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tofukuji temple, kyoto

Saru Mo Ki Kara Ochiru. (Even Monkeys Fall From Trees)

On Friday, April 5th, Keido� Fukushima, Head Abbot of Tofukuji-Sect, Zen Master of Tofukuji Monastery, Kyoto, Japan, will visit UVM and present a calligraphy demonstration. Tofuku-ji wasn't on the itinery for the IIJ-2001 trip, so pulled together a virtual trip from the web.

• main view, from virtual kyoto
• a short tour
• a larger catalog, ANU art server
• maple tree in fall, from kyoto gallery, satoshi oka

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• kyoto city map, locating tofuku-ji in the south-east corner.
• japanese architecture, Kyle Gorden, University of Chicago, 2000.

learning landscape

a scan on "scorm"

• according to standards - Some thoughts on current attempts to meta-describe a field like (e)learning. Carsten Jopp, 19/11/2001
• angel - authenticated networked guided environment for learning
• angel - a new global environment for learning
• blogs - for online learning standards
  • David Carter-Tod: Serious Instructional Technology
  • Stephen Downes: OLDaily
  • Maish R Nichani and Venkat Rajamanickam: eLearningPost
  • Raymond Yee: IU Technology Architecture Lodge
• lectora publisher - a scorm conformant authoring system
• userland
  • frontier - a content management system
  • manila - a browser based content mangement system
  • radio - a browser based frontend used with above

japanese film studies

• Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan

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• Dodes�ka-den, Dodesukaden, Akira Kurosawa, 1970.

3g

• docomo demo, i-mode phone
• j-phone
• kddi

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• exchange interface
• interactive novel
• many service providers

hanasaka-jiisan

last week charles eicher reported the case of a japanese construction worker who dug up a pot of 1200 old coins. the news reports were classifying this as an example of hanasaka-jiisan : the old man who made the cherry trees bloom.

• buried treasure, on charles eicher's weblog on radioland
  • charles eicher's weblog at radio land
  • radio community server
  • radio userland weblog tool
  • manila

thinking differently

while imagining what a university that thought differently would look like, i began probing google with the phrase "think different X" with x = { anthropology, art, botany, biology, ... zoology }.

• sci.anthropology, the news group. sci.* is a whole spectrum of thinking differently.
• danny yee, who has been writing online book reviews for over 10 years, totaling over 600 reviews.
• Modes of Thought (1995) A radio program with 4 one-hour segments designed to be used as curricular material. People have different styles of thinking. Children think differently from adults; cultures and historical epochs differ as well. According to some theorists, the very way we think about science governs how science is practised and even what "science" is. In this wide-ranging four-part series, David Cayley reports from a symposium at which anthropologists, historians of ideas, philosophers of science and cognitive psychologists met to discuss modes of thought.
• Teach Yourself Anthropology, a course in social anthropology taught as part of a "experience rich" course. The course is taught online with the professors being from Poland and the University being "in" the UK.
• Evolutionary Anthropology Computer Simulations:ANTH153T Primate Behavioral Ecology, John Tooby, University of California, Santa Barbara
  1. The Evolution of Infanticidal Mechanisms in Male Langurs (langur.exe & langur.doc):
  2. The Evolution of Incest Avoidance Mechanisms (incest.exe & incest.doc)
  3. Reciprocation in Vampire Bats (bat.exe and bat.doc)
• Culture and Technology, a syllabus for a seminar
• Watching Anthropology Films and Videos, a guide on "how to watch a video" and learn anthropology from it.

medical schools online

using webct

• Medical College of Georgia
• Stanford University
• Texas A&M
• University of California, Los Angeles
• University of California, San Francisco
• University of Puerto Rico
• University of South Dakota
• University of Texas
• University of Wisconsin

using blackboard

• Boston University
• Dartmouth College
• Duke University, see also their concerns on upgrading to Level III - such as integrating with LDAP, People Soft, etc. See also http://blackboard.duke.edu/.
• Northwestern University
• Oklahoma Statue University
• Stanford University
• University of Pittsburgh
• Yale University

• An Early Start to Medical School: An Online Summer Course for New Medical Students, Maureen Battistella, Academic Medicine In Progress: Reports of New Approaches in Medical Education May 2001 (in press); Syllabus 2001: July 15-18, 2001; Santa Clara, CA, Association of American Medical Colleges 2001
• Centernet, a platform for Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, includes helpdesk, blackboard help, and the menu for the Amish Kitchen - "Southern Fried Chicken, Mashed Potatoes & Cream Gravy, Green Beans, Roll" !
• Journey of a Lifetime, Elizabeth Goodall, a trip report for the Winston Churchill Traveling Fellowship. Her fellowship supported the aim "To learn how existing and developing communications and information technology can be used to improve the quality, versatility and access to continuous professional development for UK healthcare workers and those in developing countries that look to the UK for their continuous professional development."
• Educational Research and Development Grant, an online module for the Alzheimer's Disease Case StudyConference, which is part of the UW "Patient, Doctor and Society" course.
• Implementation of an online World Wide Web based medical science curriculum, Clive Jackson, University of Natal. Describes an implementation plan using WebCT to deliver "The Medical School Database (MSDB), a relational database system, is being designed to deliver text, images, audio, animation and video data by means of Internet technology and is largely based on the Health Sciences Database (HSDB) developed by the Health Sciences Library, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. "
• Looking over the Horizon: An Internet-based International Course in Comparative Healthcare Management, Lerch, U. von der Leyen, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, in J Med Internet Res 1999;1(suppl 1):e49.
• Medical College of Georgia, has redesigned the WebCT homepage to look more like a portal.
• Study Skills/Learning Tactics, Seven study skills/learning tactics to apply to learning opportunities. University of Kansas, School of Medicine
• Two Sumo Wrestlers, a presentation on
• University of California, Los Angeles, Medical School demonstration "portal" includes WebCT, database search engines, chat, free account setup, etc. The Instructional Development Unit has a projects showcase highlighting development of web based case materials, palm materials, etc.
• University of California, San Francisco, Kalmanovitz Library and the Center for Knowledge Management, Center for Instructional Technology
• University of South Dakota, Multimedia Medical Teaching Projects
• University of Texas, Web Showcase
• University of Wisconsin, College of Medicine, Student Web

free gis

• Free GIS, tools include ArcExplorer, Cameo, Grass, MapEdit, Maptitude, etc.
• Federal Lands Arcview GIS Shapefiles - the geography of risk
• Learn to Map, MapCruzin Map-Tutorial and Atlas by Michael R. Meuser

the botany of desire

• MapCruisin - review

the glass engine

• antiquark.com, truth beauty charm strange
• jerrykindall.com,
• megafoundation.org, hiqnews
• metafilter.com, community web log
• whump.combill humphries, morelikethis
• paxtonland.com, dean paxton
• webcrumb, andy j. williams afleck
• research.ibm.com. ibm research - human computer interaction - seminars
• ted.com, the technology entertainment and design conference, 2001
• v-2.org, adam greenfield, beauty now for the people, articles on web architecture and usability
• webmasterword.com, forum on ibm web mining

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• ucr.edu, ibm book manager software, uc riverside

wired students

• bullseyeart.com - meet miss muffy and space dog.
• the glass engine -deep navigation of the music of Philip Glass.

wireless students

• Virginia district recalls 11,000 student laptops, eSchool News, January 21, 2002
• Pupils and Porn and Games, Oh My, Katie Dean, Wired News, 2:00 a.m. Jan. 31, 2002 PST
• White Oak Gives 'Magnifi'-cent Gift to Henrico County Schools, Riding the tidal wave of technology in education, White Oak Semiconductor recently donated a Digital Scanning Electron Microscope to Henrico County Public Schools. The Hitachi S2700 microscope will find a permanent home at Godwin High School�s Specialty Center for Science, Mathematics and Technology.

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• Henrico County Public Schools, http://www.co.henrico.va.us/schools
• Henrico School Happenings
• Apple for Education, http://www.apple.com/education

republic dot com

• republic.com, Cass Sunstein, Princeton University Press, 224 pp., $19.95, To be published in paperback by Princeton University Press in May 2002.
• republic.com - the daily me, a chapter from republic.com
• republic.com - message forum, comments, etc.

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  cass sunstein, university of chicago, home page The Daily We - Is the Internet really a blessing for democracy? Cass R. Sunstein

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• He's Got Mail - a review, James Fallows, The New York Review of Books March 14, 2002 Is the Internet Good for Democracy?, a discussion of republic.com in the Boston Review, Summer 2001, and on line at bostonreview.mit.edu/ndf.html republic.com by Cass Sunstein University of Chicago Law School

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• Cyicism and Choice<./a> a review of "Is the Internet Bad for Democracy : the Boston Review Dialogue"by Shanto Iyengar Stanford University Policical Communications Lab Commons