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The rats leave the sinking ship...
Prominent neo-con RIchard Perle is now blaming the Bush administration for failure in Iraq: "I probably would have said, 'Let's consider other strategies for dealing with the thing that concerns us most, which is Saddam supplying weapons of mass destruction to terrorists,'" he told Vanity Fair magazine in its upcoming January issue. Kenneth Adelman, another Reagan era hawk who sat on the Defence Policy Board until last year, drew attention with a 2002 commentary in the Washington Post predicting tha From owrede_log on November 4, 2006 at 9:47 p.m..

Is left-hand navigation evil?
The design of intranets can be pretty standard, with many sites following the same basic layout. The diagram above shows a typical intranet page, consisting of the following elements: page header, containing global navigation left-hand navigation, containing local navigation... From Column Two on November 4, 2006 at 8:47 p.m..

OU's OpenLearn Contrasted with MIT's OpenCourseWare
This blog entry by Seb Schmoller explores the similarities and difference between the Open University approach to open content and the MIT OpenCourseWare approach. It's valuable to have both approaches well underway and available to learners and teachers. _____JH ________ "Unlike MIT's OpenCourseWare, the OU is publishing complete chunks of structured curriculum, between 3 and 20 hours in duration (thus 'MIT with pedagogy'). In contrast, whereas MIT's OpenCourseWare aims to publish learning materials From EduResources--Higher Education Resources Online on November 4, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Kingdom of the mouse
I just arrived at a Magic Kingdom “where every dream comes true.” I’ve been here a dozen times, never with kids. My first visit, in 1979, was my most dramatic. A hurricane arrived about the same time I did. The topiary animals were swaying back and forth as I checked in. The theme park had [...] From Internet Time Blog on November 4, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Learning 2006
Tomorrow these tables will be filled with networked laptops. The wall along the right will display the Graphic Learning Gallery. Toward the end of the day, 1,800 people will file into the Coronado main ballroom to hear Elliott kick off Learning 2006. Some of us will be blogging. Others will snap photographs. If you’ve creating stuff [...] From Internet Time Blog on November 4, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Blogging From Seton Hall
I’m back at Seton Hall with Cohort X (The Power of 10!) We’ll be working on the Seton Hall blog. Please leave your ideas or questions if you have them. Listen to this podcast From weblogged News on November 4, 2006 at 4:48 p.m..

An outraged sense of not caring
Boy, do I not care whether Ted Haggard, the head of an evangelical association, had sex with a male prostitute or bought meth. From this we learn...nothing. Do we learn that sexual orientation is not a matter of choice? No, we learn that only if we already knew it. Otherwise, we see simply demonstration of the temptations that are put before us and the need to keep our faith strong. Each side is confirmed in what it believes. We learn nothing. I'm only sorry that now Haggard is going to go all the way into the closet. How sad for... From Joho the Blog on November 4, 2006 at 3:48 p.m..

U.S.: Ozone-Zapping Pesticide OK
Despite European objections, the Bush administration gets treaty partners to approve U.S. use of methyl bromide, a potent ozone-destroying pesticide banned internationally two years ago. And it'll manufacture nearly 6,000 tons of the stuff, even though it has 11,000 tons stockpiled. From Wired News on November 4, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..

The image of elections
On Tuesday in America, take a (legal) photo of your polling place and contribute it to a public archive of images of democracy in action. That's the Polling Place Photo Project. Jay Rosen has got a good post about it, as does William Drenttel. Something cool or even inspiring might emerge. Yes, this could be done simply by agreeing on a unique tag at Flickr, but perhaps the organizers are reluctant to cast their lot with any one photo site. [Tags: elections democracy photos flickr]... From Joho the Blog on November 4, 2006 at 9:45 a.m..

Zotero research tool
Zotero (zo-TAIR-oh) is a Firefox 2.0 extension that captures Web pages (and files and PDFs), finds the citation info on those pages and puts them into standard bibliographicv form, lets you take notes, and lets you search. In future versions, it plans on letting you publish your collection and will integrate with Microsoft Word and others. It's free and it's Open Source. I haven't tried it yet, but I'm liking the sound of it a lot. (Here are the specs for my dream system, which I once called Notetella, but which I suppose now I'd have to call note.licio.us because,... From Joho the Blog on November 4, 2006 at 9:45 a.m..

Athletes Get New Pitch: Check Out Tutoring Center
N.C.A.A. Division I athletic departments spend at least $150 million annually on academic support programs. From New York Times: Education on November 4, 2006 at 4:45 a.m..

Chancellor Cites Favoritism at a New York School
Officials at the New Explorations school were making judgments about parents, admissions documents show. From New York Times: Education on November 4, 2006 at 2:45 a.m..

Educators React to Shift in Leadership at Gates Fund
Tom Vander Ark, who has shaped educational giving for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for seven years, will step down as executive director for education at the foundation next month. From New York Times: Education on November 4, 2006 at 2:45 a.m..

Eyetracking of forms: should we accept the conclusions?
Caroline Jarrett has written an article summarising the research on the eyetracking of forms, and discussing the conclusions. To quote: Now, I think all this is very interesting and I'm glad that Matteo is working on it. But I'm a... From Column Two on November 4, 2006 at 1:45 a.m..