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Backstory: The Texas gear leaders
A team of small-town girls who didn't know a flywheel from a pinwheel restores a tractor in national competition. < From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on November 9, 2006 at 9:45 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 9, 2006 at 9:45 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. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on November 9, 2006 at 9:45 p.m..

Over Half of Singapore's Population Is Online
Sixty-five percent of Singapore's residents use the Web on a regular basis. From ClickZ Stats on November 9, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Various authors - EDEN Keynote Speakers - EDEN
Presentations from the recent European Distance Education Network research workshop are now available online, including my own, Martin Weller's and Rob Koper's. [Link] [Tags: Academic Publications, European Union, Research] [Comment] From OLDaily on November 9, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Various authors - Zamzar
Sweet - convert from one file format to another, online, and have the system email it to you, all for free. Well I really like this site - but because I'm working with an absolutely sparkling clean brand new install of Ubuntu, all I have on my system to test it with are .png and .ogg files - and while the converter supports these as output formats, it can't handle them as inputs. Via Emma Duke-Williams, who got it from OLDaily on November 9, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Jamie Anderson - Addendum on APA Citation: Online Sources - SFU Surrey Library
Terry Anderson writes, "Jamie Anderson, from SFU Surrey Library has created an addendum for the APA Manual that provides updates and suggested formats for citing online resources. Though not definitive (wait till the next edition) it provides examples that extend the rationale for APA resource citation to newer information dissemination protocols, including e-books, blogs and email etc." I like this bit of advice: "Don't cite it as an online source if you haven't viewed the text of the article/book online! ... Some databases show you the full text of the article, but others only prov From OLDaily on November 9, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Babson Survey Research Group - Making the Grade: Online Education in the United States, 2006 - Sloan Consortium
Well it's hard not to get all giddy if you're a supporter of online learning. From this Sloan Consortium report based on responses from over 2,200 colleges and universities: "There has been no leveling of the growth rate of online enrollments; institutions of higher education report record online enrollment growth on both a numeric and a percentage basis... By an increasing margin, most Chief Academic Officers believe that the quality of online instruction is equal to or superior to that of face-to-face learning." (P.S. note to Ubuntu on the Adobe document reader: thank you thank you From OLDaily on November 9, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Leigh Blackall - Youtube in Melbourne School - Teach and Learn Online
Just an example of the sort of things you can do with a site like YouTube if your administrators or computing services haven't blocked it. [Link] [Tags: Schools] [Comment] From OLDaily on November 9, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Graham Wegner - Networks Of Expertise - Teaching Generation Z
Discussion of the concept of community in relation to some of the recent discussions of groups and networks. A community is one of those things that can go either way, in my view - it can be a network of people living in the same place or doing the same thing, or it can become a group, define boundaries, and stress sameness and leadership. The edublogging community has always existed - what is more recent is a subset trying to define it as a group. [Link] [Tags: From OLDaily on November 9, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Doug Belshaw - 20 Ideas: Geotagging Photos and Sharing Field Trips With The World - teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk
Nice post describing the mechanics of geotagging (attaching geographic information to photos, so they can be located in Google Earth and Google Maps) and offering classroom suggestions. I am geotagging my photos, but I have a backlog of hundreds. [Link] [Tags: Google] [Comment] From OLDaily on November 9, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

God helps those who help themselves
On 11/8/06, Sathish . . . wrote: Hello Sir, I have been working as an Instructional Designer for the past one and half years. Could you please share with the e-learning sites or blogs that impressed you the most? I will be grateful if you could suggest useful tips to become an excellent Instructional Designer. Regards, Sathish Sathish, To become [...] From Internet Time Blog on November 9, 2006 at 12:45 p.m..