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Language Maps
The MLA Language Map is a cool color-coded and "zoomable" census map that unveils the linguistic and cultural composition of the United States. The level of detail is remarkable, and I bet any foreign language teacher would have a field day with this search engine. I was able to learn,... From PEDABLOGUE on December 18, 2004 at 7:52 p.m..

Quality and Standards
A brief outline of my position on quality and standards, submitted because it exists...... From Learning Circuits Blog on December 18, 2004 at 6:49 p.m..

Gaming for peace, sort of
Interesting article by Di Luo in Computer Gaming world about the government using games not to recruit and train for war (e.g., America's Army) but to teach more peaceful tactics. Tactical Language Learning System and Virtual Environment Cultural Training for Operational Readiness teach cultural sensitivity. The former is built on the Unreal engine and the latter uses the LithTech engine that brought us so much gamey fun in No One Lives Forever and Tron. For example, VECTOR players learn to understand other cultures' body language, and also get extra points for head shots. The articl From Joho the Blog on December 18, 2004 at 5:48 p.m..

'American forces lose control of key city'
From the Independent, via Anti-War. To hell in a handbasket. I keep thinking of the 19 year community college dudes who are over there for the tuition money. From homoLudens III on December 18, 2004 at 5:46 p.m..

iTeacherED Final Report: Integrating ICT into a Faculty of Education
The Final Report of the iTeacherEd study (an Industry Canada sponsored research project) is now available online. You can find the study here (click on the top link 'Final Report.) You will find other related reports and presentations there... From Couros Blog - Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech'er on December 18, 2004 at 4:47 p.m..

NYC Marathon 2005
I finished the NYRR Holiday Four Mile Run (38:31) this morning and with it completed nine qualifying NYRR races, which means: I've got guaranteed entry into the 2005 NYC Marathon. Yay! As I said to my friend Adriana this morning after the race, "Obviously something's wrong with us if we're waking up to run in 32&ampdeg; weather every weekend for the purpose of gaining entry into a marathon!" Of course, I mean "wrong" in the good sense! I've already got two marathons and one half-marathon scheduled for 2005. Now let's hope my hip injury heals in time. From megnut on December 18, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

When choosing sides in the P2P war, be sure you know who's fighting
In early November, a headline asked this question: Was New U2 Album Hitting P-2-P Networks on Purpose?Tuesday, November 9, 2004Audio/Video News U2's soon-to-be-released album, How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, has found its way to the peer-to-peer networks. CNN reports that a London spokesperson for the band was aware that the songs are now widel From EDUCAUSE Blogs - on December 18, 2004 at 3:01 p.m..

No Conversation, No Party: Marketing Conferencing And Collaboration Technologies To New Media Reporters
Yesterday I had a demo of a technology I had heard about but had never really tested. The PR agency, taking care of the company in question, had very gently setup a meeting time, and a conferencing space online (powered... From Kolabora.com on December 18, 2004 at 2:54 p.m..

RSS 2.0 Feeds mit Email-Adressen?
J&ampouml;rg Petermann titelt etwas reissereisch "RSS-Feeds - Brutst&ampauml;tte f&ampuuml;r SPAM!" und weist darauf hin, da&ampszlig; durch die Angabe eines <author> im Item eines RSS-Feeds eine Email-Adresse angegeben wird, welche von Spammern ausgelesen werden kann (und h&ampouml;chstwahrscheinlich auch wird). Wer aber - beispielsweise bei einem Teamblog - nicht auf die Angabe des Autoren verzichten will, kann statt From PlasticThinking: Moe's Blog. on December 18, 2004 at 2:51 p.m..

Site Profile: Judy Breck's Knowledge Commons
I just added this site to the EduResources Portal, classifying the site as a Primary Guideline Referatory Site and recommending the site as a First Choice for students and teachers who are trying to become acquainted with online instructional resources. I want to profile Judy Breck's work in more detail here because I believe many more such guideline sites are needed if potential users are to become actual users of online resources. Breck's visual displays of subject areas and her "connected searches" provide an invitation to learners to explore online resources. The emphas From EduResources--Higher Education Resources Online on December 18, 2004 at 2:47 p.m..

Gahran.com Is Down Temporarily
There's some server trouble affecting e-mail and web access at that domain. It should be fixed soon. If you need to e-mail me for now, please use my address editor@contentious.com. Thanks. From Contentious Weblog on December 18, 2004 at 1:51 p.m..

Feeling Final: "My first semester
Feeling Final: "My first semester is over, and you'd think I'd be overjoyed, but not-so-much. I have, however, learned some very important lessons... hipteacher's lessons learned after her first sememster... I find lesson number one to be especially relevant this week...... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on December 18, 2004 at 12:47 p.m..

Almost Poetry: "The Network is the Blog"
On this post, I have almost little to say as Jon Udell's "The Network is the Blog" is so on spot and astute, and, well poetic. He hits some things which sound obvious in reading but easily to forget- the electricity of the blog-o-verse has everything to do with the human network it travels upon. The dictionary definition of “blog” is correct, but it says nothing about the network in which the blog participates. By way of analogy, consider a dictionary definition of a telephone From cogdogblog on December 18, 2004 at 12:45 p.m..

ePortfolios
Kurzer Rückblick: Bei meinem letzten Arbeitgeber wurden die Bildungsmaßnahmen, die man besucht hatte, automatisch in eine Rubrik eingepflegt, die "Persönliche Bildungshistorie" (oder so ähnlich) hieß. Das gilt natürlich für die Zeit, seitdem diese Informationen elektronisch verwaltet werden, also seit Ende... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on December 18, 2004 at 10:46 a.m..

Olybris, the seventh Ex Libris seminar, will take place April 17-22, 2005 at the Kos International C ...
Olybris, the seventh Ex Libris seminar, will take place April 17-22, 2005 at the Kos International Conference Center on the island of Kos, Greece From Peter Scott's Library Blog on December 18, 2004 at 6:48 a.m..

The Harvard University Library is beginning a new initiative to help libraries in Iraq obtain fundin ...
The Harvard University Library is beginning a new initiative to help libraries in Iraq obtain funding to revitalize collections that were neglected or destroyed during Saddam Hussein's regime and the U.S. invasion From Peter Scott's Library Blog on December 18, 2004 at 6:48 a.m..

Airborne Cell Phones? No Way!
After proposing lifting the ban on use of mobile phones during commercial flights, the Federal Communications Commission is flooded with hundreds of e-mails from travelers who want to keep the ban in place and preserve their peace and quiet. From Wired News on December 18, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

Red Cross Caught in P2P Fracas
The Australian recording industry wants the International Red Cross to voluntarily freeze the assets of a trust that allegedly helps run the software company it is suing for copyright violations. Patrick Gray reports from Melbourne, Australia. From Wired News on December 18, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

Sponsor Nabs Stem Cell Post
Robert Klein, real estate developer and champion of stem cell research, is elected chair of the Institute of Regenerative Medicine. Despite isolated grumblings, as the only nominee, he was a shoo-in. Kristen Philipkoski reports from San Francisco. From Wired News on December 18, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

Brit Film Future Is Digital
The U.K. Film Council wants to encourage people to see more specialty films and thinks installing high-tech projectors is the way to do it. By Jason Silverman. From Wired News on December 18, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

2005 - the year enterprises realize that they must syndicate and aggregate everything that matters using RSS
The mantra is: Syndicate everything that matters and aggregate everything that matters. And soon most organizations will be doing this with RSS. So anybody who provides products and services that enable this will win big. From GlobeLogger Vendors: Paddling Out to Catch the Enterprise Wave.: QUOTEForm the shore, they look like tiny dots slowly making their way out past the breakers. They're the software vendors positioning themselves to catch the Enterprise RSS wave. My, that's a lot of t From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on December 18, 2004 at 4:52 a.m..

People's blogs are the best filters and agents for information
Jon nails it! Find the best people in your domains of knowledge and subscribe to their RSS feeds (assuming you are not lucky enough to be on their team and work with them face to face and even then, their blogs will have great information that they simply can't covey face to face!). They will be your best source of real information. Second order sources such as PubSub and Feedster searches are great but a distant second in terms of quality of information.From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on December 18, 2004 at 4:52 a.m..

Bush Prepares for Possible Shutdown of GPS Network in National Crisis - Ted Bridis, Associated Press
President George W. Bush has ordered plans for temporarily disabling the U.S. network of global positioning satellites during a national crisis to prevent terrorists from using the navigational technology, the White House said. Any shutdown of the net From Techno-News Blog on December 18, 2004 at 4:50 a.m..

More Police, but Halls Are Still Jammed at Unruly School
Parents and teachers say that the overcrowding that led to violence at Walton High School in the Bronx has not been resolved. From New York Times: Education on December 18, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Math and Science Tests Find 4th and 8th Graders in U.S. Still Lag Many Peers
Eighth-grade students in the United States scored better in both mathematics and science last year than in 1999, but still lagged their peers in several industrial countries. From New York Times: Education on December 18, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

School Board Sued on Mandate for Alternative to Evolution
The school board of Dover, Pa., was accused of violating the religious rights of several parents and students by requiring the teaching of an alternative theory to evolution. From New York Times: Education on December 18, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Game Ratings: U Is for Unheeded
When it comes to rating video games, "teen" vs. "mature" can be a fine line. But either way, it leads to the cash register. From New York Times: Education on December 18, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

A Second Report Shows Charter School Students Not Performing as Well as Other Students
A federal Education Department analysis of test scores from 2003 shows that children in charter schools did not perform as well on exams as those in regular public schools. From New York Times: Education on December 18, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

City High School Students Lag in Regents Test Scores
New York City high school students were far behind the rest of the state in passing the five Regents exams required for graduation, according to state data. From New York Times: Education on December 18, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Copyright legislation fails in Congress
While the United States Supreme Court has decided to examine a key aspect of copyright and technology, several strong copyright measures have failed to pass through Congress to the president's desk. These include the controversial INDUCE Act and the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2004 . Amidst a flurry of lobbying From NITLE Tech News on December 18, 2004 at 3:59 a.m..

Videobloggers invade the TV Box
My good pal Jay Dedman of thought it might be funny to do a live call-in show on Ch. 56 in Manhattan like he always does, except this time, he patches in six people over iChat AV. If you apply any aspect of my mantra of "Lead, follow, or head for cover", this experiment is a head-for-cover one. And the human dog guy has got to be the funniest mofo I've seen in a long time. It's like watching a hybrid of Gilbert Gottfried and Adam Carolla Jason Lee. unmediated on December 18, 2004 at 3:56 a.m..

A manual on media freedom and the internet
The OSCE presented a new publication by the the Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, which "voices concern over limitations of access to the Internet and offers "recipes" on how to preserve the freedom of the Net. [...] The Media Freedom Internet Cookbook, further attempts to help users and governments fight "bad content", for example hate speech, without jeopardising freedom. "Regulatory activism can lead to suppression of freedom regardless of whether [the] censorship was inte From unmediated on December 18, 2004 at 3:56 a.m..

Fabric keyboard
Force-sensing fabric company Eleksen will show a fabric keyboard and joystick at the beginning of next year. The Bluetooth-enabled keyboard is aimed at mobile phones, PDAs and laptops, while the joystick is targeted at games players on the same devices. The keyboard is compatible with as many types of handheld devices as possible, can be reconfigured and will also act as a writing pad.Via unmediated on December 18, 2004 at 3:56 a.m..

Re: Adverts, RSS, and Tivo (The Videobloggers Talk Resources)
The videobloggers discuss blog sponsorship and sustainability: advertisements and sponsorships are something I've been thinking about a lot... and have not reached any conclusions. in some ways I'm very opposed to it, because of issues of content control and ownership. other ways, I think, if it was the right sponsor, it could let me do this for a living. I don't know what to think. Chris From unmediated on December 18, 2004 at 3:56 a.m..

Designing Technology for Community Appropriation
This one-day workshop will be held at the Urban Grind coffee shop in Portland, and will involve the participants in a process of design and appropriation, as a tool for reflection. Focus will be placed on openness, transparency and adaptability. The day will be constructed as a series of design exercises intended to engage people in sharing and creating together. We invite participation from designers, technologists, sociologists, theoreticians, policy-makers, community builders; anyone concerned with the design and use of techno From unmediated on December 18, 2004 at 3:56 a.m..

Reflections on 950 Photos taken with FlickrLIVE! and my Nokia 7610 at 640x480
After taking over 950 photos with Simon's yet to be released Java Midlet called FlickrLIVE! (I believe Simon is off until January, hopefully we will finally release the Midlet and open source it in early January), here are some reflections: Should I change the name FlickrLIVE! to something else? I just realized that Flickr LIVE! is the name of the original photo IM Flash app which was ho From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on December 18, 2004 at 3:52 a.m..

Dumbing Down a Smartwatch - Michael Bradbury, Wired
Human memory is imperfect, so an RFID-enabled smartwatch that keeps track of the easily lost items in your world could be a boon. The tricky part is making sure the watch doesn't remember everything. At his lab in Seattle, Gaetano Borriello and his Un From Techno-News Blog on December 18, 2004 at 3:50 a.m..

Generic Search Terms Drive Most Buying - Rob McGann, Clickz
Challenging the notion that online retailers and marketers should employ trademark-specific keywords, a new study by comScore and Overture finds the majority of consumers make purchases after searching only on general terms. Conventional search marke From Techno-News Blog on December 18, 2004 at 3:50 a.m..

Exploring Ocean Life and Color on the Internet - Red Nova
A new NASA Internet tool called "Giovanni" allows high school and college students and researchers to access and analyze satellite-derived ocean color data. Ocean color data provides students with information about ocean biology by looking at phytopla From Online Learning Update on December 18, 2004 at 3:50 a.m..

Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, which allocates a major chunk of the national budget to education and vocational training, has put in place diverse initiatives that will see the Kingdom emerging as one of the biggest e-learning markets in the region, pushing its value From Online Learning Update on December 18, 2004 at 3:50 a.m..

Distance Education Strategy: Mental Models and Strategic Choices - John C. Adams, Alan T. Seagren; JDLA
What issues do distance education (DE) leaders believe will influence the future of DE? What are their colleges From Online Learning Update on December 18, 2004 at 3:50 a.m..

The Participatory Politics Foundation | participatorypolitics.org
Building tools to connect people, media and politics through the web From unmediated on December 18, 2004 at 2:47 a.m..

Broadcast Executives to Unveil Accelerated HD Radio Rollout Plans at CES
Broadcast industry leaders from Bonneville, Clear Channel, Cox, Entercom and Radio One will disclose nationwide HD Radio conversion plans during a press conference at CES. HD Radio technology transmits digital audio and data alongside existing AM and FM analog signals, allowing listeners with HD Radio-compatible receivers - currently available from Kenwood, Panasonic and JVC - to enjoy CD-quality sound while virtually eliminating the static, hiss and pops associated with analog radio. The technology also provides a platform From unmediated on December 18, 2004 at 2:47 a.m..

Sanswire Stratellite
An Atlanta spin-off from GlobeTel called Sanswire Networks will be launching a giant, solar-powered airship next month that will be able to provide wireless data and voice access to areas of earth as large as Texas. While access to the 'stratellite' (for 'airship satellite') wi From unmediated on December 18, 2004 at 2:47 a.m..

Next-Gen RFID Standard Ratified
EPCglobal released a standard for the next generation of radio frequency identification (RFID) and the electronic product code (EPC). The protocol is the technical framework on which all future products can be built, including tags, readers and other technology. The RFID industry suffered from a proliferation of standards, according to Sue Hutchinson, director of product management for EPCglobal. EPCglobal had two GEN-1 standards, while ISO had two UHF air interface standards. I From unmediated on December 18, 2004 at 2:47 a.m..