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Content management's inevitable conclusions
Dan Brown has written a blog entry looking at the underlying model behind content management. To quote: These models, the ones we use for content, roles, and workflow, have something in common: an underlying model for business. In a world... From Column Two on June 24, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

Zwei Wochen Urlaub!
Das war's! Ich habe fertig! Jetzt sind Ferien angesagt! In zwei Wochen geht's weiter. Bis dahin Sommerliche Grüße und eine schöne Zeit! JR... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on June 24, 2005 at 6:49 p.m..

Wifi-ing the Big Apple
Andrew Rasiej, running for the obscure post of NYC Public Advocate, has put forward a plan that would connect wireless routers on city lamp posts using the city's dark fiber. The total cost would be less than $10/person (= $80M) and would provide free wifi access in public places; businesses and residents would pay about $20/month for basic high-speed service. Of course, the incumbents, always zealous in their protection of the free market (hah!) are lobbying hard to prevent municipalities from providing this service. [Technorati tags: rasiej wifi]... From Joho the Blog on June 24, 2005 at 5:49 p.m..

BCcampus selects The Learning Edge to power repository
http://www.bccampus.ca/Page514.aspx Early this year we went (back) out to RFP for software to power a 'learning object repository' for BCcampus. OpenSchool BC and the Alberta Online Consortium, both from the K-12 world, were also partners in the RFP. In May we reached a decision to go with The Learning Edge, an LCMS product from Australia. There were m From EdTechPost on June 24, 2005 at 4:51 p.m..

IMS Compliance Program
http://www.imsproject.org/conformance/index.html I could be wrong, but this seems new, and welcome at that. IMS has announced this new Compliance Program which outlines methods for developers of content, services and applications to provide evidence to support conformance claims based on self testing, and in so doing rate the claim of "IMS Conformant." While we have had the ability to verify SCORM conformance now for some time, this is the first, as far as I know, where claims concerning IMS specifications that aren&apos From EdTechPost on June 24, 2005 at 3:47 p.m..

(Critical) History of ICT in Education - And Where We Are Heading?
According to Eric Duval, technology has had to day a minimal impact on the way we learn. Why is this? To a large degree, writes the author, because the old cultures get mixed in with the new ones. "The old models just never disappeared but are present in a form or another in the new paradigms." The future of learning onloine, argues the author, is in open and social learning. And I agree. By Teemu From OLDaily on June 24, 2005 at 1:45 p.m..

Software Piracy 'Seen as Normal'
Some sanity in the reporting of what has come to be (misleadingly) called "piracy". According to this study, "people did not see downloading copyrighted material as theft." Well no kidding. "People are more accepting of it, even if they didn't engage it in themselves," said Dr Bryce. "They don't see it as a great problem on a social or economic level. They just don't see it as theft. They just see it as inevitable, particularly as new technologies become available." Right. And it's not theft, the constant caterwauling by industry and media to the contrary. By Unattributed, From OLDaily on June 24, 2005 at 1:45 p.m..

Fighting Fake Diplomas in India
When I proposed my self-identification scheme a little while ago, a common question was, how do we know whether declarations of external credentials, such as diplomas or degrees, are genuine. This item points to the easy and inevitable answer I provided: educational institutions post lists of their graduates and degrees online. Like this item describes. But how do we know the university record points to a given self-identified person? The university record points to the personal record. Instead of just listing names - which are silly unverifia From OLDaily on June 24, 2005 at 1:45 p.m..

MicroContent is Everywhere
Those of us who were involved in the early days of learning objects will see a lot of similarity between that concept and this description of microcontent offered at the Microlearning 2005 conference currently taking place in Innsbruck. Similarity, at least, that persisted up to the point where the concept was captured by content producers and converted into something that would be sold by vendors, organized into 'packages' by resellers, and passively consumed by learners. But this account of microlearning returns to the original idea - dyn From OLDaily on June 24, 2005 at 1:45 p.m..

pOWL
Nice work - just released, a semantic web development kit written in PHP. For people who like the open and accessible approach to this technology. "Features include: Support for viewing, editing of RDFS/OWL ontologies; Sophisticated widgets for data editing; Questioning the knowledge base with RDQL (query builder) or full-text search; extensible via it's plug-in concept. By Various Authors, SourceForge, June 23, 2005 [Refer][OLDaily on June 24, 2005 at 1:45 p.m..

GLS02: James Paul Gee on New Paradigms for Learning
Summary of a talk by James Paul Gee in which he points to some failures of the U.S. educational system and asserts that "the solution to these crises is in our face: it's popular culture and games; this is where it's getting solved, not in our schools." Also interesting is this point raised by a questioner: "one way of thinking about schools is that school is a game, too. certain ways of thinking, certain things across each area, certain identities HYPHEN it's just not a good game." More coverage from the GLS03 conference includ From OLDaily on June 24, 2005 at 1:45 p.m..

A Learning Object Repository in Motion (Feeling a Little Bit aggRSSive)
Looks like this could be interesting. "Imagine that each of the tags in the image above (biology, bioinformatics, etc...) was linked to a set of RSS feeds drawn from learning resource collections, weblogs, journals, library collections, news sources, or whatever else users might find useful in an educational context. Users can add new feeds to the collection and apply existing tags or create new ones much as they do in Flickr or del.icio.us." The link wasn't posted as of this writing, but should be available "in half an hour or so". By Brian Lamb, Abject learning, June 23, 2005 [OLDaily on June 24, 2005 at 1:45 p.m..

"Schome": Lifelong Learning and the Third Space
Some good messages in this post. The author describes a project started by Peter Twining of the Open University's Knowledge Network to develop wiki-based resource focused on "the education system for the Information Age." Also raised is the concept of 'shome': "According to the OU, in future, learning will happen in (or at?) a place called "schome"--not school, not home. Catchy, or not, the title is all about ubiquity." By Catherine Howell, Ida Takes Tea, June 24, 2005 [OLDaily on June 24, 2005 at 1:45 p.m..

TechEd Pasadena 2006 Call for presentations
I've never been to this conference, but it sounds like it has some good topics. I removed much of the puffery from the call for papers -- maybe it is just me, but I find their marketing a little "loud"... From Rick's Café Canadien on June 24, 2005 at 12:50 p.m..

CIDER has an RSS feed
I'll be away for a day or two, so I'm just trying to make sure the café is well-stocked. Terry Anderson sent this notice, reminding members that the CIDER site offers a CIDER News RSS feed. You already know I'm... From Rick's Café Canadien on June 24, 2005 at 12:50 p.m..

KM, Beeb style
Inside Knowledge devotes 2,300 well-written words (by Sandra Higgison) to the work of Euan "The Obvious" Semple at the BBC. Euan has been leading the BBC down the social software path before software was called social. Meanwhile, I'm trying to wrestle my 75+ pages of notes on the Beeb's digital make-over into 2,500 words for Wired. More words! I need more words!... From Joho the Blog on June 24, 2005 at 11:48 a.m..

The Horizontal Classroom
One of the most obvious changes in thinking that the Read/Write Web demands of educators is the idea that we can continue to look at content and curriculum in traditional ways. Textbooks are on the verge of irrelevance, and teachers who continue to see themselves as content experts disseminating information in a vertical way instead of content connectors aggregating information in a collaborative, horizontal way will soon follow suit. We used to be able to control what our students consumed about the topics we taught. No longer. weblogged News on June 24, 2005 at 11:47 a.m..

Long Tail Not So Long
Back to iLaw: Yochai Benkler did a presentation on "The Internet and Political Values" yesterday that was, for the most part, way over my head, but the parts that I did get were pretty enlightening. One thing that really stuck was his deconstruction of the Long Tail, where it appears that there are a few blogs that get lots of readers and many, many blogs that get just a few. In the larger view, this is true, but what's significant is when From weblogged News on June 24, 2005 at 10:47 a.m..

Barefoot in Central Park
A really interesting article in today's New York Times, Kick Off Your Shoes and Run Awhile, discusses a developing trend: running barefoot. During the past decade two barefoot-style training methods for runners have been developed based on the same principle: that legs, not shoes, are the best shock absorbers. That is, you land on your forefoot, in From megnut on June 24, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

Annoying things about giant sunglasses
Several things struck me in this New York Times article, Sophia? Is That You Behind the Shades?, about giant sunglasses, none having to do with the weaing of giant sunglasses themselves. First it was the discovery that the house style at the Times is to spell New York's Nolita neighborhood, "NoLIta" which I guess makes sense (North of From megnut on June 24, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

Podcast #2 from the lone rider
Rob Wall is providing a solo posse podcast this week because everyone else was unavailable for various reasons, and because we felt it was important to set up some kind of regularity to the podcasts. The first one has received... From Rick's Café Canadien on June 24, 2005 at 7:50 a.m..

América Latina: Directorios Nacionales de Weblogs
Una recopilación de directorios nacionales de weblogs de América Latina: Argentina: Weblogs.com.ar Brasil: Blogs.com.br Chile: Blogs.cl Colombia: blogsColombia Costa Rica: TicoBlogs Ecuador: Ecuablogs Guatemala: Blogs Chapines México: Blogs México Perú: Blogs Perú Puerto Rico: Directorio de Blogs puertorriqueños República Dominicana:... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on June 24, 2005 at 7:48 a.m..

Study finds too few women and minorities in tech - Ed Frauenheim, CNET News.com
Tech is becoming ever more the province of testosterone, according to a new report. The percentage of women in the information technology work force declined from a high of 41 percent in 1996 to 32.4 percent in 2004, according to a report Wednesday by th From Techno-News Blog on June 24, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..

Quantum Calculation - Erika Jonietz, Technology Review
Computers have infiltrated nearly every field of business and science, and they keep getting faster. Nonetheless, researchers routinely encounter problems impossible for even the most powerful supercomputers to solve. The remedy could be quantum computers From Techno-News Blog on June 24, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..

Microsoft extends RSS support - InfoWorld
Microsoft on Friday will announce it plans to deepen its support of Really Simple Syndication (RSS) Web publishing standard, which is commonly used by bloggers and news organizations. Specifically the company is proposing an extension to RSS that will pro From Techno-News Blog on June 24, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..

Tonal Gravity
George Russell is probably the foremost American composer. He was jazz's first theoretician, and remains its most important innovator. His ideas led directly to the conception of three seminal jazz albums in 1959: Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, John Coltrane's Giant Steps, and Russell's own New York, New York. For the first time in nearly a decade, Russell has released a new recording. Today he turns 82. From kuro5hin.org on June 24, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Tips from Socrates
By Ron Gross - What tips would the famed founder of the "Socratic Method" offer on being a better lifelong learner?... From Adult/Continuing Education on June 24, 2005 at 4:50 a.m..

Meet Your Goals
By Maria Marsala - How a coach can help you meet your personal and professional goals.... From Adult/Continuing Education on June 24, 2005 at 4:50 a.m..

Life Lessons
By Kellie Dearman - These inspiring women have developed their unique and often adverse life experiences into skills which they now use in their work lives.... From Adult/Continuing Education on June 24, 2005 at 4:50 a.m..

Learning Chargebacks - Evolution of Recovering Training Charges
Ein interessanter Punkt aus der Welt des Corporate Learning, den Elliott Masie hier anspricht: In der "alten" Welt der Seminare und Workshops gab es Kosten je Teilnehmer, die diesem bzw. seinem Geschäftsbereich in Rechnung gestellt wurden. Mit der Einführung von... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on June 24, 2005 at 3:51 a.m..

Matt Baily's Web Site Accessibility Blog
I have been wandering around online tonight trying to find I've missed in the last few months and came across the Web Site Accessibility Blog from Matt Bailey. Here are just a few examples of great posts from his blog: How To: Create Accessible PDF's, IBM urges US senate for acc From Curb Cut Learning on June 24, 2005 at 2:52 a.m..

Louis R. Lucas, 70, Lawyer in School Desegregation Era, Dies
Louis R. Lucas came to prominence in the drawn-out battles over school desegregation and busing resulting from the Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954. From New York Times: Education on June 24, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..

Unclear on American Campus: What the Foreign Teacher Said
Undergraduates at large universities often find themselves in classes run by teaching assistants with limited mastery of English. From New York Times: Education on June 24, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..

Instant Outliner Information
Instant Outliner Information "It looks like Dave is porting the instant outliner code in Radio UserLand to his new program called OPML. " [Podcasting] From Bill Brandon: eLearning on June 24, 2005 at 1:48 a.m..

With globalisation, all intranets Are local
Michael Pastore has written an article that asks whether there are differences between US and European intranets. To quote: While regional divisions and management often control the local intranets, at some point everyone works for the same organization. We all... From Column Two on June 24, 2005 at 1:47 a.m..