e-Clippings 4.9.2003
Yes, I know. So I got behind. I'll give you all double refunds on
your subscription price! :-) Actually got busy, very busy; job stuff,
school stuff, blog stuff...Working on the next issue now plus some
exciting announcements.

mark oehlert, editor

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Alright, in advance let me say this little rant has nothing to do
with e-learning or technology – but I have got to say it. I just
saw one episode each of MTV's Sorority Life (season 2) and
Fraternity
Life (season 1). I also watched part of MTV's first season of
Sorority Life. These shows are different from other reality shows
however, because they happen to be damaging something I care deeply
about – REAL fraternities and sororities. I joined my fraternity
in
1984 and it has afforded me some of the greatest opportunities of my
life and some of greatest sorrows. The groups depicted on MTV are not
REAL national fraternities or sororities they are locals and as such
have no adult supervision, not guiding national organization and this
is exactly why MTV picked them. No member of the National
Interfraternity Council or the National Panhellenic Council or the
National Pan-Hellenic Council would EVER allow their groups to be
taped for this. So now we have two groups of blatant hazing groups
who do everything wrong and foster all the attitudes I have personally
fought against for 20 years. What a load of hooey. Please don't
take these groups as representative of college Greeks.

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NEWS

JUSTICE, OPM PROJECTS WIN SHOWCASE OF EXCELLENCE AWARDS
The Department of Justice's Joint Automated Booking System and
the Office of Personnel Management's E-Training initiative today
received the Showcase of Excellence award at the FOSE 2003 conference
in Washington.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/21679-1.html

RELOAD releases beta of open source Metadata editor: Wilbert Kraan,
CETIS staff April 07, 2003: One issue that keeps popping up in
debates
about learning objects is the metadata question; how are educators
supposed to make an interoperable description of a learning object
that will allow it to be found by others? The Reload elarning tool
development project decided to attack that problem before any others,
with the first results already appearing.
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20030407133208

SOLDIERS CAN SMS LOVED ONES FROM OVERSEAS
From an Internet-equipped computer in Iraq, a new service lets
soldiers broadcast text messages that could, at once, print out on
thousands of cell phone screens across the world.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/21686-1.html

European electronic collaborative learning resource launched: Wilbert
Kraan, CETIS staff April 01, 2003: To support the growing interest in
the Communication bit of ICT in education, the EU funded ITCOLE
(Innovative Technologies for Collaborative Learning and Knowledge
Building) project opened a site that agregates practice, resources,
ideas and discussion about on-line collaborative learning. Not
surprisingly, they want you to chip in.
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20030401145017

BLACKBERRY GETS FIPS 140-2 NOD
Research In Motion Ltd. has announced that its Java-based BlackBerry
wireless e-mail devices have received Federal Information Processing
Standard 140-2 cryptographic validation.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/21669-1.html

IEEE LTSC and ISO SC36 seek to prevent LOM split: Wilbert Kraan,
CETIS staff March 21, 2003: Standards are as much process as they are
product,and that means they need to move from one organisation to
another. Occassionally that goes wrong, with a split standard as the
imminent danger. IEEE LTSC and ISO SC36 are now working hard to
prevent that from happening to the LOM metadata standard.
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20030321145415

eWEEK Excellence Awards: The Winners Are In!
The judges have made their final decisions--selecting from
760 entries the products that raise the information
technology bar. Check out this year's winners and
finalists!
http://eletters1.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo/y/eUaO0DShie0DSm0vpK0As

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TRENDS SECTION

McLuhan's Messages, Echoing in Iraq Coverage
By SARAH BOXER It was a cold night in the global village. The war in
Iraq was about to begin. Across the street from the Empire State
Building, in an auditorium at the Graduate Center of the City
University of New York, a celebration of Marshall McLuhan, the media
prophet of the 1960's, was also beginning. The auditorium was nearly
full.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/arts/television/03MCLU.html

Online education is key for developing nations: Dubai |By Jay B.
Hilotin | 19-03-2003 "Just-in-time learning" through online education
is a key enabler for the Middle East and other developing nations to
raise their competitiveness in knowledge-driven global relations.
http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=81196

Is There a Future for Online Ed?: by: Jack M. Wilson Just a few years
ago, almost every college and university announced that it was going
online. But from Fathom and Harcourt Higher Education to Pensare,
many noble experiments are finished, and some have asked, "Is anyone
making money on online learning?" The implied answer is, "No," and
yet, several organizations have demonstrated viability, including the
University of Maryland University College's UMUC-Online, Penn
State's World Campus, and the University of Massachusetts'
UMassOnline.
http://www.universitybusiness.com/page.cfm?id=188

Academic Digital Rights: A Walk on the Creative Commons: Glenn Otis
Brown Copyright laws exist to protect the creators of artistic work,
but too often they prohibit an author's ability to share their work
on
more generous terms. With the release of its suite of licenses, the
non-profit corportation Creative Commons hopes to expand access to
high-quality content online.
http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=7475

What Warfighters Can Teach Business Leaders
Related Story Literally from it's earliest issue, Fast Company has
looked to the best minds and most effective units in the military for
lessons about strategy, tactics, and execution that can be applied to
business. At a moment in which the attention of the world is focused
on military conflict and its aftermath, we've assembled a collection
of articles that may change how you run your company -- and shape how
you behave as a leader.
http://www.fastcompany.com/guides/bizwar.html

Infinite Messaging
Two-way text messaging, that ubiquitous medium of Web-surfing and
cell-phone-toting teens, isn't just for socializing anymore.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/innovation50403.asp

Learning Circuits: WRITING FOR GLOBAL E-LEARNERS
"Whether you're developing distance learning for a multinational
company or communicating with global learners via email, you must
ensure that your writing is inclusive. Here are tips for making your
e-learning universal..."
http://www.learningcircuits.org/2003/mar2003/elearn.html

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EMERGING TECH SECTION

Canvas Learning release QTI, SCORM Player and Author tools: Wilbert
Kraan, CETIS staff March 25, 2003: What's more, there's demos for
everyone and the Canvas Learner Player is free for educational usage
while the Author has a 50% introductory price. So what does the goody
bag contain? Essentially, a simple, slick-looking, accessible and low
cost question-and-test module.
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20030325182451

Sprint and Microsoft Combine Power of PCS VisionSM Capable Phones
with Next-Generation Microsoft Windows Powered Pocket PC Software:
Sprint introduces two VisionSM-Capable PCS Phones with Windows Powered
Pocket PC software featuring high-speed Web browsing, wireless email,
built-in cameras and Windows Media Player http://www.microsoft.
com/presspass/press/2003/mar03/03-17PCSPocketPhonesPR.asp

TECHSMITH REVAMPS SNAGIT AS A MICROSOFT PLUG-IN
TechSmith Corp. has introduced the latest version of SnagIt, a
screen-capture utility for Windows computers. With SnagIt 6.2, you can
place a SnagIt icon on the toolbars of Microsoft's Internet Explorer,
Windows Explorer and Office applications, which allows you to capture
a screen without leaving that program. SnagIt 6.2 costs $40; a free
30-day trial is available at TechSmith's Web site.
http://www.techsmith.com

MICROSOFT REVEALS NEW 'GREENWICH' NAME, DETAILS
(Source: IDG.net)
Microsoft further hoisted the curtain surrounding its real time
collaboration and enterprise instant messaging platform.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=796650

INTEL TO UNVEIL 'NEXT BIG THING' IN WIRELESS
(Source: Computerworld) Intel is expected to unveil plans today
for a big push into what it views as the 'next big thing' in
wireless: metropolitan-area networks with a 30-mile range.
http://www.techinformer.com/go.cgi?id=796630

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MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

Remarks by Bill Gates: Mobility Developers Conference
New Orleans, Louisiana: March 19, 2003
http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/speeches/2003/03-19mdc.asp

PALM'S TUNGSTEN C TO BE FIRST PALM WITH XSCALE
(Source: IDG.net) Palm's new Tungsten C handheld will be released
around the end of April as the first Palm-branded handheld to use one
of Intel's XScale processors.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=796651

Xybernaut Calls Off $50 Million IBM Deal -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59525-2003Apr8.html?
referrer=email
Fairfax-based Xybernaut Corp., unable to sell as many wearable
computers as anticipated, backed out of a deal to pay International
Business Machines Corp. $50 million to build 24,000 of its devices.
-The Washington Post

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GAMING SECTION

GOT GAME?: the future of play: By Andrew Phelps
Thursday, April 3, 2003: Shall we Play a Game?
http://www.corante.com/gotgame/

More Than Just a Game, but How Close to Reality?
By AMY HARMON: April 3, 2003: CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. -- THE noise
level was rising, the body count was mounting and the 13 marines
sitting in front of computer screens in a dark room here seemed
briefly to have forgotten that the urban combat mission was just a
video game.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/technology/circuits/03camp.html?8cir

Think tanks for gamers: By Mark Ward Monday, 10 February, 2003, 09:49
GMT BBC News Online technology correspondent: Online communities that
band together to solve puzzles could provide clues to the next big
step in social development. It is not just many hands that make light
work. Many minds do too.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/dot_life/2735905.
stm

Pac-Man and the Ivory Tower: March 2003
http://www.igda.org/columns/ivorytower/

GAMEPRO ANNOUNCES ITS READERS' CHOICE AWARDS WINNERS
(Source: GamePro.com)
Thousands of GamePro's readers participated in the 2002 Readers'
Choice Awards. Winning games are announced in GamePro's May 2003
issue.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=796649

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SECURITY SECTION


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HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

Text message essay baffles British teacher
Monday, March 3, 2003 Posted: 10:17 AM EST (1517 GMT)
LONDON, England (Reuters) -- An English essay written by a British
teenager in text messaging short-hand has reignited concern among
teachers that literacy standards are under threat
http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/03/03/offbeat.text.essay.reut/index.
html

Posted 3/31/2003 8:12 PM Updated 3/31/2003 8:06 PM 'Yo, can u plz
help
me write English?'By Steve Friess, special for USA TODAY
Carl Sharp knew there was a problem when he spotted his 15-year-old
son's summer job application: "i want 2 b a counselor because i love
2 work with kids."
http://www.usatoday.com/life/2003-03-31-chat_x.htm
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