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Other article on posting one's school work on the web..

the concept behind Google Wave is to "unify" communication on the web. It's a hybrid of email, web chat, IM, and project management software. It features the ability to replay conversations because it records the entire sequence of communication, character by character. Because of this, discussions are also live in Google Wave: you will see your friends type character-by-character. The features don't stop there, either. Google Wave also supports the ability to drag attachments from your desktop into Google Wave. It loads that file and sends it immediately to anyone in the conversation. It's also embeddable, so you can embed Google Wave conversations on any blog.

This was an MRG 7/15/09 what struck me was the idea of understanding property that becomes more valuable with wider use.

The last paragraph is a good one and the core question I think we have been working on with harvesting gradebook - make not only the student work, but the assignment and the assessment criteria open as community property. Why not have community involved in the conversation about what is important to study?

Here is part of the announcement of AAEEBL. It drew more angry comments than I think it deserves

date | cases | deaths Friday, May 22, 2009 | 12107 | 87 Thursday, May 21, 2009 | 11075 | 83 Wednesday, May 20, 2009 | 10815 | 82 Tuesday, May 19, 2009 | 10513 | 80 Monday, May 18, 2009 | 9383 | 73 Plain text source as well as Live Mathematica output

A workaround for the broken "Add a Web Part" bar when using Firefox or Safari

If you're in FF and need to add a web part to any SharePoint page with a web zone, just click this bookmarklet

The shared nature of ecological intelligence makes it synergistic with social intelligence, which gives us the capacity to coordinate and harmonize our efforts. The art of working together effectively, as mastered by a star performing team, combines abilities like empathy and perspective taking, candor and cooperation, to create person-to-person links that let information gain added value as it travels. Collaboration and the exchange of information are vital to amassing the essential ecological insights and necessary database that allow us to act for the greater good.

resource for faculty

Seven principles for conducting assessment of student learning. Basic stuff well summarized.

This article is deeper than it sounds.

3 Lemons: Corporate website, Intranet, Groupware, and how they can be fixed. Also, social networking R&D, and 8 Web 2.0 tools ("Dave's Faves") to consider for your organization.

A quick hack to link Google Wave engine to other services inside Moodle.

It's about posting one's work on line. I know (from memory) this sort of thing has actually gone to court and been ruled in the student's favor--the student is the owner of his/her own work. But this is a whole new twist..

I have two articles to post on this.. The commentary is particularly meaningful in the other one, I think. But both add value. The other one is: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/11/student-challenges-p.html

Item Gary emailed around

As I mentioned in this afternoon's Learning Environment Team meeting, this blog post introduces the notion of "ateleological" (emergent) processes, as opposed to purpose-driven, planned processes. Though the focus is on information technology, the ideas are broadly applicable.

Introna (1996) identified eight attributes of a design process and uses them to distinguish between the two extremes: teleological (planning school) and ateleological (learning school).

You Only Get This Type of Education in Class - Mythic Attributes of the Lecture Good discussion of the use of the lecture in online learning, both on whether it is advisable, and on how to approach the idea. Given that the lecture has such a bad reputation, why do I produce so many of them? What I have found is that I do some of my best thinking though speaking. Giving a talk forces me to reconceptualize my thoughts. So for me, a lecture is inevitably a learning experience. As for my audience, well, I have often maintained that they learn very little from the content of the lecture, and much more from my mannerisms and approach. A lecture (like a demonstration) isn't a learning event (except for the speaker), it's an enabling event, a celebration of what we already know and believe. Lectures challenge, invigorate, enliven, enable and enlighten, but they do not teach (much). Experience teaches. David Jones, The Weblog of (a) David Jones, June 9, 2009. [Link] [Tags: Online Learning, Experience] [Previous][Next]

This is a provocative description of the lecture