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Keywords Have Value at Any Rank
As marketers recognize their individual sweet spot the active number of keywords in an average campaign doubles. From ClickZ Stats on February 21, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Nurturing native Americans on campus
Indigenous studies programs aim to reduce culture shock and improve graduation rates. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on February 21, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Kathy Sierra - Brain Death by Dull Cubicle - Creating Passionate Users
Several people have linked to this item. In a sentence, the point is that if you spend most of your time in a dull environment, your brain will not grow new neural connections, making it harder to learn. I think this is basically right. And yes, I think this is a good reason to get students out of the classroom. But even more importantly, it's a good reason to get yourself out of wherever you are and to go experience new things. [Link] [Tags: Experience] [OLDaily on February 21, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Alan Levine - Social Software In Action (No Real Software Required) - Cogdogblog
I have talked in some contexts recently (for example, the OECD open educational resources conference) about the 'production' of a resource being the starting point, not the end point, of an open educational resource network. This post illustrates perfectly what I mean, as the resources from a conference presentation becomes a much larger (and more valuable) set of resources, with contributions from around the world. [Link] [Tags: Networks] [OLDaily on February 21, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Unattributed - Create Your Own Firefox Extension - LifeHacker
Something to keep handy, should I free up some coding time. "The people at Rietta Solutions have posted a tutorial for beginners who want to create their own Firefox extension. The tutorial has been constructed as a step-by-step guide providing many examples." [Link] [Tags: ] [Comment] From OLDaily on February 21, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Mike Klonsky - Pay for Florida Teachers Based On a Single Test--Bad Idea - Mike Klonsky's Small Talk
I think that half the problems (maybe more) in educational reform is that those doing research and those making policy really do not understand the principles of cause and effect - not in simple environments, and certainly not in complex environment. Which results in policy being driven by myth and urban legends, rather than anything based in reality. I mean, why don't we pay our decision-makers according to poll results, or the quality of life index? Or better yet, pay them whatever the poorest person in society makes. Oh yes, there's be a lot of sputtering about 'multiple fact From OLDaily on February 21, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Tim Stahmer - Web 2.0 Is Anti-American - Assorted Stuff
This came out a couple of days ago, but I cannot resist passing along the (somewhat odd) opinion that Web 2.0 is somehow anti-American. That it is communist. Web 2.0 "suggests that everyone - even the most poorly educated and inarticulate amongst us - can and should use digital media to express and realize themselves." Why, that would be communism! Tim Stahmer quite rightly takes Andrew Keen to task for this piece of, um, writing. [Link] [Tags: United States, OLDaily on February 21, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Jeremy Hiebert - Personal Learning Environment Model - HeadsPaceJ
I don't think I've covered this (sorry if I have) and I don't want to risk it passing by without comment. In this item, Jeremy Hiebert revises his Personal Learning Environment (PLE) model. I'm not quite sure I'm there with it. I like the idea of trying to get at the function, rather than the type, of applications involved. But a lot seems missing. Where is personal identity? Where is community? I want to see 'who am I' and 'who do I know' as prominant in such a diagram. Because, I argue, it is this structure that defines the structure of th From OLDaily on February 21, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

David Wiley - As We May Interact? - Iterating Toward Openness
David Wiley asks, of Web 2.0 tools, "With the number of users of these tools, and the others in each of these categories, why on earth would we create a new tool in any of these spaces? When critical mass is the single most important part of a network, why would we build another 'walled garden' collection of applications?" Quite right, and the world does not need another walled garden. But I still think we need to explore and understand better the nature of distributed applications. Tools like Flickr, Friendster and Technorati each try to become, if you will, a destination for people From OLDaily on February 21, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Blackboard, F5 (BigIP) and Internet Explorer Performance
We have run into some very strange performance problems with Blackboard and Internet Explorer recently. We think there is an interaction with our load balancer (which is an F5 BigIP - forget which version). We have found that Internet Explorer 6.0 will randomly slow to a crawl, where Firefox is zipping along [...] From Serious Instructional Technology on February 21, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..

Harvard President Says He Is Stepping Down
The resignation of Lawrence H. Summers follows several weeks of agitation by many members of the faculty. From New York Times: Education on February 21, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..

The Ultimate One-Way Ticket
As the cost for blasting ashes into space comes down, more and more people are signing up to take the last great ride. Slated to go up next month: Star Trek's James ("Scotty") Doohan and astronaut Gordon Cooper, along with 185 others. From Wired News on February 21, 2006 at 1:45 p.m..

An IT Center for the Gaza Strip
The volatile Gaza Strip, where half the population is unemployed and political tensions run high, may seem an unlikely place for an American corporation to build an information technology education center. But that's what Intel plans on doing, and the company is bullish about the long-term prospects. From Wired News on February 21, 2006 at 12:45 p.m..

Rub Rabbits Finish Fast
Some of the gameplay in Sega's stylish, sexy Nintendo DS game is brilliant -- but much of it is boring and frustrating, and the whole experience finishes prematurely. By Chris Kohler. From Wired News on February 21, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

A Word to the Wise on WiMax
The approval of a mobile 802.16x standard could open the door to low-cost, wireless broadband -- but not for a few years. Investors might want to take the time to adjust expectations. Commentary by Joanna Glasner. From Wired News on February 21, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

Earth Hurtles Toward 6.5 Billion
On Saturday, the planet's population will hit the landmark 6.5 billion mark. The bad news: That's more than some say the planet can support. The good news: Um, er... population growth is slowing? By Joanna Glasner. From Wired News on February 21, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

To: Professor@University.edu Subject: Why It's All About Me
E-mail has made college professors more approachable, but many say it has made them too accessible, erasing boundaries that had kept students at a healthy distance. From New York Times: Education on February 21, 2006 at 2:45 a.m..

Don't think about it
"Better not think about it then." Ernest Hemingway, The Killers New Scientist reports that Complex decisions are best left to your unconscious mind to work out, according to a new study, and over-thinking a problem could lead to expensive mistakes. This is in sync with Malcolm Gladwell's observation that people are really bad at assigning proper weights to [...] From Internet Time Blog on February 20, 2006 at 11:45 p.m..