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Privacy Fears Shock Facebook
Changes in the way Facebook users are notified of developments in their friends' lives cause an unprecedented backlash on the social networking site -- and force users to reevaluate the nature of social networking communities. By Michael Calore. From Wired News on September 6, 2006 at 10:45 p.m..

Talking DOPA (and Other Things) on the Radio
If you’re in the New York City area (or sittlng by your computer) tomorrow morning at 10:40 EST, I’m scheduled to appear on The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC. The topic, I think, is DOPA, but it could be about other fun and interesting things as well. Talking points, anyone? Here’s hoping I don’t make a [...] From weblogged News on September 6, 2006 at 7:47 p.m..

Oops, I Did It Again and Again
If you never thought about the process of creating a classical fugue based on a theme from a Britney Spears song, your life has been one of misery and disappointment. In Table of Malcontents. From Wired News on September 6, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Web 2.0 Stinkers, Champs
Love del.icio.us or hate it? Last week, we asked readers to send in their picks and pans, and we got a ton of responses. Mike Calore sorted through the results and created a list of rankings, including some surprises. In Monkey Bites From Wired News on September 6, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Research Writer position at the Saskatchewan Prevention Institute
*I am currently waiting final funding review for this project so can not officially hire for this position yet, but I will accept prior expressions of interest for a short term contract for a Research Writer job. Research Writer Job The Saskatchewan Prevention Institute is seeking a research writer for a short-term contract project. Work involves [...] From Software Marketing Articles and Marketing Tips on September 6, 2006 at 7:12 p.m..

Characteristics of Successful Online Instructors
This article describes the VOCAL approach to teaching online. While classroom teaching and management strategies are well documented, the online learning environment presents different challenges and benefits. Teaching in an online environment requires a special set of teaching skills since many of the strategies and tactics associated with best teaching practices are somewhat constrained by the primarily text-based environment. The VOCAL approach summarizes the key characteristics that a master instructor utilizes to be effective in an online environment. VOCAL is an acronym for Visible, Orga From eLearnopedia on September 6, 2006 at 7:12 p.m..

Innovate--Journal of Online Education
Innovate is a bimonthly, peer-reviewed online periodical published by the Fischler School of Education and Human Services at Nova Southeastern University. The journal focuses on the creative use of information technology to enhance educational processes in academic, commercial, and governmental settings. From eLearnopedia on September 6, 2006 at 7:12 p.m..

International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning
The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning is a refereed, open access e-journal that aims to disseminate research, theory, and best practice in open and distance learning worldwide. From eLearnopedia on September 6, 2006 at 7:12 p.m..

A model of professional or academic blogging
The Health News Review is a new web site devoted to checking the quality of health journalism. The site features frequent, detailed reviews of stories in major news outlets using a carefully-constructed grid of criteria and a panel of experts.... From Weblogs in Higher Education on September 6, 2006 at 7:11 p.m..

Corporate blogging
Fellow Indiana writer Bruce Hetrick offers a list of humanizing traits for good corporate blogging and this overview comment: Why are these organizations taking to the "blogosphere"? According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, it's for opportunities to communicate directly to audiences, to build credibility and to "put a human face" on an... From Weblogs in Higher Education on September 6, 2006 at 7:11 p.m..

The real thing
"I wrote a paragraph of text and there it was," recalled Ms. Walsh. "You write all these pages for college and no one ever sees it, and you write for Wikipedia and the whole world sees it, instantly." (Katie Hafner, 'Growing Wikipedia Revises Its 'Anyone Can Edit' Policy,' New York Times, June 17, 2006) I thought this was the key quotation for teachers in that article. I recently attended a campus event where three students described how they and... From Weblogs in Higher Education on September 6, 2006 at 7:11 p.m..

Meaning what you say
Mike Edwards at Vitia talks about whether to stand by the assignments he gives his writing students at West Point. On in-class essay #1, some didn't read the prompt closely enough to carry it out -- instead of writing an essay about a value not usually associated with the Army, a few students wrote about a value historically linked to the service. In... From Weblogs in Higher Education on September 6, 2006 at 7:11 p.m..

Kate Fox on participant observation and hidden rules of English behaviour
Yesterday, while changing planes in Stockholm I picked up a book written by an anthropologist Kate Fox -  Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour. The fun has started from the introdution on 'anthropology at home' and then continued with study results written up in scientific and humorous way at the same time. A quote on participant observation (I guess it will end up somewhere in my dissertation :):Anthropol From Mathemagenic on September 6, 2006 at 7:11 p.m..

Blogging as learning vs. blogging as knowing
I often catch myself with an uneasy feeling when people talk (write) nicely about my weblog and treat me as an expert as a result of what I write here. Of course, it feels nice and rewarding, but it's uneasy: sometimes while writing another "struggling with PhD" or "raw thinking in progress" post I really wonder why I still have all those smart people subscribing to my feed. It's difficult issue to talk about: I don't want to get compliments or try to be too modest or something like that. It's not that I think that my ideas are worth nothing or that From Mathemagenic on September 6, 2006 at 7:11 p.m..

Knowledge workers redefined: responsibility and creating value by acting on knowledge
From Taking Responsibility by David Gurteen in Inside Knowledge (via Luis Suarez at ITtoolbox):The point here is the line, "the ability to act on knowledge is power". So many of us, even when we have the knowledge, From Mathemagenic on September 6, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..

On personal preferences that shape research
A thought from last weekend discussion on differences in personal feelings and strategies in respect to a group pressure (e.g. how do you feel when a group of your close friends decides to do something you don't really enjoy) - personal preferences like this one seem to find a way into work things that are not related at the first sight. I usually find emotionally difficult to "have good time with nice people regardless of the activity" and need a strong personal reason ("enjoying the activity while having fun with others") to join in. For me integr From Mathemagenic on September 6, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..

My definitions of a weblog
Last Friday Stephanie emailed a simple question, asking for my own definition of what a weblog is. I was too busy then, finishing things before a weekend offline (end-of-the-season windy North Sea coast, if you are curious ;), so I had to leave it till now. Of course, the purity of the experiment has been already spoiled since I have read about the first results, but I'll give it a try. So, what is my definition of a weblog? I couldn't answer it easily because "it dep From Mathemagenic on September 6, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..

My work-related interests
I had to make a couple of slides describing my work interests in an informal way, so I thought of posting them here as well. Could be useful as an informal intro* and interesting in retrospect... What I do best: asking questions and recognising patterns, initiating and facilitating change, workshop/learning facilitation, boundary spanning, translating from research to practice and back Contexts: knowledge management, human resources development, technologies for collaboration, learning and knowledge sharing (including those under "social From Mathemagenic on September 6, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..

Chumbies join nabaztags :)
While Europe is conquered by nabaztags (like our own), North America seems to become mesmerised by chumbies. In case you don't know yet... ...chumby, a compact device that can act like a clock radio, but is way more flexible and fun. It uses the wireless internet connection you already have to fetch cool stuff from the web: music, the latest news, box scores, animati From Mathemagenic on September 6, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..

Erosion of Power: Users in Charge
Imagine this: Juan enters a bar in a wheelchair, pushed by Alice. Fred the bartender turns to Alice and asks, 'Would he like a drink?' Juan is perfectly capable of speaking for himself, but Fred doesn't get it. Back in the real world, Dean Kamen revolutionized many disabled people's lives with an upright wheelchair that changed everything - putting Juan's head level with Fred's. But where is the virtual wheelchair for all consumers, who are generally talked about or even to, but rarely listened to? From Release 1.0 on September 6, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..

Visible Demand: The New Air-Taxi Market
The airline industry is one of the most effective users of IT - even though you see no evidence of that fact in the form of profits. Perhaps it just proves that using IT well to implement a broken model gives you, well, a broken model. But consider this: The airline industry was one of the earliest users of computers and information systems for transaction-processing and scheduling, 'revenue management' (the art of dynamic pricing), online booking, and tools for users to state their demands (Priceline, Kayak and Sidestep). The next big phase shift will come from a new group of air-se From Release 1.0 on September 6, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..

Blackboard Patent and Prior Art
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ctt.bc.ca/landonline/ I am officially still on holidays until next Tuesday but made the mistake of checking my email (I have managed to abstain from my bloglines account though!) and through a mailing list I subscribe to saw a post on the nastiness that is Blackboard's patent application. If you can beat them, sue them, eh? The ensuing effort to create a history of LMS/VLEs thr From EdTechPost on September 6, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..

And the winner is....'Course Management Systems'?
http://www.educause.edu/2006/10958 From the "that's not a zeitgeist, just a bump in the road" department comes this news, that the inaugural winner of the new Educause 'Catalyst' award is "Course Management Systems" (yes, the entire field of them, not just a signle one, EdTechPost on September 6, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..

"The Future of..." - Three Contrasting Views
http://www.kineo.co.uk/ideas/ future-of-e-learning-in-universities.html http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm06/erm0648.asp At some point in the fall I have to dust off my crystal ball for a presentation on 'the future of LMS' (yikes!) so I've been keeping my eye on various 'Future of...' presentations of late, an From EdTechPost on September 6, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..

stu.dicio.us - what a student-developed, student-focused learning/study tool looks like
http://stu.dicio.us/ Thought I've been away I did try to catch up in Bloglines the last 2 days and I didn't see this making the rounds so hopefully of interest - stu.dicio.us, while still in beta, is an incredibly simple student-focused tool that currently supports note taking and scheduling, with file storage and self grade-tracking coming soon. There are three things about it that are really beautiful: - it is REALLY simple, a From EdTechPost on September 6, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..

Paper - The Digital Learning Challenge: Obstacles to Educational Uses of Copyrighted Material in the Digital Age
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=923465 This is an important new paper by William McGeveran and William Fisher from the Berkman Center for Internet &amp Society. It's not exactly earth shattering content for people regularly working on the issue of sharing and reusing digital resources for education, but it is fairly comprehensive (fro From EdTechPost on September 6, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..

The Gong Project - Free Voice boards, voice chat and language tool
http://gong.ust.hk/index.html During my holidays I received an email from Dr David Rossiter and Gibson Lam from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology inviting me to try out some software they had developed called Gong. I am often hesitant about blogging such invitations and didn't even manage to get around to trying it until today because of the backlog of email etc., from my holiday. But after trying it out I am glad I did. From EdTechPost on September 6, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..

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Jorum Report on Automated Metadata
http://www.jorum.ac.uk/docs/pdf/ automated_metadata_report.pdf If you don't have the pleasure of being a metadata geek in your day job then, move along folks, nothing to see here. For the 9 and 3/4 people still reading this post, this report from Jorum is worth a read, though not the magic bullet you'd hoped for from the title. The report mainly looks at Jorum's own practices in regards to automating metadata collection for learning resources From EdTechPost on September 6, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..

Short Video on Common Cartridge
http://www.sakaiproject.org/media2/2006/ altidemo06/altidemo06.htm If you've ever tried to export a course from an existing CMS in a 'specifications-'compliant format you'll know that currently the best you can likely do is get the content as IMS Content Packages and hopefully the quizzes separately in IMS QTI format. Leaving the rest of the course (discussion forums, assignments, etc) embedded in t From EdTechPost on September 6, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..

CCMixter Radio - Rockin' the airwaves with Creative Commons music, 24 hours a day!
http://ccmixter.org/media/view/media/extras Kind of a non-sequitar, but I have been working away listening to streams of fully CC-licensed remixes and tracks from the awesome CCMixter site all day, and just wanted to tell someone. What brought me there was the announcement that my old favourite, Freesound, is now EdTechPost on September 6, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..

educate/innovate = use patents?
http://www.educateinnovate.com/ OK, so at least they did post something back on August 7 about the patent (a staff member posting a letter on behalf of Michael Chasen, the CEO), but otherwise, the Blackboard "blog" has been thunderously silent given the amount of From EdTechPost on September 6, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..

Studie zu den Potenzialen von eLearning-/Blended-Learning-Lösungen
Hinter dieser Studie stehen das Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) und die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ). Um den Stellenwert der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit besser einschätzen zu können, kamen die Beteiligten auf die Idee,... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on September 6, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..

The "Imponderable Bloom": Reconsidering the Role of Technology in Education
In der August/ September-Ausgabe von innovate geht es um E-Books, Video Games und andere Themen des Online-Lernens, unter anderem auch die Frage des sinnvollen Einsatzes neuer Technologien in der Bildung. Generell eine gute Frage. Denn die Antworten sind häufig eine... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on September 6, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..

Social Networking: Still Not Meeting its Critical Promise
Ein Must Read! Ich verliere Dave Pollard immer wieder aus den Augen, weil Bildung nicht sein originäres Thema ist, um regelmäßig wieder bei ihm zu landen, wenn er Themen diskutiert, die für Bildungs- und Lernprozesse elementar sind. Jetzt bereitet er... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on September 6, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..

E-Learning Myth #1: The "Net Gen" Myth
Norm Friesen, den ich vor einigen Wochen in Innsbruck kennengelernt hatte, der aber offensichtlich wieder in Kanada "angekommen" ist, will sich in den nächsten Wochen kritisch mit einigen "e-Learning-Mythen" auseinandersetzen. Der erste Mythos betrifft die "Net-Generation": "Unlike any other generation... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on September 6, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..

Stephen Downes and the OLDaily
Es gibt eine Sache, die ich täglich (fast) Zeile für Zeile lese: den Newsletter OLDaily von Stephen Downes. In diesem Interview erzählt Stephen über die Anfänge, über Tools, die ihm wichtig sind, und über Trends, von denen er glaubt, dass... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on September 6, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..

The 50 Who Matter Now
Business 2.0 hat sich auf die Suche nach den Menschen gemacht, die mit ihren Ideen, Produkten oder Geschäftsmodellen die Welt, in der wir leben, nachhaltig verändert haben bzw. verändern werden. Und - natürlich - eine Rangliste erstellt. Auf Platz... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on September 6, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..

Be Constructive: Blogs, Podcasts, and Wikis as Constructivist Learning Tools
"Learning is not unlike the Borg; it thrives by assimilating technologies never originally intended for education, from the printing press to the audio cassette. (If you are not familiar with Star Trek, I apologize for the reference -- it's... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on September 6, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..

Hier stand ein Hinweis ...
... auf einen Artikel zum Thema "Gewalt & Medien", nächtlich geschrieben, dann für einige Stunden ruhen lassen, bis mich ein berechtigter Kommentar auf den ganzen Unsinn hinwies. Ich weiß nicht genau, ob ich jetzt "politically correct" handele, wenn ich den... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on September 6, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..

The Future of Online Collaboration: Interview with Jay Cross
In diesem Interview gibt es einige interessante Anmerkungen wie zum Beispiel die Antwort auf die Frage, was uns an Entwicklungen im Bereich des virtuellen Kommunizierens und Zusammenarbeitens erwartet. Dazu Jay Cross: "For one thing, right now we don't have any... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on September 6, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..

Professor Nicholas Negroponte's technological dance with the developing world
Ich habe das Thema bisher nur am Rande mitbekommen und so auch einige Minuten gebraucht, bis ich merkte, dass OLPC für "One Laptop per Child" steht. Der Artikel mag ein Einsteiger sein. Der nigerianische Autor verteidigt hier die Initiative, in... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on September 6, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..

Course and Courseware Fading - The Future of eLearning
Tony Karrer hat in den letzten Wochen einige interessante Beiträge geschrieben. Ich greife diesen heraus, weil er nicht nur das Ende traditioneller Bildungskonzepte vorhersagt, sondern auch versucht, in Stichworten den aktuellen Wandel festzuhalten. Anbei die Stichworte, wobei ich das erste... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on September 6, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..

Wikis in Education
In bewährter Manier hat Graeme Daniel zusammengetragen, was bis heute über Wikis in Bildungs- und Lernprozessen geschrieben wurde. Über einhundert (!) annotierte Quellen. Von den ersten Ideen eines Tim Berners-Lee und dem ersten Wiki, das Ward Cunningham 1995 online stellte,... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on September 6, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..

Does e-learning lead to social isolation?
Nur noch wenige Stunden bis zum Urlaub, und ich stöbere gerade etwas durch verschiedene Blogs. Graham Attwell's "The Wales-Wide Web" zum Beispiel. Graham sitzt offensichtlich gerade an einem Buch über "e-learning in Small and Medium Enterprises", reist durch Europa,... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on September 6, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..

Entwicklung von Maßnahmenportfolios zur Vermittlung von eLehrkompetenz
Vielleicht braucht der Titel einige erklärende Worte: Wenn e-Learning nachhaltig, wie es so schön heißt, in der Hochschullehre verankert werden soll, kommt man an den Lehrenden nicht vorbei. Sie sind das Nadelöhr, durch das e-Learning muss, wenn es in dieser... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on September 6, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..

Urlaub
Ich habe fertig! Urlaub steht an: Zwei Wochen Frankreich, Campen, garantiert offline. Also werden hier die Schotten (sprich: die Kommentarfunktionen) dicht gemacht. Wer etwas loswerden will, muss es per email versuchen. Im September geht's weiter. Bis dahin alles Gute, JR... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on September 6, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..

Anonymous Surfing: New Browser Guarantees Browsing Privacy: Browzar - Video Introduction
Anonymous browsing, without leaving traces of where you have gone and what pages you have looked at, is now possible thanks to a new web browser launching today: Browzar Browzar which is a fully free browser, guarantees browsing privacy as it doesn't save any cache, history, cookies and does not use the auto-complete feature. It is available for PC, Mac and Linux computers and it can be downloaded in seconds (even on dial-up) and doesn't need an installation to run. It can be even placed on a USB memory stick and run directly from there "as is". Interface-wise, Browzar has From Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings on September 6, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..

Improve Video Quality Of Mobile Phones Video Clips: MotionDSP
Mobile video clips and video footage shot with most any PDA or mobile phone looks pretty low quality when shown on a computer screen, let alone enlarging it for editing it into a pro clip. But thanks to a company which has spent lots of time and resources with the military, a new technology will son allow everyone to rapidly enhance the video quality of their cell-phone-shot video clips. MotionDSP is an imaging software company focusing on video image processing, and thanks to its latest research and testing it has been able to create a digital signal processing device capable of significantly From Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings on September 6, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..

Create Annotated Web Tours With TrailFire - Video Introduction
Asynchronous co-navigation also known as recorded web tours (see also: Collaborative browsing) is an online collaboration approach used to line up a sequence of web pages to be viewed, studied or analyzed by others, at their leisure, in an easy and simple way. In the past there were a pair of online collaboration tools, ezWebcar, and ezWebTours which offered an easy path to serve both real-time and asynchronous web tours in an easy-to-use simple, free web-based collaboration toolset. Photo credit: (c) Trailfire.com Today a new free service replicates and extends all of the above features in a From Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings on September 6, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 68
Seal credit: Official Seal Generator Web-based platform lets you organize and access your media files from anywhere on the web Create file sharing platforms for groups of people Chat with other people viewing the same site as you through the Firefox browser Send instant voice messages to mobile phones from your mobile and from the Internet Software that you can install on your mobile phone to chat and send text messages for free within a community Online collaboration system which allows you to display synchronized PowerPoint slides and web conferences Manage your Google Calendar offline direc From Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings on September 6, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..

Program Compatibility Wizard: Windows Vista RC1 - Video Preview
Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 is an early release of the upcoming new Microsoft operating system which will be released in the first part of 2007. This beta release has been distributed to over five million beta testers worldwide in an effort to iron out all remaining development bugs while introducing some yet unreleased features and functionalities. Among these is the updated Vista Program Compatibility Wizard, a feature which, while little known but already present in Windows XP, will allow Windows Vista users to utilize and run applications written and developed for earlier versions of From Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings on September 6, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..

Public Dialogue: Important Thinkers, Scientists And Humanitarians Open First Public Forum - The Table of Free Voices
The Table of Free Voices is an ambitious experiment in bringing over a hundred of the most important thinkers, scientists and humanitarians in the world together, and creating a dialogue between them and a global public. Photo credit: Dropping Knowledge Dropping Knowledge, the non-profit organization behind the Table of Free Voices describe it like this:On September 9, 2006, 112 of the world's most compelling thinkers, artists, writers, scientists, social entrepreneurs, philosophers and humanitarians from around the world will come together in Berlin, Germany, as guests of dropping knowle From Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings on September 6, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..

Soccer Video Passion: Italian Team Triumphal Comeback Video
Almost two months ago, Italy's won a passionate world soccer championship in Germany, and was the beneficiary of extra love and sympathy from hundreds of thousands of Italy's supporters and friendly fans all around the globe. To all those of you who have suffered and rejoyced while following Italy's matches, here is a little present from the heart, which while not much fitting the typical scope and focus of this new media news site (outside of providing you access to content you will not see on mainstream media) , gives me the opportunity to share with an international audience From Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings on September 6, 2006 at 7:09 p.m..

DimDim Releases Open-Source Conferencing Platform
Web Conferencing Goes Open-Source: As originally anticipated on these very pages, DimDim web conferencing is finally now a reality, failed to as it just released, as promised, its first version of the server-based DimDim conferencing server. Second Update (11:20am GMT+2): I have just received a notification from DimDim, that reads like this: "The Dimdim source code was released under the OSI approved Open Source license Mozilla Public License (MPL) on our website at 5:00 AM EST. The URL for the download is available on our homepage at www.dimdim.com." First Update (Wed 8:10am GMT+2): From Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings on September 6, 2006 at 7:09 p.m..

El área de e-learning y de software libre del CESGA, en el III Congreso Online para la Cibersociedad
El III Congreso Online del Observatorio para la Cibersociedad, que en esta ocasión lleva por título Conocimiento Abierto, Sociedad Libre, abre el plazo de presentación de comunicaciones a los más de 6... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on September 6, 2006 at 7:09 p.m..

Diponible la versión Alpha del LMS Dokeos 1.9
La empresa belga Dokeos S.P.R.L. acaba de poner a disposición de la comunidad la versión ALPHA de su LMS Dokeos 1.8. Esta versión es muy inestable y... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on September 6, 2006 at 7:09 p.m..

Comunidad virtual SCORM
El día 1 de septiembre ADL ha anunciado la creación de la Comunidad Virtual adlCommunity.net. Esta comunidad es una organización independient... (Sigue) From Titulares eLearning WORKSHOPS on September 6, 2006 at 7:09 p.m..

Education in Cultural Etiquette
Launched in preparation for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the Campaign to Promote Civilized Chinese Travelers is designed to sensitize Chinese tourists to international cultural mores pertaining to appearance, hygiene, courtesy,... From Adult/Continuing Education on September 6, 2006 at 7:09 p.m..

Get Wired for School
There's no stopping the development of new technology for students and teachers. Stay on the cutting edge; add these high tech tools to your back-to-school pack. Related Links Computer Basics Succeeding... From Adult/Continuing Education on September 6, 2006 at 7:09 p.m..

Top 10 School Supplies
Back to school ads and in-store displays present a dizzying selection of supplies... but what do you really need? Top 10 School Supplies offers tips for getting... From Adult/Continuing Education on September 6, 2006 at 7:09 p.m..

Course Design 101
The key to planning an effective course is to establish clear objectives from the outset. John Carpenter guides you through the course-design process in Focusing Your Class with Objectives.... From Adult/Continuing Education on September 6, 2006 at 7:09 p.m..

Visual Icebreaker
While most icebreakers aim to get participants talking, Peter Renner's "Show Me" Icebreaker aims to get participants looking. Feel free to share responses to this visual icebreaker, and offer... From Adult/Continuing Education on September 6, 2006 at 7:09 p.m..

Back to School Tips
Re-entering a classroom after years at home or in the workplace is a big step. Naturally, there will be challenges. Make a smooth transition with these survival tips... From Adult/Continuing Education on September 6, 2006 at 7:09 p.m..

Self University Week, September 1 - 7
Every September, as students and teachers prepare to return to school, independent scholars renew their commitment to lifelong learning. Ron Gross chronicles the history of the celebration and encourages... From Adult/Continuing Education on September 6, 2006 at 7:09 p.m..

Ace College Courses
Among the topics covered in the Professors' Guide to Getting Good Grades in College, authors Lynn Jacobs and Jeremy Hyman offer advice for course shoppers, students who decide during the... From Adult/Continuing Education on September 6, 2006 at 7:09 p.m..

Give Your Brain a Tune Up
Just as you might give your car a tune-up to prepare for a long trip or the winter, make sure your brain is functioning optimally for a new school year.... From Adult/Continuing Education on September 6, 2006 at 7:09 p.m..

September 8 is International Literacy Day
Literacy is the key to effective social and economic participation. It contributes to human development and poverty reduction. Unfortunately, according to UNESCO, 771 million adults are illiterate and... From Adult/Continuing Education on September 6, 2006 at 7:09 p.m..

blip.tv
They talk about the many features of blip including hooks into bookmark tagging engines like del.icio.us and Furl, and the ability to post video not only to blip.tv, but also to the Internet Archive. They also discuss Udell's recent post about "walled gardens", and some of the features of blip that allow users to make their work more transparent and not only tied to blip's site. From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on September 6, 2006 at 7:08 p.m..

Portland Citywide Wi-Fi Gets Started
Oregon Public Broadcast has a report about the roll out of Portland's citywide wireless Internet plan. Starting next summer residents will be able to pick up an advertising based connection free of charge. From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on September 6, 2006 at 7:08 p.m..

Link to a Specific Section of a Video on Google Video
Google Video has a nice feature that allows you to link to a specific section of video stored on their system. From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on September 6, 2006 at 7:08 p.m..

Gizmo: "Free" Voice Calls to Over 60 Countries
A few months back I wrote about Gizmo, a voice over Internet service that has many nice features including the ability to record phone conversations (great for student interviews and such...)... While this can be seen as a marketing move by the company, the result is that with a bit of organization and effort you can make voice calls to 60 countries for free. From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on September 6, 2006 at 7:08 p.m..

DOPA Watch
Andy Carvin has set up a site - DOPA Watch - that automatically aggregates the latest news and blog posts about the DOPA (interesting acronym) legislation.... It will be interesting to see if the owners of the types of sites targeted by the legislation will begin to lobby Congress to counter some of the perceptions inherent in the legislation. From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on September 6, 2006 at 7:08 p.m..

Barcelona airport strike
Barcelona airport strike strands 10,000 Britons - Times OnlineThe strike was sparked by the decision by Spanish airports authority AENA not to renew Iberia’s baggage handling contract.Workers blocked one of the airport’s three runways this morning to protest at possible job losses.How I spent part of my summer vacation... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on September 6, 2006 at 7:08 p.m..

Chicago Tribune: A Tank of Gas, A World of Trouble Oil Safari | Chicago Tribune news | Broadband
The Chicago Tribune has recently published a special report by Paul Salopek that traces the gasoline sold at a suburban Chicago station back to its origins.... The site also includes a great little ticker that counts off US oil consumption while you are visiting the site. From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on September 6, 2006 at 7:08 p.m..

Saved locations on Google Maps
Google Maps has added a nice feature which allows you to save personal addresses on Google Maps. A Saved Location link has been added to the right corner of the site. From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on September 6, 2006 at 7:08 p.m..

Worldcat
Kilgour, a distinguished librarian who nearly 40 years ago transformed a consortium of Ohio libraries into what is now the largest library cooperative in the world, making the catalogs of thousands of libraries around the globe instantly accessible to far-flung patrons, died on Monday in Chapel Hill, N.C.... For example the links described below would take me to the entry for Will Richardson's book: Book: Blogs, wikis, podcasts, and other powerful web tools for classrooms http://worldcat.org/oclc/62326782 By adding geographical limiting information to the link I can limit the results to From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on September 6, 2006 at 7:08 p.m..

Flickrshow: Javascript Slideshows for Flickr
// This is your call to flickrshow // The parameters are photoset ID, ID of target and colour // Repeat this call to have multiple flickrshows on a page fs1 = new flickrShow("72157594201929815", "fsDemo", "blue"); A slide show will appear here shortly. From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on September 6, 2006 at 7:08 p.m..

O'Reilly Radar > Blackboard E-Learning Patent
O'Reilly Radar > Blackboard E-Learning Patent: Tim O'Reilly talks about the Blackboard patent and the response from the education community. He notes how Wikipedia is being used to document the history/prior art of virtual learning environments. From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on September 6, 2006 at 7:08 p.m..

Presentation Zen
After a very long week of school district meetings, with miles of PowerPoint presentations, I always find it refreshing to take a look at Garr Reynolds' Presentation Zen weblog.... Ricks discusses the use/abuse of PowerPoint as a briefing tool and how print outs of PowerPoint slides have started to be used instead of printed documentation, or in this case instead of documented orders. From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on September 6, 2006 at 7:08 p.m..

Moving to Drupal
The student blogs in Drupal will be designed so that the left sidebar will host an aggregator that will pull in the last two assignments from each of the teachers and post them on the sidebar. (see graphic) When this feature is enabled in Drupal each of the aggregated posts also has a little button next to it which show up when a student is logged in. When the student clicks the button, the teacher assignment blog post is captured and quoted in a new student blog post. From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on September 6, 2006 at 7:08 p.m..

Weblog Tools
I have already done the installation and the importing of my posts from this site run by Moveable Type to the new Wordpress environment.... I'm looking forward to taking advantage of some of the SPAM blocking tools so that I can turn on comments again. From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on September 6, 2006 at 7:08 p.m..

Preliminary plans for AECT Summer conference, July 19-21, 2007
Planning for The 2007 Summer Professional Development Conference is underway. Please set aside the dates of July 19-21 for the Board Meeting and the professional development sessions. Below is a list of potential topics that Joanne Bentley and others are working with. Suggestions, feedback or comments about these should be sent to [...] From Martindale Matrix on September 6, 2006 at 7:08 p.m..

Ad-supported Textbooks
Interesting discussion on Slashdot about electronic textbooks supported by advertisements, and about the high costs of college textbooks. Slashdot ¦ Ad-supported Textbooks Are Here Technorati Tags: free, textbook From Martindale Matrix on September 6, 2006 at 7:08 p.m..

AECT Dallas Convention Site
I’ve been working with Nathan Lowell and others, getting the AECT convention site together. It’s kinda “web2.0-ish”. At least it has RSS feeds, and member-contributed content everywhere. We’re using Drupal, a very nice open source, free content management system. In our “spare time” we’re going to add more features, such as linking each person to [...] From Martindale Matrix on September 6, 2006 at 7:08 p.m..

Net Neutrality Debate Grows More Vocal - Gene J. Koprowski, E-Commerce Times
Cable companies say that they have invested more than US$110 billion in new networks during the last decade. Telephone and wireless firms have also sunk billions into new infrastructure. These companies fear that any proposal to regulate access to the Int From Techno-News Blog on September 6, 2006 at 7:08 p.m..

iTunes -- how long can musicians holdout? - Associated Press
Bob Seger turned the page, and Metallica finally found justice for online fans. Now, only a few remaining big-name musical acts refuse to make their songs available on Apple Computer's popular iTunes Music Store. nalysts say the online holdouts -- includi From Techno-News Blog on September 6, 2006 at 7:08 p.m..

Universal Authentication - David Talbot, Technology Review
If you're like most people, you've established multiple user IDs and passwords on the Internet -- for your employer or school, your e-mail accounts, online retailers, banks, and so forth. It's cumbersome and confusing, slowing down online interactions if From Techno-News Blog on September 6, 2006 at 7:08 p.m..

Online volunteers roll up their sleeves - Associated Press
When it comes to volunteering, Caitrin Murphy finds satisfaction in spending 10 months helping Tijuana orphans or a Saturday building low-income homes outside Washington, D.C. But onsite projects aren't always feasible, so Murphy instead turned to the Int From Techno-News Blog on September 6, 2006 at 7:08 p.m..

Asia warms up to intellectual property - Aaron Tan, CNET News
As the relative value of intellectual property increases, Asian businesses are apparently beginning to take infringement issues more seriously. During a panel discussion this week at the inaugural Global Forum on Intellectual Property here, industry exper From Techno-News Blog on September 6, 2006 at 7:08 p.m..

Can Google's Guide For The Blind Do More? - Nicholas Carlson, Internet News
A month after launching Accessible Search for the visually-impaired, Google is contemplating user-feedback and deciding where to go next. Can Google help the learning-disabled or the elderly with their searches? Google research scientist TV Raman believe From Techno-News Blog on September 6, 2006 at 7:08 p.m..

Dell gives defense, health, intell priority in battery replacements - David Hubler, FCW
Defense, civilian and intelligence customers are getting priority treatment in Dell From Techno-News Blog on September 6, 2006 at 7:08 p.m..

Global VoIP Market Takes Hold - Enid Burns, ClickZ Stats
VoIP rose from 10.3 million to 18.7 million subscribers worldwide through the course of 2005. This 83 percent growth is detailed a report from Point Topic. Combined, the number of people paying for PC-to-phone calls (4.7 million) and retail VoIP (telepho From Techno-News Blog on September 6, 2006 at 7:08 p.m..

U. of California Will Provide Up to 3,000 Books a Day to Google for Scanning, Contract States - SCOTT CARLSON, Chronicle of Higher Education
U. of California will provide up to 3,000 books a day to Google for scanning, contract states. A mere two months after the University of California begins its book-digitization project with Google, the university may provide the search company with a who From Techno-News Blog on September 6, 2006 at 7:08 p.m..

When Lithium-Ion Batteries Go Bad - Associated Press
Lithium-ion batteries are ideal for mobile electronics because they are lightweight, extremely energy-dense, and have a unique chemistry allowing them to be recharged. Their foundation is the lithium ion. Lightweight, highly reactive and tiny, the metal c From Techno-News Blog on September 6, 2006 at 7:08 p.m..

Linux Guns for Desktop - Red Herring
Open-source advocate Eric Raymond on winning over the iPod generation, the need for open source to conquer hearts and minds beyond geekdom, and why Linux advocates don From Techno-News Blog on September 6, 2006 at 7:08 p.m..

Addicted maybe, but users say BlackBerries improve life - Reuters
Cellular telephones and wireless BlackBerry email devices may be addictive, but most business executives insist mobile technology has improved the balance between their work and home, a study said on Thursday. The study, by executive recruitment firm Korn From Techno-News Blog on September 6, 2006 at 7:08 p.m..

Investigator urges companies to report cybercrime - Grant Gross, Computer World
Companies that work with law enforcement agencies on cybercrime can get valuable information, including lists of hostile IP addresses and information on new types of attacks, a U.S. Air Force cybercrime investigator said today. During a presentation at t From Techno-News Blog on September 6, 2006 at 7:08 p.m..

Microsoft Tests New Wi-Fi Security, Locator Tools - Gregg Keizer, TechWeb
Microsoft is testing a to-be-released service that helps users find and manage wireless connections when using public hotspots. It also maps the location of available hotspots and provides driving directions to them. Some Office 2007 beta testers have be From Techno-News Blog on September 6, 2006 at 7:08 p.m..

Lithium-ion technology in the spotlight - Associated Press
Lithium-ion batteries are ideal for mobile electronics because they are lightweight, extremely energy-dense, and have a unique chemistry allowing them to be recharged. Their foundation is the lithium ion. Lightweight, highly reactive and tiny, the metal From Techno-News Blog on September 6, 2006 at 7:08 p.m..

number games and social software
Over the last month, i’ve been driving Mimi’s Hybrid on and off. One of my favorite things about the Hybrid is that it tells you how many MPG you’re averaging over time. I find myself driving around town trying to maximize that number, getting uber excited when it goes up and super sad when it goes down. It reminds me of when i used to try to maximize my miles per hour when going from Boston to New York only this is more environmental. Yet, it’s not the environment that i’m concerning myself with - it’s all about number games From Corante: Social Software on September 6, 2006 at 7:07 p.m..

In-line tagging at LibraryThing
Tim Spalding has taken discussion forums a big step forward over at LibraryThing. The concept is simple but could make a real difference because it allows forum msgs to be aggregated in multiple ways. When you’re entering a msg at a forum, you can put a title or author in brackets and LibraryThing will take a stab at identifying what you have in mind. Think of it as in-place tagging. You can thus easily find all the posts about a book. And all the referenc From Corante: Social Software on September 6, 2006 at 7:07 p.m..

Edit this Wired Article
Last time someone tried this it was a disaster, but Wired News has boldly put an article about wikis into a Socialtext wiki for anyone to be a Wired editor: In an experiment in collaborative journalism, Wired News is putting reporter Ryan Singel at your service. Corante: Social Software on September 6, 2006 at 7:07 p.m..

Social Publishing
I am always looking for connections and lately I have begun to see what I think is a promising trend in the publishing world that may just transform the industry for good.First off, in his article “Science Fiction is the Only Literature People Care Enough About to Steal on the Internet” (in the July 2006 issue of Locus), Cory Doctorow writes:Science fiction is the only literat From Corante: Social Software on September 6, 2006 at 7:07 p.m..

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Down periscope! Prepare for humiliation!
I've been asked at the very last minute to be the third person on a panel at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Network Communications Council. The other two panelists are Brent Olson, Ass't VP of Regulatory Policy at AT&T and Link Hoewing, Ass't VP of Internet and Technology Issues at Verizon. The topic: Net neutrality. I am seriously outgunned here. My role in the Net neutrality debate is to prepare cooling beverages for the team and to put the dirty uniforms into the clothing hamper afterwards. MassNetComm got my name by doing a whole bunch of blind fishing, until... From Joho the Blog on September 6, 2006 at 5:50 p.m..

V-Mate for Video on the Go
The new video card recorder easily converts video for use on mobile devices. In Gear Factor. From Wired News on September 6, 2006 at 5:46 p.m..

Shockwave Games on Your Phone
Navio, the company which soon plans on releasing songs in Apple's FairPlay format, powers Shockwave's new mobile video-game portal, but one key feature is missing thanks to cell carriers' restrictions. In Listening Post. From Wired News on September 6, 2006 at 5:46 p.m..

Five years
"My Glamorous Life" entries from September 11, 12, 13, 14, and 23, 2001. From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report on September 6, 2006 at 4:49 p.m..

Testing the Publish to Blog Feature at Thinkfree.com
I’ve been using thinkfree.com to create and host some Office type documents, and now they are offering the ability to post files directly to the blog. This is a test of the service. The document included here is the White Paper we created for Dell earlier this year on the Tablet PC pilot we held [...] From weblogged News on September 6, 2006 at 4:48 p.m..

Belgian Sees Internet Growth in Broadband Uptake
More than 2.3 million Belgians either signed up for new Internet accounts or upgraded to broadband service in Q2. From ClickZ Stats on September 6, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..

Digital Divide? It's Still There
Although the gap has closed and more kids than ever are online, white children still use the internet in much larger numbers than minorities do. From Wired News on September 6, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..

HP Spied on Own Directors
Hewlett-Packard admits that it used a technique known as pretexting to examine the private phone records of its trustees, hoping to catch the source of a media leak. By Kim Zetter and Evan Hansen. From Wired News on September 6, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..

Where to find a Security Analyst
We are looking for a security analyst (pdf). Where would be the best place to find a geek with a pony tail who wears darkly humorous t-shirts, and finds this funny? From Serious Instructional Technology on September 6, 2006 at 2:46 p.m..

NECCers…Start Your Engines
Just a quick reminder to those of you who might be interested in doing some blogvangelizing (or wikivangelizing, or rssvangelizing etc.) at the National Educational Computing Conference in Atlanta next year… Calls for Participation are Now Open! You have a month… technorati tags:necc07, conferences From weblogged News on September 6, 2006 at 1:47 p.m..

Scott Jaschik - Momentum for Open Access Research - Inside Higher Ed
The scholarly societies have been opposing open access to academic content, but as this article notes, it is increasingly apparent that they represent only their own interests, and not those of the academics they purport to represent. I haven't covered every iteration of the increasingly show of support by academics for open access, but this increment, the most recentl, in which the provosts of 25 research universities came out in favor of open access, is typical. The support for open access is there, as people become aware of the issue. And with that support, open access publishing beome From OLDaily on September 6, 2006 at 1:45 p.m..

Scott Jaschik - You May Have Been YouTubed - Inside Higher Ed
Too funny - students are secretly recording videos of their professors and posting them on YouTube. This is a practice I encourage. Oh, I know, there will be much righteous objections on the part of professors. But really, if you are not willing to have your words posted for the whole world to see, you shouldn't really be saying them, now should you? The objection, of course, is as Ann Springer says. "The professor's presentation in class is the professor's intellectual property, and to submit it to a Web site is a violation of those rights -- and a concern to the uni From OLDaily on September 6, 2006 at 1:45 p.m..

StevenB - Gaining The Trust Of Students - ACRLog
Authority figures - even librarians, as this article notes - are becoming less and less trusted, as people are beginning to favour "people like me." As Gerry McGovern states, "The Web gives customers the power to talk back and be heard by other customers like them. The Web strips away authority from the establishment. In fact, the Web is leading a backlash against traditional authority figures." So, how to fix this? Easy. Stop being an authority figure. [Link] [Tags: ] [ From OLDaily on September 6, 2006 at 1:45 p.m..

Carl DiOrio - Unions Seek Higher Residuals for New Media - BackStage
The studios and publishers are suing people and campaigning even for even tighter copyright laws because they believe that artists should be supported. Right? Remember that? How do these same people feel the people who actually produce that same content should be paid? These people "are now being asked to accept even slimmer payments for ad-supported streaming of TV shows. And that's slimmer as in nada." Right. Nothing. That's what the publishers really want to pay artists. Just like in academia. [Link] [Tags: < From OLDaily on September 6, 2006 at 1:45 p.m..

Dave Warlick - Am I Getting This Wrong? - 2 cents Worth
Dave Warlick looks at a study found through the National Center or Education Statistics, Computer and Internet Use by Students in 2003, dated September 5, 2006, that appears to use 6 year-old data. And he asks, is he wrong to think there's something wrong with this? "How many members were there of MySpace in 2003?" (I think that would be none, Dave, and the current figure is 86 million). Read the comments, not only for my response, but also for a link to "cartoon-style drawings of the DOE's vision of 'School 2.0.'" (p.s. I am noticing that, because feeds are orde From OLDaily on September 6, 2006 at 1:45 p.m..

Tim Stahmer - Kindergarten Gulag - Assorted Stuff
The headline says it all, doesn't it? "Instead of story time, finger painting, tracing letters and snack, first graders are spending hours doing math work sheets and sounding out words in reading groups. In some places, recess, music, art and even social studies are being replaced by writing exercises and spelling quizzes." Related: soobrosa on motivation and feedback. I would add as well that a fundamental purpose of recess, arts and social studies is to promote freedom by enabling it - and so I won From OLDaily on September 6, 2006 at 1:45 p.m..

Various authors - Diigo
"Seamless integration of social bookmarking, web highlighter, Sticky-note and clipping." Via Soobrosa, who writes, "Big up, wiser than most LMSes." [Link] [Tags: ] [Comment] From OLDaily on September 6, 2006 at 1:45 p.m..

Steve Hargadon - Audio Webcast Interview
Interview with Larry Cuban, emeritus professor of education at Stanford, and author of "Oversold and Underused: Computers in the Classroom," to be posted on Thursday (I kind of have to link ahead of time, since my sechedule is tight - in the mean time, see Steve Hargadon's interviews with Victoria Davis and Adam Frey on wikis, Michelle Moore on Moodle, and David Thornburg on OSS in education, all accessible from the same page. [Link] [Tags: AccessibilityOLDaily on September 6, 2006 at 1:45 p.m..

Stephen Downes - My Work, My Freedom - Half an Hour
I'm sitting on the porch at the guest house here in Bloem, about to leave for a Free State Braii. Today's keynote - skypecas was a wild frenzy of multitasking on stage, but it was all really interesting. This column, which I wrote this afternoon, has nothing to do with the conference here. No newsletter tomorrow - I'm going to Lesotho. And I'm gathering an incredible array of video, photos, audio and more, about life, learning, the internet, and more. [Link] [Tags: OLDaily on September 6, 2006 at 1:45 p.m..

Mercedes Diesel Not Clean Enough
A new sedan using low sulfur diesel isn't up to snuff according to California and four other states. In Autopia. From Wired News on September 6, 2006 at 12:45 p.m..

PS3 Shipments Cut in Half
Sony will ship only 2 million PlayStation 3 systems this year, not 4 million as previously announced. And Europe won't get PS3 at all until 2007. From the Game|Life blog. From Wired News on September 6, 2006 at 12:45 p.m..

ISP Troubleshooting Suggestions
We often are called on to solve strange problems that students have with Blackboard, and I see these discussions on some of the lists all the time. A year or so ago, I pulled together a list of things to check and it has served us well. Some are them are obvious to seasoned users, [...] From Serious Instructional Technology on September 6, 2006 at 11:46 a.m..

Exporting an AOL address book into Gmail
Our son is on the verge of switching his email from AOL to Gmail. The one sticking point: moving his AOL address book into Gmail. Thanks to an article in the Washington Post and Gmail's import help page, I did it. Sort of. Here's how. Sign in to AOL and use the keyword "Communicator" to find AOL's free email client. Download it and install it. Run it. Go to the addressbook. Select "All contacts" from the categories on the left. Go to File > Export and save it. You now have an LDIF file. If you don't already have a... From Joho the Blog on September 6, 2006 at 10:46 a.m..

One click away from Linux
I am the sys admin for my wife's PC. She's a non-techie scholar who uses her computer for email, occasional browsing, and just about nothing else. So, it's a straightforward job keeping it up and running. But yesterday I was on the verge of switching her to Linux. All because of Norton Antivirus. What an arrogant piece of sw NAV is. Yesterday my wife started getting error messages I haven't seen in my twenty years of owning Windows machines. The desktop would only barely load and no apps would run. Guessing that it was Norton, I tried to use the... From Joho the Blog on September 6, 2006 at 10:46 a.m..

This Story Is Not Yet Rated
Wired News chats with the director of This Film Is Not Yet Rated and gets a glimpse of the secretive movie-ratings system. Oh, and we learn why John Waters rocks on. By Randy Dotinga. From Wired News on September 6, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

Handheld Gaming Heats Up
Nintendo's DS and Sony's PSP are battling for portable supremacy. Which new games hit the mark? By Chris Kohler. From Wired News on September 6, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

Euro Cars to Drink and Drive
Plans are afoot for excess wine to be turned into ethanol for the European alternative fuel market -- but not in Italy where the fruit of the vine is sacred. By Bernhard Warner from Wired magazine. From Wired News on September 6, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

The Ultimate Blog Post
If you want people to think you're way cooler than you actually are, why not claim to be a guest blogger at one of the revered weblogs in the blogosphere? Here's a handy guide to crafting your horrible lies. Commentary by Lore Sjöberg. From Wired News on September 6, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

Back From the Dead
A few passionate doctors believe electricity applied deep in the brain can jolt patients out of irreversible comas. That's when the real problems begin. By Gary Greenberg from Wired magazine. From Wired News on September 6, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

Day 1 in the Corridors of Learning for 1.1 Million Public School Students
Beyond the usual frustrations over enrollment confusion and lines outside schools with metal detectors, there were no reports of widespread problems as New York public school children returned to class. From New York Times: Education on September 6, 2006 at 2:45 a.m..

Phone Scam Charge Rocks HP
Former board member Tom Perkins alleges the computer giant hired consultants to pose as himself and other board members to fraudulently obtain private phone records. By Kim Zetter From Wired News on September 5, 2006 at 11:45 p.m..

9/11 Leaves Its Mark on History Classes
Five years after the attacks on New York and Washington, many historians say 9/11 and its aftermath are leaving their mark on how American history is written and taught. From New York Times: Education on September 5, 2006 at 11:45 p.m..

On Education: In New Orleans, Its a Cram Course in Public Service 101
Many college students in New Orleans feel they are contributing to the city's recovery by studying there amid the recovery from Hurricane Katrina. From New York Times: Education on September 5, 2006 at 11:45 p.m..