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Best Web Presentation Tools: June 2005 Update. To effectively deliver a PowerPoint presentation or screen recording on the Web, the traditional means of converting individual slides to GIF and JPG image files is not effective anymore. It is cumbersome, it takes time, it forces you into a...... [Online Collaboration :: Robin Good's Latest News] From Bill Brandon: eLearning on June 20, 2005 at 8:48 p.m..

Design Thinking
Fast Company: Strategy by Design. Logistics systems, the Internet, organizations, and yes, even strategy -- all of these are tangible outcomes of design thinking. In fact, many people in many organizations are engaged in design thinking without being aware of it. The result is that we don't focus very much on making it better. [Tomalak's Realm] From Bill Brandon: eLearning on June 20, 2005 at 8:48 p.m..

Camtasia update
Techsmith readies Camtasia 3.0. If you are launching a new product you probably want to include on your Web site a movie about what it does. TechSmith's Camtasia is the one I hear most recommended and they are soon to release their third version, info on that here. What's your favorite screen capture program? That reminds me to check into the BlogCast Repository, which is where th From Bill Brandon: eLearning on June 20, 2005 at 8:48 p.m..

Moodle rises again
Moodly Stuff. Since I am on the extreme margin of involvement of course management systems at Maricopa, Ive not intensively followed the latest CMS stuff, but hear that Sakai is bubbling and there is even more spots of interest on the adoption of Moodle. Leon at Y.uk? emailed about 2 new Moodle articles on his blog, Innovative Practitioners [...] [CogDogBlog] From Bill Brandon: eLearning on June 20, 2005 at 8:48 p.m..

Sakai 2.0.0 Release Available
This open source course management system is moving forward. From Scott Leslie: Sakai 2.0.0 Release Available: http://www.sakaiproject.org/index.php ?option=com_content&task=view&id=255&Itemid=258 A lot of folks have been waiting for this, and here it is - the Sakai project have release version 2.0, which amongst other things includes a Gradebook feature in addition to updates to the Samigo assessment tool. I am undertaking [...] From Martindale Matrix on June 20, 2005 at 7:46 p.m..

Foie gras is yummy, is it also immoral?
An interesting article about the controversy surrounding foie gras and the current movement to ban its production in the United States: Does a Duck Have a Soul? How foie gras became the new fur. From megnut on June 20, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Cheater's Guide to LinkedIn v 0.1
While titled to appeal to certain sensibilities (and not the good ones either) this item is nonetheless a pretty good guide on how to take advantage of LinkedIn (or, for that matter, any social network - see the list provided by Scott Allen and David Tetten). Be sure to read the comments, as more tips are added. By Christian Mayaud, Sacred Cow Dung, May 23, 2005 [Refer][OLDaily on June 20, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

MYTH: Patents Protect Small Companies
This blog, which is new to me, addresses that murky area where enterprise, information technology and health care overlap. Some good content, including especially this item, which asserts, bluntly: "If you don't have the financial resources to support years and years of patent litigation, then your patents have no teeth." Well argued, observing that "Large companies have no problem violating your patents" and "Big Companies don't have much of a disincentive not to violate your patents." Oh yeah, and from ano From OLDaily on June 20, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

WebCT Price Increases
No links yet (so this simply links to the WebCT CE home page) but I have reports coming in from more than one institution that WebCT is asking for significant price increases (in the 60 percent range) for its Campus Edition learning management system for upgrades to CE version 6. This is combined with price increases for the database licenses necessary with WebCT, since WebCT has separated out the LMS software from the database is runs on - Oracle and MS SQL. By Unknown, WebCT, June, 2005 [Ref From OLDaily on June 20, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Open Access Self-Archiving: An Author Study
Report from JISC. From the summary: "Almost half (49%) of the respondent population have self-archived at least one article during the last three years in at least one of the three possible ways -- by placing a copy of an article in an institutional (or departmental) repository, in a subject-based repository, or on a personal or institutional website." Also noteworthy: "The vast majority of authors (81%) would willingly comply with a mandate from their employer or research funder to deposit copies of their articles in an institutional or subject-based repository." PDF. By Alma Swan and Sheri From OLDaily on June 20, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Sakai 2.0.0 Release Available
Sakai, an open source learning management system, has reached another landmark point with the release of Sakai 2.0.0. "This release includes a Gradebook in addition to an updated version of the Tests and Quizzes tool (Samigo). The existing Sakai tools have been internationalized, allowing translation of Sakai 2.0 into multiple languages. Most of the existing tools now conform to Sakai Style Guide. Sakai 2.0 includes support for web-services to allow the development of tools on languages other than Java." Via Scott Leslie. By Variou From OLDaily on June 20, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

lashing them together
Foucault on the soul: "the element in which are articulated the effects of a certain type of power and the reference of a certain type of knowledge, the machinery by which the power relations give rise to a possible corpus of knowledge, and knowledge extends and reinforces the effects of this power." Rageboy: "Granted, this view smacks strongly of the postmodern. As it should; that's the point. These writers of prescriptions who turn back the clock thinking no one will notice, who invoke moral/ethical categories as if they were as obvious as shoes and sunshine, end up addressing serious m From OLDaily on June 20, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Summer
You know that it's summer then it feels so nice skyping home in a hammock swinging and while birds are singing... And then your laptop battery can not stand it any longer, but instead of going inside you find an extention cord because leaving the hammock would be so wrong... From Mathemagenic on June 20, 2005 at 5:51 p.m..

"Finally, a free lunch: The benefits of an open source VLE" - Report on Oxford's Use of Boddington
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/vle/OpensourceVLE.doc Worth a read, in part because of it's brevity, this report synopsizes Oxford University's experiences over the past 4 years in adopting the open source Bodington system. The report points out that the system was chosen largely because it was a nice fit "in terms of [the] joint honours and open access policy" at Oxford. (Actually, I wished they'd made more of this point; while the use they are putting their CMS From EdTechPost on June 20, 2005 at 5:51 p.m..

Blog Presentation Blog
Alan uses a Blogger blog to present "More Than Cat Diaries: Publishing With Weblogs" at a conference in Hawaii. (Lucky cogdogblog.) I love the notes/no notes option...and now I know how to do it even. (Now if only I had the time to play...) From weblogged News on June 20, 2005 at 5:47 p.m..

Wanted: Ten Hours of Really Good Podcasts
So I have a five hour drive in front of my tomorrow to get to Boston and iLaw and five hours back on Friday. That's a potential 10-hour time-shifted, on demand, learning never stops, read/write Web techfest opportunity that I want to make the most of. (What's a radio, anyway?) I'm saving up the latest Gillmor Gang, and I've got the latest from IT Conversations and the usual weblogged News on June 20, 2005 at 5:47 p.m..

No, I'm not keeping up with your blog.
I would like to. I really would. I like it and I like you. But we're now well past the point where any of us can keep up with all the blogs worth reading from the people worth keeping up with. Even with an aggregator. I just can't do it any more. I've been faking it for a while. Months. Maybe a year. If we've met and I look confused about something you told me, and if you said, "I blogged it," as if that should be explanation enough, I've made some excuse as if I read every one of... From Joho the Blog on June 20, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..

Best Rate Guarantees Lures Travelers from Aggregator Sites
Hotels want travelers to book at their own Web sites. Best rate guarantees and incentives entice users from aggregator sites. From ClickZ Stats on June 20, 2005 at 4:45 p.m..

Supernova live
C-Net has put up its page where the Supernova videoblogcasts (and more) will occur. I fly out there tonight and start vblogging tomorrow morning... [Technorati tag: supernova2005]... From Joho the Blog on June 20, 2005 at 2:48 p.m..

Sakai 2.0.0 Release Available
http://www.sakaiproject.org/index.php ?option=com_content&amptask=view&ampid=255&ampItemid=258 A lot of folks have been waiting for this, and here it is - the Sakai project have release version 2.0, which amongst other things includes a Gradebook feature in addition to updates to the Samigo assessment tool. I am undertaking a review of Sakai 2.0 for Edutools right now that we will hopefully have up in a few weeks, and so sho From EdTechPost on June 20, 2005 at 1:49 p.m..

CTC: Collaboration Is IT's Last Chance to Matter (Ross Mayfield)
Excerpts from a panel on if IT should be an owner or operator of collaborative technologies (middlespace issues) at the Collaborative Technologies Conference. Excerpts from a panel on if IT should be an owner or operator of collaborative technologies... From Corante: Social Software on June 20, 2005 at 1:47 p.m..

archivists vs. observers
very interesting lineup of the culture of filing vs the one of describing. It's all about if aou work on an endless taxonomy vs. you just decribe what you observe. In any case it has severe implication for user-interfaces and metaphors. Another issue is if a certain target group of users is either or. That said I can imagine that one application should afford both modes - since one and the same user resides in different patterns. thomas n. burg | randgänge on June 20, 2005 at 12:45 p.m..

Ciao, Feedburner!
Following Feedburner's recent announcement that they will enable a graceful exit from their feed management service if I want to, I've changed my webfeed links to this Feedburner-managed feed, which is much more browser-friendly than the Radio Userland-generated one and will provide me with usage statistics. Update: Not sure if it's due to the change, but I just noticed that clicking the Seb's Open Research on June 20, 2005 at 12:45 p.m..

Rescuing Social Networking
Ist der Hype um Social Networking Applications (SNAs) bereits vorbei? Ich hatte vor einigen Tagen auf einen kritischen Report aufmerksam gemacht ("Why some social network services work and others don't"). Dave Pollard zitiert einen weiteren Bericht ("Five Reasons Social Networking... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on June 20, 2005 at 10:52 a.m..

Hiawatha and Rebecca on China and Microsoft
Boston Globe columnist Hiawatha Bray writes about Microsoft's enabling of Chinese censorship, wisely using Rebecca as his primary source. Good column, although I think he's overly-optimistic at the end about the ability of the Chinese government to cut off access to sites it doesn't like. The Berkman report on Chinese filtering paints a more depressing picture... [Technorati tags: RebeccaMacKinnon HiawathaBray China] (I blogged a response to Scoble's defense of Microsoft.)... From Joho the Blog on June 20, 2005 at 10:49 a.m..

What Art Is
Defining art is like defining sexy -- as slippery as it is sure, as ephemeral as it is compelling. None of our modern techniques for detecting art have made the matter more certain. Our giga-computers and mega-scanners of the 21st century have utterly failed to clarify the picture. And, while generation after generation of human beings stumble their way into learning about sexy, art remains more of a mystery than ever. It is easy to point at history and argue that the constant presence of art is proof of its essential nature to the spirit of every earthly civilization. Like oxygen, li From kuro5hin.org on June 20, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

Kompetenzförderliche Potenziale populärer Computerspiele
Ich habe keine Ahnung, was Computerspiele betrifft. Deshalb kann ich diese Meldung nur weiterleiten: Das Institut für Medienpädagogik in Forschung und Praxis (JFF) hat das kompetenzförderliche Potenzial von populären Computerspielen untersucht. Im Teaser heisst es zusammenfassend: "Während oft hohe kognitive... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on June 20, 2005 at 9:52 a.m..

Where the raging rivers join
RageBoy writes what may be the least corporate blog post to ever appear as an official corporate blog post. Called "Lashing them together" — the "them" refers explicitly to a writer's sentences but sentences are not the only ones who receive the edge of RB's cat o' nine tales — this is a cauldron of ideas and gestures that is about child rearing the way Mt. St. Helen's was about the even distribution of ash. [Technorati tag: RageBoy]... From Joho the Blog on June 20, 2005 at 9:49 a.m..

A poem
Spring A maple leaf as flat as an open palm and cold with rain leaned over and slapped me as I walked on the sidewalk. The advantage is mine: I have evolved thumbs and vengeance. [Technorati tags: poetry humor]... From Joho the Blog on June 20, 2005 at 9:49 a.m..

Nokia and Intel push to get WiMAX out this year - Lucas van Grinsven, Reuters
Mobile phone and network company Nokia and chip giant Intel said on Friday they would step up their efforts and collaboration to make WiMAX a new standard in mobile broadband Internet access. Intel has been the driving force behind WiMAX, touting it as t From Techno-News Blog on June 20, 2005 at 8:49 a.m..

AT&T Tests Enterprise WiMax in the City - Carmen Nobel, eWeek
AT&T Corp. is determined to make a case for fixed-wireless WiMax technology for urban, corporate environments. In October, the Bedminster, N.J., carrier will roll out a WiMax trial for several customers in Atlanta, with hopes of following that with commer From Techno-News Blog on June 20, 2005 at 8:49 a.m..

Roadcasting: A Potential Mesh Network Killer App - Eric Hellweg, Technology Review
Mesh networks have a wide variety of uses, although so far they have been limited mainly to niche sectors. They are used in home security, where they detect movement and relay information back to a central computer, and in supermarkets, where some compani From Techno-News Blog on June 20, 2005 at 8:49 a.m..

WikiChaos
Last week I noted that the LA Times "Wikitorial" experiment would probably be chaos and guess what? It was. Unfortunately, we have had to remove this feature, at least temporarily, because a few readers were flooding the site with inappropriate material. Thanks and apologies to the thousands of people who logged on in the right spirit. Well, that ought to help the wiki movement, don'tcha think? But they should have seen this f From weblogged News on June 20, 2005 at 8:47 a.m..

HOWTO: Make a file sharing system.
The RIAA and many other local facsimiles in nations outside the USA are aggressively persuing file sharers. More and more files on the file sharing services available are fakes; they do not contain what they portend to be, or contain only 5 to 7 seconds on a loop. Leechers reduce the average download speed considerably. Some manage to circumvent most of these problems but do not offer satisfactory search. In short, there are plenty of reasons why it's time to introduce Yet Another File Sharing Service. This time, let's do it right. Read on for a detailed description of how solv From kuro5hin.org on June 20, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Reporteros Sin Fronteras: Freedom Blog Awards
Reporteros Sin Fronteras ha dado a conocer los Results of the competition for best blogs defending freedom of expression: Al Jinane (Marruecos) ICTLex (Italia) Mojtaba Saminejad (Irán) Netzpolitik.org (Alemania) PressThink (Estados Unidos) Screenshots (Malasia) Shared Pains (Afganistán) Vía: Blogosphere News.... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on June 20, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..

Podcasting for my talk on blogging and research tomorrow?
Some people are wondering if I can provide a podcast of my presentation on blogging and research tomorrow. The answer is no - unless someone else (Mark?) volunteers to do it. The reasons are simple: I have no idea how to record a podcast, no tools to do it and no desire (at the moment) to From Mathemagenic on June 20, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..

Proyecto OpenSource DotNetSCORM
El proyecto DotNetSCORM es una iniciativa OpenSource para desarrollar un LMS Scorm con tecnología .NET. Es un proyecto interesante, sobre todo para estudiar código fuente.... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on June 20, 2005 at 5:45 a.m..

Trabajo independiente: sin jefe ni horarios
Abogados, diseñadores, programadores y especialistas en RRHH son algunos de los profesionales que ofrecen sus servicios en forma freelance (independiente) porque no quieren estar atados a una empre... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on June 20, 2005 at 5:45 a.m..

Personal Productivity Improvement
THE BUSINESS CASE FOR PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT. [How to Save the World] More spot on insight from Dave Pollard. This ties in nicely with several lines of thought I've been exploring. Take a look at Bill Brandon: eLearning on June 20, 2005 at 1:48 a.m..

Texas Lawmakers to Face Schools Budget Again
Texas legislators will return to the Capitol for a special session beginning on Tuesday after Gov. Rick Perry vetoed the state's public education budget. From New York Times: Education on June 20, 2005 at 1:45 a.m..

Take Up a New Career at 50? In Syracuse, Life After Layoffs
Hundreds of workers laid off by the Carrier Corporation are reinventing themselves for post-industrial America by training for new careers. From New York Times: Education on June 20, 2005 at 1:45 a.m..

Heading back to Europe
I will be flying out of Sydney today. Unfortunately, I had some major problems with my Email-client in the last few days. Set up a new profile and things are running again. But I still need to recover my sent files and archives. So, if you are still waiting for a reply on BlogWalk 9.0, or other matters... bear with me, and possibly send your message again. It might g From Seblogging News on June 20, 2005 at 12:45 a.m..