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News from BradSucks
BradSucks, the webbiest musician on the Web, has a whole bunch o' news, including that he's gearing up to perform live. Also, he's remixed his most excellent CD, I Don't Know What I'm Doing. And you can get the source of that album. All for free, although you can also pay him, which, if you like his music (as I do), I hope you will. [Tags: BradSucks music]... From Joho the Blog on September 20, 2005 at 9:48 p.m..

Examples of Web-Based Instructional Materials
I picked this up from Stephen Downes, and I’m including it in the café because I don’t want to lose the link. It is a site called Learning Peaks, and it includes a nice list of examples of web-based instructional materials. The author, John Patzman, indicates that he is constantly asked for good examples [...] From Rick's Café Canadien on September 20, 2005 at 8:54 p.m..

Oppositional
One of the reasons administrators will probably struggle for some time with the idea of blogging is that there is no end in sight to the oppositional role that blogs can play. It sounds obvious now that I've typed the sentence, but so be it. In this week's New York Review of Books there is a paragraph about a group of Belgian protestors who were alarmed by a new museum exhibit that seemed to soften the historical account of the brutality and exploitation in the Belgian Congo about a... From Weblogs in Higher Education on September 20, 2005 at 8:52 p.m..

0-100 alphabetized
0: eight 1: eighteen 2: eighty 3: eighty-eight 4: eighty-five 5: eighty-four 6: eighty-nine 7: eighty-one 8: eighty-seven 9: eighty-six 10: eighty-three 11: eighty-two 12: eleven 13: fifteen 14: fifty 15: fifty-eight 16: fifty-five 17: fifty-four 18: fifty-nine 19: fifty-one 20: fifty-seven 21: fifty-six 22: fifty-three 23: fifty-two 24: five 25: forty 26: forty-eight 27: forty-five 28: forty-four 29: forty-nine 30: forty-one 31: forty-seven 32: forty-six 33: forty-three 34: forty-two 35: four 36: fourteen 37: nine 38: nineteen 39: ninety 40: ninety-eight 41: ninety-five 42: ninety-four 43: ni From Joho the Blog on September 20, 2005 at 8:48 p.m..

Citizens' Media Gets Richer , Online Journalism Review
Citizens' media - that is, media created by citizens, rather than by professional journalists or media specialists - is moving beyond text-based blog posts to include increasingly sophisticated audio and visual content. This article looks at three online news publications that are "blazing new trails in user-generated content: Bluffton Today in South Carolina, NowPublic.com and New West in Missoula, Montana." Related: Will Richardson on From OLDaily on September 20, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

The Net Knows More Than You: An Open Letter to the People of CBS News , PressThink
Jay Rosen's open letter could apply as well to professors as to journalists (though the former may be harder to convince). He writes, "I've been listening to journalists say it for fifteen years: the public doesn't understand how we work, we have to explain ourselves more. Public Eye, if it works, is going to reveal when there are no good explanations - or none that make sense beyond newsroom culture. Transparency, you see, does not automatically increase trust. It could raise the curtain on an explanatory show that flops. It's not enough to be open. You also have to have s From OLDaily on September 20, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

IBM to Encourage Employees to be Teachers , USA Today
This is not entirely new, but the scale and the formalization make it worth noting. Concerned about declining levels of education in the United States, IBM has declared that it will start funding "employees who want to leave the company to become math and science teachers." Of course, this may also just be a creative way of reducing its American workforce - and making room for those Chinese and Indian students it says it is concerned about. If IBM were really concerned, it seems to me, it would keep the employees on the payroll and have them teach anyways. Of course, that's just me. [ From OLDaily on September 20, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

Permissions, Paperwork, and Other Sordid Details , Abject learning
Ubuweb is hurting artists, say the lawyers and businesspeople who want to shut the file-sharing site down. "One complaint read 'Kenneth Anger is penniless and living in a shack, yet you are making his films available for free and taking money away from him?' To which we reply: if the current system of avant-garde film distribution was working so well, why would the great artist Kenneth Anger be living in a shack and not a mansion? Is this really a system to hold on to?" meanwhile, Tech BC is no more, and Ubuweb has resurfaced with a fantastic array of (presumably legal) content. [ From OLDaily on September 20, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

Learning Space Design Interview with Bill Dittoe , EDUCAUSE Blogs
In the last couple months or so I have taken to tilting my chair back (still waiting for that couch, Rod), closing my eyes, and listening to podcasts for about an hour after lunch (which I work though, so I figure I'm due). This 20 minute interview with Bill Dittoe filled some of that space wonderfully as he wandered through the environmental factors that influence learning and applies them to the design of informal learning environments online. A great listen - but, let me say (to the interviewer): 'level-set' is not a verb. Oh, and for the other half hour today I listed to som From OLDaily on September 20, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

Examples of Instructional Materials on the Web ,
The author writes, "Many people know that I regularly search the Web for examples of good instructional materials. Because folks often ask me for a list of the good ones that I find, I've decided to keep a web page with these good instructional examples. Please note that every example isn't necessarily wonderful in all respects... but each shows good use of certain types of instructional strategies and interactions." useful list. But the use of the word 'folks' is to me like scratching fingernails on a blackboard. Via From OLDaily on September 20, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

Online Higher-Education Market to Exceed $6B in 2005 ,
The headline tells the story. According to the article, online learning has gained credibility and "will grow 38 percent over 2004, reaching revenues of more than $5 billion." And while for-profit institutions have lept ahead, the article predicts that non-profits will more more strongly into the sector in the coming years. Via Distance-educator.com. [ From OLDaily on September 20, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

Teachers Are Wary About Using IT in the Classroom , University of Bristol
This study is getting some circulation (though the press coverage basically echoes the press release). According to this study, "The ESRC study reveals that many teachers fear that computers would interfere with 'genuine' or book-based learning, particularly in the humanities and creative subjects and use ICT only for administration and routine tasks." In a sense, this is understandable - if a teacher's only use of a computer is in a classroom as a teaching tool, it's hard to learn what computers can do for you. [ From OLDaily on September 20, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

Ten Years of Search Terms
Lycos looks back at 10 years of the top 50 search terms and finds Pam Anderson top of mind for Internet searchers. From ClickZ Stats on September 20, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Jeneane on CEO blogs
Jeneane has an excellent article explaining why CEOs should blogs. She's talked with a whole lot of CEOs and their moral equivalents... [Tags: blogs JeneaneSessum]... From Joho the Blog on September 20, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..

Real piracy isn't so pretty
EthanZ reports on the not-so-amusing piracy that steals 850 tons of rice intended for tsunami victims. Talk like a pirate? Sure. Steal food like a pirate? Not so funny. [Tags: TalkLikeAPirate EthanZuckerman tsunami]... From Joho the Blog on September 20, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..

US teens support the erosion of freedom?
Joi blogs a BBC report on a study that shows that a substantial number of US teens think that freedom of speech goes too far. I'm less alarmed than the BBC article apparently thinks I should be. All my life I've been reading polls that show that Americans think the Bill of Rights goes too far. I assume that this is in part a trick of the way the questions are phrased and in part scarily true. So, the new study doesn't surprise me. The question is: What's the trend? [Tags: politics JoiIto bbc]... From Joho the Blog on September 20, 2005 at 3:49 p.m..

Berkman Tuesday: Pedro De Miguel Asensio
Pedro De Miguel Asensio from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid is talking about the European Union's rules on consumer protection and how they differ from the US's. When it comes to jurisdiction, the general rule seems to be that if a consumer sues a vendor, the suit occurs in the customer's country of domicile if the vendor's site is directed at that country. Otherwise, it happens in the vendor's country. E.g., if it's a Danish site, written in Danish with only Danish phone numbers, and someone in Spain buys a product from it and then sues, the suit will be.. From Joho the Blog on September 20, 2005 at 2:48 p.m..

Studying weblogs at Microsoft: ethnography?
Can my study of weblogs at Microsoft be qualified as an ethnography? I had an interesting conversation with Jonathan about it while I still was there and I was thinking about it since then. Today, watching post-PDC reactions and ripples of comments on Troubling Exits At Microsoft going through Microsoft weblogs I thought I should write about it... The starting points: The main data From Mathemagenic on September 20, 2005 at 1:52 p.m..

Design software news
Linked: a Firefox plugin for A List Apart. Reviewed (glowingly): an affordable and aesthetically pleasing website stats monitoring package by Shaun Inman, and a free and fresh type management tool by Linotype. From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on September 20, 2005 at 1:48 p.m..

ALA No. 203 + design software news
ALA debuts new print styles and celebrates with articles by Eric Meyer, who explains how he crafted ALA's new print CSS, and Aaron Gustafson, who teaches an old print CSS new tricks via a JavaScript add-on that'll have you loving your links. From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on September 20, 2005 at 1:48 p.m..

Opera vs. Firefox: Latest move to gain market share
Opera vs. Firefox: Latest move to gain market share. Citation below is from memeorandum, so you can follow the discussion link and see what other major weblogs are saying about this. I've got Opera running on one machine. My only complaint is that it doesn't do CSS well (or at all), otherwise the interface is great and the app is not bloatware -- very easy on the memory requirements. -- Bill opera.com:   Feel Free: Opera Eliminates Ad Banner and Licensing Fee. Bill Brandon: eLearning on September 20, 2005 at 12:47 p.m..

Cheat sheets on emerging learning practices and technologies
Cheat sheets on emerging learning practices and technologies. From Educause. These will be very handy for explaining some of the new terminology. 7 Things You Should Know About.... (via elearnspace) 7 Things You Should Know About... (via EdTeckUK) - covers blogs, wikis, podcasts, video logs, etc. Each .pdf is a 2-page overview of the technology, addressing questions such as "what From Bill Brandon: eLearning on September 20, 2005 at 12:47 p.m..

Blind men, elephants and the miscellaneous
The following way of explaining what I mean by the power of the miscellaneous emerged from a phone conversation with Lou Rosenfeld: It's like the blind men and the elephant, except you don't have to choose your favorite blind man any more. Does that work for you? [Tags: EverythingIsMiscellaneous]... From Joho the Blog on September 20, 2005 at 12:47 p.m..

Changing Education One Teacher at a Time
So there's been a lot of angst flying around the edbloggosphere of late regarding what in the heck it's going to take to get all of these changes we think we need to make kick started in our schools. Take for instance David Jakes, who responds "Wanna Bet?" to an eSchool News e-mail header that reads "Emerging technologies educators can't ignore." But how many teachers can even design an effective presentation in PowerPoint? How many take advantage of the professional development opportunities avai From weblogged News on September 20, 2005 at 12:45 p.m..

Another EdBlogging Video
Steve O'Hear sent me a link to this video on blogs that he recently presented on the UK teachers tv channel. (Hey, why don't we have one of those?) It documents the use of Weblogs by primary students at a number of schools, and it features some really great (and cute) kids with their foward looking teachers. The best part: the students tell the story and hit all the right notes (even the part about blogstipation.) And actually, the From weblogged News on September 20, 2005 at 12:45 p.m..

Digital History: A Guide (Online Book)
This book focuses on how to gather, preserve, and present historical resources on the web. The author's advice can also apply to other kinds of resource collections (scientific, educational, artistic, etc.). ____JH _____________ (Via The Resource Shelf)Source: Center for History and New Media at George Mason University Digital From EduResources--Higher Education Resources Online on September 20, 2005 at 12:45 p.m..

Web Mining and Visualization (InfoVis 9/2005)
This issue of InfoVis discusses the use of visualization in web mining. Most examples are taken from commercial web sites, but it's clear that web mining tools could be valuably applied to course and learning object repositories to gain a better view about how users access and explore, and about how to improve the web structures of repositories: "... it's crucial to know the real structure of the web, its contents and the usage the customers make of it." ___JH ______ "Web mining can be defined as the integration of the information gat From EduResources--Higher Education Resources Online on September 20, 2005 at 12:45 p.m..

Sandra Feldman, Scrappy and Outspoken Labor Leader for Teachers, Dies at 65
Sandra Feldman, the blunt-spoken former president of the American Federation of Teachers and its local in New York, was a deft and intimidating labor powerhouse. From New York Times: Education on September 20, 2005 at 9:45 a.m..

Many Women at Elite Colleges Set Career Path to Motherhood
Women are being groomed to take their place in an ever more diverse professional elite. But many of these women say that is not what they want. From New York Times: Education on September 20, 2005 at 9:45 a.m..

Psst: Want to Know My Net Worth? - ELIZABETH HARRIS, New York Times
April was a stellar month for Jim Wang, 25, a software engineer who has kept a scrupulous record of his struggle to save for a down payment on his first home. Mr. Wang, who lives in Columbia, Md., pared down his spending on groceries to just $53.98 for t From Techno-News Blog on September 20, 2005 at 7:49 a.m..

Talking in the Dark - CLIVE THOMPSON, New York Times
When was the last time you heard a "busy tone" on a telephone? Probably not for years. Our phone system is so robust, our mobile phones are so ubiquitous and voice mail and e-mail are such reliable backups that instant, unhindered access to friends, colle From Techno-News Blog on September 20, 2005 at 7:49 a.m..

NSF announces program to create a new Internet - Aliya Sternstein, Federal Computer Week
National Science Foundation officials have announced a research program devoted to constructing a new Internet. The Global Environment for Networking Investigations (GENI) is the culmination of several years of NSF-funded workshops, grants and meetings fo From Techno-News Blog on September 20, 2005 at 7:49 a.m..

Lunch RSS
(via Scripting News) Enough of this work stuff, already. I need to do some posting. Like the Allegheny College Dining Services RSS feed, for instance. They get it. I just absolutley, must, have to start getting some parents at this school up to speed on RSS feeds, 'cause once the demand is there...lunch menus, sports schedules, homework, student content. It'll be a feeding frenzy, if you know what I mean. From weblogged News on September 20, 2005 at 7:47 a.m..

Fundamentos teóricos de la educación a distancia aplicados a la investigación
Es posible aplicar los principios del e-learning a la investigación online? Creemos que sí, que el trayecto experimentado en la educación a distancia puede trasladarse en la red para dar un paso más:... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on September 20, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

3ª edición del Master E-Learning TIC para la educación y la formación 2005-2006
El Departamento de E-Learning del Cesga colabora con el Instituto de Ciencias de la Educación de la la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela en la 3ª edición del Master E-Learning TIC para la educació... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on September 20, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Papel de las plataformas de e-learning en el reto de la convergencia europea
El proyecto Aulario Virtual de la Universidad Pública de Navarra y la experiencia de la convergencia con el Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior utiliz... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on September 20, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Schools Chief Urges Teacher Pay Changes
Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein said that the creation of signing bonuses, pay differentials and merit raises would be a top priority in a second term of the Bloomberg administration. From New York Times: Education on September 20, 2005 at 3:45 a.m..

Students Receive Fewer A's, and Princeton Calls It Progress
Princeton University significantly reduced the number of A's it gave out last year, according to a report released by the university, but it still wants to do more. From New York Times: Education on September 20, 2005 at 3:45 a.m..

Audit Details School Waste in Hempstead
A new state audit blames officials of the dysfunctional Hempstead school district on Long Island for "uncontrolled, inappropriate and wasteful spending." From New York Times: Education on September 20, 2005 at 3:45 a.m..

A Dry Place to Study
From Maine to Hawaii, Costa Rica to Israel, colleges and universities have invited Katrina's evacuees to enroll, many waiving tuition for those who had already paid. From New York Times: Education on September 20, 2005 at 3:45 a.m..

The BBC’s low-tech KM
David Weinberger writes on BBC's low-tech KM efforts using bulletin boards, people finder, blogs and wikis. From elearningpost on September 20, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..

New issue of JOHO ... Now with excerpts!
I've just published a new issue of my newsletter, JOHO. This is the first one since I began blogging that doesn't have some previously blogged material in it. Plus, I put in some very short excerpts from the book I'm working on. Relativism and the Net: Moral and cultural relativism used to be a lot easier. The communications revolution of the past century has thrown into our face the fact that people have very different ways of understanding the world and different sets of values. We know this because magazines show us pictures of them, and on TV they're busy... From Joho the Blog on September 20, 2005 at 12:48 a.m..

If you are an entrepreneur, you should be writing a weblog
If you are an entrepreneur, you should be writing a weblog. Incidentally, this is an example of how Memeorandum makes it easier to follow conversations across weblogs. Global PR Blog Week 2.0:   Adding Your Voice to the Conversation. Why CEOs Should Blog. Adding Your Voice to the Conversation.  Why CEOs Should Blog    By Jeneane D. Sessum, The Content Factor |  Just how taxing is it From Bill Brandon: eLearning on September 19, 2005 at 11:45 p.m..

You have your weblog set up and you have an RSS feed. Now what?
You have your weblog set up and you have an RSS feed. Now what? Taking the Easier Route to Generating RSS Subscribers. RSS is certainly still far from being user-friendly, which is especially evident once you try and left-click on an RSS subscribe button. If you dont want to waste potential subscribers, what other alternatives do you have? And what are the best ways of generating RSS feed subscribers? Bill Brandon: eLearning on September 19, 2005 at 11:45 p.m..

Direct marketing and RSS
Direct marketing and RSS. How Direct Marketing Needs to Change for the Marketing Future. With marketing slowly transforming from a clear push to a semi-pull model, one has to wonder how direct marketing will need to evolve to survive on the long-term. In this article, we take a look at some of the possibilities, especially in relation to RSS. Bill Brandon: eLearning on September 19, 2005 at 11:45 p.m..