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CIT - Day 1
I made it to Tampa yesterday, after about 8 hours in transit including layover and taxi ride. The hotel is huge and is one of the friendliest and most responsive hotels I’ve stayed at. Also one of the most expensive. The weather is great - mid-70s and sunny; not humid. ¶ Last night, there was a Marine Birthday Ball From Open Artifact on November 7, 2004 at 9:53 p.m..

Personas: Empathetic Focus
Donald Normal believes that persona creation should be simple and easy to execute and should be aimed at helping design team communicate better. "So to me, the Persona is a tool for focus and an aid to communication, and for this purpose they only need to be realistic, not real, not necessarily even accurate (as long as they accurately characterize the user base). Although it is often fun to read the detailed descriptions of Personas and to pry into their private and social lives, I have never understood how these pers From elearningpost on November 7, 2004 at 8:47 p.m..

The Skype Is The Limit: Where The Best Can Do Better
Skype is an outstanding real-time voice communication tool that works over the Internet in a P2P modality. This means that Skype does not connect to a centralized server to relay its communication packets to other users. Users connect directly to... From Kolabora.com on November 7, 2004 at 7:52 p.m..

A moment of hope, a moment of despair
Michael Moore on the record turnout by young voters, the only age group Kerry won: I don't ever want to hear another adult talk about how apathetic the youth are or how they don't have "it" in them. What you are about to see in the coming months is going to shock you. These kids aren't going away. They have a resilience that cannot be snuffed out by older people's whining and moaning about the state of America. THEIR America has yet to be formed as they see it, and this one setback is not going to stop them. From... From Joho the Blog on November 7, 2004 at 7:46 p.m..

Done and done!
I've survived the NYC Marathon and actually had a pretty smooth time running it. More later, now I'm just recovering on the sofa. Also later a photo of my medal. From megnut on November 7, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

Off for KM Europe
I'm off for KM Europe. Hope to be connected and post, but can't promise... To catch me and others: PeopleAtKMEurope From Mathemagenic on November 7, 2004 at 3:52 p.m..

Equality: "An Eye for an Eye"
The term "an eye for an eye" is a pronouncement of equality that is as old as civilization. King Hammurabi used that language anciently to describe enforcement of equality wherein evils done by one individual to another were punishable by returning the same evil to the guilty party. Moses imposed such a law in Israel also as "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth." It is repeated three times in the Torah. To societies waking up to the notion of civilization, "an eye for an eye" was easy to understand and easy to enforce. After all, how many quatloons is an eye worth to its owner? How m From kuro5hin.org on November 7, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

Director Position - Distance Learning, University of the South Pacific
I received this invitation the other day, and I'm passing it along in case someone else from among our community might be interested (no, I'm not). Fiji is sounding pretty inviting as we approach winter! The University of the South... From Rick's Café Canadien on November 7, 2004 at 2:48 p.m..

Were Some Voting Systems Hacked?
I don't know quite what to make of this story by Thom Hartmann, which at the very least raises important questions about some Florida ballots that were counted using optical scanners -- not the touch-screen systems I discuss in the column below. Key quotes:In Baker County, for example, with 12,887 registered voters, 69.3% of them Democrats and 24.3% of them Republicans, the vote was only 2,180 for Kerry and 7,738 for Bush, the opposite of what is seen everywhere else in the country where registered Democrats From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on November 7, 2004 at 1:47 p.m..

On the Road
I'm off to Hong Kong for my annual teaching gig at the University of Hong Kong's Journalism and Media Studies Centre. Postings will be sparse for a day or so. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on November 7, 2004 at 1:47 p.m..

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Intelligent Agents power Student Support 'Chat-bots'
Intelligent Agents power Student Support 'Chat-bots': "The South Orange County Commuity College District has put intelligent agents to work fielding questions from students through instant messaging.  Students are able to ask questions about classes,their college and resources available to students in" (Via EDUCAUSE Blogs -.) Cyprien Lomas points to an interesting support approach utilizing an instant messaging format to providing access to resources and sharing information. I subscribe to a similar service called Smarter Child. Smarter Child is a commercial service that allows From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on November 7, 2004 at 12:50 p.m..

Electronic Voting Still Needs Fixing
(This is also my Sunday column in the San Jose Mercury News.) It didn't take long after last week's elections for the conspiracy theories to take flight. One, in particular, started to ricochet around the Internet even before John Kerry conceded the election to President Bush -- and it blamed alleged tampering with electronic voting machines for Kerry's defeat. I have no reason to believe this scenario. While there were some remarkable discrepancies between From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on November 7, 2004 at 12:47 p.m..

Four phants and the gesture of the fig
I carelessly used the word "hierophant" at our family sabbath lunch yesterday and was sent off to consult the dictionary about its origin. Here's what we learned: Hierophant. "1. An expounder of Eleusian mysteries; 2. An interpreter of sacred mysteries or arcane knowledge." From the Greek hiero (sacred) and phainen (to reveal or show). Phantasy. From the Greek phantazein ("to make visible"), which comes from phainein. Sycophant. "One who attempts to win favor or advance himself by flattering persons of influence." From the Latin from the Greek sukophantes or "fig-shower" (not in the water From Joho the Blog on November 7, 2004 at 11:46 a.m..

Blogging in Academia at BloggerCon
Doesn't look like BloggerCon gets blogs in schools. From my perspective this session was a bit disappointing. The focus was limited to what I regard as a narrow view of academic blogging: blogging as viewed from the perspective of academic publishing. In other words, how does blogging fit into the peer review scheme, should academics blog (!), is it good or bad for academic dialog to directly reach a broader audience via blogs, and so on. From weblogged News on November 7, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..

Thunderbird 0.9 is out
For the last couple of months I've been living with Thunderbird as my primary email client. The good folks at Mozilla have released Thunderbird version 0.9. So far I've tried it on my Macs and it seems much faster and more responsive overall than previous versions. There are new features that enhance usability, and it seems to me that both of these features will exacerbate the trend towards very large inboxes, which has implications for those who have to manage large mail servers - generally speaking, the larger an IMAP folder is, the more processing time it takes From Oren Sreebny's Weblog on November 7, 2004 at 9:49 a.m..

The Evolution of Enclosures
The RSS (define) syndication format has spread like wildfire through the Internet, permeating most news sites and virtually all blogs. Now there's a new aspect of RSS ready to enjoy the same popularity. Called RSS enclosures, they're the next step in the RSS revolution and hold great potential. One of the uses of enclosures is "podcasting," a name that is derived from Apple's iPod, though the technology can be utilized on any MP3-capable device. The RSS enclosure feature allows for the syndicated XML (define) feed to not just serve text content, but also to package an From RSS Blog on November 7, 2004 at 9:47 a.m..

The Real Digital Divide - Dominic Basulto, Tech Central Station
During the 2000 presidential campaign, it was fashionable to talk in terms of a "digital divide" in the USA separating the technology haves from the technology have-nots. Those fears turned out to be unrealized. After all, with Internet penetration rat From Techno-News Blog on November 7, 2004 at 7:50 a.m..

RFID Rights - Simpson Garfinkel, Technology Review
With all of the excitement last month about the Food and Drug Administration approving an implantable radio frequency identification device (RFID), it From Techno-News Blog on November 7, 2004 at 7:50 a.m..

Online Safety: Users Talk the Talk, Don't Walk the Walk - Sean Michael Kerner, Clickz
When it comes to online security, perception is definitely not reality. According to a joint AOL/National Cyber Security Alliance Online Safety Study, users believe themselves to be "safe" in general. Their computers indicate otherwise. The survey foun From Techno-News Blog on November 7, 2004 at 7:50 a.m..

Distance Education from India in Qatar - John Rutledge, Alwayson
India has built an education system that is churning out large numbers of smart, motivated, highly-trained engineers. They have plans to launch an educational satellite to bring education to rural areas. Now they are exporting high-quality, low-cost ed From Online Learning Update on November 7, 2004 at 7:50 a.m..

Teacher training will get a boost: NAAC chief - Times of India
An MoU has been signed between the National Assessment and Accreditation Council and Commonwealth of Learning (COL) to develop modules and quality indicators in the area of teacher training.... "These repositories would be like higher education learnin From Online Learning Update on November 7, 2004 at 7:50 a.m..

Downloading the classroom: a look at online courses - Jinah Kim, Tufts Daily
....This is a different kind of class, of course. The dress code is strictly pajamas. Showers - and even fresh breath -- are optional. This is the classroom via the Internet, and all it requires of the student is that she sit comfortably in her own ro From Online Learning Update on November 7, 2004 at 7:50 a.m..

The first of the Project Gutenberg Consortia Centers is located at a site designated by its initials ...
The first of the Project Gutenberg Consortia Centers is located at a site designated by its initials: pgcc.net. The mission of the Project Gutenberg Consortia Centers is to help people legally exchange eBook collections under the various new copyright laws From Peter Scott's Library Blog on November 7, 2004 at 7:49 a.m..

Dynix has announced the general availability of Universal Resource Sharing Application 4.0. The prod ...
Dynix has announced the general availability of Universal Resource Sharing Application 4.0. The product has completed extensive quality assurance testing and is now ready for purchase and implementation by new customers. URSA 4.0 is the most powerful interlibrary loan system available to libraries and contains a subset of the functionality found in Horizon Information Portal 4.0, which will be in general availability on December 15 From Peter Scott's Library Blog on November 7, 2004 at 7:49 a.m..

Links to OLEs/VLEs
Teresa Almeida d'Eça has put together a very helpful set of links to articles and resources related to Online Learning Environments and Virtual Learning Environments, including many related to language learning. From apcampbell News on November 7, 2004 at 6:54 a.m..

Emerald Group Publishing Limited has announced the launch of its flagship knowledge portal Emerald M ...
Emerald Group Publishing Limited has announced the launch of its flagship knowledge portal Emerald Management Xtra, to be unveiled at Online Information 2004 in London November 30-December 2. As the largest, most comprehensive collection of peer reviewed management journals and online support, Emerald Management Xtra has been created to meet the specific needs of educators, students, researchers, and in From Peter Scott's Library Blog on November 7, 2004 at 6:49 a.m..

Call for papers: International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society - University of Calif ...
Call for papers: International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society - University of California, Berkeley - 18-20 February 2005. This conference takes a broad and cross-disciplinary approach to technology in society. With a particular focus on digital information and communications technologies, the interests addressed by the conference include: human usability, technologies for citizenship and community participation, and learning technologies From Peter Scott's Library Blog on November 7, 2004 at 6:49 a.m..

The devil is always in the detail
Robert J. Vanderbei has done a really nice piece of work to visualize the US election results county by county rather than state by state. Robert's map shows that America is not as geographically polarized in its support for Kerry or Bush as the state by state results (or indeed the media reports) w From David Davies: Edtech on November 7, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..

The Broken Window Fallacy
The Broken Window Fallacy is a parable about a shopkeeper's window that gets broken by a naughty little boy and the economical shenanigans that ensue. Initially, the townsfolk sympathize with the shopkeeper, condemning the lad as a vandalism prone vagabond, yet eventually more specious reasoning prevails. From kuro5hin.org on November 7, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

BuzzFlood Surpasses 2 Million Hits
BuzzFlood -- the student group at Dartmouth College dedicated to celebrating excellence has reached another milestone. [PRWEB Nov 7, 2004] From PR Web on November 7, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Washington Votes Down New Format for Schools
For the third time in 10 years, the state's voters have rejected a proposal to create charter schools. The referendum had drawn the support of Bill Gates. From New York Times: Education on November 7, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Official to Leave Fed for College Post
The Texas A&M University System named Robert D. McTeer, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, as its new chancellor on Thursday. From New York Times: Education on November 7, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Health Textbooks in Texas to Change Wording About Marriage
The Texas Board of Education approved new health textbooks after the publishers agreed to depict marriage strictly as the union of a man and a woman. From New York Times: Education on November 7, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Saturday Classes Begin for 5th Graders at Risk
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said that about 60 percent of those fifth graders most at risk of being held back next year were attending special classes. From New York Times: Education on November 7, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

The face that launched a thousand chips.
The face that launched a thousand chips. Originally uploaded by dcannell. Movies > A Face That Launched a Thousand Chips" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/24/movies/24kehr.html?oref=login">The New York Times > Movies > A Face That Launched a Thousand Chips... From Teaching and Developing Online. on November 7, 2004 at 3:47 a.m..