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The Edublogs Dilemma: The Cost Of Freedom
A bit of a kerfuffle over at edublogs about advertising in client blogs. It's not the advertising itself that people objected to, it seems, it's that they had no idea the advertising was taking place. From what I see, it's a case of good intentions gone south - the idea was that nobody who actually used the blogs would see the ads, just itinerant visitors sent in from Google searches. Problem is, ...

Flip Video Cameras
Flip video cameras are easier to work with on PC than on a Mac, and I had forgotten about the use of Windows Movie Maker to make working with them drop dead simple. Richard Hall, DMU Learning Exchanges, November 21, 2008 [Tags: Video, Microsoft] [Link] [Comment]...

Blogging Academe
Reframing and reworking of a series of points from Hugh McGuire on Why Academics Should Blog. The focus is on "three main dimensions of an academic's life: research, teaching, and community outreach. Other items in a professor's job description may benefit from blogging but these three main components tend to be rather prominent in terms of PTR (promotion, tenure, reappointment). What's more, bl...

Online Seminar On PLEs
More online presentations. This one by Scott Wilson for the Evolve project covers the topic of Personal Learning Environments. Also, Trey Martindale offers this recording of a presentation with Clif Mims on Web 2.0 in teaching and learning. Scott Wilson, Scott's Workblog, November 21, 2008 [Tags: Web 2.0, Personal Learning Environment, Project Based Learning] [Link] [Comment]...

ELearn 2008 Presentation
Slides from David Wiley on open learning. One thing about today's chaotic environment - claims that would have seemed impossible even a year ago - like, for example, "Your institution will be irrelevant by 2020" - seem plausible now. As they should - the denialists who have run our economy straight off the cliff have been wrong about the institution of education too. David Wiley, iterating toward ...

YouTube Tests Even Higher Quality Videos
I love these beautiful high quality videos (and I really like the Dancing Matt videos) but I wonder where the bandwidth is going to come from. Here's more from WebMonkey on how to watch the new high quality videos. Unattributed, Google Operating System, November 21, 2008 [Tags: Video, Bandwidth, Quality, YouTube] [Link] [Comment]...

Article Processing Fee Comparison
Libertas Academica blog has a table of processing fees charged by different open journals. The one fee I don't see represented is "none" - even though this is (to my knowledge) the most common option. The representation of the charging of fees as "normal" and "standard" is, to my view, a bit of misrepresentation here. Tom Hill, Lbertas Academica, November 21, 2008 [Tags: Open Access, Web Logs] ...

What Educational Question Is Second Life The Answer To?
It's a good question. And I've nothing but good to say of an event where the organizer wears wings to the podium. Anyhow, you get a sense of the answer to the question from the subjects of the talks, which covered issues of presence, of play, of identity, and of social contact. Niall Sclater, Virtual Learning, November 21, 2008 [Tags: Second Life] [Link] [Comment]...

What Happens When Google Kills Your Student Project: The Death Of Google Lively
Major price increases at Second Life. Google's Lively being shut down. Once again, we see the risk of putting our projects into the hands of private third-party entities. Vicki A. Davis, Cool Cat Teacher Blog, November 20, 2008 [Tags: Second Life, Google, Project Based Learning] [Link] [Comment]...

VRM Is Personal
VRM stands for 'Vendor Relationship Management'. Doc Searls writes, 'here's the challenge: make the Net personal. Make relationships personal. Equip individuals with tools of independence and engagement. That's what VRM is about." VRM, then, in my books, is the idea behind the personal learning environment. Doc Searls, ProjectVRM Blog, November 20, 2008 [Tags: none] [Link] [Comment]...

Blog Networking Study: Interviews
This is an interesting set of knowledge-management (KM) bloggers (there's sufficient overlap with the online education community that a number of them will be familiar to readers of OLDaily). The interviews cover the "professional background of a participant and characteristics of her network in KM field prior to blogging; changes in the network or networking practices because of blogging; uses of...

Internet Not The Child-Devouring Swamp Many Adults Fear
Could be a bigger study, but the conclusions are in accord with my own intuitions. "A three-year research project... finds that the stereotypical idea of the Internet as a soul-devouring, anti-social wasteland for our kids is just plain wrong. If you suspected otherwise, now you know you were right." Here's the link to the study website. More from Joi Ito. David Weinberger, Joho the Blog, November...

Europeana
Europeana launches today. Europeana provides links you to 2 million digital items representing the range of European culture. Here is the Europana press pack. Here is the enabling resolution (both via Peter Suber). Rob Davies describes the infrastructure for adding local content in Ariadne. The website has already been overwhelmed by users. Various Authors, Website, November 20, 2008 [Tags: Eur...

Drupal.Org Redesign - Cardsorting Module Categories
Drupal is doing a design and doing some open user testing - an interesting concept in itself. I really liked the Cardsort application they used. Leisa Reichelt, disambiguity, November 19, 2008 [Tags: Tests and Testing, Content Management Systems, Drupal] [Link] [Comment]...

Higher Ed: Next Bloated Industry To Go?
This is a generally good white paper looking at the impact of social networking on business organization. It's important to keep in mind that by 'social networking' we must mean more than just your Facebook connections - todays social networks include the full range of contacts you make world wide using any technology. Good diagrams illustrating the new organizational structure on page 5. David Mi...

A Social Layer For DSpace?
Brian Lamb asks, "can DSpace be extended so that the acts of searching and interaction around these resources can themselves be learning experiences." Of course it can, but equally obviously, it doesn't. So what would it take? This is the question he explores in this post. Great whiteboard photo (should be a 'must' for every learning PowerPoint slide presentation here on in). Anyhow, to approach a...

The March Of Access Control
Some big changes are coming not only to how the web functions but also to how it will feel for users. Basic web 2.0 operations - such as HTTPRequest - are set to be enabled with cross-domain access controls. This addresses some of the major issues of website interoperability, but also means that fun easy-going cross-site content-mashing is going to be replaced with one where you the external site ...

RIAA Gets Tennessee Law To Force Universities To Filter Networks For Copyrighted Content
Mike Masnick writes, "Basically, the entertainment industry first flat-out lied (yes, lied) about how big a problem file sharing on campus was, and that got some Congressional Reps (with plenty of campaign contributions from the entertainment industry) to introduce legislation punishing universities if they didn't filter their networks." Mike Masnick, TechDirt, November 19, 2008 [Tags: File Shari...

Hulu To Match YouTube's Revenue: Ten Observations For The Future Of Media
A lot has been made of recent reports that online video site Hulu is close to YouTube in revenues and is expected to match them next year. I wouldn't be so quick to start praising Hulu. The company has made its mark by signing deals with traditional media to run television content online, and (apparently) has distribution agreements with blog sites, such as Gawker. So fine. But views outside the U...

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