Friday, July 16, 2004

Violent Video Game Law Struck Down [Slashdot]  There is little appreciation for the power of modeling on the behaviour of children and the responsiblity entailed in promoting violent approaches to human conflicts.  For some the profits of sensationalism are more important than the death and distruction that necessarily follows from usage of violent video games.  Some of the problem is because the legal system is based on an inaccurate prescientific conception of human decison making and behavior that affords too much responsiblity to individual rational choice and too little responsiblity to the situational vairiables (in this case violent video games).  -- BL 2:46:17 PM      .

Feedster reloaded. Congratulations to Scott Johnson and the rest of the Feedster gang for the launch of Feedster version 2. There are lots of new features to digest, but the ones that most interest me are those that enhance cross-blog conversation. At this URL, for example, I can find a tidy summary of the reaction to this item: ... [Jon's Radio] 9:46:21 AM      Google It!.

Enterprise-wide deployment of Moodle at Dublin City University. Moodle http://odtl.dcu.ie/wp/2004/odtl-2004-01.html Nice paper documenting the rationale and steps to shift from a current enterprise-wide WebCT install to one using Moodle. They looked at three open source alternatives (Boddington, Claroline and Moodle). It is interesting to note what they stated as Moodle's main current weakness, "the fact that, although there were already many small scale deployments in operation, at that time it had not yet been adopted on an enterprise basis by any university-level institution." It will be interesting to see how Sakai stacks up in this regard, as the (perceived or real) lack of 'enterprise-readiness' continues to be one of the main sticking points for larger institutions who may be interested in open source CMS but worried about their ability to scale and integrate. - SWL [EdTechPost] 9:45:23 AM      Google It!.

Why Offshore When Canada's Next Door? [Slashdot] 8:56:46 AM      Google It!.