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Earth Prints Repository for Earth Sciences
I'm re-posting this item that I saw mentioned in Open Access News. Earth Prints is an interesting Earth Sciences repository based on DSpace software. The repository is browseable by topics, titles, authors, and dates, plus searchable by key words. ____JH ______ New OA repository for Earth science. Earth-prints is a new OA repository for Earth science research. (Thanks to And From EduResources--Higher Education Resources Online on October 10, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..

Mary's Back - The Internet, China and Bubbles , Edge Perspectives with John Hagel
Summary of a talk by Morgan-Stanley's Mary Meeker at the recent web 2.0 conference. The question on everyone's mind, it seems, is whether we are in another bubble. And while the tenor seems to be that we are not, there are still trends worth watching. Mobile computing in China, for example. The valuation of enterprises by the number of links they can garner. Voice over internet. It's still early days, and venture capitalists, once burned, will take some time before leaping in to be burned again. [ From OLDaily on October 10, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

Google Reader Spotlight: Publish Posts to your Blog , LifeHacker
Google launched an RSS feed reader last week to wide - and generally negative - publicity in the blogging community. Not because people questioned whether the world needed another feed reader, much less one by Google (though there was that undercurrent), but more because people found the interface less user-friendly than most of Google's previous work. Some writers reported having trouble uploading their OPML (a format that lists their subscriptions) from Bloglines; mine mostly uploaded, but it wasn't problem-free. Others commented on the clicking you have to to - the 'next&apos From OLDaily on October 10, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

Yahoo! Podcasts , Yahoo!
Yahoo! launched a new podcast search and subscribe service on Sunday, marking the most significant development in the field since ipodder (now known as From OLDaily on October 10, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

Advancing the Effectiveness and Sustainability of Open Education Conference , Open Education Conference
The Open Education Conference proceedings are now available as a 181 page PDF document - the last 8 pages are blank, but that's small consolation as it's still something you have to print out rather than struggle through online. There's a lot of good content here and the usual players in open educational content - Wikipedia, Connexions, eduCommons, Merlot, Public Library of Science, OOPS and many more - are all represented with project updates. As Luc Chu said, "Confucius said that, 'They hate not to make use of their abilities, yet they do not necessarily work out of self- From OLDaily on October 10, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

Getting the Most Out of the Conference Experience .... , Educause
I haven't had the chance to listen to this yet, but it has been bookmarked in my Bloglines for the last week or so (so I'm going to). That said, it seems like it would be a good link in view of the next two (conference-based) items. Me, I'm pretty ruthless with conferences - it costs a lot of time and money, and so I focus on getting what From OLDaily on October 10, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

Update on ERIC , ITI NewsLink
Seeing how ERIC has basically dropped off the radar, this update on the fate of the resource library is welcome. According to this article, "ERIC announced the release of citation management functionality. Searchers can now mark records for placement in a temporary work space called 'My Clipboard.'" Of course, what I'd much rather do is pluck them from my RSS feed and blog them. Oh well, one step at a time. This ITI NewsLink newsletter (first time I've seen it) looks like a good read, too - I'll subscribe by email, but really, again, I'd rather be reading it in RS From OLDaily on October 10, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

More on Open Content , Lanny on Learning Technology
Lanny Arvan takes Merlot to task, arguing that its content review process doesn't serve downstream users. I like the way he sketches an alternative: "So go to Bloglines.com, do a search on your favorite topic (I chose edtech) and then for some of the blogs that come up, click on "Subscribers" and you should see the list of those subscribers who made their subscription public. Then click on a few of them and see what they have as their feeds in the topic you searched. Then a couple of more iterations on the same. I think you'll find that its seems like there are a few core blogs that From OLDaily on October 10, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

Melbourne Declaration , Random Walk in E-Learning
I was waiting for an update, but it never came so I'll run with what I have. It appears from this report that ADL is planning to set up a "stewardship" for SCORM. "It is clear in the discussion that it is NOT the intention of the US Department of Defence funded ADL Initiative to give up SCORM and its related technologies. Rather, it is a way forward to further advance the vision of creating a global interoperable infrastructure for advanced distributed learning." Interesting. [ From OLDaily on October 10, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

Why Do Professional Learning Communities Fail to Develop? , TLN Teacher Voices
Good question, eh? And the answer is pretty simple - when they're imposed from the top (usually in a slap-dash duct-tape manner), they fail. And they poison any attempt that may follow. "That's the key. It has to belong to the teachers who are part of the community. If the community belongs to 'the administration' and teachers are merely invited to attend, things fall apart." Now the thing is - what is true for teachers, is also true for students. Oh - and dig the format of this blog post. What we have here is someone deftly summarizing an online conversation so well we don From OLDaily on October 10, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

Ruby On Rails
I was a little unfair to Ruby on Rails last week, so I decided to try installing it Sunday afternoon. This is my story. [ From OLDaily on October 10, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

Semantic Networks and Social Networks
This article surveys properties of social networks and the semantic web, suggests that social network analysis applies to semantic content, argues that semantic content is more searchable if social network metadata is merged with semantic web metadata. [ From OLDaily on October 10, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

Classifying guts
BeyondVegetarianism.com is the site of a dispute over whether to classify humans as omnivores, frugivores, herbivores, or noneoftheabovores. You will learn more about the coefficient of gut differentiation than you thought was possible. (Thanks, Kurt, for the link.) [Tags: taxonomy EverythingIsMiscellaneous]... From Joho the Blog on October 10, 2005 at 7:48 p.m..

Happy Thanksgiving!
The title says it all. Happy Thanksgiving, and to our non-Canadian readers, we hope you can take the day off too. From Rick's Café Canadien on October 10, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..

Das Bildungswesen ist kein Wirtschaftsbetrieb
Das passt gut: Hier finden sich nicht nur die "Einsprüche" gegen die zunehmende Ökonomisierung des Bildungswesens, sondern auch kurze Begründungen. Einen Satz aus der Begründung des ersten Einspruchs möchte ich kurz hervorheben: "Erziehungs- und Wissenschaftsinstitutionen sind aber von ihrer Zielsetzung... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on October 10, 2005 at 6:51 p.m..

Read/Write Web is Work
From the previous post you can tell that I did some "blogvangelism" today at a county in-service just north of where I live, and it was five hours of pretty intensive discussion and teaching about blogs the noun and blogging the verb. In fact, it was the first chance I've gotten to spend some time with teachers really teaching them how to blog. (The session name was "Writing With Passion Through Blogging"...) And I think that most of them got it, that this wasn't navel gazing, that it was reading and thinking and writing. (And I think I had a moment of self-enlightenment when I heard From weblogged News on October 10, 2005 at 6:47 p.m..

Where's Education?
Quick mini-rant here... Yahoo just launched a Podcast portal. Cool! But why isn't there an Education category in the main list? WHY? (I guess I should be happy we're listed, however...) I can't recall all of the ones I've seen lately, but I'm constantly amazed at how sites launch with all sorts of categories but none dedicated to education. Oy. From weblogged News on October 10, 2005 at 6:47 p.m..

If You Want to Drastically Narrow Fair Use and You Know It, Clap Your Hands
I had a post in the queue about Patrick Ross' DMCA article, and even though I guess I'm just piling on now, I can't resist adding a slightly different angle. Patrick&apos From A Copyfighter's Musings on October 10, 2005 at 5:47 p.m..

MERLOT Grapevine, Discipline Portals
MERLOT's Fall 2005 Grapevine Newsletter (Issue #4) is available, it includes information about Discipline Community Portals under "Tips." The portals are intended to support discipline-specific strategies for teaching with MERLOT. I visited two of the portals (Psychology and Statistics) for subjects I've taught at undergraduate and graduate levels and found the information to be useful.  MERLOT continues to add features, such as  MERLOT TWO From EduResources--Higher Education Resources Online on October 10, 2005 at 4:47 p.m..

African American Online Population Is Growing
The African American community is active online as the demographic joins the wired population. From ClickZ Stats on October 10, 2005 at 4:45 p.m..

Primer weblog corporativo dedicado a la droga
TAVAD (Tratamientos Avanzados de la Adicción) ha creado el primer weblog dedicado a la información y prevención de las drogadicción. Se llama Escuela de la Droga y es el primer blog dedicado al tratamiento de drogodependientes y uno de los primeros blogs corporativo que aparecen en España. Especialmente orientado a ... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on October 10, 2005 at 3:51 p.m..

Milchmädchenrechnung. Warum der Vorwurf der Ökonomisierung des Bildungswesens falsch ist
Am Anfang stand der Aufruf einer Gruppe von Erziehungswissenschaftlern, den ich geflissentlich überlesen habe. "Das Bildungswesen ist kein Wirtschaftsbetrieb" heißt es dort. Inzwischen wurde der Aufruf von mehr als 150 Wissenschaftlern unterzeichnet, und heute will man die "Einsprüche" in... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on October 10, 2005 at 12:51 p.m..

My life as a spatially-challenged American
My life as a spatially challenged American It's my brother-in-law's birthday today (Happy birthday, Joe!), so I was deputized to print out a card for him. I do this for many of our relatives' birthdays since I'm the one in the family who uses PowerPoint. So, I wrote up a simple card with printing on the front, a fold, and then printing on the inside. You know, a card. Q: How many tries did it take me to get this printed right, with the right stuff on the cover and the right stuff on the inside? A: Eight. And by... From Joho the Blog on October 10, 2005 at 12:49 p.m..

AOIR: Finding "the life between buildings“: An approach for defining a weblog community,
Long promised - our (still work in progress) with Stephanie Hendrick and Anjo Anjewierden : Abstract. Although weblogs are perceived as low-threshold tools to publish online, empowering individual expression in public, there is growing evidence of social structures evolving around weblogs and their influence on norms and practices of blogging. Emerging from connections between weblogs and their authors, weblog communities ofte From Mathemagenic on October 10, 2005 at 11:50 a.m..

AOIR: my selection of papers
The conference has a really great set of papers. Due to lack of wifi and presentation anxiety for two days I wasn't blogging much, so I decided just to make a list of papers that I consider interesting. Extended abstracts are online, some papers are online as well (requires AOIR membership, but it 200% worth it). [I'll be working on the list - frequency of updates depends of wifi access and time. If you don't want to wait check Mathemagenic on October 10, 2005 at 11:50 a.m..

Back home
I'm back home and... ...jumping around to make balloons fly (it's fun - even my birthday becomes distributed in time and space :) ...still thinking of visual and textual and million other things that came up in conversations with Mathemagenic on October 10, 2005 at 11:50 a.m..

KM bloggers community (2)
Anjo is documenting more experimentation with mapping KM bloggers community (check paper for the background) - this time going beyond links into text analysis. Passion and profession - some explanations on statistics used Passion and profession 2 - visualisation with clusters I&nbs From Mathemagenic on October 10, 2005 at 11:50 a.m..

Greetings From Oxford!
Greetings from Oxford Central School in Oxford, NJ where we're learning about blogs! From weblogged News on October 10, 2005 at 11:46 a.m..

Post -16 e-learning Conference 2005
This conference is a professional development and networking opportunity for e-learning practitioners in the learning and skills sector. Manchester, 1-2 November 2005 From ScotFEICT on October 10, 2005 at 7:52 a.m..

Russia Halts Rocket Launches
A European global-warming study suffers a setback after a Russian rocket meant to put a satellite into orbit fails to launch successfully. The satellite was to map polar sea ice for three years. From Wired News on October 10, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Tough Robot Buggies Finish Race
Crossing the finish line in Darpa's Grand Challenge race, four driverless vehicles use computers, sensors, radar, GPS tracking and drive-by-wire systems to traverse the 132-mile desert course. From the Wired News blog Autopia. From Wired News on October 10, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Mapping Katrina's Storm Surge
The government hires crews of surveyors to create an atlas of flood levels -- locations and elevations -- from Louisiana to Florida to help prepare for future storms. From Wired News on October 10, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Feds Plan for Super-Flu Pandemic
How to provide food, water and security for citizens during an epidemic that could kill nearly 2 million Americans? The U.S. government explores that question as it updates a plan to cope with such an event. From Wired News on October 10, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Growing Up: Microsoft Turns 30
Microsoft's growing pains have delayed products, so the company is beaten to market by younger, more nimble competitors. Critics wonder why the software giant doesn't show the productivity and profitability its software promises users. From Wired News on October 10, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Terror in the Air?
Anthrax attacks and hazardous waste leaks travel fast. Urban micrometeorology goes with the flow, as scientists map how winds whip through city streets in an attempt to contain the danger. By Jeff Howe of Wired magazine. From Wired News on October 10, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

The Tortured Language of the Law
A new law banning sales of violent video games to minors offers wording that calls to mind White House legal memos that sought to justify an end to the Geneva Convention. Commentary by Clive Thompson. From Wired News on October 10, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Cuban to Launch DVD Label?
An online job posting hints at new details in dot-com billionaire's plan to up-end Hollywood movie distribution system. By Holly Wagner. From Wired News on October 10, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

(re) Descubriendo blogs
Una selección periódica, muy personal, de buenos weblogs de hoy y de ayer. Agregadores agregador de notícies gpd BlogsHoy ChileLog Desde la blogosfera Notas de Diseño Gráfico y Comunicación Planeta Cordósfera Comunicación mmcc digital Moebius Versión original Corporativos y Marketing Bebés y más Blog 70 Nintendogs Deportes Cuesta Arriba Fuera de límites Diseño Criterion frogx3 galigan blog Super Mag Documentación Bibliometría El documentalista enredado Educación Bitácora de Aníbal de la Torre Fabercastell ¡Paciencia, UNLZ! Fotografía From eCuaderno v.2.0 on October 10, 2005 at 4:47 a.m..

Intel leads Wi-Fi chipmakers in new forum - Marguerite Reardon, CNET News.com
Leading Wi-Fi chip manufacturers will be announcing a new industry forum on Monday to help accelerate efforts to create a new, faster Wi-Fi standard, says a source close to the companies. Intel, Broadcom, Marvel and Atheros have sidestepped the Institute From Techno-News Blog on October 10, 2005 at 2:49 a.m..

TVs and PCs 'take over US homes' - Peter Feuilherade, BBC Monitoring
The average American spends more time using media such as TV and the internet than sleeping, a study has found. US researchers found that Americans spend nine hours a day watching TV, using the web or talking on a mobile. One-third of that time is devot From Techno-News Blog on October 10, 2005 at 2:49 a.m..

Opening Arguments, Endlessly - JONATHAN D. GLATER, New York Times
Inside every lawyer, it is said, there is a brilliant writer, held back by professional ambition or by fear of failure. Nowhere is that truism more evident than in the explosion of online blogs by, for and about lawyers. There is Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, From Techno-News Blog on October 10, 2005 at 2:49 a.m..

In the Used-Book Market, Textbooks Rule
Textbooks dominate the offline used-book market, according to a study just released by the Book Industry Study Group, a trade association. From New York Times: Education on October 10, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..

Financial Woes Worsening at State's Public Universities
Financial problems at New York State's two public universities are forcing students to pay a growing share of the cost. From New York Times: Education on October 10, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..

Invention, continued
I spent some time today looking over the work by my newish bloggers. They are about a month in, and there are lots of good posts and perhaps two main problems that have yet to resolve themselves. The first is that some entries don't seem to show much awareness of what a reader might really need or want from a post on the topic. So, a sense of audience. The second is that several students are struggling, that is, failing to write regularly. This is a very human failing, as I an attest.... From Weblogs in Higher Education on October 10, 2005 at 1:47 a.m..

A good teacher is...
A student is conducting a survey -- what makes a good teacher? I offered this idea just now: A good teacher respects the powerful ideas that were created by our ancestors and carefully passes them along to students, while also respecting the new ways the next generation will understand and use those ideas to meet their own needs. From Weblogs in Higher Education on October 10, 2005 at 1:47 a.m..