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Per Hoel

The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet | Magazine - 0 views

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  • It is the cycle of capitalism. The story of industrial revolutions, after all, is a story of battles over control. A technology is invented, it spreads, a thousand flowers bloom, and then someone finds a way to own it, locking out others. It happens every time.
CNDLS Georgetown

The Super-Secret, Never-Before-Revealed Guide to Web 2.0 in the Classroom -- Campus Tec... - 0 views

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    some helpful links within the story and generally good overall--mimics what we are doing to some extent.
Per Hoel

Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality: Scientific American - 0 views

  • Web evolved into a powerful, ubiquitous tool because it was built on egalitarian principles and because thousands of individuals, universities and companies have worked, both independently and together as part of the World Wide Web Consortium, to expand its capabilities based on those principles
  • Wireless Internet providers are being tempted to slow traffic to sites with which they have not made deals.
  • We could lose the freedom to connect with whichever Web sites we want
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  • ecause the Web is yours.
  • also vital to democracy
  • freedom from being snoope
  • on, filtered, censored and disconnected
  • We create the Web, by designing computer protocols and software; this process is completely under our control. We choose what properties we want it to have and not have. It is by no means finished (and it’s certainly not dead). If we want to track what government is doing, see what companies are doing, understand the true state of the planet, find a cure for Alzheimer’s disease, not to mention easily share our photos with our friends, we the public, the scientific community and the press must make sure the Web’s principles remain intact—not just to preserve what we have gained but to benefit from the great advances that are still to come
janet russell

Continuity of Learning: The Web Sweet Spot -- Campus Technology - 3 views

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    integrative learning technique of using self-referential learning (a la portfolios but not the focus at all)
janet russell

Evidence of Learning Online: Assessment Beyond The Paper -- Campus Technology - 2 views

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    helpful for talking to faculty about creating assignments that utilize new forms of writing (i.e. digital texts).
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