The Lemma Dilemma
Jerry Fodor treats us to a retelling of the Stanley and Livingstone story, one in which Stanley first had to rule out the possibility that he was seeing Queen Victoria before uttering, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume." Fodor is reacting, in this review, to the non-inferential theory of cognition offered by José Luis Bermúdez in his book Thinking without Words. More...
Three R's: Reading, Writing, RFID
Schools have never been bastions of democracy and individual rights; we have seen over and over again how a students' right to freedom of expression, for example, is quite limited (hence the explusion of a Georgia student for wearing a Pepsi shirt on the school's Coke Day). So it is perhaps not a surprise to see the first major use of RFID tags to track people taking place in a school environment. More...
EdNA Online adds ALIA RSS feeds to MyEdNA
This looks like a really good story that popped up in Edu_RSS from the EdNA RSS feed. But the link provided was to a registration page, and the link from EdNA's home page redirects to a login. More...
Atom as the New XML-Based Web Publishing and Syndication Format
Comprehensive coverage of Atom, touted as a replacement for RSS. What's interesting about Atom (aside from the fact that they're finally decided on a name for it) is that it is being "created through an informal consensus process by volunteers in the Web developer community at large." There's a lot of material here, and the page is mostly useful to you only if you are an XML developer. More...
League Bloggin': Learning Objects in the Real World
One of the earlier learning object projects, Wisc-online has seems to fade from the mainstream recently as more visible initiatives have come to the fore. But Wisc-online hasn't vanished; according to this report they have created a nice collection of about 1,000 learning objects. More...
Rulemaking on Exemptions from Prohibition on Circumvention
Four new exemptions are added to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA): lists of Internet locations blocked by filtering software, programs protected by dongles that prevent access due to malfunction or damage and which are obsolete, formats that have become obsolete and which require the original media or hardware, and access controls that prevent the enabling of the ebook's read-aloud function. More...
Transforming Metadata
This PowerPoint presentation, delivered at the ADL Repositories Summit a couple of weeks ago, surveys the process used by the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse to convert learning object metadata from the format harvested from the NSDL repository (using Open Archives Initiative (OAI) harvesting, in Dublin Core format) to its own version of the IEEE Learning Object Metadata format. More...
vPreliminary LOM Survey
Ever wonder how people are actually using learning object metadata? This was the subject of a study conducted by Norm Friesen and Lassi Nirhamo over the summer and presented at the ADL Learning Repository Summit (the report is available from the SC36 WG4 Documents List. Though some things - such as the use of languagestrings - are working well, the vast majority of fields, especially educational metadata fields, are underused, and we are beginning to see promotional material creep into the description field. More...
EdNA Online: A Services-oriented Approach to Supporting E-Learning
The diagrams in this PowerPoint presentation are first rate as the content emphasises the design of the EdNA learning content repository system. The presentation argues that the EdNA system was based on learner needs and a subsequent business model, and this approach lead to the development of the resulting harvesting and content syndication service. More...
Longhorn
Microsoft unveiled its proposed Longhorn operating system last weekend, and after a couple of days, the reviews are out. Numerous commentators have noted that it draws a lot from Apple. Others concentrated on whether Longhorn would offer more security. Also interesting is the discussion about how the operating system handles information. Overall, the reviews appear mixed, with many wtill adopting a 'wait and see' attitude. More...
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