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Toronto at CAUCE 2006
This photo is from my most recent set, Toronto 2006. I am at the 2006 CAUCE conference in Toronto where I will be giving a talk tomorrow afternoon. Then, tomorrow evening, I will be flying overnight to Britain, where I will be at blog.ac.uk conference, where I will be wrapping up with the closing keynote. After that I will be to Milton Keynes for a talk at the Open University, then to Manchester to join in a meeting on Personal Learning Environments. I am then in Innsbruck, Austria for the Microlearning conference. Finally, I will be visiting Vienna as a guest of the Centre for Social Innovation. My thanks to Colette for all her assistance arranging this trip, one that has changed quite a bit from its original plan, and to the organizers from the different centres, who have been helpful and considerate. [Tags: Flickr] [Comment]. More...
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The Myth of Superman
Today's article in Wired tells a story about Superman. "His real-world origin is more humble: Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, two Jewish kids from Cleveland, created him as a character in a newspaper comic strip. But the strip didn't sell, so they reformatted it and flipped it to a publisher hungry to buy content for one of the first comic books... It's a classic American success story on a couple of levels. Two outsiders create a new art form, and Superman 'an alien in a strange land' takes off."
Wired is reiterating the myth. The reality, though, is more illustrative. The story of 'Superman' probably begins with Nietzsche's Ubermensch and the name is popularized in Shaw's Man and Superman. Canadians know that Joe Shuster was born in Toronto and moved to Cleveland as a child. More...
Freedom of Speech vs. Freedom to Teach
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Catherine Ann Velasco[Edit][Delete]: Freedom of Speech vs. Freedom to Teach, Suburban Chicago News [Edit][Delete] May 25, 2006
More of the same. "The district is going to take away the student's education for exercising his freedom of speech," said attorney Carl Buck. "I feel like they are trying to control his freedom of speech. He is sitting at home on a computer on a Web site you can't access from school". More...
Site Connects Users to Education Research
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Laura Ascione[Edit][Delete]: Site Connects Users to Education Research, ESchool News [Edit][Delete] May 25, 2006
Coverage of Rice's Connexions project. This is an odd article in that it describes Connexions as "an online library where colleagues can submit professional journal articles and review the work of their peers." This in contrast to the description at Connexions itself: "Our Content Commons contains small 'knowledge chunks' we call modules that connect into courses." The author seems to be more focused on an NCPEA project started in 2004, which did indeed produce articles and subject them to peer review; it now boasts eight articles scattered over the 19 subject 'domains'. More...