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je crois etre arrivé à quelquechose de pas trop mal, merci le joueb d'entraide !

8:42:20 PM    

Inde et informatique

Microsoft to Invest $400 Million in India. Moving to expand Microsoft's market share in one of the world's largest emerging markets, Bill Gates said the software giant would spend $400 million in India over the next three years. By Amy Waldman. [New York Times: Technology]

Voila qui va peut être enrayer la fuite des cerveaux en direction des usa...  L'inde est le pays qi explose depuis dix ans en terme de marché et de potentiel de développement informatique. On y trouve parait-il la crème des informaticiens ..

8:42:19 PM    

Rick Klau on his company's month-long experiment with using blogs as a knowledge management tool: "It's not a slam dunk... But this was... a good first step to better understanding how weblogs might make us smarter." [Corante on blogging]

In the same vein, see "A K-log is..." and lessons learned from a large-scale K-logging implementation. I still think weblogs have the most promise for outward-oriented knowledge sharing (i.e. personal knowledge publishing) because people inside the same organization have more adequate means to connect with one another than like-minded people who belong in different organizations.[Sebastien Paquet]

I share Sebastien's opinion here. Personal Webpublishing systems have the power to transcend organizational boundaries. They are cheap, light, and can be maintained regradless of your organizational affiliation. Thus, they are really "owned" by a single person or a small group. A very different form of "empowerment" if you compare it to the "how can we improve our intranet and organizational workflows" strand of thinking. There is nothing wrong with that... but INTERnet use of personal Webpublishing systems goes beyond that business approach...
2:43:15 PM    

Radio et Manila

Sebastien évoque en fin d'article la limite de l'outil "multi-auteurs" dans Radio (pratique pour une école qui souhaiterait rassembler sur un même site différentes contributions d'étudiants et de professeurs) : si on pouvait aiguiller les contributions dans plusieurs catégories ?" Qui serait prêt ? JY, tu pourrais alors parler de site "multi-personnel" ;-).

1:23:12 PM    

Manila and Radio working together.

I am still experimenting with various approaches of Manila-Radio workflows. One idea that I was following along was using Radio as a sort of aggregation and republishing hub for RSS streams that are produced by various Manila sites. These where my initial thoughts:

• Manila's strength is its collaborative production power. Small groups can work together and design their own little editorial workflows around a shared CMS backend that can be accessed via any networked computer with a standard browser. The drawback is... the content is sitting on a central server only.
• Radio's strength is its aggregation power. It can harvest large numbers of RSS encoded content feeds. The aggregated content can then be published to various "categories" at the same time. Categorized content can either be rendered and displayed on a particular category Weblog, or published as a RSS feed only, or it can even be kept exclusively on your local harddisk.
• So, what if I used Radio to "harvest" the RSS feed of a Manila site with the only intention to automatically publish it to a particular Radio category? "Mirroring" a Manila RSS content feed in this way should leave me with all the original Manila items on my desktop... assigned to a Radio category.

I was digging around for some Radio Tool that would do the trick. Finally, it ocurred to me that Dave Winer's Multi-Author Weblog Tool actually did something similar, though it had been designed for a different purpose. Dave describes its purpose like this:

A multi-authored weblog has posts that appear on the home page which are written by a group of people, instead of by a single author. The Multi-Author Weblog Tool makes it easy to use Radio to create a multi-authored weblog.

Anyway, I used it in a different manner. Within the Multi-Author Weblog Tool I subscribed to one RSS (the RSS of Seblogging) feed only and told the tool which category (called seblogging again) it should "flow" the content to. Now, anytime when I launch my Radio News Aggregator, the Multi-Author Weblog Tool reads the Seblogging RSS feed and automatically posts its content to the "seblogging" Radio category. So, without pushing a single button I end up with a Seblogging mirror site.

I think that is a pretty neat workflow. Unfortunately the Multi-Author Weblog Tool doesn't allow to use this functionality to stream content to various categories. If somebody explored this idea any further we could turn Radio into a aggregation-publishing powerhouse with the capability to harvest RSS feeds and redistribute them to any other location. Bring in the feature of mixing RSS feeds according to your needs (which the Multi-Author Weblog Tool handles already) and you can become a content master DJ... Any programmers out there who would want to expand Dave Winder tool? I can see a lot of interesting applications... can you? [Seblogging News]

ToDo : Essayer cette fonctionnalité brillante de Radio. Tenter de voir si un article en français existe sur le sujet...

1:12:54 PM    

Jim McGee has similar problems like me: His students are so busy with their courses, that they don't have the time to adapt to knowledge-working with weblogs. He writes:

"With the recent attention to weblogs in the general press, it's easy to forget that most of the world has no idea what's going on with them. MBAs are very focused on the demands of the program and don't have a lot of spare cycles to note one technology trend out of many. Which makes them a lot like knowledge workers in organizations for whom weblogs and k-logging may prove an important tool."

He also defines four main obstacles that have to be tackled to become an active weblogger (click for details):

• learning the technology environment
• developing an initial view of blogging
• plugging into the conversation
• and developing a voice

[Oliver Wrede]

1:10:23 PM    

Just a mock-up below, but this might work for the NWP Atlanta Meeting's 'virtual tour of  educational blogs.' The idea and layout is lifted shamelessly from PLCMC's stunning site. Each linked thumbnail is matched with a bulleted list of highpoints of each blog. Guest login set up for each site. The reader moves downward, from national to classroom, from larger to smaller, from organizational to individual:

National WP (NWPtheme) > Linked Local WPs (Digital Cousins) > Local WP (BAWP) > Local Summer Invitational (SI2002) > Librarian TC's personal site (hL3) > Librarian TC's library site (DDA) > Librarian's Tech Partner's Site (TechTales) > School Bulletin (mlkBlo'etin) > School Art Gallery (mlkBlogseum) > School Newspaper (mlkNews) > Individual Teacher (Ms. Wilder) > Individual Teacher's Project (Table of Contents book) > Individual Student Pages (I Search and ToC samples)

	mlkDailyBlog'tin Online daily bulletin items submitted by faculty & staff Items designated to "departments" matched to staff photos Items approved and released daily for publication by office staff Secure and private staff bulletin page Upcoming events on right side Archiving of all items by calendar and department Easy print option
	Ms. Wilder's Future Writers Site   Project directions Project criteria and scoring rubric Useful project links to other sites Secure and private student access Individual student blog pages

[Pat Delaney]

1:02:32 PM    

Yesterday Bryan and I presented a weblog workshop to a small group of instructional technologists and CIO types from our regional consortium of colleges. Overall went very well, and had very positive evaluations come in. This was even more significant given that at least 2 of the participants were avowed "weblog skeptics" at the beginning of the day.

Some interesting points that came up:

• Packaging is very important in selling weblogs as a tool on their campuses. I was very cognizant of this fact in putting the workshop together, and took care to place weblogs in an educational context and to emphasize weblogs as a tool in order to minimize the cult-like aura that surrounds them.
• The group wanted a clear picture of what it would take to support weblogs on their campus beyond an experimental basis. Institutional support was the number one factor - as with any new tool.
• One participant noted that they were going to engage in discussion with their writing center as the best candidate for introducing weblogs on campus.
• Only two of the participants knew of faculty on their campuses that were using weblogs in any way.
• Several people identified with weblogs as a flexible alternative to standard course management tools. Although most of the participants' campuses have implemented a CMS, at least one remarked that the tool would seem to fit a certain faculty profile.
• The topic of blogs and learning styles was briefly discussed. Blogs tend to be very text-heavy; does this speak more to certain types of learners? Does this discourage other types of learners from using it?

12:41:10 PM    

PBC Usages ?

Salut jo, j'ai l'impression que ton lien "Usages Haut Débit" est brisé pour l'offre du PBC à 20 euros par mois les 10 Mb/sec ;-). Et le medialab n'a pas l'air de fonctionner à cette heure.  Ce qui serait sympathique, c'est que votre communauté puisse tester plusieurs communautés "outils" ? Vous pourriez ainsi être plusieurs à arborer les mêmes feuilles de style comme chez stephane et son "me-too product" :p Bonne journée et n'hésite pas à t'inscrire sur Froglog si tu es à Paris le 15 décembre.

11:11:19 AM    

"Au delà des TIC toute une philosophie"

Chez Mario à propos d'un projet d'EduCarnet ;-) ?

Pourriez-vous me parler brièvement de ce portfolio?

En gros il comporte les traces des "bons coups" de l’élève au cours de son secondaire. Ce ne sont pas ses meilleurs examens, ce sont des études, des travaux concrets. On veut qu’en secondaire V le portfolio de l’élève soit quelque chose de beaucoup plus attrayant et éloquent qu’un bulletin cumulatif avec des notes.

Pour en savoir plus :
commentaire de Dolores pointant des liens avec "diaporamas" ;-)

10:04:13 AM