MS DRM is Pure Smoke
I was pretty sure that somebody, sooner or later, would crack the digital rights management (DRM) in Microsoft's WindowsMedia 9 format. What I didn't expect was for it to be this easy. No confirmation yet, but: the DRM was, according to this report, vanquished with freely available code, no reverse engineering, and no key. More...
The Case for Patterns in Online Learning
Interesting accout of the use of patterns - "a generic approach to solving a particular problem that can be tailored to specific cases" - in online learning. More...
AOL Cuts Remaining Mozilla Hackers
It pains me to report this, but AOL is killing Netscape, ending the browser war that began seven or eight years ago when Microsoft launched Internet Explorer. On the heels of a settlement with Microsoft, AOL is, in a mass layoff, terminating the Netscape project. More...
RJC Video Throws Up IT Dilemma: Was Student Using Technology In The Correct Way?
This is interesting. "In the RJC incident, the student was reported as having used a handphone camera to film a teacher berating a classmate for a piece of work that had apparently not been done satisfactorily. The teacher was also captured on film when she — in a dramatic finale to her outburst — tore up the student’s work." The questions asked in the article get to the heart of the student-teacher relationship. More...
Adaptive Patterns in Authoring of Educational Adaptive Hypermedia
The idea of adaptive hypermedia is that online content would personalize its display given information about the viewer. If (writes the author) a student displays no motivation to learn the chiaroscuro technique, then on detecting this, the system would display a Rembrandt painting, "with the hope that seeing such a great painting will motivate them." The example is a little far-fetched. More...
Create and Sell Your Own books Using True Print-on-Demand Technology
It hasn't quite launched yet (take-off is July 28) but CafePress has launched an initiative that should give publishers pause: a means for writers to publish and sell their own books. More...
Welcome to (Company Name Here) High™
In the wake of recent efforts in the United States to make it harder to use schools to sell junk food to children (at last) comes a more sweeping idea: remove the commercialism from schools. Corporate sponsorship is everywhere: sponsored field trips, sponsored classroom materials, and more. More...
Adaptive Hypermedia
Yesterday I linked to a short article about adaptive hypermedia. Today's link is to a much more thorough examination of the same subject by the same author, in the form of a Power Point presentation. More...
Government of Canada Newsroom (Phase II)
Funny how things work. Yesterday I asked a questions, to which a reader responded and, in passing, suggested I visit the Canada website. I haven't been there for a while, so I did, and as I passed the news page, I sent a suggestion about formatting. More...
IMS and OKI, the Wire and the Socket
Description of progress in MIT's Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI). It is important to recognize, reports the author, that OKI is not an open source learning environment. Nor is it even an architecture, though as the author note, OKI's layer-cake archietcture has become famous. More...
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