Category — General

Norwegians launch beauty contest for cows [Ananova: Quirkies]

oh those wacky norwegians and their cows

Von Hagens wants to exhibit corpses having sex [Ananova: Quirkies]

ok, so it isn't cool, but it is interesting art

500 unreleased Beatles tapes found by police [Ananova: News]

everybody likes the beatles

Microsoft seeks antitrust dismissals. The software giant on Friday hopes to reverse a series of legal setbacks before a Baltimore judge, whom it will ask to dismiss lawsuits by Sun and others. [CNET News.com]

i hope this doesn't go the way it always seems to go…

N Korea blames US for treaty withdrawal. North Korea says it is withdrawing from the nuclear non-proliferation treaty because of Washington's “hostile policy”. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition]
didn't think they would do this, too blatant, but i guess if you have to blackmail the world into treating you like a nation, this is the type of thing you have to dol

That Which Does Not Kill Us Makes Us Stronger… Really. Plastic::SciTech::Health: Hormesis, from the Greek word for 'excite,' is the theory that small doses of toxic substances stimulate organisms toward health, where larger doses of the same substances cause death and disease. [Plastic: Most Recent]

i think nearly everyone realizes this at some point in their life…

[the reverse cowgirl's blog]

my robot friend, its a wierd cartoon.

Rumsfeld Gives 'Special Ops' a Free Hand to Kill [Disinformation]

an important change here, very important…. someone has been watching too much james bond

Article Summarizing Applications of TEACH Act. Quote: “The President signed into law the Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization Act of 2002 on November 2, 2002. The TEACH Act amends the Copyright Act of 1976 by rewriting Section 110(2) and adding a new Section 112(f). Together, these revisions give instructors at accredited nonprofit educational institutions and governmental bodies teaching via interactive digital networks on campus and at a distance enhanced capability to employ most third party copyrighted works in electronic courseware without the need to secure permission from copyright owners. These changes bring into closer congruity an instructor's rights to use copyrighted works in face-to-face and remote teaching settings.”

Comment: Nice, concise. [Serious Instructional Technology]

this is something along with Boucher's new bill that could be great for education

Deep Language – Using Student Weblogs. Quote: “I'm going to have less time for blogging here because I am requiring my students to write blogs (instead of the web board assignment I have previously used) and so I am keeping one related to the class myself as a model. I won't put a link here as I don't want to make it easy for them to find this blog, but my course blog is on blogspot with the name hist323 so you can find it easily enough. It will take a week or so before the students start writing their own blogs, which will be the interesting part. Right now I have to go write them directions on how to start a blog”

Comment: As the semester is about to get under way, I'm not doing a very good job of explaining weblogs to people.
I have several faculty, my wife,Êand colleagues of my wife's who are interested in using them with students and I plan on having my students do them too this semester.Ê This is bringing up the obvious questions that I haven't had to think about for a long time, e.g. why? how? what kinds of assignments?
So, how 'bout it?Ê What scenarios have people had students doing weblogs in?Ê Group projects (”Duncan”), Individual ( Jim McGee ), Class Projects .Ê Is it just low-cost content management or is there something different here?Ê I'll read my archives, but I'd appreciate responses. [Serious Instructional Technology]

i might use a weblog in my class this summer…