Pedagogue blog

This InfoWorld group of articles on Open Source in Business may prove to be a useful resource for educators looking to work Open Source into the classroom. I know several years ago, there was a strong feeling that Open Source was the wrong way to go in an academic setting, as outside support wasn’t easily [...]

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This is pretty cool:

It comes from this site, which I found via peering at the code of this page.
If I had access to editing the template here, I would add this ticker somewhere other than the body of this post. In any case, this looks to be a good resource for educational RSS feeds.

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Interesting:

“Listening” is vital in an online environment because it establishes “real” responsiveness – not the coerciveness or ego-crush of an automated response generated through artificial intelligence.

Also, this post discusses the reality of blogs in the classroom. Both of these interesting links were found through random mind.

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Note to self: watch Wikimania for new bits about using wikis in an educational setting.

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Lessig’s guest blogger talks about freeing the curriculum by freeing the textbooks:

In the long run, it will be very difficult for proprietary textbook publishers to compete with freely licensed alternatives. An open project with dozens of professors adapting and refining a textbook on a particular subject will be a very difficult thing for a proprietary [...]

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This post from Cole Camplese’s ADC (Apple Digital Campus) Exchange Blog notes: “I am starting to notice some nice traction in the use of blogs and podcasting in education.”
I can see podcasting of class sessions being extremely useful for the students, although as with any podcast, the size of the files involved becomes an issue. [...]

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Here’s an interesting post about RSS in Education, which links to an MSN article on the same. How do we incorporate RSS feed reading into a discussion of educating our students? What technologies do we recommend to our students for such things? Do we recommend services like Bloglines, or stick to programs like NetNewsWire? Which [...]

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