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Press Release - More than 70 Million Adults Want to Head Back to School - Capella University
The headline is an attention-grabber, but of course this is a survey result that has been extrapolated. Moreover, the headline equivocates between 'getting more eduication' and 'going back to school' - and these are two very different things. It would be useful to have the survey questions, however I was not able to find them on the survey itself. Still, I think that the survey does capture a trend, and the barriers identified - time and money - are not at all a surprise to me. [OLDaily on August 22, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Seb Schmoller - Automatic Metadata Collection. Humans Not Obsolete. For the Foreseeable Future. - Fortnightly Mailing
I like the way Seb Schmoller introduced this item in his newsletter: "humans are not obsolete. For the foreseeable future. But they can still create useless metadata." Hence we see the proposal that some metadata needs to be based on subjective interpretation highlighted with a reference to Clay Shirkey's metacrap paper. Related: Scott Leslie's take on the JORUM report on automated metadata. From OLDaily on August 22, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

David Carter-Tod - Blackboard's Pending Patents - A poke with a sharp stick
An item from David Carter-Tod lists more pending patents submitted by Blackboard. It will take some analysis of these, but they again appear to be concepts already established at the time of the filing. Take, for example, the "method and system for conducting online transactions." The application describes a system where users have an account with an organization that acts as a broker for sales of third-party materials. Yes, a 'store'. But more to the point, the description seems to be almost a clone of the system I describe OLDaily on August 22, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Scott Leslie - Short Video on Common Cartridge - EdTechPost
I don't know - it just seems to me odd that interoperability has finally been achieved - at the course level. "IMS Common Cartridge, recently demonstrated in action between Angel, Sakai, Blackboard and WebCT at the Alt-i-lab 2006 sessions... to create a common standard for full course import and export between CMS and useful to publishers." It's a bit like planning a moon landing and settling for landing your capsule in the Pacific Ocean. [Link] [Tags: OLDaily on August 22, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Unattributed - Good Shooting Guide: the Basic Principles - Bbc
It's a bit awkward to get into, but this 'course module' (5 minutes to 2.5 hours (which pretty much eliminates time as a meaningful indicator)) is a useful intorduction to shooting video. Via edu.blogs.com. [Link] [Tags: Course Modules] [Comment] From OLDaily on August 22, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Constance Steinkuehler and Dmitri Williams - Where Everybody Knows Your (Screen) Name - Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Quite a good essay on the idea of online games as 'third places' - that is, neutral and familiar meeting areas, like pubs (where "everybody knows your name"). "Participation in such virtual 'third places'," argue the authors, "appears particularly well suited to the formation of bridging social capital." For example, pubs will allow individuals from very different social communities - plumbers and M.Ds, for example - to meet and interact. These weak social ties create important 'bridging' connections between communties. "Without bridging relationships, individuals From OLDaily on August 22, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Colleen Luckett - New Video Educates Students on Illegal File Sharing - Educause
The item states: "In working with EDUCAUSE and the American Council on Education (ACE) to address the consequences of illegal file sharing, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has developed a short video that can be used to educate students about this important issue." Personally, I don't think EDUCAUSE should have anything to do with the RIAA. [Link] [Tags: File Sharing, OLDaily on August 22, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Joyce Valenza - Meme: - Joyce Valenza's NeverEnding Search
I don't know - do you capitalize the words in a lyric when its used as a title? Oh well - sometimes you just have to throw out the styleguide. This link is a nice chart showing "how life has changed since I left library school" - looking at things like types of reference materials and what we know about how we learn, among many others. The chart looks better here. [Link] [Tags: Schools] [OLDaily on August 22, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Backstory: Cracking the college code
A program in Seattle helps inner-city kids trying to start a new family tradition - going to college. Christian Science Monitor | Learning on August 22, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Stop-Motion Competition
See Centipede re-enacted with cupcakes, and Pac- Man in pizza form in the short animated film Game Over. Plus: Homestar Runner turns 10. In Table of Malcontents. From Wired News on August 22, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

SanDisk Sansa vs. IPod Nano
The world's first 8-GB flash MP3 player beats Apple's tiny gadget on features and price. Plus: Download a song called "Don't Download This Song." In Listening Post. From Wired News on August 22, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Miyamoto Might Do 'Wiimakes'
Nintendo's legendary designer Shigeru Miyamoto wants to retrofit his old GameCube titles for the Wii motion-sensing controller, then sell 'em at a bargain price. In Game|Life. From Wired News on August 22, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Russian: 'Nyet' to Math Prize
Saying he feels disconnected from his mathematics colleagues and has no desire to be anybody's "figurehead," a reclusive Russian turns down math's equivalent of the Nobel Prize. From Wired News on August 22, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Quattrone Beats the Rap
Two trials (and one conviction) later, the slate is wiped clean for the former dot-com investment banker accused of impeding federal investigations into his business practices. Not only does Frank Quattrone get off scot free, he is free to resume his career with no restrictions. From Wired News on August 22, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Bob Dylan: Technology Sucks
The iconic rocker says the music industry has no right to bitch about piracy when its modern recording technology only screws up good music anyway. From Wired News on August 22, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Top U.S. Parent Companies and Stickiest Brands on the Web, July 2006
YouTube arrives at the party, ranks with the 25 top ranked parent companies. From ClickZ Stats on August 22, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..

Onkyo Announces PMP
The new media player makes it easy to watch your favorite files on your TV. In Gear Factor. From Wired News on August 22, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..

Star Wars Is Not a 'Boy' Movie
Electronic Arts' chief operations officer explains how video games fail women, but perpetuates the same stereotype he wants to break. In Sex Drive Daily. From Wired News on August 22, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..

Russian: 'Nyet' to Math Prize
Saying he feels disconnected from his mathematics colleagues and has no desire to be anybody's "figurehead," a reclusive Russian turns down math's equivalent of the Nobel prize. From Wired News on August 22, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..

Onkyo Announces PMP
The new media player makes it easy to watch your favorite files on your TV. In Gear Factor. From Wired News on August 22, 2006 at 1:45 p.m..

In Search of New Friends
Friendster, the social-networking site left for dead after the emergence of MySpace and Facebook, gets a new lease on life (to the tune of $10 million) and a new target audience: post-college grads wanting to build real world, rather than virtual, friendships. From Wired News on August 22, 2006 at 1:45 p.m..

EPA Stop and Go on Hybrids
Hydraulic hybrid technology could have been saving millions of barrels of oil annually if not for the plug being pulled in 2001. In Autopia. From Wired News on August 22, 2006 at 12:45 p.m..

3-D TV That Actually Works
With a new line of LCD and plasma monitors from Philips, viewers see three-dimensional objects without having to wear glasses. By Seán Captain. From Wired News on August 22, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

IPod Factories: No Unions
Apple's investigation of its Chinese iPod factories isn't a whitewash, but the most important issue isn't even mentioned: the ability of workers to organize. Commentary by Leander Kahney. From Wired News on August 22, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

DIY Nuke Detector Patrols SF Bay
Volunteer researchers develop a mobile radiation scanner that can pick out a nuclear bomb in a containership at sea. Mark Rutherford reports from San Francisco. From Wired News on August 22, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

We’re about what Web 2.0 is about. 2.0! This is newer media. Clustering. On-demand streams. You need someone who gets it. “ASL” is geezer speak. Clear that. It’s the wave of tomorrow. It’s all about community. Feeds. Single. Word. Sentences! The new is old. Always be launching. 2.0 is the new New. Label what defies categorization. [...] From Internet Time Blog on August 22, 2006 at 3:45 a.m..

What Organizations Don’t Want to Know Can Hurt
The leaders of corporations and other institutions, it turns out, are not always hungry for more information after mistakes are made. From New York Times: Education on August 22, 2006 at 2:45 a.m..

Bloomberg Unveils Plan to Encourage Citys Students to Take the PSAT
Critics said that the exam serves little educational value on its own, and that preparing for it could take valuable time from regular instruction. From New York Times: Education on August 22, 2006 at 2:45 a.m..