Janine’s blog

These are simply written informative pages that explain the concepts as well as giving the explicit information needed to access ABC information provided this way eg RSS feeds for a large number of news services.

Given the general academic snobbery about wikipedia, it is interesting and reassuring that the ABC has used it as a general reference about podcasting.

http://www.abc.net.au/services/podcasting

http://www.abc.net.au/services/rss.htm

This is an interesting futuristic article by Steve Maisch on Nov 9 2005 about the role education should be playing for young people.

” Imagine a billion educated minds, and what they might be capable of. Now imagine those minds belonging to people whose desire for discovery is matched only by their hunger for prosperity — the kind of hunger that can only be born out of grinding poverty. Picture all those minds growing up and learning in Asia, eastern Europe, South America and Africa. Think about just how different the world will be when those minds turn their attention from the lessons of the past to the possibilities of the future.

Now stop imagining, because that’s the world we’ll be living in within 30 years.”

Original article by Steve Maisch: http://www.macleans.ca/switchboard/columnists/article.jsp?content=20051114_115582_115582

Clarence Fisher article about the Steve Maisch article: http://remoteaccess.typepad.com/remote_access/2005/12/a_billion_minds.html

Joyce Lee’s commentary on the Clarence Fisher article about the Steve Maisch article (Singapore perspective: http://edureflections.blogspot.com

I found it from Stephen Downes’ OLDaily on Dec 30 from an item about Joyce Lee’s commentary on the Clarence Fisher article about the Steve Maisch article! http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=33106

Hmm….this is a bit like the ladies of the harem of the court of King Caractacus….following blogs often takes quite some tracking back to the original thought material and as people watch each others’ blogs, some iterative loops appear.

A brief article on podcasting in the classroom recommended in Stephen Downes’ OLDaily 29-Dec-2005. Emphasises developing inforation problem solving strategies in students. http://www.wtvi.com/teks/05_06_articles/classroom-audio-podcasting.html