[DDN] My debut as a Rocketboom correspondent
Hi everyone, I just wanted to let you know that today is my first day as a correspondent for the video blog Rocketboom (http://www.rocketboom.com). For those of you who aren't familiar with it, Rocketboom is one of the most successful video blogs on the Internet, with around 130,000 viewers for its daily newscast. It's a mix of technology news, humor and off-the-radar stories from around the world. They've used clips of my video work in the past, but now I'll be producing segments for them in my free time on a regular basis. It's quite a fortuitous day to be featured on Rocketboom, as the show will make a cameo appearance on tonight's new episode of CSI. Anyway, I just wanted to share the news. thanks, andy -- -- Andy Carvin acarvin (at) edc . org andycarvin (at) yahoo . com http://www.digitaldivide.net http://www.andycarvin.com -- ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
Re: [DDN] article in progress - what is rss and how will it benefit me?
Hi Phil, Please see my presentation on blogging and RSS feeds that I did some time ago. I will be revising and post a new version sometime soon. http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/4839/ http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/4839/01/Blogging_Jay-1.ppt and my paper in Library Hi-Tech News http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/ViewContentServlet?Filename=Published/EmeraldFullTextArticle/Articles/2390220908.html Blogging as a Tool: Innovative Approaches to Information Access Jay On 1/30/06, Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi DDN community - i'm working on a new article that explains what RSS is and how it benefits people. the beginning of the article appears at http://whatisrss.blogspot.com/ i have some ideas of what i'll be including in this article next, but i need help getting more examples of how RSS brings benefits into peoples' lives. if you can think of some examples of how you or others use RSS, thanks for sending them over this way. the more examples i can assemble, the more people will be able to understand what RSS is about. the article i'm assembling is in the public domain and will be freely redistributable for any purpose -- including reprinting in newsletters, etc. thanks in advance. phil shapiro washington dc -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/pshapiro http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html Wisdom starts with wonder. - Socrates ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. -- Jay Bhatt Information Services Consultant (Engineering) Hagerty Library, Drexel University TEL 215-895-1873 AOL IM jaybhatt59 YAHOO IM jay_bhatt_98 FAX 215-895-2070 EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Engineering Resources Blog: http://englibrary.blogspot.com Jay's Information Initiatives in India community on the Digital Divide Network http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/InformationIndia Jay's blog on the Digital Divide Network http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/jaybhatt Jay's Journal on LISNews http://www.lisnews.org/~Jay/journal Jay's submissions on LISNews http://www.lisnews.org/~Jay ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
[DDN] EDUCATION: TECHNOLOGY: iPod Goes to the College Classroom in Beta
EDUCATION: TECHNOLOGY: iPod Goes to the College Classroom in Beta Missourian News January 26, 2006 MU Joins Other Colleges to Test ITunes U Service By RACHEL KAUFMAN http://digmo.org/news/story.php?ID=18019 MU students walking around with headphones in their ears might not be tuned to their favorite songs; they might be doing their homework. Selected students in the School of Journalism, the College of Education and the College of Arts and Science have access to iTunes U, a new service from Apple Computer that allows students to share class materials. On May 15, the service will be available to all students. Students are digital natives, said Keith Politte, development officer for the Journalism School. We seek to innovate to meet our students where they already are. MU is one of six schools invited by Apple Computers to try out the program before the national release date in May. Others are Stanford, Brown, Duke and the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin. The service uses iTunes, a free software program that many students already have on their computers. A few journalism and Spanish classes can use the technology. Politte said more students will be able to use iTunes U when classes start in the fall, but only instructors in the journalism, arts and science and education schools plan to use it. The iTunes U initiative is a natural extension of Missouris work as one of the charter members of the Apple Digital Campus, Politte said. For the past two years, MU has collaborated with Apple Computers to promote innovative ways to use technology and make learning more efficient. The complete article may be read at the URL above. Sincerely, David Dillard Temple University (215) 204 - 4584 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Net-Gold http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html Temple University Listserv Net-Gold Archives http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html http://www.LIFEofFlorida.org Digital Divide Network http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/jwne Educator-Gold http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Educator-Gold/ ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
[DDN] Blogging for Social Change with TechSoup's NetSquared
Nonprofit Bloggers! Help raise awareness about how the social web can be used for social change by posting about NetSquared on your blog and adding one of our snazzy digital badges to your site. http://www.netsquared.org/spread-netsquared i Be sure to tag your post with net2 so we can pull it into the NetSquared news aggregator: http://www.netsquared.org/aggregator If you are unfamiliar with Netsquared., check us out at www.netsquared.org http://www.netsquared.org/ . We are a community of non-profit technologists that want to re-mix the web for social change! Malin Coleridge Business Analyst TechSoup.org (a program of CompuMentor) Tel: (415) 633-9346 Fax: (415) 512-9400 http://www.techsoup.org BLOCKED::http://www.techsoup.org/ http://www.compumentor.org BLOCKED::http://www.compumentor.org/ ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
[DDN] FW: [CAnet - news] New teaching methods enabled by optical networks
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill St.Arnaud Sent: January 27, 2006 7:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CAnet - news] New teaching methods enabled by optical networks For more information on this item please visit the CANARIE CA*net 4 Optical Internet program web site at http://www.canarie.ca/canet4/library/list.html --- [Excellent article about the value of connecting schools with optical fiber. Sunesys is the company that is providing the fiber for the project. Sunesys is a classic condominium fiber supplier. I highly recommend you visit their web site at www.sunesys.com. They have lots of excellent information on the value of condominium or customer owned fiber networks for schools, businesses, hospitals, etc The equipment is provided by Nortel. Some excerpts from Lightwave article -- BSA] http://lw.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=ARTCLARTICLE _ID= 245354VERSION_NUM=3p=13pc=ENL School District of Philadelphia: 'Every child is connected' Faced with 30 years of student underachievement, the School District of Philadelphia (SDP) needed to implement fundamental changes in its existing teaching methods. Over this period, few new tools were made available to support the improved education of its 200,000 students, many of them inner-city and underprivileged. When SDP failed to meet state standards, it determined to make technology the cornerstone of a new program that would ensure no child is left behind. SDP recognized that network-based services, innovative new teaching applications, and partnerships with leading educational and research institutions across the country would deliver a new arsenal of tools to drive school reform and improve student achievement. Leveraging the Federal E-Rate program-whereby schools are provided funds to implement advanced telecommunications technologies-SDP built its own optical Ethernet (OE) network to which every child is connected. Prior to the OE deployment, SDP connected its 264 schools with a Frame Relay network-which was pushed to its limits. We were really stretching the bandwidth capacity of our network, recalls Robert Westall, SDP's executive director of technology services. To satisfy these requirements, SDP opted for an OE network that uses the Gigabit-Ethernet capabilities on Nortel's Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 and Ethernet-over-SONET via resilient packet ring (RPR) technology on an Optical Metro 3500 next-generation SONET platform, also from Nortel. As a state-run school district, budgetary constraints drove many decisions. While the initial deployment required a significant upfront investment, the OE network was engineered as a cost-neutral replacement of the existing T1 Frame Relay network without increasing recurring operational expenses. Creating a virtual LAN in the metro area and transporting Ethernet end-to-end also enables SDP to avoid costly protocol conversions and remove hundreds of routers from its network, resulting in a cost-efficient, less complex network architecture. Based on these advantages, SDP fully expects the network to pay for itself within three years. Not only has the OE network met our budgetary constraints, but the bandwidth available through the network would have required a tenfold higher cost in competing network solutions, adds Westall. With the new network, SDP has surpassed the bandwidth requirements needed to evolve its instructional and curricula delivery processes. Its OE network delivers 1,000 times the capacity of the previous network while providing each school with more than a gigabit per second of bandwidth. Leveraging the high-speed, bandwidth-rich network and partnerships with private sector companies, teachers are taking learning to the next level using more sophisticated instructional tools. SDP has implemented several innovative programs, including: . Instructional management system: An instructional management system enables teachers to develop a large part of their curricula online, which they can modify in real time and share with peers around the globe. Students can then connect to web-based lesson plans and online textbooks to complete class work from home. Moreover, teachers now conduct real-time, online examinations. As teachers explain concepts, they can administer online exams to test student comprehension. Exams are scored and results returned instantly, allowing for immediate assessment of student understanding. The teacher then is given specific suggestions for remediation targeted to the individual student. If overall class scores are low, the system offers suggestions for supplemental material. Twenty-five percent of students get lost in the system because we don't know that they are having learning problems, admits Vincent DeTolla, executive director of educational technology, SDP. Technology helps us close the gap by identifying problem areas, prescribing
