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Can Public Universities Stay Public? ,
I have long maintained that the university crisis will occur as if overnight, after building up over a period of a number of years, a crisis created as legislators decline to fund an increasingly expensive and inefficient system of learning. This article notes one more element in the build-up - the overnight crisis isn't here yet, but it is getting closer. As I have said before, the crisis will suddenly 'appear' when universities lose their exclusive hold on credentials - something bound to happen as alternatives appear on the scene. Related: this item, in which a study reports From
OLDaily on September 14, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..
Sustaining the Skill Base of Technical and Further Education Institutes: TAFE Managers' Perspectives , NCVER
From the summary: "This report examines the approaches managers and leaders in 16 TAFE institutes have undertaken to sustain, develop and renew their workforce and build their organisation's knowledge. It finds that TAFE managers now recognise that maintaining and developing their organisation'sskill base is imperative, but that finding approaches to sustain TAFE in the longer term requires more attention." Maybe they'll make their staff sign up for thirteen week courses. ;) Actually, the reality is worse: "One simple option was the recruitment of teachers with recent industry From
OLDaily on September 14, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..
SCORM 2004 Enhancement for Moodle , Jarche Consulting
This is worth noting independently of the lesson on open source development offered by Harold Jarche. With this extension, developers now have access to a free tool that makes SCORM-compliant learning resources. [ From
OLDaily on September 14, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..
Managing the Tyranny of Choice
Summary of this presentation by Lynette Gillis, president of Learning Designs Online, at the Transitions in Advanced Learning Conference in Ottawa. Gillis defines 'blended learning' and then offers a metric that enables designers to obtain the best possible mix of learning technologies. [ From
OLDaily on September 14, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..
Learning Trends and the Learning Imperative
Summary of this presentation by Elliott Masie, president of the Masie Center, at the Transitions in Advanced Learning Conference in Ottawa. To be involved in learning today, argues Masie, is to be involved in the process of change. And this requires a different and powerful view of learning - extreme learning. This talk describes six dimensions or components of extreme learning. [ From
OLDaily on September 14, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..
Campus Saskatchewan ID Conference
Mary Dykes sends us this reminder of the upcoming Campus Saskatchewan Instructional Design Conference 2005. This is an excellent conference, and a great opportunity to interact with other instructional designers from around the province. It has the “Café Canadien good housekeeping seal of approval!” Rethinking Learning, Collaboration for Change http://scratchpost.cc.uregina.ca/~rob/id2005/index.html There’s still time to submit a proposal [...] From
Rick's Café Canadien on September 14, 2005 at 9:53 p.m..
links for 2005-09-14
Flock "Flock advertises itself as a "social browser," meaning that the application plays nicely with popular web services like Flickr, Technorati and del.icio.us. Flock also features widely compliant WYSIWYG, drag-and-drop blogging tools. The browser even promi (tags: social_software browser)... From
Monkeymagic on September 14, 2005 at 8:46 p.m..
Google searches blogs
Google's blog search engine (Goognorati?) is available in beta. There will be lots of questions that others will answer — how comprehensive? Is it paying special attention to tags? Will Google lower the google juice on blogs when searching its main index? — but one thing's for sure: It's a snappy performer. [Tags: google technorati blogs]... From
Joho the Blog on September 14, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..
Web 2.0 for Designers
Web 2.0 for Designers. What is this "Web 2.0" business we keep seeing referenced lately?
This article introduces the concept and is vital reading for developers and managers as well as for designers. "Enter Web 2.0, a vision of the Web in which information is broken up into “microcontent” units that can be distributed over dozens of domains. The Web of documents has morphed into a Web of data. We are no longer just looking to the same old sources for information. Now w From
Bill Brandon: eLearning on September 14, 2005 at 2:48 p.m..
Why eBooks still suck
From Brian Buydens comes this gloomy prediction about the future of eBooks posted at Tom’s Hardware Guide. As an avid consumer of audiobooks of all sorts, I found this fascinating. For example, I’ll be the first in line for the CD or iTunes release of the latest Harry Potter book, primaily because [...] From
Rick's Café Canadien on September 14, 2005 at 1:53 p.m..
Huskies Football Tickets Contest
From the U of S Alumni Office: Huskies Football Tickets Contest — A Winning Combination for U of S Alumni The University of Saskatchewan Alumni Association and University Advancement would like to send you and a friend to cheer on the Huskies football team. Enter to win two free tickets to each home game and lunch at [...] From
Rick's Café Canadien on September 14, 2005 at 1:53 p.m..
Celebrating our Successes
Celebrating our Successes Alumni Awards Presentation & Gala Dinner Thursday, October 13, 2005 Saskatoon Centennial Auditorium Champagne Reception - 5:30 p.m. Dinner and formal program - 6:30 p.m. Ticket price: $50.00 per person or $360.00 for a table of 8. For more information and to purchase tickets, contact the University Advancement office by calling 966-5186 or email: alumni.office@usask.ca From
Rick's Café Canadien on September 14, 2005 at 1:53 p.m..
Never stopping learning
This man is rapidly becoming my idol.Kenya's oldest school pupil, 85-year-old Kimani Nganga Maruge, has boarded a plane for the first time in his life - to visit the United States. He is going to address a United Nations Millennium... From
Monkeymagic on September 14, 2005 at 1:53 p.m..
Untitled
The New Architecture of Production. Newer tools are placing an incredible amount of control in the hands of the end user - a consumer of media may be a "re-producer" as well. This notion has useful implications in education. Learners are teachers. Learners are content creators (compared with the previous opinion that learners were only content consumers).
This simple diagram details the nature of the remix culture, with participants From
Bill Brandon: eLearning on September 14, 2005 at 1:48 p.m..
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SearchFox - Personalized RSS Reader. Company:
Search Fox SearchFox is in private beta testing of a potentially disruptive RSS reader. It’s the first product I’ve seen that does a good job of prioritizing new content from feeds based on your historical reading behavior, as well as data gathered from the SearchFox community as a whole. This is a very big p From
Bill Brandon: eLearning on September 14, 2005 at 1:48 p.m..
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Lightening Your Gadget Load. By
Patrick Rhone We tech nerds like to think we are prepared for every possible contingency that could come up during the course of our day. So much so that my computer bag is less of a superhero utility belt and more of a ball of kryptonite that I swing around my neck. In my continued efforts to carry less with me I have come up with
some thoughts on how to attack this bane of our daily journeys From
Bill Brandon: eLearning on September 14, 2005 at 1:48 p.m..
Hossein Eslamabolchi on the future of the network
Dr. Hossein Eslambolchi, AT&T's CTO, CIO and Fellow, and President of Global Networking Technology Servifces, is giving a talk at Harvard. Later, he'll talk informally at the Berkman Center. Some notes: State of the telecom industry: Coming out of a period of: Overcapacity, fraud, regulatory uncertainty, pricing pressure, brankruptices, competitive technologies. In late 2001, AT&T faced a "perfect storm" or "nuclear winter." Top Ten Technology Trends 10. Ethernet everywhere. Home LANs proliferate. Bandwidth is the killer app. Just about everything will have Ethernet connectivit From
Joho the Blog on September 14, 2005 at 1:48 p.m..
[Berkman] Glorianna Davenport
The Berkman Tuesday lunchtime speaker was Glorianna Davenport from the MIT Media Lab. She wants to get more video and images on the Web. "I love to have a camera in my hands," she says. In 1986, she put 6 hours of video about New Orleans on disk. 250 scenes. 50 major characters. This required creating a random access editing system as well as thinking through hypertext issues. Now she's been making a diary of her family for the past twelve years. And she's trying to find ways to annotate video (she thinks of video, etc., as "collections" that tend... From
Joho the Blog on September 14, 2005 at 12:48 p.m..
CS site up
I seems I am making a slow move to Plone. I just replaced a static Manila-driven homepage of me with
a Plone site. After working on a Plone skin for a client doing designs for Plone has become less of an obstacle. The main problem with redesigning Plone ist lack of time: there are many details to touch when doing a "real" new Plone skin. So it currently is running the default skin. It's kind of ugly but still works better than what most people run as homepage in the computer science department (BTW Tom Lazar seems to do
owrede_log on September 14, 2005 at 12:46 p.m..
The Power of Conversation
Paul Hartzog
following up on a statement made by Dr. Tom Malloy of the University of Utah -- “I don’t read anymore; I just talk to people who have.” "When two people have a conversation, they act as proxies for the many ideas in their heads which are drawn from the many things they have read. In effect, a conversation is a many-to-many interaction that is both mediated and moderated by the participants. The individuals catalog, sort, tag, and filter ideas as they a From
elearningpost on September 14, 2005 at 12:46 p.m..
Google Blog Search
Está disponible en fase beta el buscador especializado en weblogs de Google: Google Blog Search. Permite búsquedas avanzadas y genera fuentes RSS y Atom de los resultados. No-se-lo-pierdan. VÃa: Reflexiones e irreflexiones.... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on September 14, 2005 at 11:50 a.m..
9 out of 10 Features undiscovered in MS Office
According to
this article at heise.de Microsoft learned from a study that 90% of the features users would think as being "nice to have" in a future release are already included in the current application - but just haven't found by them yet. There couldn't be no better proof for the fact that »functionality« is not an aspect connected to the software itself but rather an aspect of usage context. Microsoft is said to completely rework the user interface of MS Office. From
owrede_log on September 14, 2005 at 11:45 a.m..
Social Computing and the Organisation day
Thought I'd give a quick plug to a Seminar on Social Computing & The Organisation that I'm organising in Oxford on October 7th. Feel free to come if you're interested (or let me know what sort of things might be... From
Monkeymagic on September 14, 2005 at 9:55 a.m..
Nice spot by Will Davies which I've only just picked up. A team at Lancaster University looked at better ways for us to organise and retrieve information for shared use, and to do that the researchers investigated how couples catalogue... From
Monkeymagic on September 14, 2005 at 9:55 a.m..
Blogging as a coffee table dialogue
Ages ago I wrote a post
explaining why I blog that between other things said:I also blog to keep a feeling of "coffee-table dialog" with my far-away colleagues: "You know, I've just read this article and was triggered with these ideas. What do you think?" That time I didn't know that it works with near-by colleagues as well :) When my colleagues
started Mathemagenic on September 14, 2005 at 9:53 a.m..
My boyfriend or why I don't make things instantly visible
It's so funny that I couldn't avoid blogging about it -
Ton tells me on Skype that he saw in his referrer logs someone searching for
"lilia efimova" boyfriend. I checked mine and it's there as well... I guess none of the pages in this search actually answers the questions that the person who searched for it could have :) Which brings me to the interesting bunch of questions about pr From
Mathemagenic on September 14, 2005 at 9:53 a.m..
Rasiej gets creamed - but added sugar to politics
Andrew Rasiej got 5% of the vote in his campaign to be NYC's Public Advocate. The incumbent, with the power of the incumbency and the NY Times' endorsement, got 48%. Too bad. Andrew would have been good for NYC, would have invigorated the office, and would have been good for the Net. Here's part of Andrew's concession/victory speech: I don't consider this to be anything other than a victory speech...We changed the whole notion of what the Public Advocate's office could be...It doesn't matter what the percentages are, we created a real debate about what the Pu From
Joho the Blog on September 14, 2005 at 9:49 a.m..
Teaching Ourselves Right Out of a Job
We had an interesting conversation at dinner last night revolving around the changes that are occurring in classrooms these days. Since we're in the middle of our Tablet PC pilot at our school right now, I know this is especially acute as I've seen some pretty remarkable things this first week with teachers and students. But last night we were talking about the access to information that many (but not all) students and teachers have via the Web. And we were talking about how few educators had made the Internet a significant part of their practice. If we're entering a world where From
weblogged News on September 14, 2005 at 9:48 a.m..
A facility for language?
Something has happened to my language skills and by something I mean they've begun a precipitous decline. Occasionally I use a similar, but incorrect, word when speaking, e.g once I used "disposed" instead of "deposed" to refer to a Latin American leader, an error which, at the time, I attributed to the fact that I lived in Mexico and rarely spoke English. But now this mixing-up seems to be worsening! And fast! Yesterday while walking with a friend and discussing some serious blisters on my baby toe, I joked that it would fall off and I'd "regurgitate" a new one. Today wh From
megnut on September 14, 2005 at 9:45 a.m..
Gates on Google - Mike Ricciuti, CNET News
Would you buy Windows Vista? For Bill Gates and Microsoft, that's the big question. This week at the software giant's Professional Developers Conference, Gates rallied the troops--software developers, Microsoft's most important audience--to build enthusi From
Techno-News Blog on September 14, 2005 at 8:48 a.m..
Search engines get in on Katrina relief - InfoWorld Weblog
Google, Lycos, and Yahoo in separate efforts are putting their search technology to use to help survivors of hurricane Katrina find people and information through the Web. Google last night announced via its blog two new search tools for Katrina relief. T From
Techno-News Blog on September 14, 2005 at 8:48 a.m..
One Stop Non Stop
So how's this for karma: we're flying to Houston to get a connection to Austin for our Dell visit which starts today and after making a 360 around a big, black cloud, the pilot comes on and says "Ladies and gentleman, the bad news is that Houston is under a weather alert and we're being asked to circle around up here for about an hour. The worst news is we don't have enough fuel to do that, so we're diverting to...Austin!" Bumps all around. From
weblogged News on September 14, 2005 at 8:47 a.m..
NextD dive-in
I am busy doing things that a can't learn anything from right now (which is always kind of hard work!). But I am trying to catch up with what is going on at the
NextD initiative (I wrote about
that before). NextD is currently a spot where designers are thinking about »design thinking«. An example quote
from Dan Saffer: Designing isn't about choosing between multi From
owrede_log on September 14, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..
Scapegoat 1.0 Pro
I am reading
John Maeda's Simplicity-Weblog from time to time - especially because I offered a seminar about this topic a while ago. Most of the posts of John are typical day-in-day out observations of a designer sensible for the details: sometimes I feel he can make an article out of anything (which tends to be a boring read of interesting thoughts from time to time). But his
post about a MIT meeting about a proposal for developing a super-new-conflict- From
owrede_log on September 14, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..
Young People With Old Ears
If you're one of those people who spends all day listening to music with headphones firmly in place, you may be screwing up your hearing. From
Wired News on September 14, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..
Google Can Keep Ex-Microsoft Exec
A judge gives Google the green light to hire a former Microsoft employee to head up its Chinese research office -- as long as the exec doesn't use confidential information gleaned while working for the Redmond, Washington, behemoth. From
Wired News on September 14, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..
Current TV: Fast but Treacherous
The new Al Gore channel tries to hook GenNext with short, rapid segments and a slick vibe. The only thing missing is substance. Niall McKay plugs into some Current TV. From
Wired News on September 14, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..
Evil Dead Summons Horrific Fun
Fans of the cult-classic films -- or anyone who thinks they might enjoy kicking an undead midget -- should check out the hilarious, manic gameplay of Evil Dead: Regeneration. By Chris Kohler. From
Wired News on September 14, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..
Pop Time Capsule Returns to Earth
A space probe packed with late-'90s pop-culture references, including what might be the first interplanetary porn spam, heads for home. By Simon Burns. From
Wired News on September 14, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..
Open Internet, We Hardly Knew Ye
The online response to Hurricane Katrina demonstrates the power of a fast and flexible web. So why are judges and lawmakers strangling the internet in red tape? Commentary by Jennifer Granick. From
Wired News on September 14, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..
Killer Buzz Flocks to New Browser
The online world waits anxiously as Firefox vets prepare to launch a browser that will hook into popular web services automatically. Bloggers around the web rejoice. By Jeff MacIntyre. From
Wired News on September 14, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..
A Three-tiered Approach to Leadership Training
Die Kombination von Führungskräftetraining und e-Learning ist immer noch ein seltenes Thema. Was sicher auch damit zusammenhängt, dass man Führungskräfte nur umgern in das formale Korsett eines zweistündigen Online-Lernprogramms einspannen möchte (bei "Mitarbeitern" ist man da häufig weniger sensibel).... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on September 14, 2005 at 3:48 a.m..
Linking to the site
I had a quick lesson in class today on the difference between linking to a site and linking to a post on a site. I had already mentioned this in class a week before, but the early blog entries by classmates suggested that a few people, at least, could use a reminder. Like many writing teachers, I try to take the examples from the class's own writing, when I can, so I copied the opening few lines of the student's post, first as it was written -- with a link to a site -- and again with the... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on September 14, 2005 at 1:47 a.m..
Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference
SITE 2006 Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference http://site.aace.org/conf/ March 20-24, 2006 * Orlando, Florida (Doubletree Hotel at the Entrance to Universal Orlando) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ** Submissions Due: Oct. 18, 2005 ** Organized by the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) http://site.aace.org/ and Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education [...] From
Rick's Café Canadien on September 13, 2005 at 11:46 p.m..