Edu_RSS
http://rss-success.com/blog Instead of using Blogger for this site, I've opted to utilize... [[ This is a content summary only. ]] From
RSS Latest News on December 14, 2004 at 10:00 p.m..
UofS Library Instruction News
Mary Dykes from the University of Saskatchewan library has just started up a new blog - UofS Library Instruction News. I am glad to hear this - I have been bugging Mary for a little while that she should be blogging. Now I can turn my attention to others who ... From
Just Another Ant on December 14, 2004 at 8:58 p.m..
Slot car track update
I've been spending this week making some modifications to my slot car track. (Yes, you read that correctly! Aren't I entitled to a hobby? ;-) ) This entry is the first to detail some of the changes I've been making. Others will follow over the next ... From
Open Artifact on December 14, 2004 at 7:58 p.m..
Homemade iPod ad wows marketing community
School teacher George Masters has the marketing world abuzz with a homemade ad for Apple Computer's iPod that is rapidly "going viral." To some experts, Masters' ad heralds the future of advertising. Homemade ads will play a big part in marketing, just like blogging is shaking up the news.Masters quietly posted the spot to his site a few weeks ago. It received moderate traffic until it was picked up by several blogs last week. In a matter of days, the ad h From
unmediated on December 14, 2004 at 7:55 p.m..
Me-TV
It's all happening. Everythuing we knew that was gonna happen, is happening, it just took longer than we thought.
Peter Caputa sent me a link to
Me-TV. Looks coolio. From
unmediated on December 14, 2004 at 7:55 p.m..
MediaFrame for Mpeg-4, public preview released
MediaFrame is an Open Source streaming media platform in Java which provides a fast, easy to implement and extremely small applet that enables over 97% of web users to view audio/video content without having to rely on external player applications or bulky plug-ins. MediaFrame does not require special servers, software or programming knowledge. ... ... MediaFrame for Mpeg-4 has been in development for several years and was released today for the first time as public preview. The preview provides a full version of the software along with sample video and implementation files. ... Mpeg-4 compati From
unmediated on December 14, 2004 at 6:59 p.m..
3DVX Announced: Finally Portable 3-D Made Easy
21st Century 3D s 3DVX comprises, at its core,
two AG-DVX100As with electronically synchronized shutters. These camcorders have had critical body parts and other controls adapted to synchronize their imagers. The twin camcorders have been integrated in a side-by-side fashion, with the viewfinders adjacent to each other to allow for stereoscopic viewing of the captured video. (The camcorder also offers a three-inch LCD screen that displays the image being captured by From
unmediated on December 14, 2004 at 6:58 p.m..
TV Station-in-a-box and other low-cost kits
Three new Grass Valley TV-station-in-a-kit packages. The new, lower prices of the TV Station in a Kit Series are being driven by the rapid integration of low-cost video processing, IP networking, and off-the-shelf IT technologies.The TV Station in a Box Kit combines an intelligent video digital recorder (iVDR) and the powerful Final Cut Pro HD application. It has everything necessary to broadcast a program and share media and includes an M-Series iVDR with four channels of simultaneous record and playout capabilities, Fina From
unmediated on December 14, 2004 at 6:58 p.m..
RSS Feeds syndizieren
RSS-Info: Mittlerweile gibt es einige Anwendungen, um RSS-Feeds aus verschiedenen Quellen zu sammeln und chronologisch sortiert auf einer Website darzustellen: MetaPlanet: “Metaplanet is a feed aggregrator that shows the news of multiple sources in a unified web page. The main objetive is to serve web pages as fast as posible with a minimum load on the server. MetaPlanet is written in PHP.”
http://laurel.datsi.fi.u From PlasticThinking: Moe's Blog. on December 14, 2004 at 6:54 p.m..
Trollerei des Tages: BlogDinner
Merke: Nichts ist in der deutschsprachigen Blogosphäre eigentlich so nichtig, dass nicht doch noch einer angeschissen käme: Da tickts dann aus. Finde ja schon diese Blogleserei total gegen den Wind gepisst. Aber Blogdinner? Mein lieber schieber. Was dümmeres gibts ja kaum noch. Kommt da dann die Blogelite und labert geschwollene scheisse? Also bloggen ist ja schon ganz lustig. Aber irgendwie ist dieses verkrampfte obergeilgehabe echt voll in die Nüsse. ...schwadronierte
Ben-Chi am 3.12.2004 um
PlasticThinking: Moe's Blog. on December 14, 2004 at 6:53 p.m..
Zurück vom BlogDinner
... und es hat mir sehr gut gefallen! Mit von der Partie waren
Stormstrider,
Bronski,
monolog,
kopfherz,
Mike,
Theo,
djo,
Robert Basic,
Outrage,
Ramirez,
Crossroads From
PlasticThinking: Moe's Blog. on December 14, 2004 at 6:53 p.m..
Nucleus CMS: Anzeige von Email-Adressen in Kommentaren abschalten
Wenn man in einem
Nucleus-Weblog einen Kommentar hinterlässt, hat man die Wahl entweder seinen URL oder seine Email-Adresse anzugeben. Wenn man eine Email-Adresse angibt, wird der Name im Kommentar mit der Email-Adresse verlinkt. Also bekommt derjenige früher oder später Spam. Um bei Nucleus die Anzeige von Email-Adressen in Kommentaren abzuschalten, muss folgende Änderung in der Datei /nucleus/libs/COMMENTS.php vorgenommen werden: Suche in der function setCurrentComment die Zei From
PlasticThinking: Moe's Blog. on December 14, 2004 at 6:53 p.m..
Probleme mit Captchas
Der Schockwellenreiter weist darauf hin, daß er die meisten Captchas nicht entziffern kann, da sie oft mit Farben und Kontrasten arbeiten, und für Farbenblinde nicht immer lesbar sind. Ich bin meines Wissens nach zwar nicht farbenblind, kann aber ca. 10-20% der Captchas denen ich so begegne auch nicht entziffern. Also lade ich die Seiten solange neu, bis da Captchas stehen, von denen ich glaube, daß ich sie lesen kann. Doch selbst dort werde ich dann ab und zu eines besseren belehrt, und meine Eingabe wird nic From
PlasticThinking: Moe's Blog. on December 14, 2004 at 6:53 p.m..
Nigeria-Connection: Da heisst einer wie ich :)
Barr. Madaki Adamu, 20 Gerald Street, Ikoyi, Lagos. Dear Moe, CLAIM I am the personal attorney to Mr. David Moe, who worked as a sub-contractor with Shell Petroleum Development Company in Nigeria, herein after shall be referred to as my client. On the 21st of April 2003, my client, his wife and their three children were involved in a car accident along Warri - Port Harcourt road, and all occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost there lives. Naja und dann halt so das übliche Blahfasel From
PlasticThinking: Moe's Blog. on December 14, 2004 at 6:53 p.m..
Wie man aus Scheiße Gold macht
... erfährt man beim
Jamba Kurs. Ich verstehe es bis heute nicht. Als ich vor 4 Jahren meine SMS-Info-Seite hatte und in diversen Foren zum Thema aktiv war, hatte ich irgendwann 3500 Klingeltöne auf der Platte, und konnte auch die ausgefallensten Wünsche bedienen. Natürlich kostenlos, da man mehr als ein Datenkabel oder einen Infrarotport nicht braucht. Die Ringtones fand man mit ein bisschen Googlen meist in ZIP-Archiven, wo einige hundert bis einige tausend Stück drinlagen. Irgendwann habe ich den g From
PlasticThinking: Moe's Blog. on December 14, 2004 at 6:53 p.m..
Bloglines Overload
So don't get me wrong...I LOVE
Bloglines probably more than any other read/write Web tool out there. Frankly, I'm not sure everyone should be a blogger. But I am sure everyone should use an aggregator. Everyone. And to me, Bloglines is hands down the most convenient. But a few months ago they added this new "Keep New" feature where if there is a post you want to get back to at some point you can click the box and it will stay in the list until you, theoretically at least, come back at a later time and unclick it. Problem is I'm having a From
weblogged News on December 14, 2004 at 6:48 p.m..
Using a Wiki for documentation and collaborative authoring
Michael Angeles has written an article on using wikis for documentation and collaborative authoring. To quote: Documentation may help to ensure efficiency, continuity and consistency in library operations. Library technical staff might consider the use of collaborative publishing software for... From
Column Two on December 14, 2004 at 6:48 p.m..
Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age
George Siemens hits the mark nicely with this essay describing connectivism, the Information Age's answer to consructivism, behaviorism and cognitism. Most of what he outlines in this essay is what I have been advocating in the area of learning networks, but what Siemens has done is to express the principles, not as an organization of learning, as I have, but as a learning theory proper. I subscribe to the core principles of connectivism listed in the paper, but I would emphasize where Siemens does not that connectivism is essentially a learner-driven (as opposed to merely learner-centere From
OLDaily on December 14, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..
WebCT Campus > Vista > Future?
Commentary and discussion of the recent IRRODL on WebCT's future - or lack of same. Note Scott Leslie's commentary. I might add that in the last week I have received replies from people both at Blackboard and WebCT on items I've linked to in this newsletter. But of course they don't want them posted or quoted or anything like that. While I appreciate the clarifications (and they have been in some detail) it really bothers me that they are sent in such a private back-channel fashion. This means that there is no possibility of refuting them - and there are responses I would m From
OLDaily on December 14, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..
The Two-Punch Power of Weblogs in Education
This short article illustrates the impact of weblogs in learning: "By shortening and simplifying content publication and processing, personal Web publishing practices, like weblog authoring, content aggregation and syndication, and the formation of conversational networks, address a number of important needs of today's learning environment." Be sure to enlarge the image, which shows in a way the words can't the way a network of blogs, rather than a single blog, creates an educational environment. Links to a number of good examples. Via incorporated subversion. By Unattributed, Beat From
OLDaily on December 14, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..
ACS Takes Legal Action Against Google
For crying out loud... The American Chemical Society (ACS) has filed a complaint against Google in a U.S. District Court over Google's use of the 'Scholar' in Google Scholar. The what over what? "The ACS complaint contends that Google's use of the word scholar infringes on ACS's SciFinder Scholar and Scholar trademarks and constitutes unfair competition." Earth to ACS: you do not own the word 'Scholar'. We'd be happy to let you have the word 'vulture' though. Via Corante. By Press Release, Chemical & Engineering News, December 10, 2004 [
OLDaily on December 14, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..
On Folly
Edd Dumbill responds to criticisms of the Semantic Web. the argument, in a sentence: "Both Shirky and Udell seem to be pretty much convinced the Semantic Web requires, from the outset, globally agreed ontologies. It seems more that they've set up a straw man. I had always envisaged that in the same way user interface and other conventions have emerged from the messy web, so would ontological conventions. Messy, but good enough." I will say, if you are building ontologies now, prior to use, you are probably making an error. Same thing if you're creating canonical vocabularies. Categor From
OLDaily on December 14, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..
New Media Research Networks Fund
Canadian Heritage has announced funding for research in new media. "Under this Fund, a group of public and private sector partners organize themselves into a network so that researchers can share knowledge, resources and facilities. This Network will develop a research program centered on a particular theme, which has relevance for the cultural sector and promotes innovation in new media or digital content interactive." A link to the application guidelines is on the site; click on the PDF version, as the HTML link simply takes you on a long aimless tour. Funds 75 percent, up to $600K. Deadline From
OLDaily on December 14, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..
2004 Hewlett Open Content Meeting
David Wiley writes, "this page provides access to documents from the 2004 Open Content Meeting hosted by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation on September 30 and October 1, 2004. Great overviews from several of the major open content projects..." Projects described include African Virtual University, Alexandria Archive, Connexions, CORE, Creative Commons, National Repository of Online Courses, Open Learning Initiative, Open Learning Support and SAKAI. By Various Authors, Octover 1, 2004 [
R From OLDaily on December 14, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..
The Long Tail
"For too longm" writes the author, "we've been suffering the tyranny of lowest-common-denominator fare, subjected to brain-dead summer blockbusters and manufactured pop. Why? Economics. Many of our assumptions about popular taste are actually artifacts of poor supply-and-demand matching a market response to ine cient distribution." With information technology, however, comes the possibility of niche marketing, and with it, the phenomenon of 'the long tail' - the millions of resources that each appeal to only a few people (like, say, most blogs) and yet which, collectively, form From
OLDaily on December 14, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..
In Boulder Today? Come Say Hi!
If any CONTENTIOUS readers are in Boulder, CO today and feel like venturing out (it isn't really cold, just crisp), I'm working this afternoon from Caffe Sole in the south part of town. Just had a nice walk here from my house. Feel free to say hi! I'll be here until about 4pm mountain time. I'm sitting at the counter in the back room, typing madly on my iBook, with a great view of the Flatirons and wireless internet. I'm the one wearing the t-shirt that says "I hear voices and they don't like you." From
Contentious Weblog on December 14, 2004 at 5:56 p.m..
ASTD Releases its 2004 State of the Industry Report
U.S. organizations continue to maintain their investment in employee learning and use technology-based delivery methods more than ever before, according to the American Society for Training & Development's (ASTD) "2004 State of the Industry Report." eCornell Research Blog: ASTD Releases... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on December 14, 2004 at 5:56 p.m..
Knowledge for All
I must say that I really like Google. Their clean interface, great results and sense of humour really appeal to me. I'm a news and book fiend so when I read that they working with four universities and the New... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on December 14, 2004 at 5:56 p.m..
What's happening?
I'm currently very busy. we are working on a prototype that combines weblog, wiki, and bookmarking into a tag-based collaborative space. Or to put in in other words. Tags are all the rest are just items with (hopefully) distinct use cases. It's fantastic overall but generates some usability-questions. I think we will open up a test-space sometime soon. It'll be open source. From
thomas n. burg | randgänge on December 14, 2004 at 5:47 p.m..
Oera linda boek
http://www.oeralindaboek.nl/ Het Oeralindaboek, de bekende negentiende-eeuwse falsificatie, op de site van Tresoar, het Fries Historisch en Letterkundig Centrum. Inleiding, dossier, informatie voor jeugdigen, inhoudsopgave, een volledige en fraaie facsimile, en een transcriptie. De site zou iets helderder ingedeeld kunnen zijn, maar voor het overige een mooi stuk werk. From
CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on December 14, 2004 at 5:01 p.m..
Press Freedom Site Sees High Traffic
Some 1.5 million visitors have visited "
Sala de Prensa" (Press Room) since its debut in March 1999, according to Gerardo Albarrn de Alba. The goal of this non-profit project is to promote press and speech freedom and information-access rights in the Latin American region. It is published in Mexico, with the support of journalists from 36 countries in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Currently, it has more than 500 texts in Spanish and Portuguese about journalism-related issues, such as ethics, research, and online news. From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on December 14, 2004 at 4:56 p.m..
Half of Chile's Small Internet Population Uses Broadband
Half of those Chilean people who use the Internet are on broadband services, according to new data provided by
IDC Chile as
cited by Mouse.cl. The IDC statistics show that 51.9 percent of connected people in Chile use broadband (mostly 128 to 256 kbps -- slow by the standards of broadband in other countries) and the rest are on dial-up connections.The sad part of those figures is that only 6 percent of Chileans have Internet connections, but it is one of the best ratios in the Latin From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on December 14, 2004 at 4:55 p.m..
An Honor
I just had the honor of introducing some extraordinary people to a Silicon Valley audience. They were Jim Hake, CEO and founder of
Spirit of America, which I wrote about last spring. His operation is bringing help from U.S. citizens to people who need it in Iraq and Afghanistan, and it's worth your time to look at it. The stars of the lunch program, however, were Omar and Mohammed Ali, two of three brothers who have been writing the
Iraq the Model blog for over a year. It's an on-the-ground From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on December 14, 2004 at 4:46 p.m..
Google digitaliseert 15 miljoen boeken uit de bibliotheek van Harvard
http://battellemedia.com/archives/001124.php Een bericht op John Battelle's Searchblog: "In the coming months, Google will collaborate with Harvard's libraries on a pilot project to digitize a substantial number of the 15 million volumes held in the University's extensive library system. Google will provide online access to the full text of those works that are in the public domain. In related agreements, Google will launch similar projects with Oxford, Stanford, the University of Michigan, and the New York Public Library". Kijk, dat zijn echte aantallen... Voor wie digitale From
CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on December 14, 2004 at 4:00 p.m..
Googling Libraries
Technology > Google Is Adding Major Libraries to Its Database" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/14/technology/14google.html?hp&ex=1103086800&en=9d5c79b92752adff&ei=5094&partner=homepage">The New York Times > Technology > Google Is Adding Major Libraries to Its Database Google, the operator of the world's most popular Internet search service, plans to announce an agreement today with some of the nation's leading research libraries and Oxford University to begin converting their holdings into digital files that would be freely searchable over the Web... The goal is to expand the We From
Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on December 14, 2004 at 3:50 p.m..
38.000 bitácoras en español indexadas
El Blogómetro indexa ya 38.000 bitácoras en español y sus autores sospechan que podráin existir al menos 60.000. Fernando Tricas busca listados de blogs para actualizar la base de datos del Blogómetro, así como datos de responsables de alojamientos colectivos... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on December 14, 2004 at 2:52 p.m..
Diarios norteamericanos con fuentes RSS
Al menos 142 diarios de los Estados Unidos ofrecen fuentes RSS de sus contenidos según la amplia recopilación publicada en The Media Drop: Newspapers with RSS: A List. Vía: Pointblog. Un listado de los diarios españoles que disponen de fuentes... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on December 14, 2004 at 2:52 p.m..
Powerfully Powered by People (Ross Mayfield)
Simon Waldman of the Guardian takes a look at participatory media and sees two striking contrasts in unfolding models in powerful people, or people power? First, a classic debate of the showcased A-List vs. the Long Tail: The more I... From
Corante: Social Software on December 14, 2004 at 2:50 p.m..
The best chocolate in Paris
From the Sunday New York Times comes this delicious article, In Paris, Boutiques and Cafes Where Chocolatiers Raise the Bar. Herewith, then, a guide to Paris for the chocolate aficionado. It is by no means exhaustive; the Paris phone book has several pages of listings for chocolatiers, but I think this represents a selection of those most worthy of your time. It contains a good listing of the top spots in the city. Closer to home, if your home happens to be New York City, is the Chocolate Bar. Oddly enough, I've never visited this place, even though it's so close to my house. When From
megnut on December 14, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..
.mobi Gets Preliminary Approval
ICANN gave the preliminary green light today (
Detroit Free Press) to two new top-level domain names. ".Mobi" will be used for less bandwidth intensive sites catering to mobile devices, while ".jobs" will be largely used by corporate career sites. Also under consideration for early approval are .xxx and .asia, though there's no timetable for approval. From
unmediated on December 14, 2004 at 1:56 p.m..
Google to announce library database collaborations
Today, it is expected that Google will announce an agreement to scan and create databases of works from five major libraries. According to news reports,
Google will digitize all volumes in the University of Michigan and Stanford University library systems along with parts of research libraries at Harvard, the New York Public Library, and Oxford University in England. More information on the scope of projects at the individual institutions can be found at
unmediated on December 14, 2004 at 1:56 p.m..
ASX in of Windows Media
So, you remember when I said yesterday that ASX3 was deprecated in favor of SMIL in Windows Media Player? I was wrong. Totally and completely wrong. The documentation I was reading was for the server component of Windows Media, which has always been SMIL-oriented. I didn't realize that it was the server documentation. Update: as an experiment, Ryan Shaw tried to get WMP 10, the client side of things, to recognize a .WSX/SMIL playlist, but no luck. From
unmediated on December 14, 2004 at 1:56 p.m..
Perfiles de eCuaderno
Recopilación de perfiles de eCuaderno: Bitacoras.com Blogdex Blogshares Blogstreet Blogwise Bloogz Daypop Eatonweb Google LinkRanks Nedstats NewsIsFree Popdex Technorati Waypath... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on December 14, 2004 at 1:52 p.m..
An Innovations Conference Without Internet Is Like...
We just got the notification for our presentation on our
Ocotillo projects at the League For Innovation's
"Innovations 2005" conference to be held March in New Yoirk City. The conference is tagged as: Join the most innovative community college professionals as they come together to improve student and organizational learning through innovation, experimentation, and institutional transformation. Yet, in 2005, when the World Wide Web is almost 15 From
cogdogblog on December 14, 2004 at 1:48 p.m..
Archive from Hewlett Open Content Meeting
Part of the new things to come from opencontent.org, this page provides access to documents from the 2004 Open Content Meeting hosted by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation on September 30 and October 1, 2004.
http://opencontent.org/hewlett/. Great overviews from several of the major open content projects in powerpoint, quicktime, acrobat, and (don't complain to me!) windows-only executable formats. (This page also contains the table column-sorting code that was floating around del.icio.us a few weeks back; it works great!) From
autounfocus on December 14, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..
The First Computer Virus
In January of 1975, John Walker discovered a new way of distributing his Univac game files and inadvertently wrote the world's first computer virus. The game was called ANIMAL, a self-learning variation of 20 questions which asked you to "think... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on December 14, 2004 at 12:56 p.m..
What's Hot With Searchers
It's that time of year again, when search companies start to publish their lists of top search terms for the year behind us. I can't help but think that there are some story ideas for journalists in these lists.AOL Search has come out with its list of the top searches based on what people and topics received the highest volume of online queries on the AOL service and on AOL.com.
The list has some fun stuff this year, including charts showing the search popularity of the Olsen twins vs. the Hilton sisters over time, the most po From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on December 14, 2004 at 12:55 p.m..
Jill's Small Pieces
Jill Walker's description of an easy to use
QwikiWiki is just a piece of what she describes like assembling her own bits of
small technologies loosely joined: So I’m thinking
Blogger.com blogs (no comment spam, no setup for me, they own it completely; no trackbacks but c’mon, comment spam is too high a price to pay), a fictional “reality show” project in
Flickr (no, I’ve not quite fi From
cogdogblog on December 14, 2004 at 12:48 p.m..
Libraries and the Internet
Kudos to Google and its new university allies -- including my alma mater, the University of Michigan, as well as Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford -- for their exciting project to
open the stacks (Wall Street Journal, via
Paul Kedrosky). It's a great day for the dissemination of knowledge! Bloggers from these institutions are relaying the emails received from their administrators: ... From
Jon's Radio on December 14, 2004 at 12:46 p.m..
First Computer Bug 1947
American engineers have been calling small flaws in machines "bugs" for over a century. Thomas Edison talked about bugs in electrical circuits in the 1870s. When the first computers were built during the early 1940s, people working on them found... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on December 14, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..
Should Suicide Victim's Blog Be Kept Private?
Last Friday, a student in Spokane, Washington,
shot himself in the head in front of his high school, in the middle of the school day. The traumatic incident was all the more bizarre because the student, Skyler Cullitan, had been keeping a personal blog about his life, including a series of animated stick-figure drawings.While the blog was taken down shortly after his death, presumably by his parents, the Spokesman-Review used information from the blog in
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on December 14, 2004 at 11:55 a.m..
Steve Geluso: Aftermath
For those of you sitting on the edge of your chairs since
Sunday's blog, here's the next (last?) chapter, from
Steve Geluso's Blog: Aftermath Thank you to all of you who have sent in e-mails expressing your point of view to my teachers. The point has been made and I am sure that the school would like the flood to stop coming in. From
EDUCAUSE Blogs - on December 14, 2004 at 11:01 a.m..
The History of Computers
Probably the first computing tool was the abacus, which emerged about 5000 years ago in Asia Minor, and is still in use in some countries today. Similar devices were used throughout the world up until 1642, when Blaise Pascal, the... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on December 14, 2004 at 10:55 a.m..
The “Pod People” Are So… Human
For the past two months I've been listening to podcasts. Almost every day. Lots of them, about all kinds of topics from many viewpoints. Everything from highly polished professional productions to simple low-tech recordings with plenty of uhms and ahs, crackles and hisses, and the occasional burp or barking dog. Having ventured this deep into the world of the "pod people," I'm surfacing to tell you this: They're human. In fact, they're us... From
Contentious Weblog on December 14, 2004 at 9:56 a.m..
Teaching and learning online with wikis
Das Projekt, über das die Autoren berichten, ist vielleicht nicht das Aufregendste: Man hat versucht, eine icebreaker exercise zum gegenseitigen Kennenlernen der Kursteilnehmer mit Hilfe eines wikis zu organisieren - ganz erfolgreich, wie die Autoren finden. Aber die zusätzlichen Informationen... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on December 14, 2004 at 9:52 a.m..
An End-of-Year Conversation with e-Learning Leaders
Interessante Statements von sechzehn Experten sind hier unter Topics wie "Changing realities", "Higher education influences", "It's about technology - or is it?", "And it's about learning" u.a. zusammengefasst. Es ist nicht immer einfach zuzuordnen, wer was gesagt hat, aber das... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on December 14, 2004 at 9:52 a.m..
The Right Trigger Words
Jared Spool on the importance of using the right '
trigger words' in hyperlinks: "Trigger words are the words and phrases that trigger a user into clicking. They contain the essential elements to provide the motivation to continue with the site." [via
column two] From
elearningpost on December 14, 2004 at 9:47 a.m..
RSS Feed Directory
We've located a new RSS Feed Directory.
Feed-Directory.com, is a complete directory of syndicated feeds. With over several thousand feeds in its database, Feed-Directory.com is one of the biggest feed directories on the web, and every day several thousand more are added. The complete internet is crawled by a special feed spider that tries to identify RSS and Atom feeds. This process takes several weeks, and is never finished. If you'd like to speed up this process, you can submit your feed now by clicking on the 'Add Your Feed From
RSS Blog on December 14, 2004 at 9:00 a.m..
Scholarly Research on Virtual Communities
Well, who'd have thought that there'd be a need for research on virtual communities? Actually, on thinking about this a bit, the ever-expanding world of social groups, newsgroups, and other forms of technology-enabled community groups is a pretty interesting topic. In A Typology of Virtual Communities: A Multi-Disciplinary Foundation for Future Research Constance Elise Porter of Notre Dame dives into a revised definition of what virtual communities are and how different groups are... From
Brain Frieze on December 14, 2004 at 8:56 a.m..
Teaching and Learning Online with Wikis
Here's a
pretty interesting article about using wikis as a learning tool. I like the icebreaker exercise that the authors use to get students familiar with the technology, and I think it can serve as a good model for the ways to introduce much of these new tools. The best way to really understand the power of personal publishing is to, well, publish personally, put yourself out there, talk about who you are and what you want from life. And while we're on the subject, I found another wiki-type site today From
weblogged News on December 14, 2004 at 8:47 a.m..
The State of Distance Education: Observations - PBS
It's hard to miss the exponential growth of distance learning options. Those institutions that paved the way, and the 'early adopters' who chose to teach and learn online have given way to adoption by every kind of educational institution, public and From
Online Learning Update on December 14, 2004 at 7:50 a.m..
Kraft Macaroni and Cheese
It's that time of year when the K5 community shares its culinary secrets with each other by inundating the queue with a flood of recipes sectioned under culture.  However, many of them may seem too difficult for the beginning chef.  So I present to the novice cook a good starter project for the gourmet chef to be.  It's a classic dish that will provide you with plenty of calories without offering too much nutrition. From
kuro5hin.org on December 14, 2004 at 7:45 a.m..
Challengers Want Ohio Vote Review
A coalition of groups that do not believe the Ohio presidential election was conducted accurately asks the Ohio Supreme Court to review the swing state's voting results. From
Wired News on December 14, 2004 at 6:46 a.m..
A Patch for Broken Hearts
Researchers at MIT are one step closer to creating patches for damaged hearts: They've used rat cells to construct a beating slice of cardiac tissue about the size of a dime. By Kristen Philipkoski. From
Wired News on December 14, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
NASA Chief Resigns
The space agency's top administrator, Sean O'Keefe, says he wants to ensure that his children can go to college without incurring debt. His plan? Applying for a $500,000-per-year job at Louisiana State University. By Amit Asaravala. From
Wired News on December 14, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
Oil Eaters Slurp Up Spills
Advances in biotechnology are limiting the damage oil spills inflict, as scientists supercharge bacteria to devour petroleum. By John Gartner. From
Wired News on December 14, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
Chess Conspiracy Unconvincing
Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine, a film about the historic 1997 chess match between Garry Kasparov and IBM's Deep Blue, focuses on whether humans interceded on the computer's behalf but fails to convince. By Jason Silverman. From
Wired News on December 14, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
Lamprey May Offer Paralysis Cure
Researchers are studying the spinal cord of the eel-like sea lamprey in hopes that a machine based on its structure could someday enable paralyzed people to regain control of their legs. By Karen Lurie. From
Wired News on December 14, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
Linux: Fewer Bugs Than Rivals
An analysis of the 5.7 million lines of Linux source code shows that it contains fewer bugs per thousand lines of code than commercial counterparts. By Michelle Delio. From
Wired News on December 14, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..
Singapore noon
On the advice of my host, I took a taxi to the Indian Temple in Chinatown, a plain building crowned by a colorful pyramid of sculptures of gods. The streets around it are lined with little open-front shops selling tourist junk. After wandering in and out of dozens, I bought my son a present (he's reading this so I can't say what) and almost got the bargaining thing right: It was marked $8 (= US$4.80), I offered $5, she said $7, and I lost my nerve so we didn't complete the dance that was destined to end at $6. I... From
Joho the Blog on December 14, 2004 at 5:48 a.m..
Death to Peterson
There are something like 15,000 murders every year in the United States. Why is this the one that is headline news for months? I just don't understand it.... From
Joho the Blog on December 14, 2004 at 5:48 a.m..
Comunidad de lectores VIII
Va la octava entrega de (auto) descripciones de los weblogs de miembros de la comunidad de lectores y visitantes de eCuaderno en Orkut: Iulius: Bibliotecosas Mi blog se llama bibliotecosas: silva bibliotecaria de varia lección y en él comento y... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on December 14, 2004 at 4:52 a.m..
Connectivism
I've been looking for a relevant article as a starting place for an online, senior undergraduate course (ICT in Education) that I am teaching in the Winter of 2K5. I think I've found it, via George Siemens at elearnspace.... From
Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on December 14, 2004 at 3:56 a.m..
The right trigger words
Jared M. Spool has written an article on using the right trigger words when designing sites. To quote: The Move-Forward-Until-Found Rule: When dealing with information, a web page can do only one of two things: either it contains the content... From
Column Two on December 14, 2004 at 3:47 a.m..
Tuesday, December 14, 2004
The Joys of Cat Ownership II: Because the cat is too fat to clean herself, you find cat droppings on your new carpet. From
RHPT.com on December 14, 2004 at 2:56 a.m..
Is perceived usability/aesthetics more important than real
Donald Norman has written an article that explores the importance of perceived usability/aesthetics. To quote: Websites and Web applications are meant to be used only once or few times, so are the perceived usability (correlated to aesthetics) more important than... From
Column Two on December 14, 2004 at 2:45 a.m..
CBC has RSS Feeds
Its nice to see that CBC news now has RSS feed (cbc.ca - RSS Feeds). When I explain to colleagues or anyone why they would want to use an RSS aggregator, this will be my first example. From
Just Another Ant on December 13, 2004 at 11:59 p.m..