Pedagogue blog

This looks like an interesting study:

U.C. Berkeley, birthplace of early search highflier Inktomi and the school where Google CEO Eric Schmidt got his computer science doctoral degree, is bringing together roughly 20 faculty members from various departments to cross-pollinate work on search technology, said Robert Wilensky, the center’s director. The principal areas of focus: privacy, [...]

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Here’s a good overview article from PC Mag focusing on wikis as collaboration tools:

If your project team needs to develop a proposal together, or your school friends want to jointly create a reunion Web site, you don’t need to purchase expensive collaboration software. Instead, you can create a wiki. Anyone who has spent time at [...]

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Read the entirety of this post. Here’s an excerpt:

In 2004, they required the HP Compaq Business Notebook nw8000 of all incoming Freshman, at a pricetag of over $3200 each. Doesn’t matter if it’s the best price, or the most suitable machine, or what the student is familiar with: they all have to have identical machines.
Why? [...]

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Tech question for everyone out there: I know how to nicely grab a list of all settings and installed applications in OS X by going to System Profiler and Save As…, choosing to save in either rich text format, XML, or text. Is there a similar way in Windows XP to grab this info? Right [...]

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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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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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