Internet Filters Shouldn't Bring Religious Bias
As schools increasingly turn to online resources the question of filtering inappropriate resources is inevitable. But, according to the author, some schools, by turning over filtering to private agencies, are transgressing the limits established by the various book banning cases of the last few decades. More...

SCORM Dynamic Appearance Model
SCORM v1.2 does not define the separation of appearance from content. This paper proposes a method for separating the navigation and the appearance (look and feel) elements from the underlying content in SCORM. This approach, named SCORM Dynamic Appearance Model, introduces a new paradigm for e-Learning content development that integrates the work currently in progress on sequencing and navigation. More...

Pay for Content? Whaddya, Nuts?
I'm not sure how concerned educational content vendors are about the reluctance of web users to pay for content online, but they should be as many of the same factors are in play (for example: why would someone pay an online university simply to access content when they can obtain MIT content for free?). More...

Bloglet
For those of you who maintain weblogs (aka blogs) this service will allow readers to subscribe to your blog and receive updates by email. I have always wondered why Blogger didn't provide this service - I can think of a half dozen blogs I would like to subscribe to. More...

Early Scores on SAT Test Posted Online for a Price
I think that there's something just wrong about this: for an extra fee, students can now register online and obtain their SAT scores early. More...

Welcome to Your Future Internet
This article is a little pie-in-the-sky but as the opening paragraph says, somewhere in the world some people are doing these things right now. What things. More...

DigitalConsumer.org
In response to the increasingly restrictive conditions placed on the use of digital materials demanded by publishers, a newly formed group, DigitalConsumer.org, is advocating a Consumer Technology Bill of Rights that will positively assert a consumer's rights to fair use. More...

Click Lit Hm.
This is a technology that looks like it will be neatly in place just at about the same time it becomes obsolete. The idea of publishing on demand has been around for a while - I can remember Xerox pitching it hard about four years ago - but the technologies needed to make it actually work are only now coming into place. More...

ICT Advice
A new service launched this month to provide help and tools for classroom teachers, senior managers, subject co-ordinators and ICT co-ordinators in the UK. An interesting approach: I liked the "ask an expert" feature where each topic is supported with a panel of people ready with answers. More...

Web Site Lets Kentucky Parents Check Teachers' Credentials
This is interesting. Kentucky parents and citizens now can search a single web site to find out the credentials of every public school teacher in the state using the Kentucky Educational Professional Standards Board (EPSB) Teacher Certification Inquiry web site. More...