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Skills For Access
This is a comprehensive resource for creating accessible multimedia for e-learning. [via elearnspace]. From elearningpost on June 28, 2005 at 10:46 p.m..

Google Earth
Google Earth is now free. But Windows only; Mac version in the works. " Want to know more about a specific location? Dive right in -- Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world’s geographic information at your fingertips." From elearningpost on June 28, 2005 at 10:46 p.m..

Part 5: Naked Lunch and Sex and Relationships
This is part five of a series of essays about the book Naked Lunch. The others can be found here: Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four In "Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness", which was added to Naked Lunch in all subsequent North American editions after 1962, writing in regards to the reception that the book had in the media and other outlets, Burroughs says: Certain passages in the book that have been called pornographic were written as a tract against Capital Punishment in the manner of Jonathan Swift's Modest Proposal. These sections are intended to reveal capi From kuro5hin.org on June 28, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

The Landscape Metaphor
This issue of InfoVis by Juan Dursteler explores the use of the landscape metaphor to organize information. "In the previous message we spoke about ThemeScape, a visualisation that uses the landscape metaphor to represent in the form of a topographical map a document space where distance between each two documents is inversely proportional to their similarity. There is considerable evidence that the human brain uses what in cognitive psicholgy are called "schemata". Although the rigoro From EduResources--Higher Education Resources Online on June 28, 2005 at 8:47 p.m..

Google Map Links to UNESCO World Heritage Sites
Google Map links for Unesco World Heritage SitesBrad Templeton has created a page that links Google Maps satellite imagery to UNESCO's World Heritage sites index.... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on June 28, 2005 at 7:49 p.m..

Weblog Workshop at William Penn High School
Network Security at William Penn High Originally uploaded by timlauer. This morning, Steve Burt, Tom Hoffman, Ben Harris and I presented a workshop about weblogs and their use in education. We had a great group of folks in the workshop. A very informed group. Afterward Tom and I talked about how there is much more weblog awareness at this NECC compared to last year. The lab worked well except for a few network hiccups which can be explained by the fact that the guy responsible for creating the site, was messing with it as we were presenting. Not a... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on June 28, 2005 at 6:50 p.m..

Blogs in the Classroom
Corrected link from yesterday. By Kathy Gill, Gnomedex, June 24, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] From OLDaily on June 28, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Google Earth HYPHEN Explore, Search and Discover
Google scores again with Google Earth - now free - which is essentially a three-dimensional representation of the entire Earth. "Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips." Toss your old paper-based atlas into the dustbin. What Google Earth demonstrates more than anything else is the difference between paper-based and digital content. It is to this difference we should be aspiring in online learning. More. >OLDaily on June 28, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Infrastructure of Sharing in the Commons
Everyone is talking about things like blogs, Flickr, Wikipedia and the like, notes the author. "What makes all of this possible is the emergence of an infrastructure for sharing in the commons." What this boils down to is a combination of several key elements: the emergence of open source, open standards, and especially XML, "online tribes" (such as hackers) that take sharing as a core virtue, political movements that advocate the same, peer-to-peer distribution of resources, and business models that make them feasible. "The web is self-organizing and forming clusters of functionality which ex From OLDaily on June 28, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Is It a Wiki? A Floor Wax? A Dessert Topping?
After you read Brian Lamb's article, take the time to visit Tiddly Wiki for a bit. As you look more closely, it will become more and more amazing - an entire wiki can be a single file. Lamb writes, "The entire tool is contained in one html file using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Which makes the wiki very portable, and can be run in any modern browser. As suggested on the website, I also installed it and PortableFirefox on my USB thumb drive. This would make updating/showing the e-portfolio very portable as well. However, to save the changes of the wik From OLDaily on June 28, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Community Plumbing in Action: The Story of BEAT and the Campus Commons
This is a very good paper outlining the development of BEAT (the Business, Education, and Applied Technology program, which is an inter-disciplinary, inter-institutional program that takes an applied, integrated approach to IT training) and the Campus Commons at UPEI. There's a lot going on in this paper, so read closely, but the core for me is the conceptual view of a self-organizing academic community and the key lessons: adopt an open strategy, encourage and allow freedom, attract a diversity of members, allow emergent communities to grow, and take an applied and integrated approach. D From OLDaily on June 28, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Video Delivery Platforms Experience Shift
MPEG-4 codec will become more widespread by 2006, but MPEG-2 digs in to continue video delivery growth through 2009. From ClickZ Stats on June 28, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Council of empty seats
Last month I went for the first time to a city council meeting. It wasn't boring, and I actually got up and gave a three minute speech. How many of us have been to a city council meeting? I am thirty-five years old and this was my first. So here I ask why people do and why they don't. From kuro5hin.org on June 28, 2005 at 4:45 p.m..

Investor Fraud, Astrology and Finding Happiness in Personals Ads
Recently a legal activity I engaged in reminded me of a scheme I'd read about some time ago. It's a stock market "prediction" scheme but it could easily be adapted to a variety of situations. From kuro5hin.org on June 28, 2005 at 4:45 p.m..

Grokster is Dead, Long Live Grokster!
Do you remember the Nestlé baby formula scandal? According to UNICEF, Nestlé has contributed to the deaths of over a million children worldwide. The facts are these: until 1977 Nestlé encouraged third-world mothers to switch from breastfeeding to formula. This went as far as giving mom free samples of product as she left the hospital with newborn in hand. Because Nestlé induced fear, uncertainty, and doubt about breastmilk safety, mom would feed her baby product instead of the true blue. This resulted in hundreds of thousands of babies superfluously dying from water borne illnesses. Or eve From kuro5hin.org on June 28, 2005 at 3:45 p.m..

Documental sobre la blogosfera española
Cuenta David de Ugarte en No hay post inocente que Manuel Campo Vidal está preparando un documental sobre los blogs y la blogosfera que se emitirá en septiembre: "Que yo sepa se tratará, en cualquier caso, del primer documental sobre... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on June 28, 2005 at 1:52 p.m..

Assessing conversations
A teacher who heard my talk at the NECC last night has sent me an email wondering how teachers (pre-college) can "evaluate and assess the level of student contributions to conversations." No fair disputing his premise that he has to assign grades, because we're talking about a public school system under increasing back-asswards demands for more and more "accountability" and testing. So, given that he has to give grades, if he moves more to a conversational model, how can assess students' participation? Do you know of any interesting approaches to this? Thanks. [Technorati tag: educat From Joho the Blog on June 28, 2005 at 1:48 p.m..

Italian translation of Small Pieces for Kids
Alberto Mucignat has translated the kids version of Small Pieces Loosely Joined into Italian, and has posted it into a wiki. Thanks! [Technorati tag: smallpieces]... From Joho the Blog on June 28, 2005 at 12:48 p.m..

Blog Live8
One.org is giving away 50 backstage press passes to bloggers. Dave Sifry explains how you enter the drawing, as do Joe Trippi and Powerline. [Technorati tag: live8] (Get your own Live 8 graphic like the one above here.)... From Joho the Blog on June 28, 2005 at 11:48 a.m..

When Something Online is Free
What are consumer expectations when something is free? Realistically, consumers subconsciously assume free means free, and while that might be the initial intent rarely is it the case. What Exactly Does Free Mean? Very few things these days are free in the real sense of the word. There are very few free items that do not have any strings attached. When Something Online is Free From Software Marketing Articles and Marketing Tips on June 28, 2005 at 10:54 a.m..

Supernova roundup
Quick before it goes behind the Boston Globe pay wall, you can read Scott Kirsner's Supernova primer: ...the conversation was thick with concepts and terms that may be familiar to those who marinate daily in the blogosphere, but are novel to those of us who are still retrograde enough to read (or write for) an ink-on-dead-trees publication. Let me try to explain a few [Technorati tags: ScottKirsner supernova2005]... From Joho the Blog on June 28, 2005 at 10:48 a.m..

Lumberjerk Rule of (Swollen) Thumb #423
My brother and I are known to our family as "The Lumberjerks" not so much because we can't drive a nail straight but because of the throroughness of our lack of familiarity with the basic properties of three dimensional space. As I was constructing a simple set of bookshelves today, I discovered the following Lumberjerk principle: When fastening an object, every additional screw you put in increases the probability that you have positioned the object in the wrong place. [Technorati tag: diy]... From Joho the Blog on June 28, 2005 at 10:48 a.m..

change
I decided to not sign the continuation of my contract at the Donau-Universität Krems. It was not an easy decision - quitting a job and having a familiy - but, you know, I have plans. I was a part of this great institution since November 1995. It's almost a decade now. Since the inception of this University innovation was it's main driver. We had several CEOs (presidents and directors) that accompanied the prospering development of our unique programs. I was heading the thomas n. burg | randgänge on June 28, 2005 at 10:47 a.m..

Radio Universidad de Navarra estrena website
A los antiguos alumnos les interesará saber que la emisora 98.3 FM Radio Universidad de Navarra estrena sitio web y ofrece una selección de sus programas en formato mp3. Ver también: Alumni en la Radio. Otros medios de la Facultad... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on June 28, 2005 at 8:52 a.m..

Offline... sort off...
Got back from Innsbruck Sunday night and found my DSL Modem dead. Had to ride a train to my sister to get me a good old modem cable for the dial-up thing and bought another DSL modem on Ebay. So, I will be online only sporadically until that piece appears at my doorstep. Writing and photo uploading on the Microlearning 2005 conference and Seblogging News on June 28, 2005 at 8:50 a.m..

Interview With David Weinberger
So I lucked out and got a chance to chat with NECC keynote speaker David Weinberger for about 45 minutes before he gave his address yesterday. Steve Burt from Clarity had set it up and he invited me to tag along. (Hopefully, he'll be posting the audio soon.) It was, um, hard to put into words, actually. A summary of his address is posted on his blog, (David From weblogged News on June 28, 2005 at 8:47 a.m..

Deafblind slate 'senseless' tech - Geoff Adams-Spink, BBC News
Deafblind people find technology difficult and frustrating to use, a survey has found. The study by the national charity Sense was the largest ever asking the views of deafblind people. All most half of those surveyed who use assistive technology were e From Techno-News Blog on June 28, 2005 at 7:49 a.m..

The Newspaper of the Future - TIMOTHY L. O'BRIEN, New York Times
Owned by the Simons family since 1891, The Journal-World is a small-town paper emphasizing small-town news, but it is hardly restrained by a small-town mentality. Indeed, at a time when newspapers big and small are facing financial and journalistic crossr From Techno-News Blog on June 28, 2005 at 7:49 a.m..

Microsoft makes web feeds easier - Jo Twist, BBC News
Microsoft's next version of its browser, Internet Explorer 7, will make it easier for people to keep automatically aware of website updates. IE7 will have an orange button on the toolbar which will light up when it detects a Really Simple Syndication (RS From Techno-News Blog on June 28, 2005 at 7:49 a.m..

Pushor appointed in Early Childhood Education
We in Educational Communications and Technology are thrilled that Debbie Pushor has accepted a tenure-track position in Curriculum Studies in Early Childhood Education to begin July 1, 2005. Early Childhood Education was effectively abandoned in the early 80's due to... From Rick's Café Canadien on June 28, 2005 at 6:54 a.m..

My favorite shot from BlogWalk 9.0
So far, this is my favorite photo from BlogWalk 9.0 in beautiful Innsbruck, Austria. It was taken in the office of Systemone (Thanks Bruno Haid for generously offering your space...) after a parkland stroll and drinks and a little run through a refres From Seblogging News on June 28, 2005 at 6:50 a.m..

Maxwell's thermodynamic daemon realized ?
Maxwell's demon is a theoretical device able to bypass the second law of thermodynamics, allowing anyone to produce unlimited free energy with the device. Until now, it has always been possible to prove theoretically that they couldn't be constructed, or would fail to function. This "badly published" article presents a version of Maxwell's demon for which there is currently no published theoretical proof of unworkability, and the author pretends to have built and tested it. If there are no flaws, then the invention is an industrial revolution waiting to happen. How From kuro5hin.org on June 28, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Offline... sort of...
Got back from Innsbruck Sunday night and found my DSL Modem dead. Had to ride a train to my sister to get me a good old modem cable for the dial-up thing and bought another DSL modem on Ebay. So, I will be online only sporadically until that piece appears at my doorstep. Writing and photo posting on the Microlearning 2005 conference and Seblogging News on June 28, 2005 at 5:46 a.m..

CUNY's Graduate Center Elevates Provost to President
The trustees of the City University of New York named William P. Kelly, the provost of its graduate center, as the center's new president. From New York Times: Education on June 28, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..

L.I. School Official Helped Son Cheat on Test, Investigators Say
School officials said they were quickly able to trace the cribbed answers to the student's father, an assistant superintendent in charge of exams in another district. From New York Times: Education on June 28, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..

Higher Student Test Scores Mean Progress? Council Wants Proof
Several New York City lawmakers cast doubt on the gains reported earlier this month on citywide reading and math tests. From New York Times: Education on June 28, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..

WaSP Forms Accessibility Task Force
This is exciting news from the Web Standards Project- a grassroots task force from a well established organization promoting web accessibility and it looks like they have a crack team of experts assembled to tackle the job. It will be interesting to see what comes out of this effort, it should do a lot to encourage awareness of accessibility issues. There is lots of commentary going on around the horn on this with a good set of links to some of the discussions from Curb Cut Learning on June 28, 2005 at 1:50 a.m..

Accessible Multimedia - Skills for Access
Skills for Access bills itself as The Comprehensive Guide to Creating Accessible Multimedia for e-learning. I haven't had time to go all the way through the site, but it looks like it delivers with a lot of substantive content, complete with great case studies as well as in-depth instructions on how to create accessible multimedia using a variety of technologies. (via splintered). From Curb Cut Learning on June 28, 2005 at 1:50 a.m..

Tag Subscriptions
Tag Subscriptions Brent Simmons writes about a new feature of NetNewsWire (his most excellent Mac OS X RSS reader) called tag subscriptions. Tag subscriptions let you subscribe to feeds on a given topic from sites such as Del.icio.us, Flickr, and Technorati. For example lots of folks at NECC are tagging weblog and Flickr posts with terms such as NECC, NECC05 and one I hope to add tomorrow, Free+Dinner. This feature of NetNewsWire makes it easy to subscribe to RSS feeds that match these tags. (Via Ranchero)... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on June 28, 2005 at 12:46 a.m..