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Diigo: Social Bookmarking and More...
Where it is quite different from del.icio.us, is that you can also more fully annotate your bookmarked pages, and bookmarks can also be saved locally.... For example if I tag and add a sticky note to a page, I can also see other sticky notes left by others or I can send a notification to a colleague so that she can read my annotation and respond. From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on December 28, 2005 at 9:49 p.m..

blurring boundaries between virtual and real worlds (Liz Lawley)
Ted Castranova has a fascinating post up on Terra Nova entitled “The Horde is Evil,” in which he argues that the Horde races on World of Warcraft are “on the whole evil,” and that this has moral implications for avatar... From Corante: Social Software on December 28, 2005 at 6:49 p.m..

Active Home Web Use by Country, November 2005
Brazil, Spain, and France continue to increase the number of home Internet users. From ClickZ Stats on December 28, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Earn more, learn more
College students bypass menial campus jobs for work that develops their skills - and pays more. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on December 28, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Susan Smith Nash - Text Representation and Cognitive Processes: How the Mind Makes Meaning in e-Learning - E-Learning Queen
I think this is a useful item even if I disagree with the theoretical background it presupposes. Susan Smith Nash outlines a discourse theory approach to e-learning, sketching textual components (such as surface code, textbase and situated text) and levels of discourse, all leading to an understanding of how the mind comprehends, or makes, meaning. You can tell the theory is a bit of a stretch when you encounter something like this: "Negative transfer can happen when there are no points of contact and students relate things to the wrong items." Now we can understand what that means, but try to From OLDaily on December 28, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Jay Cross - Blog is live! - Internet Time Blog
Jay Cross has moved from his old and clucky blog to new digs on a WordPress enabled site - a huge change for the better. He introduces his new blog (and assorted helpers, including this From OLDaily on December 28, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Albert Ip - My Learning Outcome of the Britannica Vs Wikipedia Debate - Random Walk in E-Learning
Some good comments on the Wikipedia debate. Albert Ip writes, "The days when only a selected few can author have long gone. Reputation is likely to be a good indicator of the authority status in a subject domain. However, reputation is NOT citation count." Noting that "when there is no SINGLE best manifestation of any knowledge, the next best thing we can have is a dynamic manifestation of that knowledge domain," Ip argues that teachers should reconsider allowing students to cite Wikipedia. This, it seems to me, is related to the point he makes in his From OLDaily on December 28, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Scott Jaschik - Anonymous Power - Inside Higher Ed
I've said this before and I'll stand by it: anonymous reviews should be discouraged. "Knowing the authors or tenure candidates you are reviewing may expose bias (and encourage people where appropriate to recuse themselves), while keeping them secret allows for 'bad faith readings.'" [ From OLDaily on December 28, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Unattributed - Temporary Notice to Free Blog Users - November Learning
November Learning is no longer offering free blogs for educators (that's a novel response to the competition offered by free services such as Blogger and edublogs). Via From OLDaily on December 28, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Nick Butterly - Video Crooks Come in From the Cold - News.com.au
Good news for Australians as "the Federal Government will next year legalise the video recording of television shows for personal use, and the transfer of songs from CDs to MP3 players, in a bid to overturn a ban which has made criminals of much of the population." Just for Australians: From OLDaily on December 28, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Andy Volk - Sharing Your Media With Media RSS - WebMonkey
Good article deswcribing how RSS can be used to syndicate multimedia content. And hey, if you substitute the words 'learning resource' for 'media' in this article, you get a pretty good picture of what From OLDaily on December 28, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Leo Damrosch - Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius - Washington Post
"It is manifestly against the Law of Nature... that a handful of men wallow in luxury, while the famished multitudes lack the necessities of life." If you are not familiar with Rousseau, this review of Michael Dirda's biography is a gentle introduction, one that I would encourage. Rousseau is important to me. He writes, "Nothing is more depressing than the general fate of men. And yet they feel in themselves a consuming desire to become happy, and it makes them feel at every moment that they were born to be happy. So why are they not?" This strikes a chord with me - Rousseau talks about t From OLDaily on December 28, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Reflections on the Future of eContent Development in HE
It's the time of year for reflections on the major events of the past year and trends for the future. This Breeze presentation by Zaid Ali Alsagoff was presented at the ASEAN e-Learning Seminar in Malaysia on Dec. 9, 2005. The presentation does a fine job reviewing tools, content repositories, and models of e-Learning--with some interesting forecasts about future developments. I especially like Zaid's contrast between the Pedagogy, Andragogy, and Heutagogy models.  The emphasis throughout the presentation is on free tools and free content and on the importance of shared From EduResources--Higher Education Resources Online on December 28, 2005 at 1:47 p.m..

Bush's reading list
The BBC reports on Bush's reading list: His reading includes When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt After the White House by Patricia O'Toole, which is about the former leader's African safari and his attempt to return to politics after leaving the White House in 1909. He is also reading Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground - an account of the daily lives of US soldiers as told by Robert Kaplan, who accompanied several units overseas. He is an "avid reader," said his spokesman, spreading mirth throughout the land. So, what would you put on his reading list? The B From Joho the Blog on December 28, 2005 at 12:48 p.m..

Cuestiones inquietantes (1)
Coincido tanto con lo escrito por José Luis en oeUna pregunta inquietante, a propósito de lo dicho por Tom Foremski, que tomo una palabra del título para abundar sin exageraciones, y recordar algunas cuestiones inquietantes que hoy encontramos en el mundo de la comunicación. Trataré ahora de una de ellas. ... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on December 28, 2005 at 11:52 a.m..

confidential submission
I was wondering if there is another method of submitting proposals for BlogTalk (t d f) than email. It needs to be confidential (if email ever is confidential) and very easy - like sending an email - without giving From thomas n. burg | randgänge on December 28, 2005 at 11:46 a.m..

eCuaderno incluye publicidad
Estoy probando en eCuaderno el plugin MoreMoney para mostrar anuncios AdSense a los visitantes que llegan al sitio mediante búsquedas en Google. Como siempre, me ha ayudado en la instalación Blogpocket que estrena versión soft porn para festejar que Microsiervos vuelve a tener comentarios, aunque han recortado sus feeds RSS. ... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on December 28, 2005 at 5:51 a.m..

November Learning to Charge for Weblog Hosting....
For those who currently have accounts on our system, please be advised that our free blogging service will only be available up until August 1, 2006.... If you choose not to pay the subscription fee your blog will no longer be available. From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on December 28, 2005 at 2:49 a.m..

Older Teachers Face Bias, Union Claims
The union claims the city disproportionately brings teachers older than 40 up on disciplinary charges and gives them unsatisfactory performance ratings. From New York Times: Education on December 28, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..

A Counselor's Resounding Cry, Even From Her Hospital Bed: Go Directly to College
Neyda Martinez, a teacher in the New York City public school system for 23 years, made it her mission to get students to college. From New York Times: Education on December 28, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..

When Scholarship and Politics Collided at Yale
Battles with the police are a fact of life for David Graeber,a self-proclaimed anarchist. It was his battle with Yale that surprised him. From New York Times: Education on December 28, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..

On Education: Plucked From Africa, but Still Isolated in Their Classes
Somalian children in public schools in Massachusetts have received little or no classroom translation help during their two years in the U.S. From New York Times: Education on December 28, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..

Blog is live!
Come to my blog-warming! Cut on your speakers and take the Web tour. Don't miss the aggregator, the learning blog search engine, the wiki, the Informal Learning Blog, or vendor analysis. From Internet Time Blog on December 28, 2005 at 1:45 a.m..

Japan is limbering up to challenge the might of Google and Yahoo by developing its own search engine - Graeme Wearden, ZDnet
The country's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has organized a study group consisting of about 20 Japanese electronics companies--including Hitachi and Panasonic--and universities, which will consider the merits of creating a search tool specifical From Techno-News Blog on December 27, 2005 at 11:49 p.m..

Life in the High-Tech Lane: Many Americans are highly dependent on high-tech gadgets, according to poll - Associated Press
Personal computers, cell phones and high-speed Internet are considered essential to getting by for millions of Americans who are showing early signs of addiction to the next wave of high-tech toys, an AP-Ipsos poll found. The latest wave includes MP3 pla From Techno-News Blog on December 27, 2005 at 11:49 p.m..

The Internet Is Broken pt 1 - David Talbot, Technology Review
In his office within the gleaming-stainless-steel and orange-brick jumble of MIT's Stata Center, Internet elder statesman and onetime chief protocol architect David D. Clark prints out an old PowerPoint talk. Dated July 1992, it ranges over technical issu From Techno-News Blog on December 27, 2005 at 11:49 p.m..