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Top 15 Countries by Web Usage and Properties, March 2006
When it comes to hours spent online, Israel, Finland, and South Korea hold the top ranks. From ClickZ Stats on May 15, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Catherine Howell - Facebook.edu Is Not The Answer - EDUCAUSE Blogs
Let's capture the really important point first: we should not create 'educational versions' of students' favorite applications. Not simply because, as Catherine Howell suggests, they will not challenge students. But also because, as Cole comments, students wouldn't use them (at least, not in the same way). Because "they said things the U runs feel 'controlled.'" There is, as Ulises Mejias suggests, a connection From OLDaily on May 15, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..

Various authors - Learning Innovation for the Adapted Lisbon Agenda - The European OLD Liaison Community
I guess this is pretty much a trend worldwide: "...it is necessary to devote higher attention to this field [educational research] in terms of policy attention, implementation effectiveness and resources. This should be done at complementary levels, by improving coordination, evaluation and utilization.... the need for research leaders to be accountable to society on how and where they direct research resources when a compelling need to produce an impact exists in education and training systems, and in society at large." In other words, there will be an increased coordination of research effor From OLDaily on May 15, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..

Nancy White - It is KEWL and KINKY: Collaboration Software - Full Circle Online Interaction Blog
Well this headline will set off the email filters. That's why you should whitelist domains you know are safe. Anyhow, this item describes a new software release from the African Virtual Open Initiative and Resources project (AVOIR), "a sophisticated group-based collaboration system, supporting an unlimited number of groups... where you have complete control over what functionality is installed, as well as what functionality is available on a per group basis. You can use kGroups to repla From OLDaily on May 15, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..

Tom Hoffman - L Dopa Fixed Me, All Right - ESchool News
A couple items from Tom Hoffman on the U.S. legislation, called DOPA, to restrict access to social networking sites. In the first item, Hoffman (correctly) identifies it as "fear mongering" and agrees that it probably won't go very far. Still, he also says he has "always been surprised that people felt that having students use Blogger or Flickr would really be viable on a large scale" because "These concerns about pr From OLDaily on May 15, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..

Kim Weatherall - Australia to Introduce Sweeping Copyright Exceptions - LawFont
Some good news from Australia, where the government appears to have determined that draconian copyright restrictions are perhaps not in the country's best interests after all. In summary, the AG has announced: - use exceptions - time-shifting and format-shifting; - exceptions for schools, universities, libraries, and other cultural institutions - exceptions for people with disabilities; - exceptions to allow parody or satire; "If the changes go as far as the press release indicates, the government will have dealt with some long-standing issues in Copyright law." Via OLDaily on May 15, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..

Joan Vinall-Cox - Reading is Visual - Learning Landscape
I had the pleasure of meeting Susan E. Metros in Tennessee (see my pictures from Murfreesboro and Nashville), where she presented much the same material summarized in her EDUCAUSE article on visual literacy. To me, the idea that there is a visual design vocabulary suggests that we have non-symbolic ways of knowing, something that resonates with my thoughts about a OLDaily on May 15, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..

Stephen Downes - Hillsborough, NB - Stephen's Web
Photos from my bicycle trip to Hillsborough. What do you think - should I use Flickr, like I do here, or use my own photo gallery, to present photos? [Link] [Tags: Flickr] [Comment] From OLDaily on May 15, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..

There's one born every minute
THE PERFECT MARK How a Massachusetts psychotherapist fell for a Nigerian e-mail scam. by MITCHELL ZUCKOFF Issue of 2006-05-15 Nigeria Scam website The Nigerian Scam has been emptying the pockets of victims for decades " first through letters, then with faxes, and now via e-mail. In its earliest incarnation " which dates to the 1920s " it was [...] From Internet Time Blog on May 15, 2006 at 5:45 a.m..