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Carly Fiorina Tells Her Story
Besieged from all sides as top chair and vilified after being kicked out the door, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO writes a book telling her side of her troubled tenure. She sits down for a Q&A with Fred Vogelstein from Wired magazine. From
Wired News on October 9, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..
Press Release - Blackboard and SAP Announce Global Agreement - Blackboard
If you have to use SAP (as I do) for anything, it's probably your most hated software. No surprise then that Blackboard is entering into a 'strategic agreement' with the company. "Blackboard and SAP are implementing this service-oriented architecture to help institutions deploy integrated end- to-end processes." Any chance of open APIs here? Thought not. My view: the real purpose of an agreement like this is to allow Blackboard, as a commercial sales platform, to tap into student account details, as contained in SAP, to facilitate sales of online content, software, and se From
OLDaily on October 9, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Hannah Edwards - E-volution of Schools - Sydney Morning Herald
Is it really radical and impossible? "A 24-hour school with no traditional classrooms and where students use mobile phones and laptops to learn is being built in Sydney." Apparently not. "The traditional classroom concept will disappear, replaced by 'learning spaces'. The school will be referred to as a 'learning community' and teachers will be known as 'learning advisers', Mr Whitby said. 'The walls of a classroom become redundant because students are able to access real-time, any-time learning.'" More from the
OLDaily on October 9, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Martha Irvine - Online Can't Match One-on-One - The Morning Call
I find it ironic that a journalism professor is touting the benefits of personal interaction as opposed to the online variety. "He points out the students he's seen walking across campus, holding hands with significant others while talking on cell phones to someone else. He's also observed them in coffee shops, surrounded by people, but staring instead at a computer screen." Well - yeah. Would he also object to people holding hands while listening to the radio? Sitting in a cafe while reading a newspaper? I can see the benefit of advice saying that we should "talk to people" - as tho From
OLDaily on October 9, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Doug Lederman - Opening Up Online Learning - Inside Higher Ed
Coverage of the 'launch' of the Common Cartridge standard (who came up with that name?) at the EDUCAUSE meeting in dallas today. "It is a set of specifications and standards, commonly agreed to by an IMS working group, that would allow digitally produced content x" supplements to textbooks such as assessments or secondary readings, say, or faculty-produced course add-ons like discussion groups x" to 'play,' or appear, the same in any course management system." According to the article, "all of them have vowed to begin incorporating the new standard into their products by ne From
OLDaily on October 9, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Press Release - K-State Converts 6,000 Class Recordings to Podcasts - Kansas State
Not sure if it's the largest, but it's pretty large, and worthy of mention. According to the press release (mind the useless adjectives), "Kansas State University announced today its use of Tegrity Campus to convert an unprecedented 6,000 recorded classes to enhanced podcasts. K-State plans to have all 6,000 class podcasts available to its students this year, making it by far the education realm's largest podcasting implementation worldwide." [
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OLDaily on October 9, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Unattributed - $100 Laptop Reinvents Computer Security - ESchool News
It's not the '$100 Laptop" any more, but we'll let that slide (all that relentless publicity has a price). The security innovation touted in this story is that "the $100 laptops will force any application to run in 'a walled garden' and limit the files it can access." This sounds to me a lot like 'trusted computing' and I wonder (in the back of my mind) how this will roll out. [
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OLDaily on October 9, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Christopher Irwin and Zane L. Berge - Socialization in the Online Classroom - University of Maryland Baltimore County
Essay about socialization in the classroom with the oddest (but perhaps the most honest) conclusion I've read in some time: "Anyone interested in examining how this complex dynamic contributes to achieving desired student learning outcomes must plod through a number of studies, each with a wealth of data that seem to examine only the constituent characteristics of socialization without considering the phenomenon as a whole." The authors attempt to place socialization into a context of practice where knowledge acquisition within them is sustained by collaboration, but I can sense the strug From
OLDaily on October 9, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Agence France-Presse - China Builds an Ultrafast Internet - International Herald Tribune
This is interesting. "China has built its own version of an ultrafast next-generation Internet network that promises to reduce the country's dependence on foreign companies, the state news media reported Monday. The China Education and Research Network has linked 167 institutes and departments at 25 universities in 20 cities through the Internet Protocol Version 6." Which makes me think: a lot of these studies comparing China with the rest of the world are based on per capita measures. But perhaps we would obtain a more accurate impression were we to look at the raw numbers. [
OLDaily on October 9, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
RAW Efforts Succeeded
Thanks to your efforts, we raised over $80.000 to be spent on behalf of Robert Anton Wilson in less than a week. This means he can be taken care of by family at home or, if need be, in a managed care facility for over six months. If at the end of six or eight months all of this money has been spent on care - and Bob has chosen to carry on living - we'll see about what other financial solutions might be possible, including another plea to his reading public.But for the time being, save your pennies and pence, give yourselves and each other a hearty "job well done," From
rushkoff.blog on October 9, 2006 at 8:45 a.m..
Culann’s Hounds at Berkeley Food Festival
I walked down to the Berkeley Food Festival today, sipped a bit of wine, and heard a fantastic local Irish band. Here’s my first handheld video from my tiny Casio camera. Cut on your sound! Click for the video From
Internet Time Blog on October 9, 2006 at 5:45 a.m..