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Dallas McPheeters

Serious Reading for Serious Futurists | World Future Society - 39 views

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  • Trends Shaping Education 2010. OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. Paris: OECD Publishing, Sept 2010, 90p, free pdf.
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  • Learning for Jobs.
  • Dallas McPheeters on 13 Dec 10
     
    Education Today 2010: The OECD Perspecive. OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. Paris: OECD Publishing, Oct 2010, 86p, free pdf.
Adrienne Michetti

OpenZine - Create an online magazine - Collaboration with friends - 2 views

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  • Adrienne Michetti on 10 Mar 09
     
    create a blog, design a cover, publish like a magazine. Online collaboration for writers, artists, etc.
Scott Garrigan

DAISY: Digital Accessible Information SYstem (DAISY) Consortium - 0 views

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  • 2009-06-30Amazon Kindle DX Pilot Program Discriminates Against the Blind
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      Scott Garrigan on 11 Jul 09
       
      Check out this link. It highlights the difference between a "text reader," which many applications provide, and a "book reader" that includes navigation by chapter and page number, the ability to skip parts, and a knowledge of the normal parts of a book (like table of contents, footnotes, sidebar, etc.)
  • DAISY Makes Reading Easier (YouTube Video)  transcript
  • Scott Garrigan on 11 Jul 09
     
    DAISY Consortium for an international standard in audio book publishing and reading.
Barbara Moose

Tikatok - Imagine a Story. Create a Book. - 0 views

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  • Barbara Moose on 29 Jul 09
     
    Tikatok is where kids channel their imagination into stories - and publish those stories into books for you to share and treasure with friends and family.
Joanna Gerakios

Free Technology for Teachers: 12 Ways for Students to Publish Slideshows Online - 149 views

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publish slideshows web2.0

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  • Joanna Gerakios on 05 May 10
     
    Blog post from Free Technology for Teachers
Lauren Rosen

Calaméo - 79 views

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  • Karen Brooks on 13 May 10
     
    Great site for posting presentations and also posting presentation on a webpage. The presentations are on a shelve. I just started using and love it. It is easy to use and you can just upload PPT, DOC, RFT, EXCEL, etc into it to get the page turning book effect. Plus, links in the presentation are active. This is a new must know site for any educator or preofessional developer that uses technology regularly. You can view some education samples I put up at http://en.calameo.com/accounts/285487 if you are interested. Plus, it has very detailed user controls.
  • Lauren Rosen on 11 Jan 11
     
    Publish and share documents in online page turning book-like form.
Stan Golanka

Reading and the Web - Texts Without Context - NYTimes.com - 49 views

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  • It’s also a question, as Mr. Lanier, 49, astutely points out in his new book, “You Are Not a Gadget,” of how online collectivism, social networking and popular software designs are changing the way people think and process information, a question of what becomes of originality and imagination in a world that prizes “metaness” and regards the mash-up as “more important than the sources who were mashed.”
    • Stan Golanka
      Stan Golanka on 08 Feb 11
       
      Core discussion topic? From this, I see a few discussion issues: 1. Do we prize "mash-ups" more than original work? Who is "we" in this? 2. If the answer to #1 is "yes," then the next question is: is this good or bad? 3. Finally, if the answer is "bad" to #2, what place do "mash-ups" have, and how do we help our students see the value in original work?
  • Web 2.0 is creating a “digital forest of mediocrity” and substituting ill-informed speculation for genuine expertise;
    • Stan Golanka
      Stan Golanka on 08 Feb 11
       
      How do teachers help students rise above this "digital forest of mediocrity"?
  • Mr. Johnson added that the book’s migration to the digital realm will turn the solitary act of reading — “a direct exchange between author and reader” — into something far more social and suggested that as online chatter about books grows, “the unity of the book will disperse into a multitude of pages and paragraphs vying for Google’s attention.”
    • Stan Golanka
      Stan Golanka on 08 Feb 11
       
      If Johnson's predictions are true, is this necessarily bad? How much of this concern is "nostalgia"? What would be lost from an academic p.o.v, and what migh be gained?
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  • Instead of reading an entire news article, watching an entire television show or listening to an entire speech, growing numbers of people are happy to jump to the summary, the video clip, the sound bite — never mind if context and nuance are lost in the process; never mind if it’s our emotions, more than our sense of reason, that are engaged; never mind if statements haven’t been properly vetted and sourced.
    • Stan Golanka
      Stan Golanka on 08 Feb 11
       
      Should teachers "fight" this, or embrace it? Can summaries/sound bites ever be appropriate for academic discussions?
  • And online research enables scholars to power-search for nuggets of information that might support their theses, saving them the time of wading through stacks of material that might prove marginal but that might have also prompted them to reconsider or refine their original thinking.
  • Digital insiders like Mr. Lanier and Paulina Borsook, the author of the book “Cyberselfish,” have noted the easily distracted, adolescent quality of much of cyberculture. Ms. Borsook describes tech-heads as having “an angry adolescent view of all authority as the Pig Parent,” writing that even older digerati want to think of themselves as “having an Inner Bike Messenger.”
    • Stan Golanka
      Stan Golanka on 08 Feb 11
       
      Can teachers moderate this attitude? Does our (adults) use/non-use of technology help breed this attitude?
  • authors “will increasingly tailor their work to a milieu that the writer Caleb Crain describes as ‘groupiness,’ where people read mainly ‘for the sake of a feeling of belonging’ rather than for personal enlightenment or amusement. As social concerns override literary ones, writers seem fated to eschew virtuosity and experimentation in favor of a bland but immediately accessible style.
    • Stan Golanka
      Stan Golanka on 08 Feb 11
       
      Does this ring true to educators? Are social concerns and literary conerns opposites? How does web publishing affect "literary" publishing, as opposed to "non-literary" publishing?
  • However impossible it is to think of “Jon & Kate Plus Eight” or “Jersey Shore” as art, reality shows have taken over wide swaths of television,
Marisa Kenney

Photo Books, Photo Cards, Scrapbooks, Yearbooks and Calendars | Mixbook - 46 views

www.mixbook.com

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  • Richard Bradshaw on 09 Mar 11
     
    I just started using this for student projects. They love it. It's intuitive, creative, and user friendly.
  • Marisa Kenney on 03 Jun 11
     
    is a collaborative tool to create customizable photo books, cards and calendars online.You choose your theme and start adding your pictures. You can move and change the pictures move, rotate, crop, zoom into your photos. There are different fonts and styles to add your text to it. You can also choose your templates, backgrounds, stickers and you can add pages to your Mixbook. Children can create a newsletter or a newspaper or they can publish their drawings and create a story using them.
Ruth Howard

Simple Story - 2 views

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  • Ruth Howard on 23 Jul 11
     
    Publishing with no registration good for children leaflets books booklets ...
Martin Burrett

Font Squirrel - 106 views

www.fontsquirrel.com

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  • Martin Burrett on 10 Sep 11
     
    A great site full of free fonts for commercial use. Great for publishing children's work. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
D. S. Koelling

5 Myths About the 'Information Age' - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Ed... - 0 views

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  • 1. "The book is dead." Wrong: More books are produced in print each year than in the previous year. One million new titles will appear worldwide in 2011. In one day in Britain—"Super Thursday," last October 1—800 new works were published.
  • 2. "We have entered the information age." This announcement is usually intoned solemnly, as if information did not exist in other ages. But every age is an age of information, each in its own way and according to the media available at the time.
  • 3. "All information is now available online." The absurdity of this claim is obvious to anyone who has ever done research in archives. Only a tiny fraction of archival material has ever been read, much less digitized. Most judicial decisions and legislation, both state and federal, have never appeared on the Web. The vast output of regulations and reports by public bodies remains largely inaccessible to the citizens it affects. Google estimates that 129,864,880 different books exist in the world, and it claims to have digitized 15 million of them—or about 12 percent.
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  • 4. "Libraries are obsolete." Everywhere in the country librarians report that they have never had so many patrons. At Harvard, our reading rooms are full. The 85 branch libraries of the New York Public Library system are crammed with people.
  • 5. "The future is digital." True enough, but misleading. In 10, 20, or 50 years, the information environment will be overwhelmingly digital, but the prevalence of electronic communication does not mean that printed material will cease to be important. Research in the relatively new discipline of book history has demonstrated that new modes of communication do not displace old ones, at least not in the short run.
  • I mention these misconceptions because I think they stand in the way of understanding shifts in the information environment. They make the changes appear too dramatic. They present things ahistorically and in sharp contrasts—before and after, either/or, black and white. A more nuanced view would reject the common notion that old books and e-books occupy opposite and antagonistic extremes on a technological spectrum. Old books and e-books should be thought of as allies, not enemies.
  • Last year the sale of e-books (digitized texts designed for hand-held readers) doubled, accounting for 10 percent of sales in the trade-book market. This year they are expected to reach 15 or even 20 percent. But there are indications that the sale of printed books has increased at the same time.
  • Many of us worry about a decline in deep, reflective, cover-to-cover reading. We deplore the shift to blogs, snippets, and tweets. In the case of research, we might concede that word searches have advantages, but we refuse to believe that they can lead to the kind of understanding that comes with the continuous study of an entire book. Is it true, however, that deep reading has declined, or even that it always prevailed?
  • Writing looks as bad as reading to those who see nothing but decline in the advent of the Internet. As one lament puts it: Books used to be written for the general reader; now they are written by the general reader. The Internet certainly has stimulated self-publishing, but why should that be deplored? Many writers with important things to say had not been able to break into print, and anyone who finds little value in their work can ignore it.
  • One could cite other examples of how the new technology is reinforcing old modes of communication rather than undermining them. I don't mean to minimize the difficulties faced by authors, publishers, and readers, but I believe that some historically informed reflection could dispel the misconceptions that prevent us from making the most of "the information age"—if we must call it that.
Jonathan Wylie

An Overview of K-12 Reading Programs & Publishers - 1 views

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  • Jonathan Wylie on 28 Jun 11
     
    Right now, there seems to be no shortage of K-12 reading programs. Publishers are having to work hard to make sure that their series' stand out from the crowd. Many of these programs have similarities, but each one has a slightly different emphasis. Here's what you can expect.
trisha_poole

What Is The Future Of Digital Publishing? - Edudemic - 23 views

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  • trisha_poole on 14 Oct 11
     
    Leading the charge into the next generation of interactive book design is Robin Mitchell-Cranfield, of Vancouver Film School. I had the pleasure of attending Robin's presentation at Adobe MAX Education Summit as well as speaking with her a bit later at Adobe MAX where she shed some light on what she's working on, why she thinks books could forever change and why tablets have been the impetus for her to get so excited about the future of digital publishing.
Thieme Hennis

"Booksprints" - fast track to rigorous open educational resources | Education4site - 32 views

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  • Thieme Hennis on 12 Oct 12
     
    "The Finnish group used a methodology called "Booksprint" which was developed to produce manuals for Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS). The method has already been used to produce over 40 FLOSS manuals. Booksprints involve a large number of individuals with various relevant backgrounds working collaboratively, either remotely or locally, to produce published books, usually within 2-5 days. The method requires intensive pre-planning culminating in an "unconference" at which the text is written, edited and prepared for publication. Participants make extensive use of open source methodologies and tools to facilitate sharing, versioning, and tracking, ex. using GitHub."
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