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Unattributed - The HUB (School Your Way) - WalMart
Marc Canter linked to this with the suggestion that the people in this online community are not real. It's hard not to agree; this seems to be a pretty clear example of astroturfing. But what is the message? Not good: for boys, school is all about playing sports and having fun. For girls, it's all about shopping, style, and having fun. The site promotes a message of "do your own thing" - but it's mostly about conformity and consumption. And for both guys and girls (or "ladies") three of the From OLDaily on July 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Dave Comier and Jeff Lebow - A Discussion about Communities with Nancy White - Ed Tech Talk
I listened to this podcast this morning, a wide-ranging interview with online collaboration specialist Nancy White. Listeners will most appreciate, I think, her observations on how to manage disruptive elements in communities. She was also asked about my own view of site-specific online communities (they have a boundary, she said, "this is my arms making a big 'O'"). Sometimes a sense of place and common purpose is needed. But there is a difference between inviting me to some place and having me create a whole new identity, between having me contribute to this specific discuss From OLDaily on July 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Jeremy Hiebert - Lit-Review Concept Map #2 - HeadsPaceJ
A nice example of what caqn be done with Gliffy and a nice concept map covering social and self-directed learning alomng with a third section for decision-making. Good stuff. Also via Jeremy Hiebert, this short primer on self-directed learning by Mardziah Hayati Abdullah, in Eric. [Link] [Tags: Visualization] [Comment] From OLDaily on July 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Jodi S. Cohen - E-slacking: It's Laptop Over Lecture - Chicago Tribune
More stuff about more professors who cannot understand why students prefer the internet over their (admittedly boring and sometimes off-topic) lectures. [Link] [Tags: ] [Comment] From OLDaily on July 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Unattributed - US Yahoo Offers Copy-free Music - BBC News
"Our position is simple: DRM doesn't add any value for the artist, label (who are selling DRM-free music every day - the Compact Disc), or consumer, the only people it adds value to are the technology companies who are interested in locking consumers to a particular technology platform." [Link] [Tags: Yahoo!] [Comment] From OLDaily on July 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Various authors - Tapping Into Social Networking for E-Learning - Australian Flexible Learning Framework
The RSS item (which doesn't appear on the link at all - it was dated June 19 but only showed up in my feed reader today) read, "Almost 800 people from Australia and overseas participated in Tapping into social networking for e-learning, a free online event discussing the latest technological developments in the world of education and training." The event was held June 15 - 16. I was a bit sceptical of the headline because the discussion forums you can easily access from the main page From OLDaily on July 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Stephen Downes - E-Learning 2.0 - Why the New Tools - Stephen's Web
If you missed the audio yesterday, sorry about that. Not a tease; I simply sent the wrong link to some readers in error. Here it is (and the slides that go along with it). [Link] [Tags: Podcasting] [Comment] Here it is From OLDaily on July 21, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..