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Gender & IT bibiolography
I picked this up at Stephen’s Web, and felt it was important to pass it along here too. We’ve had a number of our students over the years interested in doing research and projects related to gender issues in educational technology. Each time, I’ve been disappointed that I didn’t have a good biblography [...] From
Rick's Café Canadien on December 4, 2005 at 9:54 p.m..
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OLDaily on December 4, 2005 at 7:45 p.m..
Graeme Daniel
Students in developed economies may well be digital natives wearing easy familiarity with computers and the Internet, Instant Messenging and mobile phones, but no matter how rewired they may be, their education in the end comes down to effective communication. From
wwwtools on December 4, 2005 at 6:55 p.m..
Graeme Daniel
'... electronic discourse is neither writing nor speech, but rather written speech or spoken writing, or something unique in the history of human discourse.' - Ewa Jonsson From
wwwtools on December 4, 2005 at 6:55 p.m..
Graeme Daniel
'I think there's something wrong with me. I just don't understand Christmas. I like getting presents, sending cards, decorating trees and all that. But instead of feeling happy, I feel sort of let down' - A Charlie Brown Christmas: the Making of a Tradition From
wwwtools on December 4, 2005 at 6:55 p.m..
Adobe Bloggers React to the Merger
I thought I'd take a look at the Adobe blogs and see what sort of reaction they were having to the announcement that the merger with Macromedia has been approved. I don't know if I should read anything into this or not: Huh. Well, here's hoping that in addition to... From
Brain Frieze on December 4, 2005 at 6:55 p.m..
When Reality Smacks You in the Face
Have you ever had something happen in your personal or professional life that was a major wake-up call? Not exactly a moment when a light-bulb goes on above your head, but more like having a whole case of bulbs come crashing down on you. The glass shatters, and you hear the tinkling of little shards as each lands on the floor. You shake your head and realize that something fundamental has changed. A defining moment that will shape the course ahead of you. I had one of those... From
Brain Frieze on December 4, 2005 at 6:55 p.m..
Marathon of the Palm Beaches
Our street is on the marathon route for the second running of the Marathon of the Palm Beaches. We've had literally thousands or runners streaming past the house since about 6:30 this morning in an impressive display of conditioning, determination, and in the case of some runners, sheer stupidity. Not to take anything away from people who want to improve their health and take on a challenge, but many of the people who are passing by are woefully out of shape and have no business running... From
Brain Frieze on December 4, 2005 at 6:55 p.m..
Disable Active Scripting to Prevent IE Attack
A group aptly named "Computer Terrorism" has released information on an unpatched flaw in Internet Explorer that could allow one's computer to be taken over merely by visiting a web site. The 5.5 and 6.0 versions of Microsoft's Interent Explorer are vulnerable to this exploit. In essence, by visiting a web page running an active script, the user's computer can become infected and run any program the hacker wants. While no actual attacks are known to have exploited the flaw, now that it has been described publicly it probably won't be long before a hacker takes advantage From
Indiana IT on December 4, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..
Songbird: iTunes Alternative?
I just noticed Songbird, what seems to be an iTunes like media player in development with the first preview release forecasted for this December. Songbird is being developed on Mozilla's XULRunner package so I'm thinking that this may be a free/open source package, however, I dont' see anything on the Songbird website that confirms this. Of [...] From
Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on December 4, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..
Diggdot.us
Like the resources you can find at Digg, Slashdot and del.icio.us? Well I guess you can get all three, minus the duplicates at Diggdot.us. I suppose I could have Superglu'd this together, but getting rid of the dupes is a bit better. And while I didn't see a place for the RSS feed, it's there. From
Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on December 4, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..
Fluxiom
I don't know much about this other than it looks to be a very cool organizational asset manager. Yet, the video makes me want it! However, something makes me think this will be both proprietary and expensive. OK, my love affair with Fluxiom is now officially over. From
Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on December 4, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..
Vienna RSS/Atom Reader For Mac OS X
I just downloaded Vienna 2.0 and threw in my feeds over from Shrook. Vienna is open source/freeware, has a nice clean user interface and seems much snappier and responsive than my usual reader. Although, the speed may have something to do with it not being able to handle file attachments within the reader. This is [...] From
Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on December 4, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..
Gollum: Wikipedia Browser
I love this idea. Gollum is a Wikipedia Browser for fast and eyefriendly browsing through the free encyclopedia "Wikipedia". Gollum gives you access to nearly all Wikipedias in all languages. Further more Gollum gives you some special features which allow you to easily customize your work with Wikipedia. In my opinion the interface of Wikipedia is too [...] From
Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on December 4, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..
Poker Playing Robots
This strays from my usual line of thought, but it goes out to my many friends who are avid online poker players. I came across an interesting article (via Digg) titled "You'll Never Beat The Poker Robots". Over the years, I've been trying to convince my friends that gambling online will never be profitable, that [...] From
Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on December 4, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..
iPods In A Classroom: My Observation
I had an interesting learning experience today while I observed/evaluated one of my preservice students teach a senior level highschool math class. Direct instruction was utilized as students observed the teacher, followed along and wrote down any derived formulas. It was classic chalk-and-talk. And, the students were mostly well-behaved, and although a few chattered among [...] From
Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on December 4, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..
Adam Curry Takes More Credit Than He Is Due
Here's an interesting piece of news ... Former MTV veejay and podcasting entrepreneur Adam Curry appears to have been caught anonymously editing the podcasting entry on Wikipedia to remove credit from other people and inflate his role in its creation. And one of those "other people" appears to be our good friend Stephen Downes. One of the [...] From
Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on December 4, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..
del.icio.us Guide Updated
David Muir has updated his guide to using the social bookmarking service del.icio.us. Titled as Simply Del.icio.us, this brief guide gives a overview of the del.icio.us service and a bit on RSS. This is likely a good place to start for beginning users or teachers. From
Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on December 4, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..
Women in Podcasting: 40 New Shows Listed
Now that I've relaunched the Women in Podcasting list as an OPML outline (which is much, much easier to maintain), I can finally start catching up on my considerable backlog of suggested shows. I've just added about 40 new shows to the list. These are all currently active podcasts that are hosted or co-hosted by women... From
Contentious Weblog on December 4, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..
Web 2.0 and Science: Behind the Hype
Recently I was quoted in an article by Declan Butler in Nature magazine, "Science in the Web Age: Joint Efforts." (Thanks, Declan!) A few weeks ago Butler sent me an intriguing list of observations and questions about whether and how "Web 2.0" technologies are affecting science, to which I responded at length. He chose to only include a brief quote from me – which is fine, he obviously had a lot of great material to choose from. But since I put a lot of thought into my response, I thought I'd share it here... From
Contentious Weblog on December 4, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..
Resistance is useful.
Many academics view online teaching and learning with suspicion (Buck, 2001). According to Buck (2001), many academics believe that comparing outcomes of face-to-face and online instruction do not produce authentic, meaningful results. However, taking such a perspective is not very... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on December 4, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..
Quote of the day.
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. Andy Rooney US news commentator (1919 - )... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on December 4, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..
Human-Centered Intranet Design
Have you ever tried discussing Tolstoy with a vacuum cleaner? This is precisely how many users feel when trying to interact with their systems in a technologically driven work environment. And I do mean interact. Although the word is usually... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on December 4, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..
Edublog awards
Not got your nominations in for the 2005 international Edublog Awards? Well, hurry up. There's only 4 days to go until the nominations are counted up and the short-list is announced. Be sure and get your favorite blogs and bloggers... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on December 4, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..
Literacy Devices
This page contains a list of literary devices and their meanings. It is very important to understand that students are not expected in any to know these terms - nor should students be expected to come up with the proper... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on December 4, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..
Rubric Resources
The use of rubrics is growing as a viable means of evaluating students' performances. Explore the growing number of excellent Internet resources on this subject: Rubrics... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on December 4, 2005 at 6:54 p.m..
Proud owner of the TotalGym 1300
Top Thirty Facts about Chuck Norris. Includes such zoans as "The chief export of Chuck Norris is pain." On a similar note, one should also examine Seagalology - The Study of Steven Seagal. And remember, "There are no disabled people. Only people who have met Chuck Norris." From
silentblue | Quantified on December 4, 2005 at 6:53 p.m..
This Old Powerbook
Earlier this week at work, I rescued an old "Pismo" model Powerbook from the recycling bin. I was able to pick up some inexpensive RAM and a new battery, and so now I have a screaming 400MHz G3 laptop sporting 1GB of RAM and 5 hours of airplane life! Actually, I'm rather amazed: the 4 year old laptop is more than usable. Sure, start-up times are a bit sluggish for the OS (I installed 10.4) and apps, but once booted, the machine runs just fine. Now I'll finally be able to take my Keynote presentations with me for roadshow talks (sorry Powerpoint!). From
The Electric Lyceum on December 4, 2005 at 6:53 p.m..
Konkuk University March 2006
I belong to a mailing list, and forgot how I got on it, that periodically mails out job openings within Korea. Most of these positions are teaching at Universities and should be much better than the typical institute job. I have decided to share this information but, I make no claims about credibility or desirability of each position, caveat emptor. From
Language, teaching, and all things EFL on December 4, 2005 at 6:53 p.m..
Dice
At the beginning of the semester I purchased a pound of dice off of ebay for my classes. The pound of dice is supposed to be for role-playing games, such as AD&D, and thus contains all types of die; D4, D6, D8, D10, D12, D20 and one D100. The purpose for me was to make some interesting games that didn't only rely on regular six sided die. I've got a couple of games and boards on the drawing board right now which I plan on designing in photoshop over the upcoming vacation period. I have used these die throughout the semester and had some fun results. First I used the D4 to reduce how From
Language, teaching, and all things EFL on December 4, 2005 at 6:53 p.m..
Full time Korean study
Starting tomorrow I'll be enrolled in full time Korean classes at Sogang University. The classes run from 9:00 to 1:00 Monday to Friday for 10 weeks, with a 2 week break from Christmas to the New year. Of course, I still have classes to teach and will miss some Korean classes for the first couple of weeks due to conflicts during exam week. If I don't miss Korean classes at the beginning then I won't be able to take any classes so it's a small price to pay in order to be able to finally take Korean lessons at a program that teaches with a modern system rather than grammar From
Language, teaching, and all things EFL on December 4, 2005 at 6:53 p.m..
Instant Messengers Future As NewsBots
The Netherlands is somewhat of a test market for services around Instant Messenger, Microsoft's chat client. With 4 million active IM users in a country of 15 million, IM is incredibly popular, and becoming a mass medium in its own... From
Kolabora.com on December 4, 2005 at 6:53 p.m..
What to Teach, Short and Sweet (Bill Wong Part II)
Before we go any further: Bill Wong is a construct; focusing on him reminds us of the level at which education is delivered and makes impact. The short and sweet of "what to teach" is "what you're told to teach" if you work in public education. Unless you're working on the fringes (e.g., Special Education) -- then there is more, but not much, latitude. [See the earlier entry, Bill Wong I. "What to Teach"
here . From
Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on December 4, 2005 at 6:46 p.m..
120 articles written
According to Usability Views, we've written 120 articles in total (see their list of our articles sorted by "popularity"). That seems like quite a lot, but to be honest I'd hadn't sat down to actually count them before now...... From
Column Two on December 4, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..
No joy in mudville
If you haven’t heard, the U of S fell to the Wilfred Laurier by one point on a field goal in the final minute of play. Tough loss, but a great game. Congratulations Hawks and Huskies. From
Rick's Café Canadien on December 4, 2005 at 11:47 a.m..
Disclaimer
1. The personal opinions and ideas expressed at this site are those that the author feels are "good enough to criticize." Please do so. 2. None of the ideas expressed here are wholly original. The author will make every attempt to give credit to those who have helped form his ideas. (Case in point: The "
good enough to criticize" phrase above comes from Alan November.) 3. The author reserves the right to change his mind about any of these ideas based on further reading of trusted sources or pers From
weblogged News on December 4, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..
Wi-Fi Still Booming - David Needle , Internet News
Wi-Fi, the wireless technology that lets you surf the Web by the pool and make stock trades at the local Starbucks, is growing by leaps and bounds. A record-breaking 100 million Wi-Fi chipsets shipped this year, according to data just released by In-Stat From
Techno-News Blog on December 4, 2005 at 4:49 a.m..
LibriVox
LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain.... They use Project Gutenberg as an inspiration and post their audio files to the Internet Archive. From
Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on December 4, 2005 at 3:46 a.m..
Yahoo Unveils RSS E-Mail Folder - Yahoo News
Looking to gain another edge on its rivals, Internet powerhouse Yahoo Inc. on Wednesday will begin testing a new e-mail folder designed to make it easier for people to track the latest information posted on their favorite Web sites. The free feature reli From
Techno-News Blog on December 4, 2005 at 3:45 a.m..