Paradigm shifting in handhelds.

Michael Singer/ZDNet: Five reasons for Palm's slide.

Five reasons for Palm's slide … When Palm ruled the handheld-computing market, few thought it would ever have to partner with Microsoft.  —  But a series of missteps, from manufacturing gaffes to strategic blunders, eventually made Palm's partnering with its longtime rival seem like a possibility …

Source:   ZDNet
Author:   Michael Singer
Link:   http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1040_22-5884040.html

View discussion

12:02:06 PM    

More Wiki news today.

Wikibooks. Free, open source textbooks. My main question is, how do you keep the Evolution folks and the Intelligent Design folks from Wiki-bombing each other's version of the biology books over and over again, to the point that the books are useless? Same thing for history books, literature books, maybe even Latin books.  The article just mentions in passing, and at the end of the article, that there just might be problems with Wikibooks being defaced, edited by people with agendas, or being edited by people who don't know what they are talking about.

11:58:52 AM    

Cheap laptops for students in developing countries.

And for the developed nations too -- why not?

The $100 laptop moves closer to reality. MIT's Nicholas Negroponte lays out a design for a low-cost PC with a twist: Windup power and an innovative display. [CNET News.com]

11:50:12 AM    

Will Richardson reflects on posts by George Siemens and Barbara Ganley.

The whole post (Connecting for Life) is too long to repeat here, but it's a good piece on what George Siemens and Barbara Ganley are saying lately. Will concludes:

So the question becomes, what is the role of the teacher in all of this? Well, isn't it to facilitate those connections within the structure of, as George says, the competencies we seek to teach? Listen when Barbara talks about how her students take over their own learning in the course. Or how Clarence Fisher, Konrad Glogowski and Darren Kuropatwa write about what's happening in their blogging students. (All three Canadians, btw...hmmm.) Without going over the top, there is almost a sense of reverence for what's happening. These are truly transitional, transformative classrooms that are pushing us in interesting directions, leading us to ... a different learning space.

[Weblogg-ed News: The Read/Write Web in the Classroom]

10:09:10 AM    

WikiWatch: JotSpot Live.

I still don't know that Wikis are worth the trouble involved in maintaining them, but by golly the people who love them keep coming up with innovations to manage the social and technical issues.

Michael Arrington/TechCrunch: JotSpot Live - The Perfect Wiki?.

JotSpot Live - The Perfect Wiki?  —  JotSpot Live, a JotSpot company, launched today.  They've created an awesome wiki tool that solves at least two common wiki problems - the specialized markup language and multiple simultaneous users.  —  I love wikis.  We have one.  They are perfect for group collaboration.

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Michael Arrington
Link:   http://www.techcrunch.com/2005/09/27/jotspot-live-the-perfect-wiki/

View discussion

10:02:41 AM