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Andrew Donoghue - Is $100 Laptop Project Flawed? - CNet News.Com
Some reaction (which feels like it was massaged by the author to create conflict) to the $100 lptop project on the part of Tony Roberts, chief executive and founder of U.K. charity Computer Aid International. According to the story, he says the $100 laptop program is "based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the history of the IT industry." Says Roberts, "They are looking to introduce a nonstandard, untested platform...which they will only sell to governments." The real story, in my view, is that MIT's relentless publicity has overshadowed other initiatives. Meanwhile, Computer Aid Inte From
OLDaily on June 23, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Cory Bergman - MySpace Tightens Security Measures - Lost Remote
More MySpace news - I'm sure you're all breathless. The big news is that MySpace users who are over 18 will now have to know the email or first and last name of any 14- to 15-year-old member they're trying to contact. It's actually a pretty good strategy if the danger to minors comes from strangers. No word on measures to protect minors from parents, their friends, or others in their immediate community - the largest sourcs of danger, by far. [
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OLDaily on June 23, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Kathleen Scalise&Bernard Gifford - Computer-Based Assessment in E-Learning - Journal of Technology, Learning, and Assessment
From the abstract: "This paper introduces a taxonomy or categorization of 28 innovative item types that may be useful in computer-based assessment... that fall somewhere between fully constrained responses... and fully constructed responses." I don't have a whole lot of use for taxonomies, but a lot of people like them. Me, I think of the discussion today, that could be paraphrased as, "We dealt with diversity by creating a common vocabulary." Yeah, that addresses diversity all right - by making everyone the same. [
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Stephen Downes - Picassa Web Album - Stephen's Web
I am testing the new Google Picassa Web Album service - Google's competition to Flickr. I have always really liked Picassa, and people will appreciate the nifty photo editing tools that are included. The web album isn't much of an imprivement on Flickr, though I appreciate the larger image size (I always felt Flickr could display the photos a lot better). [
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Stephen Downes - Communities of Practice and Wrap-Up - Half an Hour
My blog notes from Day 2 of the Canadian Council on Learning conference. This second day was mostly a day of discussions, with the participants breaking into four groups (which in our case in turn broke into small groups). I've never been a fan of this group-and-report format, since it was a way of filtering the views of the participants through a lens provided by the organizers - the 'reports back' never seem to carry the same sort of edge contained in the participants' actual views. Just my perspective. Anyhow, what emerged for me as the major theme of the day w From
OLDaily on June 23, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..