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Intranet workshop calendar (Australia)
We've just finalised our workshop calendar for the first half of the year, and we'll be visiting Canberra, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth. Dates as follows: Dates Location Event Name 17 February 2006 Melbourne Intranets as a Business Tool 22 February 2006 Canberra Improving Intranet... From Column Two on January 20, 2006 at 9:47 p.m..

Determining link order on intranet portals
Jared Spool has written a small blog entry on determining link order on intranet portals. To quote: Several folks have asked what techniques we've used to determine the ideal order of links. We've had good success on intranets with a... From Column Two on January 20, 2006 at 9:47 p.m..

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WWWhat´s new?
WWWhat´s new? es un blog hiper-especializado que únicamente publica posts sobre nuevas aplicaciones web. Sin divagaciones, sin salirse del tema: una aplicación, un post. Muy útil para quienes no tenemos tiempo de rastrear esta información por distintas fuentes o de filtrarla. De hecho, se parece mucho a un canal o ... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 20, 2006 at 6:52 p.m..

Request for Program: Notetella
I remain surprised that I can't find a program that lets me do the most basic of research tasks: Take notes. on books...you know, the paper-based web sites we used to read. Oh, sure, there are word processors and various outliners, some of which are terrific. But note-taking has some specific requirements. So, here's my RFP for a program I'm calling Notetella for purposes of discussion. ("RFP" is short for "Easy for you to say.") It's got a stand-alone client and a Web portion. Client The client lets me enter the bibliographic data for a source I'm reading. The form... From Joho the Blog on January 20, 2006 at 6:48 p.m..

The media gets Wikipedia wrong again
This is a message, verbatim, Jimmy "Wikipedia" Wales sent to a mailing list I'm on. (I asked his permission to run it, and turned some urls into hyperlinks.) The Associated Press:"The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs the collaborative Web encyclopedia, reached a temporary settlement with a Berlin court that will let users access the German-language version of Wikipedia at http://de.wikipedia.org, hosted in the United States, instead of its usual http://www.wikipedia.de." — Businessweek Another version:"The German version of Wikipedia returned to the Internet on Friday after three da From Joho the Blog on January 20, 2006 at 6:48 p.m..

The Zorking of Iraq
Defective Yeti has a funny transcript of the invasion of Iraq as a text adventure. Here's how it begins: Oval OfficeYou are standing inside a White House, having just been elected to the presidency of the United States. You knew Scalia would pull through for you. There is a large desk here, along with a few chairs and couches. The presidential seal is in the middle of the room and there is a full-length mirror upon the wall. What do you want to do now? > INVADE IRAQYou are not able to do that, yet. > LOOK MIRRORSelf-reflection is not... From Joho the Blog on January 20, 2006 at 6:48 p.m..

Schools Chancellor Says New Overhaul Will Give More Principals More Autonomy
Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein wants to free at least 150 more schools from the oversight of superintendents provided they meet specific goals. From New York Times: Education on January 20, 2006 at 2:45 p.m..

Online Engineering Resources
The latest issue of Freepint includes a useful "tips article" by Roddy MacLeod, "Engineering: the changing information landscape." Many links to engineering repositories are included in the article.  _____JH ____ "My first FreePint article on engineering portals appeared back in issue No. 66 (6th July 2000). Quite a number of things have changed since that time. The first part of this article revisits some of the resources I shared back then. The second section From EduResources--Higher Education Resources Online on January 20, 2006 at 1:47 p.m..

Test sobre weblogs USA
Saqué un 8/10 en el test: How Much of a Blog Expert Are You? [vía] From eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 20, 2006 at 11:52 a.m..

Curriculum Summit with Chris and David
Chris Lehmann graciously invited me down to Philadelphia this morning to take part in a Curriculum Summit for his new Science Leadership Academy School opening up in September. Right now David Warlick is giving a short keynote, and it's not wonder why David has become one of the busiest Read/Write Web educators out there. (That's David and Chris in the picture, btw.) His message is truly powerful, that for the From weblogged News on January 20, 2006 at 11:47 a.m..

Un asado por favor
Hernán Casciari en la segunda entrega de su trilogía de reivindicación gastronómica: para nosotros el vacuno es un animal irrepetible, único, dador de infinitos manjares tiernos; mientras que para ellos la vaca es solamente la mujer del toro. Y viendo lo que le hacen al marido, tampoco se puede esperar ... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 20, 2006 at 5:52 a.m..

Paul Nelson: K-12 Linux Terminal Server Project
Paul Nelson: K-12 Linux Terminal Server Project: Tim Wilson interviews Paul Nelson... Paul is a leader in the k-12 Linux movement and an all around great guy... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on January 20, 2006 at 2:50 a.m..

EduTools
A nifty site this. Compares different kinds of learning maagement sytems. It seems to be up to date too, and includes Moodle (I'm ony adding the Moodle word as that always increases the read count of news items!) From ScotFEICT on January 19, 2006 at 11:52 p.m..

Nano Building Made Easy - Kevin Bullis, Technology Review
For quite a while, researchers have been trying to develop novel ways of controlling the structure of materials on the scale of a few billionths of a meter -- the size of large molecules. Such an achievement could lead to materials with exotic properties, From Techno-News Blog on January 19, 2006 at 11:50 p.m..

Survey Finds Google Is Strong in China - JOE McDONALD, Associated Press
A survey of Chinese Web surfers found U.S.-based search giant Google in an unexpectedly strong position to challenge domestic rival Baidu.com, according to results released Wednesday. Google came in first in 11 of 13 categories in the survey of 1,200 Inte From Techno-News Blog on January 19, 2006 at 11:50 p.m..

First impressions count for web - BBC
Internet users make up their minds about the quality of a website in the blink of an eye, a study shows. Researchers found that the brain makes decisions in just a twentieth of a second of viewing a webpage. They were surprised as they believed it would t From Techno-News Blog on January 19, 2006 at 11:50 p.m..

Lisa Neal - Predictions for 2006: E-learning Experts Map the Road Ahead - ELearn Magazine
It's that time of the year again for eLearn magazine as the editor rounds up the usual suspects for their views on the year ahead. Richard E. Mayer says the U.S. Department of Justice will likely quash the Blackboard - WebCT merger. Michael Feldstein sees e-learning being delivered using an increasing number of gizmos and gadgets. Karl M. Kapp touts m-learning. My own prediction is included and is... puzzling. What was I thinking, submitting a prediction consisting entirely of questions? Oh well. And, just for fun, here are OLDaily on January 19, 2006 at 11:45 p.m..

Various authors - wikiHow
I am concerned that the Wikifolk may be spreading their efforts too thin, but I have also learned never to bet against the crowd. "wikiHow is a collaborative writing project to build the world's largest how-to manual." Via Mark Oehlert. [Link] [Tags: Project Based Learning] [Comment] From OLDaily on January 19, 2006 at 11:45 p.m..

Stuart Yeates - BECTA Review Microsoft Licensing - Educause
As the headline says. "Schools do not get good value for money from current Microsoft licensing agreements." [Link] [Tags: Microsoft] [Comment] From OLDaily on January 19, 2006 at 11:45 p.m..

Rob Wall - Building a School Website One Blog at a Time - StigmergicWeb
I'm in Edson and spent the day giving a seminar at the Grande Yellowhead School Division. It was a fun day. I have audio, but my system resolutely refuses to let me upload them - whether it's my FTP program, my web server, or the hotel connection, I don't know. So I offer you this link, about building a school website one blog at a time - because I will certainly use it as an example during the continuation of our seminar tomorrow. [Link] [Tags: Web Logs From OLDaily on January 19, 2006 at 11:45 p.m..