By Stephen Downes
May 6, 2004
New Version of UK Education Metadata Profile
Released
A new version of the UK Learning Object
Metadata core (UK LOM Core) has been released. UK LOM is an
application profile of the IEEE-LOM standard (just as, say,
CanCore is) for use by British educational institutions. UK
LOM Core will remain a public draft until July 31st. Short
article with a link. By Wilbert Kraan, CETIS, May 6, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
XML TV Listings in RDF
This item
is a bookmark for my later use when I turn my attention to
events listings in RSS later this summer. By Matt Biddulph,
Hack Diary, September 7, 2003
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
Surf's Down as More Netizens Turn to RSS for
Browsing
The story in a nutshell: "While most
Netizens still surf to Web sites to catch the latest
postings, more users have found that to be a laborious,
time-consuming way to browse. Instead they are installing
"newsreader" software that constantly plucks feeds from
Weblogs and news outlets and pulls them together onto a
single screen." By J.D. Lasica, Online Journalism Review,
May 5, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
Beyond
Band: Music Technology Inspires Students
When I
was in high school, I decided I wanted to be in the school
band. Not being especially musical, I chose to play drums.
The day came for band practice, and I was given a kettle
drum and some sticks, put in the 'Drum Room' and told to
practice, which I did, all by myself for a couple of hours.
My tenure with the school band lasted through three days of
this. Today's instruction in music, according to this
article, is somewhat more inspiring. "Students in the high
school and the junior high work with MIDI (Musical
Instrument Digital Interface) connections, which are in
essence keyboards hooked up to computers... Music
technology expert David Mash of the Berklee School of Music
in Boston, calls it a 'musical word processor.'" Yeah, my
kind of instrument. By Ashley Ball, edutopia online, May,
2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
Commonwealth of Learning
Conference
More links from the Commonwealth of
Learning online conference, which today continues with
discussions of open content and open source, resistance to
technology and the use of blogs in learning: Planet
Apache, a collection of blogs written by members of the
Apache Software Foundation (an Open Source software
development community); Fast
Forward, Trinidad and Tobago's national information and
communication technology plan, Imfundo, ocusing on the benefits of ICT
in sub-Saharan Africa; Facts and Hypes of Information and
Communications Technology, a discussion of ICT in
Ghana; Blogging Across the Curriculum, Blogs and Learning Objects, and The Blog and the Borg: A collective approach
to elearning (MS Word document). By Various Authors,
Commonwealth of Learning, May 6, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
Analyst: Expect a 64-Bit Desktop by
2006
Every once in a while I write about 64-bit
computing, a development that is taking much longer to roll
out than I expected (my prediction in my 1998 paper was 'a
few years' and I have since predicted 2004 or 2005). This
article suggests that we should target 2006 for the arrival
of the new systems - and, of course, the massive
replacement of hardware and software that will follow. But
when it happens, notes the article, it will happen very
swiftly. Via Corante. By Tom Mainell, PC World, May 5, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
The Internet's Wilder
Side
Inter-Relay Chat, or IRC, is one of the
internet's older services. At any given time, according to
this article, about 500,000 people may be using it to
exchange ideas or, in some cases, software, MP3s and video
files. The author captures the free-for-all spirit of IRC
effectively, but although he notes that it can't be
stopped, the story contains overtones that suggest it
should be. That might not be so easy, though. As the
diagram in the right column illustrates, IRC is a
distributed network of connected servers and free-floating
channels. Via Corante. By Seth Schiesel, New York Times,
May 6, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
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