Nov 20

Foreign Policy: The Internet Under Siege. Lawrence Lessig. Yet old ways of thinking are reasserting themselves within the United States to modify this design. Changes to the Internet's original core will in turn threaten the network's potential everywhere--staunching the opportunity for innovation and creativity. [Tomalak's Realm]

News.Com: What constitutes "fair use"? Marc Canter. I'm not a lawyer, but I've spent a lot of money on them over the years, and as far as I understand the battles over copyright law, the one thing consumers have is their right to "use" their purchase of someone's copyrighted materials "in a fair way." [Tomalak's Realm]

EPAA Vol. 9 No. 47 Thorn.: Knowledge Management for Educational Information Systems. Quote: "This article explores the application of Knowledge Management (KM) techniques to educational information systems--particularly in support of systemic reform efforts. The first section defines knowledge and its relationship to information and data. There is also a discussion of various goals that might be pursued by organizations using KM techniques. The second section explores some of the fundamental design elements of an educational KM system. These include questions surrounding the unit of analysis, distributed computer resources, and organizational characteristics of successful KM efforts. Section three outlines the benefits that organizations expect to gain by investing in KM. Section four is a case history of the introduction of a district-level data system and the parallel efforts to support the aggregation and reporting of high-stakes educational outcomes for 8th grade students in the Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) district. Finally, there are some preliminary conclusions about the capacity of an urban district in a complex policy environment to respond to the knowledge management needs of a decentralized system." [Serious Instructional Technology]

Duncan's Jotter - Disembodied Learning. Quote: "Recent developments in technology in learning have often been claimed to facilitate distant learning. I have to say that I am not enamoured by that phrase, or the connotations that it has. One alternative I considered was disembodied learning. I hadn't heard the term used before but trusty old Google threw up ..."

Comment: "Duncan" on learning without bodies. There was a real convergence of thinking in the weblog community this weekend. [Serious Instructional Technology]

E-learning Magazine - Communities. Quote: "One of the criticisms associated with e-learning is that it can foster a sense of isolation and loss of informal learning in a social context. Learning communities, whether physical or virtual (preferably physical and virtual) not only answer this criticism but can transform e-learning environments into knowledge-rich communities of practice. "

Comment: Not sure if this article helps that much, but part of the growing picture (via "elearningpost") [Serious Instructional Technology]

Flurry of posting because of Radio

As I mentioned yesterday, I've gone back to experimenting with using Radio as my tool for editing this Manila site, hoping to get the permalinks working. One big advantage of using Radio is that I can use it to aggregate postings from other blogs or news sources and cutting and pasting entries from these channels easily into my own own blog. The solution is certainly not perfect (I have to delete a lot of entries in my database by hand. Also, it would nice to read the blogs in context rather than as items from an RSS channel.) However, it certainly makes it easy to quote other blogs and attribute my sources.

All was going well until I ran into a major memory bug in Radio, which I reported

Oct Dec

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