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Mixing and Remixing Information
I'm thrilled to be teaching ![[WWW]](/www/moin/htdocs/classic/img/moin-www.png)
SIMS: INFOSYS 290: Mixing and Remixing Information at SIMS during Spring 2006. I'm pulling the course right now and invite others to join me in shaping it at MixingAndRemixingInformation (a page that I've opened to editing by everyone -- at least for now.)
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I'm find the amount of work ahead of me and Laura rather overwhelming.
Some recent interesting NYT articles:
We live in scary times: Danger of Flu Pandemic Is Clear, if Not Present - New York Times. Of course, when was life not scary?
Work
I didn't know that Joseph Hardin (who I know from the SakaiProject) was so close to the action of the early days of Mosaic. Imposter Boy:
Thompson showed the browsers to Joseph Hardin, who ran the center's software group, a collection of a few dozen staffers. Hardin's reaction was, Wow, look into this. Which leads us too...
Inspired by PeterBrantley's shimenawa: Ning ... as an embedded framework, I applied for a beta developer's acocunt at http://ning.com. I found the Bookshelf application the most interesting so far. Can I turn ScholarsBox into a Ning application? (For more discussion of Ning, read Slashdot | Marc Andreessen's Social Platform: Ning.)
BrianLamb's presentation for OpenEd2005 (UBCWiki: Been Digital So Long It Looks Like Print to Me) was engaging and informative -- and indeed provocative. Great materials for MixingAndRemixingInformation, in addition to UBCWiki: Beyond the Blog (don't miss the accompanying screencast).
Very interesting to see how images from the New York Public Library end up being repurposed as a set in Flickr. Some metadata are kept in tact. I posted links back to the original source.
About the new Yahoo Research lab in Berkeley: ContraCostaTimes.com | 10/11/2005 | Open house lets Yahoo test media boundaries:
One focus is on Flickr, the photo-sharing Web site that Yahoo acquired in March. The team also is looking into how people create, gather and share media, such as how they take photos on their cell phones and show them to friends.
The Chronicle: 10/7/2005: The Net Generation Goes to College:
Most important, Mr. Sweeney and other observers say, Millennials expect to be able to choose what kind of education they buy, and what, where, and how they learn. To meet the demands of these new students, they say, colleges must rethink how they operate. Imagine classrooms that incorporate more videos and video games, classes that meet electronically to fit students' schedules, students who choose to learn from each other rather than a professor, and courseware, search engines, and library databases that are animated, image-based, and interactive.
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Not everyone agrees that Millennials are so different from their predecessors, or that, even if they are different, educational techniques should change accordingly.
Apple Introduces iPod That Plays Videos - New York Times:
In endorsing handheld video, Mr. Jobs made an 180-degree about-face, reversing his criticism of the low-quality video that is available on portable, low-resolution devices. For the past two years he has been consistently critical of both the technology and the sociology of portable video - the idea that people will use the technology to watch videos in public places where they are engaged in other tasks.
Should I answer the sakaiproject.org - Call for Proposals for the Sakai conference in December?
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I usually like to work in parallel on a number of entries. Here I list them so they can be easily noted and accessed:
