Wednesday, February 01, 2006

eLearning State pushes online courses - LORI HIGGINS, Detroit Free Press. Michigan is on track to dramatically alter its image from a state that requires only a civics course to graduate from high school to being the only state in the nation to mandate online learning. That online requirement is part of a proposal to beef up ex [Online Learning Update] 8:56:42 PM    comment

depression Subtle brain changes in patients with Type 1 diabetes. Although people with diabetes are twice as likely as the general population to develop depression, the cause of this increased risk is not well understood. Now, a research collaboration has documented for the first time subtle changes in the gray matter of the brain of type 1 diabetes patients compared to control subjects who did not have diabetes. [Science Blog -] 5:43:08 PM    comment

decision making Words Affect Our Reality - On The Right. [Slashdot] "After comparing reaction times for hues of blue-green -- colors with distinct names in one language but not another -- they concluded, in a just-published paper, that the Whorf hypothesis holds for the right visual field, but not the left." 3:55:44 PM    comment

AI New Honda Accord Drives Itself. [Slashdot] 3:33:11 PM    comment

HCI ActiveState To Spin Out. Vancouver, BC, February 1, 2006--Pender Financial Group announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Sophos, Inc. to acquire ActiveState [T-NET News] 2:49:52 PM    comment

ePortfolio ePortfolio of an emerging Teacher & Artist. This is a description of an ePortfolio from a student who graduated from our college with an Associate in Fine Arts. The examples of reflection in this longitudinal ePortfolio of this student's time at LaGuardia shows how reflective assignments and prompts to make connections between different courses. [National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research blogs] 2:39:37 PM    comment

wireless Sierra Wireless Embedded Module to Provide Integrated 3G Connection for ThinkPad Customers. Vancouver, BC, February 1, 2006--Sierra Wireless announced that Lenovo has selected the MC8755 PCI Express Mini Card embedded module for HSDPA/UMTS networks for integration into the ThinkPad T60 and X60 notebook computers for European markets. [T-NET News] 10:02:30 AM    comment

audio Sony Unveils PSP Translator. [Slashdot] "TalkMan. In development for some time now, the program currently stores about 3,000 conversation patterns in English, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese." 10:01:04 AM    comment