By Stephen Downes
June 12, 2003
Coping With Digital Rights
Management
Slides (PowerPoint again, sorry, I
need to make myself a really good HTML slide show engine)
of my talk this afternoon to the eduSource Industry Forum
here in Moncton about the Digital Rights Management system
we are developing for Canada's national digital rights
repository network. By Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web, June
12, 2003
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When Good Technology Goes Bad
I'm
not sure I would call videoconferencing 'good technology'
but this article, which examines what to do when your
videoconferencing fails, provides some good advice. From
rooms being reserved for other purposes to audio problems
to camera issues, this author has seen (almost) everything
that can go wrong. "Whenever a student would speak, we were
treated to a lovely view of a wall clock. Clearly, the
facilitators at the presenting site did not know that their
camera was not trained on their presenter." Tee hee. By
Scott Merrick, Tech Learning, June 1, 2003
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Hamlet on the
Ramparts
Interesting. This site, hosted by MIT's
Shakespeare
Project, is an attempt to compile all known resources
devoted to Hamlet, Act 1, Scenes 4 and 5, in which Hamlet
meets the ghost of his father. By Various Authors, MIT,
June, 2003
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Emotions in the Cyber Classroom
We
saw yesterday discussion about the role emotion plays in
learning. We have also seen, from time to time in my work,
discussions of meaning, for example, when I talk about how
people attach different meanings, and different importance
to, the same learning objects. This interesting paper
connects the cots. "Many educators routinely acknowledge
that thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, and values influence
learning. For instance, they may stress that information
must be 'meaningful,' or 'authentic,' but they fail to tell
us what mental process determines meaning. By and large,
that is an emotion-mediated process." Just as I said
yesterday, I would extend that to say that sensation in
general, and not just emotion, determines meaning. By
Charlotte A. Redden, Educator's Voice, June 11, 2003
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Blogging a Chore to
Students?
Oliver Wrede responds to my comments
on his essay Weblogs and Discourse (where I observe
that many students will not want to blog). He writes,
"Right now anything that fosters richer interaction, more
transparency and flow of information at a high rate is
better than anything we have." Sebastian Fiedler also weighs in on the
same comment. By Oliver Wrede, Details of a Global Brain,
June 3, 2003
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The Inquiry Page
Interesting site
forwarded to me by John which allows people (especially
students) to post questions, which are answered by an
ever-growing number of community members. The website
describes itself thus: "It's a dynamic virtual community
where inquiry-based education can be discussed, resources
and experiences shared, and innovative approaches explored
in a collaborative environment." The site already supports
many, many answers to different question which could, could
they not, become learning objects? By Various Authors,
June, 2003
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