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Bad casting
When you check into the Disney Coronado Springs Resort, you are issued an in-house credit card for all your purchases. As you can see, the card is “Your key to the world.” So this evening I was more than a little surprised when I went to the bar at the Learning 2006 party, ordered a Corona, [...] From Internet Time Blog on November 8, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Online Ads: A Source of Further Learning for Consumers
Consumers might not click through to an ad, but they often respond to the impression through subsequent site visits and visits to the brick-and-mortar store. From ClickZ Stats on November 8, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Signs of change at Gallaudet
At the only US liberal arts university for the deaf, protesters' calls for reform highlight concerns of the deaf community. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on November 8, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

In Britain, families go to church so kids can go to school
The lack of decent state-run schools and the high cost of private education are driving families to church schools. Christian Science Monitor | Learning on November 8, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Shaun Else - Podcasting in Education - Maple Grove PS, Halton District Board of Education
The enthusiasm is palpable on this page as the author describes podcasting, links to coverage and success stories, offers curriculum and class plan ideas, and outline the (free) technology needed to make it happen. Via Lucy Gray. [Link] [Tags: Podcasting] [Comment] From OLDaily on November 8, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Barry Dahl - E-Learner Authentication - Desire2Blog
If you want to read about the incursion of totalitarianism into learning, you will want to read about 'The Device': "The device includes a camera, microphone, and biometric reader (finger scan), the device software evaluates input and compares to a pre-set threshold for sound and movement, excessive movement or noise activates the camera and microphone." The shiny sphere looks oh so cool, and at just $115 (paid by the student, of course) a pop, it brings you into the world of 1984 faster than you can say 2+2=5. Of course, as Barry Dahl says, "if someone is committed to cheating, then From OLDaily on November 8, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Chris Harvey - My First Videoblog Entry
Have a look at this. It was created using Blender, "a free program used for modelling, rendering three-dimensional graphics and animations, and interactive 3D applications," and the VLC media Player. Blender is cross-platform, as is VLC. This link explains how it was recorded. [Link] [Tags: ] [OLDaily on November 8, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Chris Petter and Robert Clift - Putting Learning Before Technology - of University Faculty Associations of British Columbia
In response to this discussion paper promoting Web 2.0 approaches to learning, prepared for the Campus 2020 process in British Columbia, the faculty associations responded with this criticism, attacking the document for its boosterism and noting that "Instead of basing their prescriptions on any critical analysis of what is working or not working in e-learning in British Columbia they describe what constitutes a catalog of technocrati hopes and dreams." The Faculty Associations are corre From OLDaily on November 8, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

George Siemens - Knowing Knowledge
George Siemens has now officially launched his book, Knowing Knowledge. The link above is to the website, which contains links to colour versions of the images, the print-on-demand version, the community, and the rest of the clutter that accompanies a publication release these days. But you can go straight to the book (PDF) from here. Kudos to George for release his book as free and open content (more than a few in our field recently have gfone the traditional closed-door approach to publication, violating the very principles From OLDaily on November 8, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Sasha A. Barab and Jonathan A. Plucker - Smart People or Smart Contexts?
Interesting. "Ability and talent should not be viewed as constructs possessed by individuals but, instead, as sets of relations that are actualized through dynamic transactions... classrooms should not be considered merely as the sites where talent development takes place, but should actually be conceptualized as the context for a specific cultural milieu through which students develop understandings of what constitutes a talented interaction." See also: Principles of Self-Organization: "An ecological mode From OLDaily on November 8, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Andrew P. Smith - The Role of Scale-free and Other Networks in Hierarchical Organization
A nice easy read, some good (and knowledgable) discussion of networks, and a couple of interesting observations: first, that "the enormous complexity of the brain depends upon such a balance or interplay between differentiation and integration," Edelman and Tononi (2000) and second, "the basis for the scale-free organization lies in a positive feedback system," which of course OI knew but hadn't quite thought of in exactly that way before (because it implies that scale-free organization can be undermined (as it should be) via negative feedback. I know nothing about the origins of t From OLDaily on November 8, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Dan Fost - The Top 10 Lies of Web 2.0 - San Francisco Chronicle
Heh. It's funny because it's true. ("It's all about community and sharing. But we told our venture capitalists that our exit strategy will make them rich. (Corollary: But you have to know someone to get into our conference/party.)") [Link] [Tags: Web 2.0] [Comment] From OLDaily on November 8, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

L.M. Orchard - Firefox 2.0 breaks client-side XSL for RSS and Atom feeds - OXDECAFBAD
Count me among those who doesn't like Firefox's new way of interpreting RSS feeds. Sure, I hate Feedburner styling. Still, at least I'm getting what I clicked on. The other option is to automatically subscribe to RSS feeds. Don't select that. At first I thought it was convenient. But twice in two days now I've simply wanted to see the content, not to subscribe - and Firefox efffectively made it impossible to see the content. Bad browser, bad. See also firefox, rss, xsl - from anger to ap From OLDaily on November 8, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..