Thursday, May 12, 2005

BBC Launches APIs [Slashdot:] this is a serious contender for online libraries/repositories that provides a model for much needed transparency in news that becomes history -- BL 4:45:01 PM      Google It!.

Don Park: Conference-jacking. [Scripting News] 10:30:57 AM      Google It!.

mLearnopedia: Your Mobile Learning Resource. eLearnopedia introduces us to mLearningopedia, a comprehensive resource on mobile learning. On the one hand I am an unabashed enthusiast for wireless connectivity and networking. On the other hand, I'm not sure about learning on a two-inch screen. But there's no doubt that mobile learning has caught the latest run of the fad train. There may be something there - but it seems to me that the hype has arrived before the grassroots applications, which suggests to me that something's amiss. Caution. Oh, but do visit this resource, which is quite good. By Judy Brown, May 11, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] Pocket SCORM -BL 10:28:32 AM      Google It!.

Podiobooks - Serialized audio books in podcast form [Edubloggers Links Feed] 9:40:53 AM      Google It!.

The Cellphone That Does Everything Imaginable, at Least Sort Of. Samsung's new phone for Sprint can take two-megapixel photos, scan in business cards, record 90-minute videos, play TV shows and even transcribe dictated speech. But how well? By By DAVID POGUE. [NYT > Technology] 9:29:17 AM      Google It!.

Software Agents to Assist in Distance Learning Environments - Sheung-On Choy, Sin-Chun Ng, and Yiu-Chung Tsang, Educause Quarterly. The Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK) is a distance education university with about 22,500 students. In fulfilling its mission, the university has adopted various Web-based and electronic means to support distance learning. For instance, OUHK uses a Web [Online Learning Update] 9:27:44 AM      Google It!.

Key Advantage of Open Source is Not Cost Savings [Slashdot:] 9:26:40 AM      Google It!.

A Robot for the Home, Brains Not Included. Robotics has always been an esoteric and expensive pursuit, with few avenues for the home dabbler to create a robot that can venture around the house or out into the world. The White Box Robotics Model 914 PC-BOT, however, aims to change that. By By JOHN BIGGS. [NYT > Technology] 9:25:38 AM      Google It!.

Online Trainers Keep Their Distance. For Americans seeking to get fit on their own time, online personal training is increasingly popular. By By ELIZABETH WEIL. [NYT > Technology] 9:19:23 AM      Google It!.

Using Wikis to Empower Student Learning. Steve Greenlaw is bashing the hell out of wikis as a teaching tool. Looks very cool -- gotta blog this... [Edubloggers Links Feed] 9:13:41 AM      Google It!.

Publish or Be Damned (BBC - Radio 4). Scientific publishing is undergoing a revolution. Scientists and policy makers, fed up with valuable research being locked away in expensive subscription only journals, are mounting a challenge to the publishers. They are launching their own competing journals and giving away the results for free. But not everyone is happy. In Publish or be Damned, Richard Black examines this dramatic change from both sides of the debate and assesses its likely consequences for science. [Edubloggers Links Feed] 9:09:05 AM      Google It!.

Dutch Academics Declare Research Free-For-All [Slashdot:] 9:06:44 AM      Google It!.