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Thursday, December 16, 2004 |
The (Classroom) Blog: A Moment for
Literacy, A Moment for Giving Pause. Nice paper outlining work in educational
blogging with a good range of reports from other
implementations of the same technology. Not surprisingly,
the author observes that "blogging will make sense for
some and not for others." Not surprising, maybe, but
as he observes, "often, in our response to calls to
embrace the future, as educators we forget what should
otherwise be basic to our own meaning-making and
instruction. As a medium/tool, the classroom blog can give
students the opportunity to write for a public audience...
However, this tool should not be treated as normative,
prescriptive, or proscriptive; it is simply one more medium
for literacy, one that does not guarantee success."
By Austin Lingerfelt, essence renewed, December 12, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
8:45:00 AM Google It!.
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Rocketinfo First Search Engine to Release
News Search API. Canadian-based RocketInfo has been providing a
news aggregation and syndication for some time now,
targeting a base of resources that is larger than Edu_RSS
or Google News but smaller than the major RSS aggregators.
The result is a targeted collection of news-centric
resources that can be used to generate high-quality content
feeds. RocketInfo also markets RSS aggregators and clients.
The company this week announced its news search API
"designed for companies creating applications that
require embedded search functionality and real-time access
to current news and business information." By Press
Release, RocketInfo, December 12, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
8:44:08 AM Google It!.
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Metadata Development in China: Research
and Practice. Absolutely fascinating overview of metadata
development in China, including a recent history showing an
explosion of interest beginning in 2002 and a number of
metadata initiatives. China is basing its initial work on
examples set in Europe, but with a centralized system is
able to achieve standardization quickly. By Jia Liu, D-Lib
Magazine, December, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
8:43:12 AM Google It!.
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