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From Tim Berners-Lee to … Muriel? « HeyJude

Sat, 02 May 2009 21:51:03 -0000

Twenty years ago today, Tim Berners-Lee wrote his original proposal for a better kind of linked information system.

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Twenty years ago today, Tim Berners-Lee wrote his original proposal for a better kind of linked information system. - Steve Madsen

Tags: flatclassroom, flatclassroomproject, worldonline, prediction, information_change, hprizonproject, humanmachine

by: Steve Madsen

MediaPost Publications - More Bosses Using Social Media Profiles To Evaluate Potential Hires - 09/11/2008

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:31:19 -0000

Highlights and Sticky Notes:

A new CareerBuilder.com survey found that 22% of all hiring managers have combed through social media profiles to help evaluate potential hires, up from just 11% two years ago.

Potential employers are looking at social networks to get more of a feel for future employees. Could be an idea for a video section? - Steve Madsen

Tags: no_tag

by: Steve Madsen

Blurring The Lines of Privacy: Did The Twittered Funeral Take Things Too Far? - ReadWriteWeb

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:11:43 -0000

Berny Morson, a Rocky Mountain news reporter, took reporting on Twitter to another level. He did not wait for the memorial service to publish the news about the tragic death of a 3-year-old boy. Instead, Morson "twittered" the funeral service this past Wednesday.

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Berny Morson, a Rocky Mountain news reporter, took reporting on Twitter to another level. He did not wait for the memorial service to publish the news about the tragic death of a 3-year-old boy. Instead, Morson "twittered" the funeral service this past Wednesday. - Steve Madsen

Tags: flatclassroomproject2008, pln

by: Steve Madsen

From Age of Empires to Zork: Using Games in the Classroom | Academic Commons

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:12:32 -0000

Very nice article about using Games in the Classroom from Todd Bryant. (Hat tip to Jo McLeay's plurk about this one.)

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Article about using games in the classroom to teach. - Vicki Davis
Very nice article about using Games in the Classroom from Todd Bryant. (Hat tip to Jo McLeay's plurk about this one.) - Vicki Davis

Tags: bestpractices, edu_newapp, education, games, hzmeta, pedagogy, professionaldevelopment, technology

by: Vicki Davis

Educators - OLPC

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:25:29 -0000

Tags: education, hz08, laptop, mobile, olpc

by: Julie Lindsay

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:39:22 -0000

Tags: tutorials, youtube

by: Cheryl Lykowski

Ning “the” Thing » CogDogBlog

Mon, 26 May 2008 13:41:23 -0000

Interesting observations from Alan Levine about those of us who use Nings for our projects. It truly becomes "the" ning.

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Observations by Alan Levine about the use of Ning for collaboration, specifically based upon Flat Classroom and Horizon. - Vicki Davis
Interesting observations from Alan Levine about those of us who use Nings for our projects. It truly becomes "the" ning. - Vicki Davis

Tags: connectingpeople, education, ning, virtualcollab

by: Vicki Davis

The ROLE of a teacher Changes. . . - Horizon Project 2008

Mon, 19 May 2008 00:58:54 -0000

Wow! This student says so much very eloquently about Don Tapscott's keynote:

My tenth grader says in this blog post:

"A teacher should, as Don Tapscott said, no longer be a transmitter of information, but a regulator of educational settings. Our teacher Mrs. Vicki could stand in from of the class room all day and lecture us on exactly what to do and how to do it. We would ace tests and learn a lot . . . for a while… However by next year about 65% of what we learned will be irrelevant due to technology changes and development. Instead, she gives us projects to complete that pose challenges to us that can repeat themselves. Such as giving us a project to make a video by using a program we are unfamiliar with. Though we may not ever make another video, it is inevitable that we face the challenge of having to use an unfamiliar program, ergo, we will be prepared to deal with this for the rest of our lives.

So in conclusion, the role of a teacher is now: to regulate the educational environment; to introduce students to the realm of ambiguities; and to no longer evaluate our overall knowledge, but our constructive, creative, and adaptive capabilities."

Wow! I am humbled and impressed at what students have to say when asked and challenged!

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Wow! This student says so much very eloquently about Don Tapscott's keynote:

My tenth grader says in this blog post:

"A teacher should, as Don Tapscott said, no longer be a transmitter of information, but a regulator of educational settings. Our teacher Mrs. Vicki could stand in from of the class room all day and lecture us on exactly what to do and how to do it. We would ace tests and learn a lot . . . for a while… However by next year about 65% of what we learned will be irrelevant due to technology changes and development. Instead, she gives us projects to complete that pose challenges to us that can repeat themselves. Such as giving us a project to make a video by using a program we are unfamiliar with. Though we may not ever make another video, it is inevitable that we face the challenge of having to use an unfamiliar program, ergo, we will be prepared to deal with this for the rest of our lives.

So in conclusion, the role of a teacher is now: to regulate the educational environment; to introduce students to the realm of ambiguities; and to no longer evaluate our overall knowledge, but our constructive, creative, and adaptive capabilities."

Wow! I am humbled and impressed at what students have to say when asked and challenged! - Vicki Davis
A student's rumination on teacher roles in the classroom. - Vicki Davis

Tags: don tapscott, education, hz08, hz08_keynote

by: Vicki Davis

6 breakthrough mobile technologies

Fri, 16 May 2008 03:55:12 -0000

Tags: connectingpeople, hz08, hzmeta, mobile, ubiquitousplatform

by: Julie Lindsay

Past Sites of Week - NBC News launches free online learning community for teenagers

Thu, 15 May 2008 09:42:48 -0000

Tags: digital_literacy

by: Cheryl Lykowski

Connecting People Via The Network - Horizon Project 2008

Wed, 14 May 2008 23:37:51 -0000

I enjoyed this video a lot from Ren at Goodland High School. I particularly liked the contrast of the computers at the beginning of the video. I think he did a nice job.

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A very nice video done by a student about connecting people via the network. - Vicki Davis
I enjoyed this video a lot from Ren at Goodland High School. I particularly liked the contrast of the computers at the beginning of the video. I think he did a nice job. - Vicki Davis

Tags: connectingpeople, education, hz08, innovation

by: Vicki Davis

idc_texts: Some Exploratory Notes on Produsers and Produsage

Mon, 12 May 2008 16:26:10 -0000

referenced in Scope Conf SAF2008

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referenced in Scope Conf SAF2008 - glen gatin

Highlights and Sticky Notes:

These changes are facilitated (although, importantly, not solely driven) by the emergence of new, participatory technologies of information access, knowledge exchange, and content production, many of whom are associated with Internet and new media technologies.

J.C. Herz has described the same process as ‘harnessing the hive’ (2005) – that is, the harnessing of promising and useful ideas, generated by expert consumers, by commercial producers (and sometimes under ethically dubious models which appear to exploit and thus hijack the hive as a cheap generator of ideas, rather than merely harnessing it in a benign fashion).

In such models, the production of ideas takes place in a collaborative, participatory environment which breaks down the boundaries between producers and consumers and instead enables all participants to be users as well as producers of information and knowledge, or what I have come to produsers (also see Bruns 2005a).

These produsers engage not in a traditional form of content production, but are instead involved in produsage – the collaborative and continuous building and extending of existing content in pursuit of further improvement.

Sites of produsage flourish if they can attract a large number of engaged and experienced participants who adhere to the ideals of the site. This requires a balance between openness and structure – if sites are seen as being controlled by a closed in-group of participants, they are unlikely to attract new produsers into the fold, as these are likely to feel alienated; on the other hand, if anyone can participate without any sense of oversight by individuals or the established community as a whole, then cohesion is likely to be lost.

At such stages, projects often rely on a small number of highly engaged contributors, and it is crucial for them to both convey a sense of purpose and drive for the project as well as create an environment which invites participation from new contributors.

Tags: collectiveintelligence, researchmethodology, sof2008

by: glen gatin

How tech wars end (Scripting News)

Sat, 10 May 2008 15:45:38 -0000

Humankind lose its pirate mentality and warlike pride. Hmmm... nice to think about.

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Humankind lose its pirate mentality and warlike pride. Hmmm... nice to think about. - glen gatin

Tags: chi, collectiveintelligence, networked

by: glen gatin

globeandmail.com: Creating a global brain

Wed, 07 May 2008 07:26:25 -0000

Great article from the Globe and Mail ( whoa!!) About the semantic web and some applications that are coming soon. Set up the BlueOrganizer addon for Firefox that has semantic web qualities, Hightlight a word and it will initiate a smart serach that you can organize with the app.

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Great article from the Globe and Mail ( whoa!!) About the semantic web and some applications that are coming soon. Set up the BlueOrganizer addon for Firefox that has semantic web qualities, Hightlight a word and it will initiate a smart serach that you can organize with the app. - glen gatin

Tags: collectiveintelligence, msm, web3.0

by: glen gatin

commentchallenge » home

Mon, 05 May 2008 23:35:00 -0000

the 31 day comment challenge is a program to promote effective, meaningful comments run by several amazing edubloggers -- this is an example of something that those interested in facilitating effective communications should discuss and participate in.

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the 31 day comment challenge is a program to promote effective, meaningful comments run by several amazing edubloggers -- this is an example of something that those interested in facilitating effective communications should discuss and participate in. - Vicki Davis

Tags: ad4dcss, blog, connectingpeople, digital_communication, digital_literacy, edu_news, edublog, edublogger, education, geeks4, hz08

by: Vicki Davis

What's Up with the Secret Cybersecurity Plans, Senators Ask DHS | Threat Level from Wired.com

Mon, 05 May 2008 02:24:52 -0000

When ever a government initiative is prefaced by a refference to nine eleven it makes me clench a bit.

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When ever a government initiative is prefaced by a refference to nine eleven it makes me clench a bit. - glen gatin

Tags: government, security

by: glen gatin

Around the Corner - MGuhlin.net : Is IT becoming Extinct

Sat, 03 May 2008 17:45:52 -0000

Tried to leave a comment but it said I had unspecified parameters. Maybe I was just to long-winded. Anyway I wrote up my comment as a blog entry at http://ict07598.wordpress.com/in-house-dc-electrical-generating-plants/

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Tried to leave a comment but it said I had unspecified parameters. Maybe I was just to long-winded. Anyway I wrote up my comment as a blog entry at http://ict07598.wordpress.com/in-house-dc-electrical-generating-plants/ - glen gatin

Tags: change, innovation, steampoweredit, technology

by: glen gatin