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Dept. of Homeland Null Pointers
Following W. David Stephenson's advice, I wandered over to the Department of Homeland Security's web site to see how they're failing to update their page during this emergency. It's worse than I thought: Click to see full page Makes you feel all secure in your homeland, doesn't it? [Tags: homelandSecurity WDavidStephenson HurricaneKatrina]... From
Joho the Blog on September 25, 2005 at 10:48 p.m..
Privacy at stake...?
Bruce Schneier in Wired discusses the challenge that surveillance technology raise for constitutional rights: Sometime in the near future, a young man is walking around the Washington Monument for 30 minutes. Cameras capture his face, which yields an identity. That identity is queried in a series of commercial databases, producing his travel records, his magazine subscriptions and other personal details. This is all fed into a computerized scoring system, which singles him out as a potential terrorist threat. H From
owrede_log on September 25, 2005 at 6:47 p.m..
Facts as cudgels
Brian Oberkirch lambasts Tim Russert for doing gotcha journalism on Aaron Broussard, president of Jefferson Parish in Lousiana. Russert replayed a tape of Broussard's appearance on Russert's show on three weeks ago and interrogated him about the precise dates on which a friend called his mother's nursing home and whether the 92-year-old woman drowned on August 29 or Sept 2. Part of Broussard's response: Listen, sir, somebody wants to nitpick a man's tragic loss of a mother because she was abandoned in a nursing home? Are you kidding? What kind of sick mind, what kind o From
Joho the Blog on September 25, 2005 at 5:46 p.m..
Research ethics involving Aboriginal populations
Faculty, staff and graduate students are invited to a presentation on “Research Ethics Involving Aboriginal Populations: A Review of the Issues.” Thursday, October 13 3:00 - 4:00 pm Faculty Lounge, Room 3050 College of Education University of Saskatchewan Refreshments provided From
Rick's Café Canadien on September 25, 2005 at 3:48 p.m..
New Whiteboards
New Whiteboards Originally uploaded by timlauer. Spent some time at school on Saturday helping my music teacher, Tony Jamesbarry, replace his old chalkboard with whiteboard material. He picked up two 4' x 8' sheets of tileboard for $22 at Lowe's. The dimensions of the old chalkboard were the same as the tile board, so we easily unscrewed the frame from the wall, took down the old chalkboard sheets, replaced them with the whiteboard sheets and reinstalled the framing. Quite an improvement... We plan to tackle another classroom next week and hope to get them all completed through From
Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on September 25, 2005 at 1:47 p.m..
Hackoff: The Blook
Tom Evslin has begun serializing his murder mystery at Hackoff.com setting during The Bubble. You can read it for free. You can get it as a feed. You can comment on it. You can visit the faux company web site. Beginning next year you can buy a hard copy version. You can even win prizes. Is this what Dickens would have done? Well, only if he got paid ahead of time. Per word. Tom's more generous than that. [Tags: TomEvslin books mysteries blogs]... From
Joho the Blog on September 25, 2005 at 1:45 p.m..
Ecolanguage.net
Ecolanguage.net uses visual animations to explain economical and ecological processes. The animations are planned for a common visual code to represent all issues involved with economy and ecology. They have just three types of transaction: yellow represent energy, red represents money and black represents information. It comes pretty close to what I intended with the seminar called »Density«. In fact the assignments of that seminar started with visualizing the
Grandfather Economic Report From owrede_log on September 25, 2005 at 11:47 a.m..
Delivering on digital content's full potential
The IST-funded project TIRAMISU focuses on protection of intellectual assets by securing the content with a digital rights management (DRM) solution, while maintaining interoperability and use of open standards. From
eLearnopedia on September 25, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..
Etomite Content Manager System - Screencast
Our Faculty of Education, University of Regina, will soon release its new website (still under development). The site is being developed with the Etomite Content Management system, and the tremendous support of the Centre for Academic Technologies (especially Trevor Cunningham). Etomite is an open-source CMS with lots of great features. To give you an idea [...] From
Infosec Writers Latest Security Papers on September 25, 2005 at 5:49 a.m..
Getting Ready for NYPA Citizen Journalism Talk
Sorry I haven't had too much to say this week, I've been really busy. Right now I'm in Tarrytown, NY right now, getting ready to drive up to Lake Placid. Tomorrow, my I, Reporter colleague Adam Glenn and I will be delivering a talk to the annual conference of the NY Press Association, an organization of the major newspapers in the NY metro area. Our topic: "What is citizen journalism, and why should news organizations care?" I've put together a handout for this event which covers our main points... From
Contentious Weblog on September 25, 2005 at 5:48 a.m..
What technology does to your brain?
Adding to the topic's popularity is a recently released book titled "Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter," which postulates, among other things, that TV and video games can enhance a child's... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on September 25, 2005 at 5:48 a.m..
Teaching Writing
This narrative inquiry reveals some behavior of digital-era students learning writing in a new digital classroom. The teaching methods, the physical design of the classroom, and the impact of the new technology are observed, along with the pedagogical theories in... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on September 25, 2005 at 5:48 a.m..
Should school administrators blog?
One reason is that Michael Lach (the Director of Science for the Chicago Public Schools) like many others who have created blogs, is simply trying to explain a hidden part of the education system. "I do this to make it... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on September 25, 2005 at 5:48 a.m..
Let us learn to solve problems
In the ITForum discussion of David Jonassen's problem-based theory of learning, Thad Crews laments the lack of empirical evidence to support the theory. This article examines the role of empirical evidence with respect to Jonassen's theory and argues that acceptance... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on September 25, 2005 at 5:48 a.m..
Year two anniversary.
On August 30th the Teaching and Developing Online blog was two years old. I would have posted on that day...but I was too busy. So I am doing it today. The Teaching and Learning online blog has been up and... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on September 25, 2005 at 5:48 a.m..
Tips for the Crusading Blogger
A Paris-based media watchdog has released a free guide with tips for bloggers and dissidents to sneak past Internet censors in countries from China to Iran. Wired News: Tips for the Crusading Blogger... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on September 25, 2005 at 5:48 a.m..
A digital plague
This is the second posting about this that I have read. I at one time in my past life when I was not so busy, use to play Warcraft. I loved it, I played it a few times on-line so... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on September 25, 2005 at 5:48 a.m..
Hearusnow.org
HearUsNow.org follows Consumers Union's long tradition of promoting a fair and just marketplace by empowering consumers to fight for better and more affordable telephone, cable and Internet services or equipment. By focusing on major media, technology and communications issues and... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on September 25, 2005 at 5:48 a.m..
Google Print
Access has published excerpts from a dicussion of the future of the ebook. Chuck Hamaker and Toby Green discuss how books should be indexed and accessible by chapter along the line of article-based distribution (such as with ejournals--one can access... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on September 25, 2005 at 5:48 a.m..
Swimming in It
If you got a chance to listen to the podcast in the previous post, you heard me say something like "most educators don't yet understand what it means to be connected 24/7, the power and the potential that holds." Weblogg-ed... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on September 25, 2005 at 5:48 a.m..
Belo In The Hurricane Crosshairs Again
WWL-TV, the Belo-owned station in New Orleans, provided a world-class, life-saving effort during Hurricane Katrina -- staying on the air continuously, and offering an extraordinary array of
Web coverage that ought to win a ton of awards. Now
KHOU-TV, the Belo-owned television station in Houston, is next up on the hurricane list. I watched its coverage online for a while today, and it's excellent. It's covering the evacuations from Galveston and other areas superbly, with live camera shots of the From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on September 25, 2005 at 5:48 a.m..
Konfabulous
If you haven't played with desktop widgets, now is as good a time as any to dig in. You may have heard that
Konfabulator was recently bought by Yahoo! (their emphasis, not mine!) The biggest benefit of this is that the program is now free. Konfabulator widgets are small, usually highly graphical desktop applications that perform useful tasks. In this screenshot you can see a few that I use including an analog clock, weather outlook, and real time tracking of Hurricane Rita from NOAA imagery. Surprising From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on September 25, 2005 at 5:48 a.m..
News for a Non-Stop World
On Monday, the BBC is launching its
biggest marketing effort ever - a 6-month campaign aimed at drawing audiences from the U.S. and Europe to its online news services. The 'News for a non-stop world' campaign is using RSS feeds and instant messaging to spread the word. Current news headlines will be integrated into messaging services such as
MSN Messenger (Denmark, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden) and
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on September 25, 2005 at 5:48 a.m..
The Blogger's Toolbox
"Blogs get people excited. Or else they disturb and worry them. Some people distrust them. Others see them as the vanguard of a new information revolution. Because they allow and encourage ordinary people to speak up, they're tremendous tools of freedom of expression. " How very appropriate then that the organization "Reporters without borders" gives the world a handbook on how to blog. Dan Gillmor, Mark Glaser, Jay Rosen among others offer their succinct advice on how to write, what ethics might signify in this environment, which tools are best and Ethan Zuckerman gives a detailed descri From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on September 25, 2005 at 5:48 a.m..
MSNBC Invades the Office Cubicle
It's been true for a long time that MSNBC's Web audience was bigger than its TV audience. Now it's blurring that distinction, making a
full live feed of MSNBC cable news available through the Web. Commercial breaks are replaced by weather graphics from NBC's WeatherPlus.Am I watching the Web, or am I watching TV? Who cares -- it's a great resource for office workers in this season of hurricane horrors across the South. It may not make corporate technology departments happy, though, to suddenly see bandwidth eat From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on September 25, 2005 at 5:48 a.m..
Is Broadband Adoption Slowing?
A new report from the
Pew Internet and American Life project suggests that broadband adoption in the United States may be slowing. But part of the reason for that is actually good news: 53 percent of U.S. home Internet users had broadband connections as of May. As the Internet matures, we're seeing less "pent-up demand" from enthusiastic users who see the value but do not yet have high-speed access at home.The report, by John Horrigan, suggests that the remaining online population is becoming older, less From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on September 25, 2005 at 5:48 a.m..
Interview with Bee
Barbara of Bee-coming a Webhead was recently interviewed by the Brazilian office of the British Council. The interview is interesting and well worth the read. Hat tip to Aaron and Graham. From
Language, teaching, and all things EFL on September 25, 2005 at 5:48 a.m..
What was I thinking?
At the beginning of the semester I indicated interest in taking extra courses at the University hagwon. I started the classes today, the students are good and the pay is very good, but the classes start at 7:00am! Up at 5:50 and out the door by 6:07, damn I'm tired. What was I thinking....Oh well only nine more weeks of this. From
Language, teaching, and all things EFL on September 25, 2005 at 5:48 a.m..
Vocabulary Acquisition
Recently I've been reading Learning Vocabulary in Another Language by I.S.P. Nation (cambridge australia link). I'm currently reading chapter 3 Teaching and Explaining Vocabulary which has a number of very interesting points to make about vocabulary acquisition and classroom applications. The book itself is a little dry, which is why it's taking me so long to read, but it is very informative. three processes of acquisition Nation states that there are three process involved in successful acquisition of vocabulary. These are noticing, retrieval, and creative (generative) use. I From
Language, teaching, and all things EFL on September 25, 2005 at 5:47 a.m..
good stuff
A couple of interesting good things to look at today. First off is Sandy's Bluffer's Guide to TEFL which is very amusing. Two new blogs as well: I found Czech EFL on my technocrati watchlist for EFL geek. Not too many posts yet as it is a new blog but the post titled My Approach expresses many of my own beliefs about teaching and I am looking forward to more from this blog. The second new blog was found via Sandy and is titled Teacher in Development. With this blog I am hard pressed to choose a single entry to highlite as all entries on the front page are very well written with in From
Language, teaching, and all things EFL on September 25, 2005 at 5:47 a.m..
Snarge
The word for today is Snarge which I discovered in this article about planes and birds. Snarge is the remains of a bird after a collision with an airplane.scientists have dubbed this bloody goo "snarge," and it is usually all that is left when bird meets plane. Scientists are analyzing snarge DNA to track airplane bird strikes, with the hope of decreasing hazardous collisions.A quick search of google only brought up 3,660 results (soon to be 3661). Most of the results appear to be for sites talking about this phenomenon, but a number of them are forums with users identity being snarge. Intere From
Language, teaching, and all things EFL on September 25, 2005 at 5:47 a.m..
Evaluating Learning Objects for Schools
In this paper we describe the developments in the K-12 sector, the arguments around learning object characteristics and the development of an assessment profile. We applied this instrument in two separate analyses of learning objects and found it useful in identifying characteristics of importance to teachers. From
eLearnopedia on September 25, 2005 at 12:50 a.m..
A Field Guide to Learning Management Systems
ASTD's Field Guide to Learning Management Systems is part of a Learning Circuits series; each guide is a concisely written, practical guidebook that provides indepth coverage of a single topic vital to e-learning. From
eLearnopedia on September 25, 2005 at 12:50 a.m..