MusickEd
Eugene sent me this link to MusickEd, which, while it is a commercial site (and slow to load on the dial-up line I am using - they should run the large image through Fireworks or consider scaling it down) is worth a mention because it seems to me that a site like this would work really well in conjunction with a site like inDiscover, which allows musicians to share their work with others and allows readers to identify their favorites. More...
Digital Storytelling Cookbook
Via elearningpost, this guide to storytelling is worth a look. I use some, but not all, of the elements. My items always have a distinct point of view and I do from time to time 'experiment' with emotional content ('experiment' isn't really the right word for me). More...
A New Kind of Academic Freedom
Interesting item from Syllabus (though sponsored by HP, so read with the appropriate grain of salt) discussing the evolution of wireless access on campus. In some ways a bit dated (for example, discussing the 'current' 802.11b standard) and a bit wide-eyed (for example, observing that students will access the net from unusual places) but still a good way to catch some of the promise wireless brings to educational computing. More...
New Service Connects Prospective Online Faculty With Institutions Offering Online Courses
When people say 'on demand' as in those IBM commercials they usually mean content or software. But probably the major 'on demand' application will be services, and in particular, people. More...
Yahoo Sets up Standard to Combat Spam
The anti-spam legislation having proven to be an elaborate sham, and the propogation of commercial threatening to choke online communication, companies offering email services are increasingly pressed to offer an anti-spam system. More...
Indiana Essays Being Graded by Computers
Teachers may hate it, but the irony is that students may prefer automated essay grading. More...
Ensemble Collaboration
Launched at the ASTD conference, Ensemble is a system that allows for the integration of 'collaboration objects' into a learning management system for use with an online course. Ensemble's demo site includes sample course content from Skillsoft, NetG, KNet and Mindleaders, and sample LMS displays from the usual popular systems. More...
Building the School of the Future
Streaming media presentation (not viewable in Firefox) from Microsoft outlining its vision of the school of the future. It looks at where children are going online today - a good place to start - and notes that significant numbers of them do things like access foreign newspapers or practice e-commerce. More...
A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections
About more than just collections, this framework is a very nice document describing principles for collections, objects, metadata and projects. Nothing in here I would disagree with, quite a bit I would enthusiastically support, and dozens of references to frameworks, metadata schemas, and more. More...
The Semio-grads
Nice article with (of course) hidden layers of meaning and a lesson. When Ira Glass graduated in 1982 with a degree in Semiotics, his parents took out an ad in the classifieds: Corporate office seeks semiotics grad for high paying position." Funny. More...
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