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Vicki Davis

Logitech confirms google tv announcement - The Inquirer - 0 views

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  • What is for sure is that all parties involved in Google TV are mentioning conflicting dates, especially Google, which can't seem to agree with itself.
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 12 Oct 10
       
      Not sure when Google TV comes out.
  • Logitech did tell The INQUIRER in May that Google's TV service was due to start slowly rolling out from January 2011 in the UK.
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 12 Oct 10
       
      Google TV is going to roll out first in the UK. Some of our UK students may want to look into this a little bit more and report back to the group.
  • Vicki Davis on 12 Oct 10
     
    Students in the UK may want to take a look at this.
Vicki Davis

Making All the Right Calls | Popular Science - 1 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 12 Nov 08 - Cached
  • “Imagine you’re out in the middle of nowhere and you want to be able to diagnose malaria,” says Daniel Fletcher, holding up what looks like a cellphone sprouting a kaleidoscope. All you have to do is aim the phone at a patient’s wan-looking skin or a drop of blood squeezed onto a microscope slide, he explains. Then you point, click, and hit “send.” The digital image zips to an off-site lab, where a technician scans it for signs of disease and e-mails back an initial diagnosis—all in less than 10 minutes. “In developing countries, patients wouldn’t have to go to a clinic,” he says. “You could make a diagnosis right in the field.” Although many impoverished patients lack access to clinics, 80 percent of the world’s population lives near a cellphone tower.
  • With mobile devices like this, home health aides could start to provide diagnostic services, and they could also take pictures over time to show doctors whether a patient is getting better. We’ve got an opportunity to leapfrog some of the costs of health care.”—
  • Vicki Davis on 12 Nov 08
     
    Incredible story of how cell phones will be used to diagnose disease - a PERFECT movie!
  • Vicki Davis on 12 Nov 08
     
    Wow!!! Using cell phone technology, high powered medical diagnosis and lab work can be provided remotely through cameras. This is what letting students work with cell phones can do as this is Daniel Fletcher and his undergraduates at the University of California worked to create a mobile diagnosis tool from cell phones. THIS is innovation. Harness the untapped power of student creativity and innovation and use it as a learning process. DO IT NOW!!
Vicki Davis

Tuttle SVC: 2008 Winners: FiveThirtyEight.com - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 05 Nov 08 - Cached
  • If I was someone who gave lots of talks at ed-tech conferences about "Web 2.0" and such, I'd definitely add a piece about the success of FiveThirtyEight.com. Since over three and a half million people visited the site last month (beating out established blogs like Talking Points Memo, for example), there is a pretty good chance you've already seen it.
  • Vicki Davis on 05 Nov 08
     
    Read this if you're covering politics and take a look at the fivethrigtyeight.com blog.
  • Vicki Davis on 05 Nov 08
     
    Tom HOffman shares some of the background story of fivethirtyeight.com - a great story of collaboration and work and how "no names" become somebody with hard work, intelligence, persistence, and a commitment to "do it right" sans an agenda.
Vicki Davis

FOXNews.com - Cyberbullying: Parents, Tech Companies Join Forces to Keep Kids Safe - Sc... - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 23 Oct 08 - Cached
  • An ex-friend’s mother faces charges in federal court as a result, and Missouri has made Internet harassment a crime.
  • Cyberbullies often commandeer e-mail accounts and social-networking profiles, attacking kids while pretending to be someone they trust, like a best friend. They use cell phones and the Web to spread embarrassing and cruel material, and they can harass their victims well beyond the schoolyard -- even when they're "safe" at home.
  • 85 percent of 5,000 middle-school students surveyed said they had been cyberbullied. Only 5 percent of them said they’d tell someone about it.
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  • Fake profiles and anonymous screen names are used in 65 percent of cyberbully attacks,
  • she went to a mental-health clinic
  • assuming that if they haven’t received a death threat or had a picture of their face posted on a naked body on the Internet, they haven’t been bullied.
  • They think that’s just part of online life,
  • Aftab said she knows of three other teens who have committed suicide after cyberbullying attacks, and that the problem is on the rise.
  • Cyberbullying peaks in 4th and 7th grade
  • 4th graders are especially into blackmail and threatening to tell friends, parents or teachers if the victim doesn’t cooperate.
  • The most outrageous recent way is through theft of a cell phone for a few minutes," Aftab said. "If your kids leave their cell phone unattended or accessible in their backpack, the cyberbully will take it and send a bunch of bad text messages or reprogram it.”
  • “This whole password thing freaks people out ... but a good password doesn’t have to be hard to remember, just hard to guess,” Criddle said. “Friends don’t ask friends for passwords.
  • October as National Cyber Security Awareness Month,
  • Vicki Davis on 23 Oct 08
     
    Excellent article on cyberbullying and an example of a girl who was harrassed online and killed herself. This sort of thing is tragic and we should consider what we think aboutinternet harrassment penalties, particularly against children. There are mention of several websites including one I'd never heard of called CyberBully Alert.
  • Vicki Davis on 23 Oct 08
     
    You should consider mentioning cyberbullying as an issue. This might also be a topic of interest to push forward for a social entreprenuership video.
Vicki Davis

FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right - 0 views

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  • Vicki Davis on 05 Nov 08
     
    GREAT site to take a look and understand how Web 2.0 figures into the elections.
  • Vicki Davis on 05 Nov 08
     
    This website had a TON of hits this past month -- in the millions -- 3 people and some spreadsheets did this. (See Tom Hoffman's post for more on it.) I think this is something that the students of the Flat Classroom Project will need to integrate into their work.
Vicki Davis

Blog Action Day 08 - 0 views

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  • Vicki Davis on 15 Oct 08
     
    Blog action day is today, October 15th. I let this one creep up on me.!! This is how bloggers unite and talk about important issues related to the world. Poverty is the action issue for this year
  • Vicki Davis on 15 Oct 08
     
    Having a blog action day is just one way to get people to stand up and take notice of an issue.
Dani N

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  • Co-founders of the Flat Classroom Project and the Flat Classroom Conference, Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis, announce the Flat Classroom™ Workshop as a strand of the 21st Century Learning Conference in Hong Kong.
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      Vicki Davis on 25 Sep 09
       
      test
  • Vicki Davis on 25 Sep 09
     
    Before you can join the project wiki, you must join and be approved for our main project wiki. After you join and are approved here, you will have to take the second step to join the project wiki.
  • Cortney K on 06 Oct 11
     
    this is my teams wiki
  • Dani N on 04 Mar 13
     
    research thing for the project (8B)
kimberly caise

The Atlantic Online | January/February 2010 | What Makes a Great Teacher? | Amanda Ripley - 0 views

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  • This tale of two boys, and of the millions of kids just like them, embodies the most stunning finding to come out of education research in the past decade: more than any other variable in education—more than schools or curriculum—teachers matter. Put concretely, if Mr. Taylor’s student continued to learn at the same level for a few more years, his test scores would be no different from those of his more affluent peers in Northwest D.C. And if these two boys were to keep their respective teachers for three years, their lives would likely diverge forever. By high school, the compounded effects of the strong teacher—or the weak one—would become too great.
  • Farr was tasked with finding out. Starting in 2002, Teach for America began using student test-score progress data to put teachers into one of three categories: those who move their students one and a half or more years ahead in one year; those who achieve one to one and a half years of growth; and those who yield less than one year of gains. In the beginning, reliable data was hard to come by, and many teachers could not be put into any category. Moreover, the data could never capture the entire story of a teacher’s impact, Farr acknowledges.
  • They were also perpetually looking for ways to improve their effectiveness
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  • First, great teachers tended to set big goals for their students.
  • Great teachers, he concluded, constantly reevaluate what they are doing.
  • Superstar teachers had four other tendencies in common: they avidly recruited students and their families into the process; they maintained focus, ensuring that everything they did contributed to student learning; they planned exhaustively and purposefully—for the next day or the year ahead—by working backward from the desired outcome; and they worked relentlessly, refusing to surrender to the combined menaces of poverty, bureaucracy, and budgetary shortfalls.
  • When her fourth-grade students entered her class last school year, 66 percent were scoring at or above grade level in reading. After a year in her class, only 44 percent scored at grade level, and none scored above. Her students performed worse than fourth-graders with similar incoming scores in other low-income D.C. schools. For decades, education researchers blamed kids and their home life for their failure to learn. Now, given the data coming out of classrooms like Mr. Taylor’s, those arguments are harder to take. Poverty matters enormously. But teachers all over the country are moving poor kids forward anyway, even as the class next door stagnates. “At the end of the day,” says Timothy Daly at the New Teacher Project, “it’s the mind-set that teachers need—a kind of relentless approach to the problem.”
  • are almost never dismissed.
  • What did predict success, interestingly, was a history of perseverance—not just an attitude, but a track record. In the interview process, Teach for America now asks applicants to talk about overcoming challenges in their lives—and ranks their perseverance based on their answers.
  • Gritty people, the theory goes, work harder and stay committed to their goals longer
  • This year, Teach for America allowed me to sit in on the part of the interview process that it calls the “sample teach,” in which applicants teach a lesson to the other applicants for exactly five minutes. Only about half of the candidates make it to this stage. On this day, the group includes three men and two women, all college seniors or very recent graduates.
  • But if school systems hired, trained, and rewarded teachers according to the principles Teach for America has identified, then teachers would not need to work so hard. They would be operating in a system designed in a radically different way—designed, that is, for success.
  • five observation sessions conducted throughout the year by their principal, assistant principal, and a group of master educators.
  • t year’s end, teachers who score below a certain threshold could be fired.
  • But this tradition may be coming to an end. He’s thinking about quitting in the next few years.
  • kimberly caise on 04 Feb 10
     
    "This tale of two boys, and of the millions of kids just like them, embodies the most stunning finding to come out of education research in the past decade: more than any other variable in education-more than schools or curriculum-teachers matter. Put concretely, if Mr. Taylor's student continued to learn at the same level for a few more years, his test scores would be no different from those of his more affluent peers in Northwest D.C. And if these two boys were to keep their respective teachers for three years, their lives would likely diverge forever. By high school, the compounded effects of the strong teacher-or the weak one-would become too great."
Vicki Davis

Flash Mobs Take Violent Turn in Philadelphia - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 25 Mar 10 - Cached
  • But these so-called flash mobs have taken a more aggressive and raucous turn here as hundreds of teenagers have been converging downtown for a ritual that is part bullying, part running of the bulls: sprinting down the block, the teenagers sometimes pause to brawl with one another, assault pedestrians or vandalize property.
  • Vicki Davis on 25 Mar 10
     
    This is upsetting. Flash mobs have traditionally been a lot of fun -- now they are violent teenage rampages. Some cities are outlawing them!
Steve Madsen

Use your back channel « - 0 views

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  • Steve Madsen on 22 Apr 09
     
    Article has some interesting ideas that may take place in a future classroom?
  • Steve Madsen on 22 Apr 09
     
    I was then thinking about 'the lecture' and 'the tutorial' and wondered if some simple tools can provide that holistic link, and allow students to engage and reflect better and promote, as Mike says "potential growth of the network, and the activities that may be engaged in by or with peers"
Alexis B

How Mobile Active is Changing the World with Cell Phones : Planet Green - 1 views

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  • Miller S. on 06 Oct 09
     
    "As cell phones become more ubiquitous, it's becoming increasingly easy to use them for positive action. We've been talking about that quite a bit lately here on Planet Green, and one of the organizations whose name keeps popping up is Mobile Active. They're a great group, and deserve a highlight. Mobile Active, as they succinctly state, is "a global network of people using mobile technology for social impact." The group recognizes that there are billions of phones across the world being used by people in even the most unlikely of places. More are entering the consumer stream on a daily basis. Therefore, a cell phone is the perfect tool with which to engage people for activism. The group works to help organizations understand how they can use mobile phones to get people involved in social change or improve their organization, reduce the costs of getting mobile phones into the hands of people who need them, speed up the adoption of mobile phones as a tool among non-profits, and facilitate the implementation of mobile phone projects and campaigns. Mobile Active takes part in issues ranging from health to environment to disaster relief. You can search through all the many projects they're involved in with their mDirectory. As you look through, there's no doubt you'll be inspired and think about your cell phone in a whole new way - as a tool for changing the world. Check out the Good Call feature here on Planet Green for great information about cell phones and activism. More on Changing the World with Cell Phones How Cell Phones Are Changing the Face of Green Activism Good Call! Using Your Mobile Phone for Green Activism We Have Green Phone Apps Galore...But Are They Doing Any Good?"
  • Miller S. on 06 Oct 09
     
    This is a great column that involves mobile and ubiquitous computing. This column is about mobile devices helping to save the earth.
Vicki Davis

UK Team is focusing on online comment defamation - 0 views

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  • a new team to track down people who make anonymous comments about companies online.
  • a new team to track down people who make anonymous comments about companies online.
  • a rising problem with people making anonymous statements that defamed companies, and people sharing confidential information online.
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  • a new team to track down people who make anonymous comments about companies online.
  • the numbers of disgruntled employees looking to get their own back on employers or former employers was also on the rise.
  • a story from six years earlier about United Airlines going bankrupt was voted up on a newspaper website. This was later picked up by Google News and eventually the Bloomberg news wire, which published it automatically as if it were a news story.
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 17 Nov 09
       
      Could this be considered the new "insider trading" - hmmm. Surely there are issues if it is done maliciously but isn't there a line here?
  • rogue employees
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 17 Nov 09
       
      Uhm, how about rogue companies?
  • trying to get Internet Service Providers to give out details of customers who had made comments online
  • shares in American firm United Airlines fell by 99 per cent in just 15 minutes after an outdated story that the firm had filed for bankruptcy was forced back onto the headlines.
  • the new team would ensure there was “nowhere to hide in cyberspace”.
  • could stifle free speech, and the ability of people to act as whistle-blowers to expose actions by their employers.
  • an outlet for anonymous reporting.
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 17 Nov 09
       
      Is it possible to have accountability AND anonymity? Must these be mutually exclusive?
  • This is known as the ‘Streisand effect’ online, after a case where singer Barbara Streisand tried to suppress photos of her California beachside home from a publicly-available archive of photos taken to document coastal erosion.
  • Nightjack. This was the guy who was blogging on the front line about police work and he was forced to stop this story because he was unmasked by The Times
  • If you allow a lot of anonymous debate by people who are not regulated, you can get it descending to the common denominator. If you allow people to register with an identity, even if it’s not their real one, you bring the level of debate up.”
  • There was one case a couple of years ago that we just keep referring back to where a defamatory comment was made and it wasn’t taken down for a period of time. Because of that the host of the website was held to be liable.”
  • the ‘Wild West’ era of the internet was in some ways coming to an end, with firms starting to crack down
  • I think companies are still grappling with whether it’s better to take it on the chin and hope people don’t see the comments, or on the other hand cracking down on everything that’s particularly damaging that’s said online. Maybe this is set to change.”
  • Vicki Davis on 17 Nov 09
     
    While this article starts out about a lawfirm in Birmingham UK that is going to "track down people who make anonymous comments about companies online" it becomes an amazingly poignant article on the very nature of the Internet today and the push pull between anonymous commenting and accountability of the commenter. Push pull between free speech and online identity and brand protection. One person in this article claims that this sort of thing is the sign that the "wild west" of the INternet is coming to an end. Oh dear, I hope someone invents a new one if somehow anonymous commenters are now going to risk such! Also love the article's discussion of the Streisand effect wherein Barbara protested the sharing of some photos of her eroding beachfront which caused a stir and more people looking at the photos than if she had left it alone. This article is going to be a must read for Flat Classroom students and would be great for college-level discussions as well.
  • Vicki Davis on 17 Nov 09
     
    Important article that would make a great video story for someone predicting how the Internet is changing - with commenters being hunted down by companies!
Susan D

Virtual Evolution - Unified Communications Strategies - 0 views

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  • Virtualization is not something to be casual about, nor it is it free. In addition to its direct costs, virtualization carries a tax, it takes hardware resources to create less hardware resources.
  • Susan D on 20 Oct 11
     
    This talks about virtualizing
Susan D

IGI Global: Evolution of Business in Virtual Environments (9781616928087): Rita King: B... - 0 views

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  • Virtual business as defined in this chapter is any business interaction that takes place in an immersive digital space in which individuals are represented by “avatars” in three-dimensional, user-created environments.
  • Thousands of universities, companies, institutions and organizations have Second Life® bureaus.
  • Susan D on 20 Oct 11
     
    this is a description of virtual worlds and how they are mostly used in Second Life
Ralph C

IBM Takes Social Networking Tools to Private Cloud - 0 views

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  • Ralph C on 20 Oct 11
     
    they don't want the government because they don't want people to be easily hacked "Two emerging technology trends in the public sector - social networking and cloud computing - have now been combined in IBM's recently released SmartCloud Social Collaboration for Government, a private cloud computing service for government agencies. "
Susan D

The Evolution Of Virtual Events And Their Business Impact | ReveNews - 0 views

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  • Phone conferences became a convenient way to for businesspeople to share voice communication in a larger group. Soon, web conferencing added the capability to share pictures and slides and collaborate on a given topic.
  • Virtual events, taking place on web-based platforms, have enjoyed dramatic growth and acceptance in companies around the globe. By combining aspects of web meetings, webcasting and social networking, virtual events offer a unique attendee experience.
  • But, virtual events were just the beginning.
  • Susan D on 20 Oct 11
     
    This talks about business evolution from phone conferences to virtual communication
Kelsey K_VHS

'Flipped' classrooms take advantage of technology - USATODAY.com - 0 views

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    • Kelsey K_VHS
      Kelsey K_VHS on 18 Oct 11
       
      Thsi article talks about the use of technology in a high school classroom setting. In some cases, technology has become the new tool of choice instead of the tradtional whiteborad and textbook.
  • Sitting in pairs, students poke at their iPads waiting for class to begin
  • allows students to time-stamp lecture notes
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  • the latest way technology is changing teachers' jobs
  • allows students to chat online while watching the videos
  • digitally records her lessons with a tablet computer as a virtual blackboard, then uploads them to iTunes and assigns them as homework
  • attracted the attention of funders such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has become a major backer of Khan Academy
  • she worries that many low-income students don't have reliable Internet or computer access at home
  • has made her students more independent, less-stressed learners
  • all about helping students understand difficult material
  • applying the lesson to problem sets
Sam V

Student Research Center - powered by EBSCOhost: Virtual world adds dimension to communi... - 0 views

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  • Next spring, he will offer UPG students a course he's designed called Theater Technology.
  • Students will learn various technological skills including creating digital audio and attending and participating in virtual performances.
  • virtual textbook he's creating will eliminate the excuse: "I lost my book."
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  • And it's becoming a popular site for college classrooms.
  • Chiarulli said her students will visit underwater sites and take tours on a Second Life island.
  • Chiarulli already teaches online distance learning courses involving video clips, audio recordings and textbooks. The Second Life class is an expansion of technology in the classroom.
  • He said the site will help students become comfortable with navigating 3-D worlds, which he anticipates may have applications in many different fields. "I think it has tremendous potential as a learning tool," he said.
  • "It's like The Sims," she said, referring to a popular online community game, "but a lot more complicated. "You meet new people, and you definitely develop skills."
Sam V

GIC | Article - 0 views

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  • created for the Graphic Communication community to connect, educate and reach out to anyone interested in understanding the print and graphic arts industry.
  • Printalution Island was developed by efforts initiated by the Education Summit, a group coordinated to develop a cohesive effort and message to the youth, the public and the educational system about the needs of our industry.
  • Currently over 230 students attending 84 schools receive financial assistance through PGSF.
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  • Printalution Island in Second Life Printalution Island was created to reach Generation Y prospects in places where they congregate.
  • In doing so, they have added classes for teachers, community events, reach-out programs, a tour of all the stages of printing and a oprint is greeno exhibit.
  • tour location that can be explored by Second Life eresidentsE, as well as a location high school teachers can take students to learn more about the printing industry.
    • Sam V
      Sam V on 24 Oct 11
       
      I thought that this article could also be used as an example (along with the two African schools' article).
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