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14 juin 2019

The Future of Blogging

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Catherine Howell[Edit][Delete]: The Future of Blogging, EDUCAUSE Blogs [Edit][Delete] February 16, 2006
"I HAD TO run a few errands downtown, but I hesitated to go. What if I ran into bloggers?" Interesting. After a recent meetup, Catherine Howell comments, "What was strange was the speed with which our offline interaction was documented, editorialised, and re-presented online. Suddenly our offline meeting had a doppelganger: its online presence or artefacts." Yes, but it's more than that. Not just that as the meetup fades into memory, the artefacts keep it alive. I have always lived my life more or less in public, for various reasons. That's why the blogging, sometimes unexpectedly, of my life doesn't faze me. More...

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14 juin 2019

Mastering Ajax

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Brett McLaughlin[Edit][Delete]: Mastering Ajax, IBM Developer Works [Edit][Delete] February 16, 2006
This series is now up to three parts (Part One, Part Two, Part Three) and while it's pretty technical (read: if you don't code, you won't like it) it is a pretty sound technical introduction to the new read-write capabilities of the web. For me, well, this is just the sort of link I like to have handy. Also, on a completely unrelated note: Developing games with Perl and SDL. More...

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14 juin 2019

The (Digital) Library Environment: Ten Years After

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Lorcan Dempsey[Edit][Delete]: The (Digital) Library Environment: Ten Years After, Ariadne [Edit][Delete]ARIADNE [Edit][Delete] February 16, 2006
Good article, from the recent issue of Ariadne, summarizing the evolution of library services in the digital age. What I appreciate most of all, I think, is the understanding in this article that library services need to become dynamic and integrated into the flow of a person's online experience, "supporting the remix of content and services in user environments, and developing digital curation services." There is an enormous need for intelligent information flows - consider this newsletter, for example, which serves just such a purpose. More...

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14 juin 2019

Rx for NB Learning

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Harold Jarche[Edit][Delete]: Rx for NB Learning, February 16, 2006
Harold Jarche and I share similar views on how the New Brunswick e-learning industry should proceed. "This Province has the resources, and connections, to create an environment that is friendly for start-ups, especially those that don't require huge sums of money (e.g. Flickr before it sold to Yahoo). This flies in the face of efforts to attract larger companies that can offer more jobs to local people. I believe that using the 'job' as an economic indicator is a crucial flaw in our economic development policy. Instead, we should be helping to create many small, innovative companies. This will foster a more diverse economic foundation, where one failure will not bring down the entire industry. More...

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14 juin 2019

Student Achievement and Technology

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Christopher D. Sessums[Edit][Delete]: Student Achievement and Technology, Christopher D. Sessums : Weblog [Edit][Delete] February 17, 2006
I agree with the sentiments expressed in this post. Asked whether technology improves student learning, the first response may be to say that there are other factors involved, and then to hunt about for those surveys that point to a grade increase. But this is the correct response: "Because the technology becomes part of a complex network of changes, its impact cannot be reduced to a simple cause-and-effect model that would provide a definitive answer to how it has improved student achievement. More...

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14 juin 2019

Rails' Ridiculous Restrictions, a Rant

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. a Hack[Edit][Delete]: Rails' Ridiculous Restrictions, a Rant, The Joel on Software Discussion Group [Edit][Delete] February 17, 2006
Readers will be aware of my explorations of Ruby on Rails last fall, a project I eventually abandoned. This article nicely illustrates in a manner much better than I could the reasons why. Starting with: "Rails doesn't play well. With anyone. Not even itself." Also, "Rails has no manual. Let me repeat that: Rails has no manual. If you haven't used Rails, you may not believe me. Well, go visit the Rails documentation page. Hmmm ... We have APIs, Tutorials, HowTos, Snippets, but no manuals. More...

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14 juin 2019

TCEA Shows Ed Tech's Wild Side

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Robert Brumfield[Edit][Delete]: TCEA Shows Ed Tech's Wild Side, ESchool News [Edit][Delete] February 17, 2006
Conference overview - if you can overview 13,000 educators, students, and exhibitors, hundreds of presentations and 700 exhibits in a three page article. The main highlight (other than a motivational speaker who tells people without money not to be poor) is the introduction of the term "techno-traditionalism" in a talk by Tony Brewer, "which brings tech into play when it's needed to engage kids in the learning process." Yeah, ok. Whatever. More...

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14 juin 2019

Closing Its Doors in 12 Days

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Christian Long[Edit][Delete]: think:lab Closing Its Doors in 12 Days, think:lab [Edit][Delete] February 17, 2006
Christian Long has decided to shut down his blog. "when a 'successful' blog simply becomes better and better at 'Hey, look at my links!', and doesn't fulfill its genetic promise to be a collectively-owned conversation that ebbs and flows like a young river growing larger and larger as its meander pulls in the river bank little by little until its a wiser and more powerful river following its destined call towards the larger seas... then something precious is getting lost." That's an awful lot to ask of a blog, or of anything, for that matter. More...

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14 juin 2019

educate/innovate

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Greg Ritter[Edit][Delete]: educate/innovate, February 22, 2006
As Scott Leslie informs us, Blackboard's Greg Ritter (and others at Blackboard) has picked up his blogging quill again. Why? Maybe this, from the most recent post: "We put out a poll for Bb clients on the topic they were most interested in discussing during our Bb World '06 Birds of a Feather sessions. The most popular session, hands down, was 'Blogs, Podcasting, RSS and Wiki' according to the votes. It prompted me to ask: What's the big deal with blogs, etc...? How are they important to e-learning?". More...

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14 juin 2019

Open Source and Trading Standards

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Stuart Yeates[Edit][Delete]: Open Source and Trading Standards, EDUCAUSE Blogs [Edit][Delete] February 22, 2006
Interesting observation about the sale of open source software. "If Mozilla permit the sale of copied versions of its software, it makes it virtually impossible for us, from a practical point of view, to enforce UK anti-piracy legislation, as it is difficult for us to give general advice to businesses over what is/is not permitted." Right. Because as Stuart Yeates says, "open source is eroding the nice easy simplifications of copyright law that people have been working by, mistaking their simplifications for law". More...

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