Information and Communications Technologies in Schools Survey
More than 97 percent of Canadian schools have internet access, with the schools averaging one computer for every five students, according to this new study by Industry Canada. The bulk of these computers use "always-on" internet connections (as compared to dial-up, but a nice euphemism that masks whether or not the connections are high-speed). More...
Primer: Event-Driven Architecture
The focus of this article isn't exactly what I'd like, but it does provide a useful heads-up regarding the emerging idea of "event-driven architecture." Basically, the idea is that a computer system responds to changing external events rather than human input. More...
Learning From Disappointment: When Learning Solutions Fail to Deliver
A lot of e-learning disappoints, and it makes sense, as the author suggests, to learn from our mistakes (that's why I've learned so much). But to learn from a mistake, you have to correctly identify the cause of the problem. Is this list it? I'm not so sure. More...
NMC 2004 Summer Conference
The NMC 2004 Summer Conference has started and the Edu_RSS aggregator page is kicking into high gear. More...
Whither the Semantic Web
The future isn't enterprise systems, proprietary databases, web services, Java runtime engines, or standardized ontologies. That's not what the web was, that's not what RSS is, and that's not the future of online semantics. By Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web, June 17, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect]. More...
The Seven-year-old Bloggers
This article is making the rounds, and so it should - the concept of a seven-year-old expressing his or her thoughts in the same medium as (*gasp*) professional educators and journalists is a bit staggering. More...
Weblogs.com Blogs Closed Down
Last month, Movable Type demonstrated for us the dangers of proprietary software, raising license prices dramatically and killing hundreds (maybe thousands) of blogs in the process. More...
Academic Weblog Ranking Schemes
Some commentary from Seb, who was ignored in this list of academic blogs" and from David Brake as well, who comments, "It occurs to me once again how people seem to have internalised the inequities that result from ranking schemes like these (which also help to drive Google). How could Alex think for a moment that one way to 'maintain quality' of a list of academic weblogs was 'only allowing blogs that had been linked to by other, already established blogs'?" Just for the record, a total of 474 blogs link to Stephen's Web, which would make me second on the list of "top academic blogs," or third, if the author also included Seb. More...
Kennebunkport
Live from Halifax airport, where they have fast and free wireless access... this link is to my photos of Kennebunkport, which would have left me with very pleasant memories had my pre-booked cab not been an hour and 47 minutes late this morning, causing me to miss my train and almost my flight. More...
Employees Keen to Learn On-line, Board Finds
Via ADL: Employees are keen to take courses online, according to a report from the Conference Board of Canada (a business issues group). More...
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