Wired: All the Trash That’s
Wired: All the Trash That's Fit to PostAccording to scattered news reports from all over the United States, kids are using the Internet to tease, bully or just generally harass each other -- and, in some cases, their teachers as well. And although parents and some fellow students are outraged by such sites, legal experts say that students who engage in online torment are doing nothing wrong -- that such nuisances are simply to be expected in a free society.
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, August 30, 2001
MIT Technology Review: Virtual Worlds
MIT Technology Review: Virtual Worlds Get RealSome 35,000 movie makers, gamers, graphics artists, hardware developers and researchers gathered earlier this month at SIGGRAPH 2001 in Los Angeles to demonstrate just how good they're getting at modeling the physical world
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NY Times: Exploration of World
NY Times: Exploration of World Wide Web Tilts From Eclectic to MundaneWhile plenty of people do publish their personal musings and pictures of their babies, new data shows that for many people, the Web has become a routine electronic device. Often, Internet users stick to a half- dozen sites for news, sports scores, airline tickets and other things they need regularly. Many set up "personalized portals" that display only the categories of news, entertainment and financial information they are interested in when they log on.
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Fast Company: Click U Virtual
Fast Company: Click UVirtual networking truly clicks at Indiana University, where students of the online MBA program collaborate and communicate across time zones and oceans, using breakneck technology and scheduling savvy.
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, August 29, 2001
Intelligent KM: In the Mail
Intelligent KM: In the MailNo matter how you define KM - what processes, technologies and applications you include - most of us fail to give good old email much play as a major KM tool. But as a cumulative data repository, email probably exploits as much of an enterprise's storage as any application (KM or not) and is most workers' primary collaboration tool.
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CSM: Beating Web cheaters at
CSM: Beating Web cheaters at their own game Cheating on schoolwork has simmered on as long as there have been students averse to studying. But the age of the Internet has woven a host of new twists on the perennial problem of plagiarism... Last year, St. Andrew's went on the offensive. The school purchased Turnitin.com, an online service that compares student papers to a vast database of Internet documents. A suspect paper is scanned for similarities and returned with matching passages highlighted - accompanied by websites where the sources can be found.Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, August 29, 2001
Darwin: The Mind’s Scaffolding David
Darwin: The Mind's Scaffolding David Weinberger: External scaffolding includes the simple ways we organize the world (e.g., alphabetizing our CDs), the chalkboard the physics professor uses, libraries, the Web, language itself and social institutions. Without these, we are naught but damn dirty apes. The characteristics of our mind that we identify as most peculiarly human depend on our ability to alter our world to help us think. Our human mind is inextricably entwined with the world and its manipulation.Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, August 29, 2001
Electronic School: Online Learning Grows
Electronic School: Online Learning Grows UpStudents turn to online classes and schools for varied reasons, but they have one thing in common: They all want or need something that's not easily available in the traditional brick-and-mortar school building. Students in rural communities can take classes such as Latin or AP calculus that their schools are too small or too poor to offer. Sick or hospitalized students can finish their class work without falling behind. Gifted students, students who have problems in the regular classroom, students traveling with their parents -- increasingly these youngsters are turning to online learning as an alternative to regular education -- No longer an experiment, virtual schooling is here to stay.
school Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, August 28, 2001
Learning Circuits: LCMS Roundup More
Learning Circuits: LCMS RoundupMore important, as LCMSs develop, so may their influence on e-learning instructional design. Because an LCMS's strength is its ability to modularize and manipulate content, developers can begin exploring new learning techniques. For instance, LCMSs are poised to address adaptive learning. "An inherent capability of LCMSs is adapting content to fit a learner's personal profile, not just by delivery mode but learning styles."
- elearningpost: LCMS = LMS + CMS [RLOs]
instructional design Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, August 28, 2001
Guardian Unlimited: Football as a
Guardian Unlimited: Football as a language tool?The British Council hopes a new football website, footballculture.net, will get people from all over the world learning English. With fans in over 150 countries, the Football Association and the bizarre phrases used by commentators could be the key to encouraging people to learn English, said the council, which is funded by the government to promote British education and culture overseas.
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BBC: Delhi children make play
BBC: Delhi children make play of the netChildren in the slum were intrigued by the icons on the computer, and completely without any help, gradually figured out how to use the computers and access the internet... within days the children were able to browse the internet, cut and paste copy, drag and drop items and create folders... By the second month they had discovered MP3 music files and they were downloading songs.
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Wired: The Ever-Evolving Science Class
Wired: The Ever-Evolving Science Class Educators promote a Web-based curriculum designed to engage students and make them want to learn. "We want teachers to move from being the 'sage on the stage' to a 'guide on the side,'" says the director of the program.Add tag Permalink | Monday, August 27, 2001
KM World: What happens to
KM World: What happens to knowledge workers when the economy heads south?In economically troubled times, managers must take a second look at the KM policies they are promoting. KM projects will fail if managers ask workers to act contrary to their own long-term best interests. KM is a highly political endeavor because workers lose ownership of the knowledge they share. When workers transfer their expertise to a broader community of practice, they could find their personal standing within an organization diminished. In some businesses, hoarding knowledge is a reliable means of gaining status...
knowledge management Add tag Permalink | Monday, August 27, 2001
OS Opinion: Knowledge Management Isn’t
OS Opinion: Knowledge Management Isn't EnoughTo derive the greatest value from knowledge channeling, organizations must understand the nature of their knowledge-based assets and how they link to other mission-critical assets and goals. Increased realization of knowledge as the core competence, coupled with recent advances in information technology such as intranets, World Wide Web, and portals, has given organizations the ability to channel knowledge to the right people at the right time.
knowledge management, intranets Add tag Permalink | Monday, August 27, 2001
Information Week: Web Sites That
Information Week: Web Sites That WorkCertain sites have what it takes to succeed, even in this dot-bomb environment. What helps explain their winning ways? Take a look at our sampling of E-businesses that know how to meet or even beat their business goals, and see for yourself.
Add tag Permalink | Monday, August 27, 2001
Fast Company: Designed for Life
Fast Company: Designed for LifeIndustrial designers gathered at an elite conference last week to meld their veneration of the new and fashionable with an appreciation for the old and lasting -- namely, the necessities for designing a meaningful life.
Add tag Permalink | Saturday, August 25, 2001
UIWeb: Interactionary - Sports for
UIWeb: Interactionary - Sports for design training and team building (via webword)This is an experiment in design education.
interaction Add tag Permalink | Saturday, August 25, 2001
The Australian: Conformity rules in
The Australian: Conformity rules in cyberspaceThe theory that the anonymity offered by the internet will free its users to behave outside social norms has been shown to be a myth by a study at Murdoch University's school of psychology. Surprising results from the research reveal internet chat-room users replicate social behaviour from the off-line world, such as conforming to authority and peer pressure.
Add tag Permalink | Saturday, August 25, 2001
Wired: South Koreans: True Web
Wired: South Koreans: True Web FiendsSouth Koreans are the world's most avid Internet surfers, followed by people in Hong Kong and the United States, according to Nielsen/NetRatings. A monthly study released this week by the measurement service showed that surfers in South Korea spent an average of 19 hours and 20 minutes online in July, topping the list in Internet usage.
Add tag Permalink | Saturday, August 25, 2001
eLearn Magazine: Usability, User Experience,
eLearn Magazine: Usability, User Experience, and Learner ExperienceE-learning stocks are a rare bright spot in a gloomy tech market these days. Boosters of on-line learning promote its lower costs, broader accessibility, and personalization potential. But much e-learning still has slow adoption and high dropout rates. Online learning leaves many students frustrated or unenthusiastic. The good news is that concepts and processes for addressing these shortfalls in learner experience can be found in the field of usability. In this paper, I outline ways in which the field of usability, properly understood, can help online learning fulfill its promise.
usability Add tag Permalink | Friday, August 24, 2001
The Irish Times: Earning through
The Irish Times: Earning through e-learningInternet-based learning, popularly called e-learning, continues to prosper in spite of the dotcom downturn that many expected would stop it in its tracks. The exceptionally good mid-year results reported by the publicly quoted e-learning companies provides the evidence of this performance.
Add tag Permalink | Friday, August 24, 2001
Wired: Debating Merits of Palms
Wired: Debating Merits of Palms in ClassMost of the schools, including Ann Arbor Open, cite two reasons for the prohibition: concern over theft and dislike for the disruptive noises such devices make during class. While it's difficult to find someone who doesn't agree that a ringing cell phone in public is annoying, parents and educators are concerned that school districts are banning Palms prematurely. Unlike cell phones and pagers, Palms can be used directly for educational purposes: Software like dictionaries, graphing calculators, e-books and thermometers can be downloaded onto the Palms and used to simplify studying and classroom participation.
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Wired: E-Textbooks Offer Light Reading
Wired: E-Textbooks Offer Light ReadingWhen students at the University of Phoenix return to school this fall, many of them won't be carrying books in their backpacks. Instead, they will download digital textbooks, multimedia simulations and PowerPoint presentations from portable e-book readers and desktop PCs.
Add tag Permalink | Friday, August 24, 2001
The Chronicle: Tunisia Plans a
The Chronicle: Tunisia Plans a National Online UniversityThe institution, to be called the Tunisian Virtual University, is one element of a larger plan to provide life-long learning opportunities for Tunisians while at the same time employing and promoting new technologies in the country's educational sector.
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, August 23, 2001
thestar.com.my: E-learning as a training
thestar.com.my: E-learning as a training toolMalaysian corporate leaders have been urged to invest in e-learning facilities to help develop employee expertise and reinforce the country