24 septembre 2018
24 septembre 2018
What Happens When There Are No Standards In Curriculum Design?
What Happens When There Are No Standards In Curriculum Design?
This article expresses a point of view that is widely held in academic, that it is important that courses following one another conform to something like a standard approach in order to allow for a smooth transition from one to the next. More...
24 septembre 2018
Contribute to EdNA Online
Contribute to EdNA Online
EdNA continues to show the world how it should be done as it issues a national call for learning content providers to make their metadata available for harvesting. More...
24 septembre 2018
Don't Torch Musicians' Incomes, Burn Media Piracy
Don't Torch Musicians' Incomes, Burn Media Piracy
Though the purpose of this article is to launch PureTracks, a Canadian music subscription service similar to iTunes, the author, the president of the Canadian Recording Industry Association, takes the opportunity to launch a one-sided harangue under the guise of a news article in Canada's national newspaper (guess which side of the debate they're on). More...
24 septembre 2018
Floatutorial
Floatutorial
For my own future reference, some CSS tutorials, as I think about what I want to do for the next redesign of Stephen's Web. Say, if you have ideas, send them in. I'd like to take the next design of the site into new, uncharted directions. More...
24 septembre 2018
Districts Line Up In Laptop Opposition
Districts Line Up In Laptop Opposition
If you had the chance to distribute a laptop to every student at $25 per, you'd jump at the chance, right? Well, not these schools in Detroit, which find the program too expensive. More...
24 septembre 2018
RFC: myPublicFeeds.opml
RFC: myPublicFeeds.opml
Discussion is filling the Syndication list at Yahoo! groups over a proposed public feeds file format. The idea of the proposed PublicFeeds.opml specification is that a website could display, in a commonly understood way, a list of all the feeds available. More...
24 septembre 2018
A Brief Overview of the Linguistic Attributes of the Blogosphere
A Brief Overview of the Linguistic Attributes of the Blogosphere
This "brief" (40 page PDF) essay makes two points. First (and importantly), bloggers form a community (or probably more accurately, a network of communities). Probably the most convincing evidence of this are the graphical representations of links between blogs. More...
24 septembre 2018
Copyright / Copyleft
Copyright / Copyleft
Questions are being asked about Questia's online library after one author finds her books scanned and placed behind a subscription wall without her advice or consent. The company has formed numerous partnerships with publishers who, according to the author, will offer a contract if authors complain, but for only a "slight profit". More...
24 septembre 2018
U.S. Policy Restricts Scientific Publishing by Researchers in Countries Under Trade Embargo
U.S. Policy Restricts Scientific Publishing by Researchers in Countries Under Trade Embargo
Five countries are under current U.S. trade embargos: Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, and Sudan. Following investigations by the IEEE a couple of weeks ago, it turns out that these embargos include academic 'services' such as the editing of scientific papers. The U.S. government decision has embroiled the organization and raised concerns among other international organizations that they, too, will be subject to the same restrictions. More...
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