Corante on Blogging
After much urging (including a missive from your truely) Corante has finally added RSS feeds for its regular blogs. There's a full list here; some of them will be added to Edu_RSS. More...

The Roadmap to Redesign
We can forgive, I guess, the Center for Academic Transformation for its use of a now cliched phrase in its title. More...

The Algebra of RSS Feeds
Useful first steps toward defining a notation for the manipulation of the contents of RSS feeds, including accounts of feed splitting, splicing, subtracting and more. More...

Actionable Sense, Networks and Purpose
Interesting item, based on the concept that "meaning and full extension of skills (and self, too) occur within the social context of a project that has a contextual and social purpose - an objective to focus the deployment of skills. Then we have actionable sense." This idea is used to defined the development of 'ad hoc networks' that collect those skills within an organization that can meet the stated objective. More...

How Boring is the E-Learning Market
Reflections from an e-learning conference held recently in Britain. Cynical reflections. "The industry stages very predictable events where: publishers argue that there should be more emphasis on e-learning content; software companies argue that there should be more emphasis on tools; and learning theorists want to see more collaboration between learners and more attention on 'pedagogy' in general." Yup. More...

Truth about High School
An unpopular high school validictorian, elected as a joke, tells it like it is. "I am not the most popular person, not even close," he wrote. More...

College to Address Copyright
It won't be business as usual next year at Ithaca College as instructors will now have to obtain copyright clearance for materials traditionally shared - legally, they thought (probably correctly), under fair use - in student course packs. In addition to the cost, instructors will now have to spend a certain amount of time each year chasing down permissions for thirty or more items. More...

Hung Out to Dry by the Sponsors
With WalMart selling sanitized versions of music and video and greater corporate influence reaching intoi affairs of academia and culture, it's worth looking at this cautionary tale about what happens when creativity pushes the edge in a sponsored world. More...

Does the End Justify the Means?
This response to David Weinberger and Doc Searls's article 'World of Ends' challenges some now popular opinions, and especially the idea that value in a network is created at the end, not the middle. More...

Ed Blogging 2003
Some highlights for the year in the world of Ed-Blogging. I don't agree with the picks, but hey, if I don't like them, as they say, I should write my own - this is the blogosphere after all. More...