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"THE PERFORMERS Dr. William Cutter, Director, presents the MIT Concert Choir, December 2, 2006, Kresge Auditorium, MIT. Featuring: David Collins, pianist Joshua Li, baritone Stephan Jung, baritone Daniel Cunningham, baritone Michael Johnson, bass Sudeep Agarwala, tenor Elisabeth Hon, soprano THE WORK Carmina Burana is a scenic cantata composed by Carl Orff in 1935 and 1936." http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/

"by Jeff Gould, SafeGov.org Friday, January 31, 2014 When it introduced a new privacy policy designed to improve its ability to target users with ads based on data mining of their online activities, Google said the policy didn't apply to students using Google Apps for Education. But recent court filings by Google's lawyers in a California class action lawsuit against Gmail data mining tell a different story: Google now admits that it does data mine student emails for ad-targeting purposes outside of school, even when ad serving in school is turned off, and its controversial consumer privacy policy does apply to Google Apps for Education."

Attenzione alla data: alcune cose potrebbero essere cambiate nel frattempo.

"Gilly Salmon - Professor at the University of Western Australia - Australia Gilly Salmon invited us to observe and explore technologies of the future and bring them to today, in the service of student achievements and business advantage More info: http://bit.ly/1YkCGOf"

Published on Jun 2, 2012 on YouTube Since Tony Blair's New Labour government came to power in 1997, the UK civil liberties landscape has changed dramatically. ASBOs were introduced by Section 1 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 and first used in 1999. The right to remain silent is no longer universal. Our right to privacy, free from interception of communications has been severely curtailed. The ability to travel without surveillance (or those details of our journeys being retained) has disappeared. Indeed, as Henry Porter (the Observer journalist famous for his recent email clash with Tony Blair over the paring down of civil liberties) reveals in this unsettling film, our movements are being watched, and recorded, more than ever before. (narrato da Henry Porter, realizzato da Neil Ferguson, trasmesso originalmente nel 2006)

"Datenschutz beim MOOC Die Technische Universität wie die Ludwig Maximilian Universität in München gehen mit der Zeit und bieten ihren Studenten Online-Kurse an. Dabei setzen sie auf die kalifornische Online-Plattform Coursera, nach eigenen Angaben mit 140 angeschlossenen Universitäten der größte Anbieter von Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). Coursera sorgte für Schlagzeilen, als der Schweizer Professor Paul-Olivier Dehaye von Coursera wissen wollte, über welche Datensätze Coursera von seinem Kurs und von seinen dort eingeschriebenen Studenten verfügt und was mit diesen Daten gemacht wird. Coursera weigerte sich und geriet darob in Streit mit Dehaye wie mit seiner eigenen Universität (Zürich). Auch in Deutschland gab es Aufregung um Coursera, als die Datenschützerin Marit Hansen die Datenschutzregeln von Coursera kritisierte. Schließlich werden nicht nur die Kurse, sondern auch die Studenten-Daten in den USA gespeichert und ausgewertet. In den Augen der Big Brother Jury ist dabei nicht nur das Verhalten von Coursera fragwürdig, sondern das der Universitäten, die auf Coursera setzen. Es sei schlimm genug, wenn Bildung zum Wirtschaftsgut verkomme und ein US-Anbieter womöglich zum Bestandteil des Pflichtstudiums samt Scheinwerwerb werde. "Falls es keine geeignete europäische Plattform für das Angebot von MOOC gibt, wäre es eine Sache der Unis, eine solche Plattform aufzubauen," wird die Preisvergabe an die Münchener Universitäten in der Kategorie Bildung begründet."

"Ein bequemer Weg, potenzielle Kandidatinnen und Kandidaten für Top-Jobs zu finden und mit ihnen in Kontakt zu treten, kritisiert Digitalcourage - "selbstverständlich nicht kostenlos". Die Daten würden außerdem in den USA gespeichert und verarbeitet, "damit dürften sie auch dem Zugriff durch US-Behörden ausgesetzt sein". Die TU München war die erste deutsche Hochschule, die Partnerschaften mit Anbietern wie Coursera und edX einging, auch die LMU nutzt Coursera. Dafür haben die Unis am Freitag den Negativpreis Big-Brother-Award verliehen bekommen. Die Technische Universität relativiert das Thema: MOOCs seien ja nicht vorrangig für TUM-Studierende konzipiert, sondern für Externe. Auch die LMU merkt das an. Außerdem weise man darauf hin, "dass es sich bei den Plattformen um privatwirtschaftliche Unternehmen mit eigenen AGBs und Datenschutzrichtlinien handelt", sagt TU-Sprecher Ulrich Marsch. Von der LMU heißt es: Spezielle Vereinbarungen mit Coursera sähen unter anderem vor, dass mit ausdrücklichem Einverständnis des Kursteilnehmers Daten an Dritte weitergegeben werden können. Noch ist das Kursangebot freiwillig. Der Award, schreibt die Jury, solle eine Warnung an die Hochschulen sein, Online-Kurse bei datenschutztechnisch zweifelhaften Anbietern nicht zum Pflichtangebot für den Scheinerwerb zu machen."

"Auch Hochschulen und Softwarefirmen unter den Preisträgern Dass zwei sonst als technikaffin bekannte Münchner Universitäten, die TU und die Ludwig- Maximilians-Uni, eine aus Sicht der Big-Brother Jury zweifelhafte US- Firma mit Online- Kursen für Studierende beauftrage, sei gefährlich, weil "Coursera" alle Leistungsdaten, Lernerfolge und -Misserfolge der Studierenden zur intransparenten Profilbildung speichere."

"Privacy Shield Policy Introduction. Coursera, Inc. (referred to as "we," "us," or "our"), believes in protecting your privacy. We participate in and commit to adhering to the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework which includes the Privacy Shield Principles of notice, choice, onward transfer, security, data integrity, access and enforcement (the "Principles") for all transfers of personal data from EEA to the U.S. To learn more about Privacy Shield, please visit the U.S. Department of Commerce Privacy Shield website: https://www.privacyshield.gov/. For more information regarding our Privacy Shield certification, please see: https://www.privacyshield.gov/list (Note: Coursera is currently in the process of obtaining formal self-certification to Privacy Shield)."

I created this blog to my pupils, but I'm using it also for an activity of storytelling along with my colleagues in the course cMooc  ltis 13.

"Public Knowledge Public Knowledge ‏@publicknowledge Ask @whitehouse to support #books4blindtreaty! http://wh.gov/hcED Sign the petition now. More info: http://bit.ly/121podd Wired Obama Stops Championing Treaty That Gives the Blind Better Access to... By David Kravets @dmkravets The President Barack Obama administration went on record four years ago supporting a proposed international treaty to make books more accessible to the blind across the globe. Fast forward to today.... 8:46 PM - 23 May 13"

Primo uso dell'hashtag #books4blindtreaty su Twitter, per promuovere una petizione che chiede alla Casa Bianca di sostenere all'OMPI la proposta di un Trattato per i ciechi, ipovedenti e altri con disabilità che impediscono l'uso di testi stampati, sotto attacco da parte delle lobby dei grossi produttori di film e musica US, nonché degli editori europei.

Bellissimo, però con una pagina del foglio per ogni feed, sarebbe un po' difficile ottenere una vista d'insieme dei 343 feed elencati per ora in https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3592556/ltis13.opml ;-) Poi c'è la questione del tempo che metterebbe a caricarsi un google spreadsheet usato come freed reader per così tanti feed. O i contenuti di un feed viene soltanto caricato quando se ne apre la pagina?

al momento ho letto solo il post non ci ho fatto ancora nulla ma è un progetto, di quelli magari da realizzare quest'estate: un data bank di risorse che contenga attività e risorse efl (dapprima) create o individuate dai ragazzi, poi condivisibile con altre materie, docenti, scuole ... (se si facesse in tanti e interconnessi sarebbe un bel passatempo e un bella risorsa espandibile all'infinito ) Cerco di scoprire nel frattempo se conviene/valga la pena usare il foglio elettronico, il database o limitare la ricerca ai webtool di feed/bookmarking etc.

Grazie della risposta, Fabrizio. Chiedevo perché all'inizio dell'attività aggregante di #ltis 13, avevo creato una pagina di feedreader separati per ogni feed del file OPML in http://subtitling-for-accessibility-education-and-creativity.wikispaces.com/ltis13-blog . Era facile, bastavano un po' di "cambia in -> cambia tutti" sul file OPML per ottenere il codice wiki che creava quella pagina di aggregatori (dettagli in http://almansi.wordpress.com/2013/04/22/cantieri-opmlerosi-ltis13/ ). Ma man mano che sono aumentati il numero di feed nel file OPML e la mia compulsione a controllare tutto, aumentando il numero degli item mostrati, la pagina diventava sempre più lenta da caricare. Da qui la soluzione della revisione attuale - 71a :D - di suddividerla in sottopagine per tipi di blog hosting, che come criterio distintivo, non mi piace, per usare una litote educata. Quindi forse quando ho un momento provo a rimettere il numero di item a 20 per ogni feed e a risbattere tutto nella pagina originale. Se non funziona, faccio un revert. Però è affascinante questa possibilità di trasformazione di una riga di dati separati da virgole così facilmente traducibili in varie codifiche... Se deciderai di usare uno spreadsheet Google, pensi di farlo alimentare da un modulo o di lasciar la gente scriverci dentro direttamente?

"By Kimberly Kindy, Published: June 22 Hundreds of negotiators from around the world have descended on Morocco this week to finalize a treaty aimed at ensuring that millions of blind and vision-impaired people can get books in accessible formats like audio, Braille and large print. But the treaty, years in the making, could be in jeopardy because of unresolved differences between advocates for the blind and the Motion Picture Association of America, which says the accord could undermine protections important for filmmakers, publishers and other major industries."

Lungo pezzo seriamente documentato sulla proposta di un trattato OMPI che faciliti la condivisione tra paesi diversi di libri in formati accessibili ai ciechi - e sul lobbying accanito della MPAA e di altri grossi produttori di contenuti contro questo trattato. La corrispondenza e-mail tra i lobbyisti della MPAA e il rappresentante US all'OMPI citata verso la fine dell'articolo può essere scaricata da http://keionline.org/node/1759 . La traduzione italiana automatica dell'articolo con http://translate.google.com/ ha le sue pecche tipiche, però rende abbastanza il senso generale.

New on my blog. "Una Baita digitale" to share Internet resources that could be useful for everybody... Two new items added from Teachthought and Edutopia. More to come.

tanti video tutorial (in inglese) su come usare gli strumenti del web, con un particolare focus sull'insegnamento dell'inglese. Interessanti i video tutorial su come usare twitter (in particolare la seconda parte, sull'uso delle liste).

"CAPTIONING [+]About Captioning [+]Benefits of Captioning [+]Captioning Guidelines [+]Captioning Vendors [+]Research and Studies [+]Spanish [+]The Law DESCRIPTION [+]About Description [+]Benefits of Description [+]Description Guidelines [+]Description Vendors [+]Research and Studies [+]Spanish [+]The Law DESCRIBED AND CAPTIONED MEDIA PROGRAM [+]About the DCMP [+]History - Captioned Films for the Deaf, Captioned Films/Videos Program, and Captioned Media Program [+]History - Captioning Manuals and Guidelines [+]History - Closed Captioning [+]History - John Gough [+]History - Malcolm Norwood [+]Recommend Media to the DCMP ACCESSIBLE MEDIA UTILIZATION [+]For Educators [+]For Interpreters [+]For Other Consumers [+]For Parents"

DMCP = Described and Captioned Media Program. Vedi anche la pagina http://www.dcmp.org/about-dcmp : "Our mission is to promote and provide equal access to communication and learning through described and captioned educational media. The ultimate goal of the DCMP is for accessible media to be an integral tool in the teaching and learning process for all stakeholders in the educational community, including students, educators and other school personnel, parents, service providers, businesses, and agencies. The DCMP supports the U.S. Department of Education Strategic Plan for 2014-2018 by committing to the following goals: Ensuring that students (early learning through grade 12) who are blind, visually impaired, deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind have the opportunity to achieve the standards of academic excellence. Advocating for equal access to educational media as well as the establishment and maintenance of quality standards for captioning and description by service providers. Providing a collection of free-loan described and captioned educational media. Furnishing information and research about accessible media. Acting as a gateway to Internet resources related to accessibility. Adapting and developing new media and technologies that assist students in obtaining and using available information.

"links and materials  from  or related to Coursera geospatial revolution mooc 2013 Maps and the Geospatial Revolution  held by by Dr. Anthony C. Robinson ... part of what the geospatial revolution means is the advent of geospatial technology. Geospatial technology helps us create content that can be changed"

"A blogger claiming to be "A Gay Girl in Damascus" attracted a lot of online attention. But when she was reported kidnapped, some journalists became suspicious. From Carvin's Storify of the incident: Around this time I received a Twitter direct message from @DannySeesIt, a Syrian I've known since the Egyptian revolution. He's given me permission to publish the text of his DM: "I'm asking about that today most of the day and I have some solid connection in the lesbian scene in Damascus. No one knows her." Danny's comment struck me as odd, especially based on all the people I knew who were vouching for her online. I replied to him: I have from a good source that she is indeed real. We'll see, though. (...) Andy Carvin ✔ @acarvin And we have a confession: Tom MacMaster is #Amina! http://bit.ly/lLIY83 9:17 PM - 12 Jun 2011 (...) Andy Carvin ✔ @acarvin If we could only calculate the sheer number of hours we spent this week on #Amina, each one of which was an hour spent not on Syria itself. 9:28 PM - 12 Jun 2011"

Recently there has been a growing wave of local initiatives in support of their public schools. Teachers and communities together have been playing an active role in the innovative efforts towards new educational methods aimed at helping schools. These grass root experiments, though very effective, tend to go unnoticed in the wide scheme of the educational system. However, if the most useful and meaningful of these initiatives could be fostered and developed, they may have the possibility of transforming it.