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Honda Revs Its Engines
Honda ramps up its Civic and hybrid lines to enhance its cars' fuel-economy. Also: Nokia could owe a quarter million dollars in patent disputes.... AMD moves forward in its case against Intel.... and more. From
Wired News on July 5, 2005 at 9:46 p.m..
See If You're a Good Friend
Using avatars and a mobile device, The Social Fabric shows you at a glance just how well you're tending to your personal relationships. By Daniel Terdiman. From
Wired News on July 5, 2005 at 9:46 p.m..
Small Screens Spell Turkey
Sales of movies for the PSP and Mini-DVD aren't breaking box office records. Maybe consumers don't like watching flicks on the small screen? By Holly Wagner. From
Wired News on July 5, 2005 at 9:46 p.m..
How Nuclear Power Works
Nuclear power has its benefits and dangers. But what's actually going on in a reactor? Amit Asaravala explains. From
Wired News on July 5, 2005 at 9:46 p.m..
A Tool to Wake Up Wi-Fi Zombies
A social-networking innovator takes aim at digital alienation in coffee shops with a radical proposition: Your neighbor could be more interesting than your computer screen. By Cyrus Farivar. From
Wired News on July 5, 2005 at 9:46 p.m..
Giving Genetic Disease the Finger
Scientists have figured out how to get the genome to heal itself, giving gene therapy the best hope for success since it was first proposed 30 years ago. By Sam Jaffe. From
Wired News on July 5, 2005 at 9:46 p.m..
Wired Mag Tests Mobile Media
From gas grills and golf drivers to MP3 players, digital video cameras and handheld game systems, Wired magazine tests and rates more than 75 of the summer's hottest products. From
Wired News on July 5, 2005 at 9:46 p.m..
Thorium Fuels Safer Reactor Hopes
The element thorium could make nuclear reactors more efficient and generate a lot less weapons-grade plutonium. But getting the power industry to make changes will be a challenge. By Amit Asaravala. PLUS: How Nuclear Power Works. From
Wired News on July 5, 2005 at 9:46 p.m..
e-Learning for Development: A Model
Paper that outlines the benefits of open learning for non-profit organizations. "The online volunteer is a perfect knowledge management actor and that knowledge transmission is his or her main role. At the end of this part knowledge transmission will be shaped as e-learning and online volunteers will become remote training administrators, online mentors, e-authors, etc." By Ismael Peña, ICTlogy, July 5, 2005 [
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OLDaily on July 5, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..
ConnectViaBooks
Peter West thought I might find this interesting and he was right. Associated with Amazon.com, ConnectViaBooks combines book lists with social networking, the idea being to put people together based on what they like to read. Not so much a dating site as a professional associatoon site, to judge by the categories. By Various Authors, July, 2005 [
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OLDaily on July 5, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..
Virginia Tech and Serebra Forge Agreement to Provide E-Learning Certification
Serebra provides the course content through its
easyLearn system, Virginia Tech offers online registration, content review, and completion certificates, while Virginia-based Global Education Foundation and Global Work Force Development (GLOBAL) provides administrative support. What's interesting is that Serebra states that it is "committed to corporate social responsibility, international education, service and sharing." That's good. I am somewhat less enthused by the learning access cards (like debit cards) and
OLDaily on July 5, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..
Canada Connects
From the email release: "Canada Connects has just launched a new web portal designed to deliver affordable elearning resources to Canadians." Early reviews circulating through the emailsphere are not favorable, with one person commenting that "this is a classic case study in how NOT to start a community web portal." The site is connected to a magazine of the same name; articles can be found
here. By Various Authos, July 4, 2005 [
From OLDaily on July 5, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..
Challenging The Primacy Of Lectures: The Dissonance Between Theory And Practice In University Teaching
Almost nobody, it seems, believes in the instructivist model of learning - the presentation of material and the expectation (hope?) that it will be absorbed by osmosis. Most writers in the field support something like this: "learning environments should be student-centred, knowledge-centred, asessment-centred and community-centred." So why, asks the author, is the dominant mode of teaching at universities more like the instructionist and less like the constructivist? Too many factors inhibit change. "For universities to adapt to the changing circumstances they find themselves in, radical, rath From
OLDaily on July 5, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..
Learn Morse Code Subliminally
With a busy routine, who has time to learn anything consciously anymore? So, I thought I’d try a bit of subliminal learning and since Morse Code is still king, why not start there. I think this has been around for a while, but check out this little audio file of the ... From
Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on July 5, 2005 at 6:55 p.m..
Summer grad student advisement
During the months of July and August, we will once again be available to consult with students every Wednesday evening beginning at 7:00 pm at our offices. Please feel free to drop in or phone, and at least one of... From
Rick's Café Canadien on July 5, 2005 at 4:54 p.m..
the long story
Well, today was my (first) meeting with the Rector and the 2 Vice-Rectors of the Donau-Universität Krems. We did talk about future cooperation and even shares in the enterprises to come (more on that later). Unfortunately they were not prepared to talk about the Social Software Lab. So we decided to postpone that issue and schedule another meeting. Some things take time. Sidenote: explaining them the issue of Social Software - though not all of them were interested in the topic - made me feel like a somewhow crazy evangelist. From
thomas n. burg | randgänge on July 5, 2005 at 4:47 p.m..
Linnaeus and Buffon - Tales of Classification Superheroes
Stephen Jay Gould's The Lying Stones of Marakech not only has an eye-opening, perfectly constructed chapter on Lamarck, he also writes compellingly about George-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1708-1788), known to most of us simply as Buffon, the guy who is one "o" away from being a clown. According to Gould, Buffon's 44-volume Natural History proposed an alternative to Linnaeus' system. Linnaeus (1707-1778) arranged species into clusters based primarily on the look of their sex organs. Within those clusters, species were ranked from simplest to most complex, and the clusters we From
Joho the Blog on July 5, 2005 at 1:48 p.m..
Things You Can Do With RSS
(via
Stephen Cohen) I'm loving
RSS more and more, and this
wiki-fied list of cool and fun things you can do with it will give you some good ideas for using it in less "traditional" ways. (Are we at the point where RSS has traditional uses, I wonder?) I love the feed that tracks up to the minute police and fire events for certain localities. Kind of like an online police radio (as long as you refresh the feed every minute o From
weblogged News on July 5, 2005 at 1:47 p.m..
More Computer Classes Urged for Kids
Even in a nation where most every school has Internet access and computer use often starts by nursery school, teachers of technology see a warning message flashing. For students in elementary and secondary schools, states have few developed standards or... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on July 5, 2005 at 12:55 p.m..
Worse.Comb-over.Ever.
As a follicly challenged American, and nothing to write home about even with a full head of hair, it is with some sympathy and reluctance that I post this photo. But, like a tourist who happens to be taking a snapshot when a UFO zooms past, on a date I won't reveal in a city I won't mention I snapped a street scene only to discover this person. At first I thought he was wearing a leather skull cap or had dipped his head in fast-drying liquid plastic. As I zoomed in, only with difficulty did my brain parse the... From
Joho the Blog on July 5, 2005 at 12:48 p.m..
The Brad Pitt Generation
There's something absurd about the impossibly beautiful, impossibly rich Brad Pitt saying "We have the potential to end poverty in our time; we can be that generation," but there's also something inspiring about it. My generation thought we were revolutionizing consciousness. If the Pitt generation revolutionizes economics, history will judge that his generation got it right. How ironic will it be if it turns out that, compared to the buff and perfected Pitt, the scruffy hippies turn out to be the narcissists? [Technorati tags: live8 BradPitt]... From
Joho the Blog on July 5, 2005 at 12:48 p.m..
Paris talk
Loic has posted the iPod recording he made of the panel he moderated (and contributed to, of course) that consisted of Richard Edelman and me. He's also posted my slides. (Note: it's possible the PDF has substituted a default san serif font for my handwriting-as-truetype font.) Thanks, Loic!... From
Joho the Blog on July 5, 2005 at 12:48 p.m..
No Continent Left Behind
In the comments, Bill K raises the prospect of the G8 coming up with a No Continent Left Behind Act. Now we're talking! If it follows the educational version of the act, the No Continent Left Behind Act will require continents to be tested every year to ensure accountability. Those that do not get passing grades will be given two years to get their scores up. After that, they will be shut down and the population will be dispersed to higher-achieving continents. Problem solved!... From
Joho the Blog on July 5, 2005 at 12:48 p.m..
British business blogging conference
Our Social World in Cambridge, UK, Sept. 9 looks like it's got a a great bunch of speakers. Theme: "Why don't British businesses blog?" (Possible sub-theme: "Why are all the speakers men?")... From
Joho the Blog on July 5, 2005 at 12:48 p.m..
Blog series
This is probably more of a note to myself, since other teachers probably will have thought of it before, but food blogger Clotilde at
Chocolate & Zucchini has launched a series of pieces on a recent trip to New York. The first piece
introduces the project and its themes, and subsequent pieces take on one... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on July 5, 2005 at 11:46 a.m..
Blogs More Than Journals!
Since I've been more than apt to complain when journalists do the "blogs are online journals" story, let me compliment Cynthia Kopkowski from the Palm Beach Post who put together a
pretty nice article whose headline actually refers to teacher bloggers as "saavy!" Wow! Hey...that's
two articles in a row that actually paint Weblogs as learning tools...a trend? And I'm open to a better estimate in terms of teacher From
weblogged News on July 5, 2005 at 8:47 a.m..
Women gear up for gaming invasion - Jane Wakefield, BBC
Women are about to invade the male dominated gaming world, a games conference in Scotland is to be told. Games consultant Ernest Adams will say the stage is set for an explosion of women gamers, especially in the area of massively-multi-player online gami From
Techno-News Blog on July 5, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..
Generador automático de tags
Estoy probando TagCloud para generar de forma automática etiquetas de los contenidos de eCuaderno a partir de la fuente RSS de posts completos, el resultado pueden verlo en la columna de la izquierda bajo la rúbrica Las etiquetas.... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on July 5, 2005 at 4:46 a.m..
Parental attitudes toward technology in education.
Parents are an often overlooked variable in most plans for integrating educational technology into classrooms. Informed Insight: Parental Attitudes toward Technology, from the February issue of Techlearning, explores parental attitudes toward the Internet, educational technology, and computers in general. The... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on July 5, 2005 at 1:47 a.m..
Let your mentors do the coaching
You don't have to spend a lot of money to create a sustainable professional development program that will successfully impact student learning. You have the people and the means in your own organization to make it happen. The challenge for... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on July 5, 2005 at 1:47 a.m..
Underpaid Teachers
I have long thought that educators should be treated the same as professional athletes or members of the military. When you perform well, you are compensated well. Also, like the military, there should be compensation for teachers who work in... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on July 5, 2005 at 1:47 a.m..
Time and date.com
Need to make a call to someone far away? Need to arrange a videoconference, telephone- or net-based meeting with several people spread around the globe? This utility should help you find a convenient time, so that no one has to... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on July 4, 2005 at 11:55 p.m..
Mastermind
The object of this game is to guess the sequence of four colored pegs the computer has selected at random from the circled colors in the right field. Java Games - Mastermind... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on July 4, 2005 at 11:55 p.m..
Sychronicity
In Ontario, the marriage certificates and death certificates share the same form. Really. Game of the Day: RaidenX - Presented By Flash Player. It's like Raiden II, but you can save your game! From
silentblue | Quantified on July 4, 2005 at 11:55 p.m..