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Theron DesRosier

Ning Update - Creators - 0 views

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update ning

shared by Theron DesRosier on 16 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Theron DesRosier on 16 Apr 10
     
    Ning converting to pay site.
Nils Peterson

YouTube - Michael Wesch - PdF2009 - The Machine is (Changing) Us - 1 views

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wesch

shared by Nils Peterson on 18 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Nils Peterson on 18 Sep 09
     
    Michael Wesch updates Machine is Us/ing us. 30 min video His point, our tools are changing us. Worth thinking about by us greybeards are his statistics about the number of hours of video uploaded to You Tube per day. For someone who remembers what a byte is, this is a paradigm shifting amount of data being moved and stored for free.
  • Nils Peterson on 18 Sep 09
     
    Michael Wesch updates Machine is Us/ing us. His point, our tools are changing us. Worth thinking about by us greybeards are his statistics about the number of hours of video uploaded to You Tube per day. For someone who remembers what a byte is, this is a paradigm shifting amount of data being moved and stored for free.
Theron DesRosier

Twitter / WSUPullman - 0 views

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wsupullman twitter web2.0 social networking

shared by Theron DesRosier on 02 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Theron DesRosier on 02 Mar 09
     
    Hey there! WSUPullman is using Twitter. Twitter is a free service that lets you keep in touch with people through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? Join today to start receiving WSUPullman's updates.
Theron DesRosier

OUseful Info - 0 views

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ouseful network visualization

shared by Theron DesRosier on 02 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Theron DesRosier on 02 Dec 08
     
    "Visualising CoAuthors in Open Repository Online Papers, Part 3 In Visualising CoAuthors in Open Repository Online Papers, Part 2 I described an approach for pulling author information out of the OU ORO repository and displaying it in various ways, such as using a Graphviz plotted graph. I knew that ORO was scheduling an update, which has been pushed in the last few days, so the screen scraper I wrote to work with the old repository is now broken (of course...). The new ORO engine is capable of generating RSS search feeds though, so looking forwards, the whole system is far easier to play with it..."
Theron DesRosier

21st century curricula - 0 views

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web2.0 education future

shared by Theron DesRosier on 02 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Theron DesRosier on 02 Mar 09
     
    This post addresses the challenge of updating a 20th century educational system for the 21st century.
Gary Brown

Iran's Twitter Revolution - 0 views

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twitter news information literacy

shared by Gary Brown on 16 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Gary Brown on 16 Jun 09
     
    Iran's Twitter Revolution posted by Ari Berman on 06/15/2009 @ 12:15pm Forget CNN or any of the major American "news" networks. If you want to get the latest on the opposition protests in Iran, you should be reading blogs, watching YouTube or following Twitter updates from Tehran,
Peggy Collins

Blackboard Press Releases - 1 views

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shared by Peggy Collins on 04 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Peggy Collins on 04 Nov 09
     
    "Blackboard Inc. (Nasdaq: BBBB) announced the launch of a native application for BlackBerry(R) mobile devices, debuting at the University of Washington this week, as part of the new Blackboard Mobile(TM) platform which is being leveraged by a growing number of campuses and K-12 schools to deliver a rich set of campus life services and content to mobile devices. The BlackBerry application enables many more users to enjoy an enhanced experience while navigating course catalogs and campus maps, e-mailing professors and classmates and receiving real time updates on course schedules, campus events, news and sports with Mobile Central (formerly MobilEdu(TM)), Blackboard Mobile's flagship suite of applications. Originally optimized for users of Apple(R) iPhone(R) and iPod Touch(R) devices, the best Mobile Central experience is now available to users of BlackBerry devices. The suite is also generally accessible to users of any smart phone or mobile Web enabled device. "This new platform allows us to easily reach our students, faculty and staff around the clock and deliver information whenever and wherever they want it, which increasingly is on mobile devices like the BlackBerry and iPhone," said David Morton, Director of Mobile Communication Strategies at the University of Washington (UW). "As a modern, global university, UW committed to embracing mobile communications and is pleased to be the launch institution for the BlackBerry initiative." "
Matthew Tedder

Turning Work into Play with Online Games | h+ Magazine - 0 views

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education

shared by Matthew Tedder on 16 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Matthew Tedder on 16 Jan 10
     
    This is about games to improve employee work.
  • Matthew Tedder on 16 Jan 10
     
    This is about using online games to engage employees in work. This is very much the core of what I was talking about, except for education. For those more knowledgeable about software design: my thoughts so far were on using Google's V8 Javascript engine and a 3D engine, such as Ogre3D, perhaps wrapped by QT or SDL. The worlds would be managed on the server but code for each object type shipped to the clients and run, sychronized there. Everything would be an "object"--even a world itself (a container object). Each object would comprise of four code modules plus its media files (3D models, sounds, etc.): Affector -- this receives sensory input then filters and translates that to the object's internal properties. Intrinsor -- this is the object's behavioral programming. For example, it can be the functions of an espresso machine object or the AI and/or user-interface connector of an animate object, etc. Mitigator -- this is the code that controls the internal environment of any objects contained within this object. It mitigates the effects of contained objects to the affects of others. For example, a world object, a boat, a house, or a bag. The physics, weather, and such will depend on what they are contained within. The mitigator may also initiate effects to contained objects. Effector -- this provides the API for action attempts to the Intrinsor. It then filters and translates the action attempts to the objects actual action attempts that are read by this object's containor. (Yes--I mispelled some words above intentionally) This design provides a framework for a persistent world of decent individual performance. The V8 engine compiles to fast machine code (and caches). Only very minimal data need be communicated over the network. Objects can run in parallel precisely the same, so if a client fails the system continues. Updates of virtually any kind can be made on-the-fly without stopping the game. New object types will be relatively easy to b
Gary Brown

News: Room for Improvement - Inside Higher Ed - 1 views

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employers critical thinking

shared by Gary Brown on 21 Jan 10 - Cached
  • 302 private sector and non-profit employers who, by and large, say their employees need a broader set of skills and higher levels of knowledge than they ever have before. But, most surveyed said, colleges and universities have room for improvement in preparing students to be workers.
  • It is time for us to match our ambitious goals for college attainment with an equally ambitious – and well-informed – understanding of what it means to be well-prepared,” said Carol Geary Schneider, the association’s president. “Quality has to become the centerpiece of this nation’s postsecondary education.”
  • Nearly across the board, employers said they expect more of their employees than they did in the past
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  • Employers were largely pessimistic in their views of whether higher education is successful in preparing students for what was characterized as “today’s global economy.”
  • “All of us must focus more on what students are actually doing in college.”
  • Employers said colleges should place more emphasis on preparing students "to effectively communicate orally and in writing" (89 percent), to use "critical thinking and analytical reasoning skills" (81 percent) and to have "the ability to apply knowledge and skills to real-world settings through internships or other hands on-experiences" (79 percent). Fewer than half -- 45 percent and 40 percent, respectively -- though colleges should do more to emphasize proficiency in a foreign language and knowledge of democratic institutions and values.
  • Eighty-four percent said that completion of "a significant project before graduation" like a capstone course or senior thesis would help a lot or a fair amount to prepare students for success, with 62 percent saying it would help "a lot." Expecting that students complete an internship or community-based field project was something that 66 percent of employers surveyed said would help a lot.
  • Gary Brown on 21 Jan 10
     
    Updating what we've heard.
Nils Peterson

Facebook | Evoke - 1 views

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shared by Nils Peterson on 19 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Here’s how to become an EVOKE mentor: 1) Sign up for the EVOKE network 2) Make a promise to yourself to visit the EVOKE network as often as you can, between now and May 12. OKAY, I’M A MENTOR! NOW WHAT? Every time you visit the EVOKE network, try to complete at least one mentor mission. Each mission takes just a few minutes – but it can have a huge impact. Your feedback and words of advice can help an EVOKE agent stay motivated and optimistic. You can inspire an EVOKE agent to stick with the tough challenges of social innovation long enough to really make a difference.
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      Nils Peterson on 19 Mar 10
       
      concept of building a community be enlisting mentors
  • MENTOR MISSIONS Here are some starter mentor missions. You can tackle them in any order, and complete them as many times as you want. Feel free to invent your own mentor missions – and share instructions here in the comments for others to adopt.
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      Nils Peterson on 19 Mar 10
       
      BEFRIEND AN AGENT Browse the EVOKE agent directory ... Add the agent as your friend. WORDS OF WISDOM So share some words of wisdom CHEER 'EM ON HELPFUL RESOURCES.. share links to articles POWER UP Check to see if your agent has uploaded any videos, photos, or blog posts. BRAG TIME Tell the whole EVOKE network how proud you are Tweet or Facebook status update about your agent MAKE AN ALLIANCE Introduce your agent to a friend or colleague who you think
Joshua Yeidel

Google Code Blog: PPK: The Open Web Goes Mobile - 0 views

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web_design

shared by Joshua Yeidel on 07 May 09 - Cached
  • Joshua Yeidel on 07 May 09
     
    "Now, fortunately, PPK [of Quirksmode.com] is turning his attention to the world of mobile web devices. To no one's surprise, browser compatibility on mobile devices is even worse than it is on the desktop."
Nils Peterson

Pandemic flu, school closing and community learning « Community-based learning - 0 views

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obama pandemic flu CDC LMS learning 2.0 learning_community

shared by Nils Peterson on 30 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Nils Peterson on 30 Apr 09
     
    updating my thinking on pandemic flu and university response
  • Nils Peterson on 30 Apr 09
     
    Pandemic flu could lead to school closing. To avoid financial ruin by having to return tuition universities might consider trying to move online. There is a way to implement this movement, but not with the traditional course management system.
Gary Brown

News: More Meaningful Accreditation - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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accreditation portfolios

shared by Gary Brown on 22 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ts most distinctive feature is that it would clearly separate "compliance" from "improvement." Colleges would be required to build "portfolios" of data and materials, documenting (through more frequent peer reviews) their compliance with the association's many standards, with much of the information being made public. On a parallel track, or "pathway," colleges would have the flexibility to propose their own projects or themes as the focus of the self-improvement piece of their accreditation review, and would be judged (once the projects were approved by a peer team) by how well they carried out the plan. (Colleges the commission deems to be troubled would have a "pathway" chosen for them, to address their shortcomings.)
  • educe the paperwork burden on institutions (by making the portfolio electronic and limiting the written report for the portfolio to 50 pages), and make the process more valuable for colleges by letting them largely define for themselves where they want to improve and what they want to accomplish.
  • "We want to make accreditation so valuable to institutions that they would do it without Title IV," she said in an interview after the presentation. "The only way we can protect the improvement piece, and make it valuable to institutions to aim high, is if we separate it from the compliance piece."
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  • Mainly what happens in the current structure, she said, is that the compliance role is so onerous and so dominates the process that, in too many cases, colleges fail to get anything meaningful out of the improvement portion. That, she said, is why separating the two is so essential.
  • s initially conceptualized, the commission's revised process would have institutions build electronic portfolios made up of (1) an annual institutional data update the accreditor already uses, (2) a collection of "evidence of quality and capacity" drawn from existing sources (other accrediting reports), federal surveys and audits, and a "50-page, evidence-based report that demonstrates fulfillment of the criteria for accreditation," based largely on the information in (1) and (2), commission documents say. A panel of peer reviewers would "rigorously" review the data (without a site visit) at various intervals -- how much more frequently than the current 10-year accreditation review would probably depend on the perceived health of the college -- and make a recommendation on whether to approve the institution for re-accreditation.
  • "The portfolio portion really should be what's tied to continued accreditation," said one member of the audience. "As soon as you tie the pathway portion into that, you make it a very different exercise, as we're going to want to make a good case, to make ourselves look good."
Matthew Shirey

Issue 1948 - fbug - AJAX callback not fired in Firefox 3.5 + Firebug 1.4b3 - Google Code - 0 views

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firefox firebug xhr error javascript

shared by Matthew Shirey on 09 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Matthew Shirey on 09 Jul 09
     
    There are some work arounds cited in the bug tracker referenced but they include shutting off critically useful parts of Firebug. This is only an issue for people using recent Firefox and Firebug versions. I'm keeping a close eye on this one and will keep you all updated.
  • Matthew Shirey on 09 Jul 09
     
    A bad bug I've run into and am tracking. Basically if you combine the latest Firefox with recent Firebug you can get some rather nasty looking errors.
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