2002-06-24
synchronous tools for the collaborative web
- classroom 2000 - Classroom 2000: Towards an Integrated Environment for Distance Learning, by Giovanni Coray, Antoine Delley, Lorenz Muller and Christine Vanoirbeek, ERC.IM News No.33 - April 1998
- classwise - Synchronous Internet Desktop Education, J. Mark Pullen, Fellow, IEEE, and Michael Benson, Member, IEEE
- collaborative web technologies - comparative review and live demonstration, with special focus on distance learning opportunities. Ilya Zaslavsky, South Dakota State University
- horizonlive.com - provides online interactive group learning and\
collaboration solutions that blend the best of classroom and computer-based training - live over the Internet.
- Dove
- e-learningcenter - resource list
- enetation - system for commenting
- NCSA Habenaro
- Tango
- TeleCampus - tools from TeleEd NB
2002-06-14
virtual auditorium
- the stanford virtual auditorium - a videoconference system called the Virtual Auditorium to support dialog-based distance learning. Now known as the stanford video auditorium.
- c6 virtual reality room - a
cave virtual reality system. this particular system is
based on mechdyne hardware.
- du- diversity university combines the web and moo/mud tools to bring a collaborative environment.
- virtual environments international - offers the virtual conference system supporting slide presentations, audio/video, q&a, moderation, chat, who's online, whiteboard, ...
- think of it - a guide to web based conferencing maintained by David Wooley.
2002-06-13
using video in learning
how effective are video lectures ?
- chem 1a -
digital chem 1a initiative, university of california, includes
- Deployment of online quizzes and pre-laboratory exercises, with automatic grading and immediate feedback
- Conversion of lecture chalkboard content to digital slides with graphics and animation, used in lecture and available online
- Internet broadcast (webcast) of video lectures, with synchronized and indexed slides, both live streaming video and archived video for on-demand replay
- Online lab manual, with animated, interactive exercises to assist students in preparation for laboratory
- debate central - at the University of Vermont, supports high school and collegiate debating throughout the country. Includes a debate watch archive and live channel.
- introducing xServe - steve jobs gives highly rated presentations at macintosh events; apple broadcasts these live and makes the archives available. The presentations are highly produced - several cameras, a video director, and tight scripting that allows for improvization. These presentation usually run for 2 or 3 hours; the archive versions, though lacking "chapters", can be "fast forwarded" or "rewound."
- webcast center - at uc berkeley provides 18 video channels.
disconnected vermont
The Progressive Policy Institute's Technology Project Survey measures how state economies are moving toward innovation-based economic policies. Vermont ranks 28, with "high" potentian and "low" realization. Vermont comes in
- 5th in the number of scientists and engineers per capita
- 9th in the number of online adults per capita
- 13th in high tech jobs
- 39th in information technology jobs
- 48th in broadband technology
- 50th in digital government
2002-06-11
deepthought
- jabber - an open, xml based chat system
- movable type - blogger
- public mind - a help system
- uportal - a java based portal system
- grep - a hampshire college project for a
campus wide blog
- cms - content management system overview
- Dave Ness - categories of web service
- tefca - education and technologies laboratory
cam phones
galleries of cam phone pictures, mainly to compare the phones.
- Nick May's project
- Nooper's Gallery - Panasonic Phone
- Justin Hall's Gallery - J-Phone T06
- John Welan's Gallery - Nokia 7650
m-life and i-mode
what is the connection between docomo's i-mode and at&t's m-life ? suggestions include
- mlife is wap, not imode-html
- mlife will support cHtml temporarily
- jphone supports cHtml, mml, wml, but more importantly compact TCP
- att wireless service - the vendor's home
- mlife.com - the product home
- eurotechnology - white papers on japanese technology
- jphone emulator from docomo
- x-9 i-mode emulator - for explorer
blogging
there are a million bloggers in new york city, find 824 of them ...
- the blog new york map project
- Blogging 101, University of California, Berkeley. The practice of blogging will hit the mainstream this fall with a new course at the University of California at Berkeley. Other schools, including the University of Southern California, will also cover blogging in their journalism classes this fall. Students in the Berkeley class will study blogging as a form of journalism and will create their own blog on the topic of copyright. Paul Grabowicz, the school's new media program director and one of the instructors of the course, said the blog will not simply be a list of links or collection of students' personal feelings, neither of which, he said, is professional journalism. Reaction from long-time bloggers was largely negative, with many characterizing the move as the establishment trying to co-opt the blogging movement. Wired Magazine, 6 June 2002\
- , David F. Gallager, The New York Times, June 10, 2002.
2002-06-10
esoteric buddhism
keywords: shingon, kukai, kobo daishi (774 - 835), tantric, mikkyou
keywords: tendai, ennin (794-864) and enshin (814-891)
- kukai's initiation in the esoteric buddhism
- a short biography of kobo daishi
- japanese esoteric buddhist studies
- metaphysical vision of ancient japanese esoteric buddhism
- tendai buddhism
- the three movements in buddhism
- hinayana (lesser vehicle) The first movement Hinayana, or "Lesser Vehicle" has its origins around 500BC. As the ancient form of Buddhism, it is still found in Sri Lanka and most of the continental Southeast Asia. The emphasis in this movement is on monastic life, where one becomes an arhat who tries to reach individual saintliness and extinction at the end of his life. According to the teachings, Buddha was a mortal teacher who reached nirvana, and ultimately ceased to remain at our level of existence.
- mahayana (greater vehicle) : Mahayana stems from the Theravada School, but Mahayanists consider the Theravada to be Hinayana, Hinayana meaning lesser vehicle. Thus, Mahayanists consider themselves followers of the greater vehicle. Mahayanists accept much of the scripture and ritual that the Hinayanists developed, but they believe their own scriptures to be of higher value and truth. No one exactly knows the origins to Mahayana Buddhism, although the movement was probably started by small groups of religious individuals in northern India as well as Central Asia. Presently, most followers live in East Asia.
- vajrayana (diamond vehicle - tantric or esoteric) : The most recent movement began around 500AD called Vajrayana, or the "Diamond Vehicle". This form of Buddhism employs the use of spells, symbols, very complicated rituals, and the acquisition of magical powers, in order to reach a stage of enlightenment. These psychophysical "techniques" are passed on from master to disciple through various esoteric ways, which explain why we sometimes call this movement Tantric or Esoteric Buddhism.
2002-06-07
gossamer threads
- gossamer threads dbm - database query and management tool
- gossamer threads forum - a bbs system based on your favorite sql database
- gossamer threads links - a directory maintenance system
- gossamer threads mail - a webmail system
- japanReference.com - built using gossamer threads links 2.0
summer language culture and technology institute
The Alliance of Associations of Teachers of Japanese is pleased to announce a six-week language, culture, and technology institute in Japan for teachers of Japanese. Funding from the U.S. Department of Education's Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad program will allow the Alliance to award fellowships to twelve teachers for this exciting program.
The institute will be conducted in collaboration with Japan's National Institute for Multimedia Education (NIME). Participants will work with faculty at NIME and also with teachers in Japanese schools to develop standards-based lesson modules using multimedia technology, authentic materials (including video and audio), and web technology. With easy-to-use computer editing programs, participants will create Japanese lessons that include authentic video and audio clips and upload them to a web site. After completing this workshop, participants will be able to develop effective standards-based lesson plans using multimedia, use a digital video camera to develop multimedia classroom materials, and develop web-based lessons for their students using WebCT and other educational authoring software.
- summer language culture and technology institute
- association of teachers of japanese, university of colorado
- inter-university center for japanese language study, stanford university
2002-06-05
yang gui fei
Yang Gui-Fei was the consort of the 7th Century Tang Dynasty Emperor Ming. Famed for her beauty, she is the subject of a film of that name by X and appears in Ranma 1/2 as a ghost.
- Princess Yang Kwei-Fei (Yokihi), 1955 film by Kenji Mizoguchi.
- The Legend of Lady Yang, TV soap opera
- Lecture IV - The Poet, one of a series of lectures by professor Lu Zhiwei, presented as part of The Poems by a Thousand Poets project
- The Flying Swallow poem by Li Tai Bai
- Genji resource page
- The impact of Kokihi on Heian Literature
