By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Miguel Guhlin[Edit][Delete]: Freedom, Around the Corner [Edit][Delete] June 27, 2006
Heh. "TOR is a routing technology that encrypts and routes your Internet traffic through a number of TOR servers before the traffic reaches its destination. Privoxy is a proxy server that helps protect your Internet privacy by removing or obscuring various content, such as your DNS queries, browser type, OS type, and more. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Clarence Fisher[Edit][Delete]: Video: Innovation and Creativity in Schools, Remote Access [Edit][Delete] June 27, 2006
Some thoughts on creativity by Sir Ken Robinson: "Creativity is as important as literacy and should have the same status... If you are not prepared to be wrong, you will not do anything original... Education has strip mined our minds like we do the earth for particular commodities. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Stephen Downes[Edit][Delete]: Networks - Revisiting Objective/Subjective..., Half an Hour [Edit][Delete] June 27, 2006
So anyhow, George Siemens's post on subjectivity and objectivity, written a couple weeks ago, showed up in front of me again today, and being in that sort of frame of mind, I ended up writing about this instead of working. Tomorrow I'll get back to working again - those forms aren't going to fill themselves, you know! In the meantime - enjoy my discussion. [Tags: Connectivism, Networks] [Comment]. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Joachim Niemeier[Edit][Delete]: Social Bookmarking: Pushing Collaboration to the Edge, 7 Days and More [Edit][Delete] June 26, 2006
Social bookmarking, social networks - the discussion continues. Social bookmarking fosters collaboration in resource discovery. Also, harnessing collective innovation with web 2.0. Also, five sites you need to know in social networking. Miguel Guhlin links to the Wikipedia list of social networking sites. "MySpace shows 86 million users, Facebook shows 7 million, Bebo shows 22 million, and Flickr shows 2.5 million." You may also want to look at a blog from PARC called PlayOn, which looks at the social dimension of virtual worlds. FutureLab (via Scott Leslie) offers a longish look at the topic. Well written and clear, it defines social software (via Stowe Boyd and Clay Shirkey), looks at audio-visual and other implementations, and then asks, does learning change in an information society (hint: yes). More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Tony Hirst[Edit][Delete]: Dynamic To Do Lists, OUseful Info [Edit][Delete] June 26, 2006
This is something that appeals to me - the use of RSS to do more than merely deliver content. Tony Hirst captures this thought in this post. "What I like the idea is of adaptively generating the to do list for each user, providing links to things users may need as they are likely to need them". More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Mike Malloch[Edit][Delete]: An Interesting Conversation..., eLearning 2.0 [Edit][Delete] June 26, 2006
I'v never liked the use of use cases in software design, mostly because they tie the design to specific tasks. Well, comes the rejoinder, you need to know what you want your software to do. Sure. But what users want to do is a different matter altogether. "In the real-world users are almost always doing 'other things' when they come to use a bit of software." Exactly. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Liz Johnson[Edit][Delete]: Managing Intellectual Property for Distance Learning, EDUCAUSE Quarterly [Edit][Delete] June 26, 2006
Note that the University System of Georgia secures a license through a copyright holder only as a last resort - public domain, TEACH Act and fair use are all preferable alternatives. Which means that if the needed materials are available (and discoverable) through the public domain, commercial content can be avoided entirely. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Jeremy Hiebert[Edit][Delete]: Informal Learning Practices, HeadsPaceJ [Edit][Delete] June 26, 2006
Jeremy Hiebert has been looking into informal learning. The first paper, published in 2000, is an extensive survey of adultg learning in Canada and shows that Canadians are extensively involved in it (15 hours a week), want explicit recognition of this work, and are generally underemployed with respect to their informal credentials. He also links to Self-Direction in Adult Learning, a book on the subject from 1991. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Jeremy Hiebert[Edit][Delete]: Engagement with Electronic Portfolios, HeadsPaceJ [Edit][Delete] June 26, 2006
Catching up on e-portfolios. In this item Jeremy Hiebert links to a paper that looks at how students use them (rather than how institutions iuse them) looking at experiences at UBC and Waterloo. Also, from Sheffield Hallam University, see this description of their e-portfolio project. Meanwhile, Helen Barrett offers some responses to enquiries on e-portfolios - good, detailed introductory items with links and resources. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Jeff Jarvis[Edit][Delete]: Advertisers: You're Next, BuzzMachine [Edit][Delete] June 26, 2006
I don't want to miss pointing to this item on the decline of the advertising industry, taken from presentations at a recent conference in Cannes. The article is ripe with advice for educators, particularly those who are invested in large or slow educational institutions. Trust me. And changes may be closer than you think: "For a decade the marketing world has been wondering when the digital revolution would finally cut into networks' upfront payday. The smart money says this is shaping up to be the year, and TV's take could be down as much as $600 million. More...