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Oaxaca 2
It is hard to believe this is one of the poorest states in Mexico. The weather makes things look so beautiful here. This is the view from the balcony of my suite. Having read Oliver Sachs' Oaxaca Journal to prepare for my trip, I went looking for ferns: this is about all I found. Plants [...] From Internet Time Blog on February 11, 2006 at 11:45 a.m..

Dave Tosh - PLE's - Are They What the ePortfolio Promised to Be? - Dave Tosh : Weblog
I think this is a good question. "Did vendors and institutions kill the initial promise of e-portfolios by trying to turn the concept into a single tool (product) used to measure student achievement?" More: "As Helen Barrett said: 'I am very concerned that the current crop of commercial tools are 'perversions' (Lee Shulman's term) of the portfolio concept.'" Jeremy Hiebert offers a diagram that is closer to the concept originally e From OLDaily on February 11, 2006 at 11:45 a.m..

Dave Cormier and Jeff Lebow - Discussion with Larry Sanger of DigitalUniverse.net - Ed Tech Talk
Following from its conversation with Wikipedia founder Jummy Wales, Ed Tech Talk interviews the other Wikipedia founder, Larry Samger, who has since moved on to propose a new approach to online information resources. "Larry Sanger is one of the true pioneers of the internet - he was there for the big bang of wikipedia and is now involved in the creation of a whole new universe, digitaluniverse.net. In part one of our discussion with Larry, he describes how he came to be involved with Wikipedia and more recently The Digital Universe. He then provides an overview of how Digital Universe will be From OLDaily on February 11, 2006 at 11:45 a.m..

Martin Belam - Building An Effective Web Presence In A Large Organisation - Currybetdotnet
A year or two or so ago the people who run BBC's e-learning web offerings asked me for my thoughts on how the site should be organized, to which I responded with a long discussion about personalization and what I called at the time 'vectors' - essentially an approach to allow multiple perspectives to be offered on the same body of information. I don't know how much influence my comments had, if any, and I don't see them reflected particularly here, which is OK, because I think what the BBC has done is interesting and worthy of note. Martin Belam offers in this series o From OLDaily on February 11, 2006 at 11:45 a.m..

Terry Heaton - TV News in a Postmodern World - Donata Communications
George Siemens picks up on what seems to ke a key quote from this article: "Application separation is the most important paradigm shift in the history of communications, and it will change things forever." Yeah, ok. But there's also this: "Some try to make the case that their information is somehow better or more important than what they see as the riffraff of the Web, but that foolish argument makes the dangerous and incorrect assumption that the audience NEEDS to trust in that which has been proven untrustworthy." This I From OLDaily on February 11, 2006 at 11:45 a.m..

Miguel Guhlin - TCEA 2006: Podcast Roundup - Mousing Around
Tired of listening to the local radio station? Here's a full day of podcasts from the Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA) conference. Here is full coverage of the conference. Just a sample: "Out of step with a society racing towards technological nirvana, K-12 education struggles to keep up, clamoring for everything from more funding to an Office of Educational Technology Director. Some dismiss the conversations about educational reform on the Web as just so much sound and fury. 'It's easier to writ From OLDaily on February 11, 2006 at 11:45 a.m..

Scott Wilson - CoComment: Automating Distributed Conversations? - Scott's Workblog
You may be interested to know that I have implemented conversations in Edu_RSS. It's not perfect, and so far utterly nobody has noticed (and there are far fewer conversations than you might suspect, which means I need a better way of detecting the good ones). Here's an example. But the main point here is that we are now only months, maybe weeks, from a functional system linking conversation threads between blogs - not a walled garden, but something that we can use, we can control, for ourselves. [OLDaily on February 11, 2006 at 11:45 a.m..

Iain Wallace - RSS Feeds for Journal Tables of Contents - Spoken Word Matters
This is a good idea, though I hasten to point out that it took six clicks (including one cut-and-paste) to get to a page that wanted to charge me $30 to view an article. Goodness. Considering how long it takes me to read an article, space travel is less expensive. Oh well, we must absolutely keep the poor people from reading publicly funded research, I guess. [Link] [Tags: Research] [OLDaily on February 11, 2006 at 11:45 a.m..

Rob Wall - New Edublog - The Illuminated Dragon - and Some Good Questions - StigmergicWeb
Rob Wall introduces us to this new edublog by Donna DesRoches. A sample: "Shouldn't teachers play with new knowledge and information? Why should learning be serious work? Is this the feeling we impart to our students about learning? If teachers cannot find joy in learning is it possible to create students who are life-long learners?" These questions alone could fill a blog. [Link] [Tags: Web Logs] [Comment From OLDaily on February 11, 2006 at 11:45 a.m..

Christian Long - 10 Brain Things...and One Reminder that People are the Curriculum! - think:lab
Eleven posts - some of which have been seen before in these pages - juxtaposed under the heading of 'brain things'. An interesting gestalt. "See the 'box' even though there are only a few line segments. Your eye does the rest. The Greeks offered constellations, night star 'stories'. And patterns are truths (again, my opinon) much as the "medium is the message" (thank you, Marshall)." No, patterns are not truth - patterns are perception, how we see the world. I am a specialist in pattern recognition, and I am aware more than most (perhaps) that when our mind lea From OLDaily on February 11, 2006 at 11:45 a.m..

Jeremy Price - Technology As Trickster - Smelly Knowledge
I'm pretty firmly in what is described here as the 'Canadian camp': "technology brings with it powerful but subtle biases.... If technology is not a tool to be chosen for use, then, what is it?... Perhaps one suggestion might be an ecological or environmental metaphor (as in, for example, the common phrase online environments). Perhaps technology is like the water we drink and the air we breathe. Water and air are not tools. We cannot choose to breathe the air or drink the water.... Technology is not a tool which we can choose to use or not; whether wisely or not. Technology exi From OLDaily on February 11, 2006 at 11:45 a.m..

roseg - Zero Sum Laude - Random Selections
A rare Saturday issue of OLDaily, partially because I'm behind in my coverage and partially because I need something to do. I am home again from Sweden and will be home for twelve days (I checked) before heading for Alaska. I'm still a little jet lagged (it will catch up with me tomorrow), pensive, reflective and conflicted. That's OK, that's my usual state of being (including, these days, the jet lag). Which brings me to this post, which describes what amounts to an advertsing campaign by a certain soft drink compa From OLDaily on February 11, 2006 at 11:45 a.m..