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Monkeymagic on December 6, 2005 at 7:52 p.m..
Life offline (.ru)
Back to Moscow from Ekaterinburg. Last two weeks were heavily offline, 3 workshops, one-thousand-project-talks, new people, new ideas .ru, lot's of travel and lack of sleep. Some observations: lots of thoughts on innovations and communities - deserves a few posts (hopefully I'll write them) cultural translation is tough (and fun too ;) the dots are starting to get connected (thanks to
urbansheep,
moedu From Mathemagenic on December 6, 2005 at 6:52 p.m..
Handbook of Enquiry and Problem-Based Learning
This online volume by the Centre of Excellence in Learning and Teaching, National University of Ireland in Galway, contains valuable chapters about the theory and practice of enquiry- and problem-based learning. Instructors in all fields will find the handbook useful but I also believe the approach is valuable for self-guided learners--both students in colleges and universities and solo learners. Students who are stuck in traditional lecture-based programs are especially in need of some perspective on how they can enrich their own learning. From
EduResources--Higher Education Resources Online on December 6, 2005 at 6:47 p.m..
Keep Your Mitts Off My Fireworks
One of the common threads I'm seeing in the discussions regarding the subsuming of Macromedia into Adobe is one that is entirely welcome. As the Adobe team looks at how it will align its new product line lots of folks have concerns that Fireworks will be abandoned. Geoff at
NeuroFuzzy discusses how he uses Fireworks for page compositions and makes the case the Fireworks is to web design as AutoCad is to architects.... From
Brain Frieze on December 6, 2005 at 5:57 p.m..
Stella awards
From what dumb pool are they getting jurors from I wonder? THE STELLA AWARDS It's time once again to review the winners of the Annual "Stella Awards." The Stella Awards are named after 81 year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on December 6, 2005 at 5:56 p.m..
Superintendent blogs
Thanks to Julie, in comments, for pointing to a superintendent's blog in Florida. Clayton Wilcox, superintendent of Piniellas County Schools, uses the blog to get the word out--and to get feedback. On one post, I see, he got 600 comments.... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on December 6, 2005 at 5:56 p.m..
What they are not really???
May it please the court: Many stories are going around the 'net saying they are "The Stella Awards". Many of these stories are false, made-up, or (sometimes) true stories with false elements added to them. Stella Awards: Decidedly NOT the... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on December 6, 2005 at 5:56 p.m..
Workshops and Courses
Find out more about the workshops and courses below: when they are broadcast on the Annenberg Channel and how to purchase them on videocassette or DVD. Subscribe to or unsubscribe from a workshop's or course's Channel-Talk email list, or, click... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on December 6, 2005 at 5:56 p.m..
XML Formatting of State Standards
So this pushes past my feeble understanding of XML, but Tracy Logan of the Wayne/Finger-Lakes BOCES in NY seems to have some pretty interesting ideas of how to bring state standards into the 21st Century. Here's a snip of an e-mail I got from her, reprinted with her permission: There are a lot of very interesting things we can do with the standards once we have methods of directly referencing them -- some of the ideas we've tossed around are structured folksonomies (where teachers could use something similar to
del.icio.us but pre-fi From
weblogged News on December 6, 2005 at 5:47 p.m..
Declan Butler - Science in the Web Age: Joint Efforts - Nature
Writing in Nature, Declan Butler wonders why more scientists don't blog. "many researchers still see publications in the formal scientific literature as 'the' means of scientific communication... for most scientists and academics, blogs and wikis remain unattractive distractions from their real work. Many consider them an online version of coffee-room chatter, background noise that goes against the very ethos of heavily filtered scholarly information." But blogging not only brings immediacy, it can bring readership and relevance. "If someone told me that I could show up at a lec From
OLDaily on December 6, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..
Mitchell Weisburgh - What do Kids do on Computers? - PILOTed
Interview with Robert Kvavik, co-author of the ECAR of Students and Information Technology. Some interesting bits. For example, "We hear all this hype about digital natives and millennial students, and then find that they only had a moderate preference for technology in the classroom." And "the results do not vary much by the institutions, nor by grade point average, which may be the typical ways we measure ability; that the use of IT transcends this, that students have an innate ability to work with and learn technology regardless of academic performance." [ From
OLDaily on December 6, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..
Unattributed - Firefox Scholar (aka SmartFox) - Echo
Firefox Scholar will "enable users, with a single click, to grab a citation to a book, journal article, archival document, or museum object and store it in their browser. Researchers will then be able to take notes on the reference, link that reference to others, and organize both the metadata and annotations." Cool. [ From
OLDaily on December 6, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..
John McAdams - Marquette Dental Student Suspended Over Blog Posts - Marquette Warrior
OK, I'll confess. Sometimes I got out for a beer. Sometimes I go out for a lot of beers, though less frequently these days. And sometimes, when I was at school, I disliked my professors. Admitting to this, were I a student at Marquette, could get me suspended and worse. That is, after all, what happened to a student who made similar statements in his blog. As the author of this article observes, it looks like a vendetta prompted by ther anger of a hyper-sensitive school official. And would not be worth commenting on were it to have been an isolated instance. But, as readers know, it isn&a From
OLDaily on December 6, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..
[berkman] Barbara van Schewick
Barbara van Schewick asks at a Berkman lunch whether we need network neutrality rules that prevent carriers from preferring or excluding particular applications or content. She is today going to present the theoretical case for network neutrality rules. Network providers say that they don't want to discriminate against applications, so "network neutrality rules are just regulation in search of a problem." She says there are three questions you need to ask to make the case: 1. Is there a threat of discrimination? 2. If there is, what's the impact? 3. What's the impact of regulati From
Joho the Blog on December 6, 2005 at 2:48 p.m..
If you live someplace snowy
I've been a Martha Stewart Living subscriber for years now, and there's always something neat in each magazine that I want to do. This month's magazine (December 2005) has a
great snow pillar idea. You pack snow into a Bundt pan and make "cakes" then stack them and put a candle inside! The pictures in the magazine are better than the single one shown online, but you can get the idea. In the mag, they have several pillars lining the walkway up to a house. If I h From
megnut on December 6, 2005 at 2:45 p.m..
La televisión mira hacia Internet
“Más rápido, más alto, más fuerte!” es el lema olímpico [Ver origen]. Sin exagerar, parece que Internet se encuentra “más en forma” que la TV, al menos desde el punto de vista de la publicidad. El pronóstico del reciente Reuters Media and Advertising Summit es que los anuncios publicitarios en TV, ... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on December 6, 2005 at 1:51 p.m..
The smiley face of hate
Of course Lamb and Lynx Gaede, angelic twin 13-year-old girls, are the new darlin's of the racist set, singing pop songs with lyrics such as "Strike force! White survival. Strike force. Yeah!," and throwing in a "Seig Heil!" now and then. They look simply adorable. Really. And their Hitler smiley face t-shirts are the apotheosis of the cuteness of evil. But these are nasty nasty girls. For example, the name of their band, Prussian Blue, refers to the supposed lack of residue of that color in the gas chambers, "proof" that there was no Holocaust. (Here's the bright side of... From
Joho the Blog on December 6, 2005 at 11:46 a.m..
Chris Nolan, Stowe Boyd and me on ThoughtCast
Jenny Attiyeh's podcast site is featuring an interview she did with the three of us at the social software conference a couple of weeks ago. I haven't listened to it, but I remember being particular depressed and snappish — the Internet is being murdered and my ThinkPad had just broke — but, fortunately, Chris and Stowe were delightful. [Tags: JennyAttiyeh ChrisNolan StoweBoyd podcast]... From
Joho the Blog on December 6, 2005 at 11:46 a.m..
Personal Publishing and Media Literacy
Vor diesem Text haben schon einige den Hut gezogen, deshalb sei auch an dieser Stelle auf ihn verwiesen. Die Autoren, zwei Norweger, liefern einige gute Argumente für den Einsatz von Blogs und Wikis in der Bildung. Die sieben Seiten sind... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on December 6, 2005 at 8:51 a.m..
EdBlogger Awards 2005
The finalists for the
Edublog Awards 2005 are out and I'm humbled to have made the cut in the best individual blog category. I have no clue what that means in terms of numbers of people who may have offered this site in nomination, but I'll be the first to admit it feels good to be acknowledged in this way by my peers. Thanks to those of you who made the effort and to those of you who continue to read and connect with my ideas and experiences. (Insert Sally Field moment here.) The even better news is th From
weblogged News on December 6, 2005 at 8:47 a.m..
Wikipedia Tightens the Reins
After word gets out that a published entry falsely implicates a man in the Kennedy assassinations, the online encyclopedia requires users to register before they can post to the site. From
Wired News on December 6, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..
Thinking Outside the Box Office
Director Steven Soderbergh talks about copyright, remix culture and why he'll debut his new movie on DVD, cable and in theaters all at once. By Xeni Jardin of Wired magazine. From
Wired News on December 6, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..
Let Your PC Do the Investing
Day trader used to mean 'human with eyes glued to computer.' But people are becoming tangential to the process, and even small-scale investors rely on their computers to select, time and execute trades. By Joanna Glasner. From
Wired News on December 6, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..
Le Chic Shall Inherit Les Blogs
A Parisian catwalk model and Unix programmer named Anina drags the fashion industry into the world of blogs and moblogs. By Robert Andrews. From
Wired News on December 6, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..
Fido's First Cell Phone
A bone-shaped, slobber-proof cell phone for dogs will hit the market next year. Has the world gone barking mad? You'd be surprised by the bone-fide applications. By Jenn Shreve. From
Wired News on December 6, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..
Firm Allegedly Hiding Cisco Bugs
The whistle-blower who resigned from a top security company to expose a critical hole in Cisco routers now accuses his ex-employer of concealing 15 more flaws in the ubiquitous systems, hiding them even from Cisco. By Kim Zetter. From
Wired News on December 6, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..
If I Only Had a 30 Hour Day
I've come to the conclusion that I need about 6 more hours per day to keep up all the things I need to do. Today, for instance, I was up at 4 am and put in a good 4 hours of writing on The Book Project. Then it was off to fishing buddy Fred's house to help finish the repairs he needed to his roof after Hurricane Wilma trashed it and sent cascades of water down the interior walls. Then up to the in-laws for dinner and the return of the generator they loaned us, followed by an hour drive... From
Brain Frieze on December 6, 2005 at 6:51 a.m..
2005 Edublogs Award Shortlist
I've just noticed that the 2005 Edublogs shortlist has been released, and WOW ... I'm actually a player in two of the nominations. First, our EdTech Posse has been nominated under the category "Best audio and/or visual blog". This just further demonstrates that we really need to keep this podcast rolling (it's been a bit [...] From
Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on December 6, 2005 at 6:51 a.m..
Online Hate/Media & Race: Resource
Our Faculty has recently licensed two new and excellent resources from the Media Awareness Network (MNet). MNet is a non-profit organization based in Ottawa and it boasts "one of the worldTMs most comprehensive collections of media education and Internet literacy resources" (more info here). Their materials are really top-notch. The two newest additions to the MNet [...] From
Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on December 6, 2005 at 6:51 a.m..
The Art of the E-Mail Interview
Today American Journalism Review published a pretty good article by Kim Hart, "Inbox Journalism." (Incidentally, I liked it for more reasons than because I'm quoted in it.) In this article, Hart explores attitudes toward e-mail interviews among journalists, editors, and journalism educators. While many of my journalism colleagues still harbor a fair amount of resistance to e-mail interviews, I think the anecdote that leads Hart's article demonstrates the value of e-mail not just for getting quotes, but for building relationships with sources. Here's my take on e-mail intervie From
Contentious Weblog on December 6, 2005 at 6:50 a.m..
Technological Changes in E-Education
From an E-Education perspective, the last two years have yielded significant technological change on three major fronts: hardware, software and network connectivity. Distance educators and administrators should take note of these changes and trends when planning new programme and course... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on December 6, 2005 at 6:50 a.m..
Elementary School in Jeonju
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 6, 2005 at 6:49 a.m..
Why Educated Consumers are Better Customers
Not too long ago, a colleague asked me why we invest so heavily in consumer education. We have made a conscious decision to spend marketing dollars on consumer education for a very simple reason. Educated consumers are simply better customers. Lets take a closer look at why educated consumers are better customers. Less Technical Support. 1.) Educated consumers require less technical support. The reduced technical support results in lower overhead costs. Often educated consumers can further reduce the support burden by assisting or educating other customers From
Software Marketing Articles and Marketing Tips on December 6, 2005 at 6:49 a.m..
Why reloading BlogTalk!
Because it's time for a conference that slows down the speed of picking up memes. What we need - I think - is time to develop meaning and concepts of what's going on in our society in relation to the web and its tools. We need to take a break from those 5 minutes of speed-talks about things that fascinate us but disguise themselves in the moment we kinda invoke them.Thinking of
BlogTalk (
t t d f) that powers your html-page (
Olechowski,
Reinacker,
thomas n. burg | randgänge on December 6, 2005 at 5:45 a.m..