Saturday, February 19, 2005

Convergence of Libraries, Digital Repositories and Management of Web Content. talk by Jim Duncan, The University of Iowa [Edubloggers Links Feed] 8:38:52 PM      Google It!.

A Savant Explains His Abilities [Slashdot:] 8:37:15 PM      Google It!.

Wearable PC with an Artificial-Reality Helmet [Slashdot:] 8:34:51 PM      Google It!.

Skype-Ready Phones From Motorola [Slashdot:] 11:01:43 AM      Google It!.

Skype-Ready Phones From Motorola [Slashdot:] this is truly disruptive technology that may well change the fashion accessories into communication essentials -- BL (perhaps the ear piercing popularity was just preparatory for the culture shift  to mobile headsets) 11:01:13 AM      Google It!.

Plone Post Office 0.0.1 released. Amaze is proud to announce the first public release of its Plone Mailinglist manager, Plone Post Office. [Plone RSS] 10:55:15 AM      Google It!.

the everyday creation of media by everyday people. What: Eric Rice, the guy behind audioblog.com (and many other things) whom I have written about here and here had a couple of great posts today that really made me think. First Post In Starting a Scholarship Program, Eric says the following: ...is all centered around one key tenet: the everyday creation of media by everyday people. Why this is an exciting time in technology. Remember the dotcom hype and then the letdown? Similar to the pyramid in Memphis and the monorail in Springfield, Internet companies tried to figure out how to create the applications that would attract customers while making money from businesses that should have known better. Today, it seems to me, we have a lot of people back at creating labours ... [edugadget] 10:54:45 AM      Google It!.

Embracing the Artificial Limb. Biohybrid prostheses merge man-made devices with human muscles, bone and nerves. It's not just sci-fi, but it's not yet reality, either. By Rachel Metz. [Wired News] 10:52:15 AM      Google It!.

IQ Academies brings online learning into Wisconsin homes - Katy Williams, Wisconsin Technology. Through Feburary 25, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction will foot the bill if high-school students enroll in a school outside their districts, including a completely online program offered by the Waukesha district called the IQ Academies. IQ [Online Learning Update] 10:51:02 AM      Google It!.

Folksonomies: How we can improve the tags By dnorman. [Edubloggers Links Feed] 10:49:45 AM      Google It!.

Human Performance Center, Seamless Product Information, Data Exchange and Repository By martindale. [Edubloggers Links Feed] 10:49:05 AM      Google It!.

Performance Technology. collection of sites on PT from Martin Ryder, CU Denver By martindale. [Edubloggers Links Feed] 10:48:40 AM      Google It!.

XQuery adventures. I've outfitted my Mark Logic-based XPath query service with a stats page that summarizes the feeds I'm collecting. To give you a sense of Mark Logic's model for CGI-style XQuery programming, the text of the script appears below. ... [Jon's Radio] 10:46:50 AM      Google It!.

Representing the Learning Design of Units of Learning - Rob Koper and Bill Olivier Bolton; Education, Technology and Society. In order to capture current educational practices in eLearning courses, more advanced ‘learning design’ capabilities are needed than are provided by the open eLearning specifications hitherto available. Specifically, these fall short in terms of multi-rol [Online Learning Update] 10:40:13 AM      Google It!.

Reconfiguring Education. In one of the weird artifacts of Radio Userland, Spike Halls's link to an article titled "Sin without Consequence: Corporate Citizenship Needs to Be Redefined" (available here, for now) leads instead to this post, a look at the wisdom of Ivan Illich. The two items are related, and not just by an odd quirk of code. Now I was interested in the corporate citizenship article because of recent news about Google, and how its now being a public company seems to have stripped from it any semblence of social responsibility. And it seems to me that if capitalization turns even the best company into something pathological, then there are serious problems with our social order that merely electing new governments will not solve (this, of course, has been addressed before and better by Joel Balkan). So what's the connection? It's this: schools are what corporations would produce. Illich: "The pupil is thereby 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence..." By Spike Hall, Spike Hall's RU Weblog, February 14, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 10:39:17 AM      Google It!.

QEMU Accelerator Achieves Near-Native Performance [Slashdot:] 10:28:03 AM      Google It!.