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links for 2005-11-24
BabsonKnowledge.org: Knowledge Work, Management & Productivity with Tom Davenport & Larry Prusak Davenport and Prusak are blogging (via Jack Vinson) (tags: People blog Tom_Davenport Larry_Prusak) How to Save the World - PKM Revisited Dave Pollard with an exceptional piece... From Monkeymagic on November 24, 2005 at 7:51 p.m..

E-learning grows up
Godfrey Parkin ist ein unermüdlicher Streiter für ein Corporate (E-)Learning, das mit Blick auf die Möglichkeiten des Internets ("Web 2.0"!) für Nutzer und Unternehmen endlich "relevant" wird. Dabei bietet er mit jedem seiner Beiträge eine Fülle von zitierfähigen Merksätzen. Dieses... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on November 24, 2005 at 6:49 p.m..

Crap Circles
Gardiner Morse has written an article challenging the over-use of circular diagrams by vendors and consulting firms. To quote: The circle below, from a global accounting firm's Web site, is used to illustrate the company's consulting services for owner-managed businesses.... From Column Two on November 24, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

CIDER session tomorrow
This is to remind you that there is a CIDER Session tomorrow, featuring our very own Heather Ross. Date: Friday, November 25, 2005 Starts: 2005-11-25 11:00 AM MST [...] From Rick's Café Canadien on November 24, 2005 at 1:54 p.m..

Learning Environment Design for Learners and Teachers , Education.au
This working paper argues that while a learning management system is suitable for distance learning, the wider scope of e-learning requires not just an LMS but a set of tgools, characterized in seven layers or types of service. Good discussion, moving in the same general direction as other commentators cited here. "The advent of Web 2.0 should enable educators to understand the needs of teachers and learnersusing technology enabled services, so that education desktops can be simply designed to specifically suit the needs of teachers and learners, and at the same time provide a large set of ch From OLDaily on November 24, 2005 at 1:45 p.m..

Pattern Recognition: A Critical Reading of the e-Learning Research , Education.au
There's a lot to disagree with in this paper (for example, the selection of literature to be studied in order to find patterns, assertions about the impact of rural digital access) but I am more interested in the positive thesis: "Our challenge is to find ways to use what new media have to offer in productive ways but, at the same time, to become, together with our students, critical and capable users: to engage in pattern recognition." Pattern perception is basic to cognition (and more), and I've been thinking about that recently: how would we alter the cognitive landscape of childr From OLDaily on November 24, 2005 at 1:45 p.m..

Open Access Citation Information , University of Southampton
Very useful paper for those with an interest in metadata and indexing. The first third of the paper discusses open access publishing; good stuff, a nice review, but not really new. The second third is a useful discussion of indexing services and techniques currently extant, drawing from both commercial and non-commercial services. Finally, the authors discuss their own proposal, and following a survey process, recommend the integration of parsing tools into institutional repository software to ease metadata creation, a distributed, harvest-based system for metadata indexing ("Do not have one b From OLDaily on November 24, 2005 at 1:45 p.m..

Observatory on Rights Management for e-Learning in Europe , ORMEE - Observatory on Rights Management for e-Learning in Europe
Good overview of approaches to digital rights management (DRM) in education, with a focus on Europe. The first half of the paper describes approaches to DRM in general, though with an emphasis on traditional textbooks and like content, and with an emphasis on the sale of learning content (open access is not mentioned). The paper hits its stride in the second part as a variety of business models is discussed, each with examples and links, and even better, actual pricing information. PDF. Via elearningeuropa.info [ From OLDaily on November 24, 2005 at 1:45 p.m..

Learning Technology
I'm a bit late on this, and wasn't sure I'd run it all, but the October issue of Learning Technology offers as much insight as I've seen anywhere into the development of e-learning in Armenia. Really: there's a good dozen (short) articles on the subject. Fantastic! [ From OLDaily on November 24, 2005 at 1:45 p.m..

Blogging as Attempts at Understanding , Blog of Proximal Development
Good insight into the use of blogging in learning. "Blogging is not going to miraculously transform struggling and reluctant writers... merely giving students blogs and time to write can never be an effective strategy. What needs to develop first is a sense of community. And yes, the students need to go through that process first before anything valuable starts happening." [ From OLDaily on November 24, 2005 at 1:45 p.m..

No e-Learning Patents! No Software Patents! , FLOSSE Posse
A big issue at the Open Source in Education conference I attended in Heerlen last week was the ongoing dispute about software patents in Europe - the legislation that will not go away, no matter how many times it is defeated, it seems. An outcome of the conference was an initiative struck from the perspective of e-learning to work against this legislation. To me, software patents legislation represents a very bad idea, and the continued attempts to push it through no matter what the cost are damaging not only to the technology community in general but to the idea of representative democracy as From OLDaily on November 24, 2005 at 1:45 p.m..

Edublogs Being Blocked , Incorporated Subversion
As james Farmer says, "you know you're doing something right if people start trying to stop you" (I know the feeling). Still, it is a bit hard to understand why Farmer's outstanding From OLDaily on November 24, 2005 at 1:45 p.m..

PLE Reference Model , the personal learning environments blog
One of the outcomes of the conference on personal learning environments last week in Edinburgh was this PLE Reference Model. I like the way they map various usage scenarios, and the entity diagram (slide 19) is a thing of beauty. Still. Does it map into the e-learning framework (or whatever it's called this week) as suggested? Doeds the flow diagram (slide 25) capture what the PLE is really supposed to be? I feel a tension between what the PLE ought to be and the constraints being imposed on the design from the outset. But that could be nothing more than an artifact of my own perception - From OLDaily on November 24, 2005 at 1:45 p.m..

Read/Write Web Primer , Weblogg-Ed
Well I'm still in Ottawa - the weather did not cooperate with my flight plans. So today's issue is a bit early, but packed full of goodness. Linger over this one. To begin, a link to what e-learning 2.0 looks like in its glossy PR version, as the Fall issue of Interactive Educator (put out by Smart Technologies) glosses it up and puts a nice product-focus on it, complete with the requisite blogerati commentary between the advertisements. [ From OLDaily on November 24, 2005 at 1:45 p.m..

Malviviendas
Ayer vi un documental en Cuatro sobre pisos pequeños en Madrid. Lo de pisos es un eufemismo, porque más bien hablamos de habitaciones. Se mostraban varios casos en el programa, entre ellos el de un matrimonio con dos niños que vivía en una ratonera de 12 metros cuadrados, pagando la ... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on November 24, 2005 at 12:50 p.m..

Pondering the PSP and the Video iPod...
HOWTO Rip DVD Movies To Your iPod Using Free Software: Dave Winer points to a post by Mark Pilgrim which details how to use a program called Handbrake to rip a DVD to a video iPod. This and the recent announcement that TivoToGo will export content to iPods and the PlayStation Portable makes a portable video player look more interesting. From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on November 24, 2005 at 11:46 a.m..

U.S. Developers Talk Revolution
How will Nintendo's upcoming controller affect video games? Plus: Game sales slump as 2005 winds down. From the Wired News blog Game|Life. From Wired News on November 24, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Hwang Says Eggs Forced on Him
The South Korean cloning king says he tried to convince female scientists in his lab not to donate their eggs, but they were so passionate for the research they did it anyway, behind his back. From Wired News on November 24, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Who's Afraid of Google? Everyone
From TV to telecom, Google seems bent on world domination. No wonder everyone is running scared. By Kevin Kelleher of Wired magazine. From Wired News on November 24, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

A Torrent or a Trickle?
The MPAA's deal with BitTorrent will do little to change the landscape for file swapping -- but it could create the best chance yet for a meaningful and legal P2P media-distribution system. News analysis by Xeni Jardin. From Wired News on November 24, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Hang Up and Drive
Riding a motorcycle is dangerous enough without some SUV-driving idiot drifting between lanes while he yaps away on a cell phone. Yo! Moron! Pay attention to the road. Commentary by Tony Long. From Wired News on November 24, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Asociación 3.0: Periodismo argentino en blog
Se ha estrenado el blog de Asociación 3.0, la primera agrupación de periodistas bloguers de la República Argentina, un proyecto impulsado por Leandro Zanoni y Darío Gallo. También está en marcha el concurso internacional Diseñá el logo de 3.0, Periodismo argentino en blog promovido por Dolores Puyol y Norberto Baruch. Relacionados: Esto ... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on November 24, 2005 at 3:47 a.m..

Learning 2.0 Tip of the Week
The Otter Group, ein amerikanischer Anbieter von "e-Learning Services", widmet einen Teil seiner aktuellen Aktivitäten dem Thema "podcasts as a new medium for learning". Ein 12-seitiges Papier liegt vor (das ich noch nicht gelesen habe). Vor ein paar Tagen... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on November 24, 2005 at 3:46 a.m..

Use Your Whole Brain
Ronald Gross explains how your life and work is influenced by your brain style and offers teaching and learning tips for using your whole brain.... From Adult/Continuing Education on November 24, 2005 at 12:50 a.m..

SANS: Cybercriminals targeted popular applications, network systems in 2005 - Federal Computer Week
In 2005, cybercriminals launched massive attacks on two largely undefended fronts in cyberspace, leaving government and industry more vulnerable than they have been in years to data theft and security breaches. That From Techno-News Blog on November 24, 2005 at 12:49 a.m..

Skype in U.S. Retail Distribution Pact - Eric Auchard, Reuters
Skype, the Internet-calling phenomenon that eBay Inc. acquired for $4.1 billion, is set to break into the U.S. consumer mainstream by selling its telephone kits in RadioShack stores. Skype Technologies SA, which counts 66 million users of its free- and l From Techno-News Blog on November 24, 2005 at 12:49 a.m..

Yahoo Turns the Tables on Syndicates - Ben Charny, eWeek
In a historic role reversal, the reportage of Yahoo Inc.'s foreign correspondent Kevin Sites is being distributed to print publications via Scripps Howard News Service, both companies said Friday. The Scripps-Yahoo relationship is of note because, for th From Techno-News Blog on November 24, 2005 at 12:49 a.m..

Be Sure to Read the Handwriting on the Wall
A project by a local art dealer has graffiti artists doing their best work in the most unexpected place: the classroom. From New York Times: Education on November 24, 2005 at 12:45 a.m..

Judge Rejects Challenge to Bush Education Law
A federal judge said the federal government can require states to spend their own money to comply with No Child Left Behind. From New York Times: Education on November 24, 2005 at 12:45 a.m..

ITHET 2006 in Sydney
IEEE Seventh International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education & Training (ITHET 2006) http://ithet06.eng.uts.edu.au/ University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, Monday July 10 - Thursday July 13, 2006 Abstract/Proposal Submission Page Deadline: Sunday January 15, 2006 Submission: Submit your copy or proposal via the website at [ http://ithet06.eng.uts.edu.au/ The ITHET 2006 Seventh Annual Conference will build on the outstanding success of [...] From Software Marketing Articles and Marketing Tips on November 23, 2005 at 11:47 p.m..