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Communicating a Vision: In Graduate and Undergraduate Education Classes
Summary: The number of ways to transmit a motivating vision knows is limited primarily by one's communicative imagination and ingenuity. We know the effective vision by it's effects. It frames and impels specific learning. An effective vision is not limited by the knowledge-making venue; a good vision can work in instructivist, deuterlearning and independent or collaborative research environments. All of this I said in a recent
entry. In this entry I would like to share a specific vision-making classroom activity From
Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on July 12, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..
Act Now Before Newspaper Classifieds Die
How long will it be before newspapers lose a lot -- if not most -- of their classifieds revenue because of the move of classifieds to online competitors? If they don't change their business model drastically, it could be as soon as five years for some papers, up to 15 years for others, according to a report of the
Shaping the Future of the Newspaper project of the World Association of Newspapers.Fellow E-Media Tidbits blogger and new-media consultant Katja Riefler writes about this report in From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 12, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..
Disintermediation -- Not!
Back in 1999, I served on a strategic planning group at the Miami Herald, where I was director of new media. One thing we decided was that "disintermediation" -- the elimination of intermediaries, such as travel agents, stock brokers, or newspapers -- was one of the most significant phenomena we needed to be worried about. John Battelle -- author, former editor of Wired magazine, former publisher of the Industry Standard -- has an interesting
take on disintermediation in an article for AdAge.com.Disint From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 12, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..
Distance Education Course Taxonomy
I'm not sure whether it's possible to devote a whole blog to distance education course taxonomy. Then again, taxonomy forms the bulk of a lot of writing in the field. At any rate, I'm not going to miss the opportunity to link to this new blog on the subject and to wish author Lynn Hunter well. By Lynn Hunter, Distance Education Course Taxonomy, July, 2005 [
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OLDaily on July 12, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..
Interview with Gerald Heeger
University of Maryland University College (UMUC) was one of the earliest and is currently one of the largest players in the field of online learning. The author of this article interviews UMUC's president, Gerald A. Heeger. Heeger discusses some of the reasons many online learning ventures have failed and promotes the idea of a global open university. "This network of open universities would bring greatly expanded opportunities to a growing global student body." PDF. By Badrul Khan, BooksToRead, July 11, 2005 [
OLDaily on July 12, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..
Best of Australian Flexible Learning Community
Kudos to Rose Grozdanic who, over the course of the last few months, has pulled together this archive of the materials from the Australian Flexible Learning Community, which operated between 2001 and 2004. Contents are organized into five themes, or you can search. I remember being at a planning meeting for this community in Adelaide in 2001 and during its run I contributed a series of twelve articles, which you can find
here. By Various Authors, Australian Flexible Learning Community, July 12, 2005 [
OLDaily on July 12, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..
Turning Wikipedia into an Asset for Schools
Some people think that potential inaccuracies in
Wikipedia disqualify it for use in the classroom. Andy Carvin, though, argues that its flaws may be an asset. "When you go to Wikipedia, some entries are better referenced than others. That's just a basic fact. Some entries will have a scrupulous list of sources cited and a detailed talk page on which Wikipedians debate the accuracy of information presented in order to improve it. Others, though, will have no sources cited and no active talk pages. To me, this presents teachers with an excellent authent From
OLDaily on July 12, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..
News Flash! MERLOT Peer Reviews 8 Year Old Project
The headline exaggerates a bit - the project has only been in the queue for three years. Nonetheless, I think the point is made: "It does make me wonder about the scalability of the oft-desired structured review process of learning content." I've argued for a long time that it is not scalable. Though I give credit to MERLOT for sustaining the unsustainable for, um, such a long time. By Alan Levine, CogDogBlog, July 12, 2005 [
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OLDaily on July 12, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..
Learning Development Cycle: Bridging Learning Design and Modern Knowledge Needs
George Siemens weighs in with another significant paper. Starting with the premise, established elsewhere, that "learning today has moved beyond courses," he outlines a model of four distinct learning domains: accretion, transmission, acquisition and emergence. Each demands a different sort of learning (not 'instructional design') and Siemens accordingly offers a learning development cycle that takes this into account. I'm not so sure I'm happy with the taxonomy of learning domains - associating cognitivism and constructivism with emergence is, in most respects, not how I w From
OLDaily on July 12, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..
The Politics of E-Learning Standardization
Draft discussion of the role of standardization in e-learning. The authors explore the idea of "the function of standards as an instrument of justice" and in particular the nature of standards as understood by Actor Network Theory - that is, the idea that standards are not merely technnological black boxes but rather embody a host of social and cultural considerations. Some good observations here, including the suggestion that "standards enforce a kind of homogeneity or abstract uniformity that may be anethema to the educational enterprise." By Norm Friesen and Darryl Cressman, Ipseity, July From
OLDaily on July 12, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..
Proposal: Chat and Discussion Interchange Datamodel
The proposal that prompted my discussion of
Metadata the other day is now out in the open, thanks to Norm Friesen, the lead author. "This standard provides a data model for the interchange of communicative and related information generated through the set-up and use of text-based, synchronous (chat) and a-synchronous (discussion) communication technologies." My paper, in turn, has prompted a healthy discuission on the
CETIS-metadata list. By N From
OLDaily on July 12, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..
Crashing the Wedding Crashers Trailer
My brother George noticed a neat feature on the website for the upcoming movie The Wedding Crashers. It appears you can "crash the trailer". Here's the Wedding Crashers trailer featuring myself and my brother George. If you don't know us, it may not be as funny, but I think it's an excellent example of viral marketing [...] From
Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on July 12, 2005 at 5:55 p.m..
Dick Sabot, 1944-2005
I didn't know Dick Sabot, but thanks to posts by Ethanz, the Velveteen Rabbi and the obituary in the Berkshire Eagle I miss him. [Technorati tags: DickSabot]... From
Joho the Blog on July 12, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..
Continuous Computing
(via
Sebastian Fiedler) So I would qualify this as must reading for anyone who is trying to get a handle on what's happening with social technologies. This month's issue of Technology Review has a
well written article by Wade Roush about the impact of blogs, wikis, Flickr and the like: This explosion of new capabilities shouldn't be mistaken for "feature creep," the accretion of special functions that h From
weblogged News on July 12, 2005 at 5:47 p.m..
Wikipedia Lesson Plan
(via
David Warlick) Andy Carvin comes up with
lesson plan that gets the most out of the unverifiableness of
Wikipedia. Bottom line, use it to teach the type of information literacy skills we should be applying to much of what we read these days: Here's a quick scenario. Take a group of fifth grade students and break them into groups, with each group picking a topic that interests them. A From
weblogged News on July 12, 2005 at 5:47 p.m..
Withheld Stories: We'll Learn About Them Soon Enough
I was on vacation last week, and what a week to miss in the media world! Between the London bombings and the spectacle of citizen journalists covering the mayhem alongside pro journalists, and a New York Times reporter going to jail for refusing to reveal a confidential source (and Time's editor caving in to government pressure on one of his reporters to reveal a source) ... well, wow.The story last week that I found most intriguing was the decision by the Cleveland Plain Dealer to hold on to two investigative stories because of the threat of its journalists g From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 12, 2005 at 4:53 p.m..
Forced Registration, Bombings Don't Mix
Some issues keep reappearing over the years. One is for news sites that have mandatory user-registration schemes and what they do when a big local story breaks. Staci Kramer at
PaidContent.org reported last week that
The Telegraph in London "made a big mistake (after the bombings in that city last week) by limiting access to registered users and sending hurried users to other sites. A better bet would be to create a breaking news section anyone can access for now and and remind people to register fo From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 12, 2005 at 4:53 p.m..
A Taste of the Future of News
Since I was on vacation last week, I didn't pore over news websites' coverage of the London bombings the way I normally would for such a story. But catching up on the previous week, I have been looking over
BBC News' Web coverage. As usual, the BBC News site excels at citizen journalism, running witness accounts, photos, and videos. It has a long history of encouraging public participation in the news.I think what we saw last week on the BBC site starts to point to the future From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 12, 2005 at 4:53 p.m..
Newspapers and Podcasting
While slogging through backed-up e-mail from being on vacation last week, I found a note from a reader who asked: "I'm wondering how you see newspapers adding podcasting to their mix ... or should they?" That's a great question to answer publicly (though I certainly don't profess to have all the answers).I think a key for newspapers is to think of podcast content that cannot be easily found elsewhere. For instance, some early newspaper podcasts involve someone reading the top headlines from the day's news. Now, for someone in a car, what's the point of that? It From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on July 12, 2005 at 4:53 p.m..
Instructional Design Position - U of S
INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNER (1-year renewable term position) Extension Division, University of Saskatchewan The Extension Division at the University of Saskatchewan invites applications from qualified individuals for 2 limited term positions as Instructional Designer for one-year renewable terms commencing October 15, 2005.... From
Rick's Café Canadien on July 12, 2005 at 4:52 p.m..
(re) Descubriendo blogs
Una selección periódica, muy personal, de buenos weblogs de hoy y de ayer. Activismo ICTlogy La Mirada de Jokin ONE Blog Artes Culture Vulture La Divina Comedia Loreto MartÃn Cibercultura Beatriz Busaniche Onde anda Su? Cine Celuloide Fábrica de sueños... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on July 12, 2005 at 4:50 p.m..
Hieraki - Hierarchical Wiki Software
http://www.hieraki.org/ Just one of those things that I stumbled across through a dedicated Google search feed; Hieraki is an open source, Ruby-based (hence the reason you've probably never heard of it; many who try
Ruby seem to rave about it but it never seems to gain traction versus its competitors) wiki-like system that structures pages by 'Chapters' and sub-sections to assist with collaborative book authoring. Someone has even tried building a
EdTechPost on July 12, 2005 at 4:50 p.m..
Technologies of Cooperation
Ich habe gar nicht geahnt, dass man das Stichwort "Technologies of Cooperation" noch einmal in acht Gruppen aufteilen kann! Die Autoren, unter ihnen Howard Rheingold, haben es getan, dabei einige Unschärfen in Kauf genommen, aber durch eine beeindruckende Überblicksgrafik... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on July 12, 2005 at 4:50 p.m..
EU seeks to boost online music - BBC
Proposals for a Europe-wide copyright and licensing system for online music have been put forward by the European Commission. The aim is to help European online music services compete with those in the US. Anyone interested in offering paid-for download From
Techno-News Blog on July 12, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..
Macromedia integrates Breeze and Captivate
Macromedia integrates Breeze and Captivate. From the
press release: "By integrating Captivate and Breeze, Macromedia has created a compelling, rapid e-learning solution," said Frank Nguyen, e-learning technology manager, Intel Corporation. "Even users with no Flash® or programming experience can create, publish, and distribute engaging, media-rich content to a standard web browser, manage and control user access, and track the progress and performance of learners using industry standards such as SCORM and AICC From
Bill Brandon: eLearning on July 12, 2005 at 4:47 p.m..
Grabbing the long tail of media
Grabbing the long tail of media. The vision of the long tail entails that an increasingly greater number of digital content authors, from book writers to independent musicians will soon realize that the race to be a star is finally over. There is no need to be one, to make a living while expressing and sharing your creative talent. The long tail ushers an era in which content authors will not search anymore for a market of a million readers or listeners but for a million markets of ones. [
Bill Brandon: eLearning on July 12, 2005 at 4:47 p.m..
Title 50, chapter 15, subchapter iv, Sect. 421
(a) Disclosure of information by persons having or having had access to classified information that identifies covert agent Whoever, having or having had authorized access to classified information that identifies a covert agent, intentionally discloses any information identifying such covert agent to any individual not authorized to receive classified information, knowing that the information disclosed so identifies such covert agent and that the United States is taking affirmative measures to conceal such covert agent's intelligence relationship to the United States, shall be fined unde From
Joho the Blog on July 12, 2005 at 4:47 p.m..
Joi on software patents
Joi has a terrific post on why he, as a venture capitalist, is glad Europe rejected the software patent directive. Snippet: I personally believe that software patents are primarily the tool of large companies with portfolios of patents which they cross-license with each other. Generally, it serves to keep competition out of the market and allows those with patents to push those without patents around or cut them out of markets entirely. [Technorati tags: patents JoiIto]... From
Joho the Blog on July 12, 2005 at 4:47 p.m..
Ignoring the attacks
Britt Blaser has a terrific post that begins by quoting Tim Bray's right-on suggestions: Do our best to ignore the terrorist attacks (because the terrorists want our attention) and try to figure out the "Why" of it. Unfortunately, our leader — confusing understanding with justifying — thinks asking "Why?" is akin to treason, and our news media is capable of spinning JFK Jr.'s aircraft accident into 48 hours of "No news on the missing plane" coverage. So I'm not very hopeful about these ideas that are so common-sensical that they're practically Canadian. [Technor From
Joho the Blog on July 12, 2005 at 4:47 p.m..
Our secret's out: Before we liberals eat children, first we have sex with them
Rick Santorum said in 2002 that Boston's liberal culture is to blame for the fact that an outrageous number of Catholic clergymen have raped children: "While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political, and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm." Interesting theory. And he's standing by it. When Bryan McGrory in a column in The Boston Globe asked Santorum's office to elaborate, an aide replied: "It's an open secret that you have Harvard University and MIT that tend to tilt to the left in... From
Joho the Blog on July 12, 2005 at 4:47 p.m..
H20 on Rocketboom
Rocketboom today features a snippet of Steve Garfield's interview with Molly Krause about H20, a really interesting Berkman software project that I'll be blogging more about today. The full interview is here. By the way this is a very funny Rocketboom. [Technorati tags: rocketboom h20 berkman SteveGarfield MollyKrause]... From
Joho the Blog on July 12, 2005 at 4:47 p.m..
Global Voices' new look (sound?)
Global Voices has undergone a total redesign. Nice job! (By the way, it's reachable at http://www.GlobalVoicesOnline.org, as well as at the harder-to-remember http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/globalvoices/ Here's an example of the sort blog coverage Global Voices' daily roundup offers: Crossroads Arabia points out two interesting developments from Saudi Arabia. First, the Grand Mufti of the mosque in MeccaHYPHENSaudi Arabia's highest religious figureHYPHENhas condemmed the London bombings. Second, government officials will apparently start arresting and charging clerics who iss From
Joho the Blog on July 12, 2005 at 4:47 p.m..
Videocast using public webcam
Henrik Schneider points out that an Hungarian woman living in London went to a public webcam in Covent Garden and used her cell phone to record her observations and feelings. A colleague videotaped a monitor displaying the webcam footage and an Hungarian news channel, NNTV.hu picked it up. You can see her report (in Hungarian) using the webcam as her video studio here.... From
Joho the Blog on July 12, 2005 at 4:47 p.m..
Information management: a journey of a thousand steps
A while back, I started a review of information management (IM) and records management (IM) practices within a public-sector organisation. Against my expectations, this has proven to be very interesting, and I thought I would share some of my personal... From
Column Two on July 12, 2005 at 4:45 p.m..
Learning Objects: a Rose by Any Other Name
In this July/August EDUCAUSE article Susan Metros surveys the current state of activity and inactivity regarding LOs. She concludes that the early excitement about LOs may have stalled and that significant problems persist, but promising efforts are still underway. ___JH _____________ "Numerous reasons can be given for why learning objects have not fulfilled their promise of transforming education. The definition was too ambiguous and broad. Faculty were not accustomed to sharing and reusing course materials. Developing high-quality learning objects required m From
EduResources--Higher Education Resources Online on July 12, 2005 at 4:45 p.m..
How long does it take for a weblog to become »inactive«?
Several weeks now without any update here. Why? Well, too many reasons to list here. I was too busy on the one hand - on the other hand I did not want to blog just to remain »active«. I know I ignored one the »post early, post often« rule for running a successful blog. I was still posting here there in some of the
seminar weblogs I maintain and I am still reading RSS feeds. So I wasn't dropping out of blogging at all. Another reason is that I want my personal blog become more a commentary blog with From
owrede_log on July 12, 2005 at 4:45 p.m..
China chat?
I'm in Hong Kong doing a Writing Project institute behind a campus firewall. No AIM or MS Messenger available. But it appears that blogChat works. So if the diamond below is green, click the link to its left and say hello:
Chat #1 From
homoLudens III on July 12, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..
FDA Dithers Over Cloned Food
The Food and Drug Administration studies a proposal to lift the ban on selling food from cloned animals. Meanwhile, the dairy industry is urging the FDA to keep the ban in place. From
Wired News on July 12, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..
Microsoft Eyes Mom 'n' Pop Market
Microsoft thinks there's a lot of money to be made in the small-business software market. There is, and most of it's being made by smaller companies that, until now, considered themselves business partners of the Redmond behemoth. From
Wired News on July 12, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..
The New Face of IBM
China's biggest IT brand wants to go global. So it bought the PC division -- and the world-class management -- of an American icon. Who says being 'oceans apart' is a bad thing? By Kevin Maney from Wired magazine. From
Wired News on July 12, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..
A Guide to Getting Things Done
If you spend a lot of time not accomplishing your goals, you might benefit from the Getting Things Done movement, otherwise known as GTD for those of us too productive to waste time on extra syllables. By Robert Andrews. From
Wired News on July 12, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..
GTD: A New Cult for the Info Age
The manual Getting Things Done, which preaches tips for time management, has inspired a cult-like following online. Enthusiasts share tips and tools for doing more work, reducings stress and keeping inboxes clean. By Robert Andrews. From
Wired News on July 12, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..
CD-ROM Peers Into Dog Innards
Veterinary researchers create an interactive program offering a 3-D look at the inside of a canine. The project, similar to an earlier one featuring a horse, helps veterinary students visualize patients' ailments. By Randy Dotinga. From
Wired News on July 12, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..
Perplex City Faces Reality Check
It's the first major alternative-reality game to be produced without benefit of a marketing tie-in to a video game or movie. The future of these games may be riding on its success. By Daniel Terdiman. From
Wired News on July 12, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..
Giving New Meaning to 'Spyware'
An industry coalition hopes that a long-debated definition of dreaded spyware programs will pave the way for tougher regulation of the internet scourge. By Ryan Singel. From
Wired News on July 12, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..