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Vicki Davis

Using the tag library - 20 views

The useful thing about this is that it gives us the predefined tags that we may use to have consistent tagging for the Horizon Project items.

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Vicki Davis

WebSlides - Turning bookmarks and feeds into interactive slideshows… - 0 views

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    Diigo also takes bookmarks and feeds and turns them into interactive slide shows -- this is a webcast about how it does it. Cool
Vicki Davis

YouTube - CBS Exposes Hillary Clinton Bosnia Trip. - 0 views

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    This is an example of how video sharing sites like youtube are playing a role in the current US political election. This Hilliary Clinton video is going through youtube and the evening news as well.
Vicki Davis

YouTube - Please ban cell phone use while driving. - 0 views

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    Looking at the safety aspect of humans with machines is important.
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    Responsible use of electronic devices is going to become increasingly important because today cell phone is a distraction --- tomorrow it will be in car movies or gps devices. It is the behavior that is the problem and proper focus on real life has to be something we emphasize as we discuss the proper relationship of humans with "gadgets."
Vicki Davis

No Videos on Flickr! on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - 0 views

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    Flickr users are angry about the addition of video. If you search "video" on flickr, you'll see many such responses. This is important to highlight in the horizon project.
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    Response of many flickr users to the addition of video to flickr. This is going to be a very interesting thing to watch. Should a company focus, or should it be everything to everyone? I think that somehow flickr may miss the point... there are subgroups of people who want to use technologies in a focused way without everyone else. IN some ways, self selection makes the product more usable to a niche. Now, photobugs may have to go somewhere else or tolerate the "moving pictures" that they so hate.
Vicki Davis

Modern Day Revolution - Horizon Project 2008 - 0 views

  • I agree that in the upcoming generation, my generation, we control our screen instead of watching it as our parents did.
  • Collaboration is not just a word in the dictionary that we have to recite to a chalkboard. It’s something that we have become accustomed to; it is as natural to us as breathing.
  • In the digital age, we do not have to strike in front of the White House. We effect change by telling the world the truth from the comfort of our own homes using the Internet with facebook, myspace, blogger, and so much more.
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    I'm reading some great posts from students about the keynote. This one in particular was very captivating. In the digital age, we do not have to strike in front of the White House. We effect change by telling the world the truth from the comfort of our own homes using the Internet with facebook, myspace, blogger, and so much more."
glen gatin

Online Predators and Their Victims - 0 views

  • The publicity about online"predators" who prey on naive children using trickery and violence is largely inaccurate.
  • adult offenders who meet, develop relationships with, and openly seduce underage teenagers
  • In the great majority of cases, victims are aware they are conversing online with adults. In the N-JOV Study, only 5% of offenders pretended to be teens when they met potential victims online. (112)
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  • Offenders rarely deceive victims about their sexual interests.
  • promises of love and romance
  • 99% of victims of Internet-initiated sex crimes in the N-JOV Study were 13 to 17 years old, and none were younger than 12. 48% were 13 or 14 years old. (115)
  • My (Liz B. Davis ) Summary of Key Points (All are quotes directly from the article): Online "Predators" and Their Victims. Myths, Realities, and Implications for Prevention and Treatment. by: Janis Wolak, David Finkelhor, and Kimberly J. Mitchell - University of New Hampshire and Michele L. Ybarra - Internet Solutions for Kids, Inc.
  • it was those 15-17 years of age who were most prone to take risks involving privacy and contact with unknown people. (115)
  • take place in isolation and secrecy, outside of oversight by peers, family  members, and others in the youth's face-to-face social networks (115)
  • Most of the online child molesters described in the N-JOV Study met their victims in chatrooms. In a 2006 study, about one third of youths who received online sexual solicitation had received them in chatrooms. (116)
  • Youth internet users with histories of offline sexual or physical abuse appear to be considerably more likely to receive online aggressive sexual solicitations. (117)
  • ..Although Internet safety advocates worry that posting personal information exposes youths to online molesters, we have not found empirical evidence that supports this concern. It is interactive behaviors, such as conversing online with unknown people about sex, that more clearly create risk. (117)
  • Online molesters do not appear to be stalking unsuspecting victims but rather continuing to seek youths who are susceptible to seduction. (117)
  • maintaining online blogs or journals, which are similar to social networking sites in that they often include considerable amounts of personal information and pictures, is not related to receiving aggressive sexual solicitation unless youths also interact online with unknown people. (117)
  • Boys constitute 25% of victims in Internet-initiated sex crimes, and virtually all of their offenders are male. (118
  • Some gay boys turn to the internet to find answers to questions about sexuality or meet potential romantic partners, and there they may encounter adults who exploit them. (118)
  • ..child molesters are, in reality, a diverse group that cannot be accurately characterized with one-dimensional labels. (118)
  • Online child molesters are generally not pedophiles. (118)Online child molesters are rarely violent. (119)
  • Child pornography production is also an aspect of Internet-initiated sex crimes. One in five online child molesters in the N-JOV Study took sexually suggestive or explicit photographs of victims or convinced victims to take such photographs of themselves or friends. (120)
  • Youths may be more willing to talk extensively and about more intimate matters with adults online than in face-to-face environments. (121
  • it may not be clear to many adolescents and adults that relationships between adults and underage adolescents are criminal. (122)
  • Simply urging parents and guardians to control, watch, or educate their children may not be effective in many situations. The adolescents who tend to be the victims of Internet-initiated sex crimes many not themselves be very receptive to the advice and supervision of parents. (122)
  • We recommend educating youths frankly about the dynamics of Internet-initiated and other nonforcible sex crimes. Youths need candid, direct discussions about seduction and how some adults deliberately evoke and then exploit the compelling feelings that sexual arousal can induce. (122)
  • The factors that make youths vulnerable to seduction by online molesters are complex and related to immaturity, inexperience, and the impulsiveness with which some youths respond to and explore normal sexual urges.
    • glen gatin
       
      Extended adolescence as much a contributing factor as inherent evil in online community?
    • Vicki Davis
       
      Not sure I understand the term "extended adolescence?"
    • glen gatin
       
      Twenty somethings still living with their parents.
    • glen gatin
       
      The whole concept of adult hood has shifted as a result. Thinking of the woman who was censured for putting her 9 yr old on the subway. Not sure how this applies to online predators.
    • glen gatin
       
      Comment box seems to work fine. It took me a while to find it too. What a neat tool! I can think of a 6 projects where this will come in very handy!! Thanks for the invite, Vicki.
    • Vicki Davis
       
      Interesting theory -- I'm not sure that this study was focusing on that age group -- we need to refer to the original study linked at the top of the page on that one.
  • images of adolescent sexuality abound in the media
    • glen gatin
       
      Much of what is published in the MSM about social networking and the internet in general is designed to emphasize the hazards. predators, identity theft, viruses etc. Usually hot button emotional issues. Same old deal, people love to be horrified. It sells alot of papers. In an attention economy it is getting harder to attract attention. A good "scary internet" story attracts attention and sells papers.
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    Information summarizing an article on online safety -- something important for education subgroups to cover.
Steve Madsen

Visualizing Viruses - 0 views

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    MessageLabs commissioned Dragulescu to visualize the threats the company finds in the 3 million messages it scans daily.
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    Virus, spyware code patterns translated to visual representations. May be 3d computing, a type of mashup.
Vicki Davis

The Web2.0 Prophecy: An Adventure | Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts - 0 views

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    This is an excellent article that has been reposted. It includes a lot of the information that outlines WHAT web 2.0 is. This includes videos and many important hyperlinks. Excellent article for newcomers to web 2.0 to pick up on.
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    Excellent article outlining what is happening in Web 2.0 and education. This includes many important videos as well.
glen gatin

digital digs: Building Scholarly Networks - 0 views

  • We might like to think that information-sharing is intrinsic to academic work, especially academic work that is publicly funded. However we also place many restrictions on publishing, like peer review, and I imagine there are still academics who try to keep their work secret until it is ready for any number of semi-paranoid reasons. I'm not going to say we shouldn't do these things, but we need to recognize that the discipline works by controlling the production and distribution of disciplinary knowledge.
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    See Skirky Coasean floor- the cost of dissemintation of academic research has dropped to near zero. When institutions insist on exhorbitant journal access fees they doom themselves to irrelevance. Attention economy needs eyeballs and the eyeballs glaze over at the idea of paying $180.00 for a PDF report on online education in Canada, a publicly funded research project.(295 for the hard copy)
Steve Madsen

Tracking device on bins ensures residents chip in - Technology - smh.com.au - 0 views

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    His suspicions grew further when he noticed a small, flat, circular object hidden under the rim of his new bin. About the size of a 10-cent coin, it had the letters "TI-RFid" embossed on it.
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    RFid technology attached to garbage bins to collect data about home owners re-cycling efforts or lack of. (Australia)
Steve Madsen

Bollywood's Viral Videos - TIME - 0 views

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    Bollywood studios aim to make films directly available, via download, to the vast overseas market that contributes a fifth of the industry's revenues.
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    Wikinomics concept: Hollywood won't make films available for immediate download due to their protectiveness of content. For India's Bollywood, this could be their future?
Steve Madsen

PC World - Business Center: Salesforce Announces Integration With Google Apps - 0 views

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    A wikinomics concept: an established company combining with Google Apps because of the collaborative aspects.
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    Salesforce has integrated Google's online productivity applications with its on-demand CRM (customer relationship management) offerings.
Steve Madsen

Starbucks customers stampede website - web - Technology - smh.com.au - 0 views

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    Hundreds of coffee-obsessed consumers chimed in moments after Starbucks launched a Web site asking customers to pitch changes the company should make to revive its struggling US business.
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    A good current example where a large business is asking customers what it can do to improve its business. It is asking for the collective wisdom of its 'prosumers'. This strategy is very much advocated in Wikinomics.
Steve Madsen

Google App Engine: Cashing in on the user data | Outside the Lines - CNET News.com - 0 views

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    This is a good example on how data can / will be collected indirectly (implicitly).
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    It's not evil, but they are tracking users and clickstreams, which (are) the real currency of the Web, and most people don't care. If you can get all data, you can target ads and the user experience, such as showing a site in a different color, depending on user profile."
Vicki Davis

Microsoft Sends Letter to Yahoo! Board of Directors: Microsoft Sends Letter to Yahoo! B... - 0 views

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    Microsoft continues to attempt to negotiate with Yahoo -- this is an important piece of information to take a look at for the horizon project students -- Microsoft + Yahoo = A viable competitor for google? Is Google hurting Microsoft that much? These are things to look at as you review emerging trends.
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    The Microsoft + Yahoo collaborations and their competition with Google are important trends for the government_business groups to understand and review.
Steve Madsen

collectiveintelligence » home - 0 views

  • After blogging about this and talking to my network about it, we thought it would be interesting to write something collaboratively using our collective intelligence
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      A new site that is testing the waters to write lengthy prose collaboratively.
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    A new site that is trying to use collaboration to write a lengthy document .
Vicki Davis

TimeAndSpace on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - 0 views

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    This is a chart from a well known educator in canada -- if you are interested in learning more about this - I can put you in touch with the author, Darren Kuropatwa.
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    I likethis graphic from Darren about the traditional classroom. I would tweak it a bit but wanted to preserve this, particularly for the students examining the impact of connecting people and usercontent on the classroom with the horizon project.
Steve Madsen

Final Tips for Using Google Documents | ExpertVillage Videos - 0 views

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    Nice examples of short instructional videos on how to use Google Docs. It might stir up the creative juices for the creation of a multimedia artifact?
Vicki Davis

Capturing Myself in Hyperlink - 0 views

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    You can see here the evolution of art itself.
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    Language and poetry are evolving as this hyperlinked poem shows.
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