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Career SOS
Maybe you're not happy with your present employment; or you've discovered that your employment options are limited without further training or education; or that or that you're about to be downsized. Consider getting a career counsellor to help you set... From Adult/Continuing Education on September 24, 2005 at 6:47 p.m..

LibraryThing
Timothy Spalding has put together this really interesting site, called LibraryThing, that lets you list your books, tag them, and share the list with others. You can search by bibliographic info, user or tags. And Tim does some useful listing of the top 25 books by author, tags, etc. One of the cool things: You enter a book into your list by typing in sloppy information. For example, if you want to enter The Social Construction of What? by Ian Hacking, you can type in "social construction hacking" and LibraryThing will search the Library of Congress and Amazon. Sure enough,... From Joho the Blog on September 24, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Using the whole toolkit
I ran across a music theory course taught at Oakland University that uses web pages, blog, wiki, Web CT discussion forum, podcasts , and more --... From Weblogs in Higher Education on September 24, 2005 at 4:52 p.m..

Spoken Internet To Go: Popularization through Podcasting ,
The author summarizes, "Specific examples are presented: the BlogMatrix podcast hosting site, the podcasting blog 'Japancasting,' and the 'Spoken Libraries' project of the World Association for Online Education. There is also the little-known story that the first school in the world to give iPods to all students was not Duke University but rather Osaka Jogakuin College in Japan, where podcasting is therefore particularly made to order." Good article, informative, and useful to those looking more closely at the use of audio in learning. [ From OLDaily on September 24, 2005 at 4:45 p.m..

E-Learning Standards Survey , Learning Circuits
Results of a survey on the importance of standards completed by 248 self-selected Learning Circuits readers (therefore, expect a substantial skew, especially with respondants from academic institutions representing only 6.5 percent of the total). Most of the readers felt that standards were important, most use standards in some way, and most feel they are getting value out of standards (sadly, the survey doesn't ask them to specify this value, which would have been the most interesting bit). The survey does not specify how many respondants are involved in the sale of products or services From OLDaily on September 24, 2005 at 4:45 p.m..

Thinking About Learning as a Bonusable Objective , Learning Circuits
Seriously, how can you expect readers to take us seriously when you use a work like 'bonusable' in a headline? Moreover, if you "ask learners to document and report visible signs of learning results that can be used to measure progress" and then reward them based on the results of that self-reporting, what do you think the result will be? [ From OLDaily on September 24, 2005 at 4:45 p.m..

Exploring the Potential for Unintended Consequences in Online Learning , International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning
Though we inevitable predict the future, predictions are tricky business, especially regarding major impacts (such as the introduction of the internet) and distance events. This is because variables are not independent; there is feedback, chaos, and the inevitable unintended consequences. The author skecthes a model or framework for understanding the nature of unintended consequences in prediction, and then maps out scenarios in which these can be expected in e-learning. What is the impact on reading? How will emotion and social presence factor into learning? Does self-control become an issue? From OLDaily on September 24, 2005 at 4:45 p.m..

Open and Distance Education through Wireless Mobile Internet: A Learning Model , International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning
I like this article because instead of simply referring to 'mobile computing' it digs into the nature and functionality of wireless technologies and digital cellular service; you will learn, for example, what the difference is between a third-generation cellular radio transmission technology (3G) and a wireless application protocol (WAP) and how they work together. The point of all this is to develop a WMI Learning Model, that is, a learning model designed specifically for the Wireless Mobile Internet (WMI). This part of the paper is unfortunately brief, but the background makes the From OLDaily on September 24, 2005 at 4:45 p.m..

Brain-Based Learning: Brain-Based Learning: Possible Implications for Online Instruction , International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning
There is a certain audacity inherent in giving a subsection of your paper a title like 'The Brain: A Synopsis'. Nonetheless, we live in heady times, and this article, from the September issue of From OLDaily on September 24, 2005 at 4:45 p.m..

Onward, Wiki Soldiers: Let's Liberate Composition , Kairosnews
I don't really like the title (people seem unaware of how much military metaphors have permeated culture) but rest of it reaches me in all the right ways. The author explains, "It begun when I read From OLDaily on September 24, 2005 at 4:45 p.m..

E-Learning 2.0 In Brief , Stephen's Web
So anyhow, I played my first game of golf in 16 years yesterday, a community social afternoon that stretched into a social evening and delayed today's newsletter 24 hours. Meanwhile, at the crack of dawn this morning I was awake and preparing for an online talk with a group put together by Teemu Arina in Finland. What was significant was not the content of the talk (which was a brief version of a talk I gave in Ottawa last week) but how we did it. For the audio, Teemu gave me a call on Skype, which he hooked into some speakers. We then set up a chat window for all the participants using a From OLDaily on September 24, 2005 at 4:45 p.m..

Study.log
I had a brief look at study.log. It is a personal information manager (developed with Macromedia Director). While it is generally a very interesting concept. But the implementation has issues: there are show stopper bugs, it is very slow you can't drag & drop objects from the OS layer into the application. Director possibly is not the right way to develop this kind of application. Thinking about extending the standard GUI with missing functionality seems to me a much more promising approach to achieve the goals defined within study.log. And t From owrede_log on September 24, 2005 at 3:47 p.m..

Showing students the group blog
I showed a group of students the partially-functioning blog site they'll be using for a group blog this semester. We're not open for business yet, but we're aiming for a real outside of class audience, and it seems like people are starting to get into the idea of it. We picked a template set the other day together by quickly reviewing a couple of dozen choices together, and they can see some dummy content loaded into that template now. In class today they established a set of... From Weblogs in Higher Education on September 24, 2005 at 2:52 p.m..

The Greensboro blogging conference
I see that the panel list for ConvergeSouth, the October 7-8 blogging conference in Greensboro, would make a strong table of contents for a very fine book on the current state of (primarily non-educational) blogging: How to blog for... From Weblogs in Higher Education on September 24, 2005 at 1:52 p.m..

TiddlyWiki?
I came across the TiddlyWiki tool. It is some kind of interactive Wiki opening pages with animation once you clicked a link. It is basically just a very clever JavaScript enhanced HTML-page containing the whole Wiki. You save the page (after allowing the script to do so), upload it to a server and you're done. The JavaScript is huge. But it feels als simple as the whole Wiki principle itself. The problem with TiddlyWiki: things may appear at unexpected places. I also don't think that the principle to open new items on top of the column. I From owrede_log on September 24, 2005 at 1:47 p.m..

A candidate's web site
I recently spoke with someone who might run for a high public office. I asked whether there were any lessons from the Dean campaign about web strategy that would apply to his campaign. He said that it was clear that a campaign would need to have a sophisticated web site that could receive contributions, but that only something as big as a presidential campaign could draw the kind of reader participation that we saw with Dean. I gather, then, that this candidate believes that the web... From Weblogs in Higher Education on September 24, 2005 at 12:50 p.m..

Flyr: Flickr + Google Maps...
Flyr is a web tool that combines a Flickr search tool with a Google Maps interface. Search results can be displayed as an overlay in Google Earth, plotted onto a Google Maps, or returned as a set of thumbnails images. From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on September 24, 2005 at 11:48 a.m..

Our Internet
When it's not too dorky or disruptive, I like to use the phrase "our Internet" instead of "the Internet," because I think it makes the right political point. Unfortunately, it's almost always dorky and disruptive.... From Joho the Blog on September 24, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

Book help request: Stupid labels
For Everything is Miscellaneous, I'm looking for examples of dumb labels. For example, fire starter logs warn us that the contents are flammable. Any others? Thanks in advance... [Tags: EverythingIsMiscellaneous]... From Joho the Blog on September 24, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

XFree86 License Change ()
The XFree86 project is changing its license, slightly, for the upcoming 4.4.0 release. The purpose of these changes is to strengthen the "except claim you wrote it" clause of the Project's licensing philosophy regarding binary distributions of XFree86. While the... From Corante: Open Source on September 24, 2005 at 6:48 a.m..

UN Report Says FOSS is Better ()
Groklaw takes a look at the U.N.'s E-Commerce and Development Report 2003: UN Report Says FOSS is Better. Pretty much hits the points that I've been hitting here and elsewhere for years now: There are a lot of upsides to... From Corante: Open Source on September 24, 2005 at 6:48 a.m..

KDE 3.2 released ()
The long and eagerly-awaited (at least by some) KDE 3.2 has been released. I previewed the 3.2 release for LWN (subscription required until Thursday), and I'm really impressed with the improvements in 3.2. For those who are interested in trying... From Corante: Open Source on September 24, 2005 at 6:48 a.m..

What a brilliant strategy... ()
I hope that Microsoft customers take note of the gyrations Microsoft is going through to maintain their price structure. The message is clear, "we could sell the software more cheaply, but we'd rather prop up the price by shaving features." The only "innovation" here seems to be coming from Microsoft's bean-counters, rather than from Microsoft's software developers. From Corante: Open Source on September 24, 2005 at 6:48 a.m..

Sodipodi 0.34 released ()
Just grabbed the latest release of Sodipodi, an open source vector-based drawing application similar to Corel Draw or Adobe Illustrator. Despite the low version number, Sodipodi seems very usable and is pretty full-featured. Check out the gallery for examples of... From Corante: Open Source on September 24, 2005 at 6:48 a.m..

Groklaw's Jones Looks Beyond SCO ()
Wired has an interview with Pamela Jones, the creator of Groklaw. Groklaw is a great resource for anyone interested in following the SCO shenanigans  and has done a fine job debunking SCO's public comments about their alleged ownership of... From Corante: Open Source on September 24, 2005 at 6:48 a.m..

NASA's Open Source License ()
The more the merrier, I suppose... NASA is apparently getting ready to release some software under their own open source license. It would seem that NASA couldn't use any of the existing licenses because they didn't meet NASA's requirements. For... From Corante: Open Source on September 24, 2005 at 6:48 a.m..

Microsoft's code leakage ()
The news that some of Microsoft's Windows NT and Windows 2000 codebase has been "leaked" onto the 'Net is getting widespread coverage. Now some pundits are asking whether the leak is going to compromise the already questionable security of those... From Corante: Open Source on September 24, 2005 at 6:48 a.m..

Six percent by 2007 ()
According to this article from BusinessWeek, IDC is predicting that Linux will have 6 percent of the desktop market by 2007. Right now, IDC pegs Linux desktop usage at 3.2 percent in 2003. That puts Linux ahead of Apple desktops... From Corante: Open Source on September 24, 2005 at 6:48 a.m..

Making the wrong connection ()
Caught a link to this misguided piece in The Globe and Mail titled, "Why some people want MyDoom and your doom." Author Ken Wiwa tries to draw a connection between Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and the authors of the... From Corante: Open Source on September 24, 2005 at 6:48 a.m..

You get what you pay for? ()
I couldn't resist posting a link to this piece about Microsoft's "Software Assurance" program. Organizations that bought into Microsoft's new licensing scheme, are finding that they're getting very little for their money: Scott Matthews, CTO for Digitech Systems in Greenwood... From Corante: Open Source on September 24, 2005 at 6:48 a.m..

Copyfight re-launches ()
When you have a few spare cycles, be sure to click over to the newly "remixed" Copyfight, which is now a group blog. Plenty of good stuff over there.... From Corante: Open Source on September 24, 2005 at 6:48 a.m..

Be sure to wipe ()
This isn't open source specific, but it certainly is of interest to anyone who may sell their old computer or hard drive. Simson Garfinkel writes that most people don't do a very good job of erasing data off of hard... From Corante: Open Source on September 24, 2005 at 6:48 a.m..

Nailed it ()
Just reading an entry over at Groklaw on Senator Patty Murry asking Bush to "engage" the EU, and found a little nugget that pretty well sums up my objections to proprietary software  and why I prefer open source: In... From Corante: Open Source on September 24, 2005 at 6:48 a.m..

GOP Sloganator
I'm just going to cop to stealing this straight from boingboing.net without appologies: The sloganator was a GOP-provided webtool that would generate custom Bush-Cheney posters. Pranksters used it to generate their own ironic slogans, until it was shut down. This... From Corante: Amateur Hour on September 24, 2005 at 6:48 a.m..

The Irony of Intellectual Property
Microsoft has just settled a lawsuit over Digital Rights Management technologies for $440 Million. It's telling and ironic on multiple fronts. Microsoft had stolen intellectual property from InterTrust and used that technology in it's music products. "Licensing InterTrust's patent portfolio... From Corante: Amateur Hour on September 24, 2005 at 6:48 a.m..

Charles Leadbeater and the ProAm Economy
Allow me to take this opportunity to warmly welcome myself to Amateur Hour ;) By way of introduction, I thought I'd repost a couple of recent entries from my own blog on the topic of amateurism, new media and digital... From Corante: Amateur Hour on September 24, 2005 at 6:48 a.m..

Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music
Don't know your darkstep from your neurofunk? Check out Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music - A sweet Flash application that interactively maps out the various micro-genres and history of ectronica, from Kraftwerk to Kid606 with music samples and screamingly funny... From Corante: Amateur Hour on September 24, 2005 at 6:48 a.m..

GarageBand and Musical Amateurism
At Game Girl Advance a couple of months back, Sandford parodied the ilife suite by "announcing" the release of "attic author" (thanks to matt jones for the link):[...]Apple is proud to announce an add-on package to our popular iLife '04... From Corante: Amateur Hour on September 24, 2005 at 6:48 a.m..

London Calling to the Faraway Towns
On the heels of DJ Dangermouse's Gray Album and Cheap Cologne's "Jay-Z vs. Metallica: The Double Black" reworkings of Jay-Z's Black Album (both of which have some great moments), comes something nearer and dearer to my heart: London Booted -... From Corante: Amateur Hour on September 24, 2005 at 6:48 a.m..

Giving it Away for Free
A nicely researched, long article on Creative Commons and the gift economy from Business 2.0. Ton's of great examples and righteous quotes: The sharing economy is already worth billions of dollars, but its direct beneficiaries aren't mainstream entertainment companies. Instead,... From Corante: Amateur Hour on September 24, 2005 at 6:48 a.m..

Remix Fight
Photoshop tennis or fightclub has been around for a while as a mechanism for graphic designers to collaborate and riff off each other's idea. Remix fight does the same thing for DJs and remixers. Really, really cool seeing people essentially... From Corante: Amateur Hour on September 24, 2005 at 6:48 a.m..

Star Wars Kid remixed
If you were living under a rock and didn't see the Star Wars Kid video, it has now spawned a whole video remix subculture. The Star Wars Kid is a 15-year-old from Quebec known as Ghyslain Raza. Back in November... From Corante: Amateur Hour on September 24, 2005 at 6:48 a.m..

The coming explosion of Amateur TV
Jeff Jarvis has a long piece on the fast approaching explosion of Amateur Television. Many people have been predicting this for some time, but Jeff has some good thoughts about why TV will happen first: - TV is more exciting... From Corante: Amateur Hour on September 24, 2005 at 6:48 a.m..

AudioMulch - shareware audio ferrari
Lately I've been spending some time futzing around with AudioMulch, a music creation program that I'm at a loss to describe. So I'll quote from the site:AudioMulch is an interactive musician&amprsquo;s environment for computers running Microsoft Windows. Bringing together the... From Corante: Amateur Hour on September 24, 2005 at 6:48 a.m..

Bloggers to get Democratic National Convention Press Credentials
It's obvious that both parties are thrashing a bit in last minute conversations about including amateur journalists in their conventions - interesting coverage from Wired News.... From Corante: Amateur Hour on September 24, 2005 at 6:48 a.m..

Free Comic Book Day
Free Comic Book Day is being held in conjunction with opening weekend of Spiderman II (man was there a crowd at the opening the other night at the Buckhead Backlot, first run movies and beer are doing some business in... From Corante: Amateur Hour on September 24, 2005 at 6:48 a.m..

Google buys (then gives away) Picassa
Picassa, a relatively powerfull photo management tool was purchased by Google a couple weeks ago. . Assumably we'll see some interesting integration of Blogger and Picassa in the near future.... From Corante: Amateur Hour on September 24, 2005 at 6:48 a.m..

A Generation of Game Boys, Girls
A growing number of universities and design schools around the country are offering degrees in video game design. The idea may sound crazy to some, but the schools say a burgeoning industry must be fed. From Wired News on September 24, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Down's Syndrome Mice Offer Hope
Capping 13 years of research, scientists successfully implant a human chromosome in mice, effectively re-creating Down's syndrome in the animals. The achievement could help researchers tease out genes that cause the genetic disorder. From Wired News on September 24, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Warcraft Plague Runs Amok
Players in the popular online game find themselves fighting an unstoppable virtual virus. From the Wired News blog Gadgeteer. From Wired News on September 24, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..

Suspended College President Offers to Accept Lesser Pact
Benjamin Ladner, the president of American University, has agreed to accept a more modest contract if the board votes to return him to office, his lawyer said. From New York Times: Education on September 24, 2005 at 3:45 a.m..

Progress and Concerns Noted in Special Education System
A study of New York City's special education system has found that the Bloomberg administration "is moving special education in positive directions." From New York Times: Education on September 24, 2005 at 3:45 a.m..

Authors Guild Gags on Google Library - Susan Kuchinskas, Internet News
It's a phrase Paul Drummond is getting used to: massive copyright infringement. Google's general counsel faces a new lawsuit over its Google Library program. On Tuesday, the Authors Guild filed a suit in federal court, charging that Google's plan to dig From Techno-News Blog on September 24, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..

Senate bill seeks survivable communications - Dibya Sarkar, Federal Computer Week
In the wake of the hurricane-devastated Gulf Coast, several senators introduced a bipartisan bill yesterday that would provide several billion dollars to states and communities to help develop survivable interoperable communications during the next five y From Techno-News Blog on September 24, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..

Dell Notebook Will Surf With Cingular - Tom Krazit, IDG News Service
Dell and Cingular currently offer notebooks with Cingular PC Cards that can connect to the carrier's Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE) network. Now it also plans to embed a modem into a notebook that can connect to Cingular's High-Speed Downlin From Techno-News Blog on September 24, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..