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Madeline Rupard

How "cuil" is it to misspell your brand name? - 0 views

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mainstream digiciv open computer internet www consumerism capitalism

shared by Madeline Rupard on 01 Dec 10 - Cached
  • Madeline Rupard on 01 Dec 10
     
    So true. Flickr. Prezi. Diigo. Scribd. All about the hilarity of trending website's names.
Madeline Rupard

Widget Box - Widget Maker - 0 views

www.widgetbox.com

digiciv open internet communication blog web 2.0 awesome

shared by Madeline Rupard on 01 Dec 10 - Cached
  • Madeline Rupard on 01 Dec 10
     
    So, I just used this for my blog: http://tamesequels.blogspot.com, and will shortly be posting a digital literacy lab for this. Basically, if you want to put a blog feed as a widget on another blog, you can customize one for free on this website. It's really easy and it gives you a code at the end of the customization to post. Check out my blog to see one. It's the "My Photography" section, and you'll see how it posts everything from that blog really nicely. A great tool for making your website alive.
Gideon Burton

hitRECord: Welcome - 3 views

hitrecord.org/reel

remix collaboration platform

shared by Gideon Burton on 05 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 05 Jan 11
     
    An online collaborative remix community. Their welcome video illustrates how well remix and collaboration work!
Sean Watson

The FP Twitterati 100 - 1 views

www.foreignpolicy.com/...the_fp_twitterati_100

shared by Sean Watson on 23 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Sean Watson on 23 Jun 11
     
    These days, everyone from the Dalai Lama to Bill Gates is on Twitter, the microblogging platform founded in 2006. During breaking news events like the death of Osama bin Laden or for following the Arab uprisings, it's become an invaluable tool for keeping up to speed. But for many, it's still just another place to promote their own work, rather than engaging in a more natural give-and-take. So how do you tell who's really worth following? FP's got you covered. Here are 100 Twitter users from around the world who will make you smarter, infuriate you, and delight you -- 140 characters at a time.
Gideon Burton

RFC 1866 - Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0 - 0 views

tools.ietf.org/rfc1866

berners-lee HTML history request for comments RFC

shared by Gideon Burton on 28 Aug 12 - Cached
    • Gideon Burton
      Gideon Burton on 30 Aug 12
       
      This historical document laying out hypertext markup language (HTML) is an example of how an emerging standard was codified. HTML had been around since 1990. Berners-Lee formalized the standard and the process of revising it further through this informal request for comments.
Greg Williams

Connectivism - 1 views

www.itdl.org/...article01.htm

Connectivism learning theory education George Siemens

shared by Greg Williams on 12 Sep 12 - Cached
  • Do we acquire it throu
  • These theories, however, were developed in a time when learning was not impacted through technology.
  • In many fields the life of knowledge is now measured in months and years.
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  • The amount of knowledge in the world has doubled in the past 10 years and is doubling every 18 months according to the American Society of Training and Documentation (ASTD). To combat the shrinking half-life of knowledge, organizations have been forced to develop new methods of deploying instruction.
  • Technology is altering (rewiring) our brains. The tools we use define and shape our thinking
  • learning as a lasting changed state (emotional, mental, physiological (i.e. skills)) brought about as a result of experiences and interactions with content or other people.
  • Objectivism (similar to behaviorism) states that reality is external and is objective, and knowledge is gained through experiences. Pragmatism (similar to cognitivism) states that reality is interpreted, and knowledge is negotiated through experience and thinking. Interpretivism (similar to constructivism) states that reality is internal, and knowledge is constructed.
  • Behaviorism states that learning is largely unknowable, that is, we can’t possibly understand what goes on inside a person (the “black box theory”)
  • Cognitivism often takes a computer information processing model. Learning is viewed as a process of inputs, managed in short term memory, and coded for long-term recall.
  • Constructivism suggests that learners create knowledge as they attempt to understand their experiences
  • Constructivism assumes that learners are not empty vessels to be filled with knowledge. Instead, learners are actively attempting to create meaning. Learners often select and pursue their own learning. Constructivist principles acknowledge that real-life learning is messy and complex.
  • learning that occurs outside of people
  • The ability to synthesize and recognize connections and patterns is a valuable skill.
  • In today’s environment, action is often needed without personal learning – that is, we need to act by drawing information outside of our primary knowledge.
  • An entirely new approach is needed.
  • How can we continue to stay current in a rapidly evolving information ecology?
  • We can no longer personally experience and acquire learning that we need to act. We derive our competence from forming connections.
  • Unlike constructivism, which states that learners attempt to foster understanding by meaning making tasks, chaos states that the meaning exists – the learner's challenge is to recognize the patterns which appear to be hidden
  • The capacity to form connections between sources of information, and thereby create useful information patterns, is required to learn in our knowledge economy.
  • A network can simply be defined as connections between entities.
  • Nodes that successfully acquire greater profile will be more successful at acquiring additional connections
  • Finding a new job, as an example, often occurs through weak ties. This principle has great merit in the notion of serendipity, innovation, and creativity. Connections between disparate ideas and fields can create new innovations.
  • Connectivism is the integration of principles explored by chaos, network, and complexity and self-organization theories.
  • Learning and knowledge rests in diversity of opinions.
  • Decision-making is itself a learning process. Choosing what to learn and the meaning of incoming information is seen through the lens of a shifting reality. While there is a right answer now, it may be wrong tomorrow due to alterations in the information climate affecting the decision.
  • The starting point of connectivism is the individual.
  • This cycle of knowledge development (personal to network to organization) allows learners to remain current in their field through the connections they have formed.
  • the internet leverages the small efforts of many with the large efforts of few.
  • example of a Maricopa County Community College system project that links senior citizens with elementary school students in a mentor program. The children “listen to these “grandparents” better than they do their own parents, the mentoring really helps the teachers…the small efforts of the many- the seniors – complement the large efforts of the few – the teachers.” (2002). This amplification of learning, knowledge and understanding through the extension of a personal network is the epitome of connectivism.
  • Implications
  • The pipe is more important than the content within the pipe. Our ability to learn what we need for tomorrow is more important than what we know today. A real challenge for any learning theory is to actuate known knowledge at the point of application.
  • acknowledges the tectonic shifts in society where learning is no longer an internal, individualistic activity
  • Greg Williams on 12 Sep 12
     
    "Technology is altering (rewiring) our brains. The tools we use define and shape our thinking." . . . or so this fellow argues in a pretty detailed paper
Erin Hamson

Fighting Against Special Interests and For the Public Interest: A Year of Change | The ... - 0 views

www.whitehouse.gov/...-public-interest-a-year-change

shared by Erin Hamson on 17 Sep 10 - No Cached
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 17 Sep 10
       
      Why is this my first time hearing about this? How many millions more don't know?
  •  To do just that, on his first full day in office, the President signed two critical documents that have shaped the Administration: the Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government and the Executive Order on Ethics. As a result of the Memorandum on Transparency, we have since Day One, worked to empower the public – through greater openness and new technologies – to influence the decisions that affect their lives.
Erin Hamson

About Open Government | The White House - 0 views

www.whitehouse.gov/about

shared by Erin Hamson on 17 Sep 10 - No Cached
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 17 Sep 10
       
      This is a good beginning to openness. But it still seems a little vague.
  • The Administration is reducing the influence of special interests by writing new ethics rules that prevent lobbyists from coming to work in government or sitting on its advisory boards. The Administration is tracking how government uses the money with which the people have entrusted it with easy-to-understand websites like recovery.gov, USASpending.gov, and IT.usaspending.gov. The Administration is empowering the public – through greater openness and new technologies – to influence the decisions that affect their lives.
Kevin Watson

Let Dialogue begin | openDemocracy - 0 views

www.opendemocracy.net/...let-dialogue-begin

digiciv democracy open internet dialogue government media blog

shared by Kevin Watson on 30 Sep 10 - No Cached
    • Kevin Watson
      Kevin Watson on 30 Sep 10
       
      Spot on! Technology really is changing the world, and the sharing of ideas all over it.
  • Globalization has shaped our era. Technology has minimized distances; ideas, values and news cross borders quicker than ever before. New definitions and complex debates over our identities as international and national citizens have arisen as a result. As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. puts it: “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
Kevin Watson

Chris Anderson: How web video powers global innovation | Video on TED.com - 0 views

www.ted.com/..._powers_global_innovation.html

digiciv Crowd Accelerated Innovation Crowdsourcing open media

shared by Kevin Watson on 22 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Kevin Watson on 22 Sep 10
     
    Great Video on Open Media and Crowdsourcing! You really ought to watch this! It's actually really interesting!!
Mike Lemon

Intelligences - 0 views

caffinatedcarbivore.blogspot.com/...-we-and-can-we-measure-it.html

shared by Mike Lemon on 21 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Mike Lemon on 21 Sep 10
     
    I read this a few weeks ago. It only seems fitting that I bring it up during this class on empiricism.
Erin Hamson

Transparent science - 1 views

www.nature.com/...embor241.html

shared by Erin Hamson on 21 Sep 10 - No Cached
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 21 Sep 10
       
      Of course they want mess with the data, other wise the fundung companies pulls out from under you...
  • However, whether consciously or subconsciously, the danger is that these data may sometimes be interpreted in a certain, more favourable, light. With private funding of basic research on the increase, potential conflicts of interest are becoming more With private funding of basic research on the increase, potential conflicts of interest are becoming more frequent frequent and scientists may have more than their reputations at stake when making their results public
  • Shuan Pai on 21 Sep 10
     
    Looks into how much is actually disclosed in scientific studies
anonymous

China: Capitalism Doesn't Require Democracy - 0 views

www.commondreams.org/...0110-42.htm

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      anonymous on 28 Sep 10
       
      Shows how some prior assumptions about capitalism have been proven wrong by China's economy.
Clint Peterson

How Hollywood portrays Capitalism - 0 views

online.wsj.com/...4025304575284722645443124.html

shared by Clint Peterson on 28 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Clint Peterson on 28 Sep 10
     
    This article provides some interesting insight into why Hollywood paints capitalism in the picture that it does.
Ariel Szuch

Open government is a mindset - O'Reilly Radar - 0 views

radar.oreilly.com/...ing-milestones-towards-op.html

open government social media

shared by Ariel Szuch on 17 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • The issue of data leaks through new communication channels is not a negligible concern within the Office of the CIO, particularly as open government efforts move forward. Asked about that issue, Baitman said: "Open government is about communicating with the public, not sharing sensitive data. To the extent that we do share data, we extensively scrub it. Open government has nothing to do with personally identifiable information (PII). That has to do with what government is doing for and behalf of its citizens."
  • Ariel Szuch on 17 Sep 10
     
    I thought this was an interesting blend of some of the concepts we've been discussing in class, namely social media and open government, and how the two fit together.
anonymous

Newspaper Death Watch - 0 views

newspaperdeathwatch.com

shared by anonymous on 20 Sep 10 - No Cached
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 20 Sep 10
       
      It is interesting how newspapers are first and foremost just businesses. Sure they have a noble cause, but they still need to make money. Also the author of this blog has an interesting history with newspapers, but he seems to be making the transition to digital media well.
Jeffrey Whitlock

Choosing a smart password - Official Gmail Blog - 3 views

gmailblog.blogspot.com/...choosing-smart-password.html

shared by Jeffrey Whitlock on 27 Sep 10 - Cached
    • Jeffrey Whitlock
      Jeffrey Whitlock on 27 Sep 10
       
      This is a informative, brief, and relevant blog post with good advice on how to protect your interent security
    • Andrew DeWitt
      Andrew DeWitt on 27 Sep 10
       
      It is interesting... often feel stuck in the delimea of making up a new password for each new website that I will have to remember or reuse an old password.
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