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Halliburton gets Katrina contracts
War-profiteer Halliburton — after $1.5B in "questioned" and "unsupported" costs in its Iraq bonanza — has been awarded $29.8M to start rebuilding naval bases in Louisiana and Mississippi. I know $29.8M is nothing to a company like Halliburton, but, can't we get even a semblance of propriety? [Tags: HurricaneKatrina] Bush has also taken this opportunity to allow companies doing repair work in the Katrina-stricken areas to pay lower than minimum wage to their employees. According to Slate, Bush wrote to Congress that he's taking the action because of the state of emergency: From
Joho the Blog on September 10, 2005 at 6:48 p.m..
Kayne West On George Bush
I finally got a chance to view the video of Kayne West's televised dissent during a New Orlean's hurricane relief fundraiser. If you missed it, here's the Washington Post story and a link to a video clip. West departed from the scripted comments prepared for him and delivered his own anti-Bush, anti-media, anti-oppression rant ... [...] From
Indiana IT on September 10, 2005 at 5:49 p.m..
Back To School
Yesterday, was the first day of classes at the University of Regina, although my first day of teaching is today. This semester, I am teaching two sections of ECMP 355 (under a CC license) which will be held face-to-face this time around. ECMP 355 is an introductory course to using technology in the K-12 classroom. [...] From
Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on September 10, 2005 at 5:49 p.m..
Canadian Relief Effort In Louisiana
Last December, I highlighted a video re: the views of Ann Coulter and Tucker Carlson on Canada. Althought I didn't do much more than point to a video, it's still one of my most viewed posts. And today, as I browsed through CBC World news, I noticed a story re: a Louisiana senator who has praised [...] From
Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on September 10, 2005 at 5:49 p.m..
Guerilla Drive-In Theatres
While there was talk a while back about the revival of the drive-in theatre, Gizmodo reports a very interesting spin regarding guerilla drive-ins. From the article: Some folks set up a digital projector outfitted with an FM transmitter and put it inside a car. Every couple of weeks they send out an e-mail to [...] From
Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on September 10, 2005 at 5:49 p.m..
Software Freedom Day: How Can You Help?
This is a reminder about an important upcoming event on September 10/05, and a request to my readers, especially those who are teachers or professors. Software Freedom Day is a global, grassroots effort to educate the public about the virtues and availability of Free and Open Source Software. Over 200 teams are registered so far, [...] From
Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on September 10, 2005 at 5:49 p.m..
Stupid Content Grab: Aquaduckie.com
The guiding rule I recommend for anyone who ever posts any content online – from a discussion forum message to an article or even an entire book – is this: Assume that the worst person who might find that content will find it. Can you handle the consequences for that? Are you getting enough value from posting that content to make it worth your while to do it anyway? This applies doubly to misappropriating content – that is, republishing it without permission. Posting copyrighted content online without permission is doubly stupid because it is so incredibly easy to get caught From
Contentious Weblog on September 10, 2005 at 5:49 p.m..
Yes, Podcasting Is Coming to Cell Phones
When I talk about podcasting, people often ask me, "Is the audience for podcasting ever going to be substantial?" Often I answer, "Do most of the people you know have cell phones?" Usually they nod enthusiastically at this. Then I explain how the coming generation of cell phones will include not only wireless internet connections, but MP3 players and tools for subscribing to, downloading, and storing podcasts. Well, it's happening... From
Contentious Weblog on September 10, 2005 at 5:49 p.m..
Why I Hate Blog Spam
It's the new breed of online kudzu, and it's really starting to annoy me: Fake weblogs which offer no real content of their own. They merely scrape headlines or content from other sites, then paste it onto a page template loaded with sleazy spammish links and get-rich-quick come-ons. Yep, it's blog spam. Or facade blogs, take your pick of neologisms. I hate blog spam because it directly undermines the key usefulness inherent to the connectedness that blogging tools provide: findability. I get especially irritated when my headlines or content end up getting scraped onto such s From
Contentious Weblog on September 10, 2005 at 5:49 p.m..
Chastened and Proud in the Wake of Devastation
Like just about everyone else who has access to TV and the internet, I am stunned by the news coming out of the Gulf Coast regions smashed by Hurricane Katrina earlier this week. I try, in my own small way, to imagine what it must be like to be in that situation. And I realize that, with all or most communication systems still down, that lack of information might be one of the most frustrating and frightening aspects of surviving in the aftermath. No phones. No power, so no radio or TV for the most part. No newspapers. And don't even think about the internet. For many Southerners in the From
Contentious Weblog on September 10, 2005 at 5:49 p.m..
Poynter Seeks Baton Rouge Housing for Journalists
Since New Orleans and many other Gulf Coast areas have been devastated by Hurricane Katrina, many journalists are working hard to get out the news and manage crucial communications and coordination from temporary digs further inland. In my previous article, I tried to convey how crucial it is that news continues to get in and out of the devastated regions. This benefits everyone, especially the hardest-hit survivors who haven't even been rescued yet. The more reliable news and information people can gather and share, the better prepared rescue teams will be to target their efforts. Th From
Contentious Weblog on September 10, 2005 at 5:49 p.m..
Survey Question 9: Why would you stop reading a business blog?
SURVEY QUESTION 9:Here's what might make you quit reading a weblog that interests you mainly for business reasons: The big news here is that if your blog is that a significant majority of respondents (60%) report that they would not stop reading a business/professional blog simply because it occasionally offers personal anecdotes, disclosures, or mentions. The only reason these people would stop reading would be a noticeable decline in the quality or quantity of postings on business/professional topics. (Many of the 22% who replied "other" expressed a similar view, just in different ter From
Contentious Weblog on September 10, 2005 at 5:49 p.m..
Expert Analysis as Citizen Journalism
Can citizen journalism be analysis, rather than just news reporting or first-hand accounts? I think so. Over at "I, Reporter" I just posted this article, in which I examine a brief analysis piece recently published in "Econbrowser," the weblog of economist James D. Hamilton. I contend that whether he intended to or not, Hamilton committed citizen journalism – and quite successfully, too! From
Contentious Weblog on September 10, 2005 at 5:49 p.m..
Weblogs, Date/Timestamps, and Time Travel
A couple of weeks ago, when we both spoke at the Da Vinci Institute's Blogging Bootcamp seminar, my colleague Dave Taylor made many good points (as he often does). Of course, I disagree slightly with something he said there (as I often do). In a nutshell, Dave explained that he doesn't like to feature a date/timestamp prominently on his weblog postings. He thinks that tends to diminish the perceived long-term value of the content. He encouraged business bloggers to generally follow suit: to focus on providing "evergreen" content, and to play down or possibly even omit the date/tim From
Contentious Weblog on September 10, 2005 at 5:49 p.m..
Rathergate Anniversary
It was a year ago yesterday that one of the groundbreaking events of citizen journalism, the "Rathergate" affair, began. It all started with some postings that Harry MacDougald, a Republican lawyer in Atlanta, made to a conservative web-based discussion forum called Free Republic... From
Contentious Weblog on September 10, 2005 at 5:49 p.m..
Riding the E-Learning Curve
A word to the wise for those responsible for certification programs: Give the people what they want. Increasingly, that means adding an online training component. When it comes to styles of instruction, the CRN Training and Certification Survey showed 30... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on September 10, 2005 at 5:49 p.m..
Spreading the Poison of Bigotry
They locked down the entrance doors Thursday at the Baton Rouge hotel where I'm staying alongside hundreds of New Orleans residents driven from their homes by Hurricane Katrina. "Because of the riots," the hotel managers explained. Armed Gunmen from New... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on September 10, 2005 at 5:49 p.m..
Labels That Don't Make Sense
Labels can be extraordinarily confusing, especially if they lack a certain precision or congruence with reality. Take the name Labor Day for example. This is a label for a holiday in the United States, a day that families have typically... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on September 10, 2005 at 5:49 p.m..
How to develop an online course?
In my own research on this topic, I have interviewed a series of teachers, developers and administrators from a state-wide virtual high school. My initial findings have narrowed down the guidelines, or as Williams would put it, how to design... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on September 10, 2005 at 5:49 p.m..
How to start a blog
Once upon a time.. Okay that might be the way to start a fairy tale but not necessarily how to start a blog but then again... If you really want to make a punch in the blogosphere start your blog... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on September 10, 2005 at 5:49 p.m..
On the Move
Increasingly, notebooks are the computers of choice. Laptop sales in the back-to-school sales period, the industry's second-busiest season after holidays, hit a record volume during the first week of August, according to Current Analysis Inc. Notebooks captured more than half... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on September 10, 2005 at 5:49 p.m..
Help2Go- Computer Problem Solvers
As an online developer you often come across software or hardware issues that you need help with. Sometimes there isn't anyone around to help. This is a neat page dedicated to these type of "little" problems. http://www.help2go.com/... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on September 10, 2005 at 5:49 p.m..
Experts offer homework help online
As students get back into the routine of another school year, many will be taking advantage of the scores of experts from academia, government, and elsewhere who offer free online advice to those needing homework help--as long as the inquiring... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on September 10, 2005 at 5:49 p.m..
Professors online
This paper reports on findings from a nationwide survey of Internet use by U.S. college faculty. The survey asked about general Internet use, use of specific Internet technologies (e"mail, IM, Web, etc.), the Internet From
Teaching and Developing Online. on September 10, 2005 at 5:49 p.m..
Media/Political Bias
There is no such thing as an objective point of view. No matter how much we may try to ignore it, human communication always takes place in a context, through a medium, and among individuals and groups who are situated... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on September 10, 2005 at 5:49 p.m..
Real beauty
Two weeks, Silverlotus and I went down to the Toronto Eaton Centre to check out the Dove RealBeauty Photography Exhibit. There were photos of women of all shapes, sizes, ages, and pedigrees; a photo of a London homeless lady was adjacent to that of Gwyneth Paltrow. Written on the comments board was this poignant quote, among others: "Every picture is a story...waiting to be told by the spirit within" I am reminded with the similar "Designed for real life" campaign that Canadian clothier Reitman's has, where normally shaped women wearing ordinary clothes strike supermodel poses in mundane From
silentblue | Quantified on September 10, 2005 at 5:49 p.m..
83 miles on a caribou coin
Last Friday, while I was scooping up tokens from the TTC token machine at Dundas, a young girl approached me and begged me for a token. Apparently, she came by Greyhound from Peterborough to meet a friend downtown, who blew her off and told her to just keep bumming money until she could take the TTC to Royal York station. She couldn't been more than 14. She told me she'd been trying to panhandle for two hours. Absolutely no cash? She only had a quarter, she claimed. Did she have a debit card? No money in the bank. How about credit card? All maxed out. I was completely exasperated by From
silentblue | Quantified on September 10, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..
For richer or poorer
I find that a lot of people do not understand what it truly means to be rich. From googley, on Ask Metafilter: 1) Ability to pay others to perform menial tasks. Cooking, cleaning, shopping, driving, managing money, lawyering, etc. etc. Almost anything that you think of a necessary inconvenience can be done by someone else. 2) Enough money to live off the interest alone. For most people, the biggest inconvenience in life is having to work full time (or more) and having their livelihood riding on said job(s). The very rich have enough capital accumulated that they can, if they are prudent, simpl From
silentblue | Quantified on September 10, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..
In the D drive: August games
FEAR Single Player Demo. Very seldomly does a game create an exquisitely macabre atmosphere. Doom 3 failed in this regard IMHO, because it overrelied on haunted house gimmicks. But FEAR employs creepily intelligent enemies, stark shadows, and scripted events carefully constructed to make you want to cry for your mommy. Unfortunately, it made my poor 9800 Pro cry too: I had to run it at 800×600. Mexican Motor Mafia Demo. A small shareware game that is basically a sped-up version of the "crossing the T" type of combat that makes Pirates! so gratifying but with tequila, muscle cars and sawed From
silentblue | Quantified on September 10, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..
Media Calls Out to 'Citizen Journalists'
CNN.com and
MSNBC.com are requesting photos, videos, and stories from Katrina witnesses and survivors through Hurricane Katrina special-report sections. Both sites offer a nice assortment of material, but what I found particularly interesting is the text used in each site's title bar (located at the very top of the browser): CNN: "CNN.com Citizen Journalists: Send your pictures, video, stories" MSNBC: "CJ Experience: Hurricane Katrina - Citizen Jour From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on September 10, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..
How About a Hurricane Victims Map?
Some attention is being given to
this map of the hurricane zone, which uses Google Maps and citizen reporting to display conditions of specific houses and neighborhoods. It's a great use of the
Google Maps API, which I've been urging news organizations to take advantage of. This technique could be extremely valuable for news websites as the Katrina disaster continues to unfold. For example, it's estimated that in the city of New Orleans thousands of people died in the floodwaters. As in From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on September 10, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..
Force-Fed Commercials
Over the holiday weekend I took one of my daughters to a movie. It was one of the few times in her life that she was held captive to commercial messages. You see, the movie theater ran six commercials (then several previews, then 15 minutes after the advertised start time, the movie itself). Normally, I keep my kids away from commercials. They've long been trained to fast-forward through commercials when watching TV (we have a
TiVo in our house). When we're in the car, there's commercial-free satellite radio. If they insist on listening From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on September 10, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..
Prepare to Pay Citizen Journalists
The "citizen journalism" movement (a.k.a., grassroots media, "we media") continues to gain steam, especially in the U.S., and especially in the "hyper-local news" area. But there's something that bothers me about most "citJ" initiatives: Citizen submissions of content mostly are non-paid, with compensation being feeling good about better informing your neighbors, and/or the glory of seeing your name on the Web. I view that as an indicator of the immaturity of the citJ movement. In time, I think that citJ initiatives will have to figure out how to compensate the people who submit t From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on September 10, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..
Things Cyberspace Can't Replace
A USA Today online "Snapshot" shows results of a Harris Interactive survey of "Things cyberspace can't replace." The answers are: "Meeting people at bars," 77 percent; "going to the post office," 71 percent; and "reading the newspaper," 40 percent. Wednesday's Page 1 snapshot in the print edition shows some results from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The graphic shows that the percentage of adults using the Internet increased to 66 percent in 2004, an increase of 10 percent over the year 2000. It reports a greater increase among youths 12 to 17. Their us From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on September 10, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..
eBay Revolutionizes Pricing
Is
eBay the perfect store? An
op-ed column in today's International Herald Tribune points out that eBay is now 10 years old. It also makes the case that Pierre Omidyar's invention, first called "AuctionWeb" and later renamed eBay, has come as close as anything to creating a "perfect market." Such a market, says the piece by Adam Cohen, is "something economists had only imagined," a place "where everything sold for its ideal price." Whether you or eco From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on September 10, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..
For Times-Picayune, Web Will Take on Crucial Diaspora Role
Jon Donley now may have the most important job at the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Why? Because his city's residents are being scattered far and wide -- and many of them probably will resettle permanently in other parts of the U.S. As editor of the T-P's website,
NOLA.com, he and his staff will be able to reach those people long term, when the print edition will not. Even if they don't move back to a rebuilt New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina survivors will retain emotional ties to their once-great city. This horrible dis From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on September 10, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..
New Journalism's Slow Evolution = No Prize
Without a winner. So ended the annual contest "
Premio Nuevo Periodismo CEMEX+FNPI" (New Journalism Prize) organized by Fundacin Nuevo Periodismo in Colombia. Comparing this year's entrants with previous winners, the contest jury commented last week that "use of multimedia features and researching had many flaws," and "visual concepts without originality." So they decided not to give the prize for the Internet category. Also, the jury stated that this decision was a call for more innovation. From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on September 10, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..
Victim Journalism
I'm always looking for good examples of "citizen journalism," and my Poynter colleague Larry Larsen delivered with
this link to a story by two paramedics about their experiences in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Visiting the city from San Francisco for an emergency medical services convention, Larry Bradshaw and Lorrie Beth Slonsky write a powerful tale of being with a group of hopeful evacuees trying to escape New Orleans -- but being thwarted by emergency and law-enforceme From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on September 10, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..
Charging for Access: 'Not the End of the World'
From
SpokesmanReview.com in Spokane, Washington, comes a heartening tale for those few news websites that charge for access to their content. Online publisher Ken Sands reports: "I'm amazed at how well our site traffic has rebounded in the year since we started charging a subscription to see our repurposed print content." (He also adds: "This is in no way an endorsement of [newspaper websites] having paid subscriptions.") Here's how it played out. In September 2004, the news site started a
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on September 10, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..
Citizen Photographers Will Ignore FEMA
Like many journalists, I'm incensed that
FEMA this week issued a "request" that news organizations not show dead bodies in coverage of Hurricane Katrina's aftermath and clean-up. I join my industry colleagues in urging editors to make that decision on their own, without considering federal officials' politically self-serving advice. Others (including several Poynter faculty members
in this article) have expressed good reasons to ignore FEMA, b From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on September 10, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..
Happy Anniversary, Rathergate!
It was the post that launched 10,000 stories -- and a media firestorm that toppled longtime network anchor Dan Rather and several of his CBS News colleagues. It also showed the power of citizen journalism. And, I was surprised to learn today, it wasn't on a weblog. The flap that came to be known as "Rathergate" began on September 8, 2005, with a comment to a thread in a Web-based conservative discussion forum,
Free Republic. Using the pseudonym "Buckhead," Atlanta attorney Harry MacDougald posted his observations debunking the au From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on September 10, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..
RSS problems, maybe?
In a comment to this entry David reports that my RSS feeds haven't been updating for him. I'm not having any problem with bloglines these days. Can anyone else confirm that they are not getting updates? (*looks at self and says good luck, if they aren't getting updates they probably aren't going to read this entry*) From
Language, teaching, and all things EFL on September 10, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..
day two point five report
I've finished teaching two days at the new school and have had all of my classes one time. Starting today I see them for the second class of the week. Overall I'm very impressed with things. First the resources available are excellent. I'm not referring to books or materials - I haven't seen any other than the textbook, but any good teacher will have their own supplemental material anyhow. I'm referring to equipment and classrooms. First the classes have round tables with comfy chairs. These big round tables are perfect because the students are already sitting in grou From
Language, teaching, and all things EFL on September 10, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..
Korean is essentially...
Mark Liberman from Language Log wrote about a site of Essentialist Explanations. Basically the site takes a language and says something about it in the form Language X is essentially language Y under conditions Z. Below I have highlited all the ones about Korea.Korean is essentially bad Japanese, also as spoken by Mongols. Conversely, Japanese is essentially Korean in the mouths of little children. Japanese is essentially Tagalog spoken by Koreans trying to do an impression of Americans from the point of view of Chinese people. Korean is essentially being caught in a syllable-diagraming exerci From
Language, teaching, and all things EFL on September 10, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..
Level Testing
My close personal friend and colleague, Captain Marvel has posted a message in forums about level testing. I have reproduced it here, but any responses should be added to his thread.For some time I’ve been intending to put together a report on the need for level testing the freshman students in my university; however, I have a small problem. . . I can find a ton of stuff on level testing and how to level test and considerations for level testing and whatnot, but, oddly, literature on the reasons for level testing is hard to come by. It seems to be just an assumed thing that level testin From
Language, teaching, and all things EFL on September 10, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..
Ooooo Nurses!
Week one is finished and I must say that I am really enjoying my new school. All of the students are great, the facilities are fantastic. The best part are the nurses that I am teaching - they have got to be the best class I have ever taught. No I am not going goo goo over all the ladies; I am married and have previously taught at a womens univeristy. But rather it's all about enthusiasm combined with natural talent. The class is a little small, only 20 girls and 2 guys, but so far every student has an overabundance of enthusiasm and a large portion of the class have strong English skills From
Language, teaching, and all things EFL on September 10, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..
KOTESOL 2005 early registration
The annual KOTESOL conference is rapidly approaching. PreRegistration ends on September 23 - it's not terribly important as it only saves you 10,000 won. But if you know you'll be going it might be worth registering early and avoiding the line-ups at the door. The Plenary and Featured Speaker list is now online, but I am only familiar with one name - David Hall - who was the professor in charge of one the units I took at Macquarie University. One other name sounds familiar, but I can't exactly remember where I heard it before - Amy B.M. Tsui. If any readers are familiar with t From
Language, teaching, and all things EFL on September 10, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..
Balloons
The latest completed chapter in the textbook that I am writing has been completed and tested with my class. My partner is testing chapter one this week and will test chapter two next week. The second unit builds awareness of group strategies and the need to use language with other learners instead of just studying it. The hook for the chapter is a really great activity that my partner found on the net and changed slightly. Balloons! Handout 2-3 balloons to each student and have them inflate them. Next set up students in groups of 3-4 with the exception of having one student stand alone. Stude From
Language, teaching, and all things EFL on September 10, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..
Cocaine, ecstasy, and EFL
Via the TESall BlogLog comes a story of a Kindergarten ESL teacher in Taiwan peddling 600 grams of cocaine.Last Friday night, a drug bust spearheaded by Taiwan's Coast Guard discovered in the Taipei apartment of Canadian kindergarten teacher Forand Mathieu James a large stash of drugs - including 586 grams of cocaine, around 500 pills of ecstasy, and 505 grams of hash... Reports also said that James had been smuggling cocaine into Taiwan for more than two years, hiding the drugs in packages of hollowed out text books sent from Vancouver, Canada by express mail.It also looks like there has From
Language, teaching, and all things EFL on September 10, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..
Scribble Board
I've added this really cool script to my site. It's kind of like a guest book, but better. Basically you click a part of the page type a message and it's added. It looks just like a pad of paper with scribbles on it - hence the name scribble board. You can go to my scribble board and have fun. I'm sure there are some interesting applications for this with an online classroom regarding brainstorming and such but I haven't yet had any brain farts in that direction for my students. To download the script yourself visit Zabadab. From
Language, teaching, and all things EFL on September 10, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..
Short Term vs Long Term Marketing Efforts
In order to create consistent sales cycles and a positive growth trend businesses usually engage in both short and long term marketing efforts. Short-term marketing efforts tend to cause sudden sales spikes which rarely last. These sharp sales increases are usually the result of a targeted marketing campaign or time limited offer. While short-term marketing produces sales, long-term marketing efforts must be mixed in to sustain sales.
Short Term vs Long Term Marketing From
Software Marketing Articles and Marketing Tips on September 10, 2005 at 5:47 p.m..
Ego Searches
Ego searches are free and simple searches designed to monitor blogs and news portals for mentions of your company, product, competitors or other specific keywords. Conducting ego searches not only allows you to stay informed, but also allows you to maintain a strategic advantage over competing companies.
Software Marketing Articles and Marketing Tips on September 10, 2005 at 5:47 p.m..
SFASN launches weCARES project
The Saskatchewan Fetal Alcohol Support Network would like to share some information with you. Most of us know families who have been touched by fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. SFASN sent us a flyer that you can download here, announcing Parent Support Groups beginning this fall in Saskatoon and Regina, as well as the availability of [...] From
Rick's Café Canadien on September 10, 2005 at 5:47 p.m..
Technology - CNN vs. Higher Ed
Alan Levine posted a fascinating comparison of CNN and higher education, in how they gather, manage and handle information. This is well worth a look, and a serious challenge to higher education to draw on the strategies that are already commonplace in the mass media. I picked up the reference to it from [...] From
Rick's Café Canadien on September 10, 2005 at 5:47 p.m..
IT orientation sessions at the University of Saskatchewan
The Division of Media & Technology is once again offering Instructional Technology Orientation Sessions for any instructors that might be interested in exploring or reacquainting themselves with the various ways renewed multi media equipment installed in the following teaching space(s) can be used to enhance the delivery of course materials. These sessions are free of charge, open to any [...] From
Rick's Café Canadien on September 10, 2005 at 5:47 p.m..
TEL letters of intent
This is primarily aimed at instructors at the University of Saskatchewan: Deadline for TEL Letters of Intent: November 10, 2005. Campus Saskatchewan and the U of S TEL Office have issued their annual Request for Proposals (RFP) in Content Development, for the 2006-2007 funding year. The Gwenna Moss Teaching & Learning Centre invites you to attend a Letter of [...] From
Rick's Café Canadien on September 10, 2005 at 5:47 p.m..
Welcome back BBQ and a wee orientation
To new and returning ECMM students and faculty: We’d like to welcome our new and returning Educational Communications and Technology students to the new academic year! We’re all looking forward to a wonderful year and several important changes, including Dr. Brown’s appointment as Department Head of Curriculum studies, and having Dr. Dirk Morrison join us [...] From
Rick's Café Canadien on September 10, 2005 at 5:47 p.m..
NSERC application workshop
A representative from NSERC will be conducting an application workshop at the U of S and discussing the funding opportunites NSERC has to offer to students. She will be going through application procedures and will be happy to answer any questions you may have during the presentation If you are [...] From
Rick's Café Canadien on September 10, 2005 at 5:47 p.m..
AECT Research Symposium, June 22-25 2006
Voices of the Past - Visions of the Future: Learning and Instructional Technologies for the 21st Century This Symposium acknowledges the importance of technology, but, only as so far as it enables advanced learning designs, emerging paradigms and evolving learning interactions. The SymposiumTMs goal is to identify specific, research-based ideas, which rethink learning, reorganize schools, [...] From
Rick's Café Canadien on September 10, 2005 at 5:47 p.m..
Photos with Flash
A New York paper is running a story on Thao Nguyen's transformation " from quiet Web developer to feisty crimefighter". [thanks Matt for the pointer] Allegedly (and while I've every sympathy with her if it did happen, it looks like... From
Monkeymagic on September 10, 2005 at 5:47 p.m..
How to make social software useful
Great stuff from Tom Coates: "We believe that for a piece of Social Software to be useful: Every individual should derive value from their contributions Every contribution should provide value to their peers as well The site or organisation that... From
Monkeymagic on September 10, 2005 at 5:47 p.m..
Speakers
Quick checklist: - Are you a talker? - Are you a phoner? - Are you a letter-writer? - Are you an emailer? - Are you a blogger? And if yes to any of the above is it a badge you... From
Monkeymagic on September 10, 2005 at 5:47 p.m..
Brearley, Captaincy & What is important
Dusted off Mike Brearley's "The Art of Captaincy" this evening, in preparation for the gut-wrenching Ashes finale on Thursday. It's got loads of gems (perhaps only if you like cricket - I can't tell ), but these struck me as... From
Monkeymagic on September 10, 2005 at 5:47 p.m..
Knowing people in catastrophes
Valdis Krebs'"biggest take-away from this year's MeshForum conference was the FEMA person who was on a panel about connecting in catastrophes. She said something amazing, yet so basic. She talked about Table-Top meetings before any major event. 'We must KNOW... From
Monkeymagic on September 10, 2005 at 5:47 p.m..
links for 2005-09-08
ProjectsISSS : Primer (tags: systems methodology Banathy) Agoras project (tags: Banathy systems project)... From
Monkeymagic on September 10, 2005 at 5:47 p.m..
Kompetenzmanagement und Business Value Chain
Am Mittwoch stand Kompetenzmanagement auf meiner Agenda. Bureau42 und Fraunhofer hatten nach Sankt Augustin auf Schloss Birlinghoven eingeladen, um das Thema zu diskutieren. Kompetenzmanagement wird ja, wie ich finde zu Recht, mit der Hoffnung verbunden, hier finde sich der... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on September 10, 2005 at 11:46 a.m..
How Google Got Its Groove On - Ryan Singel, Wired
Journalist John Battelle's The Search is a surprisingly gripping story of hackers turning insights about information into a billion-dollar business and giant corporations shaping the web to their profit models. Battelle, a longtime tech journalist, becam From
Techno-News Blog on September 10, 2005 at 8:49 a.m..
Why Google hired Vint Cerf - Stefanie Olsen, CNET News
What will Internet visionary Vint Cerf do for Google? Whether he meant to or not, Cerf hinted at one area he was interested in six weeks before he joined the search giant, and it deals with a wireless device near you. In a broad-ranging interview with CN From
Techno-News Blog on September 10, 2005 at 8:49 a.m..
At Last...
16 10 When ESPN says that my alma mater's football program is one of the
worst in collegiate history, rest assured it's not hyperbole. In fact, I found it hysterically funny that in the story about Ohio U.'s mega-upset over Pitt last night, they told a truth I'd known since I went to school there way back in the From
weblogged News on September 10, 2005 at 8:47 a.m..
Analysing user behaviour: a case study
Chris Kutler and Ray Devaney have written a case study on analysing search logs, to understand how users are seeking information in a large repository. To quote: The initial analysis concentrated on determining the frequency of keywords per search. The... From
Column Two on September 10, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..
An introduction to user journeys
Jason Hobbs has written an article that introduces the concept of user journeys, which are applied when designing websites (or other applications). To quote: Designing a website's structure around customer needs creates trust--trust in the web as a valuable space... From
Column Two on September 10, 2005 at 4:45 a.m..
Read this now
Re: Katrina. Yes, yes, now it's all spin and counter-spin, local authority vs. state authority vs. federal authority, idiot Bush vs. previously sensible FEMA., blah blah blah. Cut through the crap
here, in the latest Harpers, via
Boing Boing: This is the disaster our society has been working to realize for a quarter century, ever since Ronald Reagan rode into town on promises of massive tax From
homoLudens III on September 9, 2005 at 11:46 p.m..