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Spirituality of the first and second degree
Rageboy's incredible list of NewAge++ titles has made it to the top of Amazon's "So You'd Like to..." lists. Meanwhile, AKMA responds on his blog to the fascinating comment thread attached to my brief posting about Daniel Dennett. AKMA writes beautifully, starting with the title of his post: On Certainty of Others' Folly [Tags: RageBoy akma newage spirituality amazon]... From
Joho the Blog on December 30, 2005 at 7:48 p.m..
AECT Dallas Guide, Part One
The annual convention of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) will be in October in Dallas, TX. I’m on the convention planning team, led by Ward Cates of Lehigh U. and Tom Hergert of St. Cloud State U.. We recently returned from a site visit to the Fairmont hotel in Dallas, where the [...] From
Martindale Matrix on December 30, 2005 at 5:49 p.m..
Gerbner media quote
A friend sent me this quote about George Gerbner: On Saturday, December 24 the world said goodbye to George Gerbner, an educator and pioneer researcher into the effects of television on viewers. As the former dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, Gerbner’s research showed that television has the power to profoundly [...] From
Martindale Matrix on December 30, 2005 at 5:49 p.m..
Albert Ip - Let's Take Some Action - Random Walk in E-Learning
Albert Ip is "tired" of the debate concerning learning objects and calls for some action. After sketching a list of propositions (with which I am basically in agreement), he outlines two sets of action plans, one "for those who subscribe to 'information transfer' model," which is fairly detailed, and another "for those who subscribe to 'social constructivitistic' paradigms," which is sketchier and is for me, unfortunately, recursive. [
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Learn From OLDaily on December 30, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..
Christopher D. Sessums - Where The Action Is - Christopher D. Sessums : Weblog
Link and discussion of Ulises Mejias's
syllabus on Social Software Affordances along with discussion of a related text, Where the Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction (2004) by Paul Dourish. "According to Dourish, tangible and social computing are ultimately centered on the notion of embodiment. Specifically, embodiment focuses on three areas: the role played by the environment in which work takes place; how work really takes place (i.e., not work in the abstract, but in reality - the unp From
OLDaily on December 30, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..
Christian Long - DreamWorks Does School - think:lab
Animation is important, especially to a young child. My first concrete memory as a child is, believe it or not, of the John F. Kennedy assassination - not because of the significance of the event (it happened when I was four) but because the coverage pre-empted my favorite television show,
Fireball XL5 (which later morphed into the Thunderbirds). I loved that show - it was all I thought about. So it is not surprising to see animators taking learning, and e-learning, seriously, and it is also not surprising to see them rethinking From
OLDaily on December 30, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..
Keith Hampson - Universities and the Corporate E-Learning Market - LTi Newsline
It's not a deep article, but it's useful to survey, as the author does, the issues facing universities as they attempt to extend their online offerings into the corporate e-learning match. It's a clash of traditions. "When most traditional universities develop online courses they draw directly from the traditions and logic of their centuries-old classroom model... it is difficult for universities to compete with other kinds of e-learning providers that utilize more advanced models for course development." [
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OLDaily on December 30, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..
Year-end blowout
Lou Rosenfeld, co-creator of Information Architecture, is looking for people who like to read. Technorati, search engine of the blogosphere, is looking for people who like to code. Freight makes onscreen reading a pleasure. The children of prostitutes in Calcutta use cameras to create unforgettable images -- and to emerge from poverty. Plus Ruby on Rails podcasts and Fairplay defined. 30 December 2005 From
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on December 30, 2005 at 2:49 p.m..
Logitech's auto-escalating customer support
I posted a question to the Logitech customer forum because my new MX1000 mouse seems to pull downward— I have trouble getting it to point precisely where I want it, so I'm doing a lot of mis-selecting. Today I received an auto-mail message from Logitech telling me that they've noticed that no one replied to my question, so they're escalating it to a human Logitech support person. Cool! BTW, if you care about the problem I'm having with the mouse, you should know that I have another Logitech mouse (a Click! model) plugged in simultaneously and it doesn't have that From
Joho the Blog on December 30, 2005 at 1:48 p.m..
Two reviews
King Kong defines what it means to get your money's worth. Now that's movie making! Yes, it's "just" an entertainment, but you try imagining an entertainment like that. Peter Jackson (with Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens) is an incredible story-teller. The Skull Island segment is a non-stop 45-minute (30 min? 60 min? I wasn't checking my watch) action sequence that's brilliant in its choreography, visual imagination, clarity and articulation. As the twists twisted, I was laughing with glee at such barrelhouse film-making. And it's not just chest-beating and dino-ba From
Joho the Blog on December 30, 2005 at 12:48 p.m..
End of the year thinking
This time of the year it's always about looking back and looking forward - thinking on things done and those to come. It's also about cleaning your house and your thoughts - to be prepared for the new to come. Somehow I really need those moments, and the symbolism of the year going away and another coming in works just fine. Even my Tablet gets in this mood - a bit of fiddling with admin options, restart - and I can't login anymore. Funny enough, I'm not dissappointed a bit, even given that not everything is backed up. May be it's a sign that I don't nee From
Mathemagenic on December 30, 2005 at 11:51 a.m..
Saf in a snit about pre
William Safire is agitated by the use of prefixes as stand-alone words, as in "super" and "intro." Personally, I have noticed that when my children say "Thanks," I am likely to respond "Welc." For no particular reason. BTW, Safire's agitation is actually a pretext (thin) for a not-very-fresh rant about the meta-ing of culture. [Thanks to David Isenberg for the link.] [Tags: meta WilliamSafire language culture Postmodernism]... From
Joho the Blog on December 30, 2005 at 11:48 a.m..
Guts
According to a story in the WSJ by Geoffrey A. Fowler and Juying Qin: "In a rare show of resistance for China's state-controlled media, many editors of the daily newspaper Beijing News refused to work Thursday after authorities sacked its top editor for leading coverage criticizing the government." From what we know, these are heroes. And heroes are so often sparks: China's active community of bloggers was quick to report and denounce Mr. Yang's departure. One Beijing News editor wrote on his Web log, "There is no way to retreat. The butcher has lifted a knife ¦ so let's ju From
Joho the Blog on December 30, 2005 at 11:48 a.m..
The Business Blogging 500 (Ross Mayfield)
Chris Anderson (Wired/Long Tail Blog) kicks off an open research project:Short Form: In collaboration with Socialtext, we’ve created a wiki that tracks which of the Fortune 500 is blogging. Check it out here. Jason Calacanis already did by contributing Time Warner... From
Corante: Social Software on December 30, 2005 at 2:49 a.m..
All the World's A Podcast - Michael Calore, WebMonkey
....The beauty of the new technologies being born on the web " podcasts, blogs, video blogs, social networking sites " is that they put us in charge. The gap between the creator and the consumer is shrinking as we generate our own content and trade ideas From
Techno-News Blog on December 29, 2005 at 11:49 p.m..