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Smugmug
Smugmug is a site for geocoding your Flickr photostream with Google Maps. Lots of interesting features including an easy to use interface for coding images....... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on August 18, 2005 at 9:49 p.m..

An Interview with Richard Wyles about Eduforge
I haven't listened to this but the subject sounds interesting: "coverage of an interview with Richard Wyles about Eduforge. Listen in as he highlights a range of topics about open source including moodle, php, and more." By Matt Pasiewicz, EDUCAUSE Blogs, August 18, 2005 [Refer][Research][OLDaily on August 18, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..

Digital Youth: How today
The fall issue of Threshold,Cable in the Classroom's magazine, is out and this articleis the most interesting of the bunch (the rest of articlesdon't go a lot of depth and tend to repeat pretty much thesame points). In this article, students comment on howtheir use of the internet at home differs from that atschool. Check this: "We can never find any goodinformation online, since they set the site blocker From OLDaily on August 18, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..

Elgg's Podcast Launch!
ELGG laiunches its podcast service and begins on target with an interview with George Siemens. I haven't listened to this (who has time?) but at least Dave Tosh posts the questions he asked. But for people who have five minutes rather than half an hour, something - even summary notes - should be posted in text to supplement the podcast. By Dave Tosh, ELGG, August 18, 2005 [Refer][Research][OLDaily on August 18, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..

McGraw-Hill Chooses Zinio for EBooks
Since there is almost no demand for e-books (it turns out consumers hate them so much Adobe is pulling its its eBook packaging and distribution software, Adobe Content Server, from the market) publishers naturally see them as a good venue for textbooks. I wonder whether these publishers think there's some sort of long-term advantage in turning education into a miserable and frustrating experience. Because I sure can't see the short-term upside. Oh, you know what there is a demand for, right? Google. So naturally, the publishers want to OLDaily on August 18, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..

The Lecture - A Teaching Strategy or Cop-Out?
The author offers a short post considering the pedagogical benefits of the lecture as a prelimimary to joining the "Triple A Lecture Invention" learning object project. As she notes in a later post, participants have been drawn from Manitoba, Canada, China and Australia. So a portal site has been set up providing general project information, an invitation to participate and the lin From OLDaily on August 18, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..

Protopage
Nifty personal page design which should give you some neat ideas. Via Albert Delgado. By Various Authors, August, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] From OLDaily on August 18, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..

Learning Should Be Hard Fun
Albert Ip point to, and quotes at length, Clark Quinn in this article on games in learning. "Learning can, and should, be hard fun!" Quinn lists a set of principles that serve this objective. "The principles work," he observes, but "there's a lot of 'finesse' behind the application." It is this 'finesse' that keeps game design an art form and (consequently) defies mass production. For now. Ip, meanwhile, makes the useful point that game goals and learning objectives are different (and I would add, it is this difference that makes games distinct from mere 'educatio From OLDaily on August 18, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..

Life Caching
(Via Jeff Jarvis) Probably not a new term, but new to me. Is this what we're doing with all of these tools? Caching our lives: LIFE CACHING is enabling GENERATION C to become a generation of true storytellers, helping them to visually and compellingly share their experiences with friends and family, which makes them stand out and feel special. In fact, sharing an experience may become as valuable if not more valuable than the actual experience itself. From weblogged News on August 18, 2005 at 7:47 p.m..

Local discontent with 'No Child Left Behind' grows
Some states have filed lawsuits or passed laws trumping the federal mandates. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on August 18, 2005 at 7:45 p.m..

Deconstructed Distributed Conversations
Interesting to use a post on distributed conversations to show how distributed conversations work. But I think it's informative. Alan started this process description, but for my own clarification, I'm going to deconstruct my own. It seems very chaotic as I look at it now, but in practice it's pretty flow like. The key, seriously, is years of doing it, of learning how to "join loosley" with these ideas and be very much ok with the flimsy connections. Hopefully some others will find this somewhat informative: 1. I read weblogged News on August 18, 2005 at 6:47 p.m..

New Learning Environments for the 21st Century
John Seely Brown, Ko-Autor von "The Social Life of Information", schildert auf diesen Slides, wie eine neue Generation Lernender sowie neue Formen des Lernens und Lehrens zusammengehören. Klasse! "Some challenges we all face - today's digitally experienced students learn differently... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on August 18, 2005 at 5:49 p.m..

Journalist newbies
Dan Bricklin points out: With the rush to podcasting by just about every "content" provider, we're now seeing "journalists" who are "professionals" in one medium (usually print reporters or bloggers) trying to publish in another (audio) and they often sound like total newbies. He wonders if this will help give them a sense of the difficulties and joys of being an amateur. Lots of interesting reflections... [Tags: podcasting DanBricklin]... From Joho the Blog on August 18, 2005 at 4:46 p.m..

From a National Writing Project colleague
Sandy Hayes of the  Minnesota Writing Project emails: Add your vote on the effectiveness of NCLB to the WSJ survey or post a message. From homoLudens III on August 18, 2005 at 3:45 p.m..

How Do the Search Engines Stack Up?
While shopping and classifieds are the most common search terms across all search engines, each engine has characteristic strengths. From ClickZ Stats on August 18, 2005 at 3:45 p.m..

BlogDay
The idea is that on August 31, everyone who signs up will recommend 5 new blogs, preferably from a different culture or at least a different point of view, or at least using different fonts... [Tag: blogday]... From Joho the Blog on August 18, 2005 at 12:48 p.m..

Order of Magnitude Quiz: In the air
Julian Bond wonders how many people are flying in airplanes at any one time. You win if you guess the answer within one order of magnitude. Julian's guess is one million. Unfortunately, I don't have an answer... [Tag: OrderOfMagnitudeQuiz]... From Joho the Blog on August 18, 2005 at 11:46 a.m..

Report from the corner
The vigil in Brookline went better than I'd expected. 75-100 people showed up, mailny baby boomers and their parents. We stood at the intersection of two of the major streets, held signs and candles, and chatted with our neighbors. Yeah, I know it was supposed to be a silent vigil, but talking seemed more useful. One of the protestors said, "It just shows that one person really can make a difference." Well, yeah. But two can't: Cindy Sheehan focused our attention, and the second gold star mom who demands an audience with Bush will not have the same effect. So,... From Joho the Blog on August 18, 2005 at 11:46 a.m..

Oh the yummy langoustine
A delicious article on langoustines from R.W. Apple in the New York Times makes me yearn to board the next jet to France for a trip to eat these yummy little crustaceans, Lobster's Little Cousin, and Its Envy. What, you may well ask, is a langoustine? Shellfish nomenclature is a vexed matter, and nowhere more so than where langoustines are concerned. More later on the technicalities; for now, suffice it to say that they are slim, pink, thin-she From megnut on August 18, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

Pace, Timing and Rhythm in Information Architecture
Andrew Dillon joins the group of thinkers that question simplistic approaches to effiiciency of communication that ask for speed instead of pace: Is there a temporal aspect to interaction that we should acknowledge? Surely there is a pace that leads to the best fit for each of us between tool and task, between goal and accomplishment, between resource and purpose. Sometimes making it faster just works against making it better, and I am not sure where this insight finds resonance in information architecture or systems design. The rhythm of interaction is partly set by the underly From owrede_log on August 18, 2005 at 9:47 a.m..

Small Devices, Big Risks - Tim Gray, Internet News
Portable, handheld storage devices, like USB memory sticks and iPods, are posing a greater security risk internally to many businesses that are primarily focused on halting external threats. Centennial Software, a developer of IT asset discovery and secu From Techno-News Blog on August 18, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

New Worm Multiplies, Divides - Associated Press
Several new variants of a computer worm emerged Wednesday to attack corporate networks running the Windows 2000 operating system, just a week after Microsoft warned of the security flaw. As experts predicted, the Windows hole proved a tempting target for From Techno-News Blog on August 18, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Windows worms now attacking each other - Tom Sullivan, Infoworld Techwatch
The most recent crop of Windows worms continue to circulate and, what's more, security firm F-Secure said that Zotob, Bozori and IRCbot are engaged in botwarfare. "We seem to have a botwar on our hands. There appears to be three different virus writing g From Techno-News Blog on August 18, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

The 'Evil Empire' Strikes Back
It's capitalism versus central planning once again in the space race, only this time the roles have been reversed. The Russians ferry paying tourists into orbit while NASA plods along under bureaucratic inertia. By Michael Belfiore. From Wired News on August 18, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Antibiotics From Crocodile Blood?
The crocodile's immune system is far more effective than ours at warding off infections and viruses, so scientists are experimenting to see whether blood samples can be used to create powerful antibiotics for humans. From Wired News on August 18, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

E-Mail Thief Pays the Price
A former AOL engineer who admitted stealing 92 million screen names and e-mail addresses and selling them to spammers is sentenced to 15 months in prison. From Wired News on August 18, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Illegal Animal Trade Goes Online
Exotic pets and products made from endangered species go to the highest bidder on the internet. Thanks to e-commerce, illegal animal trading is global and growing. By Rachel Metz. From Wired News on August 18, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Click Fraud Claims Drive Lawsuits
Companies who watched profits disappear due to allegedly fraudulent clicks on their ads aren't just taking aim at the clickers. They're going after the search engines as well. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg. From Wired News on August 18, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

NASA Launches Startups for Ships
As the space shuttle fleet struggles to overcome technical problems and a possible replacement remains on the drawing board, NASA turns to small companies for new ideas in space travel. By Michael Belfiore.PLUS: The 'Evil Empire' Strikes Back From Wired News on August 18, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Carmen Rigalt quiere un blog
Se suceden las declaraciones de amor mediático a la blogosfera. En esta ocasión es la periodista Carmen Rigalt quien en su columna Testigo Impertinente (El Mundo, 14/8/2005, p. 52) confiesa irónica: Se me ha metido entre ceja y ceja tener... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on August 18, 2005 at 4:49 a.m..

Yahoo! Unlimied to Launch Formally With Same Low Price
Rafat Ali brings the news.  Yahoo! Unlimited is going to keep its 5 bucks/month price point when it formally launches.  Rafat writes, "I have it from reliable sources that the initial feedback and pickup from users is lower than company expectations, and some of the aggressive pricing decision may have stemmed from that."  Whatever users they acquired came with hardly any advertising.  Now, Yahoo's about to start a major ad-push, including a spot during the MTV Video Music Awards. From A Copyfighter's Musings on August 18, 2005 at 3:47 a.m..

Soda Makers Widen a Ban on School Sales
Soda companies will extend their ban on soft drink sales to include middle schools, ceding to pressure from health advocates to reduce obesity in children. From New York Times: Education on August 18, 2005 at 3:45 a.m..

Public or Private School? In Campaign, It's Personal
The reluctance of Gifford Miller to commit to public or private education for his children mirrors a struggle familiar to many upper-income parents in New York City. From New York Times: Education on August 18, 2005 at 3:45 a.m..