Humanoid Robot Conducts Beethoven Symphony
We may not have robot teachers yet, but we have robotic conductors. More...

Distance Education in Turkey
Good survey article that shouldn't contain any surprises for readers but manages to back up intuitions with solid data. The Turkish distance education has focused traditionally on mass instruction with one-way broadcasting. More...

Project-based Distrubuted Learning and Adult Learners
I have always been partial to project based learning - some of my most cherished memories in education are of the elaborate projects I put together while in school. This paper describes project based learning, outlining briefly some founding literature, and considers the application of project based learning in a distributed environment. More...

Degussa AG Will Work on USC 'House-Printing' Project
This is pretty interesting: a system that will 'print out' an entire house in hours (furniture and house pets extra). More...

Blogs Put Developers in Microsoft 'Cockpit'
When I flew back from Phoenix last least I was able to listen to 'Channel 9' on the internal sound system. Instead of music or business programming, the staples of in-flight fare (remember: your tax dollars subsidize business class passengers), I got to listen to all cockpit communications. More...

Pulitzer Prizes Show Strength of Big Journalism
The Pulitizers are announced and Dan Gillmor points to the winners - all from major newspapers - as evidence that traditional journalism is better than blogs, asking whether readers think bloggers "could pull off" the sort of work demonstrated by the winners. I don't know. More...

L'état, C'est Moi
A system of public education should have as its primary objective the teaching of means and mechanisms of interaction with others in a maximally harmonious network of distinct and autonomous individuals. More...

Navigating the Children's Media Landscape: A Parent's and Caregiver's Guide
Children today live in a media rich world. This guide helps parents navigate that world. Especially useful are the links to resources and the media awareness development charts. The report is balanced, with a focus on parental awareness of the child's media space and on the importance of media literacy for children. More...

Digital Saskatchewan
This is the kind of project I love, the kind of thing I think makes the web insanely great. Digital Saskatechewan is an image library of some 7,000 photos created by and for the students and teachers of Saskatchewan. Most photos are offered under a Creative Commons license; the rest are public domain. More...

RSS and Education
Again I have to enter my email address to see the piece, a needless annoyance, but I could not resist viwing the WWWTools take on one of my favororite subjects, RSS and education. More...