Alt-I-Lab Results: Mind the Gap...
Wilbert Kraan summarizes the recent Alt-I-Lab meetings in San Francisco. The gap is "between user expectation of interoperability and reality." From where I stand, what's happening here can be summed up with this sentence: "The final concern raised last year - just build stuff - stop making new specs - doesn't appear to have had much traction." Basically, the report describes a bunch of beginnings... but that's it. More...
MSN NewsBot
Microsoft has launched a beta version of what it calls NewsBot - essentially a clone of Google News (and another recommender style news service, but I forget the name of it off the top of ny head). The The UK version has been around since last year some time. More...
701 Tips for e-Learning
On the one hand, reading this book is addictive; I was up to tip number 70 or so before I realized I had been drawn in. On the other hand, the staccato delivery wears a little thin; by tip number 70 I realized it wasn't going to draw to anything like a conclusion. More...
Three Reasons to Publish an E-Newsletter AND a Blog
I ask this question from the opposite perspective - given that I have RSS feeds, Javascript feeds and a webpage, why do I continue to publish the email newsletter? And of course the answer is that the majority of my (known) readers sontinue to do it by email. More...
When the Convention is a Classroom
When the Progressive Conservatives held their convention in Ottawa to elect Joe Clark their leader and eventual Prime Minister, it was a great learning experience for me. Aside from listening to the delegates and touring the booths (Flora Macdonald gave me an apple) I took home a ransom of souvineers - buttons, posters, banners, and one delegate. More...
More RSS Joins for the Ocotillo Action Groups
The experiment continues and the Small Pieces Loosely Joined is beginning to illustrate the sort of complexity and sophistication possible with low-tech low-control processes. These systems will soon outstrip the capacity of any centralized learning management system (imagine trying to centrally administer each cell in the growth of a tree, or each stream in the flowing of a river system). More...
Aix Marseille Université (Amu) va s’allier avec sept autres universités européennes autour d’un projet commun : la création d’une Université Civique Européenne.
L’idée est née d’une collaboration avec des établissements d’Allemagne (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen), de Belgique (Université Libre de Bruxelles), d’Espagne (Université autonome de Madrid), de Grèce (Université Kapodistrian), d’Italie (Université de Roma la Sapienza), de Roumanie (Université de Bucarest) et de Suède (Université de Stockholm). Plus...
University students in France listed and ranked Jewish classmates according to their level of affiliation as part of a string of jokes online and on campus featuring anti-Semitic hate speech, an alleged victim of this behaviour said, reports the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.Professor Rosa Freedman of the University of Reading says she has been treated like a “pariah” by some academics, students and trans activists as a result of being one of a number of feminist academics expressing concerns about proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act that would make it easier for trans people to have their preferred gender legally recognised, writes Anna Fazackerley for The Guardian. More...The world’s battle to provide education for all rages on and now technology companies are joining the fray, helping thousands of young women in underdeveloped countries achieve what had, until recently, been deemed almost impossible: the chance to attend university, writes Bianca Barratt for Forbes. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
