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Dana Huff

Digital Ethnography » Blog Archive » Participatory Media Literacy: Why it mat... - 1 views

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  • Dana Huff on 28 Jan 09
     
    Why should we use participatory media (Web 2.0) in our classrooms? Michael Wesch makes a good case.
Ed Webb

ed4wb » Blog Archive » Insulat-Ed - 0 views

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  • Ed Webb on 28 Jan 09
     
    A must-read!
Ed Webb

Imagining College Without Grades :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for N... - 0 views

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  • A professor who tells his students that “grades are the death of composition.” Another said: “Grades create a facade of coherence.”
    • Dana Huff
      Dana Huff on 28 Jan 09
       
      Interesting. I agree. I wish that we didn't have to grade student writing and could just give written or oral feedback. I love the "facade of coherence" comment.
  • politically impossible
    • Dana Huff
      Dana Huff on 28 Jan 09
       
      Key words. Grading is political.
  • grades were squelching intellectual curiosity.
    • Dana Huff
      Dana Huff on 28 Jan 09
       
      Totally true in more places than prestigious law schools
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  • growing use of e-portfolios
    • Dana Huff
      Dana Huff on 28 Jan 09
       
      I like portfolios for demonstrating learning, but I haven't learned how to effectively integrate them into my own classroom.
  • most professors and students are much more likely to complain about grading than to praise its accuracy or value.
    • Dana Huff
      Dana Huff on 28 Jan 09
       
      Amen!
  • Done right, she said, eliminating grades promotes rigor.
  • the elimination of grades — if they are replaced with narrative evaluations, rubrics, and clear learning goals — results in more accountability and better ways for a colleges to measure the success not only of students but of its academic programs.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 28 Jan 09
       
      This strikes me intuitively as correct. Grades are a substitute for thoughful assessment of learning outcomes, not an equivalent to it.
  • the idea of consistent and clear grading just doesn’t reflect the mobility of students
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 28 Jan 09
       
      Absolutely. My own institution, Dickinson College, sends ~70% of its students abroad for at least a semester, and most often a year. I have experience in education in different national contexts, and grading conventions simply do not translate.
  • ending grades can mean much more work for both students and faculty members.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 28 Jan 09
       
      Aye, there's the rub. Those of us who are serious about learning - students and faculty - have to recognize that better learning is more work. On the other hand, it's more fun, too.
  • When faculty members are providing written, detailed analyses of multiple course objectives and are also — for majors — relating performance to larger goals for the major, so much more is taking place she said, than in a letter grade.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 28 Jan 09
       
      Yes. Grades are a terrible assessment tool.
  • the training that colleges provide to professors before they start producing narrative evaluations, and officials of the no-grades colleges all said that training was extensive, and that faculty members needed mentors as they started out.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 28 Jan 09
       
      And how much training do faculty get before they start handing out grades?
  • they end up favoring the evaluation system
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 28 Jan 09
       
      This is the point. Users have to be educated in the advantages of the system - once they have been, they are likely to favor it over grading.
Dominic Salvucci

Kids' Vid: Video Production for Students - 2 views

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  • Dominic Salvucci on 28 Jan 09
     
    An online site to help with student video development.
Peter Olm

Thought Control. - 1 views

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  • Peter Olm on 28 Jan 09
     
    Thinking, literacy and education in the middle years of schooling
Lee-Anne Patterson

BBC NEWS | Technology | Britannica reaches out to the web - 0 views

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  • Lee-Anne Patterson on 28 Jan 09
     
    Finally they wake up to the 21st century!
  • Lee-Anne Patterson on 28 Jan 09
     
    The Encyclopaedia Britannica has unveiled a plan to let readers help keep the reference work up to date. Under the plan, readers and contributing experts will help expand and maintain entries online.
Ed Webb

Websites 'must be saved for history' | Technology | The Observer - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...preserving-digital-archive

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  • while the Domesday Book, written on sheepskin in 1086, is still easily accessible, the software for many decade-old computer files - including thousands of government records - already renders them unreadable. The ephemera of emails, text messages and online video add to the headache of the 21st-century archivist.
  • personal digital disorder
  • In 2007 the library worked with Microsoft and the National Archives at Kew to prevent a "digital dark age" by unlocking millions of unreadable stored computer files. Microsoft installed the Virtual PC 2007, allowing users to run multiple operating systems simultaneously on the same computer and unlock what are called "legacy" Microsoft Office formats dating back 15 years or more.
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  • Do we want to keep the Twitter account of Stephen Fry or some of the marginalia around the edges of the Sydney Olympics? I don't think we necessarily do."
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 27 Jan 09
       
      Hell yes!
  • Ed Webb on 27 Jan 09
     
    Something to ponder as we rely increasingly on the web for information and for publishing.
Ed Webb

Dawn of the cyberstudent | University challenge | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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  • students often have more experience of using new technologies than many university managers — even if they need guidance in using them effectively
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 27 Jan 09
       
      And there's the rub. Students can often read, too, in the basic sense. But our job as higher educators is to get them to really read, to read critically and do something with that reading. So, too, with the affordances of web2.0.
  • the research process is likely to become much more open
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 27 Jan 09
       
      We can hope
  • "If you are in Second Life listening to a lecture, your ability to fly through a bush isn't that relevant,
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  • a balance that suits them, which may lead to more varying degrees of face-to-face and online contact,
  • All this will put added pressure on university staff, with increasing demands to respond to students 24/7. Read suggests one answer could be for universities in different parts of the world to share the load so that, as often happens already in industry "the work moves around with the sun".
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 27 Jan 09
       
      Interesting concept. Dickinson and other internationally-connected institutions would be in good shape to innovate here.
  • learning culture
  • Ed Webb on 27 Jan 09
     
    Guardian on how higher ed will have to adapt. Not sure the revolution is here quite yet.
  • Ed Webb on 27 Jan 09
     
    "Cyberstudent" is a hideous term.
Mary Jo Egus

Launching Professional Learning Communities: Beginning Actions: Introduction - 1 views

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  • Mary Jo Egus on 26 Jan 09
     
    A Professional Learning Community (PLC) is defined as a school in which the professionals (administrators and teachers) continuously seek and share learning to increase their effectiveness for students, and act on what they learn (Hord, 1997).
Bill Graziadei, Ph.D. (aka Dr. G)

mashup.edu's Bookmarks on Delicious - 0 views

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  • Bill Graziadei, Ph.D. (aka Dr. G) on 26 Jan 09
     
    Bookmark references for mashup.edu's book
Adrienne Michetti

2009 Horizon Report » One Year or Less: Mobiles - 0 views

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  • Students can respond to open-ended or multiple-choice questions, and their answers can be immediately tabulated, graphed and displayed to the class via a website without proprietary equipment.
    • Adrienne Michetti
      Adrienne Michetti on 26 Jan 09
       
      very cool!
Adrienne Michetti

2009 Horizon Report » Technologies to Watch - 0 views

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  • Now, many common devices can automatically determine and record their own precise location and can save that data along with captured media (like photographs) or can transmit it to web-based applications for a host of uses.
    • Adrienne Michetti
      Adrienne Michetti on 26 Jan 09
       
      This is pretty amazing, though slightly scary.
  • a collection of technologies that are used to configure and manage the ways in which one views and uses the Internet.
  • imbuing ordinary objects with the ability to recognize their physical location and respond appropriately, or to connect with other objects or information.
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  • mobiles firmly in the near-term horizon as the capabilities of phones have continued to develop rapidly. Innovations over the last year have brought third-party applications, easy GPS, and intuitive interfaces to mobile devices, blurring the boundary between phone and computer.
    • Adrienne Michetti
      Adrienne Michetti on 26 Jan 09
       
      You'd be a silly or naive educator to not make mobile use part of your classroom learning in the near future - if you're not already.
Beth Still

Social Media Classroom - 1 views

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  • Beth Still on 26 Jan 09
     
    Centralized location for using all sorts of collaborative social media tools.
Cris Harshman

Layers | Screen forensics - 0 views

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  • Cris Harshman on 25 Jan 09
     
    Capture your displays as a Photoshop layered image
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