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Ed Webb

Using VoiceThread to Give Students a Voice Outside the Classroom - ProfHacker - The Chr... - 1 views

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Thimbl - 1 views

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Ed Webb

Op-Ed Contributor - Lost in the Cloud - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 20 Jul 09 - Cached
  • the most difficult challenge — both to grasp and to solve — of the cloud is its effect on our freedom to innovate.
  • Apple can decide who gets to write code for your phone and which of those offerings will be allowed to run. The company has used this power in ways that Bill Gates never dreamed of when he was the king of Windows: Apple is reported to have censored e-book apps that contain controversial content, eliminated games with political overtones, and blocked uses for the phone that compete with the company’s products. The market is churning through these issues. Amazon is offering a generic cloud-computing infrastructure so anyone can set up new software on a new Web site without gatekeeping by the likes of Facebook. Google’s Android platform is being used in a new generation of mobile phones with fewer restrictions on outside code. But the dynamics here are complicated. When we vest our activities and identities in one place in the cloud, it takes a lot of dissatisfaction for us to move. And many software developers who once would have been writing whatever they wanted for PCs are simply developing less adventurous, less subversive, less game-changing code under the watchful eyes of Facebook and Apple.
Ed Webb

Professors Find Ways to Keep Heads Above 'Exaflood' of Data - Wired Campus - The Chroni... - 0 views

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  • Google, a major source of information overload, can also help manage it, according to Google's chief economist. Hal Varian, who was a professor at the University of California at Berkeley before going to work for the search-engine giant, showed off an analytic tool called Google Insights for Search.
  • accurately tagging data and archiving it
Ed Webb

TypeWith.me: Live Text Document Collaboration! - 0 views

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    Etherpad lives on
Ed Webb

Echo in the Theatre - Mike Bogle - 0 views

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    IMS could tell some tales, I bet
Ed Webb

Why I won't buy an iPad (and think you shouldn't, either) - Boing Boing - 1 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 03 Apr 10 - Cached
  • If there was ever a medium that relied on kids swapping their purchases around to build an audience, it was comics. And the used market for comics! It was -- and is -- huge, and vital.
  • what does Marvel do to "enhance" its comics? They take away the right to give, sell or loan your comics. What an improvement. Way to take the joyous, marvellous sharing and bonding experience of comic reading and turn it into a passive, lonely undertaking that isolates, rather than unites.
  • a palpable contempt for the owner.
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  • But with the iPad, it seems like Apple's model customer is that same stupid stereotype of a technophobic, timid, scatterbrained mother as appears in a billion renditions of "that's too complicated for my mom" (listen to the pundits extol the virtues of the iPad and time how long it takes for them to explain that here, finally, is something that isn't too complicated for their poor old mothers).
  • The model of interaction with the iPad is to be a "consumer," what William Gibson memorably described as "something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth... no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote."
  • Buying an iPad for your kids isn't a means of jump-starting the realization that the world is yours to take apart and reassemble; it's a way of telling your offspring that even changing the batteries is something you have to leave to the professionals.
  • Apple's customers can't take their "iContent" with them to competing devices, and Apple developers can't sell on their own terms.
  • I don't want my universe of apps constrained to the stuff that the Cupertino Politburo decides to allow for its platform. And as a copyright holder and creator, I don't want a single, Wal-Mart-like channel that controls access to my audience and dictates what is and is not acceptable material for me to create.
  • Rupert Murdoch can rattle his saber all he likes about taking his content out of Google, but I say do it, Rupert. We'll miss your fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the Web so little that we'll hardly notice it, and we'll have no trouble finding material to fill the void.
  • the walled gardens that best return shareholder value
  • The real issue isn't the capabilities of the piece of plastic you unwrap today, but the technical and social infrastructure that accompanies it.
Ed Webb

High-Tech Cheating on Homework Abounds, and Professors Are Partly to Blame - Technology... - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 03 Apr 10 - Cached
  • "I call it 'technological detachment phenomenon,'" he told me recently. "As long as there's some technology between me and the action, then I'm not culpable for the action." By that logic, if someone else posted homework solutions online, what's wrong with downloading them?
  • "The feeling about homework is that it's really just busywork,"
  • professors didn't put much effort into teaching, so students don't put real effort into learning
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  • "The current system places too great a burden on individual faculty who would, under the circumstances, appear to have perverse incentives: Pursuing these matters lowers course evaluations, takes their severely limited time away from research for promotion, and unfortunately personalizes the issue when it is not personal at all, but a violation against the university."
  • In the humanities, professors have found technological tools to check for blatant copying on essays, and have caught so many culprits that the practice of running papers through plagiarism-detection services has become routine at many colleges. But that software is not suited to science-class assignments.
  • a "studio" model of teaching
  • The parents paid tuition in cash
  • The idea that students should be working in a shell is so interesting. It never even occurred to me as a student that I shouldn't work with someone else on my homework. How else do you figure it out? I guess that is peer-to-peer teaching. Copying someone else's work and presenting it as your own is clearly wrong (and, as demonstrated above, doesn't do the student any good), but learning from the resources at hand ought to be encouraged. Afterall, struggling through homework problems in intro physics is how you learn in the first place.
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