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Vicki Davis

Dimdim: Free Live Meeting, Web Conference, Net Meeting, Online Meetings, Online Trainin... - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 07 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 07 Apr 08
     
    Opensource web meeting software. Interesting.
  • Vicki Davis on 07 Apr 08
     
    This new platform for allowing people to meet using the internet with free open source software is very exciting!
Steve Madsen

Black Diamond - 0 views

smadsenau.edublogs.org

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shared by Steve Madsen on 13 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Steve Madsen on 13 Apr 08
     
    This could be an example where Open Source software will challenge commercial producers of web collaboration software. Will it be a Linux? Skype? Apache Server? Audacity?
  • Steve Madsen on 13 Apr 08
     
    Dimdim is web collaboration software that is free and is open source. It has become available to everyone in the middle of April 2008
Paul Fairbrother

Hoover Institution - Education Next - How Do We Transform Our Schools? - 0 views

www.hoover.org/...18575969.html

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shared by Paul Fairbrother on 13 May 08 - Cached
  • Computers offer a way to customize instruction and allow students to learn in the way they are best wired to process information, in the style that conforms to them, and at a pace that matches their own.
  • We call innovations that sustain the leading companies’ trajectory in an industry sustaining innovations.
  • disruptive innovation extends its benefits to people who, for one reason or another, are unable to consume the original product, so-called non-consumers. Disruptive innovations tend to be simpler and more affordable than existing products. This allows them to take root in simple, undemanding applications within a new market or arena of competition.
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  • Little by little, the disruption predictably improves. New companies introduce products that for them are sustaining innovations along their trajectory. And at some point, disruptive innovations become good enough to handle more complicated problems and take over,
  • At first glance there appears to be little non-consumption of education in the United States since students are required to receive schooling. Looking deeper, however, reveals many pockets of non-consumption where students would be delighted with computer-based learning rather than the alternative, nothing at all.
  • data suggest that in about six years 10 percent of all courses will be computer-based, and by 2019 about 50 percent of courses will be delivered online
  • Disruption tends to be a two-stage process. Those who initially create the integrated alternative can sell the new products through the existing commercial system. As the technology matures, less expensive solutions emerge. At this point in the disruption, the commercial system typically changes. Disruption of the commercial system enables less expensive solutions to reach new markets and take root.
  • Pitting computer-based learning directly against teachers or continuing to cram it into schools will not work. Producers of computer-based learning software must introduce it disruptively, by letting it compete against non-consumption initially. And software makers must customize the software for different learning types while other entrepreneurs find new channels to reach students. If all this happens, those who have extolled the benefits of computer-based learning might finally be able to see its promise materialize.
  • Paul Fairbrother on 13 May 08
     
    Projected impact of computer-based/online learning on schools
Steve Madsen

Internet Is the Platform, Web 2.0 Founder Says - 0 views

www.pcmag.com/...0,2817,2286997,00.asp

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shared by Steve Madsen on 24 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Steve Madsen on 24 Apr 08
     
    The Internet is the platform - a tool for harnessing collective intelligence. Data has become the "Intel Inside" and software is above being written for just a single device, meaning desktops, laptops and mobile devices.
  • Steve Madsen on 24 Apr 08
     
    Some good trends identified, some sites listed where they are working for 'a higher purpose'; the value grows based on the number of participants. Could have some ideas for a mulit-media artifact.
Vicki Davis

Today's spies find secrets in plain sight - USATODAY.com - 0 views

www.usatoday.com/...008-03-31-internet-spies_N.htm

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shared by Vicki Davis on 01 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Now, however, the President's Daily Brief and other crucial intelligence reports often rely less on secrets from risky espionage missions than on material that's available to just about anyone.
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      Vicki Davis on 01 Apr 08
       
      "Open-source" information is becoming part of intelligence gathering as analysts turn to Internet sources of information.
  • Such material is known as "open-source intelligence" or, in the acronym-laden parlance of the 16 federal agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community, OSINT. The explosion of information available via the Internet and other public sources has pushed the collection and analysis of that material to the top of the official priority list in the spy world, intelligence officials say.
  • Federal commissions repeatedly have criticized the intelligence community for not moving more quickly and aggressively to exploit open-source information.
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  • Every potentially useful nugget must be vetted because enemy states and terror groups, such as al-Qaeda, sometimes use the Internet and other open channels to put out misleading information.
  • The CIA has set up an Open Source Center, based in a nondescript office building in suburban Washington, where officers pore over everything from al-Qaeda-backed websites to papers distributed at science and technology symposiums, says Douglas Naquin, the center's director.
  • Other agencies, such as the FBI and the Defense Intelligence Agency, are training scores of analysts to mine open sources and giving many of them desktop Internet access
  • national security officials also are grappling with the flip side of the open-source phenomenon: making sure sensitive information held by the government, businesses and even individuals doesn't slip into the same sort of public outlets that U.S. intelligence agencies are scrutinizing.
  • Open sources can provide up to 90% of the information needed to meet most U.S. intelligence needs
  • Vicki Davis on 01 Apr 08
     
    Open source now has a new meaning -- the traditional term has meant "open source software" but now, increasingly it is meaning "open source information" -- as US spy agencies are talking about the use of more open source information, or information taken from openly available and free sources on the Internet. As we teach new terminology and how to understand the words that make our world meaningful, it is increasingly important to teach students to watch and understand the evolution of language. This is an excellent case study. This is also an important term and article to be reviewed by students involved in the Horizon project that are analyzing government trends and our changing world.
  • Vicki Davis on 01 Apr 08
     
    This new term of open source information is a very important emerging trend that should be included in the subgroup of those analyzing government information and trends.
Steve Madsen

Values Exchange Selected Oz schools - 0 views

knox.values-exchange.co.nz/

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shared by Steve Madsen on 29 Mar 08 - No Cached
  • Steve Madsen on 29 Mar 08
     
    Values Exchange. Students able to discuss current interests. Has formal approach to discussions.
  • Steve Madsen on 29 Mar 08
     
    2008: software written in New Zealand. A pilot program where students respond to case studies which involve values. Responses are quantitatively collated. Good potential for further research for more academic inclined students.
Julie Lindsay

Welcome to Webware 100 Awards 2008 - 0 views

www.webware.com/...winners.html

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shared by Julie Lindsay on 23 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Julie Lindsay on 23 Apr 08
     
    These are the 100 best Web 2.0 applications, chosen by Webware readers and Internet users across the globe.
Vicki Davis

Free Scheduling Software | Integrate Outlook, Google Calendar & Exchange Availability -... - 0 views

www.timebridge.com/home.php

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shared by Vicki Davis on 26 Mar 08 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 26 Mar 08
     
    This website is GREAT. It integrates with Outlook and Google Calendar and allows you to schedule meetings very very easily. It will also allow those who always want to meet with you, a way to see your available times if you wish to allow it.
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