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Great post on "Educational Social Overlay Networks"
http://terrya.edublogs.org/2005/11/28/hello-world/ The only post so far in this new edublogs.org blog (oh the marvels of Technorati, like it or not here come your readers, Terry A. ;-). Not so much a response to my posting on the false dichotomy that is being set up between Moodle and ELGG, instead it just takes that as its starting point for an extended musing on what the relationship could and should be between institutional provided systems and the users From EdTechPost on December 1, 2005 at 8:50 p.m..

Work-Related Learning
Large numbers of American adults participate in work-related learning. According to a new report from the National Center for Education Statistics, in 2002/3, 40 percent participated in formal learning, including diploma / degree programs and apprenticeships. At the same time,... From Adult/Continuing Education on December 1, 2005 at 7:50 p.m..

The 21st Century Backpack
By Sharon Daugherty HYPHEN Hip and practical, these techno gadgets make outstanding gifts for students or teachers.... From Adult/Continuing Education on December 1, 2005 at 7:50 p.m..

Firefox Filtering from Principal 2.0
From Tim Lauer comes a link to this Greasemonkey script for Firefox that will turn any bad words you choose into asterisks if they try to load on the page you are viewing. Tim says: Clean Language is a Greasemonkey script that filters out selected text from a web page before it loads in your browser. You can set it up to remove the offending words, or just replace the word with some other nonsense characters. The script comes with a preloaded list of offending words and c From weblogged News on December 1, 2005 at 7:47 p.m..

Open Educational Resources dgCommunity
The Development Gateway just announced a new aggregation portal, dgCommunities, that provides links to online educational resources. The site is browseable by subject and content type and also searchable. ______ JH ______  "Welcome to the Open Educational Resources dgCommunity! Open Educational Resources (OERs) are digitized materialsoffered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and re-use for teaching, le From EduResources--Higher Education Resources Online on December 1, 2005 at 6:47 p.m..

E- Portfolio Professional Learning Conference , Teaching Generation Z
Conference summary from the E- Portfolio Professional Learning Conference in Adelaide. Most of the post outlines a presentation from From OLDaily on December 1, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

R&D Funding in Atlantic Universities , Maritime Provinces Higher Education Commission
This report is likely to be of more regional interest, but its analysis of research funding in Atlantic Canada is worth reading, particularly from the perspective of less developed economies. Research in such an environment is different than in, say, central Canada, because there isn't the base of large corporate research. This means that the direction of research funding and research direction needs to be different. It should not depend as much on commercial and private sector research and development (see the chart on page 110). "The national approach to innovation will undoubtedly cont From OLDaily on December 1, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Bloggers' FAQ - Student Blogging , Electronic Frontier Foundation
From the website: "The Bloggers' FAQ on Student Blogging addresses legal issues arising from student blogging. It focuses on blogging by high school (and middle school) students, but also contains information for college students." [ From OLDaily on December 1, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

A Recipe for Newspaper Survival in the Internet Age , Slashdot
It's almost a cliche, but this advice to newspapers bears repeating: "Too many papers are losing tons of money because of the failure to integrate. Remember: you're in the news and information business - not the newspaper business." The advice occurs in the context of a widely touted Slashdot discussion on the future of news, and as usual, the advice applies equally well to those in our field, who ought to be reminded, perhaps, that "you're in the teaching and learning business, not the publishing or classroom or courses business." How does that cash out? The 'lessons' From OLDaily on December 1, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Bibliography on Gender and Technology in Education , The Center for Women & Information Technology
Could be useful, and I carry few enough resources on this topic: "The Bibliography on Gender and Technology in Education has been created by gender equity specialist Jo Sanders. Focusing primarily on information technology, the bibliography is comprehensive as of 2005 and draws on international research as well as intervention literature. It contains nearly 700 entries and is extensively annotated, key-worded, and searchable. Sanders compiled the bibliography for her 2005 review article, From OLDaily on December 1, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Try Ruby
This is an interesting way to step people through the steps needed to learn a new programming language, in this case, Ruby. Basically, a window in the browser acts as a Ruby interpreter: type some Ruby into it, and it does what it's instructed to do. [ From OLDaily on December 1, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

CIDER session tomorrow
Date: Friday, December 2, 2005 Starts: 2005-12-02 11:00 AM MST (1:00 AM EST) Ends: [...] From Rick's Café Canadien on December 1, 2005 at 4:49 p.m..

Bill Wong: Part I
Summary: Real Person and I talk about the Meaning of Life and Learning For Bill Wong. RP and I begin to talk about developmental profiling in general and as it would benefit instruction in the classroom (in RP's case a High School classroom). (This will be the first of a series of entries on how classroom activity and the learner's cutting edge can or should relate to each other.) From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on December 1, 2005 at 3:49 p.m..

Blog del libro “Blogs”
Blog del libro: Blogs. La conversación en Internet que está revolucionando medios, empresas y ciudadanos From eCuaderno v.2.0 on December 1, 2005 at 2:48 p.m..

Austin and Charlotte Top Federal Test Scores for Urban Districts
BOSTON, Dec. 1 - Austin, Tex., and Charlotte, N.C., led some of the nation's largest urban school districts in student achievement this year, meeting or exceeding the national average in math for fourth and eighth grade and in reading for fourth grade, according to federal test scores released here today. From New York Times: Education on December 1, 2005 at 1:45 p.m..

Positions at Michigan State University
The Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media at Michigan State University invites applicants for two tenure system positions: 1. An assistant professor in the area of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Areas of focus could include social, behavioral, cultural, or economic and policy aspects of ICTs, or ICTs as they relate to human-computer interaction and interaction design, or group and/or [...] From Rick's Café Canadien on December 1, 2005 at 12:50 p.m..

Mapping your blog mind revisited
A while ago I posted some thoughts about creating a mindmap of your blog. I've spent the last couple of evenings fiddling around with tags, a little easy php and Ucinet, some SNA software. I thought I'd post the rough... From Monkeymagic on December 1, 2005 at 12:50 p.m..

Getting whipped into shape by the long tail
"Category imperialism" is the title of a new posting by Julian Bond that raises essential questions. I don't know the answers to those questions, but I'd point out that category imperialism results not just from decisions made by powerful sites about what categories/fields to track and which values to respect. It can also happen when folksonomies succeed in creating a power law distribution of a term: E.g., 95% of people at eBay who are selling laptops refer to them as "notebooks." (Note: I made up that fact.) There's some hope that computers can automatically translate local/pe From Joho the Blog on December 1, 2005 at 11:46 a.m..

Aggregated military blogs
Jean-Paul Borda is back from Iraq and has put together a mega-aggregation (megraggation?) of milblogs for your browsing and sorting pleasure. (Welcome back, Jean-Paul. Thank you for your service.)... From Joho the Blog on December 1, 2005 at 11:46 a.m..

From Helsinki
I spent the day with Nokia (very very interesting), and am about to go out to speak at an evening event, which means I will have managed to avoid seeing anything at all of Helsinki or Finland...except, of course, the Finns I got to talk with today. It's been a fun and fascinating day, but I need more landmarks, dammit! :) Tomorrow, I have a morning to wander. I've been advised to go up to the tippy-top of the Tower Hotel (all eleven floors) to get a panoramic view. After that, I'll do whatever the concierge tells me to. And... From Joho the Blog on December 1, 2005 at 11:46 a.m..

Vietnamese coffee attempt #1
I tried to use my Vietnamese coffee maker (photo here) this morning to brew a tasty cup of ca phe and revisit my Saigon days (thought it's about 32&ampdeg; F here, not C!) but it was not to be. Two attempts yielded a watery brew filled with coffee grounds, and I ended up falling back on my Senseo and adding condensed milk. It tasted more like strong coffee with milk and sugar -- which I'm not so much a fan of From megnut on December 1, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

Diary blogs
Irish poet and Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney quotes or paraphrases a comment by Patrick Kavanagh that may shed some light on diary blogging: ...as Patrick Kavanagh insisted, the self is interesting only as an example. The diary writing we see on some blogs may engage us when we know the person, but when we don't know the writer we need some other context for engaging with the words. If they are lively, that can be enough. Similarly, if we identify with the... From Weblogs in Higher Education on December 1, 2005 at 9:54 a.m..

Free Intranet Review Toolkit
StepTwo Designs has published a very useful tool -- the Intranet Review Toolkit -- and made it available under a Creative Commons license. Wonderful stuff. Thanks James. This intranet review toolkit provides intranet managers and designers with an easy-to-use method of assessing the strengths and weaknesses of their intranet. It contains a substantial set of heuristics, allowing a detailed intranet review to be conducted that focuses on a wide range of functionality, design and strategy. From elearningpost on December 1, 2005 at 9:47 a.m..

Galleries: The Hardest Working Page on Your Site
Jared Spool is on a roll. He's just published another useful article on the factors governing the gallery-type page. The galleries -- the list of links to content -- are your site's hardest working pages. They are the final page that separates those users who find the content they are seeking from the users who won't. A well-designed gallery page will drive users to success every time. A poorly-designed site will only serve to drive users away. From elearningpost on December 1, 2005 at 9:47 a.m..

The last abortion clinic
Yesterday I watched Frontline's The Last Abortion Clinic. Unlike some other abortion-related news reports or documentaries that pick a side or person to profile, this program examined the abortion debate from the context of the 1992 Supreme Court decision in Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey. Casey changed the standard of review for laws regulating abortion from the Roe v. Wade trimester framework (abortions legal in the first trimester and th From megnut on December 1, 2005 at 9:45 a.m..

Judge Voids BlackBerry Settlement
The maker of the BlackBerry handheld thought it had settled a patent-infringement suit for about $450 million. A court ruling Wednesday may end up costing Research in Motion closer to a cool billion. From Wired News on December 1, 2005 at 8:46 a.m..

King Kong Game Gets Five Bananas
Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie is an adventure to go ape over. But the Xbox 360 version delivers a nasty surprise. Game review by Chris Kohler. From Wired News on December 1, 2005 at 8:46 a.m..

Science Makes Sex Obsolete
One of the most primal human activities -- making babies -- moves from the bedroom to the petri dish and beyond. Brian Alexander reports on the future of reproductive technologies. Part three of a three-part series. From Wired News on December 1, 2005 at 8:46 a.m..

Airline Security a Waste of Cash
The U.S. government squanders millions on failed programs that hope to nab terrorists as they board airplanes. It should be investing in real security that isn't tangled in yesterday's threats. Commentary by Bruce Schneier. From Wired News on December 1, 2005 at 8:46 a.m..

The Cyclotron Comes to the 'Hood
An Alaska resident is on a collision course with neighbors and politicians over his plan to install a 20-ton particle accelerator in his home. Experts say safety is not a concern, but NIMBY is alive and well. By Xeni Jardin. From Wired News on December 1, 2005 at 8:46 a.m..

Instructional Trainer Position in Virginia
From the SALT Website — sounds like an ID position to me.Instructional TrainerWork Schedule: 8:15 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. or as determined by contract requirementsLocation of Job: Arlington, VAPRIMARY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: From Software Marketing Articles and Marketing Tips on December 1, 2005 at 7:54 a.m..

¿Debemos admitir este tipo de publicidad?
El director del gratuito 20minutos pregunta en su blog a los lectores: ¿Debemos admitir este tipo de publicidad? Algo está cambiando de verdad en los medios. Vía: ALT1040 From eCuaderno v.2.0 on December 1, 2005 at 7:52 a.m..

Biblioteconomía y Documentación: ranking de blogs
Muy interesante estudio en El Documentalista Enredado: Análisis de la Biblioblogosfera Hispana, del que recojo este ranking (en función de enlaces de entrada recibidos de miembros de la propia comunidad): 1. Véase Además 2. Catorze.Blog 3. Bido 4. El Documentalista Enredado 5. Deakialli DocuMental 6. a propósito de 7. Chacobo.com 8. TekaTeka 9. Visto y Leído 10. Alas y Balas 11. ... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on December 1, 2005 at 7:52 a.m..

Lectores RSS para móviles
Lectores de RSS para móviles: All I want is a good WAP RSS reader y Mobile RSS Readers Update (incluso para el iPod) From eCuaderno v.2.0 on December 1, 2005 at 7:52 a.m..

Die LMS die! You too PLE!
An article by Leigh Blackhall which argues that we don't need a Virtual Learning Environment when we alreday have the Internet. From ScotFEICT on December 1, 2005 at 7:52 a.m..

National Reading Council Conference
Today their President, Don Leu, delivered his 2005 Presidential Address entitled, New Literacies, Reading Research, and the Challenges of Change: A Deictic Perspective of Our Research Worlds.... Today I had the opportunity during Don's address to speak via iChat about weblogs and how they are being used by students and teachers. From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on December 1, 2005 at 7:50 a.m..

Hurricane Digital Memory Bank
Contributors first find their location on a Google Map, then they contribute their story, picture or other file (am thinking this could be an audio recording, size is limited to 5 mgs, but if you have a larger file you can send them an email and make arrangements for upload...), then they provide some general information about themselves and upload the information.... This is a project of The Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University and the University of New Orleans in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History and the Lou From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on December 1, 2005 at 7:50 a.m..

Gollum and Some Thoughts about Filtering and Greasemonkey...
This got me thinking of something I read of in September when a post by Cory Doctrow on BoingBoing lamenting the fact that the items in the Library of Congress' American Memory project were locked in a Web .5 interface that made navigation and retrieval of information cumbersome. Simon Willison read the post and quickly came up with a Greasemonkey script that renderered the American Memory pages in a much more visualizing appealing manner. From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on December 1, 2005 at 7:50 a.m..

Apple iPod sales pass 30m - Tony Smith, the Register
Apple today said it has shipped more than 30m iPods since it launched the first member of its MP3 player family back in November 2001. That leaves it with just over a month to sell around 7m more - if it's to meet the 37m target set by Piper Jaffray analy From Techno-News Blog on December 1, 2005 at 7:49 a.m..

Experts: iPods Likely to Top Holiday Electronic Gift List - Lauren Weber, Newsday
Prices haven't really come down for iPods, said Gregg Richard, president of P.C. Richard the models retail for $99 to $499, depending on the amount of memory and features, such as video capability. Still, "we sell every one we can get our hands on," he s From Techno-News Blog on December 1, 2005 at 7:49 a.m..

Mozilla is gearing up to launch a large-scale marketing drive when Firefox 1.5 is released - Ingrid Marson, CNET News
Christopher Beard, the vice-president of products at Mozilla, said on Monday that there is a "strong likelihood" that Firefox 1.5, the next major version of the open source browser, will be released on Nov. 29. Beard said the corporation is planning a "bi From Techno-News Blog on December 1, 2005 at 7:49 a.m..

Meet the New Beam-it, Similar to the Old Beam-it
So far as I can tell, Michael Robertson's new Oboe Music Locker is leaning on music owner's fair use right and the DMCA safe harbor 512(c) to avoid the fate of his sued-to-death Beam-it service (aka, the MP3.com suit).  Since Obo From A Copyfighter's Musings on December 1, 2005 at 7:47 a.m..

Calling China
So this is the way it works, now. Read Thomas Friedman about how the World is Flat and that the Chinese are immersing their kids in the study of math and science and pumping out engineers at a rapid clip, and then, just to make sure, ring up an edublogger in Shanghai using a free Internet phone service to do some fact checking. I got to spend about 20 mintues on a Skype call chatting with Jeff Utecht this afternoon (about 5 am his time) about what it's like to teach in China, the state of the Chinese From weblogged News on December 1, 2005 at 7:47 a.m..

Galleries: the hardest working page on your site
Jared M. Spool has written an article on "website galleries" (navigation pages rather than collections of images), examining the effectiveness of design and navigation. To quote: Galleries are very important to user success, yet we are only now beginning to... From Column Two on December 1, 2005 at 7:47 a.m..

Release of (free) Intranet Review Toolkit
I'm really excited to announce a brand-new intranet resource, something that we've been quietly working all year. Best of all, we've released it for free, under a Creative Commons license. Full details as follows: Step Two Designs, in conjunction with... From Column Two on December 1, 2005 at 7:47 a.m..

After-school programs invade Britain
Some wonder if the policy is aimed to help children or meet the needs of working parents. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on December 1, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

The mystery of teaching science ... solved!
Hands-on learning is key to engaging middle-schoolers in math and science - and filling careers in related fields. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on December 1, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..