How do we make sense of the horrible death and destruction visited upon South and Southeast Asia (and indeed, even Africa)? Some may see the hand of a capricious God. Others may ponder the impotence of humankind against the forces of nature. For me, the real lesson is the persistence of underdevelopment in the world, [...]
Archive for December, 2004
Underdevelopment, not nature, the culprit
Posted in general on December 31, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Wikipedia on disaster
Posted in general on December 29, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
The Wikipedia–an open-source encyclopedia constantly updated by thousands of volunteers around the world–is proving to be one of the most thorough sources of information on the Indian Ocean earthquake and multiple tsunamis.
Tsunamis
Posted in general on December 29, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
I join with others around the world in expressing my deepest condolences to people in Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Somalia, and elsewhere suffering the terrible tragedy of this past week’s tsunamis. Knowing the pain of losing my own child, I am especially horrified to see so many children die around the world.
It is [...]
Competing Views of Technology and Children
Posted in general on December 22, 2004 | 1 Comment »
Here’s an article from the techno-pessimists and a book from the techno-optimists. For a more realist perspective on the social and educational impact of technology, see Academic Gamers.
Digital Divide Network
Posted in general on December 22, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
The Digital Divide Network has developed a new Website, with articles on topics such as How to Create a DDN Blog, What’s RSS and Why Should I Care About it?, A Quick and Easy Guide to Creative Commons Licenses, A Quick and Easy Guide to Creative Commons Licenses, and lots more.
A Global Virtual Library?
Posted in general on December 13, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Google is announcing that it will digitize the book collections from a number of major libraries, including Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, University of Michigan, and New York Public Library, and will eventually make all this material available for searching. The process may take a decade but will be a step in the direction of a global [...]
End of email era?
Posted in general on December 12, 2004 | 1 Comment »
It’s common knowledge that most young people prefer instant messaging, text messaging, and other forms of instant communication to email. Here’s a brief article about the phenomena in Korea.
See further discussion in Polyglot Conspiracy.
Interesting writings on “cyberspace”
Posted in general on December 11, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Paul Dourish, a colleage at UCI, teaches at course that explores "aspects of emerging and contemporary cultural practices based around ‘cyberspace’ broadly construed — the Internet, digital culture, digital wireless technologies, etc."
His syllabus includes links to lots of interesting writings on social and cultural aspects of new technology use (genre analysis of blogs, new media [...]
New Journal
Posted in general on December 8, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
(From Stewart Marshall)
Dear all
We are pleased to announce the launch of a new refereed e-journal: "International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology (IJEDICT)" located at http://ijedict.dec.uwi.edu/. Articles in the first issue will be published early in 2005.
The journal is published on the WWW as an open resource journal, i.e., with free [...]
Firefox
Posted in general on December 7, 2004 | 3 Comments »
Anybody out there using Firefox browser? For Mac users, here’s a free program to export your safari bookmarks.
