CTLT and Friends

Bookmarks of the Center for Teaching Learning and Technology at Washington State University.

good podcast about roles of internet and other personal technologies. just about mid-way talks about information scarcity (1.0) vs information abundance (2.0). near the end it talks about the tech proclivities of various ethnic groups

points at seely brown social life of information, gives a couple takes on future of the CMS

intersting idea to collect and vote on a series of items. the example i looked at was questions for obama, which requires some heavy moderation, but on a less charged front (or with limited access to add stuff) the tool could have some real power.

The feedbook is a collection of feeds (including podcast, blogs and someday soon hopefully vlogs) contained in an open ended opml first seeded by a course instructor and added to (or pared down) according to student needs.

Stanford professor, Linda Darling-Hammond, will chair Obama's transition team studying education policy. This sounds unremarkable, but just like Michelle Rhee and Joel Klein are lightning rods, so is Darling-Hammond. The main reason is that Darling-Hammond has been consistently skeptical of the nameless movement's efforts to shake up public schools. She has criticized Teach For America, the alternative certification program for teachers; criticized high-stakes testing, and criticized No Child Left Behind for narrowing the curriculum.

Gates Foundation will steer its education giving in a new direction But how much impact will the billions have?

The Handheld Learning Conference is the international signature event for learning using mobile or ubiquitous technologies.

This is a good tool for connecting.

The We Are Media Project is a community of people from nonprofits who are interested in learning and teaching about how social media strategies and tools can enable nonprofit organizations to create, compile, and distribute their stories and change the world.\nCurated by NTEN, the community will work in a networked way to help identify the best existing resources, people, and case studies that will give nonprofit organizations the knowledge and resources they need to be the media. The community will help identify and point to the best how-to guides and useful resources that cover all aspects of creating, aggregating, and distributing social media. The resulting curriculum which will live on this wiki and will also cover important organizational adoption issues, strategy, ROI analysis, as well as the tools.

Thanks Stephen, great bookmark. We are thinking about Change.gov right now. Wondering how we make it less broadcast and more 2.0.

"The traditional notion of hierarchical, top down, government has always been an imperfect match for the decentralized governance system of the US. However, much of what government does requires co-production of policy among agencies that have no formal authority over each other, fundamentally undermining the traditional Weberian image of bureaucracy. Networked governance refers to a growing body of research on the interconnectedness of essentially sovereign units, which examines how those interconnections facilitate or inhibit the functioning of the overall system. The objective of this program is two-fold: (1) to foster research on networked governance and (2) to provide a forum to discuss the challenges of networked governance."

"Front Seat is a civic software company and incubator. Our software connects people to the places we live, the resources we consume, and our communities".

While much of the tech industry and blogosphere is pondering who President-elect Barack Obama might appoint as the nation's first Chief Technology Officer--Eric Schmidt? Jeff Bezos? Larry Lessig?--a bunch of heavy-hitting public interest groups in Washington and a couple of civic-minded techies out in Seattle have each launched promising interventions in the discussion.

A Portal for Innovative Ideas This portal is produced by the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School, and is a marketplace of ideas and examples of government innovation. Browse or search to access news, documents, descriptions of award-winning programs, and information on events in your area of interest related to innovation. * RSS Feeds are available for each individual topic area. * We invite you to register to access online events, and to receive the biweekly Innovators Insights newsletter. * And, we encourage you to visit the Ash Institute YouTube Channel. The Ash Institute's Innovations in American Government Awards Program, and its affiliated international programs, are integral to the Government Innovators Network. Learn about the IAG program and how to apply.

"Complexity and Social Networks Blog of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science and the Program on Networked Governance, Harvard University\n\nWelcome! The objective of this blog is to offer a forum for the discussion of the intertwined subjects of network analysis and complex systems theory. "

SLJ offers an engaging, law-themed curriculum, with the goal of providing a high-quality, 9-12 education to under-resourced students. SLJ's focus on the study of law builds upon the success and experiences of The Bronx School for Law, Government, and Justice (BLGJ). BLGJ opened in 1997 in the South Bronx and has maintained 95% graduation rates in the first three graduating classes, with 90% of those graduates going on to college. Over its seven years, BLGJ has developed an array of law-themed courses that range from constitutional law to forensic science, and has established a successful internship model through which seniors spend three afternoons a week in courthouses, law firms, and non-profit organizations. SLJ was developed in conjunction with members of the BLGJ community including teachers, students, parents, and the principal.

"OMB Watch is a nonprofit government watchdog organization located in Washington, DC. Our mission is to promote open government, accountability and citizen participation."

Walk Score helps people find walkable places to live. Walk Score calculates the walkability of an address by locating nearby stores, restaurants, schools, parks, etc. Walk Score measures how easy it is to live a car-lite lifestyle-not how pretty the area is for walking.

The Ash Institute has a youtube page with videos on networked governance. This is a video of a talk on " Innovations in Participation: Citizen Engagement in Deliberative Democracy"

Chamberlain High School is small inner-city school within a school in a large urban district. Over its five years of existence, Chamberlain administrators have enlisted the aid of outside partners to help them realize the vision of an interdisciplinary environmental science theme based school. Partners include many university-based groups, as well as groups such as National Public Radio's Living on Earth, the Urban Ecology Institute (a non-profit university-based organization), and a local environmental literacy program. This study was undertaken to understand some of the dynamics behind those partnerships. Using activity theory as an analytical lens we found a set of tensions that drove many of the changes that have occurred between the school and its partners. In this paper we document these tensions so others who are working in similar situations will be able to leverage our experience and findings to support urban school change.