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Various authors - Commonwealth olf Learning
The Commonwealth of Learning launched a new website June 30. I'm not sure I would have gone with a blue, green and orange colour scheme, but it seems to work. Book downloads to the right, news to the left, no RSS feed yet, though it looks like they're messing around with something. [
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OLDaily on July 4, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..
Michael Feldstein - How to Grow Standards - E-Literate
Michael Feldstein responds to Scott Wilson's comments on standards mostly by accepting the point and giving an example. Still, I'm not sure he sees the issue here. Begin with his 'Step 1'. "Identify a user problem that you need to solve." Right off the bat we are in a situation where we are solving a problem for them. I would start with 'Step 1'. "Identify a problem users have solved for themselves." Now the solution may not have been implemented, but you can be sure it has been suggested. Why is this important? Because users have different prioritie From
OLDaily on July 4, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..
John Ottenhoff - Wikipedia: A Note to Students - Academic Commons
Link to a proposed policy statement for students on the use of Wikipedia in the preparation of written assignments. Nothing I would particularly object to, though I wonder why similar warnings were not issued when I was a student. For example: "World Book, like other encyclopedias, is out of date from the moment it was published and will therefore contain numerous factual errors. In addition, the language of description and especially the selection of topics for inclusion will reflect a socio-cultural bias that may be inappropriate for a full understanding of some subjects." Come to think of i From
OLDaily on July 4, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..
David Weinberger - Photos as Tags - Joho the Blog
I have commented from time to time that we are entering a post-textual age, a period in which multiple forms of media can play the roles traditionally reserved for words and sentences, that people will speak in a vocabulary of these multimedia artifacts. Here's an example. "StyleFeeder lets you grab an image off a page and use it as a tag for remembering the page and for letting others quickly browse." Photos as tags. Why not? [
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David Weinberger - Photos as Tags - Joho the Blog
I have commented from time to time that we are entering a post-textual age, a period in which multiple forms of media can play the roles traditionally reserved for words and sentences, that people will speak in a vocabulary of these multimedia artifacts. Here's an example. "StyleFeeder lets you grab an image off a page and use it as a tag for remembering the page and for letting others quickly browse." Photos as tags. Why not? [
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Cool URLs from Gnomedex
TagJag.com (Chris Pirillo's tag searcher/aggregator) peopleaggregator.net (build your own networks!) attentiontrust.org, inforouter (pay attention) bluedot.com (what can I learn from my friends?) pixsy.com (image and video aggregator — tells if it's copyrighted) farecast.com (an awesome airfar tracking site — only Boston and Seattle now) melodeo.com (podcasts on your phone; will be huge in China) blubrry.com (publish your podcast but keep it [...] From
Internet Time Blog on July 4, 2006 at 1:45 a.m..
Irony
Today I received an email from an organization I never joined. It began: Jay, Winfried Graichen has looked at your profile. http://www.ecademy.com/account.php?id=116342 You can see who else has looked at your profile here:- http://www.ecademy.com/account.php?op=view&type=hit I click the link and up comes a page that says: Please Login or Join You are not allowed to access this page. This feature is only available to members. If [...] From
Internet Time Blog on July 4, 2006 at 12:45 a.m..