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24 juin 2019

Mirror, Mirror: Refining the reflexion Element in the IMS e-Portfolio Specification

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Catherine Howell[Edit][Delete]: Mirror, Mirror: Refining the reflexion Element in the IMS e-Portfolio Specification, EDUCAUSE Blogs [Edit][Delete] May 24, 2006
I haven't been too involved in the discussion of e-portfolios because I think a lot of that discussion is misplaced. This set of observations on the 'reflexion' element is a perfect example. Catherine Howell argues that the definition, in the IMS specification, is fuzzy, and insufficiently distinguished from an assertion. Quite right, but I would go further and ask what the point is of distinguishing between a reflection and an assertion at all, and even what the point is of placing these (via a form???) into an e-portfolio in the first place. It's this whole idea that everything must be contained in a single format rearing its head again. More...

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24 juin 2019

Open Letter to Ministers Oda and Bernier

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Angela Regnier[Edit][Delete]: Open Letter to Ministers Oda and Bernier, Canadian Federation of Students [Edit][Delete] May 24, 2006
In 1985 or so I wrote an article in the student newspaper, the Gauntlet, titled 'CFS is Dead'. It just goes to show, not all of my predictions are accurate. I'm happy to have been wrong, though, because this week the Canadian Federation of Students has come out with a statement urging a "balanced" approach to copyright laws. "Students are concerned that the collectives and the major publishing and recording industries - entities motivated by profit - have been wielding too much influence in the process to-date, thereby drowning the legitimate concerns of teachers, researchers, librarians, and students." Hear, hear. More...

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24 juin 2019

Student TV Finds Home on Web

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Unattributed[Edit][Delete]: Student TV Finds Home on Web, ESchool News [Edit][Delete] May 24, 2006
Innovative: "Student-produced shows across the country might have gotten their big break.... The Open Student Television Network (OSTN) launched in April 2005, and it has signed up a wide array of schools in the past few months: the network now claims 30 member schools, with access at 208 institutions." the idea is to provide a distribution channel for student productions. "The launch of these broadband channels parallels an explosion of amateur TV and film content on the web, fueled by the ever-dropping cost of producing a professional-looking product". More...

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24 juin 2019

Everybody's a Network

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Jeff Jarvis[Edit][Delete]: Everybody's a Network, BuzzMachine [Edit][Delete] May 24, 2006
Question of the day: "what if media isn't a business anymore? What if it becomes like poetry -" lots of people do it, but nobody ever expects to make any money from it." Or, what if education isn't a business anymore - people share what they know as part of their day-to-day routine or part of the job, everybody does a little, and nobody makes any money? "The smart network response to all this is to liquify. You let your stuff be found anywhere, in any medium and any network. More...

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24 juin 2019

Time for Higher Education to Be Heard on Net Neutrality!

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Garret Sern[Edit][Delete]: Time for Higher Education to Be Heard on Net Neutrality!, EDUCAUSE Blogs [Edit][Delete] May 24, 2006
I take net neutrality as one of those really obvious things. The attempts to end net neutrality are not about improving things, they are about controlling the marketplace and eliminating the competition, about appropriating the public infrastructure, rights of way, and other easements that we provide them for their own personal gain. When this happens, important public services, such as education, lose out to commercial traffic. So it's no surprise to see EDUCAUSE coming out in favour of net neutrality. More...

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24 juin 2019

To Hell with WCAG 2

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Joe Clark[Edit][Delete]: To Hell with WCAG 2, A List Apart [Edit][Delete] May 23, 2006
Well known for his writing on accessibility, Joe Clark slams the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.0 recently announced for comment. How often does this happen to standards bodies: "The process is stacked in favour of multinationals with expense accounts who can afford to talk on the phone for two hours a week and jet to world capitals for meetings. More...

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24 juin 2019

Making Money Selling Music Without DRM: The Rise of eMusic

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Nate Anderson[Edit][Delete]: Making Money Selling Music Without DRM: The Rise of eMusic, Ars Technica [Edit][Delete] May 23, 2006
Interesting article about a site that is making money selling independent music by subscription in MP3 format - with no digital rights management (DRM) at all. The major lables, of course, cannot fathom how such a business could make money, but eMusic is the number two retailer of downloadable music behind the iTunes Music Store. Also worth noting is that the company decided "to hire several distinguished music critics to serve as 'curators' for the site." This is the beginning of the newsmastering rend. More...

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24 juin 2019

My Book, by Me

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Stirling Kelso[Edit][Delete]: My Book, by Me, Fast Company [Edit][Delete] May 23, 2006
This is actually old news, as Lulu.com has been around for a while (Leigh Blackall used it to publish his Teach and Learn Online book). And as Brad Jensen noted on DEOS Sunday, Amazon has it's own version, BookSurge. But this service, Blurb, seems to be new. "Blurb and its ilk are democratizing a tired oligopoly, opening up the pipes to... everyone, really. Want to publish your treatise on the government's extraterrestrial conspiracy? Sure". More...

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24 juin 2019

Young and Wired

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Katherine Seligman[Edit][Delete]: Young and Wired, San Francisco Chronicle [Edit][Delete] May 23, 2006
More about the phenomenon of computer use among the young. Good article overall, with a good summation of the major issues. Janice Friesen introduced this article on WWWDEV with the comment, "I think we may be raising a generation of screensuckers." Ironic, coming from the generation that was raised on televsion and the telephone. More...

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24 juin 2019

Niagara Falls

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Stephen Downes[Edit][Delete]: Niagara Falls, May 23, 2006

As promised, photos from our visit to Niagara Falls on Friday. The Falls were much more impressive than I thought they would be, and we did the whole thing - the Maid of the Mist and the tour behind and under the Falls. Enjoy. [Tags: Flickr] [Comment]. More...

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