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Owning the Teaching…and the Learning
I’ve been growing more frustrated lately and I’m feeling more pessimistic about the prospects for any serious change in how we as an education system see teaching and learning, and I think I’ve figured out why. I hate to generalize, but the thing that seems to be missing from most of my conversations with classroom [...] From
weblogged News on November 3, 2006 at 10:46 p.m..
Lisa Sanders - Ignore the Research and Trust Your Gut - Advertising Age
This is actually good advice. David Jones, CEO of global agency network Euro RSCG Worldwide "exhorted listeners to stop asking permission." He argued, speaking to advertisers (but he could just as well have been speaking to academic), "Our industry cannot delegate the creation of brilliant ideas to consumers. We have to be at the starting point," he said. "Consumers can take off from there." [
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OLDaily on November 3, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..
Various authors - DimDim
Leigh Blackall writes on TALO: "DimDim - open source web conference tool, is available as an alpha download. Dimdim is an open source web conferencing product with features like Application, Desktop and Presentation sharing with A/V streaming and chat. No installation is needed on the Attendee side and all features are available through a web browser." [
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From OLDaily on November 3, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..
Andy Carvin - The Semantic Web and the Online Educational Experience - PBS TeacherSource
Andy Carvin takes the occasion of the launching of the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) to discuss how the Semantic Web will change the way the web works. It's not a bad discussion, but I think it misses a very important difference between Web 2.0, properly so-called, and the Semantic Web, properly so-called. And that is this: the latter depends largely on formal specifications involving a lot of overhead, such as schemas, ontologies, web services, and the like. But Web 2.0 was developed using very simple and often informal protocols, such as RSS, FOAF and REST. There is room, of co From
OLDaily on November 3, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..
Lucy Gray - Infinite Thinking Machine - A Teacher's Life
Lucy Gray recommends this site and posts, "Sponsored by Google and produced by WestEd, seven educators from the blogosphere are contributing their thoughts to this space. The real star of this blog, though, is the internet t.v show produced by Chris Walsh." I agree; this looks like a site worth following. [
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OLDaily on November 3, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..
Tom Hoffman - You Can't Say "Free Software" in NewSpeak - ESchool News
Tom Hoffman looks at the Education Map of the Decade I linked to yesterday and picks up on an omission I should have noticed: "I found this map's omissions to be chilling. Specifically, a whole range of technologies and new collaborative practices are sketched out, but there is not a mention of the role of free or open source software." Good point. I wonder what a map like that created by our community would look like. I wonder what software we could use to try. Suggestions? [
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OLDaily on November 3, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..
Lexa - Open Source Learning Resources Repository - eLearning across the globe
According to this item, "European Schoolnet has recently released
MINOR, an open source 'repository to store, manage, and exchange the multimedia assets produced by teachers', as it says in the news article they recently published. The application and source code can be downloaded from Sourceforge." MINOR stands for "Minor Is Not an Object Repository." Coded in Java, which means it's a pain to install and run (yeah, I know, my biases are showing - but I havenever seen a Java application run problem-free). [
OLDaily on November 3, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..
Tony Karrer - Incredibly Cool! Vision of Future of Application and eLearning Development - eLearning Technology
OK, I know why Tony Karrer is calling this "incredibly cool," but no, it's not, it's a mess. I know it seems really cool, because it brings so much stuff into a page. But I couldn't put my mouse down n it anywhere without clicking on something, windows would stay open, I have tabs piling up on each other, and through all of it I couldn't find anything useful, and there was no place to actually create anything. We're not there yet - Web 2.0 is going to be, more than anything, simple, not a horrendous desktop mess. [
OLDaily on November 3, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..
Dave Snowden - Communities of Practice - Cognitive Edge
I am very much in agreement with this post. Dave Snowden writes, "communities can evolve, but cannot be designed top down... you can not replicate the end point of an evolutionary process." He points to two disastrous approaches: "Creating an organisational template for communities of practice, with a full roll out plan, dedicated staff etc. etc. [and] Taking a paternalistic (or maternalistic approach) in which people are held to be children or kids needing help or assistance." Oh, how often I try to resist these two tendencies on the part of educators! Via
OLDaily on November 3, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..
Stephen Downes - Understanding Learning Networks, Reprise - Stephen's Web
This is my last talk for a while, I think - I have no travel and no talks planned at all right now. This is a good thing - it will let me rest and reflect and even get some coding done. There are some changes coming to my work and my website which I need to prepare for as well. In the meantime, it was nice to have the time to explore the topic in some detail, and the very willing audience here at the Universite de Moncton was more than gracious. So here we have almost three hours of learning networks and where learning is going from here.
PowerPoin From OLDaily on November 3, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..
New for the organized customer
Wize.com is yet another example of how we're picking up the threads we've spun like cotton-candy twirlers who've had too much to drink. (Ah, metaphors!) It aggregates customer reviews of products from the multiple sites where they're written, and factors in professional reviews and "buzz" to come up with "wizerank," which I suppose they hope will become like Google's PageRank. The site usefully links you to all those reviews, so you can see what's up. I'm not entirely sure what "buzz" is, but here's the buzz for the Canon xt Eos 350: "Buzz: Strong. More From
Joho the Blog on November 3, 2006 at 6:46 p.m..
What's Your Terror Score?
You'll never know. A new government database will use algorithms to rate the terrorism threat of Americans traveling internationally, but you won't be able to check or dispute your score. In 27B Stroke 6. From
Wired News on November 3, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Gannett to Crowdsource News
The publisher of USA Today and 90 other newspapers embarks on an ambitious plan to reinvent how news is investigated and reported -- using the public as participant. By Jeff Howe. From
Wired News on November 3, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Library Science: The career
After my talk at KMWorld + Taxonomy BootCamp yesterday, a young man asked me for career advice. Jeez, you ever want to feel your age, have that happen to you! Anyway, he's thinking of going to grad school in library science and wanted to know what I thought of that as a career move. After taking the opportunity to pass along several nuggest of wisdom — You never understand a man until you've danced backwards in his high heels, 95% of life is showing up in your pajamas, etc. — I noted that I'm not up on what the library... From
Joho the Blog on November 3, 2006 at 4:46 p.m..
FTC Fines Adware Maker $3 Million
Federal regulators' action sends an unmistakeable message about deceptive tactics. But will a new definition of "express consent" for downloading change the industry? In 27B Stroke 6. From
Wired News on November 3, 2006 at 2:46 p.m..
Gas to Hydrogen a Fallacy
Using natural gas to power today's capable vehicles will do more to reduce oil dependency and pollution than converting it to hydrogen. In Autopia. From
Wired News on November 3, 2006 at 1:45 p.m..
Anti-AIDS Enzyme for Everyone
A new study on HIV resistance suggests a promising new direction in the fight against the deadly virus. In Bodyhack. From
Wired News on November 3, 2006 at 1:45 p.m..
Congress Ranked on Tech Savviness
It turns out that Sen. Ted Stevens and his "series of tubes" wasn't enough to get him bottom spot on the list. Scary, huh? In Gear Factor. From
Wired News on November 3, 2006 at 1:45 p.m..
Fake Game, Real Guns
The Gran Turismo of warfare promises to push video game weaponry to new levels of realism. By S.E. Kramer from Wired magazine. From
Wired News on November 3, 2006 at 3:45 a.m..
Mahir to Borat: I Sue You!
The mockumentary Borat bears more than a passing resemblance to late '90s net celeb Mahir Cagri of ikissyou.org, and he's not amused. Steven Leckart of Wired magazine gives him the third degree. From
Wired News on November 3, 2006 at 3:45 a.m..
Machinima Awards Go Virtual
Game-engine filmmakers celebrate 10 years of their art form by moving an awards ceremony into virtual space and the web. By Seán Captain. From
Wired News on November 3, 2006 at 3:45 a.m..
Go Retro: Disconnect to Connect
Do you let technology come between you and your lover? If so, it's not society's fault -- the choice to unplug or not is all yours. Commentary by Regina Lynn. From
Wired News on November 3, 2006 at 3:45 a.m..
Flush the Awful Animation
The new Aardman-DreamWorks vehicle Flushed Away shows just how bad CG movies have become by being an exception to the rule. By Alonso Duralde. From
Wired News on November 3, 2006 at 3:45 a.m..
FBI Busts Credit Card Cybergang
An international law enforcement operation arrests 17 people who allegedly stole and circulated tens of thousands of credit card numbers, and used them to produce counterfeit plastic. By Kim Zetter. From
Wired News on November 3, 2006 at 3:45 a.m..
