What's the Blogging Point?: Can personal webpublishing have a qualitative impact on o learning Seb logs some good thoughts from Will and Ken (BTW Will, cool new look and goodonya for the scripting kudos :o) on the question of whether students are really blogging, why or why not and what it is that actually heJames Farmer's Radio Weblog on April 4, 2004 at 10:48 p.m..

Technologists Plus Social Scientists Equals What? I'm at this meeting for the next two days in Tokyo, a gathering of some extraordinary technologists and social scientists who are trying to puzzle out some of the ways we'll be using tomorrow's mobile devices. I'm here mainly to listen, and learn. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on April 4, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..

Blog styles and antagonisms From owrede_log on April 4, 2004 at 8:48 p.m..

KidsHub.org Kids Hub is a free online interactive learning center for elementary school students. It features fun educational games, puzzles, and quizzes. Kids Hub... From Teaching and Developing Online. on April 4, 2004 at 7:56 p.m..

MiddleSchoolHub.org Middle School Hub is a free online interactive learning center for students in grades 5-8. It includes educational games, puzzles, quizzes, spelling activities, and subject guides. Middle School Hub... From Teaching and Developing Online. on April 4, 2004 at 7:56 p.m..

High School Hub High School Hub is a free online learning center that features subject guides for English, foreign languages, math, science, and social studies. High School Hub... From Teaching and Developing Online. on April 4, 2004 at 7:56 p.m..

Homeschool Hub Here you will find a treasure trove of online homeschool curriculum resources. Homeschool Hub... From Teaching and Developing Online. on April 4, 2004 at 7:56 p.m..

Teachers Hub Welcome to the K-12 Interactive Learning Center! Teachers Hub... From Teaching and Developing Online. on April 4, 2004 at 7:56 p.m..

Blogging and Tenure For my presentations over the past few weeks, I've been researching the role of blogging in faculty development. One issue that comes up repeatedly is whether or not a blog should "count" as professional scholarship. Obviously, this weblog is self-consciously focused on the scholarship of teaching; other blogs are teaching... From PEDABLOGUE on April 4, 2004 at 7:54 p.m..

Separating Myth From Facts: Understanding Open Source Software Mark Webbink, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Red Hat, Inc., wrote this article for corporate attorneys, explaining free and open source software and comparing various open source licenses, detailing how the GPL really works, explaining US copyright law, and listing some corporate law office best practices for software, from the standpoint of what policies are prudent for the corporate environment. H From Robin Good's Latest News on April 4, 2004 at 7:52 p.m..

RSS and education "for ... RSS and education "for anyone in the business of locating and redistributing information, RSS should prove to be especially useful. Educators in particular are looking to RSS as an effective means of identifying and redistributing timely and relevant content sourced from an increasingly unwieldly Web at large, learning object repositories, and even local desktops and networks. &quo From e-Learning Centre What's New Page on April 4, 2004 at 6:53 p.m..

Student-centred spin? In his article Learner and activity focused VLEs?, Derek Morrison outlined what are, in his opinion, some of the key ingredients necessary in virtual learning environments which claim to be 'student-centred'. If we apply the criteria in Derek's article, it seems clear that many VLEs have a long way to go before they merit their 'student-centredness' claims. From Auricle on April 4, 2004 at 6:52 p.m..

The Schizophrenia of Blogging Timing. It's all about timing. I'm rattled that some time-cop ripped off an hour of my time early this morning by declaring that clocks be set ahead. What is this nonsense about? I don't work by the clock anyway. Geez. Timing pervades the way we... From Internet Time Blog on April 4, 2004 at 6:49 p.m..

Linux on Desktop Making Big Strides It looks like I'm going to have to reconsider something I'd been taking for granted -- that Linux on the desktop, and especially the laptop, was a non-starter in the operating systems race. While I wasn't paying sufficient attention, the proverbial tortoise has been playing some serious catch-up. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on April 4, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

American Rhetoric Auf der Seite "AmericanRhetoric" finden sich über 5.000 Dokumente sowie Audio- und Videodateien. Etliches dabei berührt auch rechtliche Themen. Mir... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 4, 2004 at 4:49 p.m..

BND Auf der Seite des BND findet sich nicht nur das BND-Gesetz (46 S. PDF), sondern auch ein Lexikon zum Thema... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 4, 2004 at 4:49 p.m..

Move Over SKYPE here's FASTMOBILE With all the hype about SKYPE, hereTMs a home grown company from the USATMs Mid-West, FastMobile, may have hit on a highly useful, easily deployed and most welcome service months or years before interoperable carrier neutral P2T (push to talk)... From Kolabora.com on April 4, 2004 at 4:48 p.m..

News for Today, Apr 5 Today's news related to shared spaces: RIM announced that Siemens Mobile will add BlackBerry support to future Siemens handsets, commencing 4Q2004. RIM KVS Inc. announced Version 5 of Enterprise Vault, its archiving solution. New features: support for additional unstructured data... From Kolabora.com on April 4, 2004 at 4:48 p.m..

Oval Office Crusades More on our favorite topic in today's Boston Globe From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on April 4, 2004 at 4:46 p.m..

Introducing UThink: The University of Minnesota Blog Initiative The libraries at the University of Minnesota have just gone live with UThink, a big blogging initiative. Every student, faculty member, and staff member will be able to have as many blogs as he or she wants. I've spoken to Shane Nackerud, the librarian who's heading up the initiative, and he hopes it will be pretty big, as in students will be able to comment on campus life in such a way that the blogs might compete with or even supplant the school newspaper. Also, instructors will be able to use the system t From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on April 4, 2004 at 2:55 p.m..

Nine Rules for Good Technology Introduction Today's educational technology is like a Rube Goldberg contraption. Enter any technology-enabled classroom or other facility, and you will see a mish-mash of computers with associated wires, video displays, modems, ITV, CD-ROM libraries, tapes, and more. To use this technology effectively and avoid being distracted by the usual malfunctions and dense manuals, teachers must spend a lot of time in the classroom themselves. It doesn't have to be this way, however. As technologies mature, they tend to become easier to use. Consider the elevator and radio, for example. Once s From Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings on April 4, 2004 at 2:53 p.m..

70. Geburtstag Roman Herzog Der frühere Präsident des BVerfG und spätere Bundespräsident der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Roman Herzog, vollendet am... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 4, 2004 at 2:52 p.m..

How To Identify Good Technology? In this well written essay, Stephen Downes clarifies general weaknesses and limitations of many popular technologies while extracting with precision nine key traits that set apart great technology tools from popular time and money wasters. The essay is part of a non-commercial free downloadable book entitled: "The Learning Marketplace: Meaning, Metadata and Content Syndication in the Learning Object Economy" which should be required reading for anyone working as an educator, researcher or faculty in an academic institution. From Robin Good's Latest News on April 4, 2004 at 2:51 p.m..

Karen Hughes, off the hook It was disappointing to hear Terry Gross let Karen Hughes off the hook in her Fresh Air interview. Hughes said something like, "When people talk about this administration being secretive, I think they actually mean that there aren't many leaks." Then Hughes gave an example of a leak that did damage. "No," Terry didn't say, "That's not what we mean. We mean that Cheney won't release the names of the people he consulted with about energy policy..." and then she didn't go on from there.... From Joho the Blog on April 4, 2004 at 2:49 p.m..

In Praise of Long Weblog Entries: They Have Their Place LongBlogEntries Summary: I mull over the recommendation that blog entries be short. In 'short', a long entry can be useful to both writer and some readers. There's room for, even a need for, longer entries as well. I address this issue for both personal and theoretical reasons. Personally I've found myself feeling constrained by the notion of "short and pithy" while I've been exploring From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on April 4, 2004 at 2:49 p.m..

Introducing Aunt Tillie to RSS This morning a story on RSS newsreaders appeared in the Personal Tech section of my local paper. The title was A simple program to 'refresh' the news; the byline was The Washington Post. I'm keenly interested in how the story of RSS is being told to Aunt Tillie, so I deconstructed this one with some care. ... From Jon's Radio on April 4, 2004 at 2:47 p.m..

Runner #464, 7 to go. One week to go, then. By this time next Sunday, I'll be somewhere in the middle of the Sahara, in about 110 degrees, running the first leg of the Marathon des Sables. The next six days will see another six... From Ben Hammersley.com on April 4, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..

Paid Content Eine Studie des MCM Instituts der Universität St. Gallen zeigt: User stehen Bezahlinhalten im Netz gar nicht mehr so skeptisch... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 4, 2004 at 1:48 p.m..

VoIP Story Told Clearly Perhaps one of the best consumer summaries I've read to date came out this weekend from the Contra Costa Times. Since the paper is part of the Knight Ridder chain of newspapers, which is one of the USA's largest, and... From Kolabora.com on April 4, 2004 at 1:47 p.m..

The Tones They Are A Changin' And for Washington's lobbying community, the changes are for the worse From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on April 4, 2004 at 1:46 p.m..

Showing the value of e-learning " ... Showing the value of e-learning "Providing instruction across the Internet and other computer networks is a relatively new phenomenon. To some extent, we are just learning how to harness this media for learning, and stakeholders are rightly asking whether our efforts are paying off. Establishing value for any venture is, at its most basic level, about determining what goals are impor From e-Learning Centre What's New Page on April 4, 2004 at 10:55 a.m..

Federal Web Locator Verantwortlich für diese beachtliche Seite (Dank an Tom!) ist das "Center for Information Law and Policy". Der FWL weist eine... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 4, 2004 at 10:52 a.m..

Scholarly communication as a commons Most of the presentations from last week's Workshop on Scholarly Communication as a Commons (Bloomington, Indiana, March 31 - April 2), are now online. The workshop doesn't have a web site, but has deposited most of the workshop papers into the Digital Library of the Commons, where Frederick Emrich found them and listed them for his commons-blog. (Thanks, Fre From FOS News on April 4, 2004 at 10:49 a.m..

Cheese Weasel Day Apparently, April 3 has been Cheese Weasel Day since at least 1992. According to Big Wide Logic, the custom is to leave a piece of cheese under the keyboard of techies. Ironically, because Cheese Weasel Day this year occurred on the first Saturday in April, it coincided with Vermin Attraction Day . [Thanks to Mike O'Dell for the link.]... From Joho the Blog on April 4, 2004 at 10:49 a.m..

Student/Teacher Blogging Ideas Just wanted to note some useful summaries by Samantha Blackmon about one of the blog panels at 4Cs last week. I really think it's interesting, now that there seems to be more and more data to work with, the similar themes that seem to be running through edblogger minds. Seems like public and private posting is at the head of the list. Here's a part of her description of Terra Williams' part of the pr From weblogged News on April 4, 2004 at 10:48 a.m..

Phoenix Bound I'm heading to the desert for a few days to a) learn how to use our new student information system and b) escape this chilly, clammy, yucky spring we've been having in the Northeast so far. Hoping to maybe hook up with Alan Levine to do some blog talking. 85 and sunny tomorrow in Phoenix...have mercy. From weblogged News on April 4, 2004 at 10:48 a.m..

Week ahead: Yahoo earnings on tap Yahoo plans to announce its quarterly earnings in the coming week, marking one of the more notable events in an extremely quiet week. From CNET News.com on April 4, 2004 at 10:45 a.m..

Thermal Heat Click the link to see my best ever 3D effect, its encoded as a WMV file and is 100k in size. The effect is heat rising from a thermal plume that goes deep down into the ground. It is used in Satellite Strike as power resource and is a valuable find on the map! From Spectre Software on April 4, 2004 at 9:54 a.m..

Das Netzwerk sieht alles Das Online-Phänomen Weblog: Die im Internet populären Tagebücher waren privat, sind kommerzialisiert worden und schauen nun den Politikern auf die... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 4, 2004 at 9:52 a.m..

Ready For POD? Booklocker Helps You Out Together with Trafford , Lulu and CafePress, Booklocker is the fourth most interesting Print On Demand (POD) resource to cross my research path and to offer an easy way for independent publishers to get their work out cost-effectively, rapidly and while making a profit. Booklocker.com develops low-cost, author-friendly products, services and programs that help authors publish a From Robin Good's Latest News on April 4, 2004 at 9:51 a.m..

Where To Find Public Domain Content Online? Google Answers A valuable list of online resources that provide access to copyright-free content, inclusing image, music and software libraries. From Robin Good's Latest News on April 4, 2004 at 9:51 a.m..

Final Two From a sports perspective, this is my favorite time of the year (unless of course the Cubs get into the World Series which, dare I say it, might actually happen this year.) And this year is especially exciting since my wife is an Industrial Engineer from Georgia Tech. (How someone that smart ended up with me I'll never know.) Last night's last second win over Oklahoma State has to have been one of the best NCAA games I've seen. When Tech won it at the buzzer, we had a whole family sc From weblogged News on April 4, 2004 at 9:48 a.m..

BLX RSS is old hat, Atom is controlled by the Big Corp Conspiracy, and all the cool kids are moving to a far greater standard. I'm happy to say that this weblog is now fully BLX 1.0 compliant. Suw Charman... From Ben Hammersley.com on April 4, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..

Active Internet Users by Country, ClickZ Stats Nielsen//NetRatings found that the overall at-home global active Internet universe for a number of selected countries grew less than 1 percent from January 2004 to February 2004. Hong Kong exhibited the largest growth rate at over 8 percent, while Japa From Techno-News Blog on April 4, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

MSBlast epidemic far larger than previously believed - Robert Lemos, CNET News.com New data from Microsoft suggests that at least 8 millionWindows computers have been infected by the MSBlast, or Blaster, wormsince last August--many times more than previously thought. The latest data comes from the software giant's ability to track th From Techno-News Blog on April 4, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Google's Web mail no joke - Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com Google's decision to begin testing a free, ad-supported Web-based e-mail service this week was so far out of character for the search giant that many people thought the announcement was an April Fools' Day hoax. Google representatives downplayed the st From Techno-News Blog on April 4, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Internet-Based Voting Programs Marketed to Schools - Natasha N. Smith, Education Week Loren Newman knows all about student elections. As the director of student activities at Beverly Hills High School in California, she conducts four every year: to nominate the candidates for student government; the student-government election itself; From Educational Technology on April 4, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

In some schools, camera's always on - Dan Hardy, Philadelphia Inquirer When students act up in Nicole Snook's second-grade classroom at Graystone Academy Charter School in South Coatesville, she has a quick remedy. " 'Don't forget, you're on the screen and your parents might be watching. You have to be 100 percent,' " she From Educational Technology on April 4, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Look, no wires - KIMBERLY ATKINS, JOURNAL NEWS .... For some local undergraduate and graduate students, computers have replaced classrooms entirely, such as the popular and growing programs at Mercy College and Westchester Community College, using applications such as the one developed by the gradu From Online Learning Update on April 4, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

French 'Net pals visit - Kristen Wilson, the Sentinel Beginning French students at Dickinson College are taking "pen-paling" to another level. This week, nine French students from a village in the Alps came to the Carlisle campus to meet the students they have been writing to and learning with over the p From Online Learning Update on April 4, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Online class reaches out to disabled via the Web - ALEX L. GOLDFAYN, Chicago Tribune Today Jack Wilde is a counselor at the department of disabilities at the City College of San Francisco, which has about 2,500 students with disabilities. He also teaches a course called "Perspectives on Disability," helping students with disabilities g From Online Learning Update on April 4, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

New Blog Chainik is a new linguistics which I found out from the Language Log. From the about page Kate is an undergraduate student of linguistics somewhere in the American Midwest. Her passion is Slavic languages; she knows a little Russian and... From Blinger: A linguistics and ESL Blog - ESL in Korea on April 4, 2004 at 7:49 a.m..

Dialer-Verbot rechtskräftig Am 02.04.2004 zog die Mainpean GmbH in einer mündlichen Verhandlung beim VG Köln ihre Klage gegen den Widerruf der Registrierungen... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 4, 2004 at 7:48 a.m..

Schlafzimmer als Hörsaal Der Einzug des Internets in die Bildungsanstalten entzerrt den Lehrbetrieb: Einzelne Lerneinheiten können in freier Zeiteinteilung am heimischen Computer absolviert... From Handakte WebLAWg on April 4, 2004 at 7:48 a.m..

EFL Blogging Now that spring has finally arrived, it's time for all furry animals to come out of hibernation.  That includes The New Tanuki of course, where things have been silent for a while.  Unhappy with the software, I'd been contemplating moving the site to a new location.  I decided, though, to stick it out another year and see what happens.  Besides, my experience with the EV Online session this year really got me thinking ab From apcampbell News on April 4, 2004 at 5:55 a.m..

Dissing the God Folk Example #652 of how to alienate religious people From The Gadflyer | All Feeds on April 4, 2004 at 5:50 a.m..

Music Educators Share Success Stories in New Publication from MENC: The National Association for Music Education Teacher to Teacher: A Music Educator's Survival Guide Shares Best Practices [PRWEB Apr 4, 2004] From PR Web on April 4, 2004 at 5:46 a.m..

Expert Advice for New Music Teachers from Spotlight Book Spotlight on Transition to Teaching Music Published by MENC: The National Association for Music Education [PRWEB Apr 4, 2004] From PR Web on April 4, 2004 at 5:46 a.m..

Ford Detroit Football Classic Tickets Available Through Howard University Alumni Club of Detroit The Howard University Alumni Club of Detroit announces that it is selling tickets for the Ford Detroit Football Classic to benefit its scholarship fund! The Classic features The Howard University Bisons and The Alabama State Hornets! $4 from each ticket sold by the Club will support scholarships for deserving students seeking a college education at Howard. [PRWEB Apr 4, 2004] From PR Web on April 4, 2004 at 5:46 a.m..

Mrbaseball.com Will Honor Jackie Robinson on April 15th, 2004 In conjunction with Major League Baseball, Mrbaseball.com will honor Hall of Famer' Jackie Robinson for his contribution to the human race and to baseball and his fellow athletes. [PRWEB Apr 4, 2004] From PR Web on April 4, 2004 at 5:46 a.m..

Of blogs and wikis Glyn Moody has a short piece on Netcraft which reflects on the past, present, and future of weblogs and wikis. His opinion? That the wiki has more potential to outlast the blog: The seriousness and high quality of the Wikipedia entries emphasise the main strength of Wikis: a depth born of multiple authors working together to hone material. This contrasts with the blog, which shines in its ability to offer one person's quirky and brilliant insights across what may be a vast and often cont From Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on April 4, 2004 at 4:55 a.m..

Squishy ROI is good enough for Cisco An article in CIO magazine, Cisco on Video (by Megan Santosus, March 8, 2004), and subtitled "The networking equipment giant is sure of the return on investment for its e-learning system" points out the difficulties in defining ROI for many IT initiatives today: "The dilemma: While the c... From Kolabora.com on April 4, 2004 at 4:51 a.m..

Blogs Quiet on the Western Front The cogdog has been busy, and hopes to be back barking soon. As a reprieve of insane early heat and sun in Phoenix (97 in late March is a bit much, and early), we have enjoyed a rare outbreak of weather with a few days of major, very much needed rain. Up here in my mountain escape, we got more than 2 inches in 3 days, almost more than we have received since January 2004. But enough weather blab. I am in a bind getting three presentations lined up for the April 20-22 Teaching in the Community Colleges 2004 Online Conference. One is o From cogdogblog on April 4, 2004 at 4:48 a.m..

You asked for it... Some of you like to be pushed rather than pulled. This one's for you. Put your email address in the box & you'll receive an email whenever we make a non-trivial posting here. Look in the right column or fill in the blank below. Subscribe... From Internet Time Blog on April 4, 2004 at 3:51 a.m..

Ties to the land The snazzy library weblog vision page at the University of Minnesota points to a class weblog that announces itself as: An exploration of Native American ties to the land through a collaborative venture of elders from the White Earth Band of Anishinabe and an Honors class at the University of Minnesota. This site solves a portion of the audience problem under discussion this week in the CCCC posts (and elsewhere: 1 2 3 4) simply by making the project a big enough collaboration. From Weblogs in Higher Education on April 4, 2004 at 1:51 a.m..

On leave Unless there's news, I'll be away from the keyboard until 4/11 -- a regular quarterly break I take here which will make time this week for filing income tax forms, I'm hoping. From Weblogs in Higher Education on April 4, 2004 at 1:51 a.m..

Ed Tech conferences for 2004 A good list... From IDT Matrix on April 4, 2004 at 1:50 a.m..

New EMC disk storage mimics tape The data storage specialist plans to announce a new hard drive-based device that serves the same back-up role as tape products but offers faster performance. From CNET News.com on April 4, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..

eMachines debuts peppy spring lineup Introducing its first new models since being acquired by Gateway, the budget PC maker beefs up its processing power. From CNET News.com on April 4, 2004 at 1:45 a.m..

Women's history daily Via misbehaving.net, a link to the On This Day in Women's History blog which promises to extend a traditional women's history month activity into a year-long event. From Weblogs in Higher Education on April 3, 2004 at 11:51 p.m..

How Public High School Students Fared in Five Subjects New York City students still trail far behind students in the rest of the state in meeting graduation requirements, Regents exam scores released last week show. From New York Times: Education on April 3, 2004 at 11:46 p.m..

Government of the Rich, by the Rich and for the Rich Billionaires for Bush is "a grassroots political action committee advocating for the rights and interests of people of absolutely fabulous wealth." Funny, and too close to reality for comfort... From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on April 3, 2004 at 10:47 p.m..

The 'Rents Who Came in From the Cold AS Brooklyn parents sent in signed contracts last month to secure September spots for their toddlers at the Berkeley Carroll Child Care Center, those new to the program were still marveling over the throng of 30-something, Type A zombies who had assembled groggily outside the center's Park Slope brownstone before dawn a few weeks earlier, shivering for hours in the darkness to get their numb hands on an application. From New York Times: Education on April 3, 2004 at 10:46 p.m..

Mood Sours for Japan's Other Asian Students To many Asian students, Japan is merely a place to get a degree and earn some money before returning home, often with the opposite impression Japan had hoped for. From New York Times: Education on April 3, 2004 at 10:46 p.m..

A Question of Ethics: How to Teach Them? As scandals ripple through the corporate world, some business schools have introduced ethics courses or tweaked existing ones. From New York Times: Education on April 3, 2004 at 10:46 p.m..

Coach Fitz's Management Theory A high-school coach hectored and pushed generations of students into winning games and respecting themselves until he was accused of going too far. From New York Times: Education on April 3, 2004 at 10:46 p.m..

An exercise in clarity: WTF is RSS? Interesting list of suggestions for describing RSS for the layman in 10 words or less. My personal fave: "Remember Pointcast? Kinda like that, only actually useful." Although, perhaps more appropriate and accurate may be: "Speed Reading the net."... From D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog on April 3, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..

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