Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
TV Week "I knew where it was going 30 years ago" when C-SPAN was launched, said Brian Lamb . At a USC lecture, he was asked if he had suggestions for improving network news. "No. That's not my business. Frankly, if you look at what's happening to their ratings, you just don't want to be them. Young people just arent going there."
Weblogg-ed (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
... a bit to find this post which sent me to this conversation about Open Educational Resources on Brian Lamb’s site which led me to this comment by Mike Caulfield which provoked me to search for and find this very cool concept of Rip-Mix Learners . Setting aside the beauty of that idea, let’s reflect for a second on that process, one that I’d bet most teachers would dissuade their students...
CogDogBlog (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
It’s been a fruitful reading of those so-called dead blog scrolls this week– Scott Leslie has liad out a strong missive in Planning to Share versus Just Sharing and just across the bay from Scott (well farther this month), Brian Lamb is posing some tough questions like Am I missing the point on open educational [...]
Learn Online (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
Brian Lamb considers the question of flexible assessment: Essentially, how might it be possible to make assignment deadlines more flexible for distance students? If deadlines for ongoing assignments are simply extended deeper through to the end of the course, wouldn’t there be a natural tendency on the part of most students to hand in their assignments [...]
EdTechPost (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
Inevitably, when we discuss “loosely coupled” approaches with educational institutions, the conversation inevitably turns to “security and authentication” issues. But really, often what is meant is “those nasty web 2.0 tools won’t single sign-on to my [monolithic, obscure] campus login system, so what are we to do?” The last time I was in this conversation, Brian [...]
elearnspace (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
The hype around open educational resources (OERs) is growing to the level that web 2.0 inhabited several years ago (I recently posted a short overview of openness in education ). The problem with OERs is that they are too often focused on content. More recently, a few educators have been pushing the concept of openness through open teaching and open accreditation. But, as Brian Lamb notes,...
CogDogBlog (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
... site, they are helping to digitize written works. Last week, while I think posting a comment to Brian Lamb’s blog, I was struck when the reCaptcha spoke to me: This was not random; it was a phrase, and I grew up in Baltimore, not “in” but near Woodlawn . And a wheel clicked after last week’s reflection of being creative inside a box – I wondered if I could create a story out of stringing...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
... the award. Previous Fourth Estate winners include Walter Cronkite, Eric Sevareid, David Brinkley, Brian Lamb, Helen Thomas and most recently Paul Steiger of the Wall Street Journal. "Amanpour invented the style of reporting that Americans have come to see as standard," said National Press Club President Sylvia Smith. "In her 18 years as a foreign correspondent she has taken us to...
Pure Play (Free subscription) | 27/10/2008
One of the most interesting projects I have worked on as a consultant is as a member of the Path Pacific team which is currently developing a new web strategy for Enterprise Ireland . Apart from Michael Clyne in Path Pacific who has enormous experience in the eGovernment sector (most recently with reach.ie) I am also working with Gerry McGovern, Brian Lamb and the crew at CustomerCareWords...
The Technology Liberation Front (Free subscription) | 24/10/2008
... auctions have worked; Martin Cooper, the “father of the cellphone,” on spectrum allocation; Brian Lamb, founder and CEO of C-SPAN, on the policies that enabled the cable network to launch; former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Dennis Patrick, on the decision to abolish the “Fairness Doctrine” in 1987; and University of Minnesota Professor Andrew Odlyzko, on financial bubbles...
Patriot Room (Free subscription) | 23/10/2008
... they see. The ratings would be L for liberal, CL for Center-Left, U for Unbiased (reserved for Brian Lamb at C-Span) , with similar designations on the right. The ratings would be based upon a weighted average of the voting history of the reporters, editors, and top brass employed by the News Divisions. This plan, out of “fairness,” would allow people to avoid being fooled by partisan...
