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Montager...
The Montager is a web app that takes pictures from Flickr and creates a montage of clickable tiles. Just type in a tag and it returns a montage made of images associated with that tag. Drag your mouse over the image and the tiles enlarge. Click a tile, and the Montager creates a new montage based in that image... Another Flickr toy... Via Lifehacker... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on June 23, 2005 at 8:49 p.m..

Karl Rove: Apologize, resign, or both
As a liberal, I'm not insulted by Karl Rove's remark that "liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers." He's just demagoging based on a seed of truth: I do want to understand our attackers (because it's stupid in n dimensions not to understand the people you're fighting) and I do want a nuanced, well-thought-out response that will actually make my children safer, rather than the kneejerk Bomb Someone strategery we got from Bush and Rove. So, fine, politicians exaggerate the posit From Joho the Blog on June 23, 2005 at 8:48 p.m..

Interview: LEARNTEC ab 2006 kürzer und praxisnäher
Nur noch wenige Stunden, dann geht's in den Urlaub! Noch schnell das Wichtigste raus. Wie diese Meldung, zur der man die LEARNTEC-Organisatoren nur beglückwünschen kann! Winfried Sommer: "Die LEARNTEC wird sich aus der klassischen, engen E-Learning-Ecke herausbewegen. Dazu werden wir... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on June 23, 2005 at 7:51 p.m..

i Wiki Law
I had the good fortune to chat with Charles Nesson for about 10 minutes yesterday...he happened to be walking by when I was looking at his picture hanging among all of the tenured Harvard law professors on the walls of one of the buildings here. Somehow we started talking about Wikipedia, and he mentioned that his wife was a teacher and that she was trying to understand the implications of Wikipedia as well. The story goes that her students run to Wikipedia when they are assigned research, which rightf From weblogged News on June 23, 2005 at 7:48 p.m..

Korea Brings Homegrown Open Source to Schools
10,000 locally made open source platforms are being rolled out in schools across South Korea. "The project, called the New Education Information System, is built on a Korean-developed version of Linux that already services 190 schools in the heart of capital city Seoul." The move is not a snub against Microsoft, say officials: it was done for security reasons, cost concerns, and local support. By Dan Ilett, CNet News.com, June 21, 2005 [Refer][OLDaily on June 23, 2005 at 7:45 p.m..

The Seven Challenges of e-learning Design (part one)
Interesting article that delivers exactly what it promises - seven challenges of e-learning design. By Graham Attwell, The Wales-Wide Web, June 22, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] From OLDaily on June 23, 2005 at 7:45 p.m..

Learning Object Discussion
So anyhow, George Siemens has been planning this for a while, so I'll let him describe it: "This afternoon, I facilitated and enjoyable learning object discussion (with Brian Lamb, Scott Leslie, Jody Baty, Alan Levine, Scott Wilson, and David Wiley). The presentations are available here: OLDaily on June 23, 2005 at 7:45 p.m..

Swarms and monads
Well, how do we now evolve into the wonderland of networked economies and societies? Is is via disruption and a sudden paradigm shift? I don't think so. We will move gradually. That is, we will, for sure, open our walls to outsiders therefore making the membranes semipermeable: That will happen slowly. Of course there will be some early and fast adopters that benefit from their vision and but then there is the long tail of pragmatists, and skeptical, and slow adopters. They need guidance and a slow transition ... Enterprise So From thomas n. burg | randgänge on June 23, 2005 at 4:45 p.m..

The rebooter's children go rebootless
Two dour observations about, and seven gems from, this year's Reboot. Question, please: if colleges and universities can teach graphic design, mathematics, music, medicine, filmmaking, and even rocket science, why can't they teach web design as it is really practiced? From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on June 23, 2005 at 1:49 p.m..

Pay-Per-Call: A Viable Lead
Estimates from The Kelsey Group say pay-per-call will reach generate gross revenues of between $1.4 and $4 billion by 2009. From ClickZ Stats on June 23, 2005 at 1:45 p.m..

More Legal Hacks from Mercora
The stock article about Mercora describes why they're legal and notes that the RIAA is still annoyed.  I've often followed up with posts describing precisely why what Mercora's doing is (probably) legal.  Yesterday, the Mercora folks kindly explained to me a few complexities I didn't understand and a couple other ways in which they tiptoe the From A Copyfighter's Musings on June 23, 2005 at 12:45 p.m..

Online Powerpoint Presentation Tools - Best of Class: June 2005
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... From Kolabora.com on June 23, 2005 at 10:53 a.m..

More Podcasting at NECC
Step Aside, CNN!A session on Podcasting has been added to the NECC program. On the final day of NECC, David Warlick will be presenting a session entitled Step Asside CNN: I&amprsquo;m Listening to my Podcast. He will also be doing a daily podcast update from the conference. It can be found at Connect Learning.... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on June 23, 2005 at 10:48 a.m..

Blogging in the Classroom: A Response
(Cross posted to ETI) So I think we can safely say that thousands of teachers are now using blogs in their classrooms. As Tom points out, most have started at the digital organizer stage, the easy to update class portal model with, in some cases, the ability for students to comment and discuss topics of the day. Some have gotten to the point where they're letting students create content in their own spaces in an e-portfolio type of way. And let me just say, in response to From weblogged News on June 23, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..

Virtueller Abschlußworkshop zum Forschungsprojekt "Messbarkeit des Wertbeitrags von Corporate Universities in Deutschland"
Ich will gar nicht viel über diesen Workshop erzählen, an dem ich letzte Woche teilgenommen habe, denn es wird sicher bald eine Publikation geben, über die man mehr sagen kann (und vielleicht kann man dann sogar direkt auf die... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on June 23, 2005 at 8:51 a.m..

Broccoli
"It is somewhat ironic," lectured the broccoli, "that I should be the source of your revelation. Wouldn't you think it should be the other way `round?" From kuro5hin.org on June 23, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Woody Allen Jazz Band Blog
Todo lo que usted siempre quiso saber sobre Woody Allen and his New Orleans Jazz Band, y por si fuera poco: Woody Allen Jazz Band Blog. Vía: Pointblog.... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on June 23, 2005 at 7:49 a.m..

Email triage, focusing on not important and learning to use tools effectively
I used to blog papers I read, but over last few months it wasn't that much. Here is one from yesterday: Neustaedter, C., Brush, A., and Smith, M., (2005) "Beyond "From" and "Received": Exploring the Dynamics of Email Triage."  CHI 2005 Short Papers. Abstract. Email triage is the process of going through unhandled email and deciding what to do with it. Email triage can quickly become a serious problem for users as the amount of unhandled e From Mathemagenic on June 23, 2005 at 7:49 a.m..

What Is Podcasting? - ABC News
Podcasting is the latest in on-the-go, on-demand technology. With podcasting, you can listen to radio programs or events whenever and wherever you choose. Podcasts are MP3 audio files that are automatically downloaded to your personal computer, and then t From Techno-News Blog on June 23, 2005 at 7:47 a.m..

Video Game Teaches Kids Conflict Resolution - ABC News
It looks like an animated film, with chalk that talks and a worrisome worm. But it's the latest educational tool -- a video game used by teachers to show children how to handle conflict. The creators of Cool School say it's a skill best learned at a youn From Techno-News Blog on June 23, 2005 at 7:47 a.m..

Copyright-Friendly File-Swapping May Be Here to Stay Regardless of Pending Supreme Court Ruling - ALEX VEIGA, The Associated Press
Four years after it shuttered the original Napster with a legal assault, the recording industry is taking a different approach to online file-swapping: If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Recording companies have begun taking steps to legitimize the peer-to From Techno-News Blog on June 23, 2005 at 7:47 a.m..

Introducing SKOS
Peter Mikhalenko has written an article that introduces SKOS. To quote: SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System), recently introduced by the W3C, is a model for expressing knowledge organization systems in a machine-understandable way, within the framework of the Semantic Web.... From Column Two on June 23, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Writing it Right Week
This fall, the U of S will host a week of discussions about academic integrity. This may be an excellent set of sessions, so it is worth considering attending some or all of them. Noon hour presentations from Monday, Oct 31... From Rick's Café Canadien on June 23, 2005 at 4:51 a.m..

Blogging in the Classroom
NECC Talking Points:Blogging in the Classroom Over at eSchoolNews ETI, Tom Hoffman answers viewer mail regarding the use of weblogs in the classroom. Tom discusses Pat Delaney's idea of weblogs and wikis as digital paper. I tend to agree. This year at Lewis Elementary four teachers have been using wikis installed on their laptops to provide digital paper to their students. If you would like to learn more about our use of Instiki, take a look here and here. Next school year we plan to have weblogs set up for students running on our internal network. On Monday our X... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on June 23, 2005 at 3:50 a.m..

Gearing up for Grokster
I'll be getting up in about 7 hours to eagerly click away searching for a decision.  If Monday really is the last decision day, and the Ten Commandments cases are getting saved for then, then tomorrow's the day, right? Right? Whenever a decision comes down, you'll be able to find me over at EFF DeepLinks as well as on SCOTUS Blog's special metablog for the decision, and I intend to From A Copyfighter's Musings on June 23, 2005 at 3:48 a.m..

Speakwire - Online RSS Reader
Done by the same folks who are behind Speegle, the talking search engine, Speakwire is a free online tool that reads aloud a rss feed. From their press release: Most people associate computer speech with visually impaired users. I think that is missing the point and we set out to demonstrate just how universal speech is. It's the nearest eqivalent to a common currency and can be exchanged and undersood as easily. Speech is mightier than the From Curb Cut Learning on June 23, 2005 at 2:52 a.m..

Back home again
The flights from Sydney to Singapore and then to Frankfurt were actually rather pleasant. Just riding the train from Frankfurt to Nürnberg after 22 hours of air-travel felt a little bit too much. I managed to stay awake all day and went to bed around midnight yesterday... and to my surprise I feel pretty much alright today. Yes ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls... I am officially up and running again from my home office. < From Seblogging News on June 23, 2005 at 2:50 a.m..

Curb Cut Lives!
Hello everyone, after a long hiatus Curb Cut is back in action. Even though I work in a different field now (religious education for youth with disabilities), I haven't been able to stay away from this stuff and am anxious to get a few posts out there. Also, I have changed the rss feed to point to a feedburner feed for curbcut. If you are subscribed to any of the old feeds, I think I have set it so it will automatically redirect to the new feed, please let me know if you have any problems with it. From Curb Cut Learning on June 23, 2005 at 1:51 a.m..

Why comments are disabled on this Weblog
Why comments are disabled on this Weblog. Last year my weblog began to be hit by comment spam, and Radio offers no simple way to block or delete these nuisances. With regret, I turned off comments. I have opened a TypePad weblog (where I can do something about comment spam) and am in the process of shifting the Radio weblog(s) to "link blog" format. The TypePad weblogs will pick up the conversational format, including comments. I think the shift will be done by summer's end, or as soon after that as possible. Thanks for understanding! Bill Brandon From Bill Brandon: eLearning on June 23, 2005 at 1:48 a.m..

Crime Is Down in 6 Schools on City's Most-Troubled List
Crime dropped sharply in the city's most trouble-plagued schools this academic year, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said Wednesday. From New York Times: Education on June 23, 2005 at 1:45 a.m..

Air Force Academy Staff Found Promoting Religion
But the panel investigating the religious climate at the academy said it found no "overt religious discrimination" - only "insensitivity." From New York Times: Education on June 23, 2005 at 1:45 a.m..

U.S. Audit Faults Use of Funds in Speech Therapy in City Schools
Auditors recommended Albany to return $435 million to the federal government for funds it spent on unneeded speech therapy. From New York Times: Education on June 23, 2005 at 1:45 a.m..