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Ximena Gallardo

Students Speak Up in Class, Silently, via Social Media - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    How using tech in the classroom helps the shy students and more
Priscilla Stadler

Everything you need to know about the internet --The Observer - 2 views

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    "In spite of all the answers the internet has given us, its full potential to transform our lives remains the great unknown. Here are the nine key steps to understanding the most powerful tool of our age - and where it's taking us"
Priscilla Stadler

Whither the Wikis? - Inside Higher Ed - 2 views

  • “To the extent scholarship in academe is caught up in questions of status, promotion, and tenure,” he says, “then it is slightly misaligned with wiki-style approaches.
  • “For a wiki-based project to succeed within academic culture, I believe it would need to find a way to highlight individual voices in conversation with one another and to reward those individuals for their work, and that just hasn't happened yet
  • Fitzpatrick points to blogs as a new-media invention that satisfies the scholarly desire for attribution.
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  • So far, no broadly imagined academic wiki projects have really hit the big time. Citizendium, conceived -- by Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger -- as a more rigorously fact-checked alternative to Wikipedia , has only managed to push 140 articles through the vetting process since it was created in 2006 (there is a logjam of 14,000 articles in various phases of review).
  • Discipline-specific wikis are moving quickly,” concedes Jodi Schneider, a spokeswoman for AcaWiki, pointing to such examples as nLab, for math and physics, and OpenWetWare, for biology.
  • While scholars in more settled fields might chafe at a bottom-up model proposed by wikis, a new field such as social informatics might benefit from a space where everything that is known can be collected and discussed, the authors say.
  • While it's true that there aren’t a ton of formally wiki-based scholarship projects out there, there are lots of resources that are, if you like, wiki-inspired,
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  • the areas where they have gotten the most play in higher education seems to be in classrooms and various administrative apparatuses.
  • Democratic governance bodies, it seems, are more open to attributing work to an anonymous collectivity.
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     uses of wikis - not happening in the academy, but useful for students, admin, and in more collaborative settings
C. Jason Smith

Marc Prensky's Weblog: Make those You Tubes! - 1 views

  • But with You Tube and Flip videocams (and, of course cell phones that take video), the latter problem, at least, has been solved. Now all that has to happen for sharing is for a teacher to ask a student to point a video camera at them, and for the teacher to say, in 30 seconds, exactly what they typically tell me in person: "I'm doing this really exciting program where we...". Add two students talking and a shot of the classroom, and you're ready to post (which the student can also do) Total time elapsed: 15 minutes tops.
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      I am going to try this in my Media cluster next week!
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    I was on a panel with Prensky in the Spring. He is a big advocate of teaching through Youtube.
Priscilla Stadler

Salon - Community Based Annotations - 2 views

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    new tool using social media for group peer critique of student writing
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    Salon would seem to hold some considerable promise as a tool in the kind of peer tutoring involved in Justin's project with Ximena & Jason..
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    Salon would appear to hold some considerable promise as a tool in such peer tutoring projects as Justin's with Ximena and Jason.
Priscilla Stadler

Digitally Fatigued, Networkers Try New Sites, but Strategize to Avoid Burnout - NYTimes... - 0 views

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     choices overload
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    Excellent source, Priscilla!
Priscilla Stadler

Guerrilla Pedagogy: - 6 views

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    Matt Gold's presentation at LaGCC!
Priscilla Stadler

Purdue U Brings Social Networking to the Classroom - 1 views

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    platform created to allow "open sharing" inside a school Hotseat at Purdue
Priscilla Stadler

Living Mediations: Biology, Technology and Art | HASTAC - 1 views

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    HASTC Scholar blog - interesting
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