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Blogpocalypse
Ad Modum Digirati: Who will survive the blogpocalypse? [vía]. Content is still the king my friends… From eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 17, 2006 at 7:52 p.m..

Thomas L. Friedman - The World is Flat - MIT World
Video of a speech given by Thomas Friedman at MIT derived from his book, The World is Flat. Introduction by Charles M. Vest. [Link] [Tags: ] [Comment] From OLDaily on January 17, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Melanie Bates, Steve Loddington, Sue Manuel and Charles Oppenheim - Rights and Rewards Project: Academic Survey: Final Report - Jisc
Survey that asks two questions of academics: "What rights would individuals expect to exert over the teaching materials they deposit into a repository, and what rewards would motivate them to deposit their teaching materials?" According to the results, contributors would like a salary increment or lump sum award (of course, there is a big difference, glossed in this survey, between 'like' and 'require'). As for rights, most professors wanted to be attributed, and with 'certain conditions' attached (for example, non-commercial use). These results are consistent wit From OLDaily on January 17, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Unattributed - LSDA e-learning Professional Development Framework: Consultation Call - Learning and Skills Development Agency
Description of a professional development plan and process to improve practitioners' knowledge of learning technologies. Pretty detailed (even includes stuff like "Use appropriate e-learning tools to record and store learners' progress and achievements and ensure learner records are complete and up to date"). Direct link... I'm linking to a general page where the link is (probably temporarily) available (there's also a link on this page to an interesting OLDaily on January 17, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Norm Friesen - CanCore Pilot Project: Enhancing LAC Metadata for Canadian Learning Resources - CanCore
Norm Friesen writes, "CanCore has undertaken a small-scale pilot project to enhance existing metadata records for Canadian learning resources provided by the Library and Archives of Canada. This project enhances or adds value to these records not so much by adding additional data or fields, but by converting these records from Dublin Core to the syntax and semantics of CanCore and the Learning Object Metadata Standard (LOM). In this way, it enables these records --and by extension the resources they describe-- to be easily used in the LOM-based repositories of educational resources set up by p From OLDaily on January 17, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Sarah Boehle - The State of the E-learning Market - Training Mag
Interesting analysis, though the focus is almost entirely on learning management systems, which perhaps says something. Observing that the long-expected industry consolidation has already happened, for the most part, the report notes that a problem for LMSs is that they all look and feel pretty much like each other - even while at the same time not being able to properly exchange data with each other or enterprise systems. The outlook isn't positive. "These companies are generating enough cash to remain [afloat], but they aren't generating the kinds of profit margins that will keep i From OLDaily on January 17, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Norm Friesen - Standardizing for Access - Interview with Jutta Treviranus - CanCore
Norm Friesen interviews Jutta Treveranus, one of Canada's leading experts on web accessibility. Podcast and transcript are available. Some interesting observations. "There was quite a transition from IMS to ISO. When we did the consultations around the formulation of the IMS version of ACCMD the feedback that we got from the community was that it would be very difficult to get any additional metadata on any digital resource. People were not filling out the metadata for resources that was already a part of existing standards..." [OLDaily on January 17, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Josie Fraser - Edublog Meetup3 - Ed Tech UK
If you are going to be in London on February 4, come meet with me and some of the leading lights of the British edublogosphere. I will be in the city only for a short time on my way to Sweden for an OECD conference on open learning the following week. [Link] [Tags: ] [Comment] From OLDaily on January 17, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Stephen Downes - RSS Writr - Stephen's Web
So anyhow, I heard this odd whining noise in my computer bag just before leaving for Edmonton... yup, it was another Dell computer giving up the ghost (it wasn't even turned on!)... so anyhow, I'm in Alberta now, writing from a hotel cafeteria on a backup computer with no ethernet (wireless works fine though, go figure). It's going to be a tough week for access, so don't be surprised if I miss a few issues of OLDaily this week. What I'm linking to here is pretty unfinished, but I won't get back to it for at least a week (maybe longer, depending on Dell). B From OLDaily on January 17, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Quentin D'Souza - 50+ RSS Ideas for Educators - Teaching Hacks
I had the opportunity to review this over the week-end and it's good enough that I sent it ahead of me so I could use it for my presentation this week in Edson, Alberta. It's pretty complete, factually accurate, and contains dozens and dozens of ideas for the use of RSS (and associated technologies) in education. Great stuff; don't miss this. [Link] [Tags: ] [Comment] From OLDaily on January 17, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

[Berkman] Dan Gillmor
Dan is giving a lunchtime talk about his new project, a center for citizen journalism hosted jointly by Berkman and UC Berkeley Journalism grad school. Pretty damn cool. [As always, the following summarizes Dan's comments, which means I am certainly getting them wrong.] Dan says a moment when he had begun as a reporter at the San Jose Mercury News started him down this course: He realized that his readers know more than he does. At first, he says, that was daunting, but then it was liberating. "It's about changing media from lecture to conversation." The Center is going to... From Joho the Blog on January 17, 2006 at 5:48 p.m..

The end of coverage
[Note: I think I may be saying something tired, obvious, and oft said. So what else is new?] Thinking about Dan Gillmor's talk today it seemed to me that the journalistic conniption we're going through is going to be resolved in part by giving up on the notion of coverage. (I asked Dan about this afterwards; he hopes I'm wrong.) The notion that a newspaper can "cover" the day's events has always been a myth. Just ask Ethan about "coverage" of Africa in even the best US newspapers. In the post-paper world, we're not going to be able to even... From Joho the Blog on January 17, 2006 at 5:48 p.m..

Future of the Profession
Vor allem assoziative, weniger systematische Aussichten liefert dieser Artikel. Das Ganze erinnert mich etwas an TAFKAP oder "The artist formerly known as Prince". Hier ist es "the artist formerly known as training professional", vor über zwei Jahren vom ASTD jedoch... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on January 17, 2006 at 4:51 p.m..

Reports from the CETIS Vocabularies Project
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/elp_vocabularies.html Wow, what can one say, these reports from the Cetis Vocabularies Project are nothing if not exhaustive. Pretty well everything one could ever want to know about controlled vocabularies for pedagogical resources are contained in these three reports. And if you needed more evidence of the width of the gap between the 'big standards' approach to learning resources and where the best < From EdTechPost on January 17, 2006 at 2:52 p.m..

Grieving at MySpace
This weekend, a very popular student at my school and her mother were tragically killed in a car accident. It's been a difficult few days for many in our community. The reason I mention it is that the student and many of her friends had sites at MySpace, and while hers has since been closed to public view, many of the other kids have been posting pictures and thoughts on their own sites in her memory. What's been striking to me is the scope of the outpouring online among these kids who are obviously making use of these sites to support each other and to grieve her passing. No doubt, From weblogged News on January 17, 2006 at 2:47 p.m..

Top 50 Advertisers by Media Value in November, 2005
Top 50 Advertisers by Media Value in November, 2005 From ClickZ Stats on January 17, 2006 at 1:45 p.m..

Gore unbound
Salon is running a transcript of Al Gore's fierce speech yesterday about the danger to democracy posed by an executive branch that recognizes no limits on its authority. Salon's titles it with this quote: "America's Constitution is in grave danger." I admire Gore, and not just for speaking out so forcefully. He has learned from his defeat in a way that Kerry has not. I hope Gore runs for president. PS: You can read the transcript in Salon by agreeing to watch an ad. I wish Salon would make an exception in this case and just openly post it. [Tags:... From Joho the Blog on January 17, 2006 at 10:48 a.m..

Blog Book Almost Cooked--Preorders Open
(From the "Shameless Self-Promotion Dept.") I've got one last permission left to get, but either way, it looks like things are on track for my book to come out in early March. (I still can't believe it.) If you like, you can preorder it here. Please spread the word if you're so inclined, and let me just say again how much I appreciate all the support and assistance I've gotten from so many of you already. It's turned out to be an a From weblogged News on January 17, 2006 at 10:47 a.m..

Web 3.0 and other delights
In web technology, as in fashion, you're either in or you're out. 17 January 2006 From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on January 17, 2006 at 9:49 a.m..

Wikipedia Vs School Board Web Site
Wikipedia Vs School Board Web Site: So because one or a few people have control of the board website, and everyone has control of Wikipedia, it seems as though Wikipedia becomes more accurate than the actual board website. Quentin D has a very interesting post about the relative accuracy of his school district's web site compared to the Wikipedia entry for his school district. From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on January 17, 2006 at 2:50 a.m..

Clockr - It's Flickr Time
Clockr - It's Flickr Time: A clock using numeral images from Flickr... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on January 17, 2006 at 1:50 a.m..

Jaron Lanier
Last night Jaron Lanier spoke to fifty of us at a cybersalon at Berkeley's Hillside Club. Jaron is the polymath musician who invented VR and started one of the first virtual reality companies. What a guy! I'm still reveling in some of the ideas he put before us. A brief sample: Notation doesn't capture the [...] From Internet Time Blog on January 17, 2006 at 1:45 a.m..

Tickr for Flickr
tickr for flickr Tickr is a Mac OS X application that provides a moving ticker of images from Flickr. These can include a ticker of images from a specific user, from a tag, or from search string. From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on January 17, 2006 at 12:50 a.m..

Going virtual cuts costs at Palm Beach college - Lucas Mearian, Computer World
Palm Beach Community College is going virtual: virtual servers, virtual network and virtual storage. The college, which has 49,000 students and 2,000 employees, has nearly completed the rollout of a server and storage consolidation project that will even From Techno-News Blog on January 17, 2006 at 12:49 a.m..

911 dials IP technology - Marguerite Reardon, News.com
Last year's hurricanes along the southeastern coast of the United States highlighted how fragile and woefully outdated the emergency communications system in this country has become. Now some experts who are building and maintaining 911 networks believe From Techno-News Blog on January 17, 2006 at 12:49 a.m..

Will Your Intel-Based Mac Run Windows? - Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service
The idea of running Windows on the Apple Computer hardware just got a lot more appealing with the introduction of Macs built on Intel processors. But don't expect the Cupertino, California, company, to be too keen on its users running Windows on the new m From Techno-News Blog on January 17, 2006 at 12:49 a.m..