国内电邮用户调查及讨论活动
统计显示,过去两年来,因特网上的所有电子邮件中有40%属于垃圾邮件。国内IT业和IT媒体对垃圾邮件及防垃圾邮件的工具或系统开发的关注度也正在加强。为了更好地服务用户,为国内关注垃圾邮件的各方面提供较客观的参考数据,雅虎中国联合《电脑报》、《计算机世界》共同开展“垃圾邮件,我们要怎么防?”-国内电邮用户调查及讨论活动
当一个创业者告诉我他要用“邮件营销工具”为自己的软件寻找客户时,我对他说: No! 这样不会成功,你见过在马路上贴小广告的软件公司吗?
IMS 和 OKI,电线和插座
"IMS and OKI, the wire and the socket", 很好的一篇短文,描述了MIT OKI的发展状况,并解释了OSID的工作方式,尤其是对IMS DRI 的支持模型。Stephen Downes 还敦促OKI走向更加开放的协作过程。
IMS 这几年给我带来的不仅仅是全球学习技术的领先思想,而且还时时促发灵感。JJ是一个教育技术研究生,他的主题是可以度量的教学设计,所以我建议他去读IMS Learning Design 的规范,基本上可以解答他的很多迷惑。所以国内很多教育研究的低水平重复难题大体因为"Unconscious Incompetence",需要更多融会贯通的国际互联。当然仅仅有Input还不够,也要学会Output.
参考:OKI website, IMS Consortium
Weblog: A Perfect Place for Student Writing
ebN上的最新Post,我支持其中的说法“帮助学生成为写作者是每个教师的责任”,其实PBL中很强调学生的写作,无论针对什么学科。物理老师、数学老师.....没有这样的责任吗?但是,在一种不完善的考试制度下,他们当然没有这样的义务。只好把这个重任交给语文老师,也必然会出现每年高考后全体中国人拿“新奇”作文来当作自我安慰的乐趣,只不过今年是“赤兔马”,明年是“猫头鹰”的不同而已。
Most Writing Scores Up is an article about writing that caught my attention:"The nation's fourth graders and eighth graders have become better writers, but fewer 12th-grade students can convey well-organized ideas, a new national assessment shows. ...'It is the responsibility of every teacher to lead students in their struggle to become writers.'
I have been thinking about this article for the past week. While I certainly agree that it is the responsibility of every teacher to lead students in their struggle to become writers, that is just too simplistic of a statement to suit me... Yes, writing is fundamental! In the hands of good teachers, weblogs can be the gateway for teachers to give students ownership, a forum to discuss issues they care about, and an arena that has an audience that cares about what they are writing. [Anne Davis]


