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CogDogBlog , Cogdogblog
If you click on the link, it won't work, which is the point of this item. Alan Levine writes (in an email): "Our "jade" server that hosts the Feed2JS service (http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/feed/) has apparently been compromised and engaging in inappropriate amounts of network traffic. Our security team has been monitoring this for a week and at this point, I recommended the server be taken off the network until we can rebuild/eradicate the problem. That said, any site using one of our JavaScript feed embedder will either hang or fail to load. To compensate, I can only suggest that th From
OLDaily on October 3, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..
Scribes and Chat , A Difference
I though this was a pretty good example of the new face of online learning. Students in this class are charged with creating an online record of what was taught in the class, and after reading some of their chatter on the discussion board we are linked to one of their projects, a summary of From
OLDaily on October 3, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..
Open Education Wrap-up , Abject learning
I have never really though of John Seely Brown as the freddie Mercury of e-learning, but the thought apparently crossed Brian Lamb's mind during the course of his writing a summary of Brown's talk at the Open Learning conference last week-end in Utah. Nice pictures; the write-up is a little brief but I couldn't resist ensuring that the second picture received a wider distribution. [ From
OLDaily on October 3, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..
MIT Rolls Out $100 Linux Machine , IDG News Service
MIT - which really knows how to market - picked up a lot of publicity for the non-launch of its $100 laptop. Released in the announcement were the plans for the new device, along with a hint at the marketing strategy. Here's the From
OLDaily on October 3, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..
Shibboleth: a Strategic Approach to School Web Content Authentication and Authorisation , BECTA
well I don't agree but I'm not surprised: "Becta's research has shown that Shibboleth is the most suitable solution for securely accessing online content for the education sector and should be adopted as an integral component in the strategic approach to the future development of ICT in education, skills and children's services." The benefits of Shibboleth are pretty easy to recognize: it's an open source single sign-on solution that improves personalization and reduces costs and security issues. Add to that the need for 'trust' between users, providers and i From
OLDaily on October 3, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..
Trends in Informal Learning Spaces , Educause
If you've got a few hours for the download (it's a PowerPoint presentation weighing in at 36 megabytes) you might find this look at informal learning environments interesting. "This presentation by Malcolm Brown and Phil Long identifies three trends as significantly influencing the present and future of informal learning space design: Intentional support for social learning strategies, informed by principles, a return to human-centered design, and support for diverse, personally-owned devices to enrich academic learning." [ From
OLDaily on October 3, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..
Games in Higher Ed: When Halo, Civilization IV, and XBox 360 Come to Campus , Educause
Summary of the use of games in learning which, interestingly, looks at the economics of the use of games. "A quick review of the session titles reveals a staggering range of issues developers must consider in creating such products - from financial to demographics to markets to licensing to intellectual property issues." Sure. Why should gaming be any different from the mess that characterizes the rest of educational technology? [ From
OLDaily on October 3, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..
What is Web 2.0? , Edge Perspectives
I'm just about finished posting these "What is Web 2.0" articles in this newsletter, and will begin shifting focus to implementation details, impacts and their effect on learning. But for now, this article is a good overview of some of the key features (you've seen them all elsewhere and earlier). From
OLDaily on October 3, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..
Choosing a Handheld for Education , learninginhand
Another new podcast in education, Soft Reset, from Learning in Hand, discusses the selection of a handheld in education. For thouse of you who produce e-learning podcasts, note that it is much more difficult to get a listing here in OLDaily because I have to listen to the podcast before I add it, and I only have so many hours in a day (several of which are already committed to Daily Source Code, IT Conversations, Old Time Radio, and music from my Creative Zen). [ From
OLDaily on October 3, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..
In the train...
Just realised that it's been more than 3 months since I've been in the train… Although I'm not a big fun of travelling across the country (remember, this one is relatively small ;) for a meeting, I enjoy time in the train... So, things I did in the train today: worked on finishing presentation for my PhD profs (the reason I was travelling :) – rethinking my PhD research again tried to figure out why the colleague I was supposed to meet in the train wasn't there read paper on
fragmented From Mathemagenic on October 3, 2005 at 7:47 p.m..
Learning Disabilities Tutorial
How do learning disabilities affect people in the workplace? Find out with the National Institute for Literacy's self-paced tutorial designed for teachers and coaches of adults with learning disabilities.... From
Adult/Continuing Education on October 3, 2005 at 2:48 p.m..
Writeboard
Writeboard launches today. You'll be hearing a lot about Writeboard this week. Writeboard is a collaborative environment for writing. There are several others, and we can probably expect to see more such systems announced in the next few weeks. But don't get too carried away by the hype. Here's Brian Benzinger's bottom line: "Conclusion.
Writeboard is definitely useful for any kind of writing. But, it certainly is no
Bill Brandon: eLearning on October 3, 2005 at 12:49 p.m..
On-Demand DVD Publishing
Robin Good's List of New Media for October 2, 2005. I liked this one for home-based entrepreneurs who are long on ideas but short on production gear: On-Demand DVD PublishingCustomFlix is a company enabling anyone wanting to sell her own DVDs to outsource complete production and shipping duties. The company simply takes your self-produced master material and it prints, packages and ships your own DVDs as orders from y From
Bill Brandon: eLearning on October 3, 2005 at 11:49 a.m..
How low can marketing go? We've got a winner!
Tom PlasticBag Coates blogged about how he found his father who'd gone missing for 28 years. Excellent. One of the commenters wrote: "Hi Tom, Always remember one thing. Life is very, very short and nothing is worth limiting yourself from seeing the ones you love. I hadn't seen my father in 15 years until 2 years ago. I was apprehensive but I kept telling myself that no matter how estranged we'd become there was no river to wide to cross. Drop me a line if I can be of any more help. Cheers, Barry" Tom comments: Sounds fine, doesn't it?... From
Joho the Blog on October 3, 2005 at 11:48 a.m..
A Backlog of Seeds For Growth
Summary: I've been away (for more than 2 months) for several compelling reasons. One, for example, has to do with the preparations for and financing of the wedding of my youngest. Another has to do with the recasting of myself outside of a professorial mode- i.e. what else, after being a "Special Ed Professor" can I/will I do to nurture personal and familial body and soul? More, perhaps, on those topics later. At this moment I want to list several of my seed ideas --- to ensure a more likely later expansion of each. The list of ideas: Goal-Free (or Needs Based) Eva From
Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on October 3, 2005 at 11:48 a.m..
Learning Divide
So that
survey thing on Friday worked out pretty well, huh? I think that's about the most comments I've gotten on any one post, and the range of responses was really interesting, at least to me. In the last couple of weeks, I've been feeling more and more like the Web can and eventually will change everything about the classroom. But it's also become even more clear to me that as
Tom and
weblogged News on October 3, 2005 at 10:47 a.m..
[Accountability] Collaborative Governance
Jane Nelson of the Kennedy School of Gov't at Harvard leads a plenary panel on "Collaborative Governance: The new Accountability?" Panelists: Achim Steiner, dir. general of the World Conservation Union; Kumi Naidoo, secretary general of Civicus (World Alliance for Citizen Participation, an international allliance of civil society organizations). Steiner: Why are we trying to reinvent accountability since we just invented it? There are 500 transnational ecological treaties. He cites Simon Zadek, founder of Accountability: If accountability concerns the civilizing of power, then those who h From
Joho the Blog on October 3, 2005 at 9:46 a.m..
[Accountability] Mary Robinson
I'm at a conference called "AccountAbility: Reinventing Accountability for the 21st Century." A few minutes of conversation discloses that "accountability" means something different here than in the US. In the US, accountability is a magical belief in the power of paperwork to end all corporate crime. Accountability is imposed by the government. In Britain, "accountability" is a term used by social do-gooder groups to beg big corporations to stop killing us and our world. ("Do-gooder" is, for me, a term of high praise.) Conference sponsors: Edelman PR, Shell Foundation, Barloworld. Second From
Joho the Blog on October 3, 2005 at 7:48 a.m..
Desde La Docta: Cordósfera
Marcos Sader de Definitely Maybe pone en marcha Cordósfera que complementa y actualiza el esfuerzo pionero que se viene realizando desde Córdoba Weblogs, impulsado por Franco Giménez, para articular la presencia de los bloguers cordobeses (de Córdoba, Argentina, también llamada La Docta) en la Red. Relacionados: Crece ... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on October 3, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..
A blog is not a book, revisited
Following up on yesterday's post -- maybe Will Richardson will post one of these days about what he sees as the lessons of turning blog materials into a book -- an early entry about the process itself and a later entry about the different sense of audience that unfolds after the book comes out. Posts such as those might help advance our thinking about these two genres we admire so much. From
Weblogs in Higher Education on October 3, 2005 at 2:49 a.m..
Institutional Repositories and Referatories
I wrote this March 2, 2004 research bulletin with Bob Albrecht for the EduCause Center for Applied Research (ECAR); the article recently became freely available as a
pdf file for readers who are not subscribers to ECAR. Although some of the references need updating, I believe most of the points made in the article are still pertinent, especially the point about the need for guiding referatories that will assist potential users (instructors and students) to find learning repositories and resources From
EduResources--Higher Education Resources Online on October 2, 2005 at 11:45 p.m..