Friday, May 27, 2005

It's not about Old Media versus the Pajamahideen (Jon Udell). In a knowledge-based economy, narrating your work becomes part of everyone's job. That narration produces artifacts we call blogs. [Edubloggers Links Feed] 5:58:45 PM      Google It!.

Measuring the Impact of Blogs. If you read press coverage about blogs, you might conclude that just about all Americans are reading a blog. But then you wouldn't have time to read the press coverage, because if surveys are to be believed, you're probably busy creating your own blog. The numbers of the blogosphere range widely. Are there 10 million blogs, or 32 million? Do a quarter of online Americans really read blogs, as one oft-cited survey found? And why do rankings of the most popular blogs vary so much? [Edubloggers Links Feed] 5:57:55 PM      Google It!.

Wikispaces - blendedlearning. Welcome to the blendedlearning learning space! This space is here to help educators get started with some of the free-and-easy tools of the web - tools that may revolutionise the way we teach and learn. [Edubloggers Links Feed] 5:56:56 PM      Google It!.

Cell-based Server Blade Demonstrated [Slashdot:] 5:56:11 PM      Google It!.

With Popcorn, DVD's and TiVo, Moviegoers Are Staying Home. Sliding box-office attendance may reflect a change in the way Americans look to be entertained - a change that will pose serious challenges to Hollywood. By By LAURA M. HOLSON. [NYT > Technology] 5:55:02 PM      Google It!.

Virtual classroom at AHS - Rita Savard, AndoverTownsman. Students from around the world are lining up to dissect pigs at Andover High School. Except these teens don't have to cross borders - or get their hands dirty - to tackle the required lab experiment in advanced placement biology. With the click of a mous [Online Learning Update] 5:51:58 PM      Google It!.

Using the Semantic Web to Enhance Search [Slashdot:] 5:49:19 PM      Google It!.

Outsourcing Teaching. Keep in mind that though Tech Central Station looks like a news site, it is in reality a political activist site (this has been well documented) and is therefore pushing an agenda here. That said, it is nonetheless relevant to take note of what is being proposed here: that instead of people in developing nations logging onto and studying with established western educational institutions, people in wealthier nations may log on to and study with much more affordable (and, possibly, service oriented) online institutions set up in coutries like India or China. Implausible? Why? By James D. Miller, Tech Central Station, May 27, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 5:45:34 PM      Google It!.

Assistive Technology (AT), What Is It?. Nice post consisting mostly of links to accessibility resources, including screen readers, braille displays, screen enlargers, speech recognition and more. By James Bailey, EDUCAUSE - Assistive Technology in Higher Education, May 25, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 5:43:48 PM      Google It!.

e-portfolio presentation - a photoset on Flickr [Edubloggers Links Feed] compact use of images -- BL 5:42:43 PM      Google It!.

2-Year OpenOffice High School Case Study [Slashdot:] 5:41:00 PM      Google It!.

There Is No Safe Web Browser [Slashdot:] 5:39:20 PM      Google It!.

Earthlink Sponsors Cheap Linux PCs [Slashdot:] 5:37:37 PM      Google It!.

Libraries, directories, short lists, and glue. This morning I spoke with Richard Wallis, who is the technical development manager for Talis, one of the OPAC (online public access catalog) vendors whose clients' libraries are accessible using LibraryLookup. Talis is one of a handful of OPACs for which I'd built static lists of bookmarklets, based on information I'd gathered from libdex.com. Maintaining those long lists was problematic, though, as maintaining long lists always is. So last month I deprecated them in favor of the bookmarklet generator. ... [Jon's Radio] 5:35:54 PM      Google It!.