Monday, February 14, 2005

Your Future Taxpayers. 90% of US College Students Own a Cell Phone and Other Mobile Stats “In 2000, just over 33% of US college students had cell phones on campus, according to a national survey by Student Monitor. In the fall of 2004, nearly 90% did. [via ItFacts] On this same page from ItFacts is a mile long list of ‘Mobile usage statistics’ from around the world. Here are just a few: -- 171.2 million Americans have cell phones -- 300 million cell phone subscribers in China by the end of 2004 -- 36% of personal calls are made from cellphones… -- 75.5 Americans to use SMS by 2007… -- Americans send 2.5 bln text messages a month“ [textually.org] You can tell yourself that these trends won’t affect libraries, but you’d just be burying your head in the sand. [The Shifted Librarian] 10:09:26 PM      Google It!.

Games that make leaders: top researchers on the rise of play in business and education - Jason Stitt and Les Chappell, Wisconsin Technology Network. If the last video game you played was Pac-Man, you might have missed the advances that turned games into immersive training tools for skilled professionals and leaders. Three University of Wisconsin-Madison professors, among the top researchers in learnin [Online Learning Update] 10:07:02 PM      Google It!.

Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth: Tutorial: How to Create Podcasts with a Smartphone [Edubloggers Links Feed] 9:54:09 PM      Google It!.

New Web Site for Academics Roils Education Journalism. The Chronicle of Higher Education - in this article accurately described as "stodgy and resistant to change" - has been shaken up and now faces new competition as two former senior staff - Scott Jaschik and Doug Lederman, the editor and managing editor of The Chronicle - left after 20 years to form their own online publishing venture, Inside Higher Ed. The best news about this new publication is its commitment to accessibility: "You don't need an expense account any more to get the best news, information and career services... All of our content is free." Worth noting: "The Chronicle grossed $33 million in advertising revenues and $7 million in circulation revenues in 2003." By Lia Miller, New York Times, February 14, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 9:52:57 PM      Google It!.

ODRL Initiative Requirements Working Draft. From the good people at the Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL), who are working on version 2 of the specification: "The phase of actively gathering requirements is now closed. The main focus of the Version 2 working group is now to create the new specification documents." This link is to the requirements document. By Ranato Ianella and Susanne Guth, ODRL, February 14, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 9:50:58 PM      Google It!.

Repositories. The quality of this preentation is a bit unever (some of the diagrams absolutely need interpretation) but the author makes enough good points that it is worth a view. The 'The Next Wave' diagram on slide 5 should be noted by the LMS industry. The observation that "publishers will go direct" is well taken, as is the recognition of personal publishing. And the duplication of content depicted on slide 9 gets right to the heart of why I prefer the open, distributed approach to learning content. By John Townsend, IDEA Summer 2005, February 9, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 9:49:48 PM      Google It!.

Repositories. This presentation introduces you to the Australian Research Repositories Online to the World (Arrow) project, an Australian repositories initiative, as well as detailed diagrams of the Flexible Learning Framework and the Tasmania Learning Architectures Project. Some alternative ways of viewing the E-Learning Framework and an interesting 'wheel' diagram depicting types of repositories. By Kerry Blinco, IDEA Summer 2005, February 8, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 9:48:42 PM      Google It!.

Thanks to Cellphones, TV Screens Get Smaller. Three original television series, including a spinoff of "24," are making their debut on Verizon's new high-speed cellular phone network. By By NOAH ROBISCHON. [NYT > Technology] 9:46:25 PM      Google It!.

Motorola Announces E1060 Phone With iTunes Support [Slashdot:] 9:43:18 PM      Google It!.