 at 9:47 a.m..

You've Been Scammed Again? Maybe the Problem Isn't Your Computer - TOM ZELLER Jr., New York Times
Indeed, despite more than 10 years of exposure to the nature of Internet communications - cheap, quick, anonymous, unverifiable - hoaxes, viruses and outright fraud continue to spread. And while some of this can be attributed to the endless stream of newc From Techno-News Blog on June 9, 2005 at 8:49 a.m..

New Swedish law to ban downloading of films, music - Reuters
Sweden's parliament approved a law on Wednesday that bans the downloading of copyrighted material such as films and music from the Internet after being singled out for criticism by Hollywood. Sweden had until now allowed downloading of files, while uploa From Techno-News Blog on June 9, 2005 at 8:49 a.m..

How Humble BBS Begat Wired World - Kim Zetter, Wired
Remember when there was no e-mail or instant messaging? Reaching out to touch someone digitally once meant you had to dial into a phone line through your Trash-80 PC, type a message, post it to an online bulletin board and then wait weeks -- or more often From Techno-News Blog on June 9, 2005 at 8:49 a.m..

Wikipedia Live!
The whole concept of Wikipedia still gives me chills sometimes, especially when I see new representations of the collaborative power behind it. I just think it's such an inspirational accomplishment, and, even though I know this sounds really, really weird, in some ways I think Wikipedia represents a glimmer of hope for a world that in many other ways I see heading for some dark days. That in itself sounds pretty depressing... Anyway, via Steve Cohen comes this very co From weblogged News on June 9, 2005 at 8:47 a.m..

Conclusiones de las II Jornadas Internet y Solidaridad
Acaban de publicarse las conclusiones de las II Jornadas Internet y Solidaridad: Vamos hacia un nuevo paradigma de funcionamiento: de la sociedad jerárquica a la sociedad en red: informacional, comunicacional, organizativo... Este nuevo paradigma nos puede conducir al individualismo o... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on June 9, 2005 at 7:47 a.m..

Accused Pentagon Hacker in Court
Extradition hearings begin in London for a Briton charged in the United States with hacking 97 government computer systems, including the Pentagon's. From Wired News on June 9, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..

U.S. Edits Global Warming Reports
A White House official repeatedly adjusts language in climate change reports already vetted by government scientists, watering down the impact of emissions on global warming, according to The New York Times. From Wired News on June 9, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..

Academic Journals Open to Change
The Public Library of Science leads the charge to transform how research is vetted and controlled, but just making the journals free and open may not go far enough. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg. From Wired News on June 9, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..

News Junkies Need It Now
FreeNews delivers a speedy tool that lets info addicts cruise RSS feeds for the latest headlines using just a mobile phone. John Gartner puts it through its paces. From Wired News on June 9, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..

Tiger Tweaks Could Kill Folders
Thanks to new UI tools in the latest version of Mac OS X, stuffy old habits like organizing files into folders become obsolete. Welcome to the new desktop metaphor: search. By Abby Christopher and Mike Faden. From Wired News on June 9, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..

Boards Get Brains, Chalk Vanishes
Schools across the country dump dusty chalkboards for touch-sensitive whiteboards connected to computers. Kids can solve problems, surf the web and even edit video with their fingertips. David Cohn reports from New York City. From Wired News on June 9, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..

This Blog Is 100 Percent Solar
Your website keeps sucking electricity even when your mom's not reading it. Fortunately, green energy can generate the power to host it. By Amit Asaravala. From Wired News on June 9, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..

Honey, I Shrunk the PC
Scientists close in on a single-molecule transistor, a discovery that could dwarf all achievements in electronics miniaturization to date. By Mark Anderson. From Wired News on June 9, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..

International Weblogger's Day
El 14 de junio se celebrará el International Weblogger's Day: Bringing webloggers from around the world together on one day to celebrate a year's worth of changing the way the Internet sees personal journalism. Ya se han apuntado más de... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on June 9, 2005 at 5:46 a.m..

FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE HUMANITIES
I know this is outside our usual area for conferences, but when was the last time you attended a conference in Carthage? It certainly wins in the exotic location category. University of Carthage, Tunisia, 3-6 July 2006 http://www.HumanitiesConference.com The conference... From Rick's Café Canadien on June 9, 2005 at 1:52 a.m..

Age-Old Boys' Choir Eases Up as It Seeks to Survive
As Europe's oldest boys' choir and music school struggles to survive, the school will reopen under greatly relaxed rules governing student life. From New York Times: Education on June 9, 2005 at 1:45 a.m..

Gay Rights Battlefields Spread to Public Schools
Opponents of school activities aimed at educating students about homosexuality are mounting challenges to such programs. From New York Times: Education on June 9, 2005 at 1:45 a.m..

The Smart Business
Business intelligence tools are coming of age: "Most companies recognize the need to acquire and aggregate data to measure everything from customer behavior to procurement to supply-chain management. But it's the analysis and monitoring of this data—and using it in future strategic planning—that are the highest priorities for IT executives when deploying business-intelligence tools." From elearningpost on June 8, 2005 at 11:46 p.m..

Communities of Practice and Complexity: Conversation and Culture
An in-depth article looking at creating and sustaining communities of practices. Being an engineer myself, I like the relation to entropy and activity to explain the CoP process. [via Nancy White] "The key to maintaining the creativity and inventiveness of a CoP, bearing in mind it is emotional energy we are speaking of, the CoP needs to be continuously challenged by problems that excite its members, and if this is not quite enou From elearningpost on June 8, 2005 at 11:46 p.m..