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Seattle tops in Internet literacy - Dibya Sarkar, FCW
Seattle ranks as the country From Techno-News Blog on December 2, 2005 at 10:49 p.m..

Apple may launch Intel laptops soon, analyst says - Reuters
Apple Computer could introduce its first laptop computers based on Intel chips as early as January, which, together with robust sales of video iPods, should drive earnings higher, Citigroup said Wednesday. Citigroup analyst Richard Gardner raised his tar From Techno-News Blog on December 2, 2005 at 10:49 p.m..

Finding harmony among iPod rivals - Ina Fried, CNET News
Hoping to loosen Apple Computer's grip on the digital music player market, Microsoft is rallying consumer electronics companies to form a common link. The software maker is part of a working group launched last week by the Consumer Electronics Associatio From Techno-News Blog on December 2, 2005 at 10:49 p.m..

Senate Panel to Review American U. Board's Actions on Spending
At issue is whether board members of American University properly handled charges about spending by the university's former president. From New York Times: Education on December 2, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..

Ford Memorial Library Podcasts: Click-A-Story
The other day I posted about Storynory, a website with podcasts of children's stories.... This site is less commercial than Storynory and the readers are members of the library staff. From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on December 2, 2005 at 9:49 p.m..

Jane Goodall's Camp on Flickr
Recently at Lewis, students in Sarah Jones' classroom created science projects and Sophie chose to create a diorama of Jane Goodall's Camp.... I am mainly interested in running something on our intranet that would allow me to provide students with accounts for internal photo sharing and discussion. From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on December 2, 2005 at 9:49 p.m..

Multi-voice, multi-task, multi-channel
chapter 1: Another research presentation, another day Well the CIDER presentation went extremely well today, I thought, with a great deal of excellent discussion. Katy and Rick invited me to join them (we’re working together on the research program, but I wasn’t originally part of this particular presentation). Katy and Rick were excellent, and [...] From Rick's Café Canadien on December 2, 2005 at 8:54 p.m..

When 2.0: Time and Timing
Time is all we've got. Our challenge is allocating that time, intersecting our time with that of others, managing the disposition over time of the resources we control. Time itself is abstract, but it takes on value as a measure of unique, un-tradable things: Juan's presence, the use of Alice's spare apartment, the time of a particular doctor or the attention of a specific audience. But computers know nothing of this, even though time is intrinsic to their operation and they can measure it with precision. They don't understand how people value time, nor how time changes val From Release 1.0 on December 2, 2005 at 8:51 p.m..

links for 2005-12-02
Connectedness: Benefits of name dropping: David Krackhardt, Valdis Krebs, Kate Ehrlich, Martin Kilduff, Steve Borgatti Bruce Hoppe makes some interesting points about what gets people to sites - names, not concepts. (tags: network name_drop Bruce_Hoppe Google_Analytics reputation traffic)... From Monkeymagic on December 2, 2005 at 7:52 p.m..

A quick primer on Social Network Analysis
Shawn Callahan has posted a primer on Social Network Analysis, outlining the major steps involved. To quote: Given that I'm right in the middle of a social network analysis, I thought I'd throw together a very quick, very brief primer... From Column Two on December 2, 2005 at 7:45 p.m..

WikiMatrix
This is a great idea: WikiMatrix, which allows the features and design of many different wikis to be compared. For a long time now, there's been way too many wikis, with no easy way of working out the right one... From Column Two on December 2, 2005 at 7:45 p.m..

Mobile Gamers go Direct to Carriers for Content
Mobile carriers' walled gardens now allow outside in, but their customers stay inside. From ClickZ Stats on December 2, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

The Poetry Archive
This site represents what online learning should aspire toward: it offers poetry, as read by the poets, for use in schools. What would make it better? MP3 recordings (instead of unusable Real Audio) that can be mashed with images and animations to add texture to videos. RSS feeds offering various types of listings, so people can get a poem a day, say, or list poems among other educational resources. But still, as they say, this is a good start. Via From OLDaily on December 2, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Educational Social Overlay Networks , Virtual Canuck
Terry Anderson enters the blogosphere in a nice way with his From OLDaily on December 2, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

CSS Templates
Nice page with templates you can download and use to crease columns, centered boxes, and the like on your website. Via From OLDaily on December 2, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Handbook of Enquiry and Problem-based Learning: Irish Case Studies and International Perspectives , Centre of Excellence in learning and Teaching
This comprehensive volume composed of about twenty individual essays not only offers a good grounding in enguiry and problem based learning but looks at them in practice, as each essay contains numerous examples and case studies. If you are interested in either approach to teaching and learning, then this volume is a must-read. Nice to see the free download and Creative Commons license, too. [ From OLDaily on December 2, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

What Harm Can a Blog Do? , Mousing Around
A helpful look at the other side of the blog blocking debate as Miguel Guhlin reposts an entry by Nancy Willard (who is very well versed in this discussion) from WWWEDU. The post, basically, is a list of the things that can go wrong with school blogs, everything from bullying to defamation to copyright infringement. Like all powerful technologies, blogs have their less than harmless uses, and it is this that parents and teachers take into account when advocating for their control. Not that I think the correct response is to simply block them. But we should be sympathetic with the argument and From OLDaily on December 2, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

OnderwijsInnovatie Interview
Two part interview conducted during the Open Source Software conference in Heerlen in November with the Open University's magazine OnderwijsInnovatie. From OLDaily on December 2, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Brian Lamb on Writely
Brian Lamb posts a personal review of Writely, the (at this point) free online word processor. Writely also serves as a multi-author collaborative tool, although I didn’t realize it worked in real time. I haven’t used it for anything “official” yet, but will give Writely a shot. I will happily dismiss Word if Writely is [...] From Martindale Matrix on December 2, 2005 at 2:46 p.m..

Premio Cervantes 2005
El mexicano Sergio Pitol obtiene el Premio Miguel de Cervantes 2005 [vía] From eCuaderno v.2.0 on December 2, 2005 at 8:52 a.m..

Excitement Building in Eu(rope)
Registration for the European Union's '.eu' domain name starts next week and the word coming out of Brussels is 'get 'em while they're hot.' From Wired News on December 2, 2005 at 8:46 a.m..

Everyone Is Grateful Again
No one can say the Grateful Dead doesn't listen to its fans. Stung by the backlash when the Dead's concert recordings were no longer available for free downloading, band members act to restore the status quo. From Wired News on December 2, 2005 at 8:46 a.m..

Don't Call It Spyware
First the company that created Gator was considered a scourge. Now it's a rising star -- selling virtually the same product. How a pop-up pariah won the adware wars. By Annalee Newitz from Wired magazine. From Wired News on December 2, 2005 at 8:46 a.m..

Fuel Up with Banana Peels
What if we could double the energy efficiency of coal and reduce the United States' dependence on foreign oil? Carbon fuel cells, derived from biowaste and bananas, may do the trick. By Cyrus Farivar. From Wired News on December 2, 2005 at 8:46 a.m..

Sun Powers Loon-y Pontoon Boat
A new, eco-friendly powerboat costs pennies to run and doesn't pollute. But will America's giant powerboat industry climb on board? By Stephen Leahy. From Wired News on December 2, 2005 at 8:46 a.m..

Stem Cells, Over Easy
As the world reacts to the South Korean stem-cell debacle, the history of in vitro fertilization offers a real-world example of responsibility in the handling and use of human eggs spanning nearly three decades. From Wired News on December 2, 2005 at 8:46 a.m..

You're the Present, You Sexy Geek
Want to spice up your gift-giving for that special someone? Here are some spanky fun possibilities for this year's stocking that will get your amatory message across. By Regina Lynn. From Wired News on December 2, 2005 at 8:46 a.m..

Pop Goes the Science Song
With the help of the internet, professors and teachers are torturing songs to help with lessons on subjects from physics to cell metabolism. 'Take Me to the Liver,' anyone? By Randy Dotinga. From Wired News on December 2, 2005 at 8:46 a.m..

Googleado en la frontera
Conocí al bloguer iraní afincado en Toronto Hossein Derakhshanen en Viena durante la conferencia BlogTalk en 2003, y acabo de compartir con él las sesiones del jurado de los premios BOBs en Bonn. Ayer nos contó en una lista de correo el episodio de su frustrado intento de entrar ... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on December 2, 2005 at 7:50 a.m..

My startling insights into Helsinki
It turns out that I only had about 1.5 hours to wander around Helsinki this morning. Yet in that time I'm confident that I have absorbed the essence of this city, including its arts, culture, history, and people. And now I am ready to render judgment: What a pretty city! I hope I can come back some time. Stay tuned for future pronouncements. I'm blogging from the Helsinki airport where I've learned that an "American" pizza has ham, pineapple and blue cheese on it. Perhaps the "Stoned American" pizza does, but that's not a combo I've come across in the... From Joho the Blog on December 2, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..

On Being Radical
I'm probably among the least radical people I know, but I'm starting to feel like one more and more, especially after listenting to Stephen Downes' keynote "On Being Radical" from last month (slides here.) I've learned much from his thinking over the past few years, and it's because his ideas are disruptive to my own context. They push me into spaces that aren't especially comfortable, and that's a good thing. To me, that's where the learning hweblogged News on December 2, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Master's Thesis on "OS software evaluation model" focused on Course Management Systems
http://www.karinvandenberg.nl/Thesis.pdf This thesis by Karin van den Berg was part of her Master's program at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. It does a nice job of boiling down many of the previous attempts at developing criteria for evaluating open source projects (see her references for the extensive list) and then uses as a case study the field of course man From EdTechPost on December 2, 2005 at 4:50 a.m..

One in Six Online Americans Sell on Web - Associated Press
One in six U.S. Internet users have sold goods and services online and 2 percent do so on a given day, a new study found. Sales are typically done through such online classifed ads sites as Craigslist or through an auction like eBay, the Pew Internet and From Techno-News Blog on December 2, 2005 at 3:48 a.m..

iMedia revolution is here - Sun2Surf Malaysia
Terry Wolfisch Cole may seem like an ordinary 40-year-old mum and Girl Scout troop leader, but her small-town Connecticut neighbours know the truth - she's one of the "Pod People". At the supermarket, she wanders the aisles in a self-contained bubble, th From Techno-News Blog on December 2, 2005 at 3:48 a.m..

Show Your Hand, Not Your ID - VINCENT KIERNAN, Chronicle of Higher Education
Colleges use biometric scanners to screen for access to dining halls, labs, dorms, gyms, and computer networks. At many colleges, students flash a photo ID at a food-service worker to get into a dining hall. Things work differently at the University of G From Techno-News Blog on December 2, 2005 at 3:48 a.m..

Euan Semple rulz
Congratulations to Euan Semple on being named Information Professional of the Year.... From Joho the Blog on December 2, 2005 at 2:48 a.m..

Openly Gay Student's Lawsuit Over Privacy Will Proceed
The student brought the lawsuit against her California high school after a principal called her mother about her sexual orientation. From New York Times: Education on December 2, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..