We the Media
If you're looking for a good week-end read, you won't go wrong with Dan Gillmor's We the Media. This site is a blog supporting the book; the entire book is available online in the left-hand column. Gillmor's book documents the transition from media as produced by large, centralized news agencies to news as produced by the people who read or view the news. More...
Language Barriers
When I was a child I learned that there were six colours in the spectrum. I even learned a little rhyme to help me remember. Red and orange, green and blue, shining yellow, purple too, all the colours that we know, live up in the rainbow. Somewhere along the line, someone added a colour: indigo. Ask me today what colour something is and I'll probably use one of the words in my rhyme. Indigo? Never use it, never even see it. More...
Boxing and the Cool Halls of Academe
Hockey is a lot like boxing - close enough that some wags say the two are indistinguishable - and if there are lessons to be learned in boxing, the same lessons are available to be learned in hockey. At any rate, like the author, many of my own life experiences were shaped in the arena, and while my hockey career was completely undistinguished, I would never have traded it for anything. More...
P2P Services in the Clear
A huge victory for file sharing. "Peer-to-peer file-sharing services Morpheus and Grokster are legal, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday." The article continues, "The decision is a blow for record labels and movie studios which sued the peer-to-peer operators claiming that the services should be held liable for the copyright infringement of their users." It is refreshing to see a court finally line up with reason. More...
Welcome to VideoPaper Builder 2
This interesting item came through DLORN from MERLOT (I would observe that the definition of learning objects being collected by these systems is very loose indeed). More...
Messenger Taps Social Nets
This is being protrayed as an enterprise story but the technique could - and should - be applied to personal learning. Basically, the idea is that you belong to a social network, and can contact the members by instant messenger. If you send a question to your network, the system examines the profiles of the members and sends it to the person most likely to have the answer. More...
The Design Elements of Web-Based Learning Environments
The August edition of the International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning is now out. I include three items. This first item is a fairly straight-forward outline of the elements of an online course as can be found in the literature. When reading this, contrast it with the iLEARN example a couple of links down. More...
Some Clarifications About the Commonwealth List
Glenn O. Brown responds to the criticisms of the Creative Commonwealth proposal highlighted in this space (and echoed by a number of commentators) last Wednesday. His first point is that "It is never a foregone conclusion that a project in discussion will be adopted by Creative Commons." This gives me some hope. More...
Instructional Technology Institute
I will be giving a keynote at this conference the first few days of September hosted by David Wiley (who I'm looking forward to finally meeting) in Logan, Utah. Looks like a great program, opening the first day with a talk by Lawrence Lessig. More...
Reading: Barabasi, Linked: The New Science of Networks
Found while looking for an image from the book, a nice set of notes summarizing Albert-Laszlo Barabasi's Linked: The New Science of Networks (Perseus, 2002). This book is well worth reading if you haven't seen it yet. More...
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