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Celebrating the Year of the Dog!
: Beth Kanter has posted a very nice lesson plan (Learning Object??... It includes links to resources on the web and some that she has created herself. From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on January 29, 2006 at 9:50 p.m..

The Empire State Building
Considering I took this with my Treo...click to see the big verstion. From weblogged News on January 29, 2006 at 9:47 p.m..

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Formulaic design and usability
Michael Andrews has written an article exploring the role of usability in formulaic design, and where it fits in non-formulaic projects. To quote: Let's arbitrarily divide user centered designs into two types: formulaic designs, and non-formulaic ones. Formulaic designs are... From Column Two on January 29, 2006 at 8:47 p.m..

Users and Learners
“In general, learners are engaged primarily in structure or semistructured learning experiences, whereas end users are engaged in tool use.” (this really should not be online, but here’s the source). I was reading this today in the course of some research and the thought that sprung to mind was that this might be a false distinction [...] From Serious Instructional Technology on January 29, 2006 at 8:46 p.m..

Branding Shared College Services
I work for the Virginia Community College System. It has twenty-three colleges, but some technology services are provided centrally, and after having worked for one of the colleges for a long time, and then for the system’s Instructional Technology department, I am now working in Information Technology Services. The major services we provide [...] From Serious Instructional Technology on January 29, 2006 at 8:46 p.m..

Free Multi-Address Geocoder
At Lewis Elementary we are working with our city traffic department to add some crosswalks and pedestrian improvements in our neighborhood. I can now share with them specific information about our students and show them the need for these improvements based on where our students live. From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on January 29, 2006 at 6:50 p.m..

On Blogs and the Law
Looks like an interesting and profund read when time permits. (Via email from edwin Jacobs)I have written an article about blogging and the legal rules applicable to blogs. We provide a short overview of legal blogs (“blawgs (t d f)”) in several countries including the USA. We also giv From thomas n. burg | randgänge on January 29, 2006 at 5:47 p.m..

Teaching at CUNY
Yesterday I had the very great pleasure of teaching some of the Read/Write Web tools to a group of professors at the new CUNY Gradute School of Journalism which will open this fall. Jeff Jarvis asked me to join him and his son Jake (who is quite the Digg maven.) As usual, I feel like I learned more than I taught. Interspersed with the presentations about wikis and podcasting and scree From weblogged News on January 29, 2006 at 3:47 p.m..

RSS Problems
If you're reading this in an aggregator, would you mind letting me know? Bloglines seems to have dropped my feed for about a week and I can't tell if it's them or me. Thanks... From weblogged News on January 29, 2006 at 3:47 p.m..

Fillibustalito! Fillabustalito!
My senators — Kennedy and Kerry — are doing their duty to protect us from granting virtually unlimited power to the executive branch. My senators are fillibustering. Are yours? We don't have a lot of time left and apparently we only need eleven more Senators. Why not give yours a call today? [Tags: politics alito fillibuster]... From Joho the Blog on January 29, 2006 at 9:48 a.m..

CDC preparing for pandemic?
David Stephenson has noted some small changes at the Center for Disease Control site that would be useful if the site were to become a center for information during a pandemic such as we may well be facing with bird flu. They're small changes that will be useful in any case because they make it easier to find fresh information. [Tags: cdc avian flu david stephenson]... From Joho the Blog on January 29, 2006 at 9:48 a.m..

Arthur T. von Mehren, 83, Scholar of International Law, Is Dead
Arthur T. von Mehren, who taught at Harvard Law School for more than 50 years, published 10 books and hundreds of articles. From New York Times: Education on January 29, 2006 at 2:45 a.m..

Taking a content inventory
Donna Maurer writes some practical tips on taking a content inventory. To quote: I've spent much of the past 2 weeks working on a content inventory. As a technique, it is pretty straightforward and well documented (if you're not familiar,... From Column Two on January 29, 2006 at 1:47 a.m..

Microsoft's Sparkle: Is It a Flash Killer? - Darryl K. Taft, eWeek
Microsoft Tuesday released new previews of its upcoming tools for designers. Microsoft Interactive Designer is a product for building Avalon ("Windows Presentation Foundation" or WPF) user interfaces. These tools have been dubbed a Flash killer by some i From Techno-News Blog on January 28, 2006 at 11:49 p.m..

Do Web filters protect your child? - Stefanie Olsen, CNET News
Millions of parents around the country rely on Web filtering software to shield their children from the nasty side of the Internet--porn, predators and other unseemly phenomena. But according to the U.S. Justice Department, Web filters are not enough to From Techno-News Blog on January 28, 2006 at 11:49 p.m..

Wi-Fi hot spots top 100,000 - Matt Hamblen, ComputerWorld
Public Wi-Fi hot spots have topped 100,000 worldwide for the first time, according to JiWire Inc., a company that has kept a directory of hot spots since 2003. The number of hot spots soared in the past year, hitting 100,355 last week, up from about 57,0 From Techno-News Blog on January 28, 2006 at 11:49 p.m..

Flora and fauna
This guy and his pals scamper up and down the redwood about a yard from my office window. This is the oldest tree on the U.C. Berkeley campus. It is covered with new buds. Technorati Tags: Berkeley squirrel From Internet Time Blog on January 28, 2006 at 11:45 p.m..