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George Siemens - Michael Feldstein and Blackboard - Elearnspace
Alfred Essa raises concerns that
IMS might have now that one of its partners has played the patent card. The next IMS meeting, to be hosted by Blackboard in September, should be a pretty interesting session. Essa
wonders what a question and answer with Blackboard would look like. The British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) send an email advising "the pate From
OLDaily on August 17, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Unattributed - MobiFilm Academy - Nokia
Although the focus of this set of lessons is film-making using a mobile device, it nonetheless offers some excellent advice for video recoding in general. How to frame your shot, how to pan and zoom, and much more. Recommended if you're playing with video. [
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OLDaily on August 17, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
StevenB - Google Jockeys For Conference Sessions - ACRLog
Someone at the Masie Center must be reading blogs, as this items tells us that the next masie conference will use Google jockeys, people who search Google for resources (displayed on a large screen) while a presenter talks. The conference will also have someone developing mindmaps during presentations, a la e-learning forum. These are good developments: they increase participation and provide multiple streams of information to the attendee. [
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From OLDaily on August 17, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Christian Long - Toymakers and Textbook Publishers In a Race to Keep Up with Those Pesky Astronomers - think:lab
Within a few seconds of the IAU vote, Wikipedia will be up to date, recording the fact that we have 12 planets in the solar system. Newspapers and television will record the information some hours later, some course materials by this september, textbooks in a year or two. Encyclopedia Britannica? Maybe never. As for me, well, while I celebrate the addition of Ceres and Xena to the solar system, I question why Charon ought not be counted as a moon, and I will not rest until Sedna takes its place in the pantheon. [
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OLDaily on August 17, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Mark Gerencser, Fernando Napolitano, and Reginald Van Lee - The Megacommunity Manifesto - Booz Allen Hamilton
How do we solve the hard problems facing our communities? Poverty, for example, or environment, or employment? With a provincial election to be called Friday evening, this question is especially relevant here. Some say such matters are best left to the private sector; others place the responsibility on government. This paper argues that "the conventional managerial decision-making style - in which a boss exercises decision rights or delegates them to subordinates - is no longer adequate. Solutions require multi-organizational systems that are larger and more oriented to multilateral action tha From
OLDaily on August 17, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Robin Good’s The Future of Online Collaboration
Robin Good’s Kolabora News has posted both a transcript and a podcast of our conversation about what makes for good online collaboration. I’m delighted to be in the company of Chris Pirillo, Stuart Henshall, and Ray Ozzie, who have previously taken part in Robin’s The Future of Online Collaboration series. From
Internet Time Blog on August 17, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..