Monday, October 17, 2005

Drexel iPod Video Press Release. Drexel’s School of Education today released more information about their plans for the iPod video players being distributed to 33 graduate students. A press release is available on the school’s news page under news for October 17, 2005. Here is a quick excerpt. […]the iPods will be used to add several new dimensions to the online program as a way of bringing the “campusâ€� atmosphere to the students. The Higher Education program plans to unveil this quarter an iPod Higher Education Lecture Series and the creation of the online “Research Consortiumâ€�,â€� “Student Information Exchange Loungeâ€�, “Green Room,â€� and “iPod Higher Education Career Resource Centerâ€� where students can upload/download audio and video interviews, showcase their assignments/research, share resources, post e-portfolios created with the iPod, and access the program’s online student research journal. The information comes via a blog comment from Dan Hanson, Director of Marketing and Recruitment at the School of Education. Thanks for the info, Dan! [Syndication for Higher Ed] 9:55:12 PM      Google It!.

Datels 4GB Hard Drive for PSP Reviewed. [Slashdot] 4:38:44 PM      Google It!.

Mike Graves on the (now announced) VeriSign acquisition of Moreover. Also, Mike posted tech notes on the switch to their server for weblogs.com which will take place on Thursday (it's still running on one of my servers until Thurs). A must-read for developers who ping weblogs.com. [Scripting News] 4:35:09 PM      Google It!.

Learner Information for Europe: Context. Meaning, Trust, and Audience. Attached is my position paper for a meeting of experts on learner information in Cambridge on October 26 organized by the Learning Interoperability Framework for Europe. In it I suggest that making progress in puting the impressive array of currently available learner-informtion-related standards and specifications currently available in practice requires "forging agreement about meaning and policy, not just technology. Key issues to resolve include representing the context of learning, developing common vocabularies, building trust infrastructure, and cultivating commercial audiences." [National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research blogs] 3:01:21 PM      Google It!.

New tissue 'grown within minutes'. UK scientists say they can cut the time it takes to grow new tissue from days to minutes. [BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition] 12:16:15 PM      Google It!.

Merger not expected to affect UNM's distance learning - NMBW. Officials at the University of New Mexico said Thursday that a recently-announced merger between rival education software providers Blackboard Inc. and WebCT Inc. should not have a negative impact on the university's distance learning programs, which rely [Online Learning Update] 12:15:16 PM      Google It!.

Nokia Engineers on KHTML. [Slashdot] 12:14:21 PM      Google It!.

Wi-Fi Cloud Covers Rural Oregon. While politics and telecom companies stifle area-wide Wi-Fi networks in metro areas, a single entrepreneur is able to set one up over 700 miles of high desert. Businesses, law enforcement, even the feds are using it. [Wired News] 12:12:11 PM      Google It!.

Mapping Where You Think You Live. A new mapping project attempts to overlay geography with human perception. Where exactly is a city's boundary, and how far does a sports team's fan base stretch? By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News] 12:11:08 PM      Google It!.

China outlines next space goals. China sets out its plans for future space missions, as its Shenzhou VI spacecraft returns to Earth successfully. [BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition] 12:08:37 PM      Google It!.

Portfolios as a bridge between academic and student Affairs. At Integrations 2005 last weekend, I attended a session on the role of the affective in integrative learning at Oxford College of Emory University. The first speaker was Patti Owen-Smith, who leads the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Campus Program cluster on Cognitive-Affective Learning, which I helped support while at AAHE. She shared some of the results of her study students' most powerful learning experiences. For most students, these experiences occured outside of the classroom. The most common theme across the 200+ experiences was a sense of relationship, of making a meaningful connection to another person or group. [National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research blogs] 11:49:57 AM      Google It!.

Electronic Portfolios for Integrative Learning. Attached are my slides from the workshop on electronic portfolios for integrative learning that I led at Integrations 2005 last week. I presented a 10,000 foot overview of electronic portfolio practice at the beginning and a bit about the conceptual design of the Open Source Portfolio at the end. During the bulk of the time, the participants and I read examples of electronic portfolios from a number of programs around the US that illustrate different dimensions of integration [National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research blogs] 11:48:42 AM      Google It!.

Julian Bond did an OPML browser in PHP. Here's how it displays the Scripting News directory in the box in the right margin, which of course, is an OPML file. [Scripting News] 11:47:42 AM      Google It!.

CHI 2002 - Getting to Know You:Collection:HCI OpenSource: [SurfMind] 11:46:18 AM      Google It!.

The Arakne Environment:Software:HyperMedia Annotation: [SurfMind] 11:44:57 AM      Google It!.