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Garron Hillaire

The Situation - Television Tropes & Idioms - 0 views

  • Google pulled all their ads on October 26th, due to TOS violations on the part of the wiki and forums — specifically "adult and mature content" on pages that carried Google Adsense ads. These ads provided far and away the majority of the site's operating budget.
  • Turn off anonymous editing in the wiki. This is so that we can tell Google, "See, we do have standards, and we can identify and take action against people who violate them." This has already been implemented.
  • Segregate "adult and mature content" behind some sort of barrier that you will have to explicitly agree to go through. This has been implemented
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  • Nofollow tags will be attached to outbound links on wiki pages. This is an invisible-to-users tag that tells the Ad Server "The following link goes somewhere that isn't us. Don't hold us responsible for their content."
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    TV Tropes is being very transparent about creating a moderation system for the content. This is in response to loosing advertising dollars from Google. It is interesting to see the outline for their model of moderating content. Some of these elements could be used in a web 2.0 environment for education
Margaret O'Connell

The $2 Interactive Whiteboard - 6 views

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    A reminder that more technology in the classroom is not always the answer.
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    Fabulous blog post! Great find!
Mohammad Hussain

The hole in the wall - 2 views

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    Here is a follow up on this topic of how children learn best when collaborating - this time in a formal setting - http://spotlight.macfound.org/blog/entry/student-centered_learning_in_the_digital_age/ These studies/examples push further the question around technology and if that can replace a teacher. Its perhaps really hard to answer that question with one answer for the various kinds of learning spaces.
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    Children can teach themselves; education in non-traditional way; child driven education.
Amanda Comperchio

100 Inspiring Ways to Use Social Media In the Classroom - 3 views

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    I thought this was useful because it includes a lot of ways to use Twitter for education.
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    Great, great article - thanks! (I finally got around to reading it).
Garron Hillaire

Zapping the Brain Improves Math Skills : Discovery News - 1 views

  • THE GIST A mild electrical current improves a person's ability to learn math skills. The effect lasts up to six months. The technique could help students learn other skills besides math as well.
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    This sounds like a disruptive innovation. Zap the brain!
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    whoa ...
Mitch(ell) Miller

Teaching to the Tech: TFs bring innovative new tools to Harvard's classrooms - 2 views

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    Article from the GSAS Bulletin about TFs using technology at Harvard. It's a PDF file of the publication. The article is on page 1 and 10.
Garron Hillaire

Education Week's Digital Directions: Calif. Department of Ed. Now on iTunes U - 1 views

  • iTunes is not just a website used to download the latest pop song, it's also providing educators with free resources for professional development.
  • Schools will be able to offer educators free professional development resources that are produced primarily by districts and private education institutions throughout the state, O'Connell said.
  • Adams said the content will continue to grow as long as people continue to contribute information.
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    teacher developer available for free web 2.0 style on iTunes.
Garron Hillaire

Education Technology News: M State Utilizes EON Reality Software - 0 views

  • M State will be using EON Reality, Inc., software to commence its instructional program with a three dimensional interactive content.
  • EON Reality, Inc., provides interactive three dimensional software
  • It is critical in instructional content development to have the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) design the instructional component alongside a 3D developer who can then create and integrate the interactive digital content within a wide range of learning applications
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    Online college M State is offering 3D interactive instructional content
Margaret O'Connell

Another platform for teaching programming to our students - 0 views

  • Learn computer programming the easy way with Processing, a simple language that lets you use code to create drawings, animation, and interactive graphics. Programming courses usually start with theory, but this book lets you jump right into creative and fun projects. It's ideal for anyone who wants to learn basic programming, and serves as a simple introduction to graphics for people with some programming skills.
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    Scratch isn't the only game in town :-) Note that I've already posted about App Inventor here (which is another "dive right in" programming environ)
Margaret O'Connell

New Dan Meyer video prez, "Math Class Makeover" - 2 views

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    Another great Dan Meyer video. (His Ted talk has gotten a lot of attention but this one is even better!) Dan describes the creative way he teaches math, including the active use of technology (rather than the "tired, dead tree format").
Eric Kattwinkel

RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms - 0 views

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    An animated presentation of Sir Ken Robinson's views on education, esp. its effects on creativity and innovation. It's 11+ minutes, but I found it went quickly.
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    Rsa Animate is becoming one of my favorite distractions. It is interesting to compare Kahn with RSA. both using similar media for presentation of ideas. Production quality and content very different. Is this reflective of the difference in goals?
Garron Hillaire

What we can learn from procrastination : The New Yorker - 2 views

  • even Nobel-winning economists procrastinate!
  • “each morning for over eight months I woke up and decided that the next morning would be the day to send the Stiglitz box.”
  • Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of college students procrastinate
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  • dragging our heels is “as fundamental as the shape of time and could well be called the basic impulse.”
  • Most of the contributors to the new book agree that this peculiar irrationality stems from our relationship to time—in particular, from a tendency that economists call “hyperbolic discounting.”
  • Viewed this way, procrastination starts to look less like a question of mere ignorance than like a complex mixture of weakness, ambition, and inner conflict.
  • instead of trusting themselves, the students relied on an outside tool to make themselves do what they actually wanted to do.
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    an interesting article on procrastination. Perhaps worth reading to better understand our own behavior and the behavior of future students we attempt to engage. There is a not a direct technology angle here, but it would be important to think about this topic when looking at technologies for the classroom.
Garron Hillaire

HOW TO: Calculate the ROI of Your Social Media Campaign - 0 views

  • First the bad news: If you’re going to calculate the ROI of your social media campaign, you’re going to have to know math.
  • In fact, a recent survey by Econsultancy found that 47% of the companies it surveyed said they were “not able to measure” their campaigns and that “the jury is still out” on the value gained from their social media investment.
  • The most important formula in social media is your Customer Lifetime Value (CLV)
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  • Many people use 10% of their CLV as a starting point for their Allowable Cost Per Sale
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    ROI on social media. I find it interesting that when measuring a social market there are no social indicators that are valued. Does it make sense to slice social media into dollars and sense? I understand why you would need to justify it, but I am not sure that the greatest value of social media is driving traffic.
Jim Cody

Cushing Academy's bookless library is a popular spot - The Boston Globe - 0 views

  • “We’ve heard from Harvard Law School, the University of Virginia libraries, and Syracuse,’’ he says. A rural public school in West Virginia has also approached him, and he has begun a conversation with UNESCO to see if there is a worldwide potential to what Cushing is doing.On the other hand, says Robert Darnton, director of the Harvard University Library, “Libraries must advance on two fronts — digital and analogue. To concentrate on one at the expense of the other would be a mistake. The idea that printed books are in decline and will go away is just plain wrong.’’
Chris Dede

Playing doctor: Learning about slips of the knife better on 'patients' than patients - 1 views

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    3-D surgery simulator
Yang Jiang

Technology: Computer simulation is a growing reality for instruction - latimes.com - 2 views

  • Virtual patients for medical training are among the innovations being developed at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies. The military is using many of them to train troops.
Yang Jiang

On the Media: Social media in the spotlight - latimes.com - 0 views

  • The college campus experience makes a nice analogy for how consumers adapt to social media. Students arrive for their freshman year brimming with energy and expectation, ready to join every group, hit every party and try every new experience. The dorm room remains constantly open.
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    Can social networks be an instructive technology? Since social networks are so popular, if their features can be used in education, there would be interesting results. However, nowadays, most of them are for entertainment uses.
Yang Jiang

QQ-360 Battle Escalates into War - China Real Time Report - WSJ - 0 views

  • A battle over alleged unfair business practices between Tencent, operator of the popular instant-messaging software QQ, and Qihoo 360, China’s biggest antivirus service provider, escalated this week when Tencent  stopped service to QQ  users whose computers are installed with  Qihoo 360’s software.
  • The conflict appears to have started two months ago when Qihoo 360, which has 300 million users, alleged that QQ was scanning the private data of its more than 600 million users and released software claiming to block plug-ins that could cause such privacy leaks.
  • In a statement sent to users Wednesday, Tencent said “Dear QQ users, this email is to inform you that we’ve just made a very difficult decision. Until Qihoo 360 removes the tag-on service and malicious slander against QQ software, we have decided to stop running QQ software on computers that have installed the 360 software. We are fully aware of the inconvenience this may cause you, and we sincerely apologize for it.”
Yang Jiang

Getting an education in merits of learning over the Internet - latimes.com - 1 views

  • Myriad videos on how to do pretty much anything show not only the value in distance learning but also that fine educators abound on the Web.
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