Drum Sessions Protect Employees from Burnout
I don't know whether Yamaha sells drums, but it does sell musical instruments, and so I would be sceptical about the study cited in this paper. But that does not take away from the inherent value in even considering the idea of drum sessions in the workplace. More...
Beneath the Tip of the Iceberg: Technology Plumbs the Affective Learning Domain
The affective learning domain has always been, in my opinion, not only the murkiest but also the most controversial part of Bloom's taxonomy. More...
OddPost
George Siemens wrote of my article, The Semantic Social Network, that it was written ahead of its time. I don't think so. Oddpost, for example, is an email and RSS aggregator combined into a single platform, just released. Meanwhile on my discussion board for this item, Eurekster "shows you What's Hot with your friends" and Zopto "is building on the idea of foaf + rss + open APIs. More...
Software on the Brain
I'm not going to recommend the report itself, since you have to pay money for it, but you should read this summary, as it touches on themes I've tried to explore in these pages. More...
The Global Digital Format Registry
A useful initiative, the purpose of which is to collect the various digital formats being used to store institutional eprint and other archives. More...
The Dynamic Dissemination of Complex Digital Objects
If you are not into complicated systems architecture you won't get a lot out of this item. For the rest of us, this paper demonstrates the use of the MPEG-21 DIP and the NISO OpenURL formats for the distribution of complex objects in an OAI repository. More...
Venture Capital Markets Sink to Lowest Level in Seven Years
I have been hearing variations on this theme for a number of years, and its a trend that is advancing, not declining. It seems to me odd tha Canadian firms - with the advantage of a strong scoial infrastructure and some of the best talent in the world - cannot obtain venture capital. More...
ADL to make a 'repository SCORM'
As reported in OLDaily in January, ADL is planning a 'repository SCORM' known as the "lovely named" CORDRA. More...
The Blizzard of 2004
Snow is piling up outside my door and the entire city of Moncton is shut down as the worst storm of the year continues to hammer the city. It's not a 'state of emergency' - yet - but it's as rough a storm as I've seen in a while. More...
Proposals for DC Rights-related Terms
Some new proposals for Dublin Core element descriptions, including isAvailableAt and Provenance, along with the rights related terms mentioned in the title. I could not find a place to offer feedback on the rights terms, but it's OK, as the method Dubmlin Core proposes, to link to an external rights metadata file (such as a Creative Commons file) works for us here; we do exactly the same thing, linking to an external ODRL file from the rights description fiel;d in elarning object metadata. More...
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