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Anne Pycha - Finding a Voice: Perspectives on Language Acquisition - Brain Connection
Survey article on language acquisition, written mostly from a Chomskyist perspective. Good overview, with a nice explanation of Chomsky's views on a universal grammar. If you're familiar with language acquisition theory this will add nothing new, but if this is a new area for you this is a good place to start. [Link] [Tags: ] [Comment] From OLDaily on May 18, 2006 at 10:45 p.m..

Boris Mann - Verisign chooses OpenID - B. Mann Consulting
Boris Mann is "confused" but I find this to be very good news. OpenID is a system that is very similar to my own mIDm, specifically in that it is a distributed identity system - no centralized registry. Mann suggests, "I would follow this up with support for multiple identity protocols - that is, after all, Canter's Law: work with everything. You could have a single identity hosted by VeriSign and accessible via a variety of protocols, from OpenID to DIX to SAML to InfoCard." But no, you can't, not unless you can get the identity client and From OLDaily on May 18, 2006 at 10:45 p.m..

Kevin Carey - Hot Air: How States Inflate Their Educational Progress Under NCLB - Education Sector
I am a former North American NTN Trivia champion. I played on a team, of course, the Inglewood Collective. Part of our success was due to our knowledge. But a big part of it was due to our ability to understand how to win trivia games. I remember one day winning a 'Raceway Trivia' game - despite knowing nothing about auto racing - by playing probabilities. This is, as educators have long pointed out (I read it first in Holt), what students learn in a lecture and test environment: how to pass the tests. So it should be no surprise to learn that schools From OLDaily on May 18, 2006 at 10:45 p.m..

Scott Leslie - Eyespot and One True Media - OnLine Video Editing Tools - EdTechPost
Online video editing suites? Impossible! But Scott Leslie reviews two such services in this article, and admits being hooked on one of them. This is, after all, the year of video. [Link] [Tags: ] [Comment] From OLDaily on May 18, 2006 at 10:45 p.m..

Joan Vinall-Cox - mesh - The Business of Web 2.0 - WebToolsforLearners
More blogging from Mesh. This comment is right on: "Live blogging... now that I'm blogging my way through mesh, I'm finding it helps me focus! It's not doing 2 things aat once, it's sort of like taking notes in a lecture, where you 'get' more of what's being said because you write it down." Yes. Exactly. [Link] [Tags: Web Logs, < From OLDaily on May 18, 2006 at 10:45 p.m..

Minimalist PowerPoint
Training Directors Forum is one of the better events in the learning space. This year it takes place in my time zone: Palm Springs, June 11-14. I just completed the PowerPoint for my presentation on informal learning. Take a peek; it won't take long. Here's the handout. Technorati Tags: minimalist PowerPoint presentations From Internet Time Blog on May 18, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..

Gamers Ready to Run With In-Game Ads
Heavy gamers respond to in-game advertising more than casual players. From ClickZ Stats on May 18, 2006 at 1:45 a.m..