This week at the mobhappy blog:
“This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is back at MobHappy – actually where it all started back in October 2005. Since then, the Carnival has thrived as a place to showcase the best writing about mobile in the blogosphere.”
Happy reading….
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Another Monday, another Carnival, hosted this week by mobilejones. Lots of iPhone news and some twittering.
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It’s Monday, so time for a new Carnival of the Mobilists, hosted this week on the allaboutiPhone blog. Lots of interesting posts as usual. My favorite of the week is the SmartMob post on alternative 2008 Olympic coverage. If you’re as sick as I am of the NBC commentators and their coverage which seems to include more stories about American athletes than actual coverage of events, it’s worth a look. The post definitely provides some different ways to experience the Olympics, all made possible by mobile and wireless technologies.
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The Journal of the Research Center for Educational Technology provides a multimedia forum for the advancement of scholarly work on the effects of technology on teaching and learning. This online journal seeks to provide unique avenues for the dissemination of knowledge within the field of educational technology consistent with new and emergent pedagogical possibilities.
The Journal of the Research Center for Educational Technology (RCETJ) is seeking articles on Blended Learning for a special issue, edited by Karen Swan, to be published in the spring of 2009. Articles to be considered for this special Spring 2009 issue should focus on the integration of face-to-face and online instruction in a planned and pedagogically sound manner, but they may address issues of blended learning from research-based, practical, or theoretical perspectives at any levels of academic and institutional contexts. Articles addressing the use of blending to increase access to education and/or link academic and various real world contexts will be particularly appreciated.
To have your article considered (even if it is presently in progress) you must submit an abstract of at least 500 words (full drafts will, of course, be gratefully accepted) by October 15, 2008 to the editors:
Karen Swan (kswan@kent.edu) & Mark van’t Hooft (mvanthoo@kent.edu)
Please put “submission for RCETJ issue on Blended Learning” in the subject line your email message.
Notifications of acceptance/rejection will be sent out by October 31, 2007. NOTE: Acceptance of the abstract does NOT guarantee that your manuscript will be published. RCETJ is a refereed journal, and as such, all submitted manuscripts are subject to a comprehensive review process.
Final submissions for the online journal articles are expected to include multimedia evidence and sources that might include: images; illustrations; video; sound; animation; simulation; and links to online data and references. For more information please visit http://www.rcetj.org or contact the editors.
Important dates:
October 15, 2008: Deadline to submit abstracts (250-500 words)
October 31, 2008: Notification of acceptance/rejection of abstract
January 31, 2009: Author deadline for submitting completed manuscript and multimedia files
February 27, 2009: Editor deadline for reviewing papers and returning comments to authors
March 27, 2009: Author deadline for making revisions and submitting final papers and accompanying materials
April 24, 2009: Expected publication date
To learn more about this special issue or RCETJ, please visit www.rcetj.org
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Since my last post on the Net Neutrality debate, there have been some developments that are positive. On August 1st, the FCC punished ComCast for illegally blocking Internet content. For the full story, see the SavetheInternet site, and particularly this post on the historic FCC decision. An excerpt:
In a landmark decision, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and Commissioners Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein approved a bipartisan “enforcement order” that would require Comcast to stop blocking and publicly disclose its methods for manipulating Internet traffic.
Tests by the Associated Press and others showed that Comcast blocked users’ legal peer-to-peer transmissions by sending fake signals that cut off the connection between file-sharers. Today’s decision follows a months-long FCC investigation, launched in response to a complaint from Free Press and Public Knowledge urging the federal agency to stop Comcast’s blocking.
More detailed information on the FCC decision can also be found here. This is good news, also for education. However, heavy filtering of Internet content is still common practice in many schools. Unfortunately, the FCC can’t help us there …
And as stated here , “This victory is monumental. But the fight to safeguard Net Neutrality is far from over.”
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Posted in Internet, Net Neutrality, online learning, online safety, Open Content
Tagged comcast, fcc, Internet, Net Neutrality
After a short break, I’m back. While I was on vacation doing nothing, the Carnivals just kept on coming. Here are the most recent ones:
Carnival #133 at Vision Mobile (lots of posts about the iPhone 3G)
Carnival #134 at MoPocket (with a nice post about mobile learning by Judy Breck)
Carnival #135 at Mobile Point View (an Olympic-themed issue).
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