Sunday, February 4, 2007

ELI2007 Podcast: The Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative. In this 48-minute recording from the 2007 EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting, we'll hear from Joel Smith and Candace Thille in a session entitled The Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative: Cognitively Informed Web-Based Instruction. Learn how Carnegie Mellon is using expertise from the congitive and learning sciences to produce high-quality online courses and how studies of student use inform both the next iteration of the course and learning theory. Attachments Title ( file name ) Size ELI2007_Carnegie_Mellon_Open_Learning_Initiative.mp3 ( ELI2007_Carnegie_Mellon_Open_Learning_Initiative.mp3 ) 45.4 MB [EDUCAUSE CONNECT blogs] 7:27:21 PM      Google It!.

YouTube - Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us. YouTube - Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us: Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us ------ if you've not seen this video on web 2.0.... you probably should. [EDUCAUSE CONNECT blogs] -- this is very interesting --BL 12:26:26 PM      Google It!.

TiVo Selling Data on Users' Watching Habits. Gyppo writes "The San Francisco Chronicle reports that TiVo is collecting and selling data on what parts of broadcasts people are rewinding for review and what commercials they are skipping. The data collection is part of a service the company provides to advertisers and television networks, collecting anonymous data on their users' commercial-watching habits. The data they provide is a random subset of their overall userbase, detailing which commercials are skipped and which are actually watched. The article mentions the possibility for privacy abuse, but with this application of technology Tivo is not providing access to what any one individual user watches via the service."[Slashdot] 12:19:35 PM      Google It!.

Spending: In Elder Care, Signing on Becomes a Way to Drop By. With the number of older Americans growing rapidly, products and services to help adult children care for their parents are on the rise. By CHRISTINE LARSON. [NYT > Technology] 7:56:01 AM      Google It!.

Meraki Networks. Really interesting NY Times piece about a company with a mesh network approach to covering cities with free wifi. Turns out that putting transmitters on light poles isn't practical, which reflects what I learned trying the free wifi in Mountain View. It's as practical as lighting a city with outdoor lights. Tends to leave big shadows in buildings. Instead, the startup, Meraki Networks, propses to create a mesh of homes that share their Internet connections. [Scripting News] 7:54:43 AM      Google It!.