Fortnightly Mailing: Personal Learning Environments make a step forward. Guest Contribution from Mark van Harmelen.:
The UK is increasingly focusing on the development of Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) after a slow start that began with client systems such as Colloquia (2000) and the Manchester PLE/VLE Framework (2004). This week saw a two-day meeting (on 6 and 7 June) organised by CETIS and held in Manchester. The meeting comprised an initial ‘experts’ only day, and a second public day.

What became apparent at the workshop is that the name PLE now encompasses two major flavours of architecture:

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Personal Learning Environments? I think they are a wave of the present. Every person is actually a learning ecology, their environmental ecology, their social ecology and their mental ecology all rely on the processes of learning through the life of the individual in question. so perhaps a better word would be individualized learning environments….

Beacon Journal | 07/24/2006 | Israeli court backs continued holding of UA geography professor:
An Israeli court on Sunday decided to continue to hold a University of Akron professor, at least until Thursday.
That’s when Ghazi Falah, 53, will be able to see his attorney for the first time.
By then, he will have been in custody for 21 days, the limit detainees in national security cases can be held in Israel without legal representation.
The geography professor from Wadsworth was taking photographs near the Lebanese border when he was taken into custody by authorities and taken to a Haifa jail.

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He is widely known to be an avid photographer and he uses the photos in his classes. Keep in mind, he was arrested before the current war started….

HOTSOUP.com:
HOTSOUP will create a new community of influence among those in government, politics, business and entertainment who make the decisions and those who want to impact them. It will bring the inside world out and the outside world in, and create a richer dialogue and stronger connections among all of these Opinion Drivers.

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This could be interesting…. but until you get people projecting opinions into traditional media… I think you’ll still have major issues with the conservative setting the agenda. They have the pulpits, they have their own media leaders, and they use tactics like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing

NECC 2006 Attendees | Program – Webcasting:
We are pleased to announce that several of this year’s Keynote, Spotlight, and Concurrent Sessions will be archived for video-on-demand viewing through a partnership with KZO Webcasting. In addition, we’re providing a number of live interviews with Ed Tech leaders that will also be archived for video-on-demand.

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Webcasts from NECC

Introducing MediaCommons:

(cross-posted from if:book)

I’ve got the somewhat daunting pleasure of introducing the readers of if:book to one of the Institute’s projects-in-progress, MediaCommons.

(What follows is long, so I’ve tucked it beneath the fold.)

Continued below the fold…

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This is great stuff, it is sort of like what h-net, the matrix and my projects at the center for digital discourse and culture have been doing in other fields.

TheDenverChannel.com – News – Marshals: Innocent People Placed On ‘Watch List’ To Meet Quota:
You could be on a secret government database or watch list for simply taking a picture on an airplane. Some federal air marshals say they’re reporting your actions to meet a quota, even though some top officials deny it.The air marshals, whose identities are being concealed, told 7NEWS that they’re required to submit at least one report a month. If they don’t, there’s no raise, no bonus, no awards and no special assignments.
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suspicious person? one a month… this sounds very suspicious too me.

Pregnancy centers mislead girls, says congressman – Yahoo! News:
Democratic staff on the House of Representatives Government
Reform Committee who called up some faith-based pregnancy
resource centers said they received incorrect advice aimed at
discouraging abortion.
“Twenty of the 23 centers reached by the investigators (87
percent) provided false or misleading information about the
health effects of abortion,” California Democratic Rep. Henry
Waxman (news, bio, voting record) said in a statement.

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the government should not fund people to lie…. end of story. this is why they should not fund things through religiously affiliated groups, because they tend to promote their ideological views above the facts of the matter.