By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Audio of OSN 2005 Keynote
I will be participating in the Online Social Networks conference as a last minute educational stream addition. This page links to an MP3 of a converstaion among keynotes Howard Rheingold, Lisa Kimball, and Joi Ito. Neat idea. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Distributed Engagement With Courses and Other Units of Learning
Scott Wilson pushes the concept forward a notch, discussing the array of services that would be needed to support an online course - or as he has decided to call it, a "shared learning context". More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 43 Things Amazon Conspiracy
There was a social networking meme that went around a few weeks ago called '43 Things' - the idea is that you would form online groups dedicated to doing one of the 43 things would would like to do. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Educational Metadata FAQ launched
Coverage of the newly launched educational metadata FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions). I toodled around in the site for a while, and while the information appears accurate, it's pretty basic. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. ANT
The multimedia revolution continues with the introduction of ANT - currently for Apple computers only - which is in essence a podcasting tool for video. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Why This Internet Thing is Just Starting
So I'm on the 27th floor of a hotel in downtown Montreal, wrapping up early because I have a flight back to Moncton this evening, and outside my window I see nothing but white. The Air Canada website says my flight is on time, which is no doubt a hopeful fabrication. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. CiteULike and Connotea: Linklogging Goes Academic
Mostly a discussion of CiteULike, a system that "lets you build a 'personal library' recording bibliographic information and enabling you to tag papers for future retrieval and group sharing." Of course, that's how OLDaily started - as the output from the links I was saving for my own reference. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Students Forced to Carry RFIDs
It is, I suppose, no surprise to find the surveillance society being unrolled first in schools. What is troublesome, of course, is the inevitable drive to use a system that is intended to protect students as a means of controlling students. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Poking Around Weather via WAP/WML
I keep planning WAP / WML versions of this newsletter and Edu_RSS; I'm not sure how useful that woiuld be but I would like to provide the option. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Blogs @ Middlebury College
Interesting description with links to a description of blogging in learning as used by Middlebury College in combination with a content management system (CMS). More...
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