Author: Paul R. Pival
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This American Life – back and legit
Nope, I’m not moving back to the States 😉 You may recall that back in June Jon Udell (and some others) had figured out how to build an RSS feed to receive episodes of This American Life that were already available for free on the web, but only in a streaming, listen while connected, format. …
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CFP: What is the role of distance education in the implementation of the right to education?
This might be an interesting idea for some of you: The Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, in collaboration with 5 international journals, is launching a call for research and “effective practices” papers to be published in 2008 concerning distance education and the right to education (in particular reference to article 26 of the Universal Declaration…
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Book sales get a lift from Google scan plan
Hmm, looks like I was right (me and every other sane person); publishers are starting to admit that the books that are available through Google Book Search and Amazon’s Search Inside program are <gasp!> actually selling more copies! Some quotes from the Reuters piece: ""Google Book Search has helped us turn searchers into consumers," said…
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Huge list of screen sharing tools
I’ve mentioned sceen sharing / co-browsing tools like Jybe and Unyte before, but holy cow, take a look at the list compiled at Kolabora.com! That is all. Technorati Tags: Screen_sharing, co-browsing
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Just what am I looking at?
I have been increasingly interested in how flat the world of research literature seems to appear to the average undergraduate student. I say "seems to appear" because I haven’t actually talked to any students about this, so it’s really just a wild theory. Here goes. I think students who have only researched through their computer…
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Zotero launches
Well, Zotero has launched, and I’m all bummed to learn that it requires Firefox 2.0, which is a release candidate (beta) build, which means many of the extensions I rely upon are not likely to work, which means I’m not installing it yet, which means I can’t install Zotero yet. Lemmie know how you like…
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The Fall of Screencasting
Ha! Got you with the title of this post, didn’t I? No, screencasting’s not heading downhill; quite the contrary. That’s just me being witty, see, ’cause it’s Fall, and there’s lots going on with screencasting. First up, both Adobe and Techsmith have new versions of their screencasting products out this month. Adobe is now shipping…
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DistLib LinkDump
Gosh I hate to do a link dump; each of these deserve their own post, but I’ve just had so little time over the past couple of weeks, and see no real openings in the next few that I’ve got to clear these "to blog" tidbits out. Lots of good stuff here, and I’m sure…