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It's almost New Years' and many people have already started looking forward to 2006. Some may even have New Years' resolutions. But what if your resolution is to become more learned, yet you can't go back to school because you... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 29, 2004 at 10:54 p.m..

Hypermedia Computer-Mediated Environments
Vin Crosbie summarizes, "Though that title sounds dull, no other work has more influenced my thinking about online. When I came out of UPI, Reuters, and News Corporation in 1994, I couldn't understand why shoveling print content into online (as... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 29, 2004 at 10:54 p.m..

E-Learning Grab Bag
Here are some items related to e-learning that have caught my interest lately... TOP OF THIS LIST: Keyser Soze and Organizational Learning. One of Maish Nichani's favorite films (and mine) is The Usual Suspects. In this article, Nichani describes the... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 29, 2004 at 10:54 p.m..

Blogging Grab Bag
Here are some items related to blogging that have caught my interest lately... TOP OF THIS LIST: Why Do We Blog? by Fred Paynter, IT Kitchen, Dec. 1. Excellent question! This article includes responses from three dozen bloggers. I'll be... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 29, 2004 at 10:54 p.m..

Tools Grab Bag
Here are some notes about tools and resources that have caught my interest lately... TOP OF THIS LIST: Bloglines trouble alert. Not everyone is thrilled with Bloglines, the popular, free web-based feed reader service. Apparently Bloglines sometimes inexplicably stops showing... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 29, 2004 at 10:54 p.m..

The Year So Far
(This is also my column today in the San Jose Mercury News.) Google, Oracle, Mars, voting: What these otherwise unconnected topics had in common this year was their importance to Silicon Valley and beyond. As 2004 ends, let's look back at the highlights: More... From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on December 29, 2004 at 10:46 p.m..

Establishing Interactivity in Online Courses
Establishing fruitful interaction in online courses is a persistent challenge. Mark Mabrito shares his personal practices with readers, outlining the tools and policies he has used to enhance interactivity with students, among students, and between students and course content. Mabrito... From Teaching and Developing Online. on December 29, 2004 at 9:46 p.m..

iUpload Personal Publisher
As the new year rolls in, some very powerful personal publishing tools are being unveiled, such as the iUpload Personal Publisher, described here by Robin Good. Here is my test blog, made in about 30 seconds (including spell check). The interface is very smooth and fast, and although there's only one template it would be a snap to switch. But you can only customize them a little, and I didn't see any way to create your own. iUpload is a hosted service, like Blogger or Flickr - it's about as easy to use as Blogger, has the ph From OLDaily on December 29, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..

At The Mercy Of The Music Industry
Another DRM horror story - this time a new type of CD that is basically unplayable. And the CDs - which use a protection system called MediaMax - are not identified as such. Slashdot reports: "DRM, digital rights management, is quite possibly the holy grail of the music and movie industry, allowing them to control exactly how DRM protected content is used, distributed and above all can be tracked right down to the individual end user." Quite so. My advice? Stop buying CDs. Get your music over the internet however possible. Wait for someone to write an underground decoder and to convert the fil From OLDaily on December 29, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..

Marketing in Hypermedia Computer-Mediated Environments: Conceptual Foundations
Vin Crosbie summarizes, "Though that title sounds dull, no other work has more influenced my thinking about online. When I came out of UPI, Reuters, and News Corporation in 1994, I couldn't understand why shoveling print content into online (as I had done at Murdoch's Delphi and iGuide projects) didn't lead to online publishing success. This paper explained why. It is indeed a description of the conceptual foundations of online media." What this paper captures, that many subsequent works don't, is the idea of 'flow' in electronic communications. The authors: "the From OLDaily on December 29, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..

Staccato
If you like music, you'll need this site (or ones like it). Why? See the next link. For those of you who are wondering why I would write about music in a learning technology newsletter: the very same story is being played out in our field. The DRM lock-down of educational content versus the (one-day-to-exist) Ed-Staccato. And if you have any doubt of where my allegiances lie: it's with the latter. By Various Authors, December, 2004 [OLDaily on December 29, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..

RSS Quick Start Guide for Educators (v. 1.4)
Took a little time during my weeklong break to do some minor updates to my RSS Quick Start Guide for Educators. My page count says the link has been accessed over 2,000 times to date which all in all is pretty amazing. Even if half of the people downloaded the .pdf, that's a lot of rss-ducation going on. If you do use it and have any feedback, corrections, etc. please let me know. From weblogged News on December 29, 2004 at 7:47 p.m..

Bram Cohen
Wired News has a lengthy exploration of Bit Torrent, which will have been downloaded 40 million times by 2006. It more specifically focuses on its creator Bram Cohen, and how he came to develop such a popular (and now controversial) bit of software. In April of 2001, Cohen quit his job to work on the software, which now accounts for nearly a third of all web traffic. From unmediated on December 29, 2004 at 6:55 p.m..

Convergence Train Leaving Station
Playing Net movies on your TV As 2004 comes to a close, the world is at once very different and much the same for video enthusiasts wanting to take movies from the Internet, store them on their PCs and shoot them over to giant TV screens. What s new is the growing list of devices coming out that can connect the two worlds, either wirelessly or with cables. But one thing that hasn t changed, Cai said, is the dearth of high-quality legally av From unmediated on December 29, 2004 at 6:55 p.m..

The Public-Domain Movie Database
An In-Depth, Detailed Look at your Favorite Public-Domain Movies. A Searchable DataBase of Public-Domain Movie Information, Episode Guides and More. Created to assist people in their search for public domain movies and to develop a better understanding of the public domain laws, this database is intended to serve as a source for this need From unmediated on December 29, 2004 at 6:55 p.m..

Sirius: 1 Million Subs
Sirius Satellite Radio says holiday sales helped push its subscriber base over the 1 million mark, while rival XM Satellite Radio reports its customer numbers have topped 3.1 million. New York- From unmediated on December 29, 2004 at 6:55 p.m..

A Growing Audience for Vlogs
Heather Green at BusinessWeek reports on the grassroots movement to post video blogs. She contends that vlogs are compelling in the creativity they're unleashing and the changes they could bring to the media status quo. Following in the footsteps of text blogs, video blogs are starting to take off on the Internet. This new form of grassroots digital media is being shepherded along by groups of film makers and video buffs who started pooling publishing tips and From unmediated on December 29, 2004 at 6:55 p.m..

Tsunami citizen journalism thought
Holy crap. Just read this on Evenlyn's blog, where she's in Bangkok now:I wonder if blogging really is merely journalism (obviously not for me), but just didn't feel right somehow taking pictures of a floating hospital (except for the Asian doctor on his diving holiday voluntarily assisting with minimal supplies on this rescue, there was no medical attention available until about 11 hours after the tsunami hit), the Phuket hospital scene, or the people in stretchers on the C-130. Although that didn't stop the press. They were even hogging the free email terminal From unmediated on December 29, 2004 at 6:55 p.m..

Interview with The Broadband Daily
Check out my interview with James Enck on The Broadband Daily about Prodigem. James is a self-proclaimed "bungling Luddite idiot" when it comes to using new technologies and concludes that he is "truly impressed with how easy this was to do". Cool. From unmediated on December 29, 2004 at 6:54 p.m..

2005
Out for the next 3 days. Have a Happy New Year and may your visions come true. From thomas n. burg | randgänge on December 29, 2004 at 6:47 p.m..

jay is: Top-notch games weblog
RIT student Jay Bibby's jay is games weblog is an impressive "thinking person's source" on video games and game design. I like almost every single game Jay blogs about (the vast majority are playable online for free), and his mini-reviews are invariably well-articulated and insightful, efficiently distilling what's innovative or outstanding about the game under review. Even if you're no big fan of games, you should check it out. Jay has been at it for a year and a half - I'm kicking myself for not finding out From Seb's Open Research on December 29, 2004 at 6:46 p.m..

Think you can't afford college in 2005? Think again, experts urge
Colleges are helping to make up for a change in the way federal Pell grants are awarded. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on December 29, 2004 at 6:45 p.m..

Commentlogging
Michael Lenczner may have kickstarted a new behavioral trend among bloggers! Simply put, it consists in using the del.icio.us linklogging system to log comments after you've left them, by bookmarking the pages you've commented on. This is o From Seb's Open Research on December 29, 2004 at 5:46 p.m..

Take this at face value
On Christmas day, this AP report appeared in a number of papers (for the full text, try this Google search): LA Police Dept. Studies Facial Recognition SoftwareSaturday, December 25, 2004 The Los Angeles Police Department is experimenting with facial-recognition software it says will help identify suspects, but civil liberties advocates say the technology rais From EDUCAUSE Blogs - on December 29, 2004 at 5:01 p.m..

Santa Clara Democratic blog - Life in the party!
Apparently no one told the Santa Clara Democratic Party that it's supposed to lick Bush's ankles and roll over to have its belly scratched. The blog is feisty the way an opposition party should be. Elisa Camahort, who writes it, is keeping a day-by-day count-up of Bush's outrages. Good, partisan stuff - livelier and more frequent than the DNC's Kicking Ass blog.... From Joho the Blog on December 29, 2004 at 4:48 p.m..

The Red and Blue Book narratives
As Rayne points out in comments to my blog post on the administration's support of torture, to many Americans the events look very different. America harbors duelling narratives. The Blue Book's narrative is a story of creeping fascism in which the torturing of captives and suspects is just Chapter One. Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo are Kristallnacht and the invasion of Iraq is the invasion of the Rhineland — not in their moral equivalences, which are impossible to calibrate perfectly, but as harbingers: We should be awoken by them as the Germans were not. The Red Book's narra From Joho the Blog on December 29, 2004 at 4:48 p.m..

Wireless Data Revenues Top $4 Billion in 2004
The Yankee Group projects the market will reach $14 billion by 2008. From ClickZ Stats on December 29, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

Christmas Time Was Here Again
Ain't been round since you know when.... Time for a holiday/birthday miscellany: 1. The HD broadcast of carols from King's College Chapel, Cambridge on Christmas night was deeply moving. Here's technology for you: Dolby Digital surround sound put me into the deep, detailed ambience of this magnificent 16th-century chapel, ... From Gardner Writes on December 29, 2004 at 1:53 p.m..

E-Learning Grab Bag
Here are some items related to e-learning that have caught my interest lately. TOP OF THIS LIST: "Keyser Soze and Organizational Learning." One of Maish Nichani's favorite films (and mine) is "The Usual Suspects." In this article, Nichani describes the key scene where the incognito mafia kingpin Keyser Soze (Kevin Spacey) uses random bits of information in a police interrogation room to spin a bizarre but believeable story which throws the cops off track. Building on that insight, Nichani writes, "A rich experience base is what distinguishes an expert from a novice. One way to build an From Contentious Weblog on December 29, 2004 at 1:47 p.m..

Operating in realms of power
In a comment here yesterday Jay Rosen wrote this: Ken.... blogs will be more engaging than research papers and other "school" work if they are connected to the exercise of some power. For example, when you discover something by blogging that no one else has put together, when you have a real audience that follows your lead (and clinks your links), or when you get something wrong, and it affects others. These are the lessons students on the school newspaper have always... From Weblogs in Higher Education on December 29, 2004 at 11:52 a.m..

Where You Can Contribute to International Response Fund
A quick look around this morning finds that some very popular sites such as Amazon, Apple, Google, A9, Yahoo and others have rewritten their home pages to point folks to South Asia Response Fund locations. Amazon makes it very easy with one-click giving...... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on December 29, 2004 at 11:49 a.m..

Videoblogs...Another Tool in the Toolbox?
We've been making some inroads at my school into multimedia video projects using MovieMaker. It's been slow going as we've had to work through the process of the most efficient ways to save and produce the video our students take. But in the last couple of weeks, we've had some really fine interpretations of Romeo and Juliet as well as some minute-long vids with a political bent. I think the teachers are starting to see the potential despite the added time it takes to create them. Today, JD From weblogged News on December 29, 2004 at 9:48 a.m..

MasterMind Explorer - Issue 78 - For Independent Publishers and Change Agents
MasterMind Explorer - Issue 78 - For Independent Publishers and Change Agents From MasterMind Explorer on December 29, 2004 at 8:49 a.m..

Google worm targets AOL, Yahoo - Paul Festa, CNET News
Days after Google acted to thwart the Santy worm, security firms warned that variants have begun to spread using both Google and other search engines. The Santy problem originally flared up a week ago as bulletin board Web sites found their pages era From Techno-News Blog on December 29, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Trouble Can Be Downloaded Along With Music - Don Oldenburg, Washington Post
Some of this year's hottest gifts, especially for teens, are those tiny, portable digital music players such as the pack-leading Apple iPod (estimated holiday sales -- 4 million) and competitors like Creative Zen Micro and Rio. About the size of cell From Techno-News Blog on December 29, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

U.S. Broadband Lines Jump 15 Percent - Colin C. Haley, Internet News
The number of home and business broadband lines in the United States jumped 15 percent to 32.5 million during the first half of 2004, according to new data released by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The adoption rate was off slightly fro From Techno-News Blog on December 29, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

More students take advantage of online courses - Ann Austin, Albert Lea Tribune
It's almost New Years' and many people have already started looking forward to 2006. Some may even have New Years' resolutions.But what if your resolution is to become more learned, yet you can't go back to school because you have a family, a full-tim From Online Learning Update on December 29, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Distance learning grants offered - Fort Morgan Times
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development has announced the application window for the Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grant Program.The program is specifically designed to provide access to education, training and health care res From Online Learning Update on December 29, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

Guidelines for Establishing Interactivity in Online Courses - Mark Mabrito, Innovate
Students are most successful in online courses that provide ample opportunities for them to interact with the instructor, other students, and the course content. An interactive online course must engage students as active learners rather than as passi From Online Learning Update on December 29, 2004 at 8:46 a.m..

The BitTorrent Effect
Movie studios hate it. File-swappers love it. Bram Cohen's blazing-fast P2P software has turned the internet into a universal TiVo. For free video-on-demand, just click here. By Clive Thompson from Wired magazine. From Wired News on December 29, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

The Best Games You Haven't Played
This year was great for gamers -- so great that many deserving games were all but buried. Chris Kohler counts down the sleeper hits of 2004. From Wired News on December 29, 2004 at 6:45 a.m..

Asia: blogs sobre la catástrofe
Una serie de weblogs coordinados por Peter Griffin, Dina Mehta y Paola Di Maio están informando sobre los devastadores efectos del terremoto y maremoto que han asolado el sudeste asiático: The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Enquiries /Helplines /Emergency Services... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on December 29, 2004 at 5:50 a.m..

Ready for a "mental marathon"?
By Ron Gross - Make your 2005 learning more personal, more challenging, and more rewarding... undertake a mental marathon!... From Adult/Continuing Education on December 29, 2004 at 5:48 a.m..

The National Library and Documentation Services Board (NLDSB) of Sri Lanka seeks assistance from the ...
The National Library and Documentation Services Board (NLDSB) of Sri Lanka seeks assistance from the international community and especially from the IFLA members to reconstruct/repair the damaged libraries and the restoration of the damaged books and other library material From Peter Scott's Library Blog on December 29, 2004 at 5:46 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Bringing Some Order to Games City Students Play
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 29, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

Slow-Motion Miracle: One Boy's Journey Out of Autism's Grasp
An 8-year-old boy's continuing journey to break free of the grip of autism reflects a struggle that more than 150,000 American children have faced in the past decade. From New York Times: Education on December 29, 2004 at 4:45 a.m..

The Graphing Calculator Story
The Graphing Calculator Story I was frustrated by all the wasted effort, so I decided to uncancel my small part of the project. I had been paid to do a job, and I wanted to finish it. My electronic badge still opened Apple's doors, so I just kept showing up. Facinating story behind the classic Macintosh application, Graphing Calculator, and the guys who kept working on it and got it included on the machine even after being laid off from Apple...... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on December 29, 2004 at 3:46 a.m..

Vera Katz
A Woman of Our Times (washingtonpost.com) Katz was a refugee, born in Germany, fleeing the Nazis as a child, then walking with her family away from Nazi-occupied France through the Pyrenees to Spain, then going on to Portugal and, finally, New York. David Broder has a nice article on our mayor and her career as her term of office ends. Vera Katz has had a very interesting life and career and Broder hits the highpoints...... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on December 29, 2004 at 3:46 a.m..

The Web and Disaster...
Today Will Richardson wrote about how information from the tsunami affected areas of the Indian Ocean is being published by not only traditional news sources, but also bloggers and how a tool such as RSS can be used to help one keep up to date with the latest information. He points to a New York Times piece which highlights some specific sites that illustrate this point. Will's post also contains a link to a Google News Feed he created using a form off of Justin Phlister's site. This form creates an RSS feed based on Google News search criteria. While... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on December 29, 2004 at 3:46 a.m..

PC4peace Leader Needed
Tim Denny, the founder of the Kansai-based NPO, PC4peace, is moving from Japan in March, leaving the organization without a leader. Currently PC4peace has been working hard to provide Cambodian students with used PCs from Japan. This is a great service, for it helps to minimize the 'digital divide', giving young Cambodians a chance to access the kind of information we take for granted, while giving Japanese corporations and businesses an easy, cost effective way to dispose of their used PCs and do something positve for the glob From apcampbell News on December 29, 2004 at 1:52 a.m..

Susan Sontag Dies
As though an aftershock of that horrifying tsunami that hit Asia yesterday, another great thinker has died today: Susan Sontag. Her work on photography, illness, and camp deserve to be remembered. Particularly "Illness as Metaphor" -- a book that really helped me to think allegorically about what I do from... From PEDABLOGUE on December 29, 2004 at 12:48 a.m..

Donate the inaugural money
JHopper writes in the comments to a post about where to donate: We would like to suggest that the people of the United States innundate the White House, Republican Party, etc. to demand that they donate the $40 million they are planning to spend on the Bush 2nd term inaugural. It is only RIGHT the our rich nation and the rich contributors do this. What a powerful symbol that would be. The original $15M we pledged was shamefully low, even when we thought "only" 25,000 people had died. Now apparently we have added another $20M. I want my government to... From Joho the Blog on December 28, 2004 at 11:48 p.m..