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Technical Rhetoric
As a scientist, a physician, and a lover of rhetoric and rhetorical scholarship, I am constantly amazed by how beautiful technical communications can be- and how frightfully dreary this work becomes in the hands of people who lack a rhetorical perspective . I do not mean people who lack formal training in the subject. For the most part, I am referring to scholars in the sciences. Continually frustrated with the world's lack of appreciation of the truth that they would confer upon it, they insist on "reality" and their relationship to it. Why don't we- people who know science intimate From
Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on July 22, 2004 at 4:13 p.m..
Copyright Silliness
Creative Commons writes: We're moving our offices to San Francisco tomorrow. I'm packing boxes. Just noticed that our Fellowes brand cardboard file boxes carry a copyright notice: (c) Copyright 2001 Fellowes, Inc. Sure am glad they included that. Was about to pirate. I don't know which is sillier. That Fellowes would feel the need to copyright the design and label on their boxes so that no one would steal it (as if)? Or was the real intention to copyright the null text, the text on t From
Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on July 22, 2004 at 4:13 p.m..
Heuristic for Teaching
I've drafted a "Heuristic for Teaching" at A Writing Teacher's Blog, hoping for comment, critique, and suggestions from comp colleagues. The heuristic can be found at http://faculty.deanza.fhda.edu/jocalo/stories/storyReader$836 I want to refine the heuristic in ways that comp teachers would find helpful and credible and then use it to reorganize my last year's blog entries. All responses valued. From
Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on July 22, 2004 at 4:13 p.m..
Thanks, Charlie!
Thanks for the DrupalEd, Charlie, and or this setting. I really appreciate your help and will probably keep lurking at the dialog. I'm getting a vision of how this might be useful to my students, though I seem to be slow at picking up on the implications of taxonomies, and haven't had time to explore a huge variety of the modules. But I go crazy keeping websites fresh with the evolution of events in the classes that I'm teaching, and I'm guessing that the community features of the program will be a great assist. I'm a psychologist teaching management skil From
Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on July 22, 2004 at 4:13 p.m..
Pump Up the Weblogs
I'm a big fan of James Berardinelli, whose movies reviews are often quite philosophical and read more like cultural commentaries than the sort of "two thumbs up" nonsense we've grown accustomed to hearing from reviewers. Anyway, I was reading his review of
Pump Up the Volume, one of most interesting films of 1990, and was struck by how the themes of this film are similar to what's happening now with teenage bloggers and "pirate" internet radio stations. I've also been reading some Andrew Feenberg late From
Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy on July 22, 2004 at 4:13 p.m..
More thoughts about where we go from here.
Thanks for clarifying the original stated purposed of this blog, which was to basically recount what happened at NECC 2004. The title of this thread "Where do we go from here?" makes me ask and wonder the same question. Although... From
Edweblogs.org: NECC 2004 on July 22, 2004 at 4:12 p.m..
BBC piece on UKeU
The BBC's use of the Web as another dissemination vehicle continues to impress. This morning there was a short piece broadcast about the bonuses paid to some of the UKeU directorship. Click more if you're interested. From
Auricle on July 22, 2004 at 4:12 p.m..
Robust defence of UKeU bonuses and platform
The Education Guardian online reports today (21 July 2004) on the robust defence put up by John Beaumont, former Chief Executive of UKeU and the former Chairman, Sir Anthony Cleaver, to the House of Commons Education and Skills Committee. From
Auricle on July 22, 2004 at 4:12 p.m..
On cultural stereotypes
Just filled in a survey from my company on "how do I want our canteen to operate?" (we are moving to a new building in few months). One of the questions was about time when I'd like to have lunch, giving me an opportunity to choose between 4 options of 30 minutes long. I guess you need to be Dutch to assume that 30 minutes is enough for lunch :) I want 1-1,5h, good food and preferably a walk after it, but there is no way to fill it in... I guess I should spend lunch time in another country :))) Just an example of how often we try to put others in the frame of our own From
Mathemagenic on July 22, 2004 at 4:12 p.m..
Radio evening: lessons learnt
Today
Radio didn't behave well again, so I spent some time in the discussion group trying to figure out what to so. As some of the exchanges went back and forth I just summarise them here.
Radio discussion group has
RSS feed, but it's hidden, so you wouldn't know unless you
ask. If you are (like me) struggling with lots of small problems, it's may be From
Mathemagenic on July 22, 2004 at 4:12 p.m..
Nuevas versiones de Moodle y ATutor
Moodle y
ATutor, dos de los entornos virtuales de enseñanza/aprendizaje de código fuente abierto más extendidos, han anunciado recientemente nuevas versiones. Se trata en principio de actualizaciones menores, centradas en la corrección de pequeños defectos, pero en ambos casos se incluyen novedades no desdeñables: - Moodle 1.3.2 incorpora finalmente el módulo SCORM, hasta ahora en fase de pruebas. Este módulo permite utilizar dentro de un curso paquetes en formato
Octeto - Tecnología educativa on July 22, 2004 at 4:12 p.m..
Sakai: primera versión
Sakai acaba de anunciar la primera versión de su Collaboration and Learning Environment (CLE), un entorno modular de código fuente abierto cuyo objetivo es integrar diversas funcionalidades de e-learning en un portal académico. Sakai incluye un sistema de gestión de cursos con herramientas de evaluación, un sistema colaborativo de apoyo a la investigación y un motor de ciclo de trabajo (workflow). El proyecto Sakai és una iniciativa conjunta de las universidades de Michigan, Indiana y Stanford, el MIT y el consorcio
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Course Management Systems and Pedagogical Models
By way of
edTechPost, we find this
article at Dublin City University. Beyond the fact that this is a fairly large program adopting Moodle and bringing it into the big leagues, there’s this noteworthy observation embedded in DCU’s white paper: Another problem in adopting a commercial VLE was that it might constrain us to its inherent pedagogical model. Like many commercial products, WebCT is driven by an American/Canadian pedagogical paradigm; there is nothi From
e-Literate on July 22, 2004 at 4:11 p.m..
Sakai's Okay?
Sam Ottenhoff of
the Longsight Group sent me this valuable clarification via email: Your criticism of the way most CLEs/LMSs do threaded discussion is absolutely valid and dead-on. But the title you use, What’s Wrong with the Sakai User Interface, is misleading. As I understand it, the work that has been happening with Sakai has almost completely revolved around architecture (Hibernate, Spring, Java Server Faces), authentication, and APIs. Because it’s an “open-open” project, they wan From
e-Literate on July 22, 2004 at 4:11 p.m..
Categories Are Up; Arranging Ideas
OK, the categories are in place; you can now see only the entries for a particular category by clicking on the appopriate title in the sidebar. Luckily, the RSS didn’t change the edit dates on the feed so nobody got a feed reader full of old posts just because I mucked around with the categories. I think that most of the category titles are relatively self-explanatory, with one exception. I was going to call my… From
e-Literate on July 22, 2004 at 4:11 p.m..
Categories, Themes, and Memes
After giving it a little more thought, I have decided to use the term “site themes” instead of categories. The latter implies (to me, at least) that each post will be put in one and only one category, which is not at all how I have organized the site. “Themes” seems a little more flexible and inclusive. I’d love to see a tool that supports a lower-level clustering of posts for capturing
memes. For example,… From
e-Literate on July 22, 2004 at 4:11 p.m..
Creative Commons and Learning Objects
I just added a Creative Commons license to e-Literate. While I have always been supportive of open content, I didn’t really get how immediately important it is for higher education until I started helping my significant other start searching for ESL teaching resources on the
Maricopa Learning Exchange (MLX). For those who don’t know, MLX is a Learning Object Repository--a place where teachers can share content that they have created and/or discovered that is useful… From
e-Literate on July 22, 2004 at 4:11 p.m..
Guess What? Teachers Still Count.
Here’s a little gem of a study from
the latest issue of Usability News. Basically, it demonstrates that student-centered teaching approaches can go too far, negatively impacting learning outcomes: In this study two different class formats, each with differing instructor roles, were compared. Our hypothesis was that the more student-centered the class format, the more performance and collaborat From
e-Literate on July 22, 2004 at 4:11 p.m..
Great Breakdown of Issues for Higher Ed Distance Learning
Despite its imposingly academic title ("Four Families of Multi-variant Issues in Graduate-level Asynchronous Online Courses")
this article provides an accessible and pragmatic breakdown of problems confronting the development and evaulation of higher ed distance learning programs. There are too many good insights in the article to list here, so I’ll just give one as a sample: In ABCD 888, several individuals withdrew from the course throughout the semester. Of the original students who en From
e-Literate on July 22, 2004 at 4:11 p.m..
Blogging: A world stuck on itself
This article by VC David Hornik does a great job of summing up my own feelings about social software in general and weblogs in particular. Here’s an excerpt: We’re at the very beginning of the evolution of social software. In the coming years, we are all going to learn well more than we already know about how people interact with this technology and vice versa. And for the time being, start-ups still have the upper From
e-Literate on July 22, 2004 at 4:11 p.m..
"Emergent Learning" Is an Oxymoron
In the introduction to Steven Johnson’s oft-referenced but seldom understood book Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software, he describes emergent systems as follows: In the simplest terms, they solve problems by drawing on masses of relatively stupid elements, rather than a single, intelligent “executive branch.” They are bottom-up systems, not top-down. They get their smarts from below. In a more technical language, they are complex adaptive systems that display emergent behavior.… From
e-Literate on July 22, 2004 at 4:11 p.m..
FeedCreator
De testat FeedCreator.clas... , care permite crearea feed-uri RSS de diferite versiuni si Atom ( via cogdogblog ). Un mic comentariu ar fi util aici, legat de versiunile RSS si Atom - revin. From
WeBlog.ro feeds on July 22, 2004 at 4:11 p.m..
Proiect SUPERCOMET 2
Astazi am primit minunata veste ca proiectul Leonardo SUPERCOMET 2, la care Timsoft este partener, s-a aprobat. ... este coordonat de firma Simplicatus din Norvegia, va incepe la 1 octombrie, ... From
WeBlog.ro feeds on July 22, 2004 at 4:11 p.m..
Open Source Day
Alec Couros, cu un weblog valoros, cu informatii despre Open Source si educatie, isi va sustine teza de doctorat, cu o tema legata de aceste subiecte. Astfel incat, Rick Schwier, proclama ... From
WeBlog.ro feeds on July 22, 2004 at 4:11 p.m..
Despre Wiki
Leuf and Cunningham, in cartea The Wiki Way (2001), definesc un wiki ca "o colectie expandabila de pagini Web interconectate, un sistem hipertext pentru memorarea si modificarea informatiei, ... From
WeBlog.ro feeds on July 22, 2004 at 4:11 p.m..
Fernanda's Work
Robin Good anunta azi despre publicarea de catre Fernanda Viegas , de la MIT Media Lab, a rezultatului unui chestionar referitor la weblog-uri, derulat in cadrul cercetarii pentru teza ... From
WeBlog.ro feeds on July 22, 2004 at 4:11 p.m..
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Ieri, Tim Berners-Lee, inventatorul World Wide Web si presedinte al W3C, a devenit Sir Tim Berners-Lee. (W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II - W3C, Arise, sir ... From
WeBlog.ro feeds on July 22, 2004 at 4:11 p.m..
Retinute astazi
Prin lista grundtvingers ( Lucian Branea ): CV-ul european - acum si in Romania: "Hotararea nr.1021/2004 din 25/06/2004 pentru aprobarea modelului comun european de curriculum ... From
WeBlog.ro feeds on July 22, 2004 at 4:11 p.m..
RSS: The next big thing
MediaT... white paper: RSS: the next big thing online - via OLDaily, Jane. Int... rezultatele cautarii cu Google si Bloglines a ceea ce a fost catalogat ca "the next big thing" in e-learning. From
WeBlog.ro feeds on July 22, 2004 at 4:11 p.m..
Mesaj de la Gabriela Avram
Astazi mi-a scris Gabriela - Gabrielia, Coniecto - a carei activitate si cercetare in weblog-uri le urmaresc si apreciez de multa vreme. Eram sigura ca mai devreme sau mai tarziu 'ne ... From
WeBlog.ro feeds on July 22, 2004 at 4:11 p.m..
Doua interviuri
What's Next? A Conversation about Web Communication with XML Pioneer, Tim Bray - http://java.s... via Portals and KM - http://billiv... with Boring E-Learning! - interview with e-learning guru Dr. Michael ... From
WeBlog.ro feeds on July 22, 2004 at 4:11 p.m..
Enterprise-wide deployment of Moodle at Dublin City University
Moodle http://odtl.dcu.ie/wp/2004/odtl-2004-01.html Nice paper documenting the rationale and steps to shift from a current enterprise-wide WebCT install to one using Moodle. They looked at three open source alternatives (Boddington, Claroline and Moodle). It is interesting to note what they stated as Moodle's main current weakness, "the fact that, although there were already many small scale deployments in operation, at that time it had not yet been adopted on an enterprise basis by any university-level institution." It From
EdTechPost on July 22, 2004 at 4:11 p.m..
A Teacher's Handbook
Chock full of tips and theories, the free Teacher's Handbook (.pdf format) is worth a read, whether you're just getting ready to lead your first class or if you're an old hand at running lectures. I really liked the list of tips for running interactive discussions and what to avoid.... From
PEDABLOGUE on July 22, 2004 at 4:11 p.m..
Teachers and Their Children
There's quite a discussion going on JoanneJacobs.com about an essay that the Washington Post published recently on the Mexican teaching system. Apparently when a teacher dies, their children have first dibs on the job. At first I thought this made no sense. But then I realized that this is a... From
PEDABLOGUE on July 22, 2004 at 4:11 p.m..
Another LMS Vendor Embraces SOA: Pathlore Publishes Web Services Interface
In an almost stealth-like way, Pathlore quietly announced support for Web Services in June 2004. In their new ConnectionPath datasheet they indicate that their SDK now "fully documents the SOAP/XML interface that is used to take advantage of web services". According to the company, "Web Services are becoming the lingua franca of enterprise systems integration." Indeed. Web Services are the dominant Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) method in the new Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).... From
The Workflow Institute Blog on July 22, 2004 at 4:10 p.m..
Differences between v2 components and my architecture
A few people at FlashForward last week asked me whether the components I built for the book and now updated for AS 2 were different from Macromedia's model for v2 components. The short answer is YES -- I distilled the differences into the following 5 points. From
FlashSim on July 22, 2004 at 4:10 p.m..
What Works Clearinghouse
On an ongoing basis, the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) gathers studies of the effectiveness of educational interventions (programs, products, practices, and policies). Its staff reviews the studies that have the strongest design, and reports on the strengths and weaknesses of those studies against the WWC Standards so that you know what the best scientific evidence has to say. From
eLearnopedia on July 22, 2004 at 4:10 p.m..
Learning Citizen
LearningCitizen lists some 15 video clips of researchers trying to summarize their activities in 1 or 2 minutes. I was asked to do one myself, and appreciated the challenge of trying to explain in a VERY short time what you're... From
ErikLog on July 22, 2004 at 4:09 p.m..
Wappensatzungen
Man kann eine ganze Reihe von kommunalen Wappensatzungen ergoogeln, in denen die Verwendung des Stadtwappens genehmigungspflichtig gemacht wird. Ich halte diese Satzungen, auch wenn sie eine generelle Freistellung für heraldisch-wissenschaftliche Zwecke enthalten, alle für rechtswidrig, da sie in Grundrechte eingreifen und anders, als vom Bundesverfassungsgericht und anderen Gerichten gefordert (siehe
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/11200/), keine Bedingungen angegeben sind, unter welchen die Genehmigung zu erhalten ist. From
Currency Trading News by DailyFX on July 22, 2004 at 4:09 p.m..
One good reason to go to Duke
As someone born a hoosier, it is difficult to recommend Duke University for anything (the two schools have a rich history of beating up on each other in the NCAA basketball tournament). But this little item sounds too good to... From
Rick's Café Canadien on July 22, 2004 at 4:08 p.m..
Autounfocus is back
David Wiley moved "autounfocus" to a new location... for several reasons, I'm sure, some of which were reported here. The good news is that you can find him again, this time at http://wiley.ed.usu.edu/. The new RSS feed for his blog... From
Rick's Café Canadien on July 22, 2004 at 4:08 p.m..
KM journals and magazines list
KM journals and magazines from Mathemagenic The list comes from my colleague Guido Annokkee, who works for our internal information center (and although Guido and his colleagues are much more than librarians I worship them :) Knowledge-Based Systems (Elsevier Science) International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (Elsevier Science) International Journal of Information Management (Elsevier Science) - sometimes includes articles on KM Journal of Intellectual Capital (Emerald) Journal of Knowledge Management (Emerald) Knowledge Management Research & Practice (Palgrave Macmilan) Knowledge an From
soulsoup on July 22, 2004 at 4:08 p.m..
Blogging: A world stuck on itself
Blogging: A world stuck on itself | Perspectives | CNET News.com "Without exaggeration, I think that blogging software is revolutionizing the way people communicate--whether to share pictures with family members or distribute a product spec to an engineering team. And I think that RSS (Really Simple Syndication) will enable one-to-one communication of content, pricing, trends, etc., in such a simple fashion that all information will ultimately have an associated data feed" Via: UI Designer... From
soulsoup on July 22, 2004 at 4:08 p.m..
University give iPod to students
University give iPod to students Duke University in the US will give an Apple iPod to each incoming student as part of an initiative to encourage use of technology on campus.The devices - more regularly used as music players - will come preloaded with university-related content, while a special website modelled on Apple's own iTunes site will allow students to download faculty-provided course content, including language lessons, music, recorded lectures and audio books. The university hopes to motivate students to think creatively about using digital audio content and mobile computing env From
soulsoup on July 22, 2004 at 4:08 p.m..
A Love Affair with Blogs
Show Me Your Context, Baby: My Love Affair with Blogs by Kate Baggott. Show me your context, baby. I already know the world you live in; tell me only how you see it. I am among the most demanding readers of blogs, or web logs, or on-line journals, or whatever you choose to call the dai ly missives individuals post on the web. I want the whole story: the profane, the sacred and the essential facts. These are the demands we make of great literature too, but that comparison is too limiting. To call blogs literature would be to turn... From
soulsoup on July 22, 2004 at 4:08 p.m..
Mind Maps for project management
Chuck Frey on using mind mapping for project management. Mind mapping software can be a powerful tool for managing your projects, your goals and even your to-do lists. Mind maps are very visually oriented, and enable you to gather, manage and share a large variety of information and resources quickly and easily -- making them an ideal tool for managing projects. I am doing that for quite a while now. If you can't afford Mind Maping softwares like Mind Manager, try FreeMind - free and open source Java based mind mapping software. Via: Column Two... From
soulsoup on July 22, 2004 at 4:08 p.m..
interaction design
Dan Saffer defines interaction design the art of facilitating or instigating interactions between humans (or their agents), mediated by products. By interactions, I mostly mean communication, either one-on-one (a telephone call), one-to-many (blogs), or many-to-many (the stock market). The products an interaction designer creates can be digital or analog, physical or incorporeal or some combination thereof. Via: elearningpost... From
soulsoup on July 22, 2004 at 4:08 p.m..
Ambient Findability
From Digital Web Magazine - Ambient Findability by Peter Morville How do we make informed decisions in the information age? How do we know enough to ask the right questions? 3 billion web pages. 6 billion people. Who do you ask? Who do you trust? How do you find the best product, the right person, the data that makes a difference? The answers lie hidden within the strange connections between social software, human psychology, convergent architecture, smart mobs, reputation economies, learning organizations, nanotechnology and literacy. [..] Executives routinely rely on their intuitions to solv From
soulsoup on July 22, 2004 at 4:08 p.m..
Fascinating Exercise In Hawaii
Winning the peace in distressed nations can be harder than winning the war, whether the opponent is famine, disease, natural disaster or enemy soldiers. This is as evident in Iraq today as it was in Africa, Afghanistan and elsewhere in recent history. There's an exercise going in Hawaii this week c... From
Kolabora.com on July 22, 2004 at 4:08 p.m..
Stanford finds a new problem for business: virtual mistrust
Stanford University's research on virtual work first raises a red flag which they label "virtual mistrust", and then offers some recommendations, including ones we at the Telework Consortium have been making for some time now - utilizing advanced collaboration tools such as videoconf... From
Kolabora.com on July 22, 2004 at 4:08 p.m..
Shared Spaces Briefing, Jul 22
Today's highlights: GE Imagination at Work; Akonix on Enterprise IM; Jabber XMPP-to-SIP Gateway; SharePoint Resources; GE's Imagination at Work project is offering a "for testing purposes only" real-time online drawing service. It enables two people to draw in a Flash-enabled... From
Kolabora.com on July 22, 2004 at 4:08 p.m..
Election information from PBS
In the best tradition of making a second use of good material -- a tradition I hope to teach my students and practice as often as possible myself in the years ahead in the blogosphere and elsewhere -- PBS offers an election information website. There are newsy entries and some that give context, such as the glossary of election terms. Some of the entries on the front page change upon refreshing, I discover -- one more way to create a dynamic social and intellectual space out of a stream... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on July 22, 2004 at 4:08 p.m..
Vs. content management software
A reader wrote saying that he was looking into the differences between the threaded discussion forum (on a classroom content management system) and weblogs. Here is part of my reply: Weblogs and wikis have a different dynamic than classroom threaded discussion software, though all three kinds of software invite the writer to take responsibility for a topic and engage others. Weblogs have a different process than wikis, tending to help a writer engage with unfolding ideas in the news,... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on July 22, 2004 at 4:08 p.m..
Picasa, photo sharing and post photo to blog app, is now free but of course it's Windows only
Interesting times. I still think
Flickr is more compelling than
Picasa/Google because Flickr is cross platform (Mac, PC, Linux, mobile phones), and cross blog (MovableType, TypePad, Blogware, Manila) unlike Picasa/Google Google plan seems to be: offer free services that will get people to post their stuff (including email, blog text posts and blog photo posts) in order for Google to make money off of AdSense, i.e. context specific ads. From
 Pica From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on July 22, 2004 at 4:07 p.m..
Reading On The Ropes
The search is on for villains in the recently documented decline in readers of literature. Here's one candidate: the print media, writes Carlin Romano, critic at large for The Chronicle. From
Chronicle: free on July 22, 2004 at 4:07 p.m..
On A Shoestring
Mark Drummond, new chancellor of the California Community Colleges, is expected to do a lot with a little. From
Chronicle: free on July 22, 2004 at 4:07 p.m..
More on the UK report
Rachel Stevenson,
MPs call for biennial review of profits from science journals, The Independent, July 20, 2004. Excerpt: "As part of an overhaul of the system for publishing scientific material, the committee will suggest that all universities and public-funded research bodies publish all their research material online, free of charge....Reed has already said it will allow wider scope for authors to 'self-archive' by publishing their work on either their own or their university's website. And tod From
Open Access News on July 22, 2004 at 4:07 p.m..
Official links to the UK report
Scientific Publications: Free for all? is now online, both in
HTML and
PDF formats. So is the oral and written evidence (
PDF for now, HTML to follow shortly). Until now the oral testimony was only available in the form of uncorrected transcripts (Sessions
Open Access News on July 22, 2004 at 4:07 p.m..
More on the UK report
Mike Shanahan,
UK politicians back open access to research findings, SciDev.Net, July 21, 2004. Excerpt: "Ian Gibson, the chair the committee -- who was a professor of biology at the University of East Anglia before being elected a member of Parliament in 1997 -- said that that open access publishing was 'a very democratic way forward', along which publishing was moving gradually. Most of the report focuses on measures that the committee feels would increase the benefits to scientists.... From
Open Access News on July 22, 2004 at 4:07 p.m..
More on the UK report
The University of Southampton has issued a
press release on the UK report. Excerpt: "The Committee has recommended that all researchers should self-archive their papers within a month of publication, and that universities should be funded to provide the facilities to allow them to do this. This fulfils the vision and principles under which the [School of Electronics and Computer Science] scientists have been working, as part of the Open Access movement. 'The Committee's conclusions, if followed by universities i From
Open Access News on July 22, 2004 at 4:07 p.m..
More on the UK and US developments
Daniel Clery and Jocelyn Kaiser,
Two Plugs for Open Access, Science, July 20, 2004 (accessible only to subscribers). Excerpt: "The nascent 'open-access' publishing movement got two high-profile endorsements this week. After a 7-month investigation, the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee urges that papers produced by publicly funded research be put in free repositories soon after publication. And in a surprise move, a U.S. House committee has recommended that the National Institutes of Health ( From
Open Access News on July 22, 2004 at 4:07 p.m..
On the effect of the UK report
Richard Wray in the July 21 Guardian: "Reed Elsevier is pushing to raise the price of its academic journals by more than three times the rate of inflation despite a committee of MPs yesterday raising concerns that prices are already too high."
Agence France Presse in the July 21 ChannelNewsAsia: "Shares in [Reed Elsevier] rose 10-1/2 to 496-1/2 following a benign House of Commons Select Committee investigation into scientOpen Access News on July 22, 2004 at 4:07 p.m..
Free UK access to Gale reference works
UK Colleges Receive Free e-Reference Books "In Perpetuity", Managing Information, July 21, 2004. Excerpt: "An agreement signed between JISC (the Joint Information Systems Committee) and the publisher Thomson Gale will mean that every college in the UK will be able to gain access to the free content of twenty-one top electronic reference titles in perpetuity. The titles included in the Gale Virtual Reference Library - including the Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology, the Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations, th From
Open Access News on July 22, 2004 at 4:07 p.m..
More on the NIH OA plan
Alison McCook,
Open access to US govt work urged, The Scientist, July 21, 2004. Excerpt: "A US House of Representatives committee has recommended that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) provide free access to all research it funds and asked the NIH to submit a plan by December 1, 2004 for how to implement the new policy in fiscal year 2005....'This is the policy that many of us have been advocating for some time,' Peter Suber, from Earlham College in Richmond, Ind., told The Scientist. 'It's an extraordinar From
Open Access News on July 22, 2004 at 4:06 p.m..
Nature on the UK Report
Declan Butler,
Britain decides 'open access' is still an open issue Nature 430, 390 (22 July 2004). (Access restricted to subscribers.) A brief news article summarizes the UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee report and includes several quotes from Ian Gibson, the committee chairman, who notes the untenability of the current publishing system, suggests that OA experiments be closely watched, and explains the rationale behind urging government funding of OA. From
Open Access News on July 22, 2004 at 4:06 p.m..
Voices of Hope
Review by Ron Gross - Voices of Hope: Heroes' Stories for Challenging Times is "the best literacy resource I've come across in the last five years."... From
Adult/Continuing Education on July 22, 2004 at 4:06 p.m..
Fall Conferences
Upcoming conferences include Closing The Gap Annual Conference: "Computer Technology in Special Education and Rehabilitation" (Oct. 21-23), Career Planning and Adult Development Network International Career Development Conference (Oct. 27-31) and Association for Continuing Higher Education (ACHE) Annual Conference (Oct. 30... From
Adult/Continuing Education on July 22, 2004 at 4:06 p.m..
Flickr and Frontier/Manila Weblogs
Sometimes you just have to be impressed by the personal Webpublishing crowd out there.This is my little story of the week. It goes like that... On July 16. I finally take a look at the photo service
Flickr, open an account and immediately look into its RSS and publishing to Weblogs features.After various unsuccessful attempts to set up a connection with one of my Frontier/Manila Weblogs via the blogger or MetaWeblog API options that Flickr offered at that time, I sort of had enough and got into a chat with a gentleman called
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More on the monkeymind (Clay Shirky)
About half of any group of people, when they see someone yawning, will begin yawning themselves. Now it turns out chimps, our closest primate relatives, do the same thing. The really freaky thing is the other social characteristics that correlate... From
Corante: Social Software on July 22, 2004 at 4:05 p.m..
Group sponsorship (Clay Shirky)
Ben Hyde is thinking about an anonymous reputation system, analogous to the proposed K5 user-sponsorship model, where users could get sponsored by groups, in a ‘letter of introduction’ kind of way, so as to be able to operate anonymously (though... From
Corante: Social Software on July 22, 2004 at 4:05 p.m..
LAMS to be open sourced, partnership programme announced
After an announcement of the imminent open sourcing of the Learning Design 'inspired' Learning Activity Management System (LAMS) at a special meeting held by the Department for Education and Skills in London last week, LAMS lead developer James Dalziel announced the beta partnership programme at the Alt-I-lab interoperability conference in Redwood City, California. Both moves are designed the make the popular and pedagogically innovative tool readily accessible, sustainable and convergent with ... From
CETIS: Standards in Education Technology on July 22, 2004 at 4:04 p.m..
Mailer the Blogger
Jay Rosen reminds us of Norman Mailer's pre-New Journalistic coverage of the 1960 Convention. "[T]here is another way of 'covering' a political convention," Jay writes: "Send a writer and let the writer find a language adequate to the event." A snip: Mailer on Los Angeles, site of the 1960 Democratic convention: "one has the feeling it was built by television sets giving orders to men." In the comments, Seth Finkelstein writes about the Mailer: Much shorter version: "Let in a bunch of freelance writers, maybe they'll write something interesting". Hmm. Let me rephrase that: From
Joho the Blog on July 22, 2004 at 4:03 p.m..
I not Robot
Scott Rosenberg cites the NY Time's nailing of what's so wonderful about the original I, Robot stories, and then adds his own contemplations. Unlike Scott, though, I'm going to see the movie. I think of it as meeting someone named Abe Lincoln. Just a coincidence.... From
Joho the Blog on July 22, 2004 at 4:03 p.m..
New smoke-free environment
Over at Jeneane's, every topic is colored by her non-smoking non-haze - the "the dissociative second-hand activity of smoking," as she says. Really interesting. (Disclosure: My mother died of lung cancer about 10 years. .) For some reason, I remember Sartre writing that the hard part of giving up smoking a pipe was the way its absence altered all of the activities he used to do while smoking. Now, I don't think you need a Nobel-award winning philosopher to point that out, but it does get at what must be the hardest thing about giving up the drug: There's something... From
Joho the Blog on July 22, 2004 at 4:03 p.m..
Say hello to my bouning baby camera
After some power shopping with Dan Bricklin (thanks, Dan!) and helpful and generous comments from y'all, I bought a Canon Powershot S60. There are so many models that are so close in features, that ultimately it came down mainly to two factors: First, the Sony guy at Newtonville Camera said that the Sony DSC-V1 wasn't "mainstream" and I should avoid it. He also liked the wider angle lens on the Canon. (It's great dealing with a store that puts your interests first.) I was leaning towards a Canon anyway because my current Sony's picture quality isn't particularly good, From
Joho the Blog on July 22, 2004 at 4:03 p.m..
CNN and Technorati - Partners at last!
Great news from Dave Sifry at Technorati: Technorati is going to be CNN's guide to blogs discussing the Democratic Convention. Plus, Dave is going to do color blog commentary for CNN on-air. This will help pull more people into the blogosphere as readers and writers. Plus, I love the Technorati folks, so anything that makes them happy makes me happy. (Disclosure: I'm on their board of advisors.)... From
Joho the Blog on July 22, 2004 at 4:03 p.m..
Bricklin on the Convention
Dan has a lovely piece about blogging and observing the Convention. I find I have no coherent expectations about it or what I'll write about. I bounce from thinking that I'll react to the Big Speeches to reporting small anecdotes to reading the clips of Mailer's 1960s political coverage and thinking "Take away the talent and incredible insight, and what's he got that I don't got?" I can't even anticipate how cynical or filled with spirit I'll be; I am, after all, perfectly capable of crying at a good political speech. (It's hope that turns on the ol&apos From
Joho the Blog on July 22, 2004 at 4:03 p.m..
Daily Windows debugging and repair log
I started getting the following error message in XP: JIT Debugging component registration is incorrect. Please repair the installation of the most recent version of Visual Studio ..Net or Remote Debugging components. Alternatively, execute the following command as an Administrator to manually repair the JIT Debugging component registration: "C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedVS7Debugvs7jit.exe" /RegServer The program it wants me to run is not on my machine. So, after a little googling, here's a partial fix (or: http://tinyurl.com/95zt). This reinstalls the .NET framework, wh From
Joho the Blog on July 22, 2004 at 4:03 p.m..
Free the protestors
I haven't seen the "freedom of speech pen" in person, but from the news reports, it looks repellant. I understand the security concerns about the Convention — frankly, I'm literally losing sleep over the prospect of a large scale (= nuke it in suitcase) attack on Boston — but there has to be a better way of honoring the duty to dissent than to put citizens behind double fences topped by razor wire. Isn't this country all about saying that freedom is worth the risk?... From
Joho the Blog on July 22, 2004 at 4:03 p.m..
Back In the Saddle
Completely unrelated to technology... Today, after two months of excuses and ignoring the messages from Mirror Mirror on the Wall, I got back on the bicycle for my 11 mile
commute to work. And today's weather was so... optimal? Here in Phoenix we are expecting a record high of 112 F, and once you add in the summer moisture lurking in the air, plus the car fumes it feels something like 192 degrees. Actually the morning was quite comfortable, at 6 AM it was only 87 and believe it or not, that felt cool while the sun w From
cogdogblog on July 22, 2004 at 4:02 p.m..
A Love Affair with Blogs
A faculty member I am nudging into blogging shared this beautiful essay about blogging,
Show Me Your Context, Baby: My Love Affair with Blogs by Kate Baggott. I would try to summarize, but this award winning essay says it all: Show me your context, baby. I already know the world you live in; tell me only how you see it. I am among the most demanding readers of blogs, or web logs, or on-line journals, or whatever you choose to call the daily missives individuals post on the web. I want the whole story: From
cogdogblog on July 22, 2004 at 4:02 p.m..
Wikis in Boston
Steve is showing off wikis at the
Building Learning Communities conference and he
created one for us to play with (or vandalize.) It's interesting to hear the reactions of teachers, and it's generating some good thinking. Alan is talking about how this would be a great administrative tool for people to hash out problems and discussions before meetings. Some fear about what kids might do, but also some good ideas From
weblogged News on July 22, 2004 at 4:02 p.m..
Why Weblogs?
Despite some technical glitches, I think
my presentation on Weblogs in Education
here yesterday went pretty well. I really, really like blogvangelizing with a group of motivated and interested education types who are willing to overlook some computer issues and keep the conversation flowing. (Thanks especially to
Kathy Schrock for talking us through my reboot.) I've given this talk about a dozen or so times now From
Column Two on July 22, 2004 at 4:02 p.m..
ROI is not a silver bullet
Scott Hirsch has written an article on the ROI of user experience. To quote: For years now, the "ROI of User Experience" has been sought as a means to justify larger corporate investments in web design. Although ROI methodology can... From
Column Two on July 22, 2004 at 4:02 p.m..
Web services and content management
Travis Wissink has written an article on web services and content management. To quote: In conclusion, Web Services can assist an enterprise in extending its content management capabilities to other systems and vice-versa, thereby obtaining more value from their IT... From
Column Two on July 22, 2004 at 4:02 p.m..
Managing and Growing Your Intranet
Bright*Star have organised for me to present a pair of two-day workshops in New Zealand titled Managing and Growing Your Intranet. These will be held in Auckland on 18 & 19 October, and Wellington on 20 & 21 October. We... From
Column Two on July 22, 2004 at 4:02 p.m..
How to use mind mapping software for project management
Chuck Frey has written an article on using mind mapping for project management. To quote: Mind mapping software can be a powerful tool for managing your projects, your goals and even your to-do lists. Mind maps are very visually oriented,... From
Column Two on July 22, 2004 at 4:02 p.m..
2D interface for spacial design
One of the most challenging issues for software user interface design is to provide a 2D surface to a 3D design space.
SketchUp is some kind of sketching tool that seems to be full of ideas of how to solve this problem (at least it appears to be from the
training videos). From
owrede_log on July 22, 2004 at 4:01 p.m..
City Airport Train?
Sounds interesting The development and application of the community assessment toolkit René Stach has posted a introduction to a new community assessment tool , which can be used to provide feedback on the performance of communities of practice. To quote: This paper introduces the Community Assessment Tool (CAT) as a method for the assessment of Communities of Practice (CoPs) and provides an overview of its construction. It shows that the methodology is based on current theories wit From
thomas n. burg | randgänge on July 22, 2004 at 4:01 p.m..
Learning and Practice
Education for free vs. paid education. In the end it's all about graduating since we know what we learn takes place outside of a regular learning setting - at least most of the time. Now to get an academic degree you need the grades as we know. It surely sounds strange to offer credits for conference attendees. But isn't it that we could learn a lot on conferences if not from the papers but from the conversations at the venue and after. Thus it's fair to give away credits for investing time and efforts to attend a conference - it's part of the academic world and practices a From
thomas n. burg | randgänge on July 22, 2004 at 4:01 p.m..
The Complete Guide to Isometric Pixel Art
I've been searching for something
like this for such a long time. Till now, I've been relying on some fantastic piecemeal stuff on
pixelfreak and
zoggles. Isometric pixel art is the type of visual design that you see in SimCity. I strongly feel that this type of art can be used to explain complex processes and procedures, especially those that are geographically or spatially oriented. For example, see MSNBC
From elearningpost on July 22, 2004 at 4:01 p.m..
A Definition of Interaction Design
Dan Saffer
defines interaction design as, "the art of facilitating or instigating interactions between humans (or their agents), mediated by products. By interactions, I mostly mean communication, either one-on-one (a telephone call), one-to-many (blogs), or many-to-many (the stock market). The products an interaction designer creates can be digital or analog, physical or incorporeal or some combination thereof." From
elearningpost on July 22, 2004 at 4:01 p.m..
Working Draft: Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) 1.1
2004-07-20: The P3P Specification Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of the Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.1 (P3P 1.1). P3P simplifies and automates the process of reading Web site privacy policies, promoting trust and confidence in the Web. Version 1.1 has new extension and binding mechanisms based on suggestions from W3C workshops and the privacy community. Read about privacy and P3P. (News archive) From
World Wide Web Consortium on July 22, 2004 at 4:01 p.m..
Representing Classes As Property Values on the Semantic Web
2004-07-21: The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment (SWBPD) Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Representing Classes As Property Values on the Semantic Web. Comments are welcome. The draft examines approaches to using classes as property values in OWL DL. OWL DL supports users of the OWL Web Ontology Language who want computational completeness and decidability. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (News archive) From
World Wide Web Consortium on July 22, 2004 at 4:01 p.m..
Defining N-ary Relations on the Semantic Web
2004-07-21: The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment (SWBPD) Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Defining N-ary Relations on the Semantic Web: Use With Individuals. In Semantic Web languages like RDF and OWL, a property links two individuals or an individual and a value. This draft presents patterns and considerations for representing relations between more than two individuals. Comments are welcome. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (News archive) From
World Wide Web Consortium on July 22, 2004 at 4:00 p.m..
HTML and XHTML FAQ, and Introduction to XML Events Published
2004-07-21: The HTML Working Group has released two publications. HTML and XHTML Frequently Answered Questions is written for Web content authors and designers. XML Events for HTML Authors introduces XML Events and its advantages over the onclick style of event handling. Visit the HTML home page. (News archive) From
World Wide Web Consortium on July 22, 2004 at 4:00 p.m..
Microsoft Shares the Wealth
It's about time. Microsoft will
return some of its cash hoard (Mercury News) to the money's owners: shareholders. On Tuesday, the company announced a $75 billion set of payments, share repurchases and other measures designed to whack away at its absurdly high cash position, well over $50 billion and growing by about $1 billion a month. Wall Street mavens have been urging such a move for some time. With legal troubles down to a manageable level, Microsoft says it now can afford to do the right thing. Of course From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on July 22, 2004 at 4:00 p.m..
House Says Options Expensing OK for Top Execs Only
The U.S. House of Representatives has buckled under pressure from technology companies and wants to intervene with accounting standards bodies to let companies keep misleading their investors. That's the bottom line in
Tuesday's U.S. House of Representatives vote (Mercury News) to allow companies to continue to hide the cost of stock options from the bottom line. It's a shame to see this, but not surprising. The House did say that it would require companies to expense options granted to the five top execu From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on July 22, 2004 at 4:00 p.m..
iPod Expands Horizons
It only seems as though this is National iPod Week, what with Newsweek's
cover story about Apple's path-breaking music player and an announcement that each incoming freshman at Duke University this fall will be
getting an iPod designed for music and a lot more. With great public relations flair, and in the wake of recently announced financial results that bespoke the iPod's success, Apple Computer is doing its utmost to turn the handheld into a must-carry From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on July 22, 2004 at 4:00 p.m..
The Berger Affair
NY Times: A Kerry Adviser Leaves the Race Over Missing Documents. Samuel R. Berger, the former national security adviser to President Bill Clinton, resigned abruptly Tuesday as a senior adviser to John Kerry's presidential campaign after the disclosure that he had improperly removed classified material on terrorism from a secure government reading room last year. The decision came after Mr. Berger endured a day of f From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on July 22, 2004 at 4:00 p.m..
Your Personal Data, Out of Control
The American Civil Liberties Union has created a clever
animation about how personal data is spreading via linked databases to create the most detailed dossiers on all of us. The scenario, a call to a pizza-delivery service, is exaggerated. But it's clearly the direction in which we're heading. The ACLU offers specific suggestions on how to slow this rampaging privacy invasion. From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on July 22, 2004 at 4:00 p.m..
Technorati Chief as CNN Expert
My older, wiser brother Steve
reports that
Technorati's Dave Sifry will be a talking head on CNN's convention coverage. He says: "Just as CNN continues to provide the gavel–to-gavel coverage the networks used to do, its alliance with Technorati validates the voice and authority of the blogosphere. In effect, CNN becomes the first bridge between the broadcast age and the peer-to-peer age of the real-time network." I wouldn't go that far, given that CNN is the network that told a st From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on July 22, 2004 at 4:00 p.m..
'Rumor Control,' by Anonymice
UPDATED The founders of the new
"This is Rumor Control" blog
say: "We are creating this blog because of our 'ground truth' belief that while the war on terrorism is worth fighting, and al-Qaeda worth defeating, the current U.S. policies in pursuit of these goals are failing our country in its moment of need." The authors claim
impressive credentials, but they are giving us handles, not real names. Their reluctance From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on July 22, 2004 at 4:00 p.m..
HailStorm training wheels
Many folks wouldn't want to be reminded how easy it is to convert sparse input into a detailed profile that includes a phone number, a street address, a satellite photo, and driving directions. Re-entering the basic facts each time perpetuates an illusion of privacy. Yet the reality, for many of us, is that these facts are public. Since I haven't told Google (or any other directories) to delete my records, I've implicitly given permission for Web applications to use that data. Let me now make that permission explicit. I'd be happy if a Web form made From
Jon's Radio on July 22, 2004 at 4:00 p.m..
Stockpiling Antidotes to Terror
The U.S. government turns to the drug industry to help develop vaccines that can be used in the event of a chemical or germ attack against the country. Among other things, Project BioShield is projected to protect up to 25 million Americans from anthrax. From
Wired News on July 22, 2004 at 3:59 p.m..
Slice Your Own Samurai Adventure
Way of the Samurai 2 puts you in control of your own samurai movie, with nonlinear gameplay and divergent story paths. But repetitive action and confusing goals hurt the overall experience. By Chris Kohler. From
Wired News on July 22, 2004 at 3:59 p.m..
Digital Deadline Gets Squishy
Lawmakers are keen on getting U.S. TV signals off the analog airwaves, but the cost and political fallout of forced upgrades are causing some hesitation in setting a concrete deadline. Michael Grebb reports from Washington. From
Wired News on July 22, 2004 at 3:59 p.m..
Open Arms for Open-Source News
A California newspaper is turning over the news to the people: If you think it's news, it probably is to somebody, so write it up. By Daniel Terdiman. From
Wired News on July 22, 2004 at 3:59 p.m..
Involver Ready to Rock Youth Vote
Despite concerns that young people will sit out this year's election, the people behind Involver are trying to get young Americans politically involved. Organizers hope to build a music-oriented political alliance on the Web. By Louise Witt. From
Wired News on July 22, 2004 at 3:59 p.m..
Chunk of Mars Found at South Pole
Scientists are excited about getting their hands on a recently unveiled Mars rock. Funny thing is -- it was discovered here on Earth. By Amit Asaravala. From
Wired News on July 22, 2004 at 3:59 p.m..
Copyright Bill to Kill Tech?
A Senate committee will hear testimony on the controversial 'Induce' copyright bill Thursday. Critics say the bill is the biggest threat to innovation in 20 years, letting Hollywood dictate what consumer electronics companies can do. By Katie Dean. From
Wired News on July 22, 2004 at 3:59 p.m..
Skill Builder Modules To Improving Reading Skills Of Dyslexic Readers
The Reading Success Lab Skill Builder Modules are software modules featuring specific word lists that the reader learns to recognize instantly by sight. Through daily exercises the reader begins to master the content, with answers becoming automatic. Readers who practice the SkillBuilder Module words get better at word recognition, even words they have not yet practiced. The reader can progress to a higher level module, once a module is mastered. [PRWEB Jul 22, 2004] From
PR Web on July 22, 2004 at 3:58 p.m..
North America's Wine School Opens it Doors
Philadelphia is reclaiming its spot as America's premier wine city; the nation's first wine school is opening its doors at 2006 Fairmount Avenue in the Art Museum Area of the city. [PRWEB Jul 22, 2004] From
PR Web on July 22, 2004 at 3:58 p.m..
Google buys (then gives away) Picassa
Picassa, a relatively powerfull photo management tool was purchased by Google a couple weeks ago. . Assumably we'll see some interesting integration of Blogger and Picassa in the near future.... From
Corante: Amateur Hour on July 22, 2004 at 3:58 p.m..
Art Mobs in Slate
Slate is running
a piece today entitled "Art Mobs" that takes a look at how collaboration between artists has changed as things move online. It covers graphical, film, and text pieces, but the best example is a song. We've profiled
MacJams before, the site built around sharing tracks for Apple's Garageband users. They've got Creative Commons licenses built in and this slate article highlights
the final track "Please E
Creative Commons: weblog on July 22, 2004 at 3:57 p.m..
Briefly: MP3 players recalled
roundup Plus: Sony puts 7.2 megapixels in consumer camera...Free OpenOffice support on tap...Sign-ups propel EarthLink profit...Strike costs hit SBC earnings. From
CNET News.com on July 22, 2004 at 3:57 p.m..
Self-archiving: Institutional Repositories
Something government funding agencies and foundations in other nations (including my own) should look at: the possibility of tying research funding to the provision of publications in an open access eprints archive. The idea was broached by a U.K. Parliamentary report released yesterday, which noted that there is not currently sufficient incentive for authors to take the time to place their materials into such archives. The report also contains some interesting discussion of the role of publishers in all this, along with links to numerous newspaper clippings. Via BOAI. By Select Committee on From
OLDaily on July 22, 2004 at 3:57 p.m..
Information and Communication Technology
Recommended on WWWEDU today was this resource offered by the Alberta government describing the ICT (Information and Communications Technology) curriculum in Alberta schools. The kit provides programs of study, examples, classroom assessment tools, and more. By Various Authors, Government of Alberta, July, 2004 [
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OLDaily on July 22, 2004 at 3:57 p.m..
A Guide to Handheld Computing in K-12 Schools
Summary of a report on the use of handhelds in learning; the full report (which I haven't seen) is available for purchase. I know that some school divisions in Canada are planning pilot projects with handhelds. Me, I'm sceptical about the long-term use of handhelds, since the displays are too small, but hey, I could be wrong. Another concern is whether software will be produced for the devices, since in many cases a special edition is required. By Unknown, Consortium for School Networking, July, 2004 [
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Bundled Journals: From Big Deals to Fair Deals
Interesting presentation (in PowerPoint) from a pre-conference to LIBER's 2004 Annual General Confernce held in St Petersburg recently. The author surveys the impact of the practice of bundling by major journal publishers - this practice involves selling electronic access to a large number of journals for a single price, but typically requires a multi-year deal and restrictions against cancelling individual journals. The weaknesses of this approach are a lack of choice for the library, as smaller publishers are squeezed out by the majors as they consume more and more of the library budget From
OLDaily on July 22, 2004 at 3:57 p.m..
8 Tips for Administrators Using Handheld Computers
Pretty good article describing how school administrators can use handhelds with internet access to maximize their efficiency during or between meetings or while on duties that take them away from their desks. The article doesn't really get into the fact that you really have to train yourself into these habits; if you do not normally check your messages during lulls in meetings, having a handheld won't make it suddenly happen. It also occured to me that, especially for those large urban schools, having photo-recognition would be useful. Focus your camera on the student and the handhel From
OLDaily on July 22, 2004 at 3:57 p.m..
Oracle, Macromedia Partner on E-learning
The bigs are getting together on e-learning as this press release-type article announces a collaboration between Macromedia and Oracle "to ease rollouts of corporate e-learning initiatives." It's a good fit; Macromedia is known for front-end interfaces, while Oracle is known for back-end power. By Joanne Cummings, Publish, July 20, 2004 [
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OLDaily on July 22, 2004 at 3:57 p.m..
New £12m Programme to Support Regional e-Learning Networks
Britain's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has announced a Distributed e-Learning programme that is intended to establish links between schools, colleges and universities to encourage progression into higher education. What they're after is probably an effect like that documented in a report in the
Kansas City Star wherein a 15 year-old inner city high school student was able to connect with, and be inspired by, university-level studies (this latter link w From
OLDaily on July 22, 2004 at 3:57 p.m..