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Spare the Rod and Spoil the Country, a Kenyan Warns
Kenyan children have been so badly beaten by teachers that a ban on corporal punishment in schools was imposed in 2001, but some are still for the return of caning. From New York Times: Education on June 3, 2006 at 10:45 p.m..

The Nation: The Bee, the New Celebrity Showcase
Is the prime-time network broadcast of the Scripps National Spelling Bee a step forward for America's children? From New York Times: Education on June 3, 2006 at 10:45 p.m..

Long-Scorned in Maine, French Has Renaissance
The stigma of being French-American has reverberated for decades in Maine, but French is making a comeback. From New York Times: Education on June 3, 2006 at 10:45 p.m..

Various authors - Dekita Orchard
Barbara Dieu writes, "Dekita.org has just lauched its Orchard to aggregate feeds from EFL/ESL courses worldwide that participate in the Dekita Exchange. The Orchard facilitates exchanges and provides the EFL/ESL community and other interested parties with a glimpse into the conversations that learners are starting and the thoughts, photos, and sound files they have chosen to share." [Link] [Tags: ] [Comment] From OLDaily on June 3, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Leigh Blackall - Teaching is Dead, Long Live Learning - Teach and Learn Online
Wiki notes for a paper being presented to the Global Summit. I enjoyed the presention, which will evoke some commentary. I have posted my own response on my other blog. [Link] [Tags: Web Logs] [Comment] From OLDaily on June 3, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Daniel Schuhmann - 500 Hour Test of Tomorrow's Windows Vista - Tom's Hardware Guide
This is an exhaustively comprehensive article previewing the forthcoming Windows Vista system composed of dozens of pages and hundreds of screen shots. The key, I think, is "a complete blurring of the boundaries between online services and normal software." This will be key not only to the functionality of the software but also to the business model supporting that software - it's pretty hard to fileshare an online service. [Link] [Tags: Microsoft] [OLDaily on June 3, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Dave Tosh - Moodle and Elgg Code Released!
As the headline suggests, "Catalyst have released their Elgg integration block for Moodle." [Link] [Tags: ] [Comment] From OLDaily on June 3, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Mark Oehlert - Technical Committee on Learning Technology's Special Issue on ADL/SCORM - E-Clippings
I'll pass this along via Mark Oehlert with his comment: "Man! If that title just doesn't make all the geek hairs on the back of your neck stand up, then I don't know what will!" Do I want to read an entire issue on SCORM? Well, do I? [Link] [Tags: SCORM, Games and Gaming] [Comment] From OLDaily on June 3, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Joan Vinall-Cox - The Purpose of Pedegogy - Joan Vinall-Cox : Weblog
This I believe: "Learning results from engagement, from the heart!" [Link] [Tags: ] [Comment] From OLDaily on June 3, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Barbara Ganley - Finding Our Way through the Edublogging Labyrinth: Losing Hope in Order to Effect Change - bgblogging
Barbara Ganley lived up to her keynote billing delivering this stellar talk at blog.ac.uk - a talk that I drew on freely for my own talk later in the day. And her message left some in the audience surprised: "Let's face it. It's hopeless for us to think we can change a behemoth like our educational system - it reflects, after all, the fine fix we find ourselves in, and because it very elegantly keeps those with power in power. And so what we do for the time being will continue to be tense, strained even - except with our students in the classroom and on the blogs."More blog From OLDaily on June 3, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Stephen Downes - How I became (blog) literate... - Stephen's Web
I had a lot on my mind as I presented at the blog.ack.uk conference Friday in London (slides and MP3 Audio), and my task was to summarize the proceedings of two sets of four concurrent sessions. This is what came out of that effort. I think that my major message is on the last slide, and most of all, that "what matters is that we are honest with ourselves, a I had a lot on my mind as I p From OLDaily on June 3, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

New Drug Delays Breast Cancer
Reporting on results of an experimental breast cancer drug, a Pennsylvania doctor says it checked the growth of advanced breast cancer in women who had stopped responding to other treatments. From Wired News on June 3, 2006 at 2:45 p.m..

OutKast Goes Way Back
AndrĂŠ 3000 and Big Boi bring stripped-down psychedelia to the depression-era soundtrack of IdleWild. By Paul Barman from Wired magazine. From Wired News on June 3, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

Semantic license
Putting together a trade magazine takes longer than you might think. Nearly three months ago I wrote this article for the June issue of CLO which arrived today. Re-reading the article, I thought to myself, "Something's missing here." Below the fold is the article as submitted, with lines through the deletions. Semantics By Jay CrossSeveral years ago, a [...] From Internet Time Blog on June 3, 2006 at 12:45 a.m..