Handcuffs on a 5-year old

You have to see this to believe it. Here is the story with the video tapes.
A 5-year old girl in a kindergarten in St.-Petersburg (Florida) gets hand-cuffed by 3 police officers, after teachers and the principal can not calm her down.
To me, this is a typical situation of an emotional build-up in a child, which just passes if you give it a chance to calm down, by isolating her (a so-called time-out).
But to call in the police and have the child hand-cuffed, is beyond my (European) comprehension.

Edublogs are go! - Short history of (North-American) edublogging

As with all Internet-related activity, the cradle of edublogging is supposedly situated somewhere in the USA, as Australian James Farmer states in this interesting semi-historical article Edublogs are go!, which is to be submitted to the web-based version of the new magazine elearning

Wilfred Rubens TE-learning centrum: technology enhanced learning: Voor- en nadelen (t)e-learning

Wilfred Rubens - another Dutch edublogger - has published an interesting - dutch-language - list of (dis)advantages of (t)e-learning: Wilfred Rubens TE-learning centrum: technology enhanced learning: Voor- en nadelen (t)e-learning
This is an interesting contribution to mention in the presentation that I'll be giving on the use of Digital Learning Environments next month. I also want to suggest to the Elise author team to add this comprehensive (yet short) overview to the Elise-course for next year.

Bblog: The Blackboard Weblog

A weblog with items from the BlackBoard user community. Thanks again to Stephen Downes' OLDaily: Bblog: The Blackboard Weblog

Why Online Teaching Turned Me Off (washingtonpost.com)

Thanks to Stephen Downes' OLDaily weblog, I read this very revealing article from the Washington Post by Susan Sharpe, a teacher who was a CBT-enthousiast in the 1980's but now has a more skeptical perspective on online teaching.
Why Online Teaching Turned Me Off (washingtonpost.com)
A very interesting read, I must say.

A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections - ICT en Onderwijs BLOG

Pierre Gorissen, one of my favourite edubloggers in the Netherlands refers to this interesting overview concerning A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections - ICT en Onderwijs BLOG. This is particularly interesting for the EUREA project.

Critical Computing - the 2005 Aarhus Conference

At the department, we have agreed to start working with PPP's, Personal Publication plans. In the course of developing my own PPP for the next 12 months, I stumbled on this very interesting conference: Critical Computing - the 2005 Aarhus Conference. Now I am considering submitting a paper related to my PhD research to this conference. But the deadline is approaching rapidly, so I'll need to hurry.

AVNet VLIR training

A couple of weeks ago, our department had the pleasure of hosting a small group of staff members from universities from a number of developing countries within the framework of the Vl.I.R. (Flemish Interuniversity Council) I.U.S. programme. The group was given an intensive training course in the development anad production of AudioVisual Learning Materials.
The compilation movie gives a nice overview. On Day 2, Bieke and I presented some ideas for translating learning purposes into choice of media.