Sunday, February 15, 2004

Cingular Bid Is Said to Be $35 Billion. Cingular Wireless submitted a $35 billion bid to acquire AT&T Wireless, whose board is expected to meet Saturday to consider the bid and possibly others. By Matt Richtel and Andrew Ross Sorkin. [New York Times: Technology] 9:17:26 AM      Google It!.

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Weblogs & RSS Lesson Plan. I like these steps for introducing teachers to the power of combining weblogs with news aggregators. I've found that it's useful to do two introductory workshops with instructors: one workshop to introduce weblogging/rss for scholarship and one to introduce weblogging/rss for instruction. Once instructors are persuaded that these edtech tools are useful for their own scholarly work they can easily make the transition to applying the same tools for teaching. JH _____ Weblogs & RSS lesson plan. Here's a 'lesson' plan using Weblogs, RSS & RSSaggregators, called Reflective Reflections (am really trying with these names ;o) it's an attempt to build on and revolutionize the 'learning journal'... or somethinglikethat. [incorporated subversion] [EduResources Weblog--Higher Education Resources Online] 9:12:32 AM      Google It!.

Indian education officials discuss virtual tribal college - Julia Lyon, Bend Bulletin. Education officials from Indian tribes throughout Oregon are discussing the creation of a virtual tribal college. Proponents say the program would the first of its kind in the nation. The proposed institution would allow reservation residents to acces [Online Learning Update] 9:09:49 AM      Google It!.