DMCA Hammer Comes Down on Tech Service Vendor
The question you need to ask when you read this short is item is this: are you willing to buy a product from a provider who uses the Digitral Millenium Copyright Act to enforce a monopoly on servicing your hardware. More...
Levels of Technology Implementation (LoTi) Breakdown
This taxonomy of technology integration is designed specifically for the instructional context and provides examples and links. Very teacher-centered. Oh, if I could only reword the highest level. More...
Household Internet Use Survey
Margot Chiasson (she's still out there - yay!) summarizes this nicely: The Household Internet Survey results for 2003 were released by Stats Canada on July 8. Use of high speed Internet from home increased from 56% last year to 65% in 2003. An increase is reported in most provinces but the biggest proportional increase is reported in the Atlantic provinces. More...
Wiki for Free Culture
Creative Commons has started a wiki looking at the idea of how to provide access to Creative Commons materials. More...
Assessing Discursive Writing
What I have tried to do in this paper is mostly to describe the way I mark papers (and these days, criticize blog posts - and of course I wonder what sort of mark I would give my own paper...). But as in everything, I do it this way because I think it ought to be done this way. More...
eScholarship Title List
437 books, released for free public online access, by University of California Press, following, as Peter Suber notes, the pioneering lead of the National Academy Press, though while the latter is in PDF, the University of California Press is in HTML and hence is much easier to read online. More...
Democracy in the Balance
Not quite my usual fare, but I wanted to share this article that identifies many of my concerns, concerns I feel not just when I look south of the border but also when I look at the environment here at home. More...
Ethiopian Teacher Education Portal
This site is a trove of information about teaching and for teachers in Ethiopia. The site contains news, information, links and more, including resources for the Teacher Development Program (TDP) and for the Teacher Education System Overhaul (TESO) program. Built with PostNuke, it recently won a Gold Award for Ethiopian websites. More...
Lord of the Rings Domain Fight Enters Realms of Fantasy
J.R.R. Tolkien's books will not pass into the public domain for decades, and the movies will take even longer, but the studio's and publisher's assertion that they own the rights to the word 'Shire' ought not last much beyond next Tuesday. More...
UK Department for Education and Skills Hosts Launch of LAMS Roadmap
Big news today as the roadmap for the development of LAMS - the Learning Activity Management System (LAMS) - is announced by the UK Department for Education and Skills (DfES) and its inventor, James Dalziel of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. More...
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