tantissimi auguri di un santo Natale! Merry Christmas!

Gentile da Fabriano (1370-1427)

Adorazione dei Magi

1423, Tempera su legno, Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze.

internet: search engines

The Year in Search: A 2005 Review >>>

Technology: The MobiLenin system (nothing to do with Gulag)

09.11.05 Best Arts Paper Award. Jürgen Scheible and Timo Ojala were awarded the Best Arts Paper Award at the premier international ACM Multimedia 2005 conference in Singapore. Paper: MobiLenin – Combining A Multi-Track Music Video, Personal Mobile Phones and A Public Display into Multi-User Interactive Entertainment.

eGovernment: disponibile il nuovo Osservatorio semestrale della Società dell'Informazione

Osservatorio semestrale della Società dell'Informazione. Evoluzione dell'innovazione in Italia secondo i parametri eEurope 2005, Federcomin Centro Studi MIT, N.3 - novembre 2005

eLearning - eTwinning: more than 10000 registred schools

eTwinning is the main action of the European Union's eLearning programme.
It promotes the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) at schools in Europe. Teachers and students use the Internet to work together across borders. They cooperate, exchange information and share learning materials >>>

eTwinning è la principale iniziativa nell'ambito del programma di eLearning dell'Unione Europea.
Promuove l'uso delle tecnologie dell'informazione e della comunicazione (TIC) nelle scuole europee. Gli insegnanti e gli studenti usano Internet per collaborare al di là dei confini. Cooperano, scambiano informazioni e condividono materiale didattico >>>

eGovernment: accessibility of public websites

eAccessibility of public sector services in the European Union, a report by the UK e-Government Unit, Cabinet Office

technology: VHS going to die?

VHS format heading to extinction

eLearning futures

(from EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 40, no. 6 (November/December 2005): 14–31).
Tomorrowland: When New Technologies Get Newer
see also the full 2005 reports

technology: a great November 2005 issue of D-Lib

see in particular:
Requirements for Digital Preservation Systems & Report on the 5th International Web Archiving Workshop (IWAW)

how to organize e-mails: SNARF

SNARF, the Social Network and Relationship Finder by Microsoft Research.

eLearning: a useful (and brief) manual available online

Lepori, B., Cantoni, L., Rezzonico S. (eds.) (2005) EDUM eLearning Manual, NewMinE Lab, Lugano (Switzerland)

internet: search engine use

Search engine use shoots up in the past year and edges towards email as the primary internet application, a report >>>

internet: Google testing click-to-call service

the service FAQ

eGovernment Library

eGovernment Library: essential eGovernment documentation at your fingertips >>>

la Carta nazionale delle professioni museali

la Carta nazionale delle professioni museali (also in english).
See in particular the sections devoted to "Responsabile del sito web (Website editor)" as well as:
"Responsabile dei servizi educativi (Educational services supervisor)" and "Operatore dei servizi educativi (Educational services assistant)".

Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference (EPIC)

a quite new field, which is likely to grow a lot:
EPIC 2005
an article about it

technology: machine translation

an interesting article in Wired: applications in military and other fields.

eLearning: a great leanring experience at the NewMinE Graduate School

working with Etienne Wenger, Otto Peters, Stefano Tardini, many friends/learners.
(the program).

in the pictures: the outsite scenario and the group in the auditorium ...

technology: problems for some Sony BMG disks

the problem as presented in the NYT
the dedicated website set up by Sony BMG

eLearning: anthropomorphic interface agents

a project at the Florida Stata University: >>>