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How About a "Lower" Ed BloggerCon???
Peterson's is trying to get an online Higher Ed BlogCon going: Thomson Peterson's, PRNewswire, and CASE are proud to present HigherEd BlogCon - Transforming Academic Communities with New Tools of the Social Web. This brand-new, all-online event aims to bring together in a single Web space many of the leading players who are transforming academe with their use of the new tools of the Social Web. The site has a pretty comprehensive list of topics, including these related to teaching: The changing nature of From weblogged News on January 10, 2006 at 1:47 p.m..

MERLOT now Including Podcasts
The latest MERLOT newsletter is available (the Grapevine); among other interesting happenings they report on the inclusion of podcasts in the repository. _____JH _______ "We can expect to see a huge explosion of audio and video learning resources in higher education. MERLOT members can now contribute mate From EduResources--Higher Education Resources Online on January 10, 2006 at 1:47 p.m..

Clarissa knows it all, OCD version
Just in case you were looking for the most complete scholarly explanation of where the Darling family, of Clarissa Knows It All, lives. Personally, I think they live next door to the Simpsons. [Thanks to Leah Weinberger for the link.] [Tags: trivia clarissa tv]... From Joho the Blog on January 10, 2006 at 11:48 a.m..

After Method
I've just started reading After Method by John Law, a defense of messiness in the social sciences. I'm a couple of chapters in and really liking it. [Tags: metaphysics socialScience johnLaw afterMethod EverythingIsMiscellaneous]... From Joho the Blog on January 10, 2006 at 11:48 a.m..

LANACION.com y Clarín.com
Entrevistas en eBlog: Guillermo Riera de LANACION.com y Guillermo Cullel de Clarín.com From eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 10, 2006 at 9:52 a.m..

Zope & Twisted
I was discussing to implement some web projects based on either Zope or the Twisted framework. The latest version of Zope 3 now replaces the internal ZServer with the Twisted framework. Maybe this distinction becomes more or less obsolete: The ZServer has been replaced with the Twisted server. The Twisted server supports all that the ZServer supporting has well has HTTP over SSL natively and SFTP (disabled for now because of error handling problems). Also in the future it brings a better chance of other non-HTTP related protocols from be From owrede_log on January 10, 2006 at 9:47 a.m..

Change or Die
Spent Firday night, all day Saturday, and most of the day Sunday at Seton Hall with Alan November working with their Executive Ed.D students, and as always, my head is still pretty much spinning. It's always a treat to work with Alan, but the conversations that this particular cohort got into about the best ways to teach teachers and the ethical use of these technologies and all sorts of other ideas was really pushing my own thinking. What's that old saying about learning by teaching? Anyway, over the next From weblogged News on January 10, 2006 at 8:47 a.m..

College Credit by Exam
V.J. Cruse finally completed her Bachelor degree by "testing out" for college credits. Energized by the achievement, she wrote this article to help other adults save time and money while securing college credentials. V.J.'s first article for About.com is informative... From Adult/Continuing Education on January 10, 2006 at 7:50 a.m..

Informelles Lernen
Kurz vor Weihnachten haben zwei Newsdienste das Stichwort "Informelles Lernen" aufgegriffen. Global Learning bietet z.B. ein Interview mit Jay Cross, der derzeit an einem Buch zum Thema sitzt. Gefallen hat mir besonders seine Antwort auf die (in vielen Beiträgen wiederkehrende... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on January 10, 2006 at 6:51 a.m..

Free Software as a Social Movement
Auch in der Weiterbildung sind ja Open Source-Projekte und Initiativen wie Creative Commons inzwischen angekommen. Da kommt dieses Interview mit Richard Stallman, Gründer des GNU-Projekts (GNU = GNU is Not Unix) und engagierter Verfechter Freier Software gerade recht, um einige... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on January 10, 2006 at 5:51 a.m..

Crash course in learning theory
Das Schöne: Die Autorin reiht nicht Theorien aneinander, sondern übersetzt wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse und praktische Erfahrungen in einfache Ratschläge für alle, die im weitesten Sinne als Trainer, Lehrer oder Programmdesigner unterwegs sind. "So, as promised in an earlier post, here's... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on January 10, 2006 at 5:51 a.m..

Lanzan un Who’s Who de la blogosfera francófona
El metablog francés pointblog.com anuncia el lanzamiento del Who’s Who de la blogosphère francophone. Editado por Maxence Layet, el sitio recoge las fichas de personajes públicos con weblogs, así como de bloguers que por su popularidad o influencia se han convertido en personajes públicos. Relacionado: Liberté, egalité, blogalité From eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 10, 2006 at 4:52 a.m..

Designing for the Web
Here's a reality check when it comes to designing for the Web. The following constraints are covered: ResolutionDesigning for browsersWeb-safe colorGraphics compressionText From elearningpost on January 10, 2006 at 4:46 a.m..

Knowledge Management for Development Journal
Nice articles dealing with the role of culture in knowledge sharing. Via Full Circle. From elearningpost on January 10, 2006 at 4:46 a.m..

In Last Call, Regents Approve 4 New Charter Schools for New York
But the Board of Regents shut out two would-be school operators. From New York Times: Education on January 10, 2006 at 2:45 a.m..

Diepkloof Journal: A Man Who Has Passed Many Tests Vies With One More
For Phillip Chauke, 84, of South Africa, the journey toward literacy and an education is not so much about the future as the past. From New York Times: Education on January 10, 2006 at 2:45 a.m..

Bush Visits School to Speak on Education Law
President Bush visited an exemplary school on Monday to say that his signature education law, No Child Left Behind, was working. From New York Times: Education on January 10, 2006 at 2:45 a.m..

MP3 Goes for Surround Sound - John Blau, IDG News Service
The inventors of MP3 are taking portable music listening one step further with the introduction of two surround sound enhancements. Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (Fraunhofer IIS) and France's Thomson SA have added two new elements From Techno-News Blog on January 9, 2006 at 11:49 p.m..

Google denies low-cost PC claims: Rumors of Google, Wal-Mart launching PC with its own OS 'wholly inaccurate' - Jonny Evans, Macworld.co.uk
The LA Times has sparked an international wave of rumours that Google and Wal-Mart Stores will launch a low-cost PC with a Google-made OS at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas -- but it's just not true, the search giant told Macworld UK Wedn From Techno-News Blog on January 9, 2006 at 11:49 p.m..

iPod rivals ready for prime time at last? - John Borland, CNET News
A shadow shaped like an apple is looming behind many of the star-studded speeches and product announcements at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. Even though Apple Computer is likely saving its biggest news for its own Macworld confere From Techno-News Blog on January 9, 2006 at 11:49 p.m..

People as a Source of Breakthrough Innovation
Stefano Marzano, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Creative Director, Philips Design writes about how Philips goes about looking for design opportunities. At Philips,we apply this approach to three things: our market,ourselves, and our interactions with our consumers...By combining all the insights we gain from looking at our market, ourselves, and the consumer interface, we can arrive at a general vision ofthe future. On that basis,we can then work out, for the next few years, what new ty From elearningpost on January 9, 2006 at 9:46 p.m..

This feed has been discontinued, please unsubscribe. [2006-01-10]
This feed has been discontinued and you should unsubscribe. The feed reader you are using does not support standard HTTP mechanisms for announcing that a feed has been discontinued so you will receive this message until you manually unsubscribe. Please contact the provider of your feed reader and encourage them to support the use of HTTP 410 response codes. Your feed reader identified itself as "Edu_RSS/0.2 libwww-perl/5.79" From Seb Schmoller's Fortnightly Mailing Home Page on January 9, 2006 at 8:49 p.m..

Rob Reynolds - Parables on Learning -- The Basic Principles - XplanaZine
Well I think it's a bit sappy but I think people will like it (I've been wrong - and sappy - before). "These ten basic Principles of Learning are really a series of actions that successful people people can take in their daily lives. In fact, since learning is such an integral part of living, these rules might more appropriately be called the basic principles of a good life." Maybe I ought to take pen in hand to write about what I think the good life is - maybe that would help me figure it out. [Link] [Tags: OLDaily on January 9, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Vincent Tinto - Learning Communities: Building Gateways to Student Success - National Teaching and Learning Forum
Mentioned in passing by Alan Levine, Vincent Tinto is a good source for information on learning communities in traditional settings. In this article, from 1998, he identifies several types of learning communities and observes, "The responsibilities and roles of the faculty and students, and of student affairs professionals, become less distinct, more blurred as each attempts to negotiate meaning with the other." He hits the mark elsewhere as well, discussing the importance of OLDaily on January 9, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Tom Hoffman - My Blogging Resolution for 2006 - ESchool News
Tom Hoffman pledges to be honest about his biases in 2006, a good thing, and while pointing to the mostly worthwhile philosophies of the Coalition of Essential Schools he makes most clear, I think, his disdain for some more recent (or as he says, "ersatz") theories of learning. He writes, "Nothing, not a single damn thing I've learned about technology has changed what I've always believed about teaching and learning by humans." I wish I knew so much that I could be so certain about my fundamental principles and beliefs. Via OLDaily on January 9, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Sohini Bagchi - The E-learning Boom Is Here! - CXOtoday
Cheerleading article, useful because it points to market leaders (Wipro, Satyam, Accenture, Convergys, ING Vysya Bank) and points to some weaknesses ("the biggest growth and adaptation inhibitor is not lack of solutions or their quality, but the need for an internal change management. At the same time its penetration has not been phenomenal in all sectors in the country, cautioned Joseph. This is especially true for the government sector..."). Via The Learned Man. [OLDaily on January 9, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Shashwat Chaturvedi - India: E-learning's Knight in Shining Armour - CIOL
This might surprise some readers: "India has a near monopoly in the e-learning services domain." According to the article, "if you are a writer, a software professional, a graphic artist or a management professional, living in one of the metros [in India] chances are you must have received an email or a call from the headhunters offering a job at one of e-learning companies." [Link] [Tags: Online Learning] [Com From OLDaily on January 9, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Christopher D. Sessums - The Beginnings of a Manifesto for Reforming Education in the U.S.
I don't see why the author would limit his attention to the U.S., but this short article starts off on the right track, I think. Sort of. This bit is good: "This political movement requires xoeemergence,xx where change is initiated from below, not handed down from above." But this isn't: "For the act of teaching and learning to change at both an institutional level and an active, social level, teachers need to join together and form a unified vision of working conditions and compensation." No. The whole concept of emergence requires that invividuals form autonomous visions and From OLDaily on January 9, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Matt Pasiewicz - Open Educational Resources at the Internet Archive - Educause
Interesting. From Internet Archive: "The Open Educational Resources Archive is a collection of educational content including coursework, study guides, exercises, and recorded lectures. It is meant for students, teachers, and self-learners at all levels." [Link] [Tags: ] [Comment] From OLDaily on January 9, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

David Wiley - RIP-ping on Learning Objects - Iterating Toward Openness
David Wiley writes, "I don't think I care if learning objects are dead or not." Now if that doesn't get you to click on the link I don't know what will. Wiley recounts the reusability paradox he outlined a few years ago, and yet underlines the value learning objects were supposed to bring. He writes, "As I've thought about that need, I think it is best expressed as easily localizable resources." So where was the problem? "In retrospect, the primary weakness of this definition was supposed to be the keyword it all hinged upon: 'reuse.' [which was] almost unanimousl From OLDaily on January 9, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Rob Wall - EdTech Posse Podcast #012 - The Last Remains of Our Breakfast Chat at SACE - The EdTech Posse
The world's longest breakfast wraps up with the fourth and final podcast of my breakfast conversation with the Ed Tech Posse in Regina. Listen and enjoy. [Link] [Tags: Podcasting] [Comment] From OLDaily on January 9, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Terry Anderson - PLEx
Terry Anderson cautions, "Although there is something quite compelling about the vision of a lifelong learning environment that is centered upon and perpetually belongs to the learner, I think we are some distance from being able to operationalize that vision." Still, "the PLE future seems to be more secure than that of any monolithic LMS." [Link] [Tags: ] [Comment] From OLDaily on January 9, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Stephen Downes - MyGlu - Stephen's Web
Sites like SuprGlu portend the expressive power inherent in RSS and Web 2.0 but it - and other sites like it - frustrate me because they tie the user to their website, their service (and their business model, their advertising, and ultimately, Yahoo!). They seem to work like magic, but what they are doing is not magic - unless, perhaps, it's a magic of PR. This link is to a script I wrote today (yes, it represents exactly one day's work, though I'll clean it up and add to it over the next week or so) which performs the functionality of SuprGl From OLDaily on January 9, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Blogalito
Planned Parenthood is blogging the Alito hearings, although it's almost 3 pm, the hearings started at noon, and so far they haven't posted anything. I want my instant blogratification! Plus they're moderating comments. Loosen up Planned Parenthood! [Tags: alito blogs plannedParenthood]... From Joho the Blog on January 9, 2006 at 4:49 p.m..

Domainpulse appearance
I'm an invited speaker at Domainpulse, a conference organized by the 3 German domain registrars. A quite intersting program that scope reaches from questions and experiences with domains in Iran to political questions about Internet governance to Social So From thomas n. burg | randgänge on January 9, 2006 at 4:47 p.m..

Losing subscribers
I've always wondered how many RSS subscribers take the time to switch addresses when a good blogger changes to a new URL. I see that one really strong blogger, Ed Cone, has just about nine times more Bloglines subscribers at his now defunct site than at his new site. He made the switch two months ago, on November 5th. From Weblogs in Higher Education on January 9, 2006 at 2:53 p.m..

Spoke too soon
Yesterday I mentioned that the blogging students hadn't been posting since the semester ended, but this morning one of them showed up in the aggregator after all. Some things just take time... From Weblogs in Higher Education on January 9, 2006 at 2:53 p.m..

Salón del automóvil de Detroit
Buen seguimiento en Motorpasión (sección Salones del Automóvil, con fuente RSS) del 2006 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) de Detroit From eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 9, 2006 at 2:52 p.m..

Los mejores weblogs literarios de 2005
Blogeratura es una comunidad de weblogs literarios de habla hispana que cuenta con más de 700 miembros. Ahora acaban de organizar Los mejores blogs literarios del 2005, certamen en el que ha resultado ganador El ánima dispersa de Alberto Chimal, blogger de México que abandonó su bitácora a mediados de ... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 9, 2006 at 2:52 p.m..

An American
The Boston Globe obituary of Stanely Tupper of Maine recounts his years in Congress as one of the most principled of liberal Republicans, his vote for the Voting Rghts Act and the Medicare Act, his refusal to support Barry Goldwater or the first Bush president, his law practice, his co-authorship of a book on US-Canada relations, his years as a lawyer and his continued involvement in politics. I hadn't known of him before reading the obituary, but I came away impressed. But what struck me most is this quote from his wife towards the end of the article: But the... From Joho the Blog on January 9, 2006 at 2:49 p.m..

Innovations in the Reuse of Electronic Learning Materials: Drivers and Challenges
This keynote talk by Derek Morrison (Auricle) at the Cambridge-MIT Conference about electronic learning materials covers a number of interesting points. "My Challenges ... considered the following: Technology can easily become an innovative way of not changing. Reusable learning materials do not by themselves make for deep learning. Technologies increasingly tend to determine pra From EduResources--Higher Education Resources Online on January 9, 2006 at 2:47 p.m..

Learning 2.0
Web 2.0 will be a major theme this year. The read/write web (at last) and the web as platform. Mash-ups and DIY (do-it-yourself). Folksonomies. Whatever you feel like throwing into the pot. There's no authoritative definition of Web 2.0. You know it when you see it. It's Flickr, Del.icio.us, JotSpot, Writely, Digg, GoogleMaps, and Feedburner. [...] From Internet Time Blog on January 9, 2006 at 2:45 p.m..