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Predictions for 2006. Although punditry seems to require year-end assessments and predictions, I usually resist the urge. But this year I came up with an angle. ... [Jon's Radio] -- good guesses about the browser developments -- BL
4:53:01 PM 
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Unicon provides Sakai 'Test Drive' sites. http://www.sakaitestdrive.com/
If you haven't already had the chance, Unicon has made it even easier to have a look at Sakai 2.1 (just released on December 1, 2005) through their new "Test Drive" sites. The sites, available for free for 90 days, give you access to a demo course and worksite and allow you to change roles so as to see the system from various user perspectives. The background here is that Unicon once developed a CMS on top of uPortal called Academus, but appear to now be piggybacking on offering Sakai support and other uPortal support based on their years' of experience.
This will not change anyones' mind who had already decided they were not down with the 'course managed' approach, but for those looking for an alternative to their current CMS, this provides one more method to kick the tires, and just in time for Christmas! - SWL [EdTechPost]
4:21:03 PM
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Writely. Recently a new group of Web 2.0-oriented,
wiki-like services has appeared. Writely is a good example of these... [but] unlike most wiki implementations, and contrary to the old wiki ethos,
Writely excludes all potential editors, save those invited by the creator via
email.
1:15:46 PM
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Incorporating Blogging in a Free Speech Course: Lessons Learned. Blogging
should connect with course content and students should see that
connection; otherwise it seems like busy work. Second, the more creative freedom students had, the more they embraced
blogging. With less faculty “control,�
student blogs became individualized, perfect for free speech, but perhaps not
for other kinds of curricula. [Academic Commons -]
1:08:46 PM
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TK3: A Tool to (Re)Compose.
When I first encountered TK3, I was teaching at a large urban university and was looking for a way to have students engage with emergent digital technologies; this required them to not only consume or analyze multimodal “texts� but to create them as well. Bob Stein, the founder of NightKitchen, TK3’s developer, was the keynote at the 2003 Computers & Writing Conference held at Purdue; I was there facilitating a pre-conference workshop on technology training for new teachers. Another of the pre-conference activities included a collaborative e-book, Digital Publishing F5 | Refreshed, created by Bob Stein, David Blakesley and thirty other intellectuals—both publishers and academics—interested in the scholarship, pedagogy and publishing potentials of emergent technologies. Indeed, since the New London Group’s 1996 manifesto calling for educators to attend to “multiliteracy,� there has been increasing attention among writing scholars to interrogate reading and writing with new media.
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12:52:14 PM
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Open Access to Scholarship: An Interview with Ray English. Ray English, Director of the Libraries at Oberlin College, talks about the importance of the Open Access Movement to Higher Education in general, and liberal arts colleges in particular, and points to some specific things that we can do on our campuses to help avert the crisis that is facing scholarly communications today.
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12:46:16 PM
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Large but functional PHP distro for Windows. One guy reporting that SB doesn't go on his Windows box pointed me at WAMP, a PHP5+Apache+MySQL distribution for Windows. Looks good - I wasn't looking forward to installing all the bits and pieces separately on my Windows box. Let's just hope it has a decent uninstaller as well, for once I'm done :-)
Downloading now... 23 megabytes. Getting 65 kB/sec through the office's DSL line. To think that ten (twelve?) years ago I balked at downloading FrontDoor, which, at 800k or so, took an hour at 2400 bps.
Heh, in the time it took me to write that and look up a link to FidoNet, the download finished.
Comment [Second p0st]
10:45:27 AM
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Guidelines Set on Software Property Rights. To remove obstacles to joint research, four leading technology companies and seven American universities have agreed on principles for making software developed in collaborative projects freely available. By STEVE LOHR. [NYT > Education]
10:36:55 AM
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Google Launches Mobile Mail.  [Slashdot] "This is mobile e-mail for the rest of us, who have normal or tiny screens," said Kelsey Group managing editor Greg Sterling. -- mobile phone are the 3rd screen that will be increasingly important to cooperative work, play, and education. -- BL
9:18:59 AM
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