Speak Up Day for Teachers 2004 Results
Don't know whether this will generate headlines outside our field, but it might. NetDay, a non-profit organization helping "educators meet educational goals through the effective use of technology," ran this survey during Speak Up Day in May. More...
Open Source 2007: How Did This Happen?
The author describes two possible futures for open source software in academic, one in which it becomes mainstream, the other in which it becomes marginal. More...
Who Are All These People, and What Are They Doing in My Classroom?
The new EDUCAUSE Review is out and I carry three articles in today's newsletter beginning with this one, a look into one of those odd problems caused by technology: non-students inhabiting the class online workspace. More...
Academic Exchange Quarterly
Academic Exchange Quarterly features fiction and the novel this month. But I'm linking because I love this page. Now if it were only in RSS format. Then I could get my articole links and never worry about remembering to go to this page again. More...
UK Independent Private Schools
Sparticus links to this site with the following comment: "Recent research suggests that the average cost of a private education is £7,500 a year. This is three times what is spent on the child receiving a state education. If they gain power the Conservative Party have claimed that they will encourage parents to take £5,500 out of state coffers to pay for private education. The plan forbids its use on any school with fees higher than this. It is difficult to see how this will work. With private schools costing up to £9,000 a year and new ones needed capital to set up, few new schools would emerge to take up the offer." What I wonder is, with costs ranging at three times that of a public education, where do private schools get a reputation for efficiency. More...
36 Percent of Software Worldwide Pirated, Trade Group Says
I don't know how long newspapers will continue to publish the fabrications of organizations like the Business Software Alliance, but I wish they'd stop soon. Once again, for the record: the illegal use of a $100 software package does not represent a $100 loss to the company that produced it. More...
Hand Scanners to Keep Tabs on Students at Boca Middle School
The hand scanners will be used by teachers to take attendance. Though I don't really see how it really improves anything; my recollection of attendance is that it was over in a couple of minutes (in other words, more quickly than it will take a class of students to line up to have their hands scanned). More...
Private Sector Contributions to Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
Mauritius is just a dot - a group of dots, actually - in the Indian Ocean. More recently, it has become one of the international conference destinations of choice. It's warm, it's exotic, it's safe. And it is becoming more wired daily. More...
Enterprises Slow to Dump IE
In a story that most institutional readers can relate to, the use of Internet Explorer continues despite its critical security flaws because many enterprise systems depend on ActiveX and other Microsoft-specific features for functionality. More...
Bloglines Bows Redesign, Ad Model as RSS Heats Up
As the ClickZ article says, "RSS feed aggregator Bloglines has redesigned its interface and launched a blog creation tool, called Clip Blog." Bloglines allows you to create an account on its website and read RSS feeds; the blog tool is an obvious spin-off, as users of Radio Userland know. More...
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