Mystery Patch Blots Microsoft's Fix-Free Month
Just for the record, the automatic update mentioned in this article hammered my Windows XP home desktop, permanently disabling it and making my files inaccessible (three cheers for back-ups). It now becomes the fourth of my computers to acquire a Linux operating system (pushing me ever closer to my goal of a complete conversion to open source). More...
26 septembre 2018
Students Who Know Their Own Minds
Students Who Know Their Own Minds
Wouldn't it help teachers if they knew how students think and learn? Of course it would. But wouldn't it help even more if this information were shared with the students themselves? That's part of the philosophy behind one of several novel programs implemented at Gateway High School, a 400-student charter school in San Francisco. More...
Scirus - Science Specific Search Engine
Scirus - Science Specific Search Engine
Scott Leslie picks up this good link to Scirus, a "search engine that focuses solely on sources of scientific information and returns results either from qualified web sites or from only scientific journals." This is what I would like to do (or see done) with educational technology journals, in combination with Edu_RSS. More...
Colleges Sweeten Deal With Apartments, Cable
Colleges Sweeten Deal With Apartments, Cable
I have commented before that, in order to survive, traditional universities will have to turn from their traditional value proposition - unique access to a higher education - to a new value proposition - the rarified residential environment. More...
Mystery Patch Blots Microsoft's Fix-Free Month
Task force: Give Laptops for Students to Take Home
Task force: Give Laptops for Students to Take Home
This is a positive initiative. "A business task force looking at education issues wants to provide all Des Moines-area students - in public and private schools - with their own laptop computer over the next two years." But educators say - quite reasonably - that the program cannot cost any teachers their jobs. More...
The DRM Dictionary
The DRM Dictionary
This useful digital rights management resource is 'copyright' and 'all rights reserved', naturally, but can still be viewed for free on the web, something that no doubt troubles other people deeply. More...
The Impact of Schooling
The Impact of Schooling
The point of this article is to emphasize the difference between 'schooling' and 'learning' and the author, Jay Cross, does do with vigour, bringing to bear two of my favorite (and oft-visited) themes of e-learning: networks and surfing. More...
Sunday Afternoon Thoughts on the Design of RSS Aggregators
Sunday Afternoon Thoughts on the Design of RSS Aggregators
Good article outlining the reasons why someone might choose a desktop RSS aggregator over using a server side (website) aggregator. I have tended to use server-sides because (a) they can store a lot more data, useful for searches and the like; (b) I can share this data with other people; and (c) I know how to program server-side applications, but have no patience for the nuances of the dsktop. More...
Reload Eeleases SCORM E-learning Content Player
Reload Eeleases SCORM E-learning Content Player
Kudos to the good people at Reload for releasing an open source SCORM content viewer to go along with their open source SCORM content package editor. More...
Shaping Information Societies for Human Needs
Shaping Information Societies for Human Needs
This is the Civil Society Declaration to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and consists of a statement of broad principles which are (in my view) worthy of endorsement in general. More...
