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Yourika TYMORA Trader
YOURIKA TYMORA TRADER analyzes every trade as well as every Market-Maker movement, their actions and reactions at various price levels,... From
NULL on October 20, 2004 at 11:02 p.m..
Breaking through the cyber-ceiling - online mentoring for women in IT
A new web-based mentoring course Women in IT Mentor Training Program is helping women within the information technology (IT) industry to become cyber-mentors. Robin Miles, Programs for Women Coordinator at TAFE NSW's Gender Equity Unit says, "The Women in IT Mentor Training Program is a resource which can help young women break through the cyber-ceiling in an industry where females constitute only 30% of the workforce." The course is a 'female friendly' strategy which facilitates good working relationships with industry by enabling female staff to increase their capacity to su From
Australian Flexible Learning Framework News Headlines on October 20, 2004 at 11:00 p.m..
Public University Tuition Is Up Sharply for 2004
Tuition at the nation's public universities rose an average of 10.5 percent this year, the second largest increase in more than a decade, according to the latest annual survey by the College Board. Last year's rise, 13 percent, was the highest. From
DEC Daily News on October 20, 2004 at 10:51 p.m..
Executives Trade Stories on the Challenges of Doing Business in a Global Economy
Christopher Rodrigues, CEO of Visa International, brandished a cell phone to make his point about global expansion during a conference in London last month organized by the Economist and the Wharton/INSEAD Alliance. This cell phone, he said, was the unlikely means by which companies like Visa will penetrate new markets, particularly in developing nations. Rodrigues was a keynote speaker at the conference, entitled "Delivering Profits in the Global Economy," whose participants shared their experiences in such areas as global branding, identifying new markets, centralized vs. decentralized manag From
Knowledge@Wharton on October 20, 2004 at 10:08 p.m..
How Human Behavior Drives Investment Activity
Understanding human behavior is crucial for investors, according to Alliance Capital Management CEO Lewis A. Sanders, who talked about behavioral finance and its role in pricing anomalies and forecasting bias during a presentation last month at Wharton. "Capital markets themselves are derivative of the biases and preferences people bring to decision-making," Sanders told his audience, adding that insights into behavioral finance hold true across fixed-income, debt or equity markets and national boundaries. "People are people wherever you find them." From
Knowledge@Wharton on October 20, 2004 at 10:08 p.m..
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts Speaks Out about Disney, Bill Gates, Wal-Mart and the Competition
Members of the Walt Disney Co. board encouraged Comcast Corp. to make its controversial $56 billion bid in February for the famed movie, TV and theme-park company, according to Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, who added that Disney CEO Michael Eisner rebuffed his attempt to meet in person and discuss a possible friendly deal. In a presentation at Wharton last week, Roberts also talked about a number of issues that will have a major impact on Comcast's fortunes, including the future of video-on-demand, the partnership with Bill Gates, the competition with Satellite TV, and the pervasive influenc From
Knowledge@Wharton on October 20, 2004 at 10:08 p.m..
How to Avoid the Chain of Mistakes that Can Break Your Company
In 1980, one year after the Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear power plant disaster, Robert E. Mittelstaedt, Jr. served as a consultant to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. In that capacity, he began thinking more and more about the fact that many physical accidents, such as nuclear power plant malfunctions and airplane crashes, are caused by a whole chain of mistakes that go unchecked for reasons usually related to an institution's culture or the lack of processes in place to deal with failure. "Over time, I realized that the same sequences of mistakes also occur in the business world," sa From
Knowledge@Wharton on October 20, 2004 at 10:08 p.m..
Family Business: Why Firms Do Well When Founders Are at the Helm
Despite the lack of independent directors on their boards and voting power for minority shareholders, family-run companies are still the better bet for all stakeholders as long as the firm's founder is involved as chief executive officer or chairman. If the descendent of a founder runs the company, value is lost. Those are some of the conclusions of a paper by Wharton Professor Raphael (Raffi) Amit and Harvard Business School Professor Belen Villalonga. The paper, titled "How Do Family Ownership, Control and Management Affect Firm Value?" also looks at corporate governance. Among its find From
Knowledge@Wharton on October 20, 2004 at 10:08 p.m..
Ethnoclassification
Peter Merholz has written a very approachable article on ethnoclassification, where users build their own "social" classification. To quote: But what if we could somehow peek inside our users’ thought processes to figure out how they view the world? One... From
Column Two on October 20, 2004 at 9:50 p.m..
The Beat Goes On: This Recording Industry Bill Would Trap More than Just Illegal File-sharers
In its latest assault on piracy, the recording industry is pushing legislation that would extend liability for illegal file-sharing beyond individuals and renegade software-makers to firms with a less direct role in downloading, such as Internet service providers (ISPs) and computer hardware manufacturers. Wharton faculty and technology companies, however, argue that such a move would stifle innovation and investment in technology. The proposed legislation, which probably won't be acted on by this year's Congress but is likely to reappear next year, "goes against a lot of court decis From
Knowledge@Wharton on October 20, 2004 at 9:07 p.m..
Polls, Votes, and All That...
As the U.S. presidential election approaches in early November, speculation runs high on whether President George W. Bush will win again or lose to John Kerry. In addition to that big question, though, the election presents several other issues, which we examine in this special report. First, Knowledge@Wharton looks at the credibility and methodology of polls - a subject that could have implications for politics, but also for business forecasting, according to Wharton faculty. Next, we examine the controversy surrounding Proposition 71, a proposal on California's ballot to create a $3 bil From
Knowledge@Wharton on October 20, 2004 at 8:04 p.m..
Newspaper Sites: Where the Voters Are
It makes perfect sense that people who care about the news are also people who care enough to vote. Now Greg Harmon of
Belden Associates has data to back that up. In surveys of Web users on 11 newspaper sites across the U.S., the early results are coming in strong: 9 out of 10 users say they're registered voters.The actual percentages vary somewhat from site to site, with a high of 93 and 94 percent scores at several sites and a low of 80 percent at one site, but the big picture is clear in this early peek at (...)
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on October 20, 2004 at 7:58 p.m..
Satellite Radio: Wave of the Future or Niche Play?
Two major deals involving satellite radio have been announced this month. In early October, Sirius Satellite Radio said it had signed a $500 million contract with controversial disk jockey Howard Stern, moving his show to its network for five years. On Oct. 20, XM Satellite Radio confirmed it had struck an 11-year, $650 million agreement enabling it to broadcast all Major League Baseball games starting from the 2005 season. Is satellite radio going mainstream at last? Experts at Wharton and elsewhere say there's little doubt that satellite radio will eventually become big business. The qu From
Knowledge@Wharton on October 20, 2004 at 7:02 p.m..
EDUCAUSE: "Electronic Portfolios in Higher Education: Where Are We and Where Are We Going?"
From the folks at the
University of Denver Portfolio Community: The University of Denver Portfolio Community is a comprehensive electronic portfolio system that supports individual, course, and community portfolios and curriculum assessment. This session will discuss the DUPC's development and lessons learned during its implementation and compare it to other electronic portfolio systems.. Began work in mid 1990s in school of communication. No commercial products then, so they did a home grown system. Note to From
cogdogblog on October 20, 2004 at 6:49 p.m..
IM vs RSS: Danah Boyd
Danah Boyd suggests that students might not be as keen about RSS as technologists. Boyd points to the love students have for instant messenger (IM) clients, and their shift away from email. To the extent that RSS feeds resemble email... From
MANE IT Network on October 20, 2004 at 6:00 p.m..
Metadata without tears
Peter Mead, AKA peterme, has an excellent article at Adaptive Path called Metadata for the Masses: But what if we could somehow peek inside our users' thought processes to figure out how they view the world? One way to do that is through ethnoclassification [1] -- how people classify and categorize the world around them. He takes del.icio.us and Flickr as examples of "ethnoclassification" (a phrase he tracks back to Susan Leigh Star),. (I am enamored of the branch of ethnoclassification on exhibit at del.icio.us if only because people have started calling it "folksonomy.") He looks at the From
Joho the Blog on October 20, 2004 at 5:49 p.m..
Gotchas in Using Computer Simulations
Albert Ip reflects on an item posted here yesterday,
Computer Simulations in Distance Education. In that article, the author identifies several "problems" with similuations; Ip prefers to think of these as "issues we should prepare for." Ip also notes that the "'constructivistic' paradigm does not equal to throwing the learners into the deep end of the pool and let them swim or die. Scaffolding is a common technique in providing help (and progressively take away support when the learners become more confident)." This is somet From
OLDaily on October 20, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..
Why You'll Really Want WiMax
I read this item on the bus home from Fredericton last night touting, in Wired's usual restrained style, the next big thing in wireless access, WiMax, or the 802.16 wireless specification. Operating at below 11 Gigahertz, WiMax doesn't require line-of-site and can reach distances of 30 miles (50 kilometers) at 75 megabits per second (by contrast, the standard 802.11b wireless card runs at 11 megabits, and your ethernet local area network runs at 100). But don't throw away your landlines just yet; according to an article published by Reuters, WiMax is
OLDaily on October 20, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..
E-Books: Challenges and Opportunities
A look at the current state of e-books, with an in-depth examination of the use of Safari, an e-book service owned jointly by Pearson Education and O'Reilly that provides about 2000 titles. The author's overall observation is that the market is growing, though e-books remain hampered by licensing and ease-of-use problems. By John Cox, D-Lib Magazine, October, 2004 [
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OLDaily on October 20, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..
Rip. Mix. Feed. Decentralization of Learning Resources: Syndicating Learning Objects Using RSS, Trackback, and Related Technologies
Absolutely outstanding presentation prepared by Brian Lamb and Alan Levine for EDUCAUSE (in the form of a wiki, so if you don't like it you can change it). The key message: "There's been too much focus on schemas and models for cataloging objects and precious little attention to building meaningful content. Thankfully, there are some signs of change." And the change is coming at the speed of a freight train, which will leave a lot of vendors in the dust if they're not careful. The article talks about using RSS to find objects, using track-back to record the context of use, rippi From
OLDaily on October 20, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..
The digital divide and culture
I wanted to reflect a little bit on something I've had floating around my head since this morning's sessions. I felt out of place at Dunderstadt's morning session because his audience was the research institution. Zane State is a small technical college located in Appalachian Ohio. Most of our students ... From
Big IDEA on October 20, 2004 at 5:02 p.m..
the 10 Major Trends Emerging in the Internet's First Decade of Public Use [Center for the Digital Future]
"Year Four of the Digital Future Project (formerly the UCLA Internet Report) provides a broad year-to-year exploration of the influence of the Internet on Americans. The project examines the behavior and views of a national sample of 2,000 Internet users and non-users, as well as comparisons between new users (less than one year of experience) and very experienced users (in Year Four, seven or more years of experience)." From
unmediated on October 20, 2004 at 4:58 p.m..
Big Step Today for Podcasting
Wow. "Announcing:
Audio.Weblogs.Com. It shows the newest podcasts, in reverse chronologic order, the same way weblogs.com shows the most recently updated weblogs. Now you can sample the work of the podcast community before installing an iPodder app. Podcasters, you can ping via XML-RPC, the same way you ping weblogs.com (all the major weblog apps are compatible) or through a Web form. There's even an RSS feed that contains the most recent 100 podcasts, and if your desktop aggregator is enclosure-aware, you'll even get all the podcasts (but watch From
unmediated on October 20, 2004 at 4:58 p.m..
Vipodder.002
The whole world is a-flutter over
Podcasting. But
Videoblogging isn't far behind on the "next big thing" horizon. When TiVo and PVR's reach the tipping point in pop-culture that iPods and MP3 players have, I'm sure that videoblogging will explode. That being said... I released a new version of
Vipodder today. Version 0.002 is based on Dave Slusher's
get_enclosures.p From unmediated on October 20, 2004 at 4:58 p.m..
Off-broadway, for TV
David Emberton
sez on actionscript.com: My contacts in advertising have all recently been talking about immersive full-video experiences which they intend to implement with Flash. The idea is to ditch key elements of the text web interface (namely text and traditional forms), and create something that s a hyper-real blend of video and animation. But that can easily be palmed off as advertising directors abusing the web. If you ve spent much time stripping From
unmediated on October 20, 2004 at 4:58 p.m..
freedesktop.org: D-BUS
D-BUS is a message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to one another: the only required dependency is an XML parser, and it includes GLib, Qt, Python and .NET APIs. From
unmediated on October 20, 2004 at 4:58 p.m..
SIM Cards with memory, brilliant!
SIM cards have been shipping with miniscule amount of memory, enough to hold a few hundred contacts, calendar and couple of games. Israel-based M-Systems wants to change all that and is introducing something called, the M-Systems MegaSIM. The new card, a first for the cellular industry will combine high capacity flash-based storage, with densities reaching 256 MB, and advanced security features.  The technology will make it possible for the next wave of cellular phones to include a variety of advanced mobile services such as MMS, MP3 and video downloading, full PIM functionality, and h From
unmediated on October 20, 2004 at 4:58 p.m..
Annodex
The Annodex technology extends the World Wide Web\'s hyperlinking, searching, and compositing infrastructure to time-continuous data, enabling e.g. video surfing, searching for clips of audio and video files using ordinary Web search engines, or on-the-fly composition of a video on a Web server from previously annodexed clips.(Link via
Wes.) From
unmediated on October 20, 2004 at 4:58 p.m..
Dircaster
Saw this on a couple of blogs the other day and this was much better than copying someone else's XML and uploading it to a server. If you install dircaster.php into a directory, any subsequent uploads of MP3 files will update the XML when the php file is hit by ipodder or whatever else you are using. Very cool. From
unmediated on October 20, 2004 at 4:58 p.m..
Transformative assessment
OK, a lot of "duh's" in this session, like using results of assessment to make improvements. This session was a little too birds-eye for me, I would have preferred some more nitty-gritty. Chuckles cartoon showing administrator sitting behind a desk, talking to a mom and dad: I have been authorized by ... From
Big IDEA on October 20, 2004 at 4:01 p.m..
Finding a gap in the digital divide
The Appalachian College Association has done some things to attempt to bridge the digital divide: trained student technology assistants and instructional technology assistants, and created a central library. If I understand correctly, the technology and instructional technology assistants attend training and the return to a home campus. The central library ... From
Big IDEA on October 20, 2004 at 4:01 p.m..
Notes on morning general session
Duderstadt got things rolling this morning, and a few things he said struck a chord. The idea of students moving from passive students to active learners to demanding consumers. This may be true but is, like many of the ideas in the session, dependent on other factors such as SES. Our ... From
Big IDEA on October 20, 2004 at 3:00 p.m..
Political News Is Just a Game
The
website of the Christian Science Monitor is trying an interesting experiment in campaign coverage: It's published an online game,
Power Politics III, which is a simulation of a presidential campaign.Joel Abrams, partnership development specialist for CSMonitor.com, explains that the game is designed to let users see if they can get John Kerry into the White House, keep George W. Bush there, or get Ralph Nader as many votes as possible. Play From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on October 20, 2004 at 2:56 p.m..
Is IT hiring picking up?
A number of signs point to increasing demand for tech workers, but not all the clouds have been driven away. From
CNET News.com on October 20, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..
Briefly: Target to sell TiVo DVRs
roundup Plus: Unisys signs up Linux allies...LookSmart names new CEO...Akamai boosts Web application services...Good Technology supported by HP, Samsung. From
CNET News.com on October 20, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..
Presidential bubbles
From CNN today: The founder of the U.S. Christian Coalition [Pat Robertson] said Tuesday he told President George W. Bush before the invasion of Iraq that he should prepare Americans for the likelihood of casualties, but the president told him, "We're not going to have any casualties." I hope Kerry goes big with this, along with Bush's statement that he's not too concerned about Bin Laden. Daddy Bush may not have known how much a quart of milk costs, but sonny-boy's fiction-based presidency is getting us killed.... From
Joho the Blog on October 20, 2004 at 1:49 p.m..
The RSS/Wiki/Furl/Bloglines/del.icio.us Thing
So I started a new "Teacher's Toolbox" workshop last night with five brave souls, regaling them in the wonders of the RSS/Wiki/Furl/Bloglines/del.icio.us thing. Coincidentally, Alan and Brian were
doing something similar at
Educause, albeit with much more organization and preparation. Frankly, I didn't quite know how to approach it; there seems to be a very fine line between inspiration and overwhelm-ed-ness when it comes to these topics. So I ended up giving them the tour ye From
weblogged News on October 20, 2004 at 1:48 p.m..
Let's Have Real Time Fact Checking, in Debates and Elsewhere
(This is also my
column today in the
San Jose Mercury News.) In the 2004 presidential campaign's latest detour into relative trivia, there's been a small uproar over whether President Bush was wearing some kind of audio receiver during one or more of the debates with John Kerry. The implication was that the president might have been getting unfair coaching. Bush and his people deny they broke the rules prohibiting such devices or other aids. I don't see any From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on October 20, 2004 at 1:47 p.m..
Ballmer: We need a $100 PC
The Microsoft CEO says one way to stem growing piracy of Windows and Office in emerging markets is to offer low-cost computers. From
CNET News.com on October 20, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..
AOL pitches baseball for IM
"MLB" Buddy, an AOL instant-messaging screen name, displays real-time baseball scores, schedules and links to fantasy games. From
CNET News.com on October 20, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..
decentralized cinema: Voices of Iraq
Voices of Iraq looks to be a major attempt at decentralized video production, and will be in theaters by the end of the month. About the film: Voices of Iraq was filmed and directed by more than 2,000 Iraqis from all walks of life. The producers distributed 150 digital video cameras across the country and received over 450 hours of footage from teachers, doctors, policemen, children and even insurgents. The film offers a unique opportunity to hear the diverse perspective of Iraqis on issues at the forefront of a global deb From
unmediated on October 20, 2004 at 12:57 p.m..
AACE Journal online issue posted
The current online issue of the AACE Journal (International Forum on Information Technology in Education) has been posted at www.aace.org/pubs/AACEJ. The former Educational Technology Review, has been renamed to the AACE Journal (AACEJ) to better reflect Its broader topic scope... From
Rick's Café Canadien on October 20, 2004 at 11:57 a.m..
The tide is turning...
Whilst some may claim that the British are staunch allies of the United States (depite being having clearly different agendas on the World Stage), the recent request made to Britain for additional support, namely 600 troops from Black Watch to be moved North to Baghdad to help out the 130,000 US troops who want to move upto Fallujah, is being met by the British Parliament with what we might politely call some hostility. As the Honourable member for Morecambe and Lunesdale (yes, it is as grim as it sounds), Geraldine Smith asks: "I'm concerned about the timing. We've been asked b From
kuro5hin.org on October 20, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..
Blogumentary
Chuck Olsen's Blogumentary about blogging is being shown as part of the Get Real festival on Nov. 5 at 7pm in Minneapolis. I haven't seen it yet, but Chuck did send me a link to this clip which not coincidentally shows me. He informs me that this was shortly before, through the magic of digital editing, I'm crushed by Chris Locke in a Godzilla suit.... From
Joho the Blog on October 20, 2004 at 10:49 a.m..
Stewart's re-mastered narrative
When you come down to it, Jon Stewart's segment on Crossfire was actually sort of lame. He told the hosts that they're playing into the hands of the politicians and corporations, but he didn't tell them how. He called them hacks but didn't explain in what sense. He said they were degrading democracy but not what an alternative might be. When people replay this segment in ten or fifty years, they'll wonder why it mattered. Nevertheless, I believe this was a seminal moment in the re-framing of the media. To be precise, the moment came when Stewart refused to be... From
Joho the Blog on October 20, 2004 at 10:49 a.m..
Free social software sandbox for teachers
James Farmer is offering a place for teachers to test out social and pedagogical software technologies:So, by providing free-for-teachers hosting, installation, support and consultation for weblogs, wikis, CMSs and more, I figure I get to learn an enormous amount (which will certainly help me in my career), help some frustrated teachers out and show the light to others who would have a lot of trouble technically getting there. Well worth a few buck From
jarche.com - Improving Organizational Performance on October 20, 2004 at 9:56 a.m..
Kael on the gamble of writing
In the November 4 New York Review of Books, in a piece on film, Michael Wood extracts this spirited quotation from Afterglow: A Last Conversation with Pauline Kael, who was the New Yorker's sharp film critic for most of the last quarter of the century: "I loved writing," she says to Davis. "I really loved the gamble of writing, the risk-taking. I loved the speed of it, the fact that you had your say and moved on to something else." (53) My first impulse is... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on October 20, 2004 at 9:53 a.m..
Sobre publicidad y weblogs
Es muy recomendable la lectura de Apuntes para un estudio de mercado. Publicidad (tarifas) en la blogosfera, pues a veces no se entiende que los bloggers no somos monjes de Silos. Hay que buscar caminos para que los que lo... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on October 20, 2004 at 9:53 a.m..
Crafting one's workplace to fit personal preferences
Tom Erickson in 1995 essay
Work and Spirit:It's popular to talk about the boundaries between work and leisure getting increasingly fuzzy. But for me, until I began working at home, it felt more like work was seeping into my leisure and home time, and that the non-work aspects of life were shrinking. Technology has made it easy for work-life to follow us home, but not as easy for home-life to follow us to work. Only now t From
Mathemagenic on October 20, 2004 at 9:52 a.m..
Digital Agenda: Homeland Security
As the homeland security boom funnels billions of dollars to antiterror tech makers, problems arise with accountability and coordination. A News.com special series. From
CNET News.com on October 20, 2004 at 9:45 a.m..
Interviewing over IM
Voida, A., Mynatt, E.D., Erickson, T., & Kellogg, W.A. (2004).
Interviewing over instant messaging. In extended abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2004). Vienna, Austria, April 24-29. New York: ACM Press, pp. 1344-1347. (If you don't have full-text access to ACM, you can get .pdf
here or
here) From
Mathemagenic on October 20, 2004 at 8:52 a.m..
Check Point's optimistic pessimist
Check Point Software Technology's Gil Shwed weighs in on who's winning the war of attrition between virus writers and the security companies they drive crazy. From
CNET News.com on October 20, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..
The Feed Spot - New RSS Directory
Submit your RSS feeds to the new RSS directory at TheFeedSpot. Feeds can be easily searched, and they are categorized in a directory structure similar to Yahoo in the early days. The directory still needs to be populated but it generally has a very nice look, and new feeds are "announced" via an rss feed. From
RSS Blog on October 20, 2004 at 8:00 a.m..
De compras por la Red
Recibà este mail: Soy de (omito el paÃs) y me interesaria adquirir un trabajo monográfico relacionado con educación, para ser exacto tengo que presentar un trabajo monógrafico para la licenciatura en ciencias de la educación. Si disponen de esta información... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on October 20, 2004 at 7:53 a.m..
Categories of eLearning
Der einleitenden Feststellung kann man sicher vorbehaltlos zustimmen: "One of the biggest challenges in discussing elearning arises from different understandings of the field." Also versucht der Autor, etwas Ordnung zu schaffen und bietet folgende Kategorien an: 1. Courses 2. Informal... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on October 20, 2004 at 7:52 a.m..
www.bullying.org
www.bullying.org is a multiple award-winning Web site that was created to help people with the issues of bullying within a safe, positive international community. www.bullying.org is a supportive community where people can learn that they are NOT alone in being... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on October 20, 2004 at 6:55 a.m..
www.Cyberbullying.ca
Cyberbullying involves the use of information and communication technologies such as e-mail, cell phone and pager text messages, instant messaging, defamatory personal Web sites, and defamatory online personal polling Web sites, to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behaviour by an... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on October 20, 2004 at 6:55 a.m..
Nachwuchswissenschaftler-Veranstaltung in Marburg
Am Donnerstag dem 4. 11. 2004 findet in Marburg die Nachwuchs- wissenschaftler-Veranstaltung "Forschen in Europa: Nationale und europäische Forschungsförderung" statt. Auf der ganztägigen Informationsveranstaltung stellen sich nationale und europäische Förder- und Forschungseinrichtungen, wie die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), der Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst (DAAD), die Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft, Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, Volk From
BildungsBlog on October 20, 2004 at 6:51 a.m..
Printers betray document secrets - BBC
That staple of crime novels - solving a case by identifying the typewriter used to write a ransom note - is being updated for the modern day. US scientists have discovered that every desktop printer has a signature style that it invisibly leaves on al From
Techno-News Blog on October 20, 2004 at 6:49 a.m..
Pharms Take Root in South Africa
Researchers have taken to genetically modifying plants to produce medicine for the developing world, but not everyone is keen on the idea. Megan Lindow reports from Cape Town, South Africa. From
Wired News on October 20, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
Midwest Awash in Giant Grottos
In the early 20th century, artists and religious leaders in the Midwest outdid each other building vast shrines called grottos. Many of these eccentric constructions remain significant attractions today. Michelle Delio reports from Dickeyville, Wisconsin. From
Wired News on October 20, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
When War Games Meet Video Games
A Department of Defense group tests a new battle simulator to see what it can learn about urban combat. But this ain't no SimCity. By Amit Asaravala. From
Wired News on October 20, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
Rip. Mix. Feed. Objects? EDUCAUSE 2004 Seminar
Today,
Brian Lamb and I pulled of another rollercoaster wild ride presentation, one that more or less emerged and arose from the primordial soup of our minds 2 weeks ago, The long scrolling title for today's pre-conference Seminar was "Decentralization of Learning Resources: Syndicating Learning Objects Using RSS, Trackback, and Related Technologies" where we initially planned to focus on using RSS, Trackback, etc to connect learning objects (someone done before). It has been under wraps because, well it was infest From
cogdogblog on October 20, 2004 at 4:48 a.m..
Could You Be the Next Best-Selling Author HYPHEN November 1st is National Authors' Day
Everyone has a unique story to tell, and many authors dream of getting published one day. However, they haven't mastered the skills that lead to writing and publishing success. So, if the old saying that "everyone has at least one book in them" is true, how do you know whether your current idea is really book worthy or if it needs some fine-tuning to have maximum marketability? [PRWEB Oct 20, 2004] From
PR Web on October 20, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..
Distinguished Educator Fights to Ensure No Child is Left Behind
Literacy specialist, Marilyn Francis, launches Lit-Lab, an educational materials publisher. First up, Flip Over Phonics, an innovative phonics supplement designed to fill the gap left by traditional teaching methods. [PRWEB Oct 20, 2004] From
PR Web on October 20, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..
Scaling Up:From Web-Enhanced Courses to a Web-Enhanced Curriculum
In the past decade, the most important technological innovation in higher education has been the enhancement of academic courses with Web-based information and tools. With and without course management systems, instructors have progressed from using what Kuechler (1997) referred to as an "electronic reserve shelf" to extensive, interactive online resources. From
DEC Daily News on October 20, 2004 at 3:50 a.m..
Educational Blogging
The bell rings, and the halls of Institut St-Joseph in Quebec City echo the clatter of the fifth- and sixth-graders. Some take their chairs in the more traditional classroom on the lower floor. From
DEC Daily News on October 20, 2004 at 3:50 a.m..
Maybe we can car pool with Alec Couros to this one
THE FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE, CULTURE AND CHANGE IN ORGANISATIONS Rhodes, Greece, 19-22 July 2005 http://www.ManagementConference.com To be held on the Island of Rhodes, Greece, the conference will include as one of its major themes a focus on education... From
Rick's Café Canadien on October 20, 2004 at 1:54 a.m..
Agile development for software projects
In an interview software developer Roy Miller argues for what he calls agile development for projects, where project planning is distributed away from an initial phase to the project's main operations. It's a "messy problem," where the act of solving... From
MANE IT Network on October 20, 2004 at 12:59 a.m..
Categories of eLearning
George Siemen's has drawn a nice concept map on the different
categories of e-learning. His core categories are: CoursesInformal learningBlended learningCommunitiesKnowledge managementNetworked learningWork-based learning (EPSS) From
elearningpost on October 20, 2004 at 12:46 a.m..
The worst sides of two nations on display
The UK newspaper The Guardian has undertaken a campaign urging its readers to write US voters in Clark County, Ohio and urge them to vote against President George W. Bush in the US presidential elections. They call this campaign Operation Clark County. From
kuro5hin.org on October 20, 2004 at 12:45 a.m..