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Saul J. Berman, Louisa A. Shipnuck and Niall Duffy - The End of TV As We Know It: A Future Industry Perspective - IBM
A good report, with advice that applies equally well to learning. "Invest in divergent strategies and supply chains for bimodal consumer types... Innovate business and pricing models by creating - not resisting - wider consumer choice... Develop, trial, refine, roll-out... Drive open content delivery platforms." Via Lost Remote. [Link] [Tags: Open Content] [OLDaily on February 20, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Jeff Rice - Serious Bloggers - Inside Higher Ed
The author argues that we should respond to the criticisms of academic blogging by being less serious in our blogs. Hyuk yuk yuk yuk yuk. OK, that didn't work. He has some good points, like this: "Writing a blog under a pseudonym is usually an argument that the only safe way for an academic to write publicly is to write anonymously." Which is sad. But the response isn't to abandon the weighty. As Bradley Dilger comments, "I just don't see that hiding, either behind a psuedonym or by being quiet, is the appropriate response... we have to resist the 'culture of cringe,' From OLDaily on February 20, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Unknown - e-Learning Programme Newsletter Oct05-Feb06 - Jisc
Comprehensive newsletter with updates and program listing too numerous to list here. "The third JISC e-Learning Programme newsletter summarises recent activities in all the Programme strands. This issue includes details of new toolkit and demonstrator projects, details of new e-portfolio publications and an overview of the new HEFCE Spending Review Programme." [Link] [Tags: E-Portfolios, Newsletters, OLDaily on February 20, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Dave Cormier - The Best Damn New Media Curriculum Evah! Plan - Ed Tech Talk Wiki
As the page (currently) explains, "This is a plan for a mass curriculum project. Dave is going to post his work as a starting point, but everyone else is free to take part or all of the curriculum and create their own version or strand. What we're hoping to get is not one curriculum, where we've all had to concede things that are important to us in order to find consensus, but MANY different curricula that are all better for having been made alongside the others." It's a neat idea, intended to coincide with a seminar he's giving. I might have let it develop without too much From OLDaily on February 20, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Announcement - Elgg and WebCT, Sitting in a Tree... - Aperto
Curverider (the commercial name for Elgg) and Aperto (founded by Sasan Salari, originally from WebCT) "are collaborating on an integration between the Open Source system Elgg and WebCT's product lines." James Farmer is sckepital of commercial learning management systems, but "knowing how much value and vivre an Elgg environment could bring to one of those lifeless WebCT courses find myself quibbling a bit." Maybe this is a good thing after all. [Link] From OLDaily on February 20, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Roy Williams - WOLF - Workshops for Online Facilitators
A new blog with multiple contributors which will, as author Roy Williams explains, "is (currently) concerned with affordances and elearning." [Link] [Tags: Online Learning, Web Logs] [Comment] From OLDaily on February 20, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Grandon Gill - 13 (Educational) Things I'd Rather Do Over the Internet - ELearn Magazine
Pretty good list, but a little narrow - he left out 'dissecting frogs' (everybody's favorite gee-whiz application) and other simulations and games. [Link] [Tags: Simulations, Games and Gaming] [Comment] From OLDaily on February 20, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Lloyd P. Rieber - Multimedia Learning in Games, Simulations, and Microworlds - ITForum
This paper highlighted the discussion about online gaming on ITForum last month. The paper is a good overview of learning in games, simulations, and microworlds. It doesn't really offer a perspective so much as offer an overview. I found the ITForum discussion that followed disappointing, kicked off as it was with an 'I hate games' post and not really (to my view, though I will admit I just started deleting the posts) advancing much beyond that. As some people commented, if you just take games, remove all the fun from them, then force your student to use them in 90 minute segmen From OLDaily on February 20, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Animal Diseases Jumping to Humans
Experts say the number of pathogens from the animal kingdom infecting people seems to be on the rise -- 38 have morphed to human versions over the past 25 years, HIV and SARS among them. From Wired News on February 20, 2006 at 2:45 p.m..

Gizmos Trump Gowns at Nerd Oscars
The best film tech is all but invisible to the movie-going public -- and that's the way it's supposed to be. The designers of stunt airbags and steadicams receive Academy Awards for their work. By Xeni Jardin. From Wired News on February 20, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

Can Surround Sound Save MP3?
The popular format that defined the online music revolution is outdated, but a new upgrade may give MP3 its best chance for a second life. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk. This column is also available as a . From Wired News on February 20, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

A Fountain of Innovation Gets a New Leader
Frank Moss, the new director of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, says his job is to live in the future 20 years from today. From New York Times: Education on February 20, 2006 at 2:45 a.m..