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14 juin 2019

Youth Risk Online: An Overview

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Nancy Willard[Edit][Delete]: Youth Risk Online: An Overview, Education World [Edit][Delete] September 15, 2006
Nancy Willard, who has been writing quality posts about related issues in discussion lists for years, is writing a series of articles on internet risks for children in Education World. The first item is a list of these risks. I think we need to look at this list fairly carefully. we need to ask, is the risk unique to the internet? Is the stress on the internet risk downplaying a real-life risk (for example, does it make children think that the risk of adult predators is higher on the internet than in the home, when the reverse is the case)? Is the risk even a risk, or is it just some sort of imposed morality (let's analyze - are teenage 'hook-ups' a real risk, or just morally frowned upon). More...
14 juin 2019

The Geniuses

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Charles Storch[Edit][Delete]: The Geniuses, Chicago Tribune [Edit][Delete] September 15, 2006
Just for the record, I didn't receive the call. It must be because I was on the road, or something. I have long thought something like this should replace those big job creation projects. If you apply, and have a reasonable plan, you get one government grant. Sometimes you don't even have to apply, you just get it. But that's it. If you waste it, and your company folds, that's it. You don't get another grant. More...
14 juin 2019

The Future of learning in a Networked World

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Various authors[Edit][Delete]: The Future of learning in a Networked World, September 15, 2006
OK, getting ready for the next amazing event, the Future of learning in a Networked World unconference in New Zealand. This main link is to the conference wiki. Also, some Maori greetings. Also, some audio on the conference. More...
14 juin 2019

RDA: Resource Description and Access

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Various authors[Edit][Delete]: RDA: Resource Description and Access, Joint Steering Committee [Edit][Delete] September 15, 2006
More evidence that people don't listen to me. (*wry grin*) I have written and spoken about the difference between syntacti standards (which are about structure and how things fit together) and semantic standard (which aRE about meanings). Syntactic standards work fine, because you're not committing yourself to an ontology, world view, religion, science or whatever. Semantic standards fair for precisely the same reason. So when someone says (as does Robina Clayphan in an email) "There is more to creating useful metadata than URIs, schemas and syntax. More...
14 juin 2019

How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Stephen Downes[Edit][Delete]: How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly, Half an Hour [Edit][Delete] September 15, 2006
I wrote this in Johannesburg airport instead of doing work. "I am, in fact, a fairly prolific writer... part of it is a simple strategy for writing you essays and articles quickly and expertly, a strategy that allows you to plan your entire essay as you write it, and thus to allow you to make your first draft your final draft. This article describes that strategy." Enjoy - I might add some bolding and formatting, if the article needs it. [Tags: ] [Comment] [Edit]. More...
14 juin 2019

Diddy

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Stephen Downes[Edit][Delete]: Diddy, Half an Hour [Edit][Delete] September 15, 2006
If you haven't been following my articles on my other blog, you will want to have a look at Diddy (though as I write Blogger is suffering a spectacular server failure). I also have a few photos posted - it has been a while since I had bandwidth so photos are limited; also Microsoft Windows burped and ate all my Kruger national Park photos (the 'sort by' operation failed and the FAT was corrupted - only Windows could manage something like that). So now I'm trying to retrieve them from the flash memory cards. [Tags: , , ] [Comment]. More...
14 juin 2019

WWW Applications - Bloemfontein

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Stephen Downes[Edit][Delete]: WWW Applications - Bloemfontein, September 15, 2006
I had a nice time in the Free State capital of Bloemfontein, where I conducted a preconference workshop September 5 and a keynote address September 6. The workshop, E-Learning 2.0: Tools and Topics, was based on my wiki presentation, though to be honest, we hardly touched the wiki. That said, the live Skypecast worked beautifully. Here's the audio: part one (14 meg), part two (8 meg), part three (24 meg). The keynote the next day was a different matter. we made some slight changes to the Skypecast, so it became a bit of a debugging exercise. No problem, we just did it on stage while I gave my keynote. It was a bit chaotic, but a perfect example of living your learning. Here are the slides and here is audio file (39 K, sorry, it's direct from the iRiver) of the keynote. [Tags: ] [Comment]. More...
14 juin 2019

IT Integrator's Conference

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Stephen Downes[Edit][Delete]: IT Integrator's Conference, September 15, 2006
I am in North Sydney, as you may have guessed from the song lyrics, and I had fun today giving two talks. The first, my keynote (slides and audio) was on the topic of blogs and learning, and afforded me a nice opportunity to merge some thoughts on the role of blogs in learning with the idea of blog objects as words in a conversation. An hour later I was on the podium again, this time giving a no holds barred address on the subject of copyright, theft, and digital rights management (slides and audio). Note: I'm having trouble uploading the audio - so if it's not there, give it a bit and try again. [Tags: , , , , ] [Comment]. More...
14 juin 2019

Bogota

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Stephen Downes[Edit][Delete]: Bogota, Google Video [Edit][Delete] September 15, 2006
Today is a banner day. For the last four weeks, I have been working on a video recounting my experiences in Bogota. I managed to get it to upload onto Google Video today. It's not perfect - you'll spot some flaws pretty easily - and it would be nice to have edited it more, but they're right. A laptop isn't really a video editing tool. But it's what I've got. Also, this is my first video that I created and edited by myself (I used Adobe Premier Elements). I had to teach myself how to create it as I created it. Learning in action. But this is what I mean - the tools for content creation are in the hands of the people now. Anyhow, despite any flaws it may have, I'm very proud of it. I hope you enjoy it. Let it buffer for a bit; it's 30 minutes long. You can also read the transcript on my blog. [Tags: , , , ] [Comment]. More...
14 juin 2019

D2L Counterclaim

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Various authors[Edit][Delete]: D2L Counterclaim, D2L [Edit][Delete] September 15, 2006
Desire2Learn has filed its counterclaim against Blackboard in the recent lawsuit. "Blackboard's failure to disclose the Undisclosed e-Learning Products to the Patent Office was intentional and done with deceptive intent." Also, "On information and belief, Blackboard's failure to disclose the IMS Specification to the Patent Office was intentional and done with deceptive intent. More...
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