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Embedded Flickr Slideshows
HOW TO Quickie: Embedded Flickr Slideshows: Paul Stamatiou explains on his site how to embed a Flickr slideshow in your own webpage. From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on December 7, 2005 at 8:50 p.m..

IA templates & stencils for Visio
Garrett Dimon has published a set of IA templates and stencils for Viso. To quote: The wireframe stencil focus mainly on form design by including a variety of form fields and common form elements. Specifically, it includes radio buttons and... From Column Two on December 7, 2005 at 8:47 p.m..

New issue of JOHO
I've just published an issue of my newsletter, the Journal of the Hyperlinked Organization. Here's the table of contents: The year of unique IDs: We're about to get very interested in assigning meaningless numbers to lots of things. Very interested. Last year, it was Web 2.0 and tagging. This year, it's going to be unique IDs (UIDs), and for the same reason that Web 2.0 and tagging matter: The Web is going miscellaneous. (The fact that I'm writing a book about the invigoration of the miscellaneous could not possibly have colored my perception. Nope. All of this is base From Joho the Blog on December 7, 2005 at 7:49 p.m..

New Tools to Push Advertising by 2010
Sales of tool and middleware services are expected to increase tenfold over the next five years as the interactive advertising industry takes advantage of the offerings. From ClickZ Stats on December 7, 2005 at 7:45 p.m..

The Office - Surprisingly good!
[Note: What follows is my opinion. No, there is no reason on earth why you should care.] The American version of the BBC's excruciatingly wonderful "The Office" isn't nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be. In fact, I'm enjoying it. In its second season, it seems to be moving away from the British original, which is a good thing: I'm a Steve Carell fan, but he can't touch Ricky Gervais, the creator and star of the British version. Gervais' office manager was a masterpiece of unself-knowingness. You could see what he was thinking even as he... From Joho the Blog on December 7, 2005 at 6:48 p.m..

New ETTC Podcast
So we managed to get all four of the Ed Tech Coast to Coast gang together on one Skype call just over a week ago and the result is now ready for consumption. The file is a bit large due to a change in the production process (Read: Steve took over for Tim W.), but hopefully that won't be a deterrent. This week, we even have weblogged News on December 7, 2005 at 6:47 p.m..

Backstory: Einsteins at five
The 'new' kindergarten is no longer just about learning shapes and how to tie shoes. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on December 7, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

City schools bring home better report cards
Since 2003, many large city school districts have outpaced the national average in improving students' math and reading skills. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on December 7, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Schools build 'cultures of excellence'
Experts say bold, systematic leadership is key to success. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on December 7, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Michael Ashburner, et.al. - Open Letter from Fellows of the Royal Society
Members of the Royal Society write to express their "disappointment with the Society's recent position statement on open access to published research." The Royal Society From OLDaily on December 7, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Kristine Peters - Learning on the Move, Mobile Technologies in Business and Education - Australian Flexible Learning Framework
Pointing out that mobile technology is already embedded in our lives, this report argues that mobile learning is not merely traditional teaching on small devices. "The interactivity of mobile technologies creates new teaching and learning opportunities more suited to a constructivist approach where the device is a tool for information and direction, but the structure of the learning is created by the learner." But the report also notes that "The difference in device between teacher and student is marked and reinforces the concerns expressed earlier in this report about the lack teacher prepare From OLDaily on December 7, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Various authors - Reinventing College Media
Site newly launched that focuses on college media and especially student media. Sample content: "I don't know about your campus, but at our campus, three words can describe the hottest thing in student media use: Xanga, MySpace, and Facebook." Hm, OK. Via From OLDaily on December 7, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Konrad Glogowski - Tools Interiorized - Blog of Proximal Development
This is pretty interesting - what happens when students used to blogging suddenly lose their environment. It turns out, they miss it. "My students didn't really miss writing itself. Had that been the case, they wouldn't have complained about writing in notebooks. What they missed was situated writing, a cognitive activity situated within a specific space that fosters cognitive engagement. They missed interactions, interactions with texts and with each other through texts. They missed the sense of participation and their audience." [ From OLDaily on December 7, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Teemu Leinonen - The $100 Laptop: Manna-vaporware - FLOSSE Posse
In an airport conversation in Calgary recently I commented - cynically - that MIT had gotten a lot of publicity over a product that does not exist. The topic was the $100 computer, which had been introduced at WSIS. Such scepticism, it seems, is not limited to my suspicious mind. Teemu Leinonen poses two questions that defy easy answers: "Why the only use case the MIT people talk about is delivering school books with the $100 Laptop?" and "Why didn't MIT decide to contribute to the Indian Simputer project that has been around already for five years?" Don't get me wrong - I am From OLDaily on December 7, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Various authors - Teaching Australia
Teaching Australia launches. "Teaching Australia is the national body for the teaching profession, promoting quality teaching and school leadership for the benefit of all Australians. Teaching Australia was launched as an independent body on 5 December 2005. Formerly the National Institute for Quality Teaching and School leadership, the Institute has been established with funding from the Australian Government, to be operated by and for the teaching profession." [ From OLDaily on December 7, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Get Back in the Box
Thought Virus #6: Brand as Communication
I'm tired of the Ben and Jerry's conversation. So here's a new excerpt, from much earlier in the book. It's a continuation of some of social currency and open source ideas from other posted excerpts. It's actually a more controversial idea - and one that I qualify in the book. For brands may not ultimately be the best symbol systems from which to make meaning.However much attention goes into their design, products from Apple computers to Fleuvog shoes are less valuable to customers as objects than they are as enablers of experience. They From rushkoff.blog on December 7, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Cooking with cast iron
From today's New York Times, Mark Bittman writes about cast iron skillets in, Ever So Humble, Cast Iron Outshines the Fancy Pans: As cookware becomes more expensive and the kinds available become more varied, it's increasingly clear to me that most "new" pots and pans are about marketing. For most tasks, old-style cookware is best. So these day From megnut on December 7, 2005 at 3:45 p.m..

Google es Matrix
La frase no es mía. Es de esas que prefieres que pronuncien nombres más respetados que el tuyo. En este caso John Batelle, al que no leo pero veo a menudo referenciado. La revista Newsweek ha publicado un número especial con el título The Knowledge Revolution, la Revolución ... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on December 7, 2005 at 1:52 p.m..

Need Study Steam?
Ron Gross urges you to invest a couple of hours into regaining the energy, commitment, interest, and strategies you need to succeed.... From Adult/Continuing Education on December 7, 2005 at 1:49 p.m..

Sanger on Seigenthaler
Larry Sanger, in regards to John Seigenthaler’s criticism of Wikipedia: I have long worried that something like this would happen—from the very start of Wikipedia, in fact. Last year I wrote a paper, “Why Collaborative Free Works Should Be Protected... From Corante: Social Software on December 7, 2005 at 12:50 p.m..

Minor changes around here
I tweaked the subway design a little. That mega-giant black header was just too depressing! So I toned it down a bit, trying to keep the theme but making it feel a bit lighter and cheerier around here. Hopefully the new design will make you feel cheerier as well! As always, let me know if there are any problems in your browser. From megnut on December 7, 2005 at 12:45 p.m..

A bout of hair confidence at the gym
I went to the gym for the first time yesterday. Since I'm used to working out on my own by basically just running outdoors, I wasn't feeling very confident about my "outfit" for my new scene, especially my hair. I've been growing it out for over a year now and it's reached a state I can only call "mushroom-shaped frazzled frizz." As I walked over to the gym, I told myself that it didn't matter, that it was about working out, not looking good, etc. etc. Still, I felt as awkward as the first day of high school. In the locker room I stood at the mirror, fretti From megnut on December 7, 2005 at 11:45 a.m..

,,Generation 50plus" HYPHEN kommerzielle Erfindung oder neue Zielgruppe für die Erwachsenenbildung?
Es besteht ja derzeit wirklich kein Mangel an Beschreibungen des "Homo Zappiens", der "Millennials" bzw. der "digital natives". Und wenn es um e-Learning geht, beschreibt "50plus" mehr eine Problem- als eine Zielgruppe. Von daher habe ich mich über diesen Bericht... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on December 7, 2005 at 10:51 a.m..

"IM here": Reflections on virtual office hours
Zwei Lehrende am Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, haben einen interessanten Versuch gestartet und ihre Sprechstunden um ein Instant Messaging-Angebot erweitert. Das haben sie über vier Semester gemacht, Buch geführt und jetzt ausgewertet. Das Resultat: Es wurde genutzt (173mal),... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on December 7, 2005 at 9:52 a.m..

Announcement: Open Position for an Information Technology Professional
The Department of Information Technology Systems and Services at the University of Minnesota Duluth is accepting applications for an Information Technology Professional. From Web Design References: Site Update on December 7, 2005 at 8:48 a.m..

Asia Recognized; Porn in Limbo
The Asia-Pacific region gets its own domain -- .asia -- but ICANN delays a decision on whether to assign all those juicy sex sites an .xxx home. From Wired News on December 7, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..

Graffiti Hackers
Text-message projectors. Paintball printers. Wall-crawling robots. The new tech taggers are here. By Sonia Zjawinski of Wired magazine. From Wired News on December 7, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..

The Digital Audiophile's Toolbox
With a little work and the right software, you can get your digital music collection humming. By Dan Goodin. From Wired News on December 7, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..

Music Man Cracks DRM Schemes
A computer-science grad student with a flair for reverse engineering matches wits with the recording industry whenever it releases a new copy-protection scheme. Guess who's winning? By Quinn Norton. From Wired News on December 7, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..

Secret ID Law to Get Hearing
Internet freedom fighter John Gilmore is about to get his day in court, challenging the Bush administration's covert laws demanding travelers to show identification papers. By Ryan Singel. From Wired News on December 7, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..

Face It: Privacy Is Endangered
A new photo-tagging service uses facial-recognition technology to identify the people in your party pix. When similar systems start crawling the web, we'll all be looking for a change of face. Commentary by Jennifer Granick. From Wired News on December 7, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..

Old Rips: May They Rest in Peace
Members of the Napster generation, who blissfully piled up free tunes while they could, are realizing that the quality of low-bitrate MP3s sucks. Part one of a three-part series. By Dan Goodin. Plus: The Digital Audiophile's Toolbox From Wired News on December 7, 2005 at 7:46 a.m..

Lines Drawn for Big Suit Over Sodas
The Center for Science in the Public Interest is spearheading a lawsuit to be filed in the next few months to ban sales of sugary beverages in schools. From New York Times: Education on December 7, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Plagios, plagios, plagios
El diario británico The Mail ha obtenido el dudoso mérito de ser reconocido como Press Plagiarist of the Year, o sea, el medio plagiario por excelencia en 2005. El reconocimiento lo obtiene por una copia literal de una nota publicada previamente en The Policeman’s Blog. Sin salir al extranjero, también en ... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on December 7, 2005 at 6:52 a.m..

Supreme Court Weighs Military's Access to Law Schools
The justices appeared strongly inclined to uphold a law that withholds federal grants from schools that do not allow recruiters. From New York Times: Education on December 7, 2005 at 3:45 a.m..

DRAM prices slump to all-time lows: The current price is just half of what the chips cost at the beginning of the year - Dan Nystedt. Computer World
The price of the most commonly used DRAM (dynamic RAM) computer memory chips has slumped to all time lows in the spot market, making it a great time for users to buy more. The average spot price of the mainstream memory chip, 256Mbit double data rate DRA From Techno-News Blog on December 7, 2005 at 2:49 a.m..

Chip Sales Jump 8 Percent in 2006 - Dan Nystedt, IDG News Service
Growth in the global chip market next year will outpace that of 2005, which has already been far better than expected, as spending in telecommunications and information technology markets drives chip revenue up 8 percent to more than $240 billion, market From Techno-News Blog on December 7, 2005 at 2:49 a.m..

SNARFing your way through e-mail - Ina Fried, CNET News
With the world's in-boxes overflowing with unread messages, researchers at Microsoft are offering up a tool they hope will help people sort through the morass. The software maker this week released a free utility that aims to sort e-mail in a new way: It From Techno-News Blog on December 7, 2005 at 2:49 a.m..

On Education: Teenager With the Courage to Hide Pain and Share Joy
Sheena Georges kept a tragic event in her life private even as she overcame her sorrow to win a high school speech trophy. From New York Times: Education on December 7, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..

A College That Specializes in Dropouts Is Under Siege
A New York State report on Interboro Institute highlights some of the difficulties of commercial schools. From New York Times: Education on December 7, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..

Moving from web to print
Tony Byrne answers some of the questions regarding publishing PDFs to websites. To quote: While PDF has some benefits there are also some well known usability issues. Single-source publishing concepts and technology have been around for quite a while now,... From Column Two on December 7, 2005 at 1:47 a.m..

DOE Points to "Legacy" Data...
Observatorium offers hundreds of photos of the earth, planets, stars, and other celestial bodies, as well as stories behind the images...... While many of the images are of interest, I kind of wonder why they feel the need to point to a site that is basically 6 years old.... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on December 7, 2005 at 12:46 a.m..