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The price of compromise
Facilitators choosing to work within existing educational institutions that have as their rationale the certification and accreditation of learners according to institutionally set standards must expect to encounter ambiguity, contradiction, and compromise in their efforts to promote self-directed learning. To some, the price of compromise with institutional expectations will be too great to pay, given the limited benefits that accrue to learners when only a relatively small measure of self-directedness is introduced into programs. Others will continue to develop a hight tolerance From Seblogging News on June 17, 2005 at 10:50 p.m..

RSS feeds of AECT conference
Now, here's a good use of technology at the upcoming AECT conference this fall. 'Exploring the Vision' AECT's Annual International Convention Coronado Springs Resort (Information & Reservations) Orlando, Florida October 18-22, 2005 Fall Conf Details are online at http://www.aect.org/events/Orlando/default.asp?clientid=24222 For... From Rick's Café Canadien on June 17, 2005 at 9:48 p.m..

How To Distribute A PowerPoint Presentation On CD-ROM
Yesterday, one of my most scrupulous students, Jin, called me and asked me for the easiest way to burn a PowerPoint presentation on a CD-ROM in order to distribute it inside her organization. I answered Jin that this was indeed a difficult question, one that I have run into before and which has had me spend quite a few hours to find an appropriate solution.... From MasterViews on June 17, 2005 at 9:46 p.m..

Free industry briefing: Improving Intranet Search (Sydney)
As part of our ongoing efforts to bring intranet teams from different organisations together, we'll be presenting a free industry briefing in Sydney on improving intranet search. This will held on 31 August 2005 at the Mercure Hotel in Sydney,... From Column Two on June 17, 2005 at 7:47 p.m..

rights and wrongs
Austria's new media law breeds again the debate about the phenomenological chasm of journalists and bloggers. I'd support this initiative below though I def. do not understand myself as somehow journalistic; and I do have a kind of imprint on my blog. Keine Pflicht ohne Repräsentation: "Wenn Bloggern dieselben Pflichten wie kommerziel From thomas n. burg | randgänge on June 17, 2005 at 7:47 p.m..

Blogsday
An email from Brendan Greeley (lightly edited): Last night on Open Source (Chris Lydon's radio show), in honor of Bloomsday, we decided — quite arbitrarily — that this Tuesday, June 14, 2005 was "blogsday." We spent two days poking through the Internet to find the sound of ordinary people writing about their own lives. For an hour on the radio, we had Chris Lydon and two actors read out these blog entries, all from a single day. I think the results are kind of stunning, which is why I'm sharing them. The writing is gorgeous; it hits on barbecue, adopting... From Joho the Blog on June 17, 2005 at 6:48 p.m..

e-Learning Framework Toolkits
Here is what the preceeding item should have done instead. Here is a list of projects, their project home sites, and direct links to code (or to downloadables, where code is not available): [site] [code] Assessment Provision through Interoperable Segments (APIS) [site] [code] Brokerage for Deep and Distributed e-Learning Resources Discovery (D+) [site] [OLDaily on June 17, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Resources for Round One of the Toolkit Projects Now Available
These resources relate to the E-Learning Framework as supported by Britrain's JISC. Navigation to the resources themselves is just awful; the link you are given opens this page, where you need to notice links to the projects have opened in the left margin; click on a project such as APIS and then back to the left hand margin where (look carefully now) a link to the project OLDaily on June 17, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Intel Aims To Gather 300 Universities By 2006 For Its Mobile Programme
According to this item, "Intel Corporation is looking at wiring up to 300 universities in the Asia Pacific under its Mobile Initiative for Learning in Education (MILE) programme by end of next year." By Unattributed, Bernama.com, June 17, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] From OLDaily on June 17, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Eighth International Open Forum on Metadata Registries
Presentations (PowerPoint, zipped files) are now available from the from the Eighth International Open Forum on Metadata Registries held last week. The theme was Semantic Interoperability: Where Meaning Meets Metadata. Many great items; I list a few below: - Bruce Bargmeyer offers a very nice outline of metadata concepts, relations between metadata organizations, and metadata expressed in graph structure. - Thomas Bandholtz From OLDaily on June 17, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

NESTA Futurelab Research
Rod Savoie sends this item along, a link to a series of literature reviews in topics related to education and learning technology - topics such as student centered learning, games and learning, e-assessment, mobile technologies, and more. The articles are really hard to read - the HTML displays two narrow columns of text in the middle of the page, while the PDF (which launches in a popup) tries to stuff two large pages in a single frame. The content is good, though as these are "literature reviews" they depend exclusively on published "literature" and hence are a bit out of date and certainly From OLDaily on June 17, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Interactive Whiteboards
Blog set up by Joop van Schie to collect information on interactive whiteboards. The first post is a comprehensive resource in itself, liting numerous products, articles, and other resources. If you have something to contribute, send Joop a note. Via pete MacKay, who is on a roll this week. By Joop van Schie, Interactive Whiteboards, June 17, 2005 [Refer][Research][OLDaily on June 17, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

How To Save Public Education
Kind of a nifty idea - ideas on how to save publication, sorted by plans that take five minutes, five days, five weeks, five months and five years. Nifty, but I wish the ideas were a bit better, that the thinking was a bit deeper. Still, the main point - that you can do something now and in the long term - holds. Oh, and this item really should have been published 43 days ago. By GLEF Staff, Edutopia, June 17, 2005 [Refer][OLDaily on June 17, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Do We Really Need Learning Objectives?
George Siemens asks whether we really need learning objectives. The answer, of course, is no. "The very process of writing objectives states that we know what learners need to know.... Learners should be able to input their own needs and interest (or personal objectives) into the process." And I agree - but, of course, the devil is in the details. By George Siemens, Connectivism Blog, June 14, 2005 [Refer][OLDaily on June 17, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Rescuing Social Networking
This link is here mostly for the graphic at the top, a nice conceptual vision of conferencing. But also for this sharp analysis of where social networks have been failing: "existing SNAs offer the user little to do, take too much time, don't provide a customized audience, are socially awkward, and don't provide much that other features of the Internet don't do as well or better." And for the advice near the end suggesting that "what would really make SVP cool would be if we could meter it... [and] automatically bill them and pay us for our time at an agreed-upon rate." Which lef From OLDaily on June 17, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

New Open Access Journal for Human-centered ICT Research
Just launched, a new open access journal, Human Technology. The first issue, available now, is on mobile communications. The next issue will cover technology and learning. By Dan Atkins, Dan Atkins on CLEAR, June 17, 2005 [Refer][Research][OLDaily on June 17, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Slogging
This has been a pretty slow blogging week, primarily becuase yesterday we kicked off a full year pilot of about 35 tablet PCs in the hands of teachers from every discipline at our school. I ran a two-hour training that was one of the most fun sessions I've ever done primarily because of the kick of having the tablet and being able to walk around the room using the stylus to navigate it, everything being projected via wireless connection to a screen at the front of the room. Amazingly cool technology, I think. I haven't written too much about my tablet use, but I can't imagine From weblogged News on June 17, 2005 at 2:47 p.m..

I-Law Next Week
Last year I wrote that the Internet Law Program at Harvard was "one of the most profound learning experiences of my life" which is why I'm heading back to Cambridge next week for this year's gathering. I'm really psyched to see and hear Lawrence Lessig again as he's become one of my true heroes (right up there with Ernie Ba From weblogged News on June 17, 2005 at 1:45 p.m..

Japanese numbers
Joi runs the startling results of a survey of Japanese Internet usage. Some highlights: 36.2% of homes have broadband. 72.5% have heard of blogs, about double last year., 25% of women in their teens and 20's have blogs. (!) Wow.... From Joho the Blog on June 17, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

Plan to Connect Rural India to the Internet - JOHN MARKOFF, New York Times
An international consortium, including Indian and American companies as well as the World Bank, is planning to establish thousands of rural Internet centers in India to bring government, banking and education services to isolated villages. The project, to From Techno-News Blog on June 17, 2005 at 8:49 a.m..

Yahoo ramps up 'deep Web' search effort - Elinor Mills, CNET News
Yahoo began testing a service late Wednesday that allows people to perform simultaneous searches for information contained within subscription-based Web sites. While most search engines crawl the Web and troll freely accessible sites, they cannot get int From Techno-News Blog on June 17, 2005 at 8:49 a.m..

City Lets You Pay Parking Meters With Cell Phones - PAUL ENG, ABC News
After what seems like hours of driving around in circles, you've finally found that one rare, open parking spot on a busy, shop-lined city street. But relief turns to exasperation with one sudden, sinking realization: You have no change to feed the meter. From Techno-News Blog on June 17, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..

Race-Car Safety Plays by Ear
Tiny accelerometers fitted to drivers' earpieces feed crucial data to crews and emergency workers on the IndyCar circuit this season. By Patrick Karle. From Wired News on June 17, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Grand Theft Auto Meets Robocop
Thieves beware: A robotic reader identifies hot cars by scanning license plates. By Cyrus Farivar. From Wired News on June 17, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Sex Tech Conquers Nasty Past
A stunning array of patented devices in a very unusual museum exposes a radical shift in Americans' attitudes toward sex. Commentary by Regina Lynn. From Wired News on June 17, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Hey Gang! Let's Move to the Moon!
A new documentary says lunar colonization is the ticket for clean, renewable energy and the future of the planet. Jason Silverman tries his best to take Gaia Selene's argument seriously. From Wired News on June 17, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Cell Phones Face the Music
Napster has big plans for digital music on cell phones. Is this the end for the iPod? By Katie Dean. From Wired News on June 17, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Alternate Shuttle Aces Early Test
Transformational Space's experimental Crew Transfer Vehicle clears a big hurdle. It's just one of several companies vying to put space within reach of ordinary citizens. By Michael Belfiore. From Wired News on June 17, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Jewish Theological Seminary to Lose Its Longtime Leader
Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, who shepherded the seminary through 19 years of robust institutional expansion, has announced that he will retire as chancellor a year from now. From New York Times: Education on June 17, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..

Council Speaker Offers a Schools Plan of His Own
Gifford Miller, a Democratic mayoral candidate, unveiled a plan to improve New York City schools that includes a mandatory service requirement for high school students. From New York Times: Education on June 17, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..

Former Yonkers School Chief Will Probably Plead Guilty, His Lawyer Says
The former superintendent of the Yonkers school district will most likely plead guilty to charges that he obstructed an investigation of a controversial hiring. From New York Times: Education on June 17, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..

City Schools and Teachers Revise Plan on Workday
The city Education Department and the teachers' union agreed to change the work schedule for teachers, the fourth such change in four years. From New York Times: Education on June 17, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..

N.Y.U. Moves to Disband Graduate Students Union
New York University is moving to close down its graduate students union, the labor movement's only toehold among graduate students at private universities. From New York Times: Education on June 17, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..

Fr**dom of sp**ch
Rebecca tried to create a Chinese language MSN Spaces blog with the title "I love freedom of speech, human rights, and democracy" in Chinese and got the error message "You must enter a title for your space. The title must not contain prohibited language, such as profanity. Please type a different title." She's got screenshots, and links to Bennet Haselton's Freedom Hack Instructions. [Technorati tags: GlobalVoices china blogs microsoft]... From Joho the Blog on June 17, 2005 at 12:45 a.m..