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The Learning Style Inventory:
The current study evaluated the relationship of the LSI learning types, of 66 employees selected for a federal Public Service executive development program, with supervisors' ratings of observed on-the-job learning behaviours and global evaluations of learning potential. The Learning Style... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on September 26, 2004 at 10:57 p.m..
Individualization
The following four resources were on the reading list for a course on Instructional Design and Program Evaluation that I am taking at Athabasca University. They make for a good read. Thanks to Rick Kenny for the list and for... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on September 26, 2004 at 10:57 p.m..
NET*Working 2004 program now online!
NET*Working 2004 is a conference to be held from the 8-19 November designed to highlight how technology can be used to deliver education and training more flexibly. The program features national and international e-learning experts, e-learning product demonstrations, interactive online discussions, virtual classrooms and more. NET*Working 2004 Project Manager Sue Lapham said the conference program, although extensive, is very user-friendly. From
Australian Flexible Learning Framework News Headlines on September 26, 2004 at 10:02 p.m..
AOIR 5.0: Keynote by Ted Nelson,
Listening to
Ted Nelson and to discussions about his keynote made me realized once again that I'm not well connected to the field of internet research yet: I had no idea who he was :) Anyway, he was talking about "my" things, so I was able to connect easily. The main Ted's thesis is that "today's computer world is based on techy misunderstandings of human life and human thought…" He suggests that current computing is based on a paper metaphor of a document and hierarchy as a way to organize documents. Ted says that "documen From
Mathemagenic on September 26, 2004 at 7:54 p.m..
Site Themes Revamp
I just spent the afternoon editing e-Literate’s site theme organization. There are a number of reasons why I felt this was necessary: Too many posts were going into too many themes. While I deliberately chose to create a system of overlapping themes rather than a rigid taxonomy, an organization system… From
e-Literate on September 26, 2004 at 6:01 p.m..
Swallow the Camera Pill
From The Honolulu Advertiser,
Camera pill being used in Hawai'i: Watching the camera's images conjures up the 1966 science fiction movie "Fantastic Voyage." In that film, scientists shrink themselves to miniature size to journey into the body of a man whose life they are trying to save... The technology works like this: the patient fasts for 12 hours before the test, arrives at about 7 a From
unmediated on September 26, 2004 at 4:59 p.m..
Off to NELA
Heading off to beautiful New Hampshire this weekend to take in the fall foliage and present with
Linda Braun on Weblogs in libraries at the
New England Library Conferece. Sounds like the weather will be beautiful and the colors should be great. And, of course, any opportunity to blogvangelize is always a treat. From
weblogged News on September 26, 2004 at 4:48 p.m..
Blog Book Club: A Promise re "Promises to Keep"
Professor Terry Fisher's new book is the most serious, comprehensive treatment of the alternatives we face for protecting copyright in a digital age. While it's famous for his particular solution, it is most effective when you see his solution against the background of the complete set of alternatives that he surveys. I think this book deserves extremely serious consideration by all who think seriously a From
Lessig Blog on September 26, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..
What will you give up, just to get some work?
What rights will you give up in order to get some work? We are guaranteed certain protections against the tyranny of the State, but what's to stop private companies from ignoring those protections, so long as they can require us to agree to forego them in order to receive employment? From
kuro5hin.org on September 26, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..
AP article on U.S. soldier blogs
Overview of U.S. soldier blogs via
Yahoo: For the folks back home, soldier blogs offer details of war that don't make it into most news dispatches: The smell of rotten milk lingering in a poor neighborhood. The shepherd boys standing at the foot of a guard tower yelling requests for toothbrushes and sweets. The giant camel spiders. The tedium of long walks to get anything from a shower to a meal. A burning oil refinery a hundred miles away blocking the sun. A terrifying night raid surprise From
unmediated on September 26, 2004 at 2:59 p.m..
21st Century Truckers
Bradenton Herald article on 21st centruy trucker Tom Wiles (check out his site at
TruckerPhoto): Wiles and thousands of other cross-country truckers are increasingly dropping their CB 10-4's for the 802.11's - wireless "Wi-Fi" Internet connections right to their truck cabs... Wiles carries a Toshiba laptop computer equipped with a Wi-Fi card and subscriptions for access points at Flying J truck stops across the country. Flying Js currently blanket 180 of their No From
unmediated on September 26, 2004 at 2:59 p.m..
21st Century Truckers
Bradenton Herald article on 21st centruy trucker Tom Wiles (check out his site at
TruckerPhoto): Wiles and thousands of other cross-country truckers are increasingly dropping their CB 10-4's for the 802.11's - wireless "Wi-Fi" Internet connections right to their truck cabs... Wiles carries a Toshiba laptop computer equipped with a Wi-Fi card and subscriptions for access points at Flying J truck stops across the country. Flying Js currently blanket 180 of their No From
unmediated on September 26, 2004 at 2:59 p.m..
charlie isaacs joins kana...
As I continue to do some catch-up on publishing my 'knowledge notes', I find that--
Charles Isaacs Joins KANA as CTO. I have had the pleasure of meeting this gentleman and am pleased to say that Charlie Isaacs is one smart cookie--KANA is lucky to have him! Here's an excerpt from the press release on Charlie: Mr. Isaacs has more than 20 years of experience in the industry, and was most recently CTO at Primus Knowledge Solutions, a knowledge management solut From
judith meskill's knowledge notes... on September 26, 2004 at 2:59 p.m..
Teaching the Odd Course
Today I was directed to a website for the "Top Ten Odd College Courses" buried under MSN Encarta's webpage on College. And as I read, I wondered: Should I be worried that I've actually taught one of these "oddities" before (to wit: "The Horror Film in Context")? Actually, I found... From
PEDABLOGUE on September 26, 2004 at 2:53 p.m..
If You Build It (and email it), They Still Will Not Come
If I knew better, I would take
last week's Ocotillo Virtual Kickoff as a resounding failure. We had set up a series of 1-4 minute streaming video welcomes from not only our top executive levels, but more important;y, the faculty co-chairs leading our new initiatives on learning objects, eportfolios, hybrid courses, and emerging technologies. We invited people in our system (and beyond) to join some online discussion boards. We put the word out with system wide email announcements, plus individualized messages to From
cogdogblog on September 26, 2004 at 2:49 p.m..
Using LiveJournal in EFL Classes
Aaron Campbell at Ryukoku University has a great piece out on
how to use LiveJournal to teach EFL. It has everything you’d want in this sort of an article, including a rationale for choosing the particular technology and step-by-step instructions for educators. This is one of the clearest, most concrete… From
e-Literate on September 26, 2004 at 2:01 p.m..
Blogchalking: Shibboleth in Action
A while back I referred to Shibboleth--the idea of putting an arbitrary string into a post for search engine recognition.
“Blog chalking" apparently uses this technique to map the blogosphere to terrestrial geography. Basically, you enter geographical and demographic information into the Shibboleth generator. It spits out a string which… From
e-Literate on September 26, 2004 at 2:01 p.m..
knowledgebase.net
So I thought that centralized knowledge bases were Knowledge Management Version 1.0. And I thought that we were well into 2.0 by now, but... In a RealMarket CRM News Release I found--
Knowledge Base Solutions. Here's an excerpt: LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Sept. 13, 2004 -- : KnowledgeBase Solutions Inc., a leading provider of hosted and onsite knowledge management solutions for customer support and self-service, announced today that the Univer From
judith meskill's knowledge notes... on September 26, 2004 at 1:58 p.m..
PSU Community Service Project...
Portland State | News | PSU Students and Alumni to Participate in Community Service Project at Lewis Elementary Spent yesterday morning at Lewis Elementary with a group of Portland State University students who were helping us with a number of projects. At Lewis we have a very large amount of cyclone fence that surrounds our playground and ball fields. One of our PTA members had the idea of having students paint flowers and other designs on wooden discs, and then hang them on the fence. This was accomplished and the PSU group helped us hang them. They also worked... From
Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on September 26, 2004 at 1:50 p.m..
At Least Someone is Using the Wikis (bad news, they are spammers)
We've got some regular visitors to some of our
Ocotillo wikis, too bad they are not contributing to our collaborative space, unless you think that inserting about 150 URLs for Asian web sites has something to do with Learning Objects. They hit the same pages, and in fact are wiki URLs mentioned here, so I am not linking directly to them. The IP addresses vary across the 220..., 221..., 60... range. I have been trying to sort out the correct syntax for the UseMod Banned IP features, which require perl regular exp From
cogdogblog on September 26, 2004 at 1:48 p.m..
Copyright's Limited Times and Induce Act News
I haven't bothered to post about these issues because others have gotten to them quicker and better than I could, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't find them. Donna
has all the goods on the recent court decision putting the "limited times" clause into effect and nicely dealing with the copyright v. commerce clause issues, as well as
the push behind a new Induce Act draft. Ernest, of course, will follow-up
A Copyfighter's Musings on September 26, 2004 at 1:48 p.m..
Esther Dyson invests in Flickr
Go
Flickr go! I hope that this new investment allows them to add all the cool nifty features (especially printing and backup to DVD) that we have been asking before the inevitable acquisition (even though I know and like
Cal,
Caterina,
Stewart et al, I have no insider knowledge of what's happening, I just figure this will happen sooner rather than later) by a bigger company. From
Roland Tanglao's Weblog on September 26, 2004 at 12:54 p.m..
Morning After Jeanne
Hurricane Jeanne blew through our area in the dead of the night, leaving behind lots of damage and more misery in her wake. It's clear that we were very fortunate here in West Palm Beach, receiving winds no greater than 100 mph and little damage. Little is a relative term of course, and my perspective may be vastly different from my neighbor a few doors down who lost the tarps covering their roof. That temporary coverage following Frances did not stand up to the storm, and the inside of... From
Brain Frieze on September 26, 2004 at 11:58 a.m..
Invisible work
I'm on a flight back from London and finally I'm able to switch from intensive conversations to thinking and writing. It was a good trip with a blend of fun and work that I like so much. However I had an underlying flavour of guilt building up. It's something to do with invisible work as
Suw labelled it. Talking about blogging at
last BlogWalk we went into discussion of how "not serious" blogging and especially reading weblogs looks from outs From
Mathemagenic on September 26, 2004 at 11:52 a.m..
Redland looksee
Morten and
Danny have written a lot recently about
Redland. They are smart fellows. I, on the other hand, have much to learn.
¶ Update: Need to good place to start. Looking for suggestions…
Open Artifact on September 26, 2004 at 11:00 a.m..
Quote of the day
“One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.” ~ Will Durant
¶ From
Open Artifact on September 26, 2004 at 11:00 a.m..
Erasing the tail
The NY Times Magazine article on blogs makes the same old error. Viewing blogs through the media lens, only the left-hand of the side of the power curve is visible. As Matthew Klam, the article's author says: In a recent national survey, the Pew Internet and American Life Project found that more than two million Americans have their own blog. Most of them, nobody reads Thus, the tail of the power curve — which is probably at least 5 million blogs long — gets erased. In fact, the tail is where blog are having their most important effects. That's where... From
Joho the Blog on September 26, 2004 at 10:49 a.m..
Learning Objects: The Dissertations (Vol 1)
In the last few weeks I've come across around 10 dissertations on learning objects. It occured to me that (while old-skool) it might be nice to do a book based on these. The idea is to invite each author to do a summary of their dissertation, provide an integrated overview of the collection, and publish a volume through
Lulu (and publish more volumes as more dissertations are completed). I would, of course, get each author to CC license their contribution for another full-text online version. Would you want such a book? Would anyone you know want it? From
autounfocus on September 26, 2004 at 10:45 a.m..
Life in Iraq Blog
Iraq war blogs are as varied as the soldiers who write them. Some sites feature practical news, war pictures and advice. Some are overtly political, with more slanting to the right than to the left. Some question the war, some cheer it. While some military bloggers say their commanders have encouraged their online literary ventures, a few say their commanders have shut them down. From
RSS Blog on September 26, 2004 at 10:02 a.m..
Bush-Kerry: Some Economic Issues
(This is also my
Sunday column in the
San Jose Mercury News.) You may have been convinced by now that the 2004 presidential election's main issue is Vietnam: who did or did not serve, and in what way. But for Silicon Valley and the nation, the choice between President Bush and John Kerry ought to include some attention to -- gasp -- current affairs and America's future. With that in mind, I'm planning to use this space for several more weeks to discuss how t From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on September 26, 2004 at 9:47 a.m..
Study: More Net Equals Less TV - Robyn Greenspan, Clickz
The fourth installment of the Digital Future Project (formerly the UCLA Internet Report) examined media usage among Americans, finding that there is a distinct correlation between the increase in online time and tenure and the overall decline in televi From
Techno-News Blog on September 26, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..
Web tool may banish broken links - Jo Twist, BBC
Peridot, developed by UK intern students at IBM, scans company weblinks and replaces outdated information with other relevant documents and links. It works by automatically mapping and storing key features of webpages, so it can detect significant con From
Techno-News Blog on September 26, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..
Why I Teach Online - William Wade, THE Journal
While distance learning is not for everyone, the flexible education alternative provides teachers and students with many advantages. A colleague once asked me why I teach online. After several seconds of thought, I realized how that answer has changed From
Online Learning Update on September 26, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..
Weblogs für Knowlegde-Worker
Weblogs fordern heraus: Sie sind in unglaublichem Tempo Teil einer neuen Netzwerkkultur geworden, die häufig mit dem Begriff "Social Software" beschrieben wird. Die Kennzeichen von "Social Software": Mit ihrer Hilfe sollen nicht nur Menschen mit Wissen, sondern auch Menschen mit anderen Menschen verbunden werden. Ihre Tools und Konzepte sind darüber hinaus Teil einer bottom-up-Bewegung, die ganz auf die Selbstorganisation und Selbstverantwortung ihrer Teilnehmer baut. So wird zwar die Einbindung von Weblogs in organisatorische Strukturen (Unternehmen, Universitäten, Schule From
BildungsBlog on September 26, 2004 at 7:51 a.m..
Teaching Science
A few parents have written me asking questions about teaching science. Well I'm happy to say that we now have a science teacher on board as one of our experts! Teresa Bondora taught high school science for 8 years before quitting to stay home and homeschool her children. She offers support to the homeschool community in the form of an on-line workshop, her book on how to teach science and many products she designed to help introduce Chemistry and other sciences to children early. You can visit Teresa on-line at
HSAdvisor.com Featured Articles on September 26, 2004 at 4:01 a.m..
Masking tape kitchen silliness
Because I am a silly wacko, and because I know I can't possibly write everything about cooking and work all in one post, I will share this simple goofy story with you: One of the desserts we offer is plated with a squiggle of passion fruit sauce (prehaps a coulis? I am not sure. But it's on a squirt bottle and you make a zig-zag on the plate with it). The other day it ran out, and I had to refill two squirt bottles with new sauce. Since everything in the kitchen is labeled with masking tape, it was up to me as the refiller to label the new bottles. Others wrote "passion fruit" or "pa From
megnut on September 26, 2004 at 2:45 a.m..