Computer Makers Adapt Laptops for Tough School Market
We are nearing the crossing point in the technology exchange between computers and textbooks (the crossing point is that point in the price or sales graph where a rising technology's line crosses that of a declining technology's). More...

Wikis Described in Plain English
Someone yesterday wrote asking what a wiki is. Thanks to George Siemens (who must read the Stephen's Web discussion area) this account is a great introduction. More...

Giving It Away (for Fun and Profit)
Good introductory account to the idea of Creative Commons and especially the idea that sharing content does not mean giving up on any hope of an income. More...

Translate This Blog
It was a nice idea, but based on the comments in my Discussion area (remember, you can always comment by clicking on the [Reflect] link after each post) as well as emails sent to me overnight I am declaring the translation experiment to be an unmitigated failure. More...

The Internet's Wilder Side
Inter-Relay Chat, or IRC, is one of the internet's older services. At any given time, according to this article, about 500,000 people may be using it to exchange ideas or, in some cases, software, MP3s and video files. More...

Analyst: Expect a 64-Bit Desktop by 2006
Every once in a while I write about 64-bit computing, a development that is taking much longer to roll out than I expected (my prediction in my 1998 paper was 'a few years' and I have since predicted 2004 or 2005). More...

Commonwealth of Learning Conference
More links from the Commonwealth of Learning online conference, which today continues with discussions of open content and open source, resistance to technology and the use of blogs in learning: Planet Apache, a collection of blogs written by members of the Apache Software Foundation (an Open Source software development community). More...

Beyond Band: Music Technology Inspires Students
When I was in high school, I decided I wanted to be in the school band. Not being especially musical, I chose to play drums. The day came for band practice, and I was given a kettle drum and some sticks, put in the 'Drum Room' and told to practice, which I did, all by myself for a couple of hours. My tenure with the school band lasted through three days of this. More...

New Version of UK Education Metadata Profile Released
A new version of the UK Learning Object Metadata core (UK LOM Core) has been released. UK LOM is an application profile of the IEEE-LOM standard (just as, say, CanCore is) for use by British educational institutions. More...

Instructional Design for Flow in Online Teaching
This isn't a bad article and the advice is reasonable, if bland, consisting of practical tips to effective course design. This isn't about the mechanics of how to design a course, but rather, the cultuvation of effective work habits. But, as I say, bland. More...