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At SACE
I'm currently attending the SACE conference in Regina, and I'm having a blast. While I was going to blog a few sessions, I'm lucky enough to run into Rob in most places, so I'm leaving the clever commentary to him. The keynote this morning was Stephen Downes, and he delivered yet another impressive and thought-provoking presentation. [...] From
Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on November 18, 2005 at 8:56 p.m..
links for 2005-11-18
roxomatic - Social bookmarks review - 3rd edition (tags: social_bookmarks guides)... From
Monkeymagic on November 18, 2005 at 7:49 p.m..
¿Google Base o Google Bomb?
Google a veces dispara perdigones, a veces cañonazos y a veces misiles. Google Base pertenece a esta última categorÃa, como Gmail en su dÃa. (Aleccionador leer nuestros comentarios en aquel DÃa de los Inocentes gringo de 2004). En mi primera visita a Google Base vi, bajo la apariencia de formularios para ... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on November 18, 2005 at 7:47 p.m..
My Furl Archive and Firefox Search
I dearly love the free Firefox web browser – especially all the cool add-ons people have developed for it (since it's open source). Lately I've been having fun adding new search engines to the search field in the toolbar. Several good search engines are included with the browser – but if you want more, there are plenty of Firefox search plugins to choose from. For instance, with the right search plugin installed I can search my del.icio.us page of recommended reading links right from my web browser, without having to go to del.icio.us first. Alas, I can't yet do t From
Contentious Weblog on November 18, 2005 at 5:56 p.m..
Stuck in the Tabs
I love Firefox, don't get me wrong. But what usually happens is I have about 15 tabs left at the end of the day, pages I want to blog about or add to del.icio.us or something. Since it's Friday, I gotta shut down this machine, so here are some links to what's still open on my screen: Lawrence Lessig--about
Google Print and copyright: Thus the decision that will impact the Internet. A rich and rational (and publicly traded) company may be tempted to compromise - to pay for the "right" that it and others should get for free From
weblogged News on November 18, 2005 at 5:47 p.m..
elearning summit session 5-6
My running notes… Lewis Johnson, U. Southern California, Center for Advanced Research in Technology for Education. “Collaborative, coordinated authoring of intelligent games for language learning”. Tactical Iraqi—a game-based learning environment for learning Iraqi language and cultural norms. Based on Unreal game engine. Carol Wideman, Vcom3D. “Authoring multicultural context-sensitive virtual characters for learning”. Vcommunicator Studio. Creating 3D [...] From
Martindale Matrix on November 18, 2005 at 4:49 p.m..
[mac] Networking success
I plugged the Mac into an ethernet cable instead of using wifi, and now it's able to find and copy the documents on my PC desktop. Huzzah! I'm not sure what the problem is, but since I'm at the moment blundering around in the dark, I don't expect to know what it was. BTW, Windows doesn't see the Mac, although the Mac sees Windows. I found a web site that gave some basic instructions. No joy yet, but still trying. Later: It works. I have no idea why it didn't work an hour ago and now it does. But Windows,... From
Joho the Blog on November 18, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..
Ranganathan Redux
You can read here a brief article of mine, in Forrester Magazine, on how the 1930s ideas of Ranganathan, the Indian library genius, inspired faceted classification that's saving IBM $500M a year. [Tags: taxonomy libraries ranganathan FacetedClassification EverythingIsMiscellaneous]... From
Joho the Blog on November 18, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..
Gas pipe broadband? - Marguerite Reardon, CNET News
Imagine accessing the Internet over the same pipe that provides you with natural gas for cooking. It may sound nuts today, but a San Diego company called Nethercomm is developing a way to use ultra wideband wireless signals to transmit data at broadband s From
Techno-News Blog on November 18, 2005 at 3:50 p.m..
Nuevo digital y viejos debates
Por Juan Varela descubro el blog periodÃstico Nuevo Digital: Asà se definen: Nuevo Digital está concebido como un blog estrictamente profesional, donde los ‘bloggers’ perciben remuneración por su trabajo. La financiación de Nuevo Digital procede de empresarios del sector de la comunicación que, con este desarrollo, quieren someter a prueba, desde un ... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on November 18, 2005 at 2:52 p.m..
[mac] Continuing to unpack and install...
Scott solved my registration problem. Thank you, Scott. Gotta appreciate a machine with a community built into it. It's doing some heavy updating now. I can see the desktop underneath it. Oooh! The battery icon tells me that the machine arrived 100% charged. Nice. I'm going to take advice from MR (proferred through email, hence the slight cloaking) of letting it discharge entirely overnight, and then charge it up again. Playing around with the local network: It finds my Windows desktop machine ("Honker"). Nice. But it tells me that the alias "Honker" could not be opened because the o From
Joho the Blog on November 18, 2005 at 2:48 p.m..
How Newsworthy Are Personnel Announcements?
Yesterday, McBru Blog (a weblog published by the advertising/PR firm McClenahan Bruer Communications), offered an intriguing and potentially instructive post. In "We Know What Readers Like", "Jeff H" wrote: "The thinking, among journalists, is that nobody in readerland gives a care about the fact that you've brought on a new vice president of customer-facing solutions. Or so we thought." According to Jeff H, that newsletter issue included several types of items. (He didn't say, but I'm guessing the e-mail newsletter offered teaser or summary items, each with a link to the co From
Contentious Weblog on November 18, 2005 at 1:56 p.m..
BlogTalk Reloaded
Me escribe Thomas N. Burg promotor de las primeras conferencias académicas europeas sobre weblogs BlogTalk y BlogTalk 2.0, con la buena noticia de la convocatoria de BlogTalk Reloaded para octubre de 2006 y enfocada en Software Social (hay fuente RSS). From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on November 18, 2005 at 1:52 p.m..
My Mac arrived - and I hit a problem in the first 90 seconds
First, thanks for all the incredibly helpful advice. That's generous of you. So, first impressions: It arrived in one day, via Harvard's purchase plan. Cool. Beautifully designed box. Nicely packed. The white accessories are very Empire Strikes Back-ish. Turn it on. It begins its cheery set-up program. The keyboard has a pleasant soft-click feel. It finds my wifi without any fuss. Problem: I go through the default setup process and am faced with a screen that wants to know what I will primarily use this computer for and how I describe myself. I don't want to give Apple that info From
Joho the Blog on November 18, 2005 at 1:49 p.m..
Fear (Con't)
The banning blogs debate just gets better (or worse, depending on how you look at it) and regardless of how you feel, it's a pretty good example of the kinds of conversations (distributed as they might be) that the Read/Write Web facilitates. If you want more to think about, read
Darren's post today on "The Fear of Transparency." And then read
Miguel's response and the others there. I left one too. This thread has shown up on about half a dozen b From
weblogged News on November 18, 2005 at 1:47 p.m..
Is That E-mail Blogable?
In the last e-mail I received from fellow E-Media Tidbits blogger
Fons Tuinstra (who lives in China), I noticed an interesting addition to his signature. It read: This e-mail is: [ ] blogable [ ] ask first [ ] private That's great idea. Each time you send an e-mail, of course, you need to put an "x" in one of the boxes. Why is this necessary? Well, in a world where everyone, it seems, has a blog, it's worthwhile to make it clear when something you've sent in an e From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on November 18, 2005 at 12:53 p.m..
What? Spam? Nah!
According to
fresh figures from Statistics Norway, 69 percent of the Norwegian online population has received spam during the last year. The most fascinating piece of information to take away from this is that, obviously, 31 percent of Norwegians don't recognize spam when they see it. From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on November 18, 2005 at 12:53 p.m..
Unfortunate urls
Brian Millar, knowing my continuing interest in unfortunate urls, points to: www.penisland.com www.therapistfinder.com The canonical example remains www.lumberjacksexchange.com, which, unfortunately, is no longer up. Then there was the local movie theater in Great Barrington, Mass., named The TriPlex which for a while had the url www.triplex.com and got lots of visitors who were not interested in when Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is playing. [Tags: humor]... From
Joho the Blog on November 18, 2005 at 12:46 p.m..
Connective Writing (Con't)
So I've been thinking more about the whole "
connective writing" idea and its potential importance as a unique genre of writing in this "new" Web environment. They way it's framed in my brain, it's a type of writing that is inspired by reading and is therefore a response to an idea or a set of ideas or conversations. It is writing that synthesizes those ideas and remixes them in some way to make them our own and is published to potentially wide audiences. Because it is published, it is writing that then becomes a part of a From
weblogged News on November 18, 2005 at 10:47 a.m..
Brain Boosters
Ron Gross surveys the latest brain research and shows you how to put theory into practice with your own grey matter.... From
Adult/Continuing Education on November 18, 2005 at 8:50 a.m..
FBI Hunkered in The Bunker - Roy Mark, Internet News
Imagine this on your plate every morning: terrorist cyber attacks, malicious coders, online sexual predators, phishers, pirates, spammers and scammers. On the other hand, imagine you have this going for you: the best the world's only super power can give From
Techno-News Blog on November 18, 2005 at 7:49 a.m..
It's Time to Play in Singapore
Gamers descend on the tip of the Malaysian peninsula for Sunday's World Cyber Games competition. There's some money to be won, but the real lure is to compete -- and win -- against the world's best. From
Wired News on November 18, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..
Guilty Pleas in ID Theft Bust
The Secret Service sting operation, one of the largest of its kind, nets six guilty pleas out of 19 indictments last year against the so-called Shadowcrew. By Kim Zetter. From
Wired News on November 18, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..
War-Zone Test for Babel-Fish Tool
The U.S. military in Iraq is about to start testing an automatic translator that converts spoken commands on the fly. By Joanna Glasner. From
Wired News on November 18, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..
You're Only a Newbie Once
Your first immersion in an adult online community is often an eye-opening experience. But if you leave cyberspace, can you go back? Commentary by Regina Lynn. From
Wired News on November 18, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..
Xbox 360 Hits a High-Def Homer
Microsoft's updated console boasts great graphics, but the best thing is its nice UI -- and this from the company famous for crappy interfaces. By Chris Kohler. From
Wired News on November 18, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..
Negroponte: Laptop for Every Kid
Wired magazine and MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte shows off the first working prototype of a hand-cranked laptop in Tunis, Tunisia. Wired News interview by Kevin Poulsen. From
Wired News on November 18, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..
A visit to Jim Thompson House
Today we visited the
Jim Thompson House, a museum in the former home of an American architect who lived in Thailand for twenty-two years before he disappeared in Malaysia in 1967. The house is comprised of six traditional Thai houses that Jim Thompson moved from various parts of From
megnut on November 18, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..
Sacrificing my feet to see Bangkok
Ever since
my sandal broke on Cheung Chau, I've had a bit of trouble walking around. Yesterday that trouble culminated with me stepping on glass. We were walking down a soi, which is a small street kind of like an alley, and it had a v-shaped indentation it its middle, serving as a gutter. I was walking and stepped on the incline, which caused my foot to slip out of my sandal. And it just so happened that right there was a soda bottle smashed to bits, so my foot slipped off my sho From
megnut on November 18, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..
Writers and Blogs: Links for Today’s Talk
As I mentioned yesterday, today I'm speaking at the Boulder Press Club monthly luncheon. My topic is: What Writers Really Need to Know About Blogs. Here are a few links I expect to be mentioning in that talk... From
Contentious Weblog on November 18, 2005 at 6:51 a.m..
How to Upload a File to Google Base?
Well, it's for real: Yesterday (Nov. 15) Google launched its much-rumored service, Google Base. Basically (pun intended ;-)), you can publish virtually any file you want to the web by uploading it to Google's servers and adding descriptive tags. This makes your file and whatever it contains as findable as anything on a regular web site – except now you don't have to have a web site in order to publish to the web. Pretty cool, especially for people who don't want to mess with servers, hosting, and HTML. Also, for folks in the media business who rely on classified a From
Contentious Weblog on November 18, 2005 at 6:51 a.m..
Women in Podcasting: New List in the Works
Lately my Women in Podcasting list has been getting a fair amount of attention. (Thanks, Lisa Stone!) However, I'm a little embarrassed because I haven't had time to update that list in several months. However, I have a plan to revive it, update it, and get other people involved. Honestly, I could use some help with this project. I just don't have enough time to do it all myself. Here's what I plan to do. Let me know what you think and if you can help... From
Contentious Weblog on November 18, 2005 at 6:51 a.m..
Unintended consequences
Jonathan Weinberg's Wackiest web names ever article raises a few eyebrows, offers a touch of humor, and includes a word of caution in your choice of domain name: Chasing the Dragon's Tale: Unintended consequences - be careful in choosing your... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on November 18, 2005 at 6:51 a.m..
The Ethics of Tracking
The Ethics of Tracking - this article from Lisa Neal - editor-in-chief at eLearn Magazine should make very educator using an LMS stop and take a few deep breaths.....it's has been a niggling thought at the back of my mind... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on November 18, 2005 at 6:50 a.m..
Learn the lingo
I frequently tell parents that children shouldn't have computers in their bedroom. It should be in a place where you can watch what they're doing. Komando.com, Website for The Kim Komando Radio Show?, Kool sites... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on November 18, 2005 at 6:50 a.m..
A call for participation
I need help from the blogosphere, please place this entry in your blog to let your interested blog readers know about this blog. I have started a blog called "Blackboard and Webct are One." The purpose of this blog is... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on November 18, 2005 at 6:50 a.m..
Character Statistics
Here is a follow up posting to one done a few days ago. Below are the character matches that have been submitted to the Which Fantasy/SciFi Character Are You? survey. Keep in mind the above numbers may be influenced by... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on November 18, 2005 at 6:50 a.m..
Michael Palin should come up here
5 things about small towns: There is a big ol' dog sleeping on top of someone's roof - and no one looks twice The auto body shop sells cellphones. The gift shop sells laptops. The Chinese restaurant sells postal services. When booking a room at a local motel, you are asked if you wanted to buy the establishment The diabetes specialist is also the dietician and director of food services at the local hospital For fun, kids stuff snow down night deposit boxes Fun facts about the other towns: Sudbury's winter RIDE program (read: drunk driving checkpoints) is called "Operation Rednos From
silentblue | Quantified on November 18, 2005 at 6:50 a.m..
Selling RSS Without Tech Jargon
It took me a while to understand the importance and utility of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds. Those lines of nebulous XML code just didn't compute. But after introducing RSS to many of my sites, I saw a notable spike in traffic. I'm now a card-carrying RSS evangelist. (It's amazing what hard data can do.) But even with fervent belief in the technology, I still find RSS to be a tough sell to the casual Web user and, more importantly, to the casual Web publisher. A number of Web publishers I work with have a tentative grasp of RSS -- (...)
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on November 18, 2005 at 6:50 a.m..
Google Launches Google Base
Just a few weeks after the word leaked out (or was leaked), Google has launched
Google Base, which is a user-input system for all sorts of content to Google. Most of the interest and attention has focused on its classified-advertising implications -- for good reason -- but it's really a way for anyone to post almost anything to Google. The New York Times coverage is
here, or just search -- yeah, of course -- for Google Base on
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on November 18, 2005 at 6:50 a.m..
The Never-Perfect Concept
One of the secrets of the success of Google is that the company does not wait until the product is completely finished to launch it, and counts on users' comments and suggestions to improve it. The best way to test a product is by a "laboratory of millions of people," as Rabin Yaghoubi from Google said yesterday in Barcelona when he presented Google Print to an editorial-industry audience. (Here's
news and
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on November 18, 2005 at 6:50 a.m..
A Weblog Got the Scoop
Who had the best coverage of the
Third Latin American Digital Journalism Congress in Santiago, Chile? Of course, a weblog.While some newspapers just ignored it, and others like
La Tercera or
La Segunda gave it a little space, a students' weblog put on screen everything, with interviews, notes, and, of course, personal opinions fro From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on November 18, 2005 at 6:50 a.m..
Google Base: Now What Do We Do?
OK, so
Google Base has arrived (in beta form). If you operate classifieds for a newspaper or other entity, what should you do now? Well, I've got to lead off my advice with a disclaimer: Because Google is not yet talking about its strategy, we don't really know its true intentions. An all-powerful Google probably has the capability to wipe out other classifieds -- but I doubt that's the company's intention. Cooperating with it is likely a good thing, but we don't know for sure yet. So take my advice with a grain of salt. From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on November 18, 2005 at 6:50 a.m..
Philly Papers' News Library Now Extra Lean
On Friday, some 100 people will be walking out from the newsrooms of the Knight Ridder-owned Philadelphia newspapers, the Inquirer and Daily News -- those who have accepted buy-out offers designed to reduce the staff. Among those taking the buy-outs will be two of five employees of the research department (library) that serves the papers' news staff. There has been discussion and rumor in the last week that the library might be pretty much gutted -- reduced to a staff of two, with the survivors limited to archiving duties and reporters left to fend for themselves whe From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on November 18, 2005 at 6:50 a.m..
Course Evaluations (by students)
Back in October Dan left a comment on this entry stating that he used his own form for students to evaluate the class and teacher. I asked him for a copy and Dan was kind enough to share. I found his comment interesting and particularly this portion:That said, I use my own evaluations for every class I teach everywhere for two reasons, self defence and self improvement. I have ten years worth of evaluations. I keep them all, so that if someday an administrator comes and says, “There has been a complaint about your teaching,” I can show him ten years worth of data showing other opin From
Language, teaching, and all things EFL on November 18, 2005 at 6:50 a.m..
Using What You Know
Gord has written a very interesting post titled Using What You Know Where he discussses students usage of their native language in the EFL classroom. He talks about circumlocution as a method to get around unknown vocabulary, dictionary usage, body language and the teachers usage or non-usage (even restriction) of the first language in the classroom. This is a very insightful and well written post (as can be expected from Gord) that I highly recommend all teachers go and read. From
Language, teaching, and all things EFL on November 18, 2005 at 6:50 a.m..
Develop Quality Content to Rule the Web
Fresh content The age old question keeps coming up, how do you retain website visitors, how do you make visitors return to your website? The answer should come as no surprise, fresh content. Content is truly king, the fresher the content the better the site. What many webmasters fail to realize is that there is an endless supply of content on the web that is freely available to webmasters. Not only can public domain material be freely used and syndicated on websites, but a number of content publishers provide content in exchange for a link back to their websites. A variety From
Software Marketing Articles and Marketing Tips on November 18, 2005 at 6:49 a.m..
Aluminum foil helmet research
Passed along to us from my long-time research partner Earl Misanchuk, another valuable contribution by the MIT Media Lab to the world’s stock of knowledge. http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet From
Rick's Café Canadien on November 18, 2005 at 6:49 a.m..
Heather Ross on CIDER, Nov. 25
Our very own Heather Ross is presenting at the next CIDER session. Read on for information on how to access the session, and we’ll see you on November 25 (noon Saskatchewan time, I think). *************************************************** The next CIDER Session is Friday, November 25, 2005, 11:00 a.m. MST (1:00 p.m. EST) with DE Module for rural physicians [...] From
Rick's Café Canadien on November 18, 2005 at 6:49 a.m..
Celebration of Teaching event
oeCelebration of Teaching oe event featuring Dr. Janet McVittie, Dr. Edwin Ralph, Dr. Larry Sackney, Dr. Richard Schwier will be held on Friday, November 18, 1:00-2:30 p.m. in Room 1004 Education. The program includes Provost & Vice-President Academic, Dr. Michael Atkinson, Dean Cecilia Reynolds, graduate student and ESS student representatives. Everyone is welcome. Refreshments will be served. [...] From
Rick's Café Canadien on November 18, 2005 at 6:49 a.m..
New Associate Director of ARC named
The faculty and staff in the College of Education extend a warm welcome to Yvonne Vizina who has been appointed Associate Director of the Aboriginal Education Research Centre effective October 31, 2005. From
Rick's Café Canadien on November 18, 2005 at 6:49 a.m..
Kirkpatrick Travel Award 2005-2006
The Kirkpatrick Travel Award enables recipients to visit an educational project or program related to their duties or field of interest for up to one week. (Attendance at a convention or conference does not meet the conditions of the award.) Eligibility: Members of S.T.F.; students registered in or individuals recommended for a Teaching Certificate from the College of [...] From
Rick's Café Canadien on November 18, 2005 at 6:49 a.m..
ASCD SmartBrief Special Report: Educational Technology
I didn’t see part I of this report when it was originally released, but here is a link to part I and part II, and it looks interesting: *********************** Part II of this special report focuses on how policy-makers’ level of support for advancing useful technologies shapes the way schools develop. It also examines some new and exciting educational [...] From
Rick's Café Canadien on November 18, 2005 at 6:49 a.m..
How categories came to be
Every now and then I find it helpful to look at how words came to be. And if it's not helpful, then at least it's interesting :) One word whose history fits both, I think, is category. Its basic roots... From
Monkeymagic on November 18, 2005 at 6:48 a.m..
links for 2005-11-16
Dialog on Leadership: Professor Eleanor Rosch Interview "My basic idea, in its most general form, was that concepts and categories form to mirror real-world structure rather than logic" (tags: eleanor_rosch classification philosophy interview) Trends in the Living Networks Ross... From
Monkeymagic on November 18, 2005 at 6:48 a.m..
links for 2005-11-17
Alex Barnett blog : Recording Skype calls, II (tags: skype instructions audio.recording tools) Audacity: Free Audio Editor and Recorder (tags: audio mp3 tools) Innovation creators thrive in an environment that encourages dialogue "in order for an organization to be... From
Monkeymagic on November 18, 2005 at 6:48 a.m..
Subject index
... am in the middle of updating my woefully inadequate categories with subject indexes. Didn't finish it last night, so the tags at the bottom of some of the posts may not behave totally correctly ...... From
Monkeymagic on November 18, 2005 at 6:48 a.m..
Trusting the teacher in the grey-flannel suit
Der Economist hat einen lesenswerten Nachruf auf Peter Drucker geschrieben: "The one management thinker every educated person should read". Und gleich einen Aufsatz aus dem Jahr 2001 freigeschaltet, den ich wärmstens empfehlen kann: "The Next Society". Einiges, was der... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on November 18, 2005 at 3:47 a.m..