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Claude Almansi

[A2k] The National Federation of the Blind Statement re Authors Guild's claim re Kindle... - 0 views

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    The blind and other readers have the right for books to be presented to us in the format that is most useful to us, and we are not violating copyright law as long as we use readers, either human or machine, for private rather than public listening.
Claude Almansi

Unhide That Hidden Text, Please « Innovate Blog - 0 views

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    Adding an alternative accessible version just for blind people is discriminatory. According to accessibility guidelines - and common sense - alternative access for people with disabilities should only be used when there is no other way to make web content accessible. Besides, access to the text version would also simplify life for scholars - and for people using portable devices with a small screen: text can be resized far better than a puzzle of images with fixed width and height
Claude Almansi

Michelle Rhee - What's Really at Stake? « Innovate Blog - 0 views

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    She's on the cover of Time (week of December 8), in a classroom, unsmiling, dressed in black, holding a broom, with the cover title, "How to Fix America's Schools," set to look as though it's the lesson for the day written on the blackboard. Framing her head is the huge "TIME" trademark. She is Michelle Rhee, Chancellor of Education, District of Columbia Public Schools. And the question for the "class" is, Does she have the answer to America's failing public school systems? Is it, finally, time to make the kinds of sweeping changes that she represents?
Claude Almansi

Two Ambivalent Views of Michelle Rhee's Efforts « Innovate Blog - 0 views

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    I applaud Rhee's efforts at reform, particularly with the DC schools, but it appears that she may not recognize or address the influence of parents, the community, and peer groups on human behavior and learning. Incorporating a plan to address and use these factors are also necessary to achieve her objectives, which are laudable.
Claude Almansi

wwwedu : Message: Michelle Rhee has a broom , should she use it to sweep out teachers o... - 0 views

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    Special care should be taken to protect highly effective schools for low-income minority students during district upheaval and budget cuts. We should treat highly effective teachers in areas of need as the stars that they are. But the places of learning in the community need to step up to the plate.
Claude Almansi

Chalk and Technology Talk..: Michelle Rhee, the Mayor and Me - Bonnie Bracey, May 8 08 - 0 views

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    I keep waiting for someone to tell the young mayor, and Miss Rhee that to be a teacher in the District of Columbia is a very hard job shaped by all kinds of outside forces. I think about my three years I which I spent all of my savings contributing to the school system. I taught across from a large welfare housing in southwest Washington DC. The school is still there. They called me the pied piper of SW. I took children on field trips, taught them to use the museums on the mall to learn, did NASA Marsville with them and had wonderful reading scores. It was not appreciated. I was making trouble. That's why I left. Children followed me in the SW mall. Children in trouble slept at my doorstep. There was never enough time or money to address all of their needs.
Claude Almansi

Seegras Logbook » Blog Archive » Stealing from the Public Domain - 0 views

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    Everybody is talking about "illegal copying" (most often in propagandist terms like "stealing" or "piracy"), but nobody of the opposite: Taking a work in public domain and slapping your copyright-notice over it; something which very much borders on plagiarism. And of course asserting to have a copyright on something which you are not entitled to is also a violation of copyright. The very funny thing is, there is a repository of thousands of books whose copyright is violated this way. It's books.google.com. Nowhere else, such a mass of works wrongly tagged "copyrighted material" can be found.
Claude Almansi

Malaysian Smart Schools: A Fruitful Case Study for Analysis to Synopsize Lessons Applic... - 0 views

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    Hanan EL-Halawany and Enas Ibraheem Huwail Assuit University, Egypt In this paper the researchers try to comprehend the ideological framework within which Malaysia has created its ICT mediated education. We look at Malaysia as a rewarding case study as evidence reveals that Malaysia has managed to leapfrog using the opportunities that ICTs can offer. Therefore, this paper tries to distill Malaysia's experience in this arena and extract lessons learned and innovative strategies and practices applicable to the Egyptian context.
Claude Almansi

Recorded seminar with Julie K. Little on Educause Learning Initiative - 0 views

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    Recorded on uliveandlearn.com - Julie K. Little, Denise Easton, James Morrison
Claude Almansi

Innovate: Moving from Theory to Real-World Experiences in an e-Learning Community - Ana... - 0 views

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    lasses need to offer experiential learning opportunities-activities that go beyond case analyses and technical training to provide real-world experiences.
Claude Almansi

WIKINOMICS | HOME - Don Tapscott - 0 views

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    In the last few years, traditional collaboration-in a meeting room, a conference call, even a convention center-has been superceded by collaborations on an astronomical scale.
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