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Falsches Ortsjubiläum
Wann wurde Markendorf zum ersten Mal urkundlich erwähnt? Ende Juni feierte die Siedlung mit einem tollen Fest "650 Jahre Markendorf". Doch wie sich nun herausstellt, hat man sich geirrt. Denn mit jenem "Markendorf", das in einer Urkunde 1354 erwähnt worden war, war eine Siedlung in der brandenburgischen Neumark gemeint. Das Frankfurter Markendorf wurde hingegen 1405 erstmalig in einem Stiftsregister aufgelistet. Stadtarchivar Ralf-Rüdiger Targiel will die Markendorfer trösten: "Dann können sie doch 2005 ,600 Jahre Markendorf‘ feiern." Doch Sabine Acksteiner unArchivalia on August 6, 2004 at 12:36 p.m..
Kabarettarchiv in Graz muss...
Das erste Kabarett-Archiv in Österreich (ÖKA) mit Sitz in Graz wird Mitte August seine - erst 2001 geöffneten - Pforten schließen. Ausschlaggebend waren die fehlenden Subventionen im zweiten Halbjahr, hieß es am Freitag in einem Schreiben des ÖKA. Der Grund: Geldmangel. [...] Zumal heuer, im Post-Kulturhauptstadtjahr 2003, die Stadt Graz die Subvention um die Hälfte auf 20.000 Euro gekürzt hat und auch vom Land keine Erhöhung der Unterstützung von 2.900 Euro zu erwarten sei, könne der Archiv-Betrieb laut Vere From
Archivalia on August 6, 2004 at 12:36 p.m..
State of the Industry Says: It's A Buyer's Market
Report From The Trenches :: The Real-Time Blog of yesterday's "State of the E-conferencing Industry:Today's Issues and Tomorrow's Solution" was an experiment in innovative online journalism. You can see the results of what came out of it on this special... From
Kolabora.com on August 6, 2004 at 12:35 p.m..
Eats Shoots & Leaves
Last night I finished reading Eats Shoots & Leaves, "The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation," a humorous romp through the full stop, the round bracket, and their punctuation pals: they make the written word understandable. "Full stop" is what Brits call a period; "round brackets" are parentheses. I hope you're noticing the tricky punctuation in this post -- the book is chock-full of this sort of nonsense. Don't get me wrong; I thoroughly enjoy the author' From
Internet Time Blog on August 6, 2004 at 12:35 p.m..
Loosely Coupled
Loosely Coupled is a wonderfully lucid book by Doug Kaye, who also provides
IT Conversations, mp3 recordings of interviews with IT visionaries that I love to listen to while walking in the Berkeley hills. Founder and former CEO of Rational Software, Doug has an ability to explain what's going on in Web Services, applicaiton integration, Service-Oriented Architectures, security From
Internet Time Blog on August 6, 2004 at 12:34 p.m..
InfoTool
I can honestly say I never cheated on a test in eighteen years of formal schooling. It didn't occur to me.Not that I didn't take short-cuts. My bookshelves were filled with summaries of the world's 100 greatest novels, 40 greatest plays, and the predecessors of Cliffs' Notes. I had a 150 page condensation of the Bible, a similar précis of Crime and Punishment, and a digest of world history.Whether or not I read the source material, I learned many concepts this way. Without these monographs I would never have fathomed what either Faulkner or Wittgenst From
Internet Time Blog on August 6, 2004 at 12:34 p.m..
Furl and Spurl
Bookmarks are so yesterday. They reside on one machine; I compute on three. Bookmarks are browser-specific; I use Firefox unless MS zealots or lazy designers force me to use IE; my wife uses Opera. And sharing booksmarks with others is not simple.Two free services have sprung up to address these issues. While Spurl and Furl sound the same, their functions are different.
Spurl is an online links list. Click a button and Spurl saves the URL, page title, and your comment on the web. You can begin by From
Internet Time Blog on August 6, 2004 at 12:34 p.m..
The Nature of Order
A couple of days back I had a very enjoyable lunch with my friend
Bob Horn at Greens, my first time back at this vegetarian Mecca in ten years. I asked Bob if he knew the menu; he replied, "This is my company canteen." Absolutely wonderful food, attentive service, and a great view of the Golden Gate. Bob is a fascinating guy, the inventor of Information Mapping and author of
Visual Language. Currently From
Internet Time Blog on August 6, 2004 at 12:34 p.m..
Political Theater
The choices in the 2004 election may not be the most charismatic, but they make for great political theater. Unless you're a Karl Rove fan, you'll probably get a kick out of this. From
Internet Time Blog on August 6, 2004 at 12:34 p.m..
Maps
I adore maps. This weekend I read
You Are Here, Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination. Few of the 150 or so maps in the book describe roads and highways. These are maps of the anatomy, human emotion, memory, morality, health, chronologies, perspectives, politics, history, fantasy, and imagination. From
Internet Time Blog on August 6, 2004 at 12:34 p.m..
What Counts?
by Jay Cross
CLO MagazineAugust 2004 Businesses exist to create value, and the source of value resides outside the learning function. As Peter Drucker has pointed out, oeNeither results nor resources exist inside the business. Both exist outside. The customer is the business.Try to imagine a business without customers, perhaps an insurance company on a desert island or a manufacturer that never ships. No value, right? What goes on inside an organi From
Internet Time Blog on August 6, 2004 at 12:34 p.m..
Christopher Alexander Group
Five of us met for several hours this Monday and Tuesday evening at a cafe in Berkeley to discuss Christopher Alexander's
The Nature of Order.My notes are a bit of a jumble.Need a change of worldview to communicate with others...like Wolfram...easier to be enlightened than to be devout...like Extreme Programming: a message for or From
Internet Time Blog on August 6, 2004 at 12:34 p.m..
Teachable Moments
Henri Cartier-Bresson has died at 93.An inspiration for amateurs like me, Cartier-Bresson never used a wide-angle or zoom lens, for he wanted his camera to see what the human eye sees. Nor did he pose scenes or use a studio; much the better to shoot real life, where it happens. To pull this off, he was the absolute master at capturing the "Decisive Moment." I think of this as a Zen-and-the-Art-of-Archery sort of thing; sometimes I press the shutter while holding the camera waist-high, not looking at the viewfinder. From
Internet Time Blog on August 6, 2004 at 12:34 p.m..
Before you Buy
Whether you're investing in career development resources or self-study materials, these tips will help you spend your money wisely.... From
Adult/Continuing Education on August 6, 2004 at 12:34 p.m..
Andy Swarbricks SNA Resource Page (Nancy White)
After seeing so many social network analysis tidbits, resources and news fly by his eyes, Andy Swarrick generously took the plunge to start a SNA resource website. (Caveat: now that I’m back from vacation and work travel, I’m in massive... From
Corante: Social Software on August 6, 2004 at 12:33 p.m..
The Bourne Confusancy
Saw the Bourne Supremacy last night. It is, as they say, a taut thriller with an interesting character at its center, played by an appropriately scowly Matt Damon. But, oh when will Hollywood learn to edit? The showpiece car chase is an unintelligible swirl of blurry car shots cut together so rapidly that perception outpaces narrative. Just as you're about to figure out which car is the one that's smudgily swerving to avoid which other car, you're shown another car streakily swerving out of the way of some other indiscernible patch of color. There's a reason why Monet paint From
Joho the Blog on August 6, 2004 at 12:31 p.m..
Blogs + Egos = Learning?
Interesting thoughts again from Louis Rosenfeld, this time on
student learning in the blogosphere. He argues that tools that allow students to monitor their "egoboo" are a must for learning along with the tools that allow for content publishing. "Understanding how one's content performed in a competitive, if local, information marketplace would surely be quite instructive. Through trial, error, and emulating others' successes, students would learn to write more effectively for the medium..." From
elearningpost on August 6, 2004 at 12:29 p.m..
Open Letter Against British Copyright Indoctrination in Schools
The British Department for Education and Skills (DfES) recently launched a "Music Manifesto" campaign, with the ostensible intention of educating the next generation of British musicians. Unfortunately, they also teamed up with the music industry (EMI, and various artists) to make this popular. EMI has apparently negotiated their end well, so that children in our schools will now be indoctrinated about the illegality of downloading music.The ignorance and audacity of this got to me a little, so I wrote an open letter to the DfES about it. Unfortunately, it's pedantic, as I suppose you hav From
CNET News.com on August 6, 2004 at 12:26 p.m..
Nvidia profit plummets
Company's shares plunge after it reports that profit dropped nearly 80 percent due to turbulence in the desktop market and increased competition. From
CNET News.com on August 6, 2004 at 12:26 p.m..
Electioneering? Guardian:A rightwing US pressure g ...
Electioneering?
Guardian:A rightwing US pressure group is calling for a ban on television advertising for Michael Moore's controversial film Fahrenheit 9/11, claiming it amounts to "electioneering". People outside US all knows the content and links in the movie, except common people in US. So whether it's for electioneering or not, American should take a look at it. From
on August 6, 2004 at 9:27 a.m..
This week's Friday Brain-teaser from xrefer tests your knowledge of board games. Answers here: ...
This week's Friday Brain-teaser from xrefer tests your knowledge of board games.
Answers here:1. In which board game do players progress by correctly answering questions on geography, entertainment, history, art and literature, science and nature, and sport and leisure?2. In which board game do you try to get the opposing king into a position called "checkmate"?3. In which board game can players advance rapidly up ladders?4. Which well-known game was invented in 1931 by a New Y From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on August 6, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..
Blogzine en eCuaderno
Incorporo al final del blogroll los últimos titulares de Blogzine, el metablog que mantengo en Blogalia.... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on August 6, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..
Update: UK Crown Copyright
Re:
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/287857/ I have received today the following mail. Guidance Note 3- Copyright in Public Records (GN3) The waiver set out in GN3 does not cover re-use of photographs or images of documents held at the National Archives. To re-use this material you would require a licence/permission from the National Archives. Contact details are as follows: Mr Tim Padfield Copyright Officer The National Archives Kew Richmond< From
Archivalia on August 6, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..
Workshop zur digitalen Erschliessung
Digitale Erschließung und Edition Archivische Dienstleistungen im Informationszeitalter Workshop im Bundesarchiv am 27. September 2004 Die Tagung versammelt Beiträge, die sich mit den Möglichkeiten des IT-Einsatzes im Bereich Erschließung und Edition beschäftigen und - mit einer Ausnahme - auf Projekte zurückgehen, die von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft gefördert wurden. Viele dieser Vorhaben, deren Ergebnisse im Mittelpunkt der Präsentationen stehen werden, können in hohem Ma&szl From
Archivalia on August 6, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..
E-Learn 2004 final call
E-Learn 2004 World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education "Uniting the International E-Learning Community" November 1-5, 2004 * Washington, DC FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ** Submission Deadline: August 30, 2004 ** Organized by the Association for... From
Rick's Café Canadien on August 6, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..
A new blogette!
Our little educational communications and technology family has grown again, and this time it is Alec Couros who is the proud new pappa of Mary Lorraine. Alec and Claudia welcomed Raine on the afternoon of July 30, and true to... From
Rick's Café Canadien on August 6, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..
Conference Calendar
One of the most frequent things I announce here is upcoming educatinal technology conferences and calls for papers. I'll keep doing that, but here is an even better way to handle it. Alec Couros has set up a calendar of... From
Rick's Café Canadien on August 6, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..
Embracing Information Architecture and Information Design
Embracing Information Architecture and Information Design by Maish Nichani at Australian Flexible Learning Community. Information architecture (IA) and information design (ID) are two fields that are taking the Web experience to a new level. They form the foundations of what is now widely known as user experience design (UXD). In this article, I argue that e-learning teams too have to embrace UXD practices in addition to learning design practices to take the learning experience to a higher level.... From
soulsoup on August 6, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..
Blended Learning and Sense of Community
Blended Learning and Sense of Community: A Comparative Analysis with Traditional and Fully Online Graduate Courses Blended learning is a hybrid of classroom and online learning that includes some of the conveniences of online courses without the complete loss of face-to-face contact. The present study used a causal-comparative design to examine the relationship of sense of community between traditional classroom, blended, and fully online higher education learning environments. Evidence is provided to suggest that blended courses produce a stronger sense of community among students than either From
soulsoup on August 6, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..
Contextualized Learning: Empowering Education
Contextualized Learning: Empowering Education by Steve Rae and Tony O'Driscoll Customers expect responses in real time. The sales cycle requires access to market trends in real time. And when organizations cannot or do not make critical learning content available in real time, individuals resort to the click-through ease of the Internet. The need to nurture a learning-friendly corporate culture cannot be overemphasized when considering the existing marketplace. [..] Ironically, while skill development is more important than ever before, employees have less time than ever for formalized le From
soulsoup on August 6, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..
Making the case for Interface Design
Making the case for Interface Design by Andrei Herasimchuk Every product in the technology field is essentially some form of an application. Amazon, Google and eBay are all applications, expressed inside a web browser. Adobe Photoshop is an application in the tradtional desktop sense. Apple&rsquo;s iPod and the Palm Zire are devices that both have application front-ends. Anything that requires any cross-talk, any back and forth communication or input between a computer and a human is an application. [..] Great interfaces are delicate balancing acts between graphic, information and interacti From
soulsoup on August 6, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..
LeapPad for Adult Learning
Last month Kevin Kruse suggested using customised version of LeapPad for adult learning. Today Boing Boing reported - LeapPads heading to Afghanistan The Department of Health and Human Services is shipping 20,000 LeapPad Learning Systems to women in Afghanistan. While LeapPad is marketed here as en edutainment system for children, this version was modified for adults who speak Dari and Pashto but aren't necessarily able to read. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the systems will be used to inform the women about healthcare issues like diet, immunization, pregnancy, and disease pre From
soulsoup on August 6, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..
Shared Spaces Briefing, Aug 5
Today's highlights: US Department of Health and Human Services Does Exchange with Unisys; SAGEM myS-7; Symbian Leads Microsoft; The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has contracted with Unisys to deploy a new secure email system to link... From
Kolabora.com on August 6, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..
A Reply to the Radicati Response, Aug 6
I've been quite astounded by the war of words that has erupted over the recent Radicati Group report, and the tactics followed by members of the Radicati Group staff in the blogosphere. The purpose of this post is to outline... From
Kolabora.com on August 6, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..
Elsevier CEO comments on OA
Adam Pasick and Theo Kolker,
Reed Elsevier sees pick-up in sales growth, Reuters, August 5, 2004. Excerpt: "Reed Elsevier faces a potential challenge from a movement to make scientific journals freely available, widely known as the 'open access' model. It said there has been 'much comment but little market impact'. 'There are no real indications at the moment that the market is changing significantly,' [CEO Crispin] Davis said. 'After five years From
Open Access News on August 6, 2004 at 8:44 a.m..
More on the NIH OA plan
Dee Ann Divis,
House acts on research access, United Press International, August 4, 2004. Excerpt: "Anger over high prices and limits to research access by scientific journals has finally risen to the point a federal backlash is brewing. Congress is moving to force a shift to 'open access,' a form of free-to-consumer publishing, for scientific papers. The move angers commercial publishers, who see their livelihoods threatened and it scares scientific societies, who are afraid they will face losses or costs the From
Open Access News on August 6, 2004 at 8:44 a.m..
Funder makes OA journal jump through hoops
Terry Anderson,
Something Old - Something New, an editorial in The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL), August 2004. Excerpt: "This issue of IRRODL marks a significant evolution in the development of your open access, peer-reviewed, international, online learning journal....Finally, although we continue to support full and open access to IRRODL, we now have paid subscribers to IRRODL. The reason why we have opted to solicit 'paid subscribers' is because the Canadian Social Sciences a From
Open Access News on August 6, 2004 at 8:44 a.m..
Indian editorial endorses OA
For Access to Scientific Publications, The Hindu, August 3, 2004. An unsigned editorial. Excerpt: "In July, the movement for 'open access' got an important boost when the Appropriations Committee of the United States' House of Representatives and the Science & Technology Committee of the United Kingdom's House of Commons recommended measures that would help make scientific journal publications available more freely online....[The UK proposal] is an idea that India --where research is overwhelmingl From
Open Access News on August 6, 2004 at 8:44 a.m..
More on the UK and US proposals
Access all areas, The Economist, August 5, 2004. An unsigned news story. Excerpt: "[T]he dominance of Elsevier and its kin is under attack. The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee did more than just lament the rising price of journals. It told the British government that the country's universities should be required to ensure that all their research papers are available free online, and that government-funded research grants ought to include free access to the findings a condition of the awar From
DEC Daily News on August 6, 2004 at 8:44 a.m..
Uscript (Ross Mayfield)
Franz Dill posts on Printing, Uniformity, Optimism at the IFTF blog, extracts a fascinating passage on Diarmaid MacCulloch’s The Reformation on the influence of the emergence of printing during that time: …Printing, which produced multiple identical copies of a text,... From
Corante: Social Software on August 6, 2004 at 8:43 a.m..
Real-Time Blogging
Real-time blogging was my yesterday experiment. I set-up to cover in real-time the live online conference "State of the E-conferencing Industry: Today's Issues and Tomorrow's Solution" organized and presented/moderated by Stephanie Downs of ConferZone. The challenge I had posed to... From
Robin Good's Latest News on August 6, 2004 at 8:41 a.m..
People of honor and cheesy Hollywood plots gone real
I don't know whether to be impressed that John McCain is calling on the Bush campaign to condemn the indepdendent ads impugning Kerry's war record or depressed that it's news that a person has crossed party lines in defense of simple decency. (The White House declined the invitation to condemn the ads.) And then there's the news that during Bush and Kerry's simultaneous visits to Davenport, Iowa, three banks were robbed, just to make sure that we all remain good and cynical.... From
Joho the Blog on August 6, 2004 at 8:41 a.m..
Req: Extending Thunderbird for Dummies
Anyone know of a site with really simple, step-by-step directions for adding some javascript to Thunderbird? I don't need general purpose info about javascript, but I do need handholding to figure out: 1. How you get TB to recognize scripts; 2. The specifics of interacting with TB's object model. So, a response to #1 would let me run a Hello World script from a button I've added to the TB interface, and #2 would get me started with a script that can read selected emails within TB. Or is this like asking someone for really simple instructions about how to... From
Joho the Blog on August 6, 2004 at 8:41 a.m..
Emergent church
AKMA successfully complicates the notion of the "emergent Church." Snippet: Any singular model of liturgical normativity came into prominence by way of a long path of emergence -- so picking on emergent church for its buffet liturgical practice occludes the cafeteria past that lies behind the watershed liturgical models. Fascinating. One of the things I like about Judaism (speaking as a non-observant Jew) is the way an original text grounds it, interpretation frees it to respond to modern and cultural differences, and a tradition of discourse guides how interpretation addresses the original te From
Joho the Blog on August 6, 2004 at 8:41 a.m..
Vacation work
Halley reflects on David Batstone's piece over at Worthwhile on never taking vacations. Of course, I'm writing this from my vacation...... From
Joho the Blog on August 6, 2004 at 8:41 a.m..
Us the Media
Dan Gillmor's We the Media is available as a pdf here. Ernie Miller reviews it for Slashdot here. And through Joi Ito comes this bit of slashdot tomfoolery.... From
Joho the Blog on August 6, 2004 at 8:41 a.m..
Foto fun
Just to prove that on my vacation I'm not only blogging and doing conference calls, here are some snaps from my new Canon S60. Click on these thumbnails to see larger versions. Morning news Glass and ceramic still "life" Why I stay inside flower #9,897,254,678,123,534 Why I wear shoes Through a screen dead-bugly... From
Joho the Blog on August 6, 2004 at 8:41 a.m..
Where the Wikis Are or Where Are the Wikis?
I believe in wikis.... but they are very strange internet things to wrap your head around. I met today with David, one of the co-chairs of our
ePortfolio Ocotillo Action Group and we had an interesting discussion on how to make wikis approachable and appreciated (and used) by people who have never ventured into them. "Blogs are the rage, in a lot of media, and there is now some 'shame' pressure for people to get into blogs.. but wikis??? it's not even on the radar" And even when you explain the From
cogdogblog on August 6, 2004 at 8:40 a.m..
New version of Content Management Requirements Toolkit
I'm very pleased to announce the release of Version 2.0 of our Content Management Requirements Toolkit. To quote: Fully-revised, and almost twice the size, the new version of the Content Management Requirements Toolkit captures the latest thinking in the content... From
Column Two on August 6, 2004 at 8:40 a.m..
Downloading a PDF is just the beginning
The review copy arrived the day before yesterday. It still sits on my desk. Now even if I hadn't got a 'real' book the idea of downloading it is horrible - at least til some copyshop offers me a decent (in terms of money and quality) way of printing and binding. What we lack is this simple step. (Of course it could be interesting to open the pdf and have the entire book as RTF but what would you do with that?)
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SVG Open 2004: Tokyo, Japan 7-10 September
2004-08-05: SVG Open 2004, the 3rd annual conference on Scalable Vector Graphics, will be held 7-10 September at Keio University, Japan, on the Mita Campus in Tokyo. The conference schedule has courses and presentations and location and accommodation. Registration opens 31 August. A joint event, UPIMap is colocated on 7-9 September. SVG Open is your chance to discuss SVG development experiences, products, workflows and strategies. The conference language is English; translation facilities will be available to encourage English-Japanese communication. Read about SVG. (News archive) From
World Wide Web Consortium on August 6, 2004 at 8:39 a.m..
When Police Abuse Their Positions
Declan McCullagh reports
chilling news: An appeals court has ruled that "the sheriff of Shawnee County, Kan., could not be sued for snooping through an FBI database for dirt on political enemies." The ruling deals specifically with people's First Amendment rights, but it may have a more sweeping impact. It's an outrage anyway you look at it. When people ask who'll police the police, they're talking about situations like this. Who, indeed? From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on August 6, 2004 at 8:39 a.m..
Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty, Kitty
Although its claims have not been verified by a scientic review process, a company says it has successfully cloned two kittens from its CEO's pet cat. If you have around $50,000, it will clone your beloved pet, too. From
Wired News on August 6, 2004 at 8:38 a.m..
Da Vinci Gambles on X Prize
A Canadian group hoping to win $10 million by sending a pilot 100 kilometers up gets some last-minute financial help from, of all things, an online casino. By Dan Brekke. From
Wired News on August 6, 2004 at 8:38 a.m..
Do You See a Pattern Here?
Benoît Mandelbrot, the father of the fractal, writes an open letter to the wizards of Wall Street. From Wired magazine. From
Wired News on August 6, 2004 at 8:38 a.m..
Open Supercomputing Hits Big 1-0
The Beowulf cluster -- a supercomputer based on open-source infrastructure -- turns 10 this week, and geeks gathered for LinuxWorld in San Francisco pay homage. By Michelle Delio. From
Wired News on August 6, 2004 at 8:38 a.m..
Mysteries of the Ocean Deepen
A two-month survey of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge turns up several organisms never before seen, and one that looks like no other known sea creature. By Stephen Leahy. From
Wired News on August 6, 2004 at 8:38 a.m..
Fark Sells Out. France Surrenders
Blogs are the hottest thing on the Net, but are they messing with traditional publishing principles? One of the most popular, Fark.com, is allegedly selling links. Is it the wave of the future? By Daniel Terdiman. From
Wired News on August 6, 2004 at 8:38 a.m..
Security Cavities Ail Bluetooth
Thousands of Bluetooth phones are vulnerable to hacking, researchers warn, allowing attackers to steal phone book data and text messages -- and even turn the phones into bugs to surreptitiously listen to conversations. By Kim Zetter. From
Wired News on August 6, 2004 at 8:38 a.m..
Digital memories survive extremes - BBC
Holiday-makers capturing precious memories on digital cameras need not worry about losing their snaps. The memory cards in most cameras are virtually indestructible, found Digital Camera Shopper magazine. Five memory card formats survived being boile From
Techno-News Blog on August 6, 2004 at 8:37 a.m..
BlackWhite
Every so often someone defends, with a straight-face, that which we think undeniably wrong. They say, for example, that the holocaust never happened, or perhaps that slaves actually liked slavery, or that some degree of torture is fine as government policy. Orwell called the tactic "Blackwhite," or "a willingness to... From
Lessig Blog on August 6, 2004 at 8:37 a.m..
The Induce Act Revised
Here's the question: What would the Induce Act look like if it balanced the interests of copyright owners and technological innovators? Here's what: the Inducing Innovation Act. Comments welcomed, and thanks to all those who helped work on this.... From
Lessig Blog on August 6, 2004 at 8:37 a.m..
The Great K5 Limerick Contest
Queue submissions being scarce, I suggest we all submit limericks for consideration. Mod up your favorites. I'm no poet, so I'll submit a favorite of my childhood: There was a young woman named Bright, Who traveled much faster than light She set out one day In a relative way And returned on the previous night. I'm afraid I don't remember the author. From
kuro5hin.org on August 6, 2004 at 8:37 a.m..
Medical School for the University of Wollongong
The Australian Government will provide $10 million over two years to establish a medical school at the University of Wollongong which will enhance and improve the teaching hospital capacity and the delivery of health and medical services in the Illawarra and rural New South Wales. The University's medical school has been structured to specifically meet the workforce needs of rural and regional Australia. The primary goal of the school is to address the shortage of general practitioners in regional areas. From
EdNA Online on August 6, 2004 at 8:37 a.m..
A Voice for Indigenous Higher Education
From today Indigenous Australian students, teachers and academics in higher education will have a new voice following the creation of the Indigenous Higher Education Advisory Council. The new Advisory Council, funded with $272,000 per year from the Australian Government, will consist of 16 members with expertise in and understanding of the higher education sector.DEST Media release, 5 August 2004 From
EdNA Online on August 6, 2004 at 8:36 a.m..
New Council to Boost Collaboration Between Business and Universities
A newly established Council will foster greater collaboration between Australian higher education providers, business, industry, and communities. The Council will be chaired by Mr David Murray, Chief Executive Officer of the Commonwealth Bank, who is also Chairman of the Australian Bankers' Association and a Board member of the Business Council of Australia. The 11 highly skilled members of the Business/Industry/Higher Education Collaboration Council (BIHECC) have been drawn from across the business and academic world and bring with them enormous experience in their respective fields. From
EdNA Online on August 6, 2004 at 8:36 a.m..
$3.2 Million to Help Teach Gifted and Talented Children
Identifying and nurturing gifted and talented children requires a national, collaborative approach. I am pleased to announce a $3.2 million package, to assist teacher educators and classroom teachers to support gifted and talented education. The Senate Committee Report The Education of Gifted Children calls for all Australian children, including the gifted, to be given the opportunity to maximise their potential. Importantly, identifying and nurturing gifted and talented children requires a national, collaborative approach. From
EdNA Online on August 6, 2004 at 8:36 a.m..
$1.8 Million to Strenghthen Science in Primary Schools
The Australian Government is investing almost $2 million to strengthen the skills of, and provide better tools for, primary school teachers hoping to teach their students more science. The Australian Academy of Science will develop new teaching materials that will enable primary teachers to present scientific concepts in an engaging and interesting way. In addition, the Academy will run a summer school to offer science teachers high quality, intensive specialist training to assist them with strategies for lessons. State and Territory education authorities and teacher professional associations From
EdNA Online on August 6, 2004 at 8:36 a.m..
An invitation to join the 2004 Australian delegation to Online Educa Berlin
Now in its 10th year, Online Educa Berlin, to be held from 1 to 3 December, is regarded as the world's most international conference on technology supported learning and training. Meeting the networking needs of the international eLearning and distance education community, it is the key networking venue for strategists and practitioners from all over the world. Last year 1486 participants from 68 countries attended the Berlin event. This year's Australian delegation will be led by Gerry White, CEO of education.au limited. Gerry has a long association with Online Educa Berlin as both From
EdNA Online on August 6, 2004 at 8:36 a.m..
Less-than-risky business?
Critics say science in the U.S. has become safer, with demoralized researchers less likely to "swing for the fences." From
CNET News.com on August 6, 2004 at 8:36 a.m..
WebCT and MERLOT Form Strategic Partnership to Energize Inter-Institution Learning Content Exchange
The deal means specifically that "MERLOT will offer 'WebCT' as a pick list option for users searching by either subject matter or technical format." Consequently, "They will pinpoint WebCT-ready content produced by faculty, institutions and publishers, including IMS standards-based learning modules, question databases and quizzes." One wonders, in the world where learning objects are supposed to be system-neutral, why it should be necessary to search for 'WebCT ready' content. Or why, for that matter, MERLOT would find it necessary to sign a special deal with an LMS vendor From
OLDaily on August 6, 2004 at 8:36 a.m..
Manage Digital Rights with the OMA
Good overview article on digital rights management as seem through the eyes of the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), the consortium that handles content for mobile devices such as cell (mobile) phones. This market is somewhat unique in that the vendor controls the hardware, which means that DRM functionally can be integrated into the telephone's design. It is worth noting (though the article doesn't, for some reason) that OMA DRM is based on the Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL). Good list of links at the conclusion fo the article. By Max Kington, IBM Developer Works, July 27, 2004 [
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E-Learning Benchmark Established with Launch of the Institute of Financial Services' KnowledgeBank
The corporate community is often well ahead of the academic community in the deployment of e-learning technologies, and this announcement is a case in point. What is significant about this item is this: "RetrievalWare enables the retrieval of very specific information by 'slicing-and-dicing' search results using dynamic classification - the ability to mix concepts, terms and expressions across multiple categories to quickly isolate desired information." The key here is the concept of 'dynamic categoization' - the automated sorting of items into categories in real time (I do From
OLDaily on August 6, 2004 at 8:36 a.m..
Executive Coaching Has Measurable Impact on Enterprise ROI
According to the article, "A recent survey of 100 senior executives released by Right Managements Consultants, a Philadelphia-based career transition and organizational consulting firm, found that coaching strategies have had a measurable impact on ROI. Senior executives report better relationships with their direct reports, supervisors and peers, improved teamwork and greater job satisfaction." Seems to me that if it works for executives, it ought to work for other staff, and may well have a greater impact on ROI, since (one would think) there is a greater need. By Kellye Whitney, Chief Lear From
OLDaily on August 6, 2004 at 8:36 a.m..
Preliminary Peer Study Results Enterprise Learning Services
Reflecting some comments I've made about learning design, this survey finds that "content development processes are inefficient. The manual steps required to gather learning materials and need for collaboration apparently hinder the development process." The usual caveats about online surveys apply, and the authors are careful to note the limitations of this work. PDF. This item and the next via ROInet. By Ben Bradley, GrowingCo, July 30, 2004 [
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OLDaily on August 6, 2004 at 8:36 a.m..
Contextualized Learning: Empowering Education
This article identifies three major features that will characterize contextual learning: a greater emphasis on organizational learning; learners that will be increasingly empowered to shape when, where and how they learn; and ways to deliver learning embedded into the job. These seem essentially correct to me, and suggest the directions the development of learning technologies should take. By Steve Rae and Tony O'Driscoll, Chief Learning Officer, August, 2004 [
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OLDaily on August 6, 2004 at 8:36 a.m..
Prime-time hypermedia
The two-way Web unleashed by the blogging revolution is, and will remain, largely a textual medium. And yet we're clearly at an inflection point. It's increasingly feasible to create and share media content. If you needed special AV skills and instincts in order to do that, it would be a non-starter. But I've never been an AV guy. What motivates me to explore the subject now is a profound sense that it's ready to become part of mainstream communication on the Web. I'm not sure where this series of columns will lead, but let&apo From
Jon's Radio on August 5, 2004 at 2:54 p.m..
As You Slowly Slip Into Madness
I don't have any kids myself. But I do have six nieces and nephews under the age of four. How that happened was all my bothers and sisters decided pretty much at the same time to move back to Texas and start breeding. Kind of like salmon. It made Christmas last year very interesting. There were babies everywhere -- on the rug, in the cupboards, swinging from the chandelier. Being the unmarried crazy uncle sitting in the corner, I got to watch all this happen. I discovered a few things about kids that I didn't know before. From
kuro5hin.org on August 5, 2004 at 2:52 p.m..
The File Sharing Experiment
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File Sharing Experiment is a project with the goal of demonstrating how file sharing actually helps the music, movie, and software industry. Folks are encouraged to post purchases they've made and a short explanation of how they learned about the band/movie/game and why they ended up buying something for it. All the evidence is anectdotal, but when taken together, it's already over a quarter million dollars in reported sales and the site has been up for one week. Personally, this was the point I tried to ma From
Creative Commons: weblog on August 5, 2004 at 2:51 p.m..