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ACPET gets online at NET*Working 2004
The Australian Council for Private Education and Training (ACPET) will host a chat room during the NET*Working 2004 conference on Monday 15 October. The chat room - 'For smaller RTOs - emerging into e-learning?' - is designed for small registered training organisations (RTOs) interested in getting into online delivery and will feature ACPET members from Queensland, Victoria and South Australia with expertise in this area. From
Australian Flexible Learning Framework News Headlines on October 21, 2004 at 11:00 p.m..
Last chance to register for NET*Working 2004
Don't miss your last chance to be part of Australia's largest online education and training event. Registrations for the NET*Working 2004 conference close 1 November! Designed with busy training professionals in mind, at NET*Working 2004 you can step inside a virtual classroom, view presentations by national and international e-learning experts and participate in hands-on sessions using the latest learning technology, all without leaving your desk. Registrations close Monday 1 November 2004. To view the conference program, register, or to find out about the face-to-face events, v From
Australian Flexible Learning Framework News Headlines on October 21, 2004 at 11:00 p.m..
A Confusing Vote Process
Earlier this week I sat down on my tatami floor here in Kyoto and voted for president. On the ballot were listed three offices: President, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Representative; each with candidates representing four parties: Republican, Democratic, Libertarian, and Constitutional. For any of you who follow American politics, you may recognize that all four of those parties fall to right of the political/economic scale, which according to my nascent understanding, generally means that they all advocate to varying degrees, a free-market liberalism benefitting large corporations and the wealt From
apcampbell News on October 21, 2004 at 9:54 p.m..
Update: Forenbasiertes Referenzbeispiel zum Thema E-Learning
Die
bereits erwähnte E-Learning Plattform i-study ist nun als Open Source veröffentlicht worden. Grundlage für
i-study bildet ein von Nikolaus Rademacher und Thorsten Dresing angepasstes
phpBB, dem neben der optischen Anpassung u. a. Module für Materialsammlungen, Notizen, Flash Zeitleiste und weitere 30 Modifikationen hinzugefügt wurde. Zusätzlich lassen sich alle statistischen Daten über ein Skript direkt in Prog From
BildungsBlog on October 21, 2004 at 9:52 p.m..
EDUCAUSE 2004: "Learning Space Design"
This session will explore learning space design principles as a way to enhance and transform teaching and learning with technology. The principles acknowledge changes in our understanding of student cognition and faculty roles in the learning process. Well-configured Learning spaces make it possible for faculty and students to engage in active learning, thereby enhancing learning outcomes. -- Philip Long (MIT) and Christopher Johnson (University of Arizone) (Alan's quips in italic.) From
cogdogblog on October 21, 2004 at 9:48 p.m..
Using personas to create user documentation
Steve Calde has written an article on using personas to create user documentation. To quote: Personas and other user-modeling techniques are often solely discussed as tools for product definition and design, but they are useful tools in other arenas, as... From
Column Two on October 21, 2004 at 8:48 p.m..
The Blogger as Rogue
In his 1968 book
Education and Ecstasy,
George Leonard argues that those who carry the true torch of learning operate outside of the strictures of Civilization: These people are varied. They are the rogue. The common criminal is not among them. Most criminals, after their initial break with the pattern, fall into repetitive, stereotyped behavior that apes society itself. Criminologists look for the "MO" (modus operandi) by which the criminal gives himself away. From
apcampbell News on October 21, 2004 at 7:54 p.m..
New kids in the lab
Following
last year's success,
Umeå University will tomorrow welcome about 1000 school children who will get a view of what university life is like. I have spent the day preparing for a virtual/real treasure hunt that will take place part in
ActiveWorlds and part in the
physical lab. It is difficult to know how tricky to keep things considering that our visitors will be ranging from pre-sc From
Seblogging News on October 21, 2004 at 7:51 p.m..
SPIEGEL Online International
With the launch of our international site, SPIEGEL finally brings its unique voice to English readers. We offer a selection of original daily features, news, exclusive SPIEGEL stories and an overview of what German newspapers and commentators are writing... Alright. So the good old German SPIEGEL is putting out an English online edition. Surprise, surprise. Well, another source offering some alternative perspect From
Seblogging News on October 21, 2004 at 7:51 p.m..
[PT] Phillip Longman
Phillip Longman says: Unless the secular socities find a way to reproduce themselves, the future belongs to fundamentalists...that is, a new dark ages." (He's at the New America Foundation.) More exactly: Fallling birthrates will bring a breakdown of modern welfare states, and the inability of secular societies ro reproduce themselves will lead to the rise of fundamentalist states. He goes through the numbers. I, of course, I can't evaluate them because, well, they're numbers. "Does the future belong to those who believe a higher power command them to procreate? On the surface, From
Joho the Blog on October 21, 2004 at 7:49 p.m..
Earnings alert: PeopleSoft exceeds targets
Plus: Microsoft tops its expectations...Google doubles profit year-over-year...SAP earnings beat estimates...EarthLink trims outlook...AT&T posts $7.1 billion loss...Lucent sees first profitable year since 2000...EMC issues sunny report. From
CNET News.com on October 21, 2004 at 7:45 p.m..
Learning Landscape webcast
BCCampus were kind enough to invite Ben and I to take part in a short webcast today to discuss our thinking behind the Learning Landscape concept as well as ELGG the e-portfolio proof-of-concept system Ben is currently programming. Listen to... From
ERADC Blog on October 21, 2004 at 6:55 p.m..
BlogWalk 5.0 in Umea
BlogWalk 5.0 will take place in Umea, Sweden on November 11th (afternoon) and November 12th 2004. The topic for our gathering is: Blogging on the moveWe will look into what can be done with mobile things and smart groups/mobs. On Thursday November 11th in the afternoon,
Howard Rheingold will give a seminar in Umea Sweden.
Stephanie Hendrick alerted us to this event in her laboratory and invited us to or From
Seblogging News on October 21, 2004 at 6:51 p.m..
[PT] Tom Barnett
Tom is the author of The Pentagon's New Map. I've been reading his stuff for a while. I don't know enough to be able to tell if what he says is right, but it sure seems coherent and compelling. You ought to go read his stuff.... From
Joho the Blog on October 21, 2004 at 6:49 p.m..
Here I go--Granny D
I sincerely want to thank the many of you who gave me so much information and so many valuable perspectives on the issues I've raised here. In less than an hour I will go into the lion's den to debate Judd Gregg. He, as you may know, is the fellow... From
Lessig Blog on October 21, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..
VIDEO: "Get your videoblogs on TV"
Today's video is about a different take on using videoblogs. In the
videoblogging group, we're discussing what a videoblog should be. Different camps are forming. Short or long? "like TV" or completely "not like TV". Really, it's all correct depending on how people watch the videos.We will someday (soon?) have a choice to make as videobloggers. When i make a videoblog specifcally for the web, it's got to be short because of my limitations in storage and monthly bandwidth. When I watch a videoblog on the i From
unmediated on October 21, 2004 at 5:57 p.m..
Chibi Vision, the billboard in a backpack
The Chibi Vision -- a "US-patented brand new advertisement method", no less -- is a backpack-mounted TFT screen and some unspecified innards that will play back "DVD, CD, SVCD, MP3, CDDA, JPEG, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, and DVD-RW", has stereo speakers, a battery, and so forth. The idea is that you're going to pay its inventors, a shady-looking outfit called Universal Planners, ¥70,000 (or about $640 US dollas) to buy ad-space on on From
unmediated on October 21, 2004 at 5:56 p.m..
Presentation on the Impact of Blogs on PR
Recently,
ClickZ editor Pamela Parker and I participated in a webinar on the impact of blogs and participatory journalism on PR. The event, attended by over 300 professionals, was organized by the technology chapter of the PRSA and graciously sponsored by Microsoft Live Meeting.Since then I have received several requests for copies of my presentation, so I thought it would easier if I just made it available online here with the full narration. Pamela's presentation is also online
unmediated on October 21, 2004 at 5:56 p.m..
It's Filtering, Not Targeting
Dave Morgan
has some good advice on targeting ads: "It's not enough to say, 'Ads are the cost of doing business,' if consumers want free content...Ad targeting can't just be about making money unless it's first about delivering consumer value." "Publishers, advertisers, and agencies must shift their approach to targeting. We need less "targeting" and more "filtering." Less about what someone wants to push to segmented groups, more about what those groups likely From
unmediated on October 21, 2004 at 5:56 p.m..
Presence technology
The AP has a note on
Microsoft’s new collaboration software, code-named "Istanbul" it's going to be "e-mail, instant messaging, video conferencing, traditional phone service and Internet-based calling" all in one. First reaction: Sheez, I don't want any one app to do all those things! That's scary!But then there's this, which sounds awfully nice: Using Istanbul, users c From
unmediated on October 21, 2004 at 5:56 p.m..
Video Google
Jeff Jarvis predicts
mad crazy changes in the way TV is created and delivered. Notable: There will need to be a Google of video -- a means of helping people find what they want. And, no, that&'s not just about creating a search engine. It's about capturing the metadata we create when we watch and share things and making sense of it. It's not trivial but it's vital for without a great guide, we’ll never find the programming we want and this new medium won't work. Thi From
unmediated on October 21, 2004 at 5:56 p.m..
KaiserEDU
Information on health care policy is the subject of this site, with dicussions of current issues, tutorials and collections of articles, fact sheets, and reports. From
Minneapolis Public Library - the LIST on October 21, 2004 at 5:56 p.m..
Usability test session
Formative evaluation of visual instructions for individuals with intellectual disabilities: A descriptive case Elizabeth Boling and Kennon Smith Okay, so you might think there is nothing interesting about a paper reporting usability testing of a book that has recipes that... From
Rick's Café Canadien on October 21, 2004 at 5:55 p.m..
Next Generation Foundation's 'Map of Creativity'
http://www.ngf.org.uk/map/map.html While you will likely find some useful educational sites through this Flash-based app, I'm pointing to it more because of the very nifty interface. It may seem disconcerting at first, but stick with it for a few more seconds. Mousing over the filters on the right-hand side will let you actually see how many sites will remain as a result (click the filter to then apply it), and clicking multiple filters will apply them one on top of the other. Thanks Trevor for pointing this out. - SWL< From
EdTechPost on October 21, 2004 at 5:52 p.m..
Good luck, Granny D
In a couple hours, Granny D debates her opponent in the New Hampshire Senate Race,
Judd Gregg. Here is a great site that summarizes his views
on the issues. From the Lessig Blog (and Lessig!), good luck, Granny D. Just show who you are, and the rest will take care of itself. Speak real -- not, e.g., "New Hampshire is a special place, home to many wonderful people." (from the Judd site), but the way you've spoken here. From
Lessig Blog on October 21, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..
Agent Support for Online Learning
In a sense, this is the 'other' way to approach the discovery and organization of online materials: through the use of agents. This paper describes the use of agents in an educational environment, "It is our claim that well-chosen software technologies, involving agents, can raise the self-organising powers of the network sufficiently to make a LN [Learning Networks] a viable option." Why do I call this the 'other' approach? It's not clear to me at this point that something as complex as an agent is required; I think that the network may be more robust than anticipated From
OLDaily on October 21, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..
EDUCAUSE 2004
EDUCAUSE 2004 is taking place in Denver right now and is being blogged by numerous writers. I'm not going to try to summarize a lot (at least, not much beyond the observation that EDUCAUSE seems to have discovered open source in a big way). Fortunately, you can get all your EDUCAUSE news in one place via this EDUCAUSE feed in Edu_RSS. By Various Authors, October 21, 2004 [
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OLDaily on October 21, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..
Textbook 101
Development of an Instructional Design Textbook Linda Lohr, Heng-Yu Ku, James Gall & John Cooney This was a clever little session at AECT presented by Linda Lohr on the process she followed to identify, propose, develop and create a textbook--the... From
Rick's Café Canadien on October 21, 2004 at 4:55 p.m..
[PT] Richard Florida
Florida says that the rise of the creative economy — where the real value is derived from creativity — is a fundamental change. You need not only technological creativity. You also need aesthetic creativity. You need cultural creativity. You need a people culture. And for that you'll do better by going to a place that's open culturally, that has lots of job opportunities, that has "energy."... From
Joho the Blog on October 21, 2004 at 4:49 p.m..
[PT] Jim Rygiel
Jim was the visual effects supervisor on Lord of the Rings. He's got a looong list of credits, LOTR is enough for me. "I could do Lord of the Rings on a laptop right now," he says. It would take longer — they had 6,000 CPUs on LOTR — but you could do it. He shows clips of the animation process. He says that he doesn't expect digital effects to replace actors, except for stunts. [Last year at PopTech, one of the Pixar guys said that they won't replace actors because acting is an art that actors do better... From
Joho the Blog on October 21, 2004 at 4:49 p.m..
WebCT Announces Real-Time Delivery of MERLOT Learning Objects
And to think, MERLOT was hesitant to create RSS feeds. They'll never do it, I was told. And now: "The WebCT PowerLink for MERLOT, released today, supports continuous delivery of up-to-the-minute learning object links directly to WebCT courses... The links point to RSS feeds from MERLOT of learning objects such as animations, simulations, case studies and tutorials in 15 subject areas from biology to world languages." Now it's a very small leap to importing RSS feeds from DLORN - and any provider can add learning content to DLORN - no special deals are required. By Press Release, Bus From
OLDaily on October 21, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..
Organisational Issues in eLearning
Found via an Auricle article
summarizing my talk in Perth, this set of slides by Rob Koper both reinforces and offers an interesting take on the idea of learning networks. Drawing from work in small words theory, Koper proposes modelling learning networks as a graph where the learning is a set of 'activity nodes' within some knowledge domain (what I would call an environment). Learners find resources following 'tracks' or 'pheromones' (what I would call second party metadata). His next project is learning network From
OLDaily on October 21, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..
EDUCAUSE: "Sakai, A Collaboration Between The University of Michigan, Indiana University, MIT, Stanford, OKI, and the uPortal Consortium"
Sakai is delivering an integrated open-source framework comprising an enterprise portal, a course management system, and a tool portability profile as a standard for writing future tools that can extend this core set of educational applications. Learn what Sakai has achieved and its direction for the future.
http://www.sakaiproject.org/ My comments: If I recall, Sakai is based on the UM Chef project, and "Sakai" is the name of a cook "named 'Iron Chef' form some cooking show.... (?) I came to From
cogdogblog on October 21, 2004 at 3:49 p.m..
Edu Spaces for Weblogs
A couple of new sites offering free Weblog and Wiki space for teachers have sprung up of late. Hopefully it's the start of a bigger movement.
James Farmer has put up
IncSub which is offering a whole slate of tools from
Wordpress to
Drupal to
Tiki and even
phbbb for bulletin boards. I think this is a great offer and no doubt James would be happy to hear fro From
weblogged News on October 21, 2004 at 3:48 p.m..
Is your boss Googling you?
It's possible. A study says almost one in four Net surfers has searched online for information on clients or co-workers. From
CNET News.com on October 21, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..
Mitch Kapor on how open source sets an example that can help fix politics
I've been lucky enough over the past year and a bit to be collaborating with the Open Source Applications Foundation on the Chandler project. One of the real pleasures of this work (and there are lots of others) has been in getting to spend a little bit of time with Mitch Kapor, whose intelligence, insight, and general mensch-like qualities I truly respect. Mitch gave a
speech the other day at the Web 2.0 conference where he talked about some of the things that are broken with American politics and how open source technology From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on October 21, 2004 at 3:04 p.m..
Places to read about new gizmos
I've been browsing sites that take note of new technological toys. In particular, I'm waiting for the perfect phone/email/browser combo, I'm wondering if the Canon i80 is the right compact printer to buy for my family room, and I'm thinking I should have a digital camera to take to Vietnam in February that could use regular AA batteries in a pinch. I've been using the rss feed from
Gizmodo to try to keep up with what's coming out (an impossibe task), and I like that pretty well. A couple of people have note From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on October 21, 2004 at 3:04 p.m..
The entertainment industry outsources its dirty work to the US Government
In between fighting the war on terror and subpoenaing your library records, the good folks in the Justice Department are focusing on that hardened band of criminals - folks who trade files on the Internet. From Declan McCullagh's CNET News.com coverage: The U.S. Justice Department recommended a sweeping transformation of the nation's intellectual-property laws, saying peer-to-peer piracy is a "widespread" problem that can be addressed only through more spending, more FBI agents and more power for prosecutors. In an extensive report released Tuesday, seni From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on October 21, 2004 at 3:03 p.m..
Going to Educause next week
I'll be in Denver most of next week for
Educause 2004. I'm on a
panel Thursday morning at 8:10 (ugh) with Mitch Kapor from OSAF and Jack McCredie from UC Berkeley talking about the collaboration between the Common Solutions Group and OSAF on the Westwood version of Chandler. Mitch is supposedly going to actually demonstrate the 0.4 version of Chandler (you read it here first), so come on Ballroom 4 by if you're at the conference and up that early.< From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on October 21, 2004 at 3:03 p.m..
California high-schoolers not ready for college-level work
Hoo-boy - this is depressing. I doubt whether the other states are doing any better. From an
article in the Sacramento Bee: Nearly six months after giving the first statewide exam to identify students who aren't prepared for university-level course work, California State University officials found that nearly 80 percent of high school juniors they tested are not ready for college English. The same test - called the Early Assessment Program - dealt better results in math, with 45 p From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on October 21, 2004 at 3:03 p.m..
[Educause 2004] Opening reception and dinner with Meeting Maker folks
Tonight was the opening reception for the Educause 2004 conference in the Exhibit Hall. Educause has gotten huge - something in the neighborhood of 6-8,000 people! Is it just me, or do the exhibits at these trade shows seem completely off the mark? I wander around, wondering if there's anybody who can really talk to me about the things I want to know about product lines. I went by the Novell booth to see if I could talk to somebody about their upcoming
desktop Linux product, but nobody at the booth knows anythin From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on October 21, 2004 at 3:03 p.m..
[Educause 2004] Duderstadt's keynote
James Duderstadt, former President of the University of Michigan, opened the conference on Wednesday with a talk about the impacts of social transformation and technology on higher education. He spoke mainly about the National Academies
Forum on Information Technology and Research Universities, and their activities to engage the executive leadership of universities in discussions about how technology is changing the way students and researchers work, and the social relations of researchers and educators. The National Academies ha From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on October 21, 2004 at 3:03 p.m..
[Educause 2004] Open source is all the rage
It seems like the theme, intentional or otherwise, of this conference is the increased visibility and progress on open source projects in higher ed. Brad Wheeler from Indiana gave a heavily attended talk where he spoke about the process by which Indiana came to the conclusion that it's better in many (though not all) instances to collaborate with other like-minded institutions on developing software than to either purchase it from major vendors or build it themselves. Dave Lambert from Georgetown spoke about the general software dilemma faced by higher ed institutions From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on October 21, 2004 at 3:03 p.m..
Calendaring woes in real life
There has been a bunch of talk on the calendaring standards lists about how to handle time zones, and sure enough, last week I ran into a real-world example that pointed out the issues (but not the answers) in maddening fashion. The Educause 2004 conference web site has an Itinerary Builder where you can select which conference events to attend and build an personal itinerary. I did that, then exported the itinerary to an ical file, which I then imported into iCal on my PowerBook. So far it worked great all the events showed up at the right times. I then synched the Powerbo From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on October 21, 2004 at 3:03 p.m..
[ Poetry ]
After deleting five or so comment spams this morning, it dawned on me that they could serve nicely as a bizarre form of found poetry, to wit: Ohmygod! They killed Kenny! I've been there a href="http://>cialis/a 81.118.4.4 81.118.4.4 81.118.4.4 This... From
futureStep | net.tech, academia, society & culture on October 21, 2004 at 3:03 p.m..
[ Love 2 Love U ]
Check out this intriguing, living exhibit on viruses, currently on display at Brown University. This fascinating site also includes related rich online exhibits in the areas of hacker culture, digital art and code aesthetics. [via Zephoria]... From
futureStep | net.tech, academia, society & culture on October 21, 2004 at 3:03 p.m..
[ Mac Mothership ]
Here's a fun website devoted to the history of the Macintosh. Mac Mothership is a campy and fun look at the pop cultural history of the Mac, and hosts an interesting and nostalgic collection of brochures, advertising materials, and other... From
futureStep | net.tech, academia, society & culture on October 21, 2004 at 3:03 p.m..
[ Google Domination ]
Google continues its march forward towards total global information domination by introducing two intriguing new dimensions to its offerings, to wit Google Print and Google SMS (both in beta). The former's mission statement reads as follows: "Google's mission is to... From
futureStep | net.tech, academia, society & culture on October 21, 2004 at 3:03 p.m..
[ Podcasting ]
A story on Podcasting from Wired: " For anyone who loves listening to the wide variety of internet audio programming, but can't always listen to their favorite shows when they're scheduled or take the time to download them manually, help... From
futureStep | net.tech, academia, society & culture on October 21, 2004 at 3:03 p.m..
[ uPod ]
http://www.forbes.com/technology/personaltech/2004/10/18/cx_mm_1018aapl.html" The boutiquing of the iPod continues: "Sources close to the group say the U2 edition of the popular digital music player will come preloaded with the band's new album, How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, along with portions of... From
futureStep | net.tech, academia, society & culture on October 21, 2004 at 3:03 p.m..
Reload--RLO Authoring and Delivery
RELOAD Project "Welcome to the RELOAD web site, home to the RELOAD Editor and SCORM Player. We are a JISC funded project (X4L strand B) developing tools to facilitate the use of emerging Learning Technology Interoperability specifications such as those produced by ADL and IMS." From
Stand Up Eight on October 21, 2004 at 3:03 p.m..
Living at the juncture
I occupy a very interesting space. My professional duties include the oversight of both information and instructional technology support for faculty and staff. While the challenges of such a responsibility are significant, the opportunities are also quite rich. The services we provide are possible only because of the changing of the landscape... From
Stand Up Eight on October 21, 2004 at 3:03 p.m..
RE: Quoting this post in full is easier than writing something myself...
With apologies to Tom Coates of plasticbag.org… The secret of successful weblogging is - it seems - never to pause for a moment. Never let the fact that you&rsquo;re kind of not in the mood for a few days to stop you putting some old crap up on your site. Because the longer you leave it, the more pressure there is to make your return worthwhile, valuable, interesting. I am currently backlogged with about three weeks worth of things I feel I need to say - mostly about ETCon, but also about online communities, social software, ConCon and politics - but I know now that I&r From
Stand Up Eight on October 21, 2004 at 3:03 p.m..
RE: Enlarging the circle
[from
Seb's Open Research] Joi Ito writes:"something that I'm trying understand is the process that people go through to reach a higher level of caring for human beings outside of their immediate circle. I think that this process holds the key for some of the important contributions that technologies can make." Yes! This is the
Stand Up Eight on October 21, 2004 at 3:03 p.m..
Preparing for another workshop
As I've done each year for the past three, I will be presenting at this years UNC Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) Collaborative conference on the use of weblogs. I've gone back and forth between presentations and workshops, and this year I'm back to a hands-on workshop. I think the interest levels are much higher this year than in the past. Each time I've done this, I've spent the majority of my time trying to communicate the concept of a weblog--to help people understand what it is rather than how to use it. I believe the concept has solidified itself t From
Stand Up Eight on October 21, 2004 at 3:03 p.m..
on blogging
Interesting posts lately digging deeper into the definition of weblogging. Some random thoughts: First of all, attempting to categorize the various activities that occur using the web publishing/content management tools known as weblogs will alw From
Stand Up Eight on October 21, 2004 at 3:03 p.m..
My iPod workout
Like many people in their 30s, I struggle with my weight. I've been heavy for years, but the past couple of years have seen a marked difference in my ability to gain weight (much easier than ever) and to lose it (much more difficult than ever). I can remember a football coach in high school getting after some of us for using music as a motivational tool. "You won't have it out there on the field, so if that's the only way you can get yourself up, you'll be in trouble." There was no escaping, however, the power of music to get me through a workout. I listen to dif From
Stand Up Eight on October 21, 2004 at 3:02 p.m..
UNC Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference
I'm taking notes at the opening session of our TLT conference this year. The opening speaker is Molly Corbett Broad, the President of our 16-campus system. For a first-draft outline of my notes, please click the "Continue reading..." link below. From
Stand Up Eight on October 21, 2004 at 3:02 p.m..
weblog workshop
I did a weblogs workshop today for the UNC Teaching and Learning Collaborative. While the attendance was quite sparse, we had some very nice conversations and it sparked some thoughts I thought post here. One of the greatest challenges to introducing weblogs to someone who doesn't know much about them is that "weblogging" quickly becomes a huge and interconnected jumble of processes and procedures. As you get your mind wrapped around the concepts, you don't realize how significantly you are changing your own processes. Ask someone who religiously uses a news aggregator to From
Stand Up Eight on October 21, 2004 at 3:02 p.m..
RE: Instant Bibliomancy!
Caught a
link through
PLSJ to a little fun with instant bibliomancy (the art of foretelling the future by reading random passages from books). Here&rsquo;s what you do: 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Pos From
Stand Up Eight on October 21, 2004 at 3:02 p.m..
Open Learning Support
OLS :: Open Learning Support "Open Learning Support:Is a space where individuals can connect to share, discuss, ask,answer, debate, collaborate, teach, and learn.Is not a degree-granting or certificate-granting program.Does not provide formal access to university faculty. OLS currently serves seven courses from MIT's OpenCourseWare initiative. OLS will be integrated with additional courses from MIT/OCW and educational materials from other collections over time (you can vot From
Stand Up Eight on October 21, 2004 at 3:02 p.m..
What support do faculty need?
I've posted here before about the changes in my attitude toward what level of support we should be providing to faculty in regards to technology development. Past models of faculty support have focused on training faculty to become developers--workshops on DreamWeaver, PhotoShop, HTML, etc. Those who participated were (and largely, are) early adopters. Our higher ed technology support infrastructure is often built around the needs and learning styles of these early adopter faculty. I believe that modern faculty support programs should identify appropriate levels of technology l From
Stand Up Eight on October 21, 2004 at 3:02 p.m..
Educause
Well, I'm in Denver for the annual Educause conference. I'm starting things off in Brian Lamb and Alan Levine's pre-conference seminar entitled: "Decentralization of Learning Resources: Syndicating Learning Objects Using RSS, TrackBack, and Related Technologies." I'll post meeting notes here from this session and throughout the conference. From
Stand Up Eight on October 21, 2004 at 3:02 p.m..
Why Blog? (Second attempt.)
Why blog? Sharing stuff is fun. For example, Ernie Ackermann's blog (which I try to read regularly, and which I have linked this blog to-see the links column on the right) shares cool stuff. Yesterday's blog hipped me to a site here at UMW that a colleague has put together to ... From
Gardner Writes on October 21, 2004 at 3:02 p.m..
NLII Blogger Cyprien Lomas
The University of Mary Washington just joined the National Learning Infrastructure Initiative, a strategic arm of Educause devoted to transforming teaching and learning through the intelligent use of information technologies. It's been just about a year since I first learned of the NLII. At that time, during a focus group ... From
Gardner Writes on October 21, 2004 at 3:02 p.m..
Why Blog? (Third attempt.)
There's something happening here. What it is ain't exactly clear. Bloggers on both the right and left wings of the political spectrum are not only getting press coverage these days, they're making news. They were mentioned prominently today in a Washington Post article about Dan Rather and CBS News. Bloggers raised ... From
Gardner Writes on October 21, 2004 at 3:02 p.m..
Dr. Dolen’s Diviniations
I've added Dolen Perkins-Valdez' blog URL to the list at the right. Dolen is a new colleague in the University of Mary Washington's department of English, Linguistics, and Speech. Her scholarly specialty is African-American literature. With her kind consent, I am sharing her blog with you. If you ... From
Gardner Writes on October 21, 2004 at 3:02 p.m..
Dr. C.’s grabbagblog
That's grab bag, not gas bag. I attended a cybersecurity conference yesterday in Charlottesville and I have a URL for you: the Center for Internet Security. This site has free downloads that will test your computer's security. You'll have to register but the process looks fairly benign. Probably the spookiest thing ... From
Gardner Writes on October 21, 2004 at 3:02 p.m..
More on blogging from CPU
I'm always happy to see a new issue of CPU on the kitchen table. Yesterday was no exception. Chris Pirillo's column on "The Future of Blogging" is written from the perspective of someone who's been in the Web game since the mid-90s. (You can read the first little bit of ... From
Gardner Writes on October 21, 2004 at 3:02 p.m..
Great Equations
I just ran across an article that I need to share with you. It's the kind of article that makes me take in a deep, deep breath and move to a higher level of understanding. I love that feeling, even though the pressure changes sometimes make my ears pop, cognitively ... From
Gardner Writes on October 21, 2004 at 3:02 p.m..
Contact
Not the movie. My contacts with other people yesterday were frequent, surprising, and rewarding. That's true most days, actually, but even so yesterday was unusual. Here's a partial list off the top of my head: 1. I got to school and found that the writer I had blogged about the day before, ... From
Gardner Writes on October 21, 2004 at 3:02 p.m..
A Butterfly is not just a Better Caterpillar
That's the aphorism I'm mulling over from the first EDUCAUSE session this morning. James Duderstadt, President Emeritus of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, spoke on "Preparing for the Revolution: Redux." The irony of the title is worth considering, but I digress. The idea is that we cannot ... From
Gardner Writes on October 21, 2004 at 3:02 p.m..
Cyberealspace
Will the coinage catch on? Or did someone else already coin it and I'm just seeing someone else's thoughts come back to me with a kind of alienated majesty? (Apologies to Emerson.) I thought my next EDUCAUSE blog would be about Diana Oblinger on educating the Net Generation. I'll get to ... From
Gardner Writes on October 21, 2004 at 3:02 p.m..
Miscellaneous thoughts on Educause 2004
The best place to blog and recharge a battery, away from the hustle and bustle and whoring in Vendor Hell: the ground floor, far end by the Mac email stations. No table and chairs, just quiet. Number of sink "interfaces" encountered in restrooms at the Convention Center: 4 auto detect single push ... From
Big IDEA on October 21, 2004 at 3:00 p.m..
Collaborative satellite design online
Hundreds of students in universities in twelve European nations
collaborated in designing a satellite, the SSETI Express, which is awaiting launch early next year. The Student Space Education and Technology Initiative (
SSETI ) used the internet to support conversation, research, and development, using tools including
shared photographs , email, and
NITLE Tech News on October 21, 2004 at 2:00 p.m..
Down doggie
Telus Mobility tried buying Microcell Communications, aka Fido, for $1.1 million. Now Rogers Wireless is trying to buy Fido for $1.6 million. Fido does not seem to be as good as making much money as it is in running cute canine-themed ads as of late. And while it's well-loved as the plucky underdog of the Canadian cellular marketplace, love don't pay the rent. There has been half-joking speculation that it's now that other Canadian cellular company Bell Mobility's turn at courtship. But it appears that Bell feels that the fastest way to Fido's heart is by plunging stra From
silentblue | Quantified on October 21, 2004 at 1:56 p.m..
What Will People Pay For?
"What will people pay for online?" is one of the many ongoing discussions about how newspapers can increase profits in their interactive-media operations. Now comes the World Association of Newspapers' "
Shaping the Future of the Newspaper" project with the answers.News content that's on the "we can't sell it" list includes "news that doesn't affect them, most politics, non-local events, the arts." Information people will pay for includes sports results, personal health, and personal security, according to WAN. From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on October 21, 2004 at 1:56 p.m..
Chinese Journalism With American Characteristics
WOW -- We Observe the World -- is the name of a new weblog that will be launched next week by the journalism school of the Beijing Foreign Languages University, professor and U.S. journalist Joseph Bosco announced at his weblog, the
LongBow Papers. Bosco has been hired by the university to teach the principles of free journalism, the First Amendment, and all these things that are not typical for Chinese media. He was initially amazed when he was asked, he told me last month in Beijing. But he is From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on October 21, 2004 at 1:56 p.m..
Better Search at Tribune Sites
Not long ago I bemoaned the
sad state of search tools at news sites. It's worth noting that Tribune Interactive is making some real progress with recent upgrades on its various sites.Take a look at
this search-results page from latimes.com. There are tabs to let you click through to specialty searches. There is a "card catalog" result right at the top -- I searched for "Volvo" and the site suggested that I use Cars.com From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on October 21, 2004 at 1:56 p.m..
'The Action Will Be on Free Websites'
Apropos of my
post earlier today, about content people will pay for, came
this article on E-Commerce Times about online advertising. The story is not about news, per se, but about the growth of advertising related to search. The key point to me, however, was this one: "From here on out, the [advertising] action will likely be on the free websites. Now the trick is to woo advertisers without losing subscribers." While the reference was specific in this context From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on October 21, 2004 at 1:56 p.m..
Skype :(
In case you see me online at
Skype and try to call, but I'm not answering: it's not because I don't like you (I probably do :) it's a Skype synchronisation problem... I run it at work and usually forget to switch off when leaving. Then I connect at home, but as Skype doesn't synchronise I end up with being online at two machines. In a strange way some incoming calls only pop-up at work, so I don't see them at home only to find "missed calls" next day at work...< From
Mathemagenic on October 21, 2004 at 1:53 p.m..
[PT] Joel Garreau & first session Q&A
The thesis of his upcoming book, Our New Selves, is that we're at a hinge in history because for the first time technology is being applied inwardly more than outwardly. Are we engineering new types of humans? He says that every super power in the comics is either here now or will be "before your mortgage is paid off." [I got swept up in the backchannel chat and have obviously done a crappy job blogging this talk. Sorry.] Gladwell: Not all the superpowers ar here yet. E.g., we can't know what evil lurks in the hearts of men. [Also, no... From
Joho the Blog on October 21, 2004 at 1:49 p.m..
EDUCAUSE: "Surveying the Digital Landscape"
(more back blogging from yesterday's sessions at EDUCAUSE 2004): This presentation will provide a brief overview of various Evolving Technologies Committee white paper topics: the "consumerization" of information technology; strategies and best practices for addressing the growing concerns of spam, worms, and viruses; and the convergence of libraries and digital repositories learning objects for the network. This is from the
EDUCAUSE Evolving Technologies Committee. My qu From
cogdogblog on October 21, 2004 at 1:49 p.m..
EDUCAUSE Croquet Project
This poster session demo was probably the coolest thing I have seen here at the EDUCAUSE 2004 conference. It is so cool I do not think I can describe it, See the
Croquet Project WHAT IF... ...we were to create a new operating system and user interface knowing what we know today, how far could we go? What kinds of decisions would we make that we might have been unable to even consider 20 or 30 years ago, when the current set of operating systems were first created? ...we could collaborate with one another in an online di From
cogdogblog on October 21, 2004 at 1:49 p.m..
Disclaimer
Eeek. It is coming to my attention via email, comments, trackbacks, server logs, that more people than My mom are reading this blog (actually she doesn't know about it). Beyond scaring the ____ out of me, I felt it appropriate to say that my writing here is almost exclusively for my own uses, to track my ideas and projects as I tend to forget things quite easily. If someone else gets something out of it, especially those nice Canadians (you know who you are ;-), great. However, many things I write are my own conjecture, may be exaggerated or wrong, and will be full of t From
cogdogblog on October 21, 2004 at 1:49 p.m..
Wrapup of Wednesday afternoon at Educause
I attended a couple of sessions, Electronic Portfolios in Higher Education: Where Are We and Where Are We Going? and At the End of the Day We Will Have Given It All Away: The Convergence of Open-Source CMS and Open Courseware. All in all I was impressed with the homegrown ... From
Big IDEA on October 21, 2004 at 1:00 p.m..
Wiki-ing Educause
I'm attempting to use Instiki as a note-taking tool for today's Educause conference session tracks. I'm not very good at taking notes and listening to a presentation at the same time; I think I prefer to listen and write a summary after the fact. Anyway, have a look here. ... From
Big IDEA on October 21, 2004 at 1:00 p.m..
[PT] Malcolm Gladwell
He's giving us a preview of Chapter 3 of his new book, Blink. He's going to talk about the development of the Aeron office chair. When it was first tested, the testers said they hated it because it was ugly. Yet, it's become the best selling chair in the history of chairs. But after it became popular, the same groups said the chair is beautiful. We find out what people like by asking them, he says. But the story of the Aeron chair shows that something gets lost between the feeling of a preference and the expression of a preference.... From
Joho the Blog on October 21, 2004 at 12:49 p.m..
[PT] Frans de Waal
Frans says he's going to convince us that we're apes. He says that aggression also provides opportunities for reconciliation; aggression doesn't just drive us apart. He has lots of funny examples of how the body laguage of politicians establish dominance hierarchies — including the political reconciliation of Bush and McCain. And he goes through the ways in which chimps and capuchins support basic ideas of fairness and sharing. [Totally enjoyable talk.]... From
Joho the Blog on October 21, 2004 at 12:49 p.m..
Metadata for the Masses
Peter Merholz '
ethnoclassification' -- the type of folk classifications we are seeing in sites like
Del.icio.us and
Flickr. "Ethnoclassification systems can similarly "emerge." Once you have a preliminary system in place, you can use the most common tags to develop a controlled vocabulary that truly speaks the users' language." From
elearningpost on October 21, 2004 at 12:47 p.m..
iPod vs. MuVo
A few weeks ago, Dave Winer
pointed to Robert Scoble's
observation that podcasting doesn't require an iPod. True enough. My newest toy is a
MuVo TX and, on a flight yesterday, I had a chance to make a head-to-head comparison between it and InfoWorld contributing editor Paul Venezia's 4G iPod. Conclusion: less is more. ... From
Jon's Radio on October 21, 2004 at 12:47 p.m..
AP Article on Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/4469 "Getting rights OK'd can be frustrating for artists, be they authors seeking to quote an essay or documentary filmmakers who've got snippets of pop songs playing in the background of key scenes. Artists and scholars who believe the current... From
Alpha Channel: The Studio @ Hodges Library on October 21, 2004 at 12:00 p.m..
EDUCAUSE | Resources | EDUCAUSE Blogs EDUCAUSE Blogs As part of our new web site, we're exploring the use of blogs at EDUCAUSE. We welcome your feedback as we continue to explore new technologies. Please send ideas on potential future applications to blogs@educause.edu nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. What's new at EDUCAUSE? Read the EDUCAUSE Core Data Service 2003 Summary Report, which summarizes data from more than 830 colleges and universities about their campus IT environments and practi From
Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on October 21, 2004 at 11:51 a.m..
[PT] At PopTech
I'm at PopTech for the next few days, which looks like it'll be an exceptional conference. I'm helping out with the official backchannel chat for attendees, which will probably prevent me from live-blogging it. But I don't like live-blogging anyway. I only do it because Im too lazy to go back to my motel room and actually think about what I've heard. I'm sitting in the blogger's corner of the Camden, Maine, opera house. We have the power. No, really, this corner is where the power outlets are. I'm sitting next to Halley. Lots of friends in the audience. From
Joho the Blog on October 21, 2004 at 11:49 a.m..
The e-Literate Redesign Is Up
C’mon in and look around. We’re still making some minor tweaks and enhancements but I’m so excited about how it looks that I just couldn’t wait to announce it. Thanks to the folks at
pMachine Services for helping me to make this happen. From
e-Literate on October 21, 2004 at 10:59 a.m..
Sem | Net gets going
Sem | Net stands for Seminar Network - Augsburg, Bamberg, Innsbruck - An Interdisciplinary Seminar on Networked Communication and Collaboration .
Thomas Burg,
Jan Schmidt and myself are trying to use personal and collaborative Web publishing practices to foster collaboration between our seminars. First face-to-face sessions have taken place in Innsbruck and Bamberg this month. The Augsburg group will gather tomorrow. We are still in start up mode but if you plan to follow s From
Seblogging News on October 21, 2004 at 10:51 a.m..
Merholz on Metadata for the Masses (Clay Shirky)
Great Peter Merholz piece, Metadata for the Masses, continuing the folksonomy/ethnoclassification thread We’re beginning to see ethnoclassification in action on the social bookmarks site Del.icio.us, and the photo sharing site Flickr. […] The primary benefit of free tagging is that... From
Corante: Social Software on October 21, 2004 at 10:50 a.m..
Against RSS
Found this again via
DrNemo;
RSS and it's backdraws. Danah Boyd argues against an overflow of data and information and elaborates about the models behind RSS-feeds. Her jumping point is the youth culture and the habits that are about the metabolism of news. From
thomas n. burg | randgänge on October 21, 2004 at 10:47 a.m..
The Persuaders
No, I don't like the title either, but the upcoming Frontline documentary on which I served as writer and commentator is a pretty good portrait of the American messaging marketplace. It's supposed to air on PBS stations Tuesday November 9 - but check your listings. We're doing a panel about it next Tuesday in New York, at the Museum of Television and Radio. I'm not doing a lot of appearances these days - and won't be until March or April of next year. But I'll promise to stay a while after this one to say hi to people. They claim you need to call the From
rushkoff.blog on October 21, 2004 at 10:46 a.m..
The Sting in the Tail
On why you're more likely to get "bad behaviour" outside the mainstream, but why you need to go there. From
Monkeymagic on October 21, 2004 at 9:54 a.m..
Why Every Site Needs RSS
RSS or 'Really Simple Syndication' is not just for Blogs and News sites. Every website can benefit from this newly popular technology. The term 'syndication' is what throws a lot of people off the track. Syndication is like news articles, isn't it? From
RSS Blog on October 21, 2004 at 9:00 a.m..
taz: "Ja zu Studiengebühren - jetzt!"
taz: Ja zu Studiengebühren - jetzt! Der ehrenwerte Christian Füller, seines Zeichens langjähriger Hochschulredakteur bei der tageszeitung fordert die studierenden LeserInnen auf, sich für Studiengebühren auszusprechen. Studierende würden dadurch "Macht" über ihre Hochschule bekommen. Ekelhaft. Genauso ekelhaft wie die Menschen, die uns immer verkaufen wollen, uns würde es als "Kunden" besser gehen. Das deutsche Hochschulsystem ist für eine derartige Ökonomisierun From
PlasticThinking: Moe's Blog. on October 21, 2004 at 8:51 a.m..
Microsoft, Swatch debut wireless watches - Reuters
Microsoft Corp. and watch maker Swatch are offering a new line of wireless data watches, the companies said Wednesday, bringing the era of Dick Tracy wristwatch radios one step closer. The watches offer news, sports, weather and stock quotes, among oth From
Techno-News Blog on October 21, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..
Ballmer: We need a $100 PC - Mike Ricciuti, CNET News
What's one of Steve Ballmer's biggest headaches? It's not Linux or security breaches. It's piracy, the Microsoft CEO said Wednesday. "The biggest problem we have right now is that people who should be paying for software aren't," Ballmer told an audie From
Techno-News Blog on October 21, 2004 at 8:50 a.m..
Periodismo participativo
Notas y enlaces para mi intervención en la Mesa Redonda: Periodisme Digital Participatiu durante la e-Week: Setmana Digital a Vic. 1) Escribà en: Weblogs: el medio y el mensaje que El acceso del público a un medio global sin editores... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on October 21, 2004 at 7:51 a.m..
Operation Clark County - The last post
At first the letters came almost exclusively from Britain but as word spread, our inbox began to look more and more like a UN telephone directory. In one of those bits of casual alliteration to which journalists are prone, I had introduced the project with the suggestion that it would offer a way for "people from Basildon to Botswana to campaign in the presidential race". Suddenly, they were. "My country is a new democracy," wrote a South African. "When we set about building our nation from the ruins of apartheid, we looked long and hard at the lessons the people of the USA have From
Seblogging News on October 21, 2004 at 6:51 a.m..
When Robots Rule the World
Well, not the world maybe, but possibly your lawns and kitchens. The use of robots -- especially as domestic help -- is expected to increase sevenfold by 2007, according to the United Nations. From
Wired News on October 21, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Humans Aren't So Complicated
New research reveals that humans have only about 25,000 genes instead of the 100,000 originally guessed. Researchers scratch their heads. By Kristen Philipkoski. From
Wired News on October 21, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
It Takes a Con to Know a Con
With all sorts of important and interesting stories to pursue, CNN latched on to Martha Stewart's incarceration, but it didn't get the real story. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg. From
Wired News on October 21, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
All Bio Systems Are Go
Systems biologists are pushing the envelope of preventive medicine through research centered on the interactions of the thousands of pieces of DNA, RNA and proteins that network together in each cell of our body. By Rowan Hooper. From
Wired News on October 21, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Magazine Makes Gadget-Making Fun
Do-it-yourself projects won't disappear, even with Martha in jail. Make, a new magazine that centers around unique technology projects -- like how to build a mesh network in your house -- launches early next year. By Katie Dean. From
Wired News on October 21, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Toe-to-Toe Over Peer-to-Peer
Although recording industry folks predict success for 'sanctioned' P2P services, no one is sure consumers will be willing to pay, or even if such a setup can be agreed upon. Michael Grebb reports from Washington. From
Wired News on October 21, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
American Passports to Get Chipped
The United States plans to issue passports with personal data stored on radio frequency identification chips. The documents would be harder to forge, but might leave holders vulnerable to identity theft. By Ryan Singel. From
Wired News on October 21, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Thank you
I would like to extend a warm thank you to the LTSS team at Bristol University for making Ben and I feel so welcome during our brief visit yesterday. It is always interesting to talk with and hear about the... From
ERADC Blog on October 21, 2004 at 5:55 a.m..
Public Review on Education and Training - NSW
The New South Wales government is encouraging community consultation on public education and training in NSW. TAFE and School staff, students, parents and the wider community are invited to respond to key issues that will help to set the directions and priorities for NSW public education and training for the next 5 to 10 years. A series of public meetings is being held during November, with other meetings taking place in TAFE Institutes and schools. More information about the locations and times of public meetings can be found on the website. From
EdNA Online on October 21, 2004 at 5:45 a.m..
Call for Participation: e-Portfolio Conference
The first conference dedicated to digital and ePortfolios in Australia is being held at the University of Melbourne on 6-7 December 2004. Contributions are invited in the form of online interactive workshop input (closing date November 15); discussion forum sessions (closing date October 30);descriptions from portfolio development projects (closing date November 15). More details at the website. From
EdNA Online on October 21, 2004 at 5:45 a.m..
New UNESCO Report: Changing Teaching Practice
The report explores new teaching methods and strategies to change teacher practices. It looks into examples of using curriculum differentiation to respond to the diverse learning needs of students.UNESCO, October 2004 From
EdNA Online on October 21, 2004 at 5:45 a.m..
Australia's Indigenous Students and PISA
Australia's Indigenous Students and PISA 2000: Results from an international study by Lisa de Bortoli and John Cressell was released on 13 October. The report presents the analysis of the results of the PISA 2000 study for the Australian Indigenous students in comparison with other Australian students and in relation to other countries. It also examines some of the characteristics of the Indigenous students. The study is published as ACER Research Monograph 59. Click on this link to download a copy of the report in Adobe PDF format. From
EdNA Online on October 21, 2004 at 5:45 a.m..
Launch of Cybertourism Puts Study Into Practice
A new virtual reality based learning environment will be launched at Charles Darwin University's Palmerston Campus on Friday. The Travel Gateway Practice Firm is a simulated business environment where Charles Darwin University business and tourism students 'virtually' sell travel packages to the Northern Territory and Borneo as well as Royal Brunei airfares. The practice firm is a result of a newly forged partnership between Charles Darwin University and Northern Gateway Pty Ltd. From
EdNA Online on October 21, 2004 at 5:45 a.m..
Agenda de Rheingold en España
Martes, 26 de octubre: Rueda de prensa en Barcelona en el marco del Festival Artfutura Martes, 26 de octubre: Presentación en FNAC de su nuevo libro Multitudes inteligentes Jueves, 28 de octubre: Conferencia para Artfutura El poder de las masas... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on October 21, 2004 at 4:53 a.m..
Online Course: Creating Publicity for your Career School
MaxKnowledge and CCA offer a unique online course for career school owners HYPHEN "Creating Publicity for your Career School" is available on the MaxKnowledge training portal: www.maxknowledge.com [PRWEB Oct 21, 2004] From
PR Web on October 21, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..
Gov. Schwarzenegger's Name Should Get Conservative Enunciation
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's pronunciation of California ("Cal-ee-fornia") during the 2003 Recall Election generated much public discussion of the origin and proper articulation of the word. Now Karin Fallon, Director of the Beverly Hills Lingual Institute, believes it is time to return the favor. [PRWEB Oct 21, 2004] From
PR Web on October 21, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..
Once in a lifetime
The Sox come back from 0-3 against the Yankees and I've refrained from posting out of superstition. I've instead watched each game, holding my breath, knocking on wood, and hoping, just hoping. And after game three, I almost even wrote an open letter to the Sox here, but decided against it. Instead, I just lay silent, hoping still. And then last night, a Bellhorn homer. And then tonight, Damon grand slam. And D. Lowe pitching like a freakin' rock star, and not just any rock star, but like Robert Plant or John Lennon, I mean, Rock Star. I did believe. I'll admit that I waver From
megnut on October 21, 2004 at 2:45 a.m..
The most magical day
Red Sox Make History by Beating Yankees: From Fenway Park to Faneuil Hall, from Boston Common to Beacon Hill, the 11th pennant for the Red Sox, the first since 1986, will be remembered as the best for one reason: Beating New York in Yankee Stadium, site of last year's Game 7 meltdown. This was for Williams and Pesky, for Yastrzemski and Yawkey, for Fisk and Rice and even Buckner and Nomar, just a few of the hundreds who suffered the pain inflicted by their New York neighbors in a rivalry that has become baseball's best. None of the previous 25 major league teams to fall behind 3-0 From
megnut on October 21, 2004 at 2:45 a.m..
The Sofia Project
I just noticed the Sofia project, an(other) open courseware initiative. This particular project "encourages the publication and free exchange of community college level course materials on the World Wide Web." It looks like some materials will be available through the... From
Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on October 21, 2004 at 12:57 a.m..
Shelley's Blogopedia
Shelley's had a damn fine idea for how to create an overview of blogging: The purpose behind the IT Kitchen was to provide an overview of weblogging, the nuances and the ins and outs and that sort of thing. Sort of like many of the handbooks about weblogging that have been published online by various people (see Rebecca Blood's). However, instead of just providing static content, there's an interactive element to it, a community participation, which allows people to ask questions as the material is published, or even provide their own material in support of a topic. Want to know From
Joho the Blog on October 21, 2004 at 12:49 a.m..
Card sorting tools - final summary
Donna has posted another blog entry on card sorting tools, this time giving a summary of several of the most commonly-used. To quote: I posted a short summary of card sorting tools last week. At the time, I had looked... From
Column Two on October 21, 2004 at 12:48 a.m..
Neal Stephenson on Creative Commons
There's a great (long) interview with sci-fi novelist
Neal Stephenson on Slashdot today, and the last question asks directly about the use of Creative Commons Licenses by novelists: 12) Do new publishing models make sense? - by Infonaut Have you contemplated using any sort of alternative to traditional copyright for your works of fiction, such as a flavor of Creative Commons [creativecommons.org] license? Do you feel that making money as a writer and more open copyright are compatible in the From
Creative Commons: weblog on October 21, 2004 at 12:45 a.m..
IP World Canada 2004
If anyone ever asks me, "Hey, how was that IP World conference on October 4-6?", I can ecstatically raise my head and crow, "The food rocked." And how! The VIP luncheon speech was a canned marketing pitch devoid of information or personal conviction, but I dined on risotto and filet mignon. The exhibit floor was decent, but lacked major brand names, such as Cisco. Alas fear not, gentle stomachs, as we were provided with sushi, steak sandwiches, and the ne plus ultra in convention cuisine, a 3 foot tall chocolate fondue. I think that it was appropriate that Cisco Systems was not there in the fl From
silentblue | Quantified on October 20, 2004 at 11:56 p.m..