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We're Waking Up...Finally
So let's just get to the heart of this article in the Wall Street Journal on the changing face of cheating in schools: By some estimates, at least seven million new Web pages are added every day. In a competitive global labor market, where white-collar jobs are increasingly outsourced to other countries, being able to find and synthesize information about the World Bank could be more crucial than memorizing the date it opened. Failing to teach kids how to navigate in the knowl From weblogged News on January 23, 2006 at 10:47 p.m..

Blacksburg Blogging
I really do not have time for this, but I am contemplating the occasional post on my adopted home town of Blacksburg, VA (my real home town is in England). I have looked very deeply, but I have not found much online, and few weblogs writing about the place, at least in any depth. [...] From Serious Instructional Technology on January 23, 2006 at 9:46 p.m..

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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 23, 2006 at 8:49 p.m..

The Myth about Online Course Development
"A Faculty Member Can Individually Develop and Deliver an Effective Online Course." From eLearnopedia on January 23, 2006 at 7:53 p.m..

50 Ideas for Free E-learning: Higher Returns for Lower Investment
Review by Kineo of 15 key free or low cost technologies you can start using today to develop e and blended learning for next to nothing. From eLearnopedia on January 23, 2006 at 7:53 p.m..

Making Your Own Educational Materials for the Web
Excellent materials are available on the Internet, but there are advantages to making your own... From eLearnopedia on January 23, 2006 at 7:53 p.m..

Dan McCrea - Ajax Office Review - Innerphaze
I have mentioned Writely in this space in the past - it is a web-based word processor you write in using your browser. This article offers a very good overview of seven similar services, including gOffice and ThinkFree. I can only surmise that the number of these services will increase, as it is not rocket science to create one. If you are choosing one, just make sure you have some way to export your data to another service - portability will be key. Table version. [Link] [ From OLDaily on January 23, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Mark Oehlert - TiddlyWiki Rocks! - E-Clippings
I don't think it rocks quite so much (I have my doubts about the utility of loading an entire wiki into your browser in one go) but it's interesting enough to link to. [Link] [Tags: ] [Comment] From OLDaily on January 23, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Darren Kuropatwa - Safe Blogging Resources - A Difference
We talked in Edson about how to keep students safe in a world of blogging and social networks. And then along comes Darren Kuropatwa with this nice list of safe blogging resources from a variety of courses. [Link] [Tags: Web Logs, Networks] [Comment] From OLDaily on January 23, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Various authors - Curverider
Curverider launches today. "Curverider offers commercial support for the Elgg open source community enabling platform" and was founded by the developers of Elgg. Harold Jarche comments, "For the end-user, this business model is a dream. You can get the developers to support you, but if your needs change or you want to work with someone else you are free to leave with your source code." Dave Tosh posts an announcement on his blog, along with a list of OLDaily on January 23, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

WCSDTechie - Related Sites and Info for Stephen Downes Session - Techie Ramble
If you're still working through my 10 hours of podcast from Edson, you may want to refer to this page, written by one of the attendees, collecting the links mentioned in our discussion. Here is where some attendees posted the address to their brand-new blogs. Some said they would continue blogging - that would be nice to see. [Link] [Tags: Web Logs, OLDaily on January 23, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Akira Namatame - Collective Intelligence and Evolution - ERCIM News
We need to distinguish between 'selfish' behaviour and 'autonomous' behaviour. It is not obvious (and probably false) that self-directed behaviour will be (strictly) self-interested behaviour. Why would ants teach other ants, otherwise? How would self-sacrifice ever have emerged as a moral good? So this article, I would argue, is fundamentally misguided, and that the effort to "investigate the loss of collective welfare due to selfish and uncoordinated behavior" is something different than From OLDaily on January 23, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Ciaran O'Leary, Mark Humphrys and Ray Walshe - Collaborative Online Development of Modular Intelligent Agents - ERCIM News
This article picks up from Marvin Minsky's work and proposes a 'SOML' (Society of Mind Markup Language). "Natural intelligence is likely to be composed of multiple diverse algorithms and knowledge representation formats, with hundreds (or thousands) of specialised subsystems collaborating in some network (or 'Society of Mind'). This is in contrast to the 'one size fits all' approach of many popular algorithms in Artificial Intelligence." Yes - but, these do not need to be (and should not be) designed a priori. In my own approach, the society of mind ou From OLDaily on January 23, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Heather J. Ruskin and Ray Walshe - Emergent Computing - ERCIM News
As the editors summarize in this introduction to this special issue of ERCIM News, emergent computing is "highly complex processes arising from the cooperation of many simple processes, ie high-level behaviour resulting from low- level interaction of simpler building blocks." If you are wondering about the sort of theoretical background I am thinking of when I am thinking of learning networks, this is it (won't fit on the two page project approval template, though). As my discussions of the next two articles sho From OLDaily on January 23, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Mudasiru Olalere Yusuf - Problems and Prospects of Problems and Prospects of Open and Distance Education in Nigeria - Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education
Frank look at the implementation of open and distance learning in Nigeria and the problems faced by the service. Most of the problems are what would be expected - poor electricity service, postal service and telecommunications. Also facing Nigerians are inconsistencies in implementation and an inadequate ICT infrastructure. The author correctly argues for the need for stakeholder involvement and of finding ways to communicate with students in order to offer support. More articles from the current issue of the Turkish Online Journal of Dista From OLDaily on January 23, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Various authors - Techlearning Blog - TechLearning
Announced last week, this weblog - associated with Techlearning - features the writing of David Warlick, Terry Freedman, Miguel Guhlin, David Jakes and Wesley Fryer (it took me a bit to find it because Warlick's initial announcement didn't contain a URL to the new blog - tsk). I think these writers are better separately than together, and I don't have a lot of faith in magazine-based group blogs (I have been involved with some) - sooner or later the independence of the blogger clashes From OLDaily on January 23, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Brian Thill - An Idea Too Dangerous to Ignore - Inside Higher Ed
I would like to invite the same organization to put up $100 to each of my readers who spots and sends in some instance of bias or political affiliation. And to my readers, I pledge to offer a steady supply, to keep you all in cash. Or we could all recognize that having a point of view or perspective is fundamental to the very idea of being an academic, that such points of view are sometimes, and necessarily, out of the mainstream, and that the very principle of freedom of expression rails against the idea of punishing people - whatever their positions - for their political views. And today, in From OLDaily on January 23, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Mobile Video Ads See Opposition
Early adopters to mobile video prefer ad-free content, but possibility of acceptance still exists. From ClickZ Stats on January 23, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..

Technorati: Blog That Chart!
Por La Brújula Verde llego al nuevo servicio de Technorati: Blog That Chart! que genera el código para incluir en tu weblog las gráficas que generan tus búsquedas, por ejemplo: Spanish (Español) posts that contain Microsano per day for the last 7 daysGet your own chart! Pueden configurar el idioma y el ... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 23, 2006 at 2:53 p.m..

Why del.icio.us doesn't suck (but I do, and Firefox Quicksearch definitely doesn't!)
O.k., so while I still think it sucks that I can't currently import my old bookmarks into del.icio.us, Greg Ritter (yes, that Greg Ritter, he's still alive, just lurking but not blogging) quite reasonably pointed out that there is no time like the present to make the shift to del.icio.us, and that the lack of an import feature doesn't need to be reason not to. He recommended just starting to use it regularly, and then setting up a EdTechPost on January 23, 2006 at 2:52 p.m..

iPhoto, iTunes, iForgotToTest b/w Bookmarks for a rainy Monday
Is appple deliberately breaking RSS or is it just screwing up? Plus two photo gallery tools and futurist food for thought. 23 January 2006 From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on January 23, 2006 at 2:49 p.m..

Too much scenery
At the Future Salon Friday evening, a stem-cell scientist kvetched that people are drowning in information. The internet is so vast…. So much stuff, so little time…. You have heard it all before. You have even muttered about it to yourself. For me, contemplating the holdings of the Library of Congress or the internet is exhilerating, [...] From Internet Time Blog on January 23, 2006 at 2:45 p.m..

Fichas bibliográficas
Fichas bibliográficas online: Open Citatum - Sistema abierto de edición y consulta de fichas en línea [vía] From eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 23, 2006 at 1:53 p.m..

Podcasting a dinner
A couple of weeks ago, Mary Hodder mentioned that she was coming to Boston and we talked about putting together a dinner. I offered to host it at our house, and it turned into a get-together on the "Save Our Internet" theme. All of which is to say that Dan Bricklin came with his podcasting gear and has posted a set of interviews he did there. Yes, now we're podcasting dinner. [Tags: danBricklin podcast]... From Joho the Blog on January 23, 2006 at 10:49 a.m..

Participatory publishing
John Blyberg has put together a virtual card catalog that lets you build your own, share it with others, and create catalog card facsimiles complete with "handwritten" annotations. [Thanks to Ed Vielmetti for the link.] O'Reilly has announced the "Rough Cuts" service that gives readers access to works-in-progress: If you buy a book before it's been published and then watch it being developed. Pretty damn cool. Yet another assault on time: As more and more events turn into processes, what the hell do we need the present before? [Tags: johnBlyberg libraries taxonomy tagging EverythingI From Joho the Blog on January 23, 2006 at 10:49 a.m..

El poncho frente a la manta con mangas
Le ha entusiasmado a pjorge lo de la manta con mangas y dice: Una manta con mangas es tan buena idea que no puedo creer que no la inventasen antes. Permítanme que rompa una lanza en favor del poncho, que es bastante más práctico y usable que una manta con mangas… Yo ... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 23, 2006 at 6:52 a.m..

Restaurantes japoneses en Barcelona
Blog sobre restaurantes japoneses en Barcelona: Ruta de Japoneses por Barcelona (incluye sección de recetas). From eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 23, 2006 at 3:52 a.m..

Palm Freeware for Education
My latest Palm freeware find is Percent Table 1.4. This elegantly simple program generates conversion tables for full marks to percentages, saving time for teachers and students.... From Adult/Continuing Education on January 23, 2006 at 3:50 a.m..

The new organisation
Eine lesenswerte Ausgabe des Economist, der einige Artikel der Frage nach dem Unternehmen von morgen widmet. "The way people work has changed dramatically, but the way their companies are organised lags far behind." Dabei beruft sich der Economist auf... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on January 23, 2006 at 2:51 a.m..

Hot Off the Press
Ten Speed Press has just released the 16th edition of the essential, Bear's Guide to Earning Degrees by Distance Learning, co-authored by Mariah Bear and About.com education writer, Thomas Nixon.... From Adult/Continuing Education on January 23, 2006 at 2:50 a.m..

Upcoming Education Conferences
A variety of announcements for US-based education conferences have arrived in my inbox recently, including the following. WE LEARN 3rd Annual (Net)Working Conference on Women & Literacy March 10-11, 2006 - New Haven, Connecticut For students, teachers, administrators, researchers, writers,... From Adult/Continuing Education on January 23, 2006 at 2:50 a.m..

Kinds of knowledge
Students know what busywork is, but you never hear them talking about different kinds of knowledge, maybe because we don't. For example, when I payed my way through school working in the tire store, we used a torque wrench to tighten the lug nuts on wheels with disk brakes because they were more touchy than old-fashioned drum brakes. Drum brakes would take whatever the air wrench would give, but an air wrench could easily bend disk brakes. It had to be done right. So we set the... From Weblogs in Higher Education on January 23, 2006 at 1:52 a.m..

For Education-Obsessed Parents, a New Disney Magazine
The Walt Disney Company will join the crowded but profitable parenting magazine category next month with Wondertime, the company's first new magazine since 1991. From New York Times: Education on January 23, 2006 at 1:45 a.m..

Tragedy in the mines
(Last week's radio essay.) Most of what I know about coal mining comes from a few old movies that each center around a classic scene. The emergency siren screams out and people from all over the town hurry to the entrance of the mine. Their faces are full of dread as they ask, frantically, what has gone wrong down below. Families and friends wait and pray, but their hope is repaid with devastating news. It turns out that sometimes those old movies aren't far from the truth. Last... From Weblogs in Higher Education on January 23, 2006 at 12:52 a.m..

Forced Schooling, NO, Small Neighborhood Schools, YES. (JT Gatto again)
Summary: I have written admiringly of John Taylor Gatto before. I am provoked to do so again by Mike Kilen's moving summary and critique of mandatory schooling (aka the factory model of education). There are large dangers to 'factorified' education; the worst, IMHO, is each student's loss of relationship to her or his potential. What's left? The sole decision: as to how much one commits to, or resists, becoming an "appropriately trained" worker participant in a one-size-fits-all vision of existence . To qu From Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on January 23, 2006 at 12:48 a.m..