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Blackboard Used By More than 70% of Schools on the 'Forbes.com Most Connected Campuses' List
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Blackboard Inc. (Nasdaq: BBBB) announces that 18 of the 25 most connected campuses in the United States, as reported by Forbes.com, rely on the Blackboard Learning System(TM) for their e-learning needs. Additionally three of the top-five ranked schools, including DePauw University, Temple University and Duke University use the Blackboard Learning System and the Blackboard Transaction System(TM), the company's comprehensive one-card system for student and faculty commerce and access transactions. Overall, Blackboard has a presence at 22 of the 2 From
DEC Daily News on December 1, 2004 at 10:48 p.m..
Questionmark Online Tests Allow Spoken Responses
Questionmark announces the integration of Questionmark,,¢ Perception,,¢ testing and assessment software with vocal collaboration tools from Horizon Wimba, a leading provider of vocal solutions for education and online business. The integration enables learners to speak into a microphone and have the computer record their answers to questions " a boon for language teachers and corporate trainers alike. From
DEC Daily News on December 1, 2004 at 10:48 p.m..
SkillSoft Learns the Hard Way
SkillSoft (Nasdaq: SKIL) develops online education, specializing in business and information technology topics. The company is also learning that its market is getting tougher and tougher. From
DEC Daily News on December 1, 2004 at 10:48 p.m..
Royalty-free videos available to schools
Though the use of video in the classroom is on the rise, the fear of legal recrimination has discouraged many educators from reproducing or editing digital video clips for educational purposes. Now, Discovery Education--the world's leading provider of streaming video and multimedia learning services to schools--has found a way to help educators avoid many of these copyright concerns. From
DEC Daily News on December 1, 2004 at 10:48 p.m..
WebEx Provides Virtual Classrooms to Business Leaders of Tomorrow
LONDON and SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WebEx Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:WEBX), a provider of on-demand web meeting applications, and the Erasmus Rotterdam School of Management are working together to provide students with virtual classroom capabilities powered by the collaborative e-learning application, WebEx Training Center. From
DEC Daily News on December 1, 2004 at 10:48 p.m..
The Open Source Party is in Town And...
Yawn... I almost forgot, Today through Friday is the
Open Source Summit right in my own backyard in Scottsdale, and what a
list of heavy hitters are on the docket. It kind of feels like peeking through the fence at an exclusive country club, marveling at all the shiny, pretty people. The Open Source Summit truly is a seminal event for education. It is designed to explore the concept of "open source" for clearer understanding and to discuss the impact of open sou From
cogdogblog on December 1, 2004 at 9:48 p.m..
Open Thread
I'm heading to the airport for the long flight home. Had a fine time on this visit to Asia, both teaching in Hong Kong and visiting universities in two mainland cities. (Watch this space for news of our student project; it's quite good.) Feel free to post your thoughts below. Please behave. From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on December 1, 2004 at 9:46 p.m..
Kindersite.org
Welcome to the Kindersite Project for preschool and Kindergarten age children. The Kindersite has 1,000s of links to the best Games, Songs and Stories for young children. The Kindersite is designed for child-care, pre-school, kindergartens, elementary and primary schools plus... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on December 1, 2004 at 8:55 p.m..
SciQ: Science Revealed
SciQ is a collaborative partnership project that fosters science learning for K-12 students in Alberta and Canada. Since its inception in 2001, SciQ has focused on combining engaging science-related content with innovative technology to provide learning resources for students, teachers... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on December 1, 2004 at 8:55 p.m..
Resources for December
Don't let the December holidays disrupt the learning in your classroom. These resources can help you incorporate the holiday into your learning activities -- and provide a little fun as well. December Resources... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on December 1, 2004 at 8:55 p.m..
The Wiki Bites Back
Another open system bites the dust. Well, maybe I am caving in a bit to the
wiki url spammers but as it is the sites we set up are completely useless wikis as they pile up with pages of links to URLs with names so horrific I get a slimy feeling just reading them. Thanks to the roach spewing crap, it was the 163 nasty URLS at a time from gprs-232-69.scs-900.ru that tossed me over the edge, our wikis are now READ-ONLY, and we have set up editor passwords that will allow the peo From
cogdogblog on December 1, 2004 at 8:48 p.m..
Be Smart About E-Mailing Press Releases (Online Media Outreach, Part 9)
Reality check: Although webfeeds will probably become the best way to distribute press releases, right now most journalists don't yet know what webfeeds are or how to use them. I believe this will change in the next year or two, which is why I recommend launching press release feeds now. Of course, it's important to work with today's reality as well as tomorrow's direction. Therefore, you should distribute press releases by an opt-in e-mail list. Journalists like options, and right now e-mail is a popular preference -- despite its considerable drawbacks. Many organizations From
Contentious Weblog on December 1, 2004 at 7:55 p.m..
Use Good Mailing List Software (Online Media Outreach, Part 10)
There's so much more to managing an e-mail list than compiling a list of reporters' e-mail addresses. Fortunately, you can make this experience much easier and more beneficial to both you and your press audience by choosing the right kind of mailing list software or service... (NOTE: This is the final part of a 10-part series.) From
Contentious Weblog on December 1, 2004 at 7:55 p.m..
A quick question...
When creating an RSS 2.0 channel to distribute podcasts, should it be identical to other RSS flavors with the addition of the enclosure? I've got comments turned off on this weblog for now, but if you could post your thoughts to your weblog and trackback this post or send me an email offline (dpike at email dot uncc dot edu), I'd appreciate your thoughts. From
Stand Up Eight on December 1, 2004 at 6:02 p.m..
RSS 2.0 feed
I don't know how much it will change, but I've created an RSS 2.0 feed with enclosures to continue my experiment with podcasting. http://itc.uncc.edu/dale/su8/enclosures.xml From
Stand Up Eight on December 1, 2004 at 6:02 p.m..
The Daring Dozen
They're all American, so we'll call this a national perspective. That notwithstanding, it is worthwhile to pause and look at some of the examples we find in our community of people who go above aand beyond to serve the needs of education. And it occurs to me - maybe an international 'online learning Hall of Fame' might be a good idea. Or maybe not. What do you think? Should we set one up? By Edutopia Staff, George Lucas Educational Foundation, December 1, 2004 [
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OLDaily on December 1, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..
NLII Strategic Plan
The National Learning Infrastructure Initiative (NLII) maps out a new strategy. Some interesting remarks: "Another challenge is to help ourselves--and our institutions--better understand and respond to the new generation of students entering our campuses. They adopt technologies that are not part of our traditional arsenal (e.g., wikipediae, blogs, IM, social networking sites, etc.) and they use them in ways that are detached from the processes of the academy. We provide little if no constructive context for them to use these technologies to improve learning, and so they use them to amuse them From
OLDaily on December 1, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..
Googly to Go?
No, not about Google - "A 'googly', or a 'wrong'un', is a delivery [in cricket] which looks like a normal leg spinner but actually turns towards the batsmen, like an off break, rather than away from the bat." The Googly, in this case, is Blackboard on a PDA. Fine. But misguided. It got me thinking - and
here are some scratch notes on my wiki - want to help turn it into an article? Go to the wiki and edit the page - no login needed, just your ideas. More very useful thoughts on this
OLDaily on December 1, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..
The Face Book
It's realy really annoying, I have to admit - but the site just won't let me login unless I have a valid U.S. university email address (Canadian ones won't do - I tried). And it appears - at least from the outside - to be pretty popular. It is, of course, just another social networking service, but the very thing I find annoying - its exclusivity - may be exactly what makes it popular. None of those Brazilians you find all over Orkut, no siree! Ah, I will have to content myself with
reading the press coverage (until somebody From
OLDaily on December 1, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..
Hacking the Phone Platform
Some of the impact of last week's Nokia mobile phone hack continue to resopnate. But in a good way. Ross Mayfield quotes Douglas Rushkoff, who quotes Nokia's Marko Ahtisaari: "personalization has an intense value and people are willing to pay for it." Ring tones, for example, which began as another hack. "Mass customization and personalization is so valuable that users as developers take it on themselves. A product splinters into a thousand derivatives... Each is an option, where the option didn't exist before." By Ross Mayfield, Ross Mayfield's Weblog, November 25, 2004 [ From
OLDaily on December 1, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..
Next-Generation Course Management Systems: Beyond Accidental Pedagogy
Interesting presentation on next generation content management systems - slides (which I viewed) and audio (which I didn't listen to) are available. In a few words, what the author is proposing are content management systems that are simpler and more personal. As I remind people when we get to talking about this sort of thing: the content we are up against (so to speak) is the telephone - and the telephone is very personal and very simple - which is why people call someone rather than use the CMS when they need information. (p.s. EDUCAUSE now has an
OLDaily on December 1, 2004 at 5:45 p.m..
DBNL, nieuwe teksten december 2004
http://www.dbnl.org/nieuws/opl122004.htm Nieuwe teksten bij de DBNL, oplevering december 2004: Die eerste Bliscap van Maria en Die sevenste Bliscap van Onser Vrouwen Joan Bohl, Canzonen A.L.G. Bosboom-Toussaint, Het huis Lauernesse Marcellus Emants, Godenschemering Marcellus Emants, Lilith Rhijnvis Feith, De patriotten P.A. de Genestet, Dichtwerken Jaarboek van de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde, 1803-1822, 1868, 1872, 1874-1875 A.M. de Jong, De wereldreis van Bulletje en Boonestaak J.F. Martinet, Kleine katechismus der natuur voor kinderen Gerrit Paape, Het land der will From
CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on December 1, 2004 at 5:00 p.m..
Consider topic mapping: US government
Several agencies in the United States federal government are using topic maps for information-gathering and idea development. Durusau said the Internal Revenue Service began developing topic maps to organize its tax forms about three years ago. Topic maps are used... From
MANE IT Network on December 1, 2004 at 4:58 p.m..
Merriam-Webster: the word of 2004 is "blog"
Merriam-Webster has stated that the word of 2004 is blog. Blog noun [short for Weblog] (1999) : a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer... From
MANE IT Network on December 1, 2004 at 4:58 p.m..
Off With the Gloves: The Hardball Approach to Business
When George Stalk talks about hardball, he's not referring to baseball or, indeed, any other game. The author of a previous book titled, Competing Against Time, Stalk recently co-wrote, Hardball: Are You Playing to Play or Playing to Win? with Rob Lachenauer, CEO of GEO2 Technologies, a car-engine technology firm. The book argues that hardball is a way of doing business that aims at sweeping aside rivals and leaves them sitting on their rear, wondering just what hit them. Wharton's Michael Useem, director of the school's Center for Leadership and Change Management, recently spok From
Knowledge@Wharton on December 1, 2004 at 4:01 p.m..
An Elusive Goal: Identifying New Products that Consumers Actually Want
Campbell Soup Company spent five years developing a new consumer product called Soup in Hand that its marketers say "changed the way consumers think about soup." Sony Electronics went on a successful quest to develop an even smaller first-generation Walkman. At Merck, it took nearly 20 years to create and launch Singulair, an asthma medication prompted by a Nobel Prize-winning study. And at Coca-Cola, 20 to 30 new products may be in the pipeline during any given year, but their order is constantly shifting. Executives from all four companies recently participated in a panel entitled, From
Knowledge@Wharton on December 1, 2004 at 4:01 p.m..
What, if Anything, Will Sink the Global Economy?
While the global economy has been growing at a healthy pace, the prospect of rising interest rates, a housing market crash, oil price shocks and instability in the Chinese economy could create setbacks in the future, according to speakers on a recent Wharton Finance Conference panel titled, "The Global Economy: Have Traction, Will Travel." From
Knowledge@Wharton on December 1, 2004 at 4:01 p.m..
James Bond's BMW and Other Product Placements: New, Racier Ways to Advertise
The 30-second television spot, once the mainstay of mass marketing, is waning in influence as new technology, including the Internet, cable television and TiVo, fractures the viewing audience. Consequently, advertisers are turning to alternative forms of promotion to reach consumers, according to Wharton faculty and advertising executives. One strategy: Blur the lines between advertising and entertainment in order to build an emotional bond with the consumer. Think "Lion King." From
Knowledge@Wharton on December 1, 2004 at 4:01 p.m..
When Leadership Becomes a Quest
People who work in a specific industry often don't see, or respond to, the changes taking place around them, according to Richard Fairbank, chairman, president and CEO of Capital One Financial. That's because the industry's conventional wisdom is so embedded in their brains that they don't notice how stale it has become. Fairbank, however, took advantage of that blinkered thinking when he turned the credit card industry on its head with credit card balance transfer and other innovations. In a recent presentation at Wharton, Fairbank spoke about his company's launch and From
Knowledge@Wharton on December 1, 2004 at 4:01 p.m..
The Efficiency of Gift Giving: Is It Really Better to Give than to Receive?
Now that the holiday season is in full throttle - and panic has set in among those who fret over finding the right gifts for family members, friends and perhaps even co-workers - it's worth considering a not particularly festive question: Just how efficient is gift giving? And what do the recipients of consumer purchases actually think about the gifts they get? Joel Waldfogel, professor of business and public policy at Wharton, sheds some light on this question in a new paper titled, "Does Consumer Irrationality Trump Consumer Sovereignty?" From
Knowledge@Wharton on December 1, 2004 at 4:01 p.m..
Bridging the Gap: Towards Sustainable Growth
As the U.S. presidential election approaches in early November, speculation runs high on whether President George W. Bush will win or lose to John Kerry. In addition to that big question, though, the election presents several other issues, which we examine in this special report. From
Knowledge@Wharton on December 1, 2004 at 4:01 p.m..
Amazon's Multiple Personalities
Given the 86 million consumers that Jupiter Research predicts will be buying gifts online this holiday season, Amazon should be throwing off good cheer all around, right? Not exactly. Wall Street is acting like Scrooge as it frets about slowing revenue growth and diminishing profit margins in 2005. The big problem: Analysts are belatedly coming around to the idea that Amazon may be just a retailer, not some Internet high-flier that will dominate e-commerce. That means Amazon shares should be valued lower. Wharton experts, however, say these short-term worries are overblown although Amazon&apos From
Knowledge@Wharton on December 1, 2004 at 4:01 p.m..
Microsoft Ready to Unveil Blog Tool
Microsoft Watch reports that the software giant is preparing a host of new blog-related tools. The first is MSN Spaces, a blogging system to compete with Blogger, TypePad, and others. Apparently this new property will allow "users to more easily share photo albums and music lists." One feature I like is the ability to post to the blog using MSN Messenger 7. Now I wish I knew anyone who uses MSN Messenger. Another device on the horizon is MSN Blogbot, a blog-only search tool. I'm not sure what an opinion search engine will be good for, but it is nice (...)
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on December 1, 2004 at 3:56 p.m..
Dumb HTML question
With Firefox (but not IE), the text of some of my blog entries show up properly as Verdana and dark brown, while others use the Firefox default font and color. I can't see a difference in the source. For examtple, the previous entry, Truth, Objectivity and Mitch is wrong while the next entry, Berkman Web of Ideas, is right. (This occurs on my blog's main page, not on the page the permalink takes you to.) What's the obvious thing that I'm missing?... From
Joho the Blog on December 1, 2004 at 3:49 p.m..
assistance needed
I've got a extremely simple comments PHP script handling the comments on this blog. Is there anyone out there, for love or profit, who would be willing to add some sort of filter to the script that would prevent these awful spams from getting in? email me at rushkoff at well.com, or post willingness below. thanks d From
rushkoff.blog on December 1, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..
Blog: Word of the Year
Here I go again, writing about blogs. If it seems like this particular blog has a lot of coverage about blogs, well, you're right. But I'm not the only one writing about them. To drive home that point, consider that dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster has named "blog" as the
word of the year. From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on December 1, 2004 at 2:55 p.m..
And the word of the year is …
... blog! (of course) At least, according to Merriam-Webster Inc. as reported by CNN. I find it interesting that the tenth most looked up word on Merriam-Webster's web site was defenestration, which I admit is a great word but I have to wonder why people are looking it up so often. Addendum ... From
Just Another Ant on December 1, 2004 at 1:59 p.m..
Addressing the Contents of Video in a Digital Library
A digital video library must be efficient at giving users precisely the material they need. To make the retrieval of bits faster, and to enable faster viewing or information assimilation, the digital video library will need to support partitioning video. From
unmediated on December 1, 2004 at 1:55 p.m..
Online courses for new engineers - Birmingham Post
BAE Systems and Cranfield University are to roll out a range of new groundbreaking online learning courses which they claim will raise the overall capability of the company's engineers. The two partners says that the mechanics and structures engineerin From
Online Learning Update on December 1, 2004 at 1:50 p.m..
Apologies for Late Postings
Blogger has been experiencing difficulties with some of their database servers. Previously, this has affected the Techno-News Blog. This morning, however, the Online Learning Update Blog and the Educational Technology Blogs were unable to record post From
Online Learning Update on December 1, 2004 at 1:50 p.m..
Blog: Word of the Year
Merriam-Webster has named its top 10 words of the year, and
blog is number one, with tens of thousands of lookups on its site every month. By this time next year, should we expect it to drop off the list of most-looked-up words since most people on the Internet will know what a blog is? From
unmediated on December 1, 2004 at 12:56 p.m..
Meta-CC
By combining strategies employed in web-based discussion forums, blogs, tele-text subtitling, on demand video streaming, and search engines, the open captioning format employed by Meta-CC will allow users to gain multiple perspectives.
The Meta-CC engine is run off of a computer connected to a SoftTouch Mag Hubcap Closed Caption Data Recovery unit. The Data Recovery unit transmits From
unmediated on December 1, 2004 at 12:56 p.m..
Here Comes Bloghorn!
Mary Jo Foley
reports that Microsoft's MSN division is expected to take the wraps off its MSN Spaces blogging service this week.MSN is expected to tout MSN Spaces as a direct competitor to blog-creation and hosting tools, such as Blogger, Blog*Spot, LiveJournal and TypePad. Microsoft also will position MSN Spaces as a way to allow users to more easily share photo albums and music lists, too, insiders said.Some users ha From
unmediated on December 1, 2004 at 12:56 p.m..
Stealth Hyperlocal News Network Targets Newspaper Monopolies
A stealth project called
Pegasus News plans to launch a beta test in Dallas in late 2005 to distribute local news content and advertising via the web, e-newsletters, RSS feeds, a daily print edition, SMS messaging and other mediums, according to an inside source who contacted me. The source currently runs a division of a major media company. Pegasus plans to follow this initial effort with local advertising-supported news sites in 25 major U.S. cities that have a monopoly newspaper. The company recently launched
unmediated on December 1, 2004 at 12:56 p.m..
TraxData TravelStudio
There's so much to the TraxData TravelStudio that it's hard to know where to begin. Here you have
a portable device which can read almost any media (CF-I and II, SD, MD, MS, MS Pro, MMC, CD, DVD) connect to any TV or PC and play many media formats (DVD, VCD, MP3, JPG, MPEG, WAV) and burn CDs as well. There From
unmediated on December 1, 2004 at 12:56 p.m..
Wiki-modes
I'm in the midst of skipping thru this excellent report of a
failed wiki-implementation. Lots of practical insights and some open issues. For instance if it is useful to have wiki-pages (in corporate setting, intranets) that allow anonymous comments. The pros account for having a higher rate of contribution where evaluation apprehension is high on the downside is the rupture of the wiki-model. Although having comments somehow disrupts the wiki-model anyway. Obviously a mixture of sh From
thomas n. burg | randgänge on December 1, 2004 at 12:47 p.m..
Flickr: Photo Sharing and Community Building
Flickr: Photo Sharing and Community Building: "Flickr is a photo sharing and photo community site that delivers on the promise of building community around images. At its most basic level, Flickr allows people to upload images, describe them, and then allow others to discuss them. Throw in a bunch of features such as slide shows, notes, RSS/Atom feeds, groups, tags and weblog integration tools, and you have one of the best community building tools found on the web. Over at Ed-Tech Insider I've added a post about Flickr, the photo sharing and community site. I'm finding Flickr to be a From
Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on December 1, 2004 at 11:50 a.m..
Berkman Web of Ideas tonight: What's ours on the Web?
Just a reminder that tonight I'm leading a session at the Harvard Berkman Center on the question "What's ours on the Web?" It's about why some sites feel like ours and others don't, and what this might tell us about what an "us" means. I'm going to try to post more about that this afternoon. I wrote a bit about it here, and got some excellent comments. Peter Merholz took issue with the premise here. The session is 6-7:15pm at the Baker House, 1587 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge. Here's a campus map. All are invited and pizza is served.... From
Joho the Blog on December 1, 2004 at 10:48 a.m..
Truth, objectivity and Mitch
Fascinating post today by Mitch Ratcliffe on a topic near and dear to me: facts, news and Wikipedia. Here's a snippet from his concluding paragraphs: If WikiNews editors acted as a peer-review committee and called out shortcomings in fact-checking or the accuracy of facts, this could be a powerful enhancement to multiple versions of events that helped the reader decide for themselves what actually happened. But reducing a report to a single version, especially based on contributions from people who were not actually there to record the event, is of questionable value. It's a long-ish From
Joho the Blog on December 1, 2004 at 10:48 a.m..
Bloggers en Santiago
La reunión Beers & Blogs en Santiago celebrada en el marco del Congreso de Xornalismo Dixital fue una espléndida ocasión para reencontrar a viejos amigos y hacer nuevos, estuvieron entre otros: Pablo de Abundando Luis de Atrium Antonio de Caspa.tv... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on December 1, 2004 at 9:52 a.m..
No longer Businessman of the Year
I ignored the first fax from Tom Reynolds, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee telling me that I've been chosen as Businessman of the Year. But the second fax had a plaintive note that got me to call the 800 number. Rose answered. "First, Tom Reynolds wants to thank you for your support in our tremendous victory." In fact, because of my efforts, I have been awarded Businessman of the Year. Not just nominated, but awarded it. "Why?," I asked. "There must be some mistake." "It's based on your past support of the Republican Party." "I really didn't do... From
Joho the Blog on December 1, 2004 at 9:48 a.m..
On the Virtues of Idleness
Mark Slouka [author of War of the Worlds: Cyberspace and the High-Tech Assault on Reality] has written a compelling article called Quitting The Paint Factory: On The Virtues of Idleness. I became aware of this article through Chris Corrigan. I... From
Experience Designer Network on December 1, 2004 at 8:59 a.m..
Still More Edu Blogs to Check Out
Looks like this is becoming a regular feature every couple of weeks. (Maybe I should do a podcast???) I was glad to see Pat Delaney writing about his
blogging work once again. He's a major voice in the K-12 blogging world that has been pretty silent lately. But he's obviously still been working hard to bring Weblogs to the masses. Here are some links to school blogs he's been supporting/following:
Galileo Web--The starting point for exporation of Pat&apo From
weblogged News on December 1, 2004 at 8:47 a.m..
Notification of Ebay Items of Interest via RSS
This is the coolest tool! You can create an RSS feed to monitor ebay auctions for specific keywords or phrases. When a new item that contains those keywords is added to ebay you will receive notification via your RSS feed! Very, very cool, will definitely help with the
holiday shopping From
RSS Blog on December 1, 2004 at 7:59 a.m..
Brushing Up on Dreamweaver Templates
I've got some new projects going where I really need to get back up to speed on the more advanced properties of Dreamweaver templates. The always-helpful, always-cheerful (except when he hasn't had his nap) Murray Summers offers up some terrific tutorials on DW templates at his Dreamweaver MX Templates site. He's got some great articles on creating breadcrumbs with parameters and expressions, controlling button states within templates, and incorporating SSIs with templates in... From
Brain Frieze on December 1, 2004 at 7:55 a.m..
Violence in Software Games
With the holidays approaching I felt it that it was appropriate to address the issue of violence in games. As a parent I abhore violent games. Actually I dislike the way companies use violence to market to children. Sadly more and more entertainment companies are using use violence as a marketing tool. From
Software Marketing Articles and Marketing Tips on December 1, 2004 at 7:53 a.m..
Searching Smarter, Not Harder - John Gartner, Wired
Databases and search engines provide instantaneous access to endless information about anyone or anything, but the search results often include as many misses as hits. To generate more-relevant answers, organizations including the federal government ar From
Techno-News Blog on December 1, 2004 at 7:49 a.m..
Publisher: 'Blog' No. 1 word of the year - Reuters
A four-letter term that came to symbolize the difference between old and new media during this year's presidential campaign tops U.S. dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster's list of the 10 words of the year. Merriam-Webster Inc. said on Tuesday that blo From
Techno-News Blog on December 1, 2004 at 7:49 a.m..
Spam Updates
So
Alan has been calling out the spammers, daring them to mess with him. Hmmm....don't know that I would be so bold. The good news here is that since I turned off Radio Hosting and went back to the "gotta be a member and login before you can comment" mode, the spam has been totally cut off. And, I'm happy to report, people are still leaving comments. This is a good thing. As is this, I think.
Manila now seems to have the ability
weblogged News on December 1, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..
New Security Pain: Radioactivity
You can empty your pockets of change, take off your belt and shoes and stick your keys in the little tray. But if you've had radiation therapy recently, you still might set off Homeland Security alarms. From
Wired News on December 1, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
Rocket Fuel in Milk, Lettuce
The Food and Drug Administration says a rocket fuel component contaminates nearly 94 percent of the milk and lettuce samples surveyed. The compound is suspected of having nasty effects in humans. By Amit Asaravala. From
Wired News on December 1, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
After the X Prize
Just weeks before the historic second flight of SpaceShipOne -- a trip that won him the $10 million X Prize -- Burt Rutan, the ship's designer and builder, sat down for a chat with Wired magazine. Here's what he said. From
Wired News on December 1, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
Mutating Bots May Save Lives
Several research teams are developing robots made of smart building blocks that can morph into different forms to perform a broad variety of tasks. The bots are to be used in space missions and in search-and-rescue efforts. By Lakshmi Sandhana. From
Wired News on December 1, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
Laserpod: Groovy Goes Modern
Scratch that underwear off your wish list. The Laserpod ambient lighting system is one gift you won't regret getting this holiday season. By Amit Asaravala. From
Wired News on December 1, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
Snake Eater a Slithering Success
Despite all the Bond touches, the latest in the Metal Gear Solid series keeps its belly on the ground and does pretty much everything right. Game review by Chris Kohler. From
Wired News on December 1, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
Costly Cloning Isn't a Cure-All
Therapeutic cloning is both vilified and hailed as the only hope for stem-cell cures. But it may be prohibitively expensive and unnecessary, at least for developing stem-cell therapies. By Kristen Philipkoski. From
Wired News on December 1, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
More Robot Grunts Ready for Duty
At an Army tech conference, companies show off new machines that do the work of flesh-and-blood soldiers. One sports machine guns to hunt down enemies. Another is an unmanned ambulance to take the wounded off the battlefield. Noah Shachtman reports from Orlando, Florida. From
Wired News on December 1, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
Video Accessories For Powerpoint Presentations
Digital Video Among the most intuitive digital video programs you can work with is muvee - a free trial version can be downloaded. Microsoft Research has a nice article on creating cartoon movies from digital video. TechSmith's Camtasia Producer allows you to create movies from screen captures - and then edit and distribute the videos.... From
MasterViews on December 1, 2004 at 5:51 a.m..
Gifts for Students
These books make thoughtful gifts for the adult students (or wannabe students) in your life. Help them choose a school and program; sail through applications; shorten the degree process; get financial aid; balance school, work and family; develop good study... From
Adult/Continuing Education on December 1, 2004 at 5:50 a.m..
Googly to Go?
In my recent Auricle article
A filling station model of e-learning? I suggested that integrated mobile multimedia players and communication devices could be the 'googly' which catches advocates of centralized e-learning solutions unawares. So are the major proprietary interests responding to this? Apparently not. But ... From
Auricle on December 1, 2004 at 4:53 a.m..
Technology, Colleges & Community Worldwide Online Conference
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONSThe TCC Online Conference coordinators invite faculty, support staff, librarians, counselors, administrators, and consultants to submit proposals for papers and other presentations that address the impact of technological change, the Internet, and other technologies on how we teach and learn in colleges and universities worldwide. From
DEC Daily News on December 1, 2004 at 4:50 a.m..
UNEXT Announces Appointment of Senior Vice President of Business Development
DEERFIELD, Ill., Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- In a move designed to broaden and elevate strategic partnerships and branding initiatives, UNEXT, a global leader in online education, today announced the appointment of Bruce M. Goldstein, a proven tactician in business development and strategic planning, to the new position of Senior Vice President of Business Development, reporting to Cathleen Raffaeli, President and Chief Executive Officer. From
DEC Daily News on December 1, 2004 at 4:50 a.m..
Striking up digital video search
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are quietly developing new search tools for digital video, foreshadowing a high-stakes technology arms race in the battle for control of consumers' living rooms. From
DEC Daily News on December 1, 2004 at 3:50 a.m..
'Flickr' is in an online photo class by itself
HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA " This week's review will include a larger than usual number of "and's," "also's," and "in-addition's," because this week's website pursues a single goal with an exceptionally thorough approach. From
DEC Daily News on December 1, 2004 at 3:50 a.m..
We've been listed on the EContent 100!
I'm very excited to announce that Step Two Designs has just been listed on the EContent 100, in the consulting services category. To quote: While this consultancy is based in Australia, its perspective is global. Helping companies plot a course... From
Column Two on December 1, 2004 at 3:47 a.m..
Wednesday, December 01, 2004
In an attempt to clear his sullied name, the League's older brother created a blog to counter charges made against him. From
RHPT.com on December 1, 2004 at 2:57 a.m..
How I Have Spent/Wasted Time Lately
Ouch, my blogging fingers are rusty. Among tweaking and updating many of our project web sites this week, an inordinate amount of time has been spent: * cleaning up the droppings we find on our wikis (Thanks for all the potted meat food product shipped directly from Southeast Asia- love those links). * sorting through a database connection error that sent me more than 300 error email notifications in 12 hours, not the best thing to deal with while I was on a 26k dialup connection. Deleting them all crashed my OSX Mail.app repeatedly. Worse, I found out the error was From
cogdogblog on December 1, 2004 at 2:48 a.m..
Python.org: Python 2.4
"We are pleased to announce
the release of Python 2.4, final on November 30, 2004. This is a final, stable release, and we can recommend that Python users upgrade to this version. "Python 2.4 is the result of almost 18 month's worth of work on top of Python 2.3 and represents another stage in the careful evolution of Python. New language features have been kept to a minimum, many bugs have been fixed and a variety of improvements have been made..." From
unmediated on December 1, 2004 at 12:56 a.m..
The Open Video Project
The purpose of the
Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities.
(A week ago we posted a link to the project description. This is a link to the actual Open Video project. -kc.) From
unmediated on December 1, 2004 at 12:56 a.m..
MSNBC.com's tribal technology experiment
Not only will MSNBC.com track a
two-month expedition to New Guinea led by Richard Bangs, Host of Great Escapes, but the site will post digital photographs taken by tribe members. (Call it tribal citizen journalism?) The expedition will hand out "user friendly" HP digital cameras and send the pictures back to MSNBC.com via satellite.
More details... From
unmediated on December 1, 2004 at 12:56 a.m..
Dynamic Resources from Educause
It's not often that I land on a web site that makes me say "whoa!" these days. Maybe I'm getting jaded, but so many sites seem to follow the same old routes to getting information on-line. Either the interface and design or uninspiring, or the content is the same old retreads that you've read--and have been reading--for the last few years. (Maybe that's part of the attraction of blogs. At least the content is reasonably fresh and doesn't have that left under the warming lights... From
Brain Frieze on November 30, 2004 at 11:56 p.m..
Mining the archive
Will mentioned that he has been mining his archive for a piece he's writing for another venue. Sooner or later many edubloggers will probably do that, and maybe those that do should mention any interesting discoveries they make along the way. They might notice something about the arc of inquiry that makes up a blog, how much it circles around particular issues, perhaps, or how breakthroughs seem to take place, or whether or not insights get lost and are reworked again later, or whether... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on November 30, 2004 at 11:52 p.m..