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TLC = Tech + Library + Classroom: Wordle and Books = Groovy Stuff! - 0 views

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  • Vicki Davis on 27 Oct 09
     
    Love how Tara in Bangkok, Thailand used Wordle to introduce books and then mashed up the words in voicethread. What a fascinatingly creative way to use these tools!
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The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education - 0 views

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  • Julie Lindsay on 07 Nov 09
     
    Publications -- Center for Social Media at American University
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UK Team is focusing on online comment defamation - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 17 Nov 09 - Cached
  • 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  • shares in American firm United Airlines fell by 99 per cent in just 15 minutes after an outdated story that the firm had filed for bankruptcy was forced back onto the headlines.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!
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It's a Flat World After All - 0 views

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shared by Julie Lindsay on 18 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Julie Lindsay on 18 Nov 09
     
    Article in the Citrus County Chronicle about Flat Classroom Project. November 2009
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YouTube - Internet Semantic Web Web 3.0 - 0 views

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  • Steve Madsen on 27 Dec 09
     
    Possible future development for the Internet.
  • Steve Madsen on 27 Dec 09
     
    A good video on a poosible future development for the Internet with lots of ideas that can be further developed.
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Dropbox iPhone Game Review - AppVee.com - 0 views

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  • Steve Madsen on 28 Dec 09
     
    "Dropbox has been one of those extremely useful online tools for me over the past couple years and keeps getting better as time goes on. For those of you who aren't familiar with the program, it basically is a file sharing app. Once installed onto a couple computers, it then creates a folder on each user's system and syncs any files that are added into the folder. "
  • Steve Madsen on 28 Dec 09
     
    Excellent example of how different computing files can be synchronised between computers and shared. Free for PC's & Macs (2 GB). There is a version for the iPhone as well but seems pricey.
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RedLaser 2.2 iPhone App Review - AppVee.com - 0 views

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  • Steve Madsen on 28 Dec 09
     
    "this app is a great demonstration of where mobile shopping is heading. With the abilities that are shown in this app, more and more apps are going to start including features like this that will offer information on virtually anything we can think of."
  • Steve Madsen on 28 Dec 09
     
    A nice example of where mobile computing may be heading and perhaps a stimulus for a video scene.
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Augmented Reality Browser - Layar - 0 views

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  • Steve Madsen on 28 Dec 09
     
    "Layar is a free application on your mobile phone which shows what is around you by displaying real time digital information on top of reality through the camera of your mobile phone. "
  • Steve Madsen on 28 Dec 09
     
    Another example of what is being developed for mobile computing. I assume the software works for only specific countries but will expand in the near future. Some good ideas for a Flat Classroom Project video.
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Room to Read - 0 views

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  • Julie Lindsay on 29 Dec 09
     
    World change starts with educated children! Organisation that provides books and schools in many countries
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Toolkit A-Z « HeyJude - 0 views

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  • Steve Madsen on 29 Dec 09
     
    Toolkit A - Z. Looking for a tool to use? Wondering what to try next? Thinking about possibilities?
  • Steve Madsen on 29 Dec 09
     
    A list of tools that may be used in the classroom. Most would be considered as Web2.0 tools. This list may provoke an idea or two for a Flat Classroom video.
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Presented with Politics & Prose, Washington, D.C - Panopto Viewer - 0 views

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  • kimberly caise on 03 Jan 10
     
    you can search the text and be taken directly to that mention of the book using Panopto
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Horizon Report 2010 summary blog post - 0 views

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  • Julie Lindsay on 30 Jan 10
     
    From Curriki, a worthwhile summary of the Horizon Report 2010 http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2010/
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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."
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Web 2.0 Summit 2009 - Co-produced by TechWeb & O'Reilly Conferences, October 20 - 22, 2... - 0 views

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  • Ben W on 04 Feb 10
     
    Summary of Web 2.0
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    Summary of Web 2.0 summit
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PowerSearch  Document - 0 views

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  • Ismael G on 04 Feb 10
     
    This is a Wireless Connectivity article on what is the overview over it!
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Bluetooth.com | Basics - 0 views

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    Basics about Bluetooth
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