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eLearning Design Challenge: Ready for Another?
Three rounds of the eLearning Design Challenge are underway. None of them ever ends, really, as good ideas from new visitors are always welcome. Now it's time for a new Challenge. Before reaching into my own basket of experiences, does anybody have a well-defined online learning challenge that you'd like to ... From
eLearning Design Challenge on October 23, 2004 at 10:55 p.m..
The Baghdad Blogger goes to Washington: day one
Ultimately, the conversation turns to Iraq. We all seem to agree that even if John Kerry gets elected as president it is too late for a drastic change in policy. I am surprised at how much everyone here seems to have bought what the Bush administration has been selling them - especially the line about a well-educated Iraqi middle class that will take over and transform Iraq into a democratic paradise. To tell you the truth, I bought into that as well - and boy were we wrong. That educated middle class was everywhere around the world, but not in Iraq. What it decided to d From
Seblogging News on October 23, 2004 at 10:46 p.m..
Notes from the SEJ Geek Dinner
One of my duties for the Society fo Envl. Journalists (SEJ) conference is to help organize a number of "Network Meal" events where journalists get together over food to chat with their colleagues and with experts about prearranged topics. There are breakfast, lunch, and dinner versions of this event. Last night I was one of the hosts of the "Beat Dinners" entitled Tools of the EJ Trade: Gadgets, Gear & Resources. Here's a quick wrap-up of what we discussed... From
Contentious Weblog on October 23, 2004 at 6:56 p.m..
VeryBestKiDs.com
VeryBestKids.com was created by Nestlé in an effort to make every moment with your kids special and unforgettable. The time you share with your kids should be treasured, that's why we're here, to help you make those moments possible. Consider... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on October 23, 2004 at 6:55 p.m..
[PT] Eloma Simpson Barnes
The political session ended with a performance by Eloma Simpson Barnes. She gave a Martin Luther King speech that had apparently been given to a northern audience while the Voting Rights Bill was still in contention. It sounds like a dumb idea: Her voice emulate's King's. Her intonation is pitch perfect. It's just weird. ...Except, it totally worked on me. I'm old enough to remember King - when I was a young teenager, I was in one of the marches on Washington - and Barnes' performance brought it all back to me. We were so lucky to have King. Our... From
Joho the Blog on October 23, 2004 at 6:48 p.m..
Faculty Training for Online Teaching
During follow-up focus-group sessions with several groups of participants, faculty expressed satisfaction with the technical aspects of the training they received to teach online courses. They referred to the continual improvement of both hardware and software, as well as agreed... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on October 23, 2004 at 5:52 p.m..
Tips and Tricks for Teaching Online:
Effective online learning requires careful preparation, design, implementation, and follow-up. This article combines best practices from a variety of resources HYPHEN research studies, publications, and discussions among online instructors. The analogy of a garden is used to reinforce practices that... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on October 23, 2004 at 5:52 p.m..
[PT] Connected politics
John Sculley moderates. The speakers are Andrew Rasiej, Joe Trippi and Adrian Wooldridge. They each get ten minutes. Andrew: "Politics is broken. Our democracy is broken." There are 513,000 elected officials in this country. The relationship has been top down. What we learned from the Dean campaign is the power of the person to person connection. "There are 513,000 egocentric politicians in the US. Not one of them is netcentric." If they were netcentric, they'd say: "My constituents know more than I do." [Shades of Dan Gillmor.] We can use the Internet to support the status quo, which is From
Joho the Blog on October 23, 2004 at 5:46 p.m..
Unimpressed By Microsoft Newly Announced Collaboratio Client
I'm underwhelmed by "Instanbul", Microsoft's recently announced real-time collaboration client. Some of the capabilities sound very helpful -- eg, indicating what type of device other people are using, the consolidated address book, and telephony integration. It appears to be... From
Kolabora.com on October 23, 2004 at 3:47 p.m..
VNC-Based Screen Sharing: Slashdot Tells It All
If you are into online software technologies, screen-sharing, remote control and do not get annoyed by learning a bit more about what is possible out there, you will be certainly interested in checking out a recent Slashdot post that covered... From
Kolabora.com on October 23, 2004 at 3:47 p.m..
Marathon training advice
Well today I finished my final double-digit run before the marathon. Since last Sunday I've run nearly 49 miles! But now it's all downhill from here, nothing more than 9 miles, and aside from that seriously easy short stuff for my taper. Two weeks from tomorrow is the big day! As it nears, I'll post more about my expected outfit and finish time so that if you're in the area and plan to watch the race, you can cheer me on. In the meantime, now's your chance to help me out. Have you run a marathon? Do you have any advice for me? I know the main points: sleep well the ni From
megnut on October 23, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..
[PT] David Bornstein
David Bornstein went to Bangladesh to learn about the Grameem Bank that makes loans primarily to women. He discovered that the program is working: Women are building businesses. Social entrepreneurship is important, he concludes enthusiastically. He talks about a project to bring electricity to poor people in Brazil: single wires going to houses, grounded in the soil, low voltages. The project is also bringing solar panels to rural areas, renting them for what people generally pay for candles, kerosene, etc. He talks about "child line" in India, now in 55 cities. It's a number you can cal From
Joho the Blog on October 23, 2004 at 1:49 p.m..
Hip-Hop Mondale
Gabriel Chafetz, the son of a guy I love, has created a 28-minute film. I haven't yet seen it, but Gabriel says: "It's sort of a hip hop "get out the vote" documentary/musical starring Walter Mondale." How could it be bad? There's a streaming version here. It's being broadcast in Minnesota on PBS. Broadcast Times: TPT 17 Saturday, October 23 at 8PM TPT 2 Sunday, October 24 at 11PM TPT 2 Sunday, October 31 at 5:30PM... From
Joho the Blog on October 23, 2004 at 1:49 p.m..
[PT] Ethan Zuckerman
Ethan Zuckerman from the Berkman Center (yay!) talks about the global digital divide. He puts up the GeekCorps business plan: To benefit from the Internet, you need geeks There are few geeks in Africa Geeks beget geeks ("Geekery is one of the last apprenticeship industries") Geek + plane ticket = Geek in Africa We need to spend on both plantains and PCs, he says — the immediate issues of feeding people and building a connected economy. "Electricity turns out to be a massive part of the digital divide." Likewise, so is conectivity — there are 12 phone lines per 1000... From
Joho the Blog on October 23, 2004 at 12:49 p.m..
DokuWiki
This Sitepoint article discusses some disadvantages of PHPWiki (I’ve run into all of them) and then provides short reviews of other PHP-based wiki software. I agree witht he author’s points on the ones I’ve looked at: MediaWiki and PMWiki.
¶ As I’ve been looking at replacing
Open Artifact on October 23, 2004 at 11:59 a.m..
[PT] Grant McCracken & Barry Schwartz
Grant McCracken argues against the idea that consumers are given "empty choices." The title of his talk is "More is More." 1. Many choices that look empty, he says, are in fact structural: they represent actual differences in taste and preference. I.e., "Material culture makes culture material." Example: "Feminism" has led to so many ways of talking about femaleness that the term no longer has meaning. The profusion of choices in the market reflects the profusion of social and cultural distinctions. The market reflects how furiously inventive we've become. 2. Some of these empty choices a From
Joho the Blog on October 23, 2004 at 11:49 a.m..
Social gravity
I fell into a social black hole last night. The crowd was exiting from what was probably the best single day of PopTech in the five years I've been coming. A bunch of people I know and like were going to a cocktail party about a mile away. I decided not to go because ever since my freshman year in college, I've noticed that parties with loud music, people I don't know, and crudites push me into a recursive mumbling awkwardness that is only cured by leaving. (It's actually been diagnosed as a mild form of aphasia.) So, I found... From
Joho the Blog on October 23, 2004 at 11:49 a.m..
Cell Phone Film Festival
Wired has a story about Zoie Films' first ever Cell Phone Film Festival Apple's QuickTime Family of standards includes 3GPP and 3Gpp2 (based on MPEG 4) which can be used to encode video that has been edited in The Studio.... From
Alpha Channel: The Studio @ Hodges Library on October 23, 2004 at 11:00 a.m..
Free Screenwriting Software
"celtx is simple, easy to use software designed for people who work in Film, TV, Theater and New Media. It enables you to work digitally on script based projects, either on your own or collaboratively with project team members." This... From
Alpha Channel: The Studio @ Hodges Library on October 23, 2004 at 11:00 a.m..
New Books in Studio
Indesign CS for Macintosh and Windows: Visual Quickstart Guide Related Subjects Adobe InDesign Desktop publishing -------------------- Adobe Photoshop CS : photographer's guide : picture-perfect techniques for film and digital photographers Related Subjects Adobe Photoshop Computer graphics Image processing -- Digital... From
Alpha Channel: The Studio @ Hodges Library on October 23, 2004 at 11:00 a.m..
New Issue of Mac Design
The September/October 2004 issue of MacDesign has arrived in The Studio. There are some great articles and tutorials on how to score a movie using GarageBand, Adobe Photoshop CS: Photoshop Variety Pack, Adobe Illustrator CS: Data-Driven Graphics, Adobe InDesign CS:... From
Alpha Channel: The Studio @ Hodges Library on October 23, 2004 at 11:00 a.m..
Optimal Sight Lines: September 2004
Below is a list of subjects related to blog entries for September 2004. Adobe InDesign Desktop publishing Adobe Photoshop Computer graphics Image processing -- Digital techniques Photography -- Digital techniques Adobe Illustrator Computer graphics Adobe Indesign Desktop publishing Adobe Photoshop... From
Alpha Channel: The Studio @ Hodges Library on October 23, 2004 at 11:00 a.m..
Final Cut Pro QuickTip #42
Digital Producer has a brief article on how to replace the built-in Final Cut countdown when using the Print To Tape option. If you are looking for some old leader footage, check out the public domain material from the Prelinger... From
Alpha Channel: The Studio @ Hodges Library on October 23, 2004 at 11:00 a.m..
Smogdance Film Festival 2005
Smogdance, the Seventh Annual Pomona Film Festival, is making a call for entries. The entry deadline is DECEMBER 15, 2004. Smogdance is proudly sponsored by dA Center for the Arts, a community nonprofit arts organization serving the Pomona Valley since... From
Alpha Channel: The Studio @ Hodges Library on October 23, 2004 at 11:00 a.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 23, 2004 at 11:00 a.m..
Talk and resources on blogs for teaching writing
Clancy Ratliff has two useful posts on teaching writing with blogs. She assembled a list of sample composition blogs, and outlines her thinking about the topic. * Having students keep individual blogs v. one community blog for the class, or... From
MANE IT Network on October 23, 2004 at 10:58 a.m..
Blog Brownout
This blog will go into a period of non-activity the next few days as I work on a project requiring me to pretend to be a tourist in the Rocky Mountains. There will not be anything else posted on "project mini vacation" From
cogdogblog on October 23, 2004 at 10:48 a.m..
MusicBrainz & Ethnomusicology
Reading through Sebastian Feilder's weblog I came across a reference to MusicBrainz. This brought back some fond memories, so I'll diverge for a moment. In one of my past lives I completed a Master of Fine Arts in Ethnomusicology at... From
Experience Designer Network on October 23, 2004 at 10:00 a.m..
As a trojan...
This flu is like a trojan on your computer - everything still works, but slow and strangely, you try to figure out what is wrong and try catching the intruder, but fighting it is not easy... Trying to let my body to get into the flu fully, so it can fight and recover; working at home - fun and lots of things done; talking, reading, movies... Feel really strange... Anyway, this flu associates strangely with a few lines from
Leonard Cohen spotted at
Dina's bl From Mathemagenic on October 23, 2004 at 9:53 a.m..
Wi-Fi Giants Roam Worldwide - Daniel Thomas, VNUNet.com
Customers with wireless devices will now be able to use a greater range of hotspots, at locations including Starbucks, British Airways, Texaco, McDonald's and Sheraton, Hilton and Ramada Jarvis hotels. Both T-Mobile and BT Openzone customers can access From
Techno-News Blog on October 23, 2004 at 8:47 a.m..
San Francisco Sets Goal of Free Citywide WiFi - Reuters
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom set a goal on Thursday of providing free wireless Internet activity in his city that sees itself as a vanguard of the Internet revolution. "We will not stop until every San Franciscan has access to free wireless Interne From
Techno-News Blog on October 23, 2004 at 8:47 a.m..
Pat Kahnert: Putting community investment criteria into action
Pat Kahnert is a corporate marketing and communications consultant, helping business, not-for-profit and government organizations to add clarity, credibility and impact to their work. He is an accomplished community coach, guest columnist and popular speaker - covering topics like corporate social responsibility, community relationship building, effective... From
Experience Designer Network on October 23, 2004 at 6:59 a.m..
Was Bush Wired? That Wasn't the Point
I'm getting a lot of e-mail, some of which has been apparently choreographed (identical subject lines and similar contents), about
this column, in which I suggested that voters would be better off if the presidential debate participants could check their facts in databases and use other such tools. We aren't electing Jeopardy contestants; we're electing leaders, and rote memorization isn't what I care about. Well, my reference to the "Was Bush wired?" controversy has caused great a From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on October 23, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..
U.N. Clone Treaty Still on Ice
Despite a U.S. push to put in place a worldwide ban on human embryo cloning, the proposed pact remains in limbo after three years. The sticking point? Therapeutic cloning. From
Wired News on October 23, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Robots Generate Some Buzz
Swarm robots, car robots, team robots -- you name it, you can find it at the RoboNexus convention. Daniel Terdiman reports from Santa Clara, California. From
Wired News on October 23, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
November Harvest for CherryOS
The CherryOS Mac emulator will be released late next month, the developer promises. And the pre-release version in circulation? It's not the real thing, he says. By Leander Kahney. From
Wired News on October 23, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Is That a Pilot in Your Pocket?
Researchers coax cells in a petri dish into learning to guide a plane. The project should lead to a better understanding of how the brain works. By Lakshmi Sandhana. From
Wired News on October 23, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Why the Democrats are sucking
I just read an article on the Village Voice website that summed up one of the complaints I have had for some time about the Democratic Party: They won't fight. At the same time, they are trying to convince conservative voters to vote for them instead of the Republicans and are losing votes on the liberal side as a result. For both of these problems, I blame the Democratic Leadership Council. From
kuro5hin.org on October 23, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
Chip Implants and Mission Creep
My colleague Mike Langberg is
ready to get an ID chip implant, but says we need safeguards to protect us from Big Brother. He's kidding himself if he believes such safeguards will either be written into law or, if any are, will be obeyed. There is no recorded case in which a surveillance technology created for one purpose has not been used for a wide variety of other purposes. Inevitably we see "mission creep" -- the expansion of uses to unintended areas. I'm in London this weekend, where you can't walk on th From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on October 23, 2004 at 5:47 a.m..
$115,000 Corporate Donation Provides Comprehensive String Programs to Three Dorchester Public Schools
The Boston Arts Academy, Boston's first and only public high school for the visual and performing arts, and First Act Inc., a leading provider of high-quality musical instruments, unveiled a brand new comprehensive music program on Tuesday. The Strings Outreach Program will enable students who may not have had a music education to experience the joy of making music. As a pilot school within the Boston public school system, the Arts Academy is charged with being a laboratory of academic innovation and a beacon for arts education. More than 95% of its students go on to college, and all of From
PR Web on October 23, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..
Time Saving Solution For Math Teachers
Thousands of fully explained step by step solutions of equations, inequalities etc, with easy-to-use tools to create math tests, variant tests, homeworks, exams and problem-solving lesson plans. [PRWEB Oct 23, 2004] From
PR Web on October 23, 2004 at 4:46 a.m..
CBS Survivor Amazon's JoAnna Ward to host motivational and fitness seminar for one of the largest Facility Transition Service companies in the country.
Butler Innovative Solutions, Inc. (BISI), a proactive and rapidly expanding company specializing in Planning, Management and Support of major Facility and Organizational Transitions, list fitness, nutrition, and wellness as vital parts of professional development and teambuilding. JoAnna Ward, a well known motivational speaker and fitness enthusiast, founded Hallelujah Productions, LLC (HP) to help build, strengthen, and enhance corporate efforts to improve the overall well being of employees. [PRWEB Oct 23, 2004] From
PR Web on October 23, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..
Feedback on the Symposium
We asked the people who made it to our last session how satisfied they were with what they had learned, to list three highlights and three bummers, and to make any additional comments they wanted. Given the gorgeous weather outside and that this was the last event of the entire conference, our number had shrunk. Here's what people wrote; I've deleted the "Better handouts" comments (there weren't any) and the critiques of Training Fall, but I included everything else.... From
The Workflow Institute Blog on October 23, 2004 at 2:47 a.m..
Higher PowerPoint
In my favorite moment from the web today, Ed Cone reports briefly on Pat Robertson, who was quoted as saying that President Bush told him there would be no casualties in Iraq. Ed continues: In the same article Robertson says about Iraq, "the Lord told me it was going to be A, a disaster, and B, messy." I don't remember God using that outline form for prophecy in the Bible, but maybe She now uses PowerPoint. Or is that Higher PowerPoint? Ed's wisecrack responds wonderfully... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on October 23, 2004 at 12:49 a.m..
NSW KM Forum (4 November, Sydney)
Details on the upcoming NSW KM Forum meeting on 4 November in Sydney: The next meeting of the NSW KM Forum is on Thursday November 4th, at the usual Standards Australia venue. "eLearning - It's just animated textbooks, innit?" In... From
Column Two on October 22, 2004 at 11:45 p.m..
CMS Watch publishes Enterprise Search Report
CMS Watch has just announced the launch of a new product: Enterprise Search Report. To quote: Written by longtime search guru Steve Arnold, the Report provides a comprehensive overview of enterprise search solution providers and best practices. The bulk of... From
Column Two on October 22, 2004 at 11:45 p.m..