The policy applies to school system employees who post on the following: Social networking websites (including, but not limited to, MySpace, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, LinkedIn and Facebook), blogs, Wikis (including, but not limited to, Wikipedia) and other websites and message boards.
The available range of tools also resembles those found in web content management solutions. Enterprise social networks all include wikis, blogs and similar website type widgets. T
The Wikimedia Foundation has just announced that it has reached a settlement with new media company Internet Brands to put a stop to all litigation between the two parties concerning the creation and recent launch of free wiki travel site Wikivoyage.
The identities of the feminist editors weren't specified in the article, and with good cause: They didn't exist. At no time in the entire case were there "five feminist editors" up for a ban. But understandable outrage at the supposed misogynist move blew up on the Internet. And more stories followed-in Gawker, Raw Story, the Mary Sue, Inquisitr, and ThinkProgress-all sourcing the Guardian, spreading the myth of the fabled five feminist editors who were the only thing holding off Gamergate's takeover of Wikipedia.
Reports of the death of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) may have been greatly exaggerated, but predictions of a pivot toward MOOCs that are more vocational in nature (as opposed to a pathway to a liberal arts degree) appear to have been right on target.
A new MOOC platform is offering free online training for IT and cybersecurity professionals. Cybrary.IT offers 20-plus certification courses in systems administration, network administration and cybersecurity, with more on the way. More than 3,500 students worldwide have joined so far.
The University of New Mexico's latest Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), Rural Health Nursing, is now open to students. This course is focused on people interested in the problems that face health care providers when resources are scarce or culturally inappropriate.
Collaboration is a very intense way of working together while still retaining the separate identities, autonomy, and decision-making authority of the organizations involved. The beauty of collaboration is the acknowledgment that each organization has a separate and special function, a power that it brings to the joint effort. At the Collaboration : same time, each separate organization provides valuable services or products often critical to the health and well-being of their community. When the problems have been addressed, or the system has been improved, the collaboration is over.
The classroom is fundamentally a collaborative enterprise, so it stands to reason that elevating classroom collaboration to a high level will engender learning. Success in collaboration will also help students transition successfully from the classroom to a Collaboration: professional career where the ability to work effectively with others can be paramount. To that end, I thought it would be valuable here to explore skills known as the "seven norms for collaborative work" (Bill Baker, Group Dynamics Associates, Berkeley) and to think about their relationship to classroom experiences.
Companies need their critical workforces to perform smarter, faster and more productively. Achieving that goal requires embedding collaborative technologies deep into processes and incentivizing collaborative behaviors-ultimately transforming the way organizations turn knowledge into action. Collaboration platforms should do more than help employees talk about their work; they should create new ways for employees to do their work.
People waste huge amounts of time travelling to meetings, processing emails and simply trying to track down the right people in their organisations to speak to.
The Samsung example is just the latest privacy-related concern involving smart TVs - many of which routinely require users to agree to having their viewing data sent back to the TV maker and shared by them with advertisers and others simply in order for them to gain access to the service. But the clarity of wording in Samsung's privacy policy is impressive - given it amounts to a warning not to talk about private stuff in front of your telescreen because multiple unknown entities can listen in.
Parks and Recreation has never shied away from addressing real-world topics and the intricacies of geek culture. But a small time jump (this season takes place three years after the last) has given it the ability to comment on our society like true science fiction. And I'm not kidding when I say sci-fi. Everyone on the show now carries transparent smartphones and tablets that have the ability to project holograms (which seems crazy, but it's something that we may see soon). Plus, there are those aforementioned drones flying around and delivering unwanted packages, an obvious play on Amazon's very real, very fantastical drone concept.
