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Heather Sullivan

Steve Hargadon: New Ning Plans: The Good, The Bad, and the Unknown - 10 views

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  • API access to networks will be a plus to organizations really wanting to research the value and use of educational social networking.  Several graduate students have looked closely at my Classroom 2.0 network and this kind of access will make deeper scholarship possible.
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  • Single sign-on / alternative authentication has been a highly desired feature from Ning in the past, and will potentially allow institutions and organizations with existing membership bases to incorporate access to Ning into their existing services.  It seems like there will be a couple of other somewhat intriguing options here as well, including logging in using Facebook or Twitter authentication.  What's not entirely clear in the material--or, according to John, to Ning yet--is if these features will be included as part of the Pro service or an extra fee.  
  • If you don't pay even the minimal amount, currently your network and all its content will disappear 30 days after the July shift.  While Ning will likely provide some capability to get a network back within some limited period of time, the idea that created content is not "grandfathered in" and retained even in some format feels bad.  I'm not sure how bad it actually is, but I'm hoping they reconsider this in some way and while not allowing those networks be functional, it would be nice to have the content statically available for posterity.  I'm also thinking about all the networks that will be created in the future--the idea that if for some reason you stop paying Ning all of the contributions "disappear forever" will be a mental and real roadblock to using the service.
  • The "major educational company" that has no name could be good or bad.  I'm assured it will be good, but I can imagine more than one large educational company whose providing Ning Mini networks for free would be looked upon with suspicion.  What's also not spelled out is what kind of control that company will have, their ability to market or message to the creators and members of the networks, and if there will be any advertising by that company on the networks.
Dean Mantz

The Reflective School by Peter Pappas by Peter Pappas on Prezi - 15 views

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    This Prezi is one of the best examples and thought provoking discussion starters I have seen regarding evaluating teaching and learning using Blooms Taxonomy. 
Justin Medved

What if the Secret to Success Is Failure? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • He did away with Advanced Placement classes in the high school soon after he arrived at Riverdale;
  • he encourages his teachers to limit the homework they assign; and he says that the standardized tests that Riverdale and other private schools require for admission to kindergarten and to middle school are “a patently unfair system” because they evaluate students almost entirely by I.Q. “This push on tests,” he told me, “is missing out on some serious parts of what it means to be a successful human.”
  • The list included some we think of as traditional noble traits, like bravery, citizenship, fairness, wisdom and integrity; others that veer into the emotional realm, like love, humor, zest and appreciation of beauty; and still others that are more concerned with day-to-day human interactions: social intelligence (the ability to recognize interpersonal dynamics and adapt quickly to different social situations), kindness, self-regulation, gratitude.
Heather Sullivan

ISTE NECC09 Innovation Exchange: Eyes on the Prize - 0 views

  • Three questions to answer What was the main idea or point being made in the video? What audience was the video trying to reach? Think about the methods used to create the video. Were they effective? Why or why not? Video 1 Video 2 Video 3 Video 4 Instruction Sheet
Michael Walker

Introduction to Wolfram|Alpha by Stephen Wolfram - 0 views

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    Computational web based app. Although it's tempting to think of Wolfram|Alpha as a place to look up facts, that's only part of the story. The thing that truly sets Wolfram|Alpha apart is that it is able to do sophisticated computations for you, both pure computations involving numbers or formulas you enter, and computations applied automatically to data called up from its repositories. Why does computation matter? Because computation is what turns generic information into specific answers. To give an amusing example, every school child has at one time or another written a report on the moon, and they probably included the wrong figure for how far the moon is from the earth. Why wrong? Because the distance from the earth to the moon is not constant: it changes by as much as a mile a minute. If you ask Wolfram|Alpha the distance to the moon, it tells you not only the conventionally quoted average distance, but also the actual distance right now, which can at times be well over ten thousand miles off the average. The actual distance is a figure that can be arrived at only by computation based on the moon's known orbital parameters. It's rocket science, if you will.
Heather Sullivan

What's Your Learning Style? | Edutopia - 0 views

  • Want to know your learning style? Take the quiz. There are 24 questions, and it will take less than five minutes to complete. Try not to think too hard -- just go with your first thought when describing your daily activities and interests. At the end, you'll find out more about how you learn.
Meri Walker

Twitterprise: Bringing Whole Selves to Work | Learn at All Levels | Fast Company - 0 views

  • Before Twitter (and her enterprise-strength counterparts) we didn't share our layered thoughts casually so we appeared always on task. Via Twitter, you now see my mind periodically follows tangents, that sometimes circle back, and other times leads to wholly new roads. Engaging with a wide circle of people -- celebrating our focuses and interests along the edge -- deepens and widens everything we do.
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      This is exactly what I've been thinking lately. Twitter is punching holes in our social "profiles" and "personas" and making it easier to share our humanity. For me, that's the strongest pull. I keep participating because I want to see (and share) more than the professional face, even though I don't want to tweet about what I'm eating ;-)
Fred Delventhal

SimplyBox - Think Inside the Box - 0 views

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    The most visual free service to Capture, Organize, and Share anything you find on the web. Simple, yet powerful, collaboration around the content YOU find!
Dean Mantz

Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D.: How Power Could Make You More Creative - 12 views

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    Dr. Scott Barry Kaugman of NYU writes about the research and results learned from study regarding how creativity is driven by the power one has at the time.
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    Timberline is the post and rail for the 21st century. Created from non-toxic vinyl, Timberline combines the visual beauty of fresh painted timber with the strength and resilience of highly advanced extrusion technologies.
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    Timber Picket fencing& Horse Fencing & Timberline is further enhanced by extra Impact Modifiers throughout the inner layers. It is just one of the many qualities that separates Timberline from ordinary plastic fencing.
Alex Parker

Choosing cloud providers is complex, but here are some issues you should think about. - 1 views

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    Hybrid clouds combine a private cloud with a public cloud, alleviating data privacy worries from your company if sensitive or corporate data needs to be kept on premise, whilst placing less critical environments into public cloud. Hybrid clouds are also useful for scalability.
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