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Video blogs out the wazoo
A whole bunch of v-blogs from Supernova are up. I interviewed a bunch of interesting people... (C-NET has started posting them as well.) [Technorati tag: Supernova2005]... From
Joho the Blog on June 21, 2005 at 10:48 p.m..
Web Designer’s FREElance Toolbox for Windows
Here's a list of useful
web development apps: "The following is a list of unfettered freeware that I have personally reviewed. Time-tested and designer/developer approved, these programs contain no adware and are built on a solid foundation, including a supportive community of users. There is no fine print to read, and you can rest assured each one will save you money and save poor Timmy’s college fund." From
elearningpost on June 21, 2005 at 10:47 p.m..
Competent Jerks, Lovable Fools, and the Formation of Social Networks
Looks like Harvard Business Review is providing free access for some articles.
This one is from the June 2005 issue. "In this article, we offer somewhat surprising insights into how informal networks take shape in companies—that is, how people choose those they work with. We then discuss some of the benefits and drawbacks of this phenomenon and offer ways for managers to mitigate its negative effects and leverage From
elearningpost on June 21, 2005 at 10:46 p.m..
The meta data support model
R. Todd Stephens has written an article on a metadata support model, to ensure that metadata is useful and maintained. To quote: How well are you doing in supporting your meta data environment? You have purchased the software, hired a... From
Column Two on June 21, 2005 at 9:47 p.m..
Common industry standard for usability reports
Alan James Salmoni has written a blog entry about the common industry standard for usability reports, being developed by ISO. To quote: The Common Industry Standard is an open standard for how usability reports should be structured. Similar to the... From
Column Two on June 21, 2005 at 8:47 p.m..
New baby arrives
I'm very pleased to announce the arrival of Grace, our second child. Grace was born this last week, in the wee hours of the morning, under somewhat pressing circumstances. She came about a month early. Mom and baby are fine now, for which we are very thankful. Having children is such an amazing experience--a delight [...] From
Martindale Matrix on June 21, 2005 at 4:45 p.m..
Someday You Will Grow Up and Get a Flickr Account...
Picture taken about 19 years ago... or 6 out of 10 children will grow up to have a Flickr account... My nephew sent me a picture of my daughter and assorted nieces and nephews taken about 19 years ago. The interesting thing is that 6 of the 10 have Flickr accounts...Click the image to find out more...... From
Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on June 21, 2005 at 2:46 p.m..
m-Learning: Is it learning, or is it just looking things up?
This is the second example I've seen in as many days about how being able to look things up on the Web is "just-in-time-just-for-me" learning. I have my doubts about this. Does this mean that using the telephone book is a form of learning? I keep wanting to go back to Gilbert's Performance Engineering Matrix to point out that, while many things affect human performance, they are not all the same, they are not all learning, and they do not all operate in the same way. I have the same criticism of the idea that some people are already spinning, that podcasting is a great way to deli From
Bill Brandon: eLearning on June 21, 2005 at 12:48 p.m..
[Supernova05] At Supernova
I'm at the Supernova conference from which I'll be doing video blogging for C-NET and Knowledge@Wharton. C-NET's coverage is here. The video bloggery is here. [Technorati tag: supernova05]... From
Joho the Blog on June 21, 2005 at 12:48 p.m..
Swords into Orbiting Plowshares
At 18:25 GMT on 20 June 2005, an ICBM will launch from a Russian submarine and deploy a privately developed solar sail experiment named Cosmos 1 into orbit. If this mission is successful, it will be the most historically important space activity of the year. From
kuro5hin.org on June 21, 2005 at 12:45 p.m..
Betsy's father day
Betsy Devine has a lovely reminiscence of her father and her mother. Affecting. [Technorati tags: BetsyDevine FathersDay Fathers]... From
Joho the Blog on June 21, 2005 at 11:48 a.m..
Jarvis on the LAT wiki blowup
Says Jeff: This is like hearing Kathy Lee Gifford try to rap and then, upon hearing the results, declaring hip hop dead. I'm not convinced that wikitorials make sense, but if they do, they should heed Jeff's three pieces of advice...... From
Joho the Blog on June 21, 2005 at 11:48 a.m..
The magical Venus razor
I am not a fan of disposable razors, they always seemed wasteful to me, and never very good. So a long time ago -- before they made fancy razors for women -- I started using Gillette men's razors. Over the years, I slowly upgraded until I was using the Gillette Mach 3. And I was happy. Until I left it in the shower on Nantucket last week. So I headed to Duane Reade for a new razor and for some reason decided now was the time to try a ladies' razor. The
Gillette Venus looked nice and the handle appeared ergonomic From
megnut on June 21, 2005 at 11:45 a.m..
Real Work. Real Audience. Real Learning
I love
this story about
Amy Gahran (whose
Furl feed is worth following, btw) putting together a group of citizen journalists to cover a controversial housing development in her town. And immediately it makes me ask why we shouldn't be putting together groups of our students to do the same type of real life work. Although I love my current job, the changes we've seen over the past four years makes me yearn for my From
weblogged News on June 21, 2005 at 10:47 a.m..
Reading Between the Lines: Understanding the Role of Latent Content in the Analysis of Online Asynchronous Discussions
Prompted by a discussion on DEOS the other day I have been pondering the difference between traditional distance learning, as advanced by people like Keegan and Moore, and online learning. If I had to put it in a nutshell, I would say that it is the difference between communications theory and network theory, the difference between structured symbolic representations and unstructured subsymbolic reflections. It has made me more sensitive to the theoretical foundations of works such as this article, which I would place squarely within the traditional context, analyzing as it does latent content From
OLDaily on June 21, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Critical Thinking in Asynchronous Discussions
The bulk of this essay is devoted to a description of various strategies that can be employed to introduce critical thinking into online discussions. In a sense, these are all common sense strategies - "Higher level cognitive and affective questions encourage learners to interpret, analyze, evaluate, infer, explain and self regulate." But I think most of all what is required is an attitude, one that is not necessarily taught so much as demonstrated by faculty and advisors, staff that, as the author notes, need to have a good grounding in critical thinking in order to pass it along. By Greg Wa From
OLDaily on June 21, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Insights into Promoting Critical Thinking in Online Classes
Many people equate critical thinking with reading skills. This flavour comes through clearly in this article, the core of which is a discussion of critical thinking and reading, with an eye to using the former to "increase the student's cognitive information processing skills." Applied to writing, the same discourse stresses the importance of reflection and editing. I see critical thinking as related to reading and writing, but distinct from them. I see linguistic forms (such as those characteristic of logical fallacies) as cues for pattern recognition, not entry points for a deconstructi From
OLDaily on June 21, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
The Role of Critical Thinking in the Online Learning Environment
"Critical thinking," cites the author, "is the method of evaluating arguments or propositions and making judgments that can guide the development of beliefs and taking action." Having taught critical thinking for seven years I have by habit been leery of proposals to integrate critical thinking into the curriculum, not because I don't think it's a good idea, but because critical thinking isn't a discipline that can simply be picked up in passing, and because the proposals I have seen either misunderstand or misinterpret what is meant by critical thinking. So when Kelly Bruning p From
OLDaily on June 21, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
What Value do Australian Employers Give to Qualifications?
Interesting. This report examines how Australian employers value and use academic qualifications in their business decisions. "Qualifications are considered more important for higher-level occupations and employers use them predominantly to recruit new employees and to ensure regulatory compliance. Employers regard qualifications as a signal of potential for future learning and skills acquisition, not as a signal of immediate competence. Overall, employers drew a strong distinction between qualifications and experience, and favoured and valued the latter more in regard to many of their busines From
OLDaily on June 21, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Are Computer Games Rebooting Our Minds?
A romping discussion of video games and learning, most valuable because of its link to
Spacewar. I think
Bill Brandon sums it up nicely: "Good grief. Can people possibly learn as a result of playing a game? Of course. Can people learn as a result of playing any game? Of course not. If a game is designed to be an environment for learning, people can learn from it if it's a good design. If a game is designed to be an environment From
OLDaily on June 21, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
More Than Cat Diaries: Publishing With Weblogs
This presentation is about the use of blogs to publosh, as the author says, "more than cat diaries" (which reminds me, it's time my cats had their own blogs). It will take you a second, but you'll soon see that it's not a PowerPoint presentation, though it looks and feels like one. Nice, visual, and informative. It will take another while, but you'll later see that the presentation was created using Blogger. Yes, that's right, Blogger. Nifty. By Alan Levine, June 16, 2005 [
OLDaily on June 21, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Conference on Open Source for Education in Europe HYPHEN Research and Practice
I don't do conference announcements. Just so you know. But this
Open Source for education conference is an exception, because organizers of open source conferences usually don't have money for advertsing and publiscity (it's also kinda hard to get corporate sponsorships). I hope to make it to this one - but it depends on the funding situation here at NRC. As an aside - I have been thinking of incorporating a conference announcement and coverage system into OLDaily, using an RSS-events specification. Good idea? let From
OLDaily on June 21, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Canada Introduces New Copyright Bill
I am off to the
SeaChange conference in Saint John this afternoon where the topic of discussion will be governance and society. While rubbing shoulders with our society's self-proclaimed leaders I will be pondering the wandering (and withering) future of democracy in this country and elsewhere. The latest exhibit is the blatant and undemocratic influence wielded by the commercial content industry. Canada's
new copyright bill, as described in this From
OLDaily on June 21, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
(re) Descubriendo blogs
Una selección periódica, muy personal, de buenos weblogs de hoy y de ayer. Buscadores y Documentación BiDo Information Literacy Weblog Infoxicación Cibercultura Alambre Every flower is perfect Field Book Nanoblog Cine Blogdecine Libros convertidos en cine Luces de Babilonia Clásicos... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on June 21, 2005 at 4:52 a.m..
Program released: Open Publish 2005 (Sydney)
The program has been released for Open Publish 2005. I'll be co-chairing this conference, and there's some excellent presentations covering web content management, along with XML and publishing. Hope to see you there! Of particular note is the keynote presentation... From
Column Two on June 21, 2005 at 4:47 a.m..
Under the Iron
Under the Iron is an "old" (2003 - early 2004) but informative series of interviews with movers and shakers of the Web. Jason Fried, Anil Dash, Mark Pilgrim, Scott Johnson, and several others. From
Seb's Open Research on June 21, 2005 at 2:46 a.m..