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Empty canvas
It's harder than I imagined, to be alone. I suppose I might get used to it, like an empty canvas you slowly begin to fill. [
The Samurai's Garden] And then feel it emptiness, almost scary, as white space is promising and teasing, never telling you what is about to appear. Then drafting, trying out and retreating, looking for motives that would take over the emptiness, would engage white in a slow dance with colours. And then feeling i From
Mathemagenic on November 26, 2004 at 8:52 p.m..
Open source studies
Analysts are paid to be objective. Admittedly, they have an abstract, from-orbit type of view on the industry, and most don't even have technical backgrounds, but they do their best work when making fair judgement calls, above all else. At ITAC Ontario's seminar entitled "Open Source & Total Cost of Ownership", Laura Koetzle of Forrester Research presented a well-balanced if comical view of her March 2004 study called "Is Linux more secure than Windows?" Self-deprecating at times, she listed several flaws the study had. For example, when pointing out that Windows received an eyebrow- From
silentblue | Quantified on November 26, 2004 at 7:52 p.m..
A barrister and a solicitor walk into a bar
My manager got called to the bar this week (read: he is now officially a lawyer) at the Upper Canada Law Society. He said it was interesting seeing the reactions of the common people as he walked around in public in his barrister's robes. Half of them looked at him like he was some crazy homeless person dressed as a pilgrim, and the other half properly recognized what the garb signified and cowered appropriately. The ceremony was held in a space in Osgoode Hall that is usually occupied by a four-star restaurant. Pretty good veal panini - but what do you expect from a venue that has to dea From
silentblue | Quantified on November 26, 2004 at 7:52 p.m..
Ãœber die Wissensgesellschaft
Momentan arbeite ich mich gerade durch verschiedene Schriften zur Bildungsökonomie und Bildungsrendite. Ein schwieriges Metier, weil die Gräben zwischen denen, die Bildung als Investition betrachten, und denen, die darauf beharren, dass es auch "außerökonomische Sachverhalte" gibt, tief sind. Hinzu kommt,... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on November 26, 2004 at 6:51 p.m..
Down with Boring E-Learning!
Dr. Michael Allen developed the original course of study for ASTD's E-Learning Instructional Design Certificate Program. In this interview he discusses frustrations with today's e-learning and brings fundamental issues to light. He also shares specific, commonsense guidelines that reliably produce effective and practical learning solutions. From
eLearnopedia on November 26, 2004 at 5:53 p.m..
Guidelines for Selecting Quality K-12 Online Courses
According to Ruben Lopez, Florida 's former chief technology office, e-learning will become the cornerstone of how K-12 curriculum will be delivered in the future (Miller 2003). By 2006, it is estimated that a majority of high school students will have taken an online course before graduating (Fulton 2002). Whether these predictions become reality remains to be seen, but there is evidence to support the growing presence of K-12 online learning. From
eLearnopedia on November 26, 2004 at 5:53 p.m..
Faculty Preferences for Course Delivery: Distance and Traditional Settings
As faculty continue to develop their teaching styles, they are like many other professionals, who are faced with the challenge of having to meet their ongoing responsibilities while simultaneously learning new technological skills and attempting to integrate them into their professional roles. When viewed from this perspective, faculty can be regarded as adult learners and faculty development can be considered as an "adult learning undertaking." From
eLearnopedia on November 26, 2004 at 5:53 p.m..
Online Learning Teams: Indispensable Interaction
The justifications for learning teams/communities in online courses is tacitly based on a need to compensate for an unfavorable situation related to that fact that students will not meet each other as in face-to-face encounters. Learning teams serve as a nexus between the job and education, between theory and practice, and between individuals and respective groups. From
eLearnopedia on November 26, 2004 at 5:53 p.m..
Top Ten Tips for implementing e-Learning
e-Learning is a powerful tool which can achieve some remarkable business results. If you keep in mind these ten tips then you will be well on the road to implementing e-learning successfully in your business. From
eLearnopedia on November 26, 2004 at 5:53 p.m..
Another New Paradigm for Instructional Design
A major goal of good instructional design is to marry content with presentation¬both physically and theoretically. Armed with current technologies, instructional designers have new options for designing and developing content. In this array of possibilities lies a new paradigm: dynamic construction of instructional content based on an independently managed presentation and delivery layer. Without the marriage of content to presentation and delivery, content can be easily reused across different media platforms. From
eLearnopedia on November 26, 2004 at 5:53 p.m..
The Academic Culture and the IT Culture: Their Effect on Teaching and Scholarship
A year ago, my colleague Charles Grisham and I wrote an EDUCAUSE Review article entitled "Why IT Has Not Paid Off As We Hoped (Yet)." In short, we argued that information technology has not yet transformed higher education because the areas of teaching and scholarship, the "heart" of colleges and universities, have remained relatively untouched by the new technologies. In this article, I'd like to continue the discussion and also go further, exploring not only why these two areas continue to be, for the most part, resistant to the changes but also how technology can successfully address t From
eLearnopedia on November 26, 2004 at 5:53 p.m..
Reasoning and Ontologies for Personalized E-Learning in the Semantic Web
The challenge of the semantic web is the provision of distributed information with well-defined meaning, understandable for different parties. Particularly, applications should be able to provide individually optimized access to information by taking the individual needs and requirements of the users into account. In this paper we propose a framework for personalized e-Learning in the semantic web and show how the semantic web resource description formats can be utilized for automatic generation of hypertext structures from distributed metadata. From
eLearnopedia on November 26, 2004 at 5:53 p.m..
Google puts new slant on scholarship
Der Artikel bringt Google Scholar in den Kontext von open access publishing und der aktuellen Diskussion über den (freien) Zugang zu wissenschaftlichen Informationen. Tenor: hoffnungsvoll. Richard Wray, The Guardian, 22 November 2004 [Kategorien: Zukunft des Internet]... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on November 26, 2004 at 5:52 p.m..
Bo ke Revolution in China (Ross Mayfield)
Guestblogger Xiao Qiang published an in-depth article in New Scientist on Blogging (bo ke) in China. Beyond the sheer growth, the failed attempts of the central authority to censor the most decentralized and adaptive of media holds promise for change.... From
Corante: Social Software on November 26, 2004 at 12:50 p.m..
Informed gratitude
Ignorant thankfulness is arrogance. Two anti-arrogance prophylactics for post-dinner /
pre-shopping consumption: In 'The Seduction of Battle and the Perversion of War' chapter in
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, Chris Hedges lists the variety of efficient killing tools that were used in the first Gulf War: high explosive artillery shells, fragmentation bombs, overwhelmingly tank superiority, and helicopters like 'angels of death in the sk From
homoLudens III on November 26, 2004 at 12:46 p.m..
Learning Activity Management Systems
SUNY has a home-grown Lotus-Notes-based learning management system that has some truly remarkable features. I’ll be posting about some of these innovations over the coming weeks as I get to know the system better. What I want to focus on in this post, though, is a feature that I have… From
e-Literate on November 26, 2004 at 11:59 a.m..
Cook's Thesaurus
This thesaurus of international cooking explains the tools and ingredients for exotic and familiar cuisines. It features photographs of each item and suggests substitutions for uncommon iems. From
Minneapolis Public Library - the LIST on November 26, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..
Canadian reflections
I have recently returned from a productive few weeks in Canada. During this time I have gather some really interesting data from students as well as attend three e-portfolio related conferences. I was particularly impressed by the UBC Reflection Is... From
ERADC Blog on November 26, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..
ELGG pre alpha launch
Wow it was a busy day yesterday!! - Ben and I decided to open up ELGG to those who signed up interested in helping us test the system. This is kind of like a pre alpha release. There are many... From
ERADC Blog on November 26, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..
Organisateur avec un grand O
(english follows) Michel Dumais, qui a organisé les événements Constellation W3,
offre son temps et ses ressources pour prendre en charge la logistique entourant la conférence dont on jase depuis un moment, à titre d'"organisateur en chef" (j'imagine). Je me disais justement ce matin qu'on aurait besoin de quelqu'un pour coordonner l'ensemble... Étant donné l'excellent boulot qu'il a fait a From
Seb's Open Research on November 26, 2004 at 11:47 a.m..
Of feeds, reuse, and rights
The first widespread use of syndication was aggregation for personal use, but syndication also enables headlines or actual content from one site to be republished in different places. (You can see this at work on
my front page, where I use Alan's most excellent
Feed2JS.) Of course the question of copyright arises here, as some people don't want their feeds to serve for anything other than personal use. (Personally, I'd be happy to see my headlines being published wide and far, but I' From
Seb's Open Research on November 26, 2004 at 11:46 a.m..
Cheaper Than SkypeOut? Babble Does It
Babble is a new broadband internet telephony (VoIP) service from the UK's BON.net that offers free PC to fixed/landline telephone calls across Europe, mainland North America, Australia and New Zealand.... From
Kolabora.com on November 26, 2004 at 10:49 a.m..
London Connects is a London-wide agency bringing together local, regional, and central government to ...
London Connects is a London-wide agency bringing together local, regional, and central government to support the delivery of the e-government agenda across the capital. Partners include the GLA, the ALG, and London Boroughs; together with other cross-London service providers and agencies, including Health agencies, LDA, TfL, LFEPA, MPS, London Grid for Learning, London Libraries Development Agency, and the London Voluntary Services Council From
Peter Scott's Library Blog on November 26, 2004 at 8:49 a.m..
Atom Flip Energy Measured - Technology Review
Scientists from IBM's Almaden Research Center have measured the energy required to flip the magnetic orientation, or spin of a single atom trapped on a surface. As magnetic data storage devices become smaller it is becoming more important to understand From
Techno-News Blog on November 26, 2004 at 7:49 a.m..
Throwing Out the Curriculum
Jack McLeod is more than "moving molecules" as a friend of mine used to say. He's moving mountains. Check out
this post where he talks about how he's hoping to implement blogs at his school. Jeff [his principal] is ready to get the kids blogging. The global audience did it. Authentic publishing. Now that's why we have the Internet. It's not for surfing or replacing the library, it's for sharing with the world. The upshot is that I'm going to apply for a leave to From
weblogged News on November 26, 2004 at 7:47 a.m..
Good Morning
This how I started the day. Deleting 35 55 comment spams. I really have to dig into that topic. Besides being annyoing there must be something in it. Maybe someday I'll close down comments. I'm using the service of
Enetation, they are fighting back but whoo not strong enough. From
thomas n. burg | randgänge on November 26, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..
A Gift of Reading
The day after Thanksgiving is the semi-official kickoff of the holiday shopping season. I hope you'll consider saving a bit of your budget for some folks who need help from the rest of us. One program I'd like to recommend again, as I do at this time every year, is the
"Gift of Reading" sponsored by the Mercury News and Kids in Common. Reading is such a basic part of a product From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on November 26, 2004 at 6:47 a.m..
Technology Over Ideology
FCC chairman Michael Powell has confounded liberals and free market purists. He's an official that defies simplification. By Lawrence Lessig from Wired magazine. From
Wired News on November 26, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Porn Prohibitionists Miss Point
If we're going to start worrying about porn, doesn't it make sense to actually study its role in society rather than make stuff up? Commentary by Regina Lynn. From
Wired News on November 26, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Science Geek Gifts for All
Banish underwear from your gift-giving list this year! Your smarty-pants friends and relatives aren't as hard to buy for as you might think. The web is full of brain-gratifying gift ideas. By Kristen Philipkoski. From
Wired News on November 26, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Whatever Happened to SGI?
What high-powered, high-design, graphics-oriented, Unix-based computers are beloved by their fanatical users? Clue: It's not what you think. By Jason Walsh. From
Wired News on November 26, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Educational Gift Helps Prepare Young Kids for Ivy League Schools
Several Ivy League schools have changed their curricula to reflect the importance of international knowledge in the global economy. Parents who have aspirations for the leading universities, can help their young kids by giving the new childrens world map as an educational gift. [PRWEB Nov 26, 2004] From
PR Web on November 26, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
'Ten ways to Avoid Death by PowerPoint' wins World of Learning Award
Above and Beyond have been awarded two of the highest accolades in the UK training industry at the prestigious World of Learning Awards 2004. 'Ten ways to avoid death by PowerPoint®' won Generic Solution of the Year and Clive Shepherd, Director, won the Outstanding Contribution to the Training Industry Award. [PRWEB Nov 26, 2004] From
PR Web on November 26, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
More Science Bang for Your Holiday Buck
Stretch your holiday gift giving budget even further this year with gifts from ScienceKit.com. With every order of $100 or more, Science Kit will include a 1-year subscription to Popular Science Magazine. [PRWEB Nov 26, 2004] From
PR Web on November 26, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
Hi-tech answer to student cheats
Measures to help detect cheating students are being demonstrated at a conference in Newcastle. A survey of around 350 undergraduates found nearly 25% had copied text from another source at least once. BBC NEWS | UK | England | Tyne/Wear... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on November 26, 2004 at 6:33 a.m..
Assessing Learning Management Systems
Although e-learning got off to a shaky start in the late 1990s, industry analysts are now bullish about the enabling technologies, notably enterprise learning management systems (LMSs), both in terms of growing adoption rates and quick return on investment (ROI).... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on November 26, 2004 at 6:33 a.m..