Saturday, October 01, 2005
Habla Espanol?U.S. Spanish Speakers Flocking Online. Some 79 percent of Spanish-speaking U.S. Hispanics have used the internet for five years or less - but are already highly active online, according to a study by Claria's Feedback Research, ">writes... 3:46:18 PM 
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The Value of Connections. David Weinberger latest essay "The New Is." It’s a further evolution of what he articulated at his NECC keynote in Philadelphia earlier this month, and it’s a mind bender, at least for me. So this will be one of those scary "work through it in a blog post" type of posts. And maybe, the beginnings of a conversation. more ... [Weblogg-ed News: The Read/Write Web in the Classroom] 3:42:31 PM
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Cheap PCs for the US Market.Of course, for several years now you could buy one of these
from Fry's Electronics, and you weren't stuck with WinCE. AMD's low cost PC headed for RadioShack. Blog: RadioShack plans to start selling a bare-bones $299 computer designed by chipmaker AMD, the San Jose Mercury News reported... [CNET News.com] 3:39:17 PM
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Survey Time!. Real easy. Yes or no. In terms of education as we know it, the Web (of the Read/Write flavor) changes everything. Defend your answers. [Weblogg-ed News: The Read/Write Web in the Classroom] 3:31:29 PM
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Uh-oh. Trouble in Paradise.EU outlines future net governance. Big changes coming at the top [The Register] Balkanization! That's the word I was looking for!Power grab could split the Net. CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh says a spat over who rules the domains could lead to a Balkanized Internet. [CNET News] 3:27:49 PM
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Learner-created learning. I have always been convinced that one key to future success in web-based learning lies in the notion of the prosumer. Prosumers produce what they consume, and it seemed to me back in the mid 1990’s that creating their own content was something that people really enjoyed doing. I saw this in the fact that e-mail was the most-used application of the Internet. I saw it in the fact that AOL members By noemail@noemail.org (Godfrey Parkin). [Parkin's Lot] 3:20:50 PM
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Best practices in questionnaire design. Recently so many people have been asking me to review their questionnaires and surveys that I thought I’d update a document I first created several years ago which sets out some essential best practices for creating good questionnaires. While written for training evaluation, the guide is applicable to any surveys. 1. Ask: “Why are we doing this?” What do we need to know? Why do we need to know By noemail@noemail.org (Godfrey Parkin). [Parkin's Lot] 3:20:27 PM
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Dept. of Getting Things DoneChoosing The Task to Fit The Time. Not too long ago, I was asked by a client of mine how long it would take to complete a certain large project. After thinking about it for a while, I gave what I thought was a fair estimate given all of the parameters, possible hurdles and building in time for contingencies. The client then asked me if I could do it faster than that. They asked if I could do it in about a third of what I had estimated. After some thought, I offered the client following response…
Time not spent on the front end of a project is usually spent on the back end. Sometimes, it is even multiplied. Therefore, it will take the same amount of time, if not more, no matter what.[To-Done] 3:00:53 PM
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Reflections on the tagging economy. ... or is it the economy of tagging? Categorization (to give tagging its more formal name) is a key cognitive process, and we may find that it will grow in importance as part of our theories of learning. Great article -- must read. Thanks to George for pointing to it. A cognitive analysis of tagging. A cognitive analysis of tagging: "The rapid growth of tagging(1)in the last year is testament to how easy and enjoyable people find the tagging process. The question is how to explain it at the cognitive level. In search for a cognitive explanation of tagging, I went back to my dusty cognitive psychology textbooks. This is what I learnt.(2)" [elearnspace]2:56:31 PM
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Collaborative intelligence vs. artificial intelligence.Let's hope collaborative intelligence fares better than a.i. did! Collaborative Intelligence: "New online social applications, specifically blogging, tagging, and social networks, are lining up to provide an astonishing improvement in how the Internet provides information to you and me." [elearnspace]2:51:56 PM
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George Siemens is podcasting!Playing around with Podcasting. I'm playing around with podcasting. I have much learning to do...but my first public attempt at the process is available: Learning and Knoweldge Management [elearnspace]2:49:58 PM
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OK, Web 2.0 items now have their own category here.If you want to see what I thought was vital new information about Web 2.0, use the Navigation link out in the margin. This way I won't duplicate/clutter up across categories. But you have to remember to use that link! 2:16:03 PM
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