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Go Go Google Gadgets
Google makes it easier for bloggers to distract their users by allowing its widgets to be placed on any blog or website. Plus: Songbird gets a boost... Living without RSS. In Monkey Bites. From Wired News on October 3, 2006 at 9:46 p.m..

Move Over Bluetooth
Nokia unveils "Wibree," a low-power, short-range radio technology for small devices. In Gear Factor. From Wired News on October 3, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Beguiling but Beware: AJAX, VoIP
They are slick and gaining popularity, but voice over internet protocol and AJAX have some big security problems that will probably get worse before they get better. Quinn Norton reports from San Diego. From Wired News on October 3, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Blogs Suffer in Poll On Preferred News Sources
Traditional media rank higher than the Internet and blogs as sources of urgent breaking news, while people go to emerging media for entertainment news. From ClickZ Stats on October 3, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Various authors - Open Doorways
Another resource to add to this list. "Extending the conversation from the Ohio Digital Commons for Education Conference." Some good posts, including an MP3 interview with Mark taylor. [Link] [Tags: ] [Comment] From OLDaily on October 3, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Jeff Utecht - The Death of the Reference Page - TechLearning
And about time, I would say. I have never had the patience to deal with those pages, and worse, the artificially constraining manuals of style imposed on writers (is this what I trained ten years to do?) in lieu of proper linking. "With the ease of hyperlinking, along with the pingback and trackback systems used by web 2.0 applications, we have officially changed the way we need to teach the citation of work." [Link] [Tags: Linking and Deep Linking] [ From OLDaily on October 3, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Charles M. Reigeluth and Alison Carr-Chellman - A Common Language and Knowledge Base for ID? - IT Forum
I was all prepared to rake this one over the coals. After all, I have been reading the comments on IT Forum for the last month, and it seems like Yet Another Attempt to impose order on a messy discipline. But I hadn't read the paper, so I held off linking to it here. Good thing. It is actually a pretty good paper, if you take it at face value, as an analysis of the various aspects and dimensions of eductaional theory (or, instructional design, or...). But I would still resist it as an attempt to reorder and reframe the discipline. There are some fundamentals to address first. [OLDaily on October 3, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Tony Karrer - Should All Learning Professionals Be Blogging? - Learning Circuits Blog
The learning Circuits blog asks people to respond - and what I really like is that they ask people to respond on their own blogs, not the Learning Circuits blog (this is actually a much larger advance in thinking than it may seem, since the temptation is always to bring writers in to a centralized source). My own contribution is therefore posted on my own blog. [Link] [Tags: OLDaily on October 3, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Seymour Papert - Why School Reform Is Impossible - The Journal of the Learning Sciences
"The structure of School is so deeply rooted that one reacts to deviations from it as one would to a grammatically deviant utterance: Both feel wrong on a level deeper than one's ability to formulate reasons. This phenomenon is related to 'assimilation blindness' insofar as it refers to a mechanism of mental closure to foreign ideas. I would make the relation even closer by noting that when one is not paying careful attention, one often actually hear the deviant utterance as the 'nearest' grammatical utterance a transformation that might bring drastic change in meaning From OLDaily on October 3, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Bob Irving - Squeakfest 2006 Report - Shiftin' Paradigm Blues
Hm. "It is self-indulgent of us as teachers to say that we can spend 3 hours a week with a student and give them wonderful experiences. What about the billion other children on the planet? What about the rest of the hours for that child? Our task is to identify powerful ideas that have been dis-empowered. Then re-empower them." A lot of people have called me radical and idealistic over the last week. But from my perspective, the radicals are those clinging to an old system that doesn't work in order to preserve a privilege that doesn't sustain. Seymour Papert's address to Squeak From OLDaily on October 3, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Various authors - AntWeb
Ah, you just know I love stuff like this. AntWeb is essentially a learning resource about ants. And as ATS Blog notes, "Users of Google Earth can now plot all the ants known to AntWeb on a 3-dimensional interactive globe of satellite images." Too cool. [Link] [Tags: Cool, Google] [< From OLDaily on October 3, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Barbara Ganley - A Recent Conversation on Blogging for The Vermont State Colleges - bgblogging
I like the way Barbara Ganley very clearly connects the use of blogs in learning with a new approach to learning. "... now that we have online communications and identity formation, we have an opportunity to put into actual practice learning as conversation with the subject matter, with others, with thinkers who have come before us. Then we will consider the learner's connections to prior learning, to cultural backgrounds, to self, to the world, to the workplace and to us as interconnected, constantly evolving influences on the learning. We will no longer isolate our classroom discourse, From OLDaily on October 3, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Konrad Glogowski - To Ungroup a Class - Blog of Proximal Development
Continuing the conversation on groups and networks. Konrad Glogowski observes, "Putting my students into groups would have led many of them to acquiesce to the presence of a louder or more confident peer... Groups tend to focus on compromises, on reducing all individual voices to commonalities that all members can agree on and that all members see as somehow representative of their individual voices... We reduce its rich constituent parts to one voice." Exactly right. [Link] [Tags: OLDaily on October 3, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Bud Hunt - Yarn. Again. - But the Teacher
Is what I am saying about networks that radical, despite the protestations here there and everywhere? No! It's not even that original, if you look at it closely. And it is being stated widely, if people would just look. Witness: "The reason for the yarn? I wanted people to see the connections that they have to their colleagues... Participants wanted me to show then how to blog and podcast with their students -- I rejected that idea. The best only way to learn how to create learning networks with students is to create a personal learning network yourself." [OLDaily on October 3, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Michael Geist - Defective by Design's Day Against DRM
Michael Geist marks the occasion, as do I, and posts 30 things people can do about DRM and anti-circumvention legislation. [Link] [Tags: ] [Comment] From OLDaily on October 3, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Alfred Thompson - Are You Teaching Regular Expressions? - Computer Science Teacher
Goodness. Teach regular expressions. More useful than SQL, in my opinion, and the basis for my autotagging system. [Link] [Tags: ] [Comment] From OLDaily on October 3, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Dave Tosh - Curverider Conference Presentations - On Video
Nice. This is the way to present conference coverage. Alsong with notes and summaries and blog posts of course. Chris McKillop talking about blogging and storytelling in education. Miles Berry on Elgg. Bill Fitzgerald talks about Drupal. And Kevin Jardine discusses OpenID (or so it says - I listened and it didn't really address OpenID). These talks are 15 minutes, on average - is this the standard now? Hm. I love this bit: Kevin Jardine points offscreen and says, "Is this... visible?" Related (sort of): ELGG Spaces. [OLDaily on October 3, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Michael Feldstein - Blackboard Conference Call, Part II - E-Literate
Michael Feldstein gives Blackboard credit for answering his questions (I don't - it was just a needed warmup for court) and then summarizes the general non-responsiveness offered by the company in its conference call last week. What I glean from the conversation - given that Blackboard won't open its patents, won't allow royalty-free use of them, won't abandon its lawsuit, etc., is that it intends to own the e-learning market. Including the open source side. Also: feldstein posts, then OLDaily on October 3, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Tom Hoffman - Turnitin vs. Student Intellectual Property Rights - Ed-Tech Insider
I know it's a long newsletter today, but I just have to echo Tom Hoffman's sentiments about Turnitin, which he posted about 10 days ago: "I can't see how a school can compel students to grant the use of their work to a commercial venture and then turn around and lecture to them about the ethics of file-sharing and the like." Quite right. More from Andy Carvin, who is doing us all a service in covering this story. [L From OLDaily on October 3, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Various authors - moka5 LivePCs
today began (at about 3:00 a.m. - I hate jet lag) with me messing around with moka5 LivePCs - "Once you have your LivePC on a USB stick or iPod you can plug into any x86 computer, do your thing, unplug and leave nothing behind." It is ending now with me about to reboot after uninstalling the software. Was it a dud? Not at all. But I'm just trying to cram too much onto this one tiny laptop. And maybe I should just download some demo computers to see how it works before trying to create my own. Walk before you can run, hm? Naaah.... [OLDaily on October 3, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

A Cult of Mac Take on Charity
Tired of watching Macs getting pushed out of classrooms across the country in favor of cheaper but inferior PCs? Pete Mortensen has organized a fund-raising drive to buy Macs and other Apple products for needy school districts. Give 'til it hurts. From the Cult of Mac blog. From Wired News on October 3, 2006 at 4:46 p.m..

Big Bang Brings Big Prize
The work of two Americans didn't prove the "big bang" theory but certainly advanced the argument for it, prompting the chairman of the Nobel committee for physics to declare it "one of the greatest discoveries of the century." It also brought them the Nobel Prize for physics. From Wired News on October 3, 2006 at 3:46 p.m..

Bluetooth to Drive Auto Systems
The networks used to monitor vehicle performance will be able to speak more clearly with Bluetooth devices, enabling your mobile phone or music player to get cozy with your car. In Autopia. From Wired News on October 3, 2006 at 2:46 p.m..

Microboards on Blu-Ray Bandwagon
The longtime manufacturer of disc duplicators ships the first Blu-Ray towers. In Gear Factor. From Wired News on October 3, 2006 at 1:45 p.m..

Clones in One Easy Step
A University of Connecticut scientist may have discovered a new and efficient way to clone animals. In Bodyhack. From Wired News on October 3, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

The Ultimate Mobile Microphone
When you can spend over a thousand dollars for all-in-one portable digital microphones that record at broadcast quality, podcasting (or netcasting -- call it what you will) has gotten ready for primetime. In Listening Post. From Wired News on October 3, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

Powered by Mother Nature
Forget hybrids. The Venturi Eclectic urban buggy doesn't use natural energy reserves at all. In Gear Factor. From Wired News on October 3, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

Form Trumps Substance at BarCamp
Programmers, entrepreneurs, students and lawyers gather in mid-town Manhattan for an ad hoc conference on the latest web trends. Participation is required and shoes are not allowed. David Cohn reports from New York City. From Wired News on October 3, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

Podcasting's Reluctant Evangelist
Even if he's not excited by the responsibility, Leo LaPorte is the face of podcasting. His fans say he can do no wrong. By Steve Friess. From Wired News on October 3, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

Axing the Podcast Middleman
Using an iPod to listen to podcasts is so yesterday. Soon, many companies hope, you'll get your fix straight to your cell phone. Or will you? Steve Friess reports from Ontario, California. From Wired News on October 3, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

Zune Won't Kill the IPod
Microsoft's new MP3 player has a lot going against it, even without the iPod around. It's not cool, the DRM will be a pain and wireless sharing is just another way for people to lie to strangers. Commentary by Leander Kahney. From Wired News on October 3, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

My Big Bet on Biofuels
The road to energy independence starts in a cornfield in Nebraska. Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla explains why he believes in biofuels. From Wired magazine. From Wired News on October 3, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

As Competition Builds, So Do Colleges
While students consider many factors when choosing a college, educators say that first-rate physical facilities are becoming increasingly important in attracting students. From New York Times: Education on October 3, 2006 at 2:45 a.m..

So the Torah Is a Parenting Guide?
Enough with the overparenting. Wendy Mogel is a child psychologist who says that the key to properly raised kids is Jewish law. And Jews arent the only ones listening. From New York Times: Education on October 3, 2006 at 2:45 a.m..

Amid Fears of Copycats, Schools Gird for Security
Schools around the country were on alert Monday after the second hostage event, and third homicide case, in less than a week in a school. From New York Times: Education on October 3, 2006 at 2:45 a.m..