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web site designs: Simplicity is
Ask yourself this question as you design your site. Could a ten year old girl navigate around my site to find what she needs?. If she can't. Change your design until she can. Simplicity is best. Make your site extremely... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 26, 2004 at 6:54 p.m..

Internet Beginners Guide
Education > Internet > Help and Tutorials > Internet Beginners Guides" href="http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Education/Internet/Help_and_Tutorials/Internet_Beginners_Guides/">Google Directory - Computers > Education > Internet > Help and Tutorials > Internet Beginners Guides... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 26, 2004 at 6:54 p.m..

Beginners Central
The internet is all about information. This site is dedicated to helping people learn to use that information in a coherent manner. Beginners' Central is based on a chapter by chapter structure, you may skip to any chapter you're interested... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 26, 2004 at 6:54 p.m..

What do Computer Newbies ask you?
Google Answers: What Do Computer Newbies Ask You?... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 26, 2004 at 6:54 p.m..

FAQs, Help and Tutorials
Newbies will find this useful. Education > FAQs, Help, and Tutorials" href="http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Education/FAQs,_Help,_and_Tutorials/">Google Directory - Computers > Education > FAQs, Help, and Tutorials... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 26, 2004 at 6:54 p.m..

Newbie.Org
Piles of stuff here for those people who got a computer for christmas and don't know where to start. Newbie dot Org... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 26, 2004 at 6:54 p.m..

Computer Help A to Z
Free Computer Help, Tips and Tools to Help You Get the Most Fun and Use from Your Home Computer... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 26, 2004 at 6:54 p.m..

Nature's Terror in Asia
I've just sent off a donation to the Red Cross to help the survivors of the earthquake and tsunamis that have struck south Asia. Please help if you can. From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on December 26, 2004 at 6:46 p.m..

sniu.info
Ari Friedman has created sniu.info: "Substantial Non-infringing Use in Peer-to-Peer applications". Sniu.info is currently hosted at the University of Pennsylvania, where Ari is a student. He already has a fascinating collection of citations, from lecture sharing to "promotion of... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 26, 2004 at 5:55 p.m..

Online lessons popular option.
More and more community college students in Snohomish County and across the state are taking courses from instructors they seldom or never see. Enrollment in online courses is soaring as students young and old search for ways to sandwich classes... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 26, 2004 at 5:55 p.m..

Models of Large Scale E-Learning.
Early interest in e-learning focused around the possibility of large-scale courses. This led to pronouncements of the demise of the educator, which were based on an infinite lecture hall pedagogy. However, cost-effective models of large-scale e-learning have proven difficult to... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 26, 2004 at 5:55 p.m..

40 questions about 2004
Following Liz Lawley and Jack Vinson I think of my year in 40 answers... What did you do in 2004 that you'd never done before?Paragliding. BlogWalking. Getting divorced. Did you keep your New Years resolutions, and will you make more for next year?I did - it was about Mathemagenic on December 26, 2004 at 5:51 p.m..

Holy Broadband, Batman!
Shortly before Christmas, my colleague Wendy Wigen showed me this article from the South Bend, Indiana Tribune: SBC would like to disconnect broadband planSunday, December 19, 2004South Bend Tribune City and business leaders say their plan to lay new From EDUCAUSE Blogs - on December 26, 2004 at 4:48 p.m..

Multilingual search
A Shanghai / San Francisco tech and education conference idea reminds me that English-language news sources about China are few. (See this post for the travails of the volunteer translator. Great photoblogs there too, though attribution is unclear. The 'About' section of the nav lacks a name.) On the heels of the recent deal with Levenco, this homoLudens III on December 26, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

Neither Red Nor Blue
I like politics. I follow it the way some people follow sports. The Democrat Party and Republican Party are major league teams. They battle each other in national, state and local contests. They have mascots, both created by the same person. They have fanatical supporters just like any sport. Like minor league teams, there are also minor political parties to watch that sometimes play spoiler and sometimes gain enough strength to influence the major parties. Some operate only locally, some statewide, and some try to operate nationally. I also enjoy following individual pe From kuro5hin.org on December 26, 2004 at 1:45 p.m..

Smoking gun has Wolfowitz's fingerprints, but he wasn't the one pointing it
My fellow Americans, in our name our government is torturing people scooped up indiscriminately — some were turned in for a bounty, not much of a guarantee of guilt. You and I are chaining them into a fetal position for 24 hours or more without food or water, letting them shit themselves. You and I are threatening people with vicious dogs. You and I are letting them roast in unventilated cells. And then there's this: "I saw another detainee sitting on the floor of the interview room with an Israeli flag draped around him, loud music being played, and a... From Joho the Blog on December 26, 2004 at 12:46 p.m..

Not every metaphor works
Does the Web have seasons? Discuss amongst yourselves...... From Joho the Blog on December 26, 2004 at 12:46 p.m..

Six Million Firefox Browsers Downloaded - NewsFactor
Firefox, Opera and other alternative browsers got a boost in October when the U.S. security body CERT recommended moving away from Explorer to improve security. Although Firefox can have problems with sites making heavy use of proprietary Microsoft te From Techno-News Blog on December 26, 2004 at 8:48 a.m..

Media Wish List for 2005 - Adam L. Penenberg, Wired
This time of year, columnists tend to put on their prognostication caps and tell readers what they think will happen next year. Or in "year in review" columns they remind you what already happened, often packaged as Best of the Best or Worst of the Wo From Techno-News Blog on December 26, 2004 at 8:48 a.m..

Top Ten Trends for 2005 - Red Herring
Laying out technology trends is a treacherous undertaking. Those predictions can end up haunting the luminaries who pronounced them after they From Techno-News Blog on December 26, 2004 at 8:48 a.m..

Online Studies A Valid Path To A Degree - CtNow
As any working student could attest, balancing studies with a job can be an exhausting pursuit. In my last semester of graduate school, for instance, it took record levels of caffeine to survive 30-hour workweeks and four academic courses. But such ma From Online Learning Update on December 26, 2004 at 8:47 a.m..

Online lessons popular option - Eric Stevick, Heraldnet
More and more community college students in Snohomish County and across the state are taking courses from instructors they seldom or never see. Enrollment in online courses is soaring as students young and old search for ways to sandwich classes betw From Online Learning Update on December 26, 2004 at 8:47 a.m..

MODELS OF LARGE-SCALE E-LEARNING - Martin Weller, JALN
Early interest in e-learning focused around the possibility of large-scale courses. This led to pronouncements of the demise of the educator, which were based on an infinite lecture hall pedagogy. However, cost-effective models of large-scale e-learni From Online Learning Update on December 26, 2004 at 8:47 a.m..

I Must Have Been a Good Boy This Year
With any luck, if I can find one in stock, later today I'll "cash in" my "gift certificate" from Santa who couldn't find one of these in the pre-Christmas scramble. You'd think the Apple store should have them in...right? We'll see. From weblogged News on December 26, 2004 at 8:45 a.m..

Reforming Academic Rank
In "Simplifying the Academic Hierarchy," John Jeffries Martin argues that the "associate professor" title should be abolished. Building on Max Weber's Marxist thinking about the bureaucracy in the American university system, Martin proposes that the best way to reform the rank system of the professoriate is to hold a probationary... From PEDABLOGUE on December 26, 2004 at 5:51 a.m..

Newbies Don't Ask!
A little while back I met a lady as I was training newbies to use the computer...This lady held the mouse up in the air. Shook it, making the mouse ball shaking around inside the mouse and in turn made... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 26, 2004 at 4:54 a.m..

Smoking and Drug Use by Teenagers Drop Again
Smoking and drug abuse among teenagers declined again this year, according to a federal study that also found the same trend over the last decade. From New York Times: Education on December 26, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

2 School Aides Accused of Having Sex With Students
Two aides at a Bronx high school had sex with students and made inappropriate sexual comments to another, investigators said. From New York Times: Education on December 26, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Students to Bear More of the Cost of College
At least 1.3 million students will receive smaller Pell Grants, the nation's primary scholarship for those of low income. From New York Times: Education on December 26, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Some Parents Say a $5 Gift Is Not Enough for Teachers
A $5-per-student spending limit for holiday gifts to teachers, a regulation imposed early in 2004, was largely ignored by parents and students. From New York Times: Education on December 26, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

College? What College?
In Montclair, town and gown tend to go their own ways. From New York Times: Education on December 26, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Aiming for Sports Renaissance for City's Young Schoolchildren
Leaders of New York City's Department of Education intend to create a new framework for competitive athletics in middle and elementary schools. From New York Times: Education on December 26, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..