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8ball sneak. 8ball sneak: This weekend in Tokyo Kevin Lynch of Macromedia did a "sneak peek" session of the next generation Macromedia Flash Player. Colin Moock posted a video stream (above) which drew a lot of attention over the weekend... he hit... [JD on MX] 11:26:42 AM

Fast DVD Copy 3 copies PS2 games, more. Velan Software on Monday announced the release of Fast DVD Copy 3, a new version of their archival software that lets users copy "almost all" DVD Videos to blank DVD-R(W) discs. The new version, a free upgrade for registered users of versions 1.x and 2.x, adds support for PlayStation 2 discs, enabling users to back up their PS2 games to DVD-R(W) media. Also new in this release is support for DVD-ROM, CD-ROM and Audio CD media. Other changes include a "Check for Updates" menu item, bug fixes, enhancements and more. Fast DVD Copy 3 costs US$99.95; you can download the software in "Trial Mode" and copy one disc before you're required to enter a license code. System requirements call for Mac OS X v10.2 or higher, 17GB free hard disk space, an Apple SuperDrive or Mac OS X-compatible DVD burner and CD-R(W) or DVD-R(W) media. [MacCentral News] 11:08:47 AM

Sebastian Fiedler :: # Do we have a content problem? :: google it! Lately I am thinking quite a bit about some impressions that I gathered during my (unhealthy?) conference marathon (Ed-Media 2004, I-Know '04 and BlogTalk 2.0). I cannot help it ... but loads of people still appear to be obsessed with problems and questions around "content" or "content delivery." Learning objects here, instructional design patterns there... oh, and then let's not forget about ontologies (when and why did the tech folks nick this term from philosophy?). The thing is... I don't think I have a content problem. And if I think about young adults in higher education in the so-called first world, I don't see much of a content problem, either. You want to learn about something? Well, there is the city library, there is the university library, there is the university library network, there are bookshops, there are online-bookshops, there is Google, there are Web-forums, there are Weblogs, there are community colleges, CDs, TV, movies, radio... and so forth. In fact there is so much quality stuff out there that I have a hard time to believe that the world will be a better place if we only add repositories of digital learning objects to this bewildering landscape. So, I keep asking myself: what is wrong with you? everybody else seems to be really concerned about quality content and its delivery... what kind of distorted mental world are you living in? Then, yesterday I read the article Cybernetics, e-learning and the education system of Oleg Liber from the Bolton Institute of Higher Education, UK. Oleg writes... For universities especially this inability to exploit the powerful new discursive capabilities of the internet is of concern. As Diana Laurillard points out [24], higher learning is concerned with worldviews, with the acquisition of the concepts and distinctions of a discipline, its discourse; and this is best learnt through practice, though engaging in the discourse. This requires a form of cognitive apprenticeship [25], where a rich conversational engagement between learners and teacher can take place; it cannot be achieved just through the learning of facts. The internet provides new tools to support this, but the leading VLEs [virtual learning environments] are not exploiting them. Thus there is a mismatch between what people are doing on the internet, and what leading learning environments are providing. The internet empowers people by giving the possibility of control over content and organisation; many VLEs shift the locus of control further away from learners and teachers to institutional management... [Oleg Liber] Do you have a content problem? [Sebastian Fiedler] # permaLink :: 7/20/04; 5:17:36 PM :: Trackback [6] >> Discuss (2 responses) << 9:25:36 AM