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Training Directors Forum 06
Training Directors Forum 2006 took place at the Desert Springs Marriott in Palm Desert (nextdoor to Palm Springs) in the high desert about two hours east of Los Angeles. This is a wrap-up post. From a 2003 article about the lack of water here: There will be no more projects like Palm Desert's Desert Springs Marriott, where [...] From
Internet Time Blog on June 16, 2006 at 9:45 p.m..
Judith Hale at TDF
I had seen Judy Hale in the Speaker Ready Room at many a conference but until last Monday afternoon, I'd never heard her speak. I'm glad I attended her session for she is both witty and wise. Judy walked us through a model of working with a client. You're always dealing along two axes. The relationship [...] From
Internet Time Blog on June 16, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..
John Gruber - And Oranges - Daring Fireball
Why would a longtime Apple user switch to Linux? When the person in question is Mark Pilgrim, people want to know, since Pilgrim is well known for his work on web syndication and web standards. This article takes an almost detached look at his reasoning. In the end, for Pilgrim, it comes down to this: "I'm creating things now that I want to be able to read, hear, watch, search, and filter 50 years from now. Despite all their emphasis on content creators, Apple has made it clear that they do not share this goal. Openness is not a cargo cult. Some get it, some don't. Apple doesn't From
OLDaily on June 16, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Various authors - Rever
Interesting video upload service that attaches an advertisement to your video and pays you when people click on it. "Since the Revverized ad is embedded in your video, and can be changed anytime, you get paid no matter where your video may go." The site, in other words, is making syndication work for it, creating revenue while distributing bandwidth requirements across the network. Rever is hosting the infamous
Coke and Mentos video, well worth a watch for the giggle. Or the pointless and deservedly obscure
OLDaily on June 16, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Unattributed - EdNA Online Strategic Directions - EdNA
Where is Australia's EdNA going? Released in April, "A draft EdNA strategic directions paper (PDF) is available for comment," according to today's EdNA newsletter. Take the short online
survey or send them email. According to the report, "In 2005-2006, the full suite of EdNA infrastructure and services received $1.92 million of funding." Australia gets very good value for this money, in my view. EdNA builds and maintains resource collections, supports online communities of practice, brokers information services, and From
OLDaily on June 16, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Helen Barrett - Required High School Portfolios - Electronic Portfolios
Helen Barrett and I are of one mind on this, and I really like the story she tells to illustrate the point: "The students there were required to set up a 3-ring notebook, put in specific sections and assignments. When a group of the students graduated from high school, they built a bonfire and burned their portfolios." The issue is ownership. When students are required to create portfolios, and worse, told how they should be structured and filled, they lose any ownership over the process, and the portfolios become, as Barrett reports, "another example of what Lee Shulman calls 'perversion From
OLDaily on June 16, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Alan Jones - Connecting the Dots - Inside Higher Ed
Honestly, I have been wondering - given the tenor of some of their recent articles - whether Inside Higher Ed was funded from the same sources as, say, David Horowitz. Because the network of 'think tanks' and funders described in this article is certainly not news to me, nor should it be news to those who look at events beyond their immediate horizon, and the diatribes being published certainly resembled others from these common origins. Maybe I can rest easier about Inside Higher Ed (though certainly not some of its authors). But not about the state of education and research general From
OLDaily on June 16, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Will Richardson - Digg for EdBloggers / Do We Need to Get Our Act Together? - Weblogg-Ed
Maybe it will work, though I have my doubts. Full marks, though, for the initiative. The idea being promoted is to create a Digg for edubloggers - the idea is that the edubloggers would recommend education stories from each other and the popular press. Why do I have doubts? Well, I have my doubts about these 'collective' sites in general. If edu-Digg makes sense, then why not UK-edu-Digg, to get away from the American dominance? But then, when Digging, where does one's loyalties lie? Better that each of us do our own thing, and that different aggregations allow different 'v From
OLDaily on June 16, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..