Changing Places: Instructional Designers Become Online Classroom Participants
Good article describing instructional designers' experiences as online students during a series of presentations hosted by e-Learning Guru (the eLearning Developers' Journal, in which this article appears, is usually a subscription-based journal, however, the author sent me this link, which works - for now, at least. More...
SCO Attorney Declares GPL Invalid
I can't see how a judge would favour the SCO interpretation, as it would be a major change to declare the concept of free software contrary to law. But that seems to be what SCO is urging, as their lawyers argue that GPL violates U.S. copyright law by allowing more than one copy to be copied, and is therefore invalid. More...
Google Ads a Threat to eBay Trademark?
I don't know where ebay would be if it couldn't use the brand names of other companies on its site, but the same logic doesn't appear to have occurred to its lawyers as it demands that Google cease allowing advertisers to use the eBay name in their ads. More...
Search Engines: Weblog Search Engines
Short article that reviews major blog search engines. Though the author lists some major sites, such as DayPop, Blogdex and Feedster, some major indices are overlooked, including Blogstreet, Memufacture, PopDex, Bloglines and Technorati. Some minor indices listed in the article include Detold Blawg Search, Eatonweb PortalEatonweb Portal, and Globe of Blogs. SchoolBlogs is an important site for educational blogs, as are the Educational Bloggers Network and Edublog News. And of course I would be remiss if I left my own Edu-RSS off this list. More...
3 F's, They're Out: Edison Sees Shake-up
The problems continue at Edison Schools, the private company hired to manage public schools in Philadelphia and other American cities. It turns out that you can't just hire anybody off the street: you need quality teachers. More...
METS: An Overview & Tutorial
This is a very interesting specification. The Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) is intended to describe the structural properties of digital resources. Why is this necessary. More...
Who's Watching the Class? Webcams in Schools Raise Privacy Issue
Everyone else must live under video surveillance, argues this article, so why shouldn't school children? "It helps honest people be more honest," says district Superintendent Larry Drawdy. More...
Let's Tie the Digital Knot
This article is five years old but it is fundamentally right and well worth repeating in the context of the current debate about teachers' use of technology. In particular, as was commented to me yesterday, "most virtual classrooms and computer facilitated learning looks to education like the horseless carriage looked to the old buggies - cosmetically different." I agree. More...
The Digital Optimist
"A journalist by trade," George Lorenzo reports on trends he observed while conducting research for an article on e-learning. Most of what he reports is consistent with my own observations, and a few of his points are worth noting. More...
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