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"Posted by Dario Taraborelli on August 2, 2012 Improving the quality of articles has long been one of the primary aims of contributors to Wikipedia, and is one of the Wikimedia movement's 2010-15 strategic priorities, but measuring it objectively has remained a challenge. In 2005, Nature famously reported that Wikipedia articles on scientific topics contained just four errors per article on average, compared to three errors per article in the online edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Britannica objected to the report, but Nature stood by it, and the report remains widely cited today. Since that time, however, there have been relatively few independent analyses of Wikipedia article quality, despite the enormous growth of the project. Wikipedia today counts more than 23 million articles across languages (more than 4 million articles in the English Wikipedia alone) compared to 3.7 million total articles in 2005; today it ranks 6th by overall traffic according to Alexa, while it ranked 37th in 2005. (...) The Wikimedia Foundation is announcing the release of a pilot study conducted by Epic, an e-learning consultancy, in partnership with Oxford University - "Assessing the Accuracy and Quality of Wikipedia Entries Compared to Popular Online Alternative Encyclopaedias: A Preliminary Comparative Study Across Disciplines in English, Spanish and Arabic." The study compared a sample of English Wikipedia articles to equivalent articles in Encyclopaedia Britannica, Spanish Wikipedia to Enciclonet, and Arabic Wikipedia to Mawsoah and Arab Encyclopaedia. 22 articles in the sample were blind-assessed by 2 to 3 native speaking academic experts each, both quantitatively and qualitatively. The small size of the sample does not allow us to generalize the results to Wikipedia as a whole. However, as a pilot primarily focused on methodology, the study offers new insights into the design of a protocol for expert assessment of encyclopedic contents. For our editor community a

"Wordcounter is a word count and a character count tool. Simply place your cursor into the box and begin typing. Word counter will automatically count the number of words and characters as you type. You can also copy and paste a document you have already written into the word counter box and it will display the word count and character numbers for that piece of writing. Knowing the number of words or characters in a document can be important. For example, if the author is required to write a minimum or maximum amount of words for an article or paper, word counter can help them know if their article meets these requirements. In addition, word counter automatically shows you the top 10 keywords and keyword density of the article you're writing. This allows you to know what keywords you use most often and what percentage each is used within the article. This can help you from over-using certain words in your writing and allow you to make sure you have the correct keyword distribution you're trying to obtain for any article you write. Word counts can also be important in defining typing and reading speeds. Word counter can help determine both of these. Simply set a timer and start typing and when the time is up, you'll instantly know how many words you have typed for that period of time. If you have any questions about word counter, please feel free to contact us here. Disclaimer: We strive to make our word counter as accurate as possible but we cannot guarantee it will always be so."

Contatore di parole online: si scrive o si incolla un testo, e lui ti dà automaticamente il numero, oltre a quello delle parole, dei segni (non so se con o senza spazi però), delle frasi, dei paragrafi, e la lunghezza media delle frasi (in No di parole), nonché la frequenza delle parole chiave più usate. Cioè potrebbe anche essere utile per scegliere tag quando si fa un segnalibro su Diigo ;)

"Other resources: PDF of US Copyright Office circular "Works Made for Hire Under the 1976 Copyright Act" Text of US copyright law "Chapter 2 - Copyright Ownership and Transfer" Article: "Working with freelancers: What every publisher should know about the "work for hire" doctrine." A short analysis of Community For Creative Non-Violence v. Reid the seminal U.S. case on the topic Music Law.com's page on work for hire Legal information site's page on "Works Made for Hire Under the Copyright Act" Video: Protecting Your Work: Understanding Publishing, Copyright, and "Work For Hire"" Law Review article: "Pre-existing Confusion in Copyright's Work-for-Hire Doctrine" The Writing for Children Resource Site article: "The Work-for-hire question" EFF article: "Film Schools Teach Wrong Copyright Lesson" Academy for Creative Media FAQ on the Student Copyright Agreement KeepYourCopyrights.org page on Work for Hire Wikipedia article on work for hire"

Soprattutto interessante per le risorse.

"Author: Andy Carvin , EDC Center for Media & Community | December 7th, 2004 You may have noticed recently that lots of websites now contain little graphical buttons with the word XML on them. For example: XML button When you click on the button, all you see is a bunch of jumbled text and computer code. What's this all about? It's an RSS feed, and they're changing the way people access the Internet. RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is a technical format that allows online publishers to share and distribute their content to other websites or individual Internet users. It's commonly used for distributing headlines on news websites. Bloggers use it to distribute summaries of their blog entries as well. RSS is written in the Internet coding language known as XML, which is why you see RSS buttons labeled that way. If a website publishes an RSS page, commonly known as an RSS "feed," this feed will contain summaries of all the recent articles posted on that site. For example, Yahoo News publishes news related to world headlines, national news, sports, etc. These you can all read by going to the Yahoo website. But they also publish RSS feeds for each of these subjects. Each RSS feed contains a summary of the most recent news stories posted. Similarly, the Digital Divide Network publishes RSS feeds for our news headlines, events listings and other content on our website. I even have my own RSS feed for articles that I publish on my personal blog, Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth. But why do RSS feeds look like a jumbled mess when I click on them with most Web browsers? It's because RSS feeds are meant to be read by machines rather than people. Software and websites can understand the data contained in RSS feeds and make it available to people on personalized websites, through software known as news aggregators, even through email. So when you aggregate RSS feeds, you're having a computer collect content from many different websites and organize them in a convenient pla

Linkato in http://iamarf.org/2013/04/20/racconti-ltis13/ , commento 42. RSS come empowerment.

"By Liana Heitin (...) In a growing number of K-12 schools, the use of 1-to-1 computing devices-including iPads, laptops, and Chromebooks-is becoming a central part of instruction. For teachers making the digital leap, one of the greatest hurdles can be figuring out how to manage the tech-infused classroom. How do you keep kids, who suddenly have the Internet at their fingertips, on task? How do you ensure the devices are safe and well-maintained? And how do you compete with your most tech-savvy students? (...)"I think this is the new frontier frankly with classroom management. We've never confronted this," said Kyle Redford, a 5th grade teacher at Marin Country Day School in Corte Madera, Calif. "

Suggerimenti interessanti su come assicurarsi che gli allievi facciano quel che devono fare in classe con aggeggi web-connessi anziché lasciarsi trascinare da altre cose. Ma si tratta proprio di una "nuova frontiera" per gli insegnanti? In tempi pre-web, era lo stesso quando mandavi gli allievi a far ricerca in biblioteca, o gli facevi fare lavoro di gruppo sul prato della scuola, no?

Aggiungo solo questo: che se si va a scuola per lavorare in modalità 1-to-1, tanto valeva restarsene a casa, no? Va bene per brevi periodi di tempo e per scopi precisi, ma altrimenti la scuola è preziosa per comunicare con l'insegnante o lavorare a coppie o in gruppo. Socializzare e costruire la comunità, insomma.

"Ce MOOC (des cours en ligne gratuits et ouverts à tous) est conçu pour vous faire entrer dans les coulisses de la plus grande encyclopédie au monde : comprendre son fonctionnement, ses règles, découvrir sa communauté (sans hiérarchie), la manière dont la fiabilité du contenu est assurée, etc. Ces cours vous permettront également d'apprendre à contribuer vous-même à Wikipédia : modifier des articles, les illustrer, les mettre en forme, interagir avec les autres contributeurs, travailler de manière collaborative... À la fin du WikiMOOC, vous serez même amené à créer votre tout premier article sur Wikipédia."

"In other articles we looked at how to build a cross browser video player using the HTMLMediaElement and Window.fullScreen APIs, and also at how to style the player. This article will take the same player and show how to add captions and subtitles to it, using the WebVTT format and the element."

While we may have many words we can use to represent our emotions, there are some feelings that no English word can describe. But that doesn't mean other languages don't have words for them-and as part of an ongoing project called Unspeakableness, design student Pei-Ying Lin created an infographic that ties feelings we have no names for to their foreign language word equivalents. Read the full text here: http://mentalfloss.com/article/32234/infographic-names-21-emotions-no-english-word-equivalents#ixzz2WYOeLXBU  --brought to you by mental_floss! 

"...Our vision is to encourage the growth of a more open set of intellectual communities than those spawned by the traditional university system. In particular, we focus on the ideal of introducing inventive methods of interaction to allow these communities to form in new ways. Rather than segregating users based on which university they happen to attend (or indeed, whether they happen to attend a university at all) or even the large subject areas encompassed by university classes, the system allows users to interact with one another in focused ways based on the specific ideas they are addressing at the time: users can gather around the specific details of a recently passed piece of legislation or the implications of a particular article, rather than around larger subject blocks. H2O encourages users to share the content they create through these interactions by making archives of previous materials easily available and browsable and by enabling the sharing of content among different intellectual communities. ..."

"Le revisioni dei post WordPress - #ltis13 April 18, 2013 by Claude Almansi | 2 Comments Nel mio commento #34 al post Due o tre cose sui blog #ltis13, ho provato a spiegare come le revisioni salvate - deliberatamente e dal software - dei post WordPress consentono spesso di recuperare un post apparentemente scomparso, ad es. per un problema di connettività. Lo rifaccio qui, però aggiungendo delle catture di schermo per maggior chiarezza: WordPress fa anche regolarmente salvataggi automatici, e l'ultimo si ritrova con le versioni salvate volontariamente sotto "Revisions", in fondo alla pagina del post: Elenco delle revisioni, con l'ultima, fatta dal software, seguita da [Autosaved] (la revisione con "[Autosave]" è quella che il software ha salvato per ultimo)"

"QUE DES PROFESSIONNELS! Les Voix Les chroniques et émissions que vous trouverez sur ce site ont été conçues par des professionnels qui ont sacrifié une grande partie de leur vie pour le media radiophonique. Ils ont pris une retraite méritée mais leur passion n'a pas disparue. La preuve... Les VIP Que des personnalités ou des "people" ayant ou n'ayant jamais fait de radio. Elles nous livrent ici leur chroniques ou anecdotes à la sauce Voxinox. QUE DE L'INEDIT! Les émissions présentes sur ce site n'ont jamais été diffusées ou distribuées ailleurs que sur ce site. Elles appartiennent à leurs auteurs en collaboration avec VOXINOX. "

Tanti file audio riutilizzabili per attività linguistiche. La pagina Copyright - http://voxinox.ch/articles.php?lng=fr&pg=910 - dice che le risorse sono sotto una licenza http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ch/ e che per utilizzazioni derivate, bisogna chiedere il permesso. Tuttavia, quando ho chiesto chiarimenti sul loro forum in http://www.voxinox.ch/thread.php?lng=fr&pg=4297&cat=1 , hanno risposto: " Le choix de ce copyright est uniquement fait pour nous protéger des sites aspirateurs ou voir de sites qui s'approprient notre travail. Cette licence à l'avantage d'être tout de même assez explicite. Nous n'avons pas le moyens de créer notre propre licence. Vous pouvez utiliser notre contenu à des fins non commerciales sans autre, comme dans le cas de classes d'école. Travailler sur le contenu ou l'illustrer a des fins pédagogiques est accepté dans le cadre d'internet. Tout ce que nous demandons est de mettre une mention ou mieux un lien sur l'origine de cet élément. Dans le cas d'éventuels droits d'auteurs, pour une diffusion publique hors internet, ils seront à régler auprès des organisme comme la Suisa ou la SSA (soumis à autorisation). Notre partage concerne, dans le cas d'un podcast, le podcast en entier des dérivés." Si c'est commercial, il faut nous contacter par email et détailler votre projet car ça dépasse le cadre de la crative commons et ce afin d'obtenir les autorisations des auteurs puis d'examiner les implications avec les différentes sociétés suisses de droits d'auteurs. " Concretamente, questo significa che i derivati creati a scuola sono OK a patto di - indicare la paternità dell'opera originale e il link ad esso - pubblicare il derivato in modo che non crei redditi; perciò non su piattaforme con annunci pubblicitari, come YouTube.

Opening Remarks WIPO DIP Com 18 June 2013 By: Maryanne Diamond on behalf of the WBU [World Blind Union] "...I urge you to play your part in making a difference in the lives of these millions of people, by agreeing a treaty that is simple, usable and meaningful. We cannot accept a treaty which has no substance, nor, can we accept a treaty full of bureaucratic and cumbersome requirements. We cannot accept a trophy treaty that will not work in practice. When considering your proposals, changes or amendments to the text, please stop and think about what that change will make on the ground to the people this treaty is about. You have received copies of our positions on the key issues in the current text of concern to us. * Commercial availability in articles D and E will ensure the treaty fails * The treaty must allow for distribution to individuals * The treaty must not allow TPMs to be a block to access to a book by blind people Please ask us if you're not sure what the impact of text you are considering will be on the ground. We are here for the entire conference. ..."

"Posted by Panos ⋅ May 23, 2010 ⋅ 52 Comments As shown in part 1 of this article, some themes display this as the html you are confined to when commenting: Explanation (for those not familiar with html)"

Vedi http://iamarf.org/2013/04/28/costruire-un-link-ltis13/, commenti 28, 29, 40 e 42.

"Using PBworks in your academic environments. PBworks hosts over 300,000 educational workspaces, and has helped transform teaching and learning for millions of students, parents and teachers. Educators ranging from major universities like DePaul, school districts like Baltimore County Public Schools and individual teachers trust PBworks as their collaborative learning environment. In your Classroom, Library, District or University Encourage student-centered learning. Even young students can build web pages, embed images & video, and post documents. Provide access to information sources, book lists, and links to good articles. Have the resources stored for future use. Host and share information between students, faculty and staff. Encourage staff development and shared resources across schools. Make distance learning more interactive and collaborative, support research teams, and improve inter-departmental coordination."

" Collect articles & videos to learn from each other."

"Online learning is making headway-not just in traditional colleges, but in high schools as well. If you've been asked to transition your traditional classes to an online format, you may be unsure of where to start. Online learning is vastly different from the traditional classroom in a lot of ways. But there are also ways in which it's unexpectedly similar. Here are a few tips for taking your classroom online."

"Can You Really Teach a MOOC in a Refugee Camp? - Wired Campus - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education August 1, 2014 by Steve Kolowich Two men living in Dadaab, a refugee camp in Kenya, would watch lecture videos and take online quizzes at a nearby United Nations compound. (InZone) One narrative that has driven widespread interest in free online courses known as MOOCs is that they can help educate the world. But critics like to emphasize that the courses mostly draw students who already hold traditional degrees. So when Coursera, the largest provider of MOOCs, published a blog post about how a professor had used one of its online courses to teach refugees near the Kenya-Somalia border, it sounded to some like a satire of Silicon Valley's naïve techno-optimism: Hundreds of thousands of devastated Africans stranded in a war zone? MOOCs to the rescue! Details of the experiment paint a more nuanced picture, one that highlights the challenges MOOC providers face in trying to change the lives of downtrodden people. Barbara Moser-Mercer, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Geneva, ran the refugee experiment and wrote Coursera's optimistic blog post about it. But in an interview with The Chronicle, as well as a more formal article she wrote about the experiment for a European conference on MOOCs, the professor expanded on the logistical issues that come with trying to make sophisticated online courses work in deprived settings."

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"Rikki Poynter Published on Oct 12, 2014 Getting started on CC videos - https://captiontube.appspot.com/ https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2734799?hl=en Option #2 https://www.zencaptions.com/ ($1 per minute. First 10 minutes free.) Or type up everything you said in a word document and upload it. It's that simple. THE ARTICLE » http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/06/rikki-poynter-deaf-hoh-beauty-vlogger_n_5941160.html?1412631517 FACEBOOK POST » https://www.facebook.com/HuffPostGoodNews/posts/699752686777585 YOUTUBE MENTIONS » FRANCHESCA » https://www.youtube.com/user/chescaleigh CONNOR » https://www.youtube.com/user/AConMann"

do you know you can integrate AI with Captions and it will be very easy for every youtuber to generate captions easily. i found some cool way to generate captions in multiple language using tool called Trance check out this unique tool here https://digital-nirvana.com/products/trance/

"Abstract The last five years have witnessed a hype about MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) presaging a revolution in higher education. Although all MOOCs have in common their scale and free access, they have already bifurcated in two very distinct types of courses when compared in terms of their underpinning theory, format and structure, known as c-MOOCs and x-MOOCs. The concept of openness behind each of the formats is also very different. Previous studies have shown that c-and x-MOOCs share some common features but that they clearly differ on the learning theory and pedagogical model on which they stand. In this paper we extend earlier findings and concentrate on the concept of "openness" behind each format showing important differences. Keywords Distance Education; Massive Open Online Course; MOOC; Open Course; Open Learning; Openness"