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""Scoot & Doodle, a social creativity site that blends the video conferencing capabilities of Skype with the playfulness of Draw Something." -GigaOm "This is a mind amplification tool that allows verbal and visual thinking to happen simultaneously." -Apple Distinguished Educator, Canada "Scoot & Doodle offers some of the capacity to do what I believe technology should be about. Technology should be about how it intertwines itself with the way we live and the way we do things." -WIRED's GeekDad"

"What Are Rubrics Students have been known to refer to rubrics as "those things with the little boxes", while teachers know rubrics as a set of scoring guidelines that evaluate students' work and provide a clear teaching directive. Rubrics are a powerful, authentic tool used to assess students' work. This scoring tool lists specific criteria for a project or piece of work. The criterion helps students to have a concrete understanding and visualization of "what counts". Each standard or criteria also includes a gradation scale of quality. The rating scale could be numerical, qualitative, or a combination of both. Rubrics seek to evaluate assignments based on the sum of a full range of criteria rather than a single numerical score."

"...Teachable moments As is often the case in awkward cases - where the system does not quite work as intended - a few things can be drawn from this episode. YouTube's Content ID system - http://youtube-global.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/improving-content-id.html - is, in fact, intended to act as a buffer between the sometimes conflicting interests of content holders and uploaders: rather than forcing content holders to either ignore infringing content or go straight to a DMCA takedown notice. YouTube compares content that is uploaded to huge numbers of files of copyright works supplied by content owners, as do external agencies contracted to content owners. Content owners are able to set their own parameters, and determine what action YouTube should take - whether that is allowing, monetizing or blocking the content. One problem with this setup is that mechanical systems, while necessary to sort the vast amount of content being uploaded to YouTube and other video sharing sites every moment, are short on nuance. One can make assumptions and built rules based on quantifiable properties - if there are five minutes of rightsholder-owned content scattered across a 30 minute video, for example, that content is more likely to be being used for illustrative purposes in a review than uploaded in an infringing fashion - but ideas like fair use are generally decided by humans, and can only be approximated by mechanical systems. So, the rights holder, the agency pursuing monetization on the rights holder's behalf, the uploader and YouTube have connected but not identical interests. This may go some way to explaining the lacunae which took this example from a formality to a three-month epic. And, in this particular case, there are unusual elements - for example, the double claims, for first audiovisual and then visual content. The system is not intended to enable this kind of double jeopardy

Daniel Nye Griffiths descrive un caso reale di disputa sul copyright nel caso di un remix video pubblicato su YouTube. Da lì, spiega come funziona il sistema YouTube che individua possibili violazioni di copyright ma consente anche di contestare tali individuazioni. Ci sono anche link alle fonti dirette. Cosa buffa: il caso reale riguarda il copyright di una serie TV intitolata "The Twilight Zone", l'area crepuscolare tra giorno e notte. Sono capitata su questo articolo cercando di capire se un episodio del 1960 di questa serie era ancora sotto copyright oppure era caduto nel pubblico dominio. Prima avevo provato con lo strumento Digital Copyright Slider dell'associazione delle biblioteche US - http://librarycopyright.net/resources/digitalslider/ - che aveva cautamente risposto "Forse", con una nota che spiegava che dipendeva se il copyright originale era stato rinnovato, e link a lunghi e complessi documenti su come fare per scoprirlo... quindi sono tuttora nella "Twilight Zone" in merito.

Dizionario visivo classico, per imparare tante parole tecniche e memorizzarle facilmente. Merriam-Webster.

Non è un semplice dizionario inglese e non è un dizionario visivo nel senso di raccolta di figure. Inserisci una parola e si crea una rete di parole collegate, caratterizzate dai colori a seconda della funzione grammaticale o di altri legami di tipo linguistico. Passando il mouse su di un termine, compare la spiegazione in inglese semplice. Eccezionale. Dalla Università di Princeton.

"Copy your data From spreadsheets, to tables in web pages, databases-anywhere you can visualize a table with location data you can paste it into BatchGeo. If you are starting from scratch, we recommend using our Spreadsheet Template to get started with your data, then simply copy the data over to BatchGeo to create a pin map. Validate & set options We make our best guess at your intended columns like the address, city, state, zip code, or latitude / longitude. You may want to set the options yourself if you don't like the default behavior. Map locations We geocode your postcodes / addresses and make your map. It may take a few minutes depending on how many addresses you have, if you already had latitude and longitude in your data it will map instantly. After you are done mapping the addresses you can save to a web page using the "Continue & Save" option."

"ELAN is a professional tool for the creation of complex annotations on video and audio resources. With ELAN a user can add an unlimited number of annotations to audio and/or video streams. An annotation can be a sentence, word or gloss, a comment, translation or a description of any feature observed in the media. Annotations can be created on multiple layers, called tiers. Tiers can be hierarchically interconnected. An annotation can either be time-aligned to the media or it can refer to other existing annotations. The textual content of annotations is always in Unicode and the transcription is stored in an XML format. ELAN provides several different views on the annotations, each view is connected and synchronized to the media playhead. Up to 4 video files can be associated with an annotation document. Each video can be integrated in the main document window or displayed in its own resizable window. ELAN delegates media playback to an existing media framework, like Windows Media Player, QuickTime or JMF (Java Media Framework). As a result a wide variety of audio and video formats is supported and high performance media playback can be achieved. ELAN is written in the Java programming language and the sources are available for non-commercial use. It runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Main other features navigate through the media with different step sizes easy navigation through existing annotations waveform visualization of .wav files support for template documents input methods for a variety of script systems multi-tier regular expression search, within a single document or in a selection of annotation documents support for user definable Controlled Vocabularies import and export of Shoebox/Toolbox, CHAT, Transcriber (import only), Praat and csv/tab-delimited text files export to interlinear text, html, smil and subtitles text printing of the annotations multiple undo/redo Download ELAN"

Il software serve ad annotare video e audio: sembra piuttosto complesso ma è prodotto e offerto dal progetto The Language Archive dell'Istituto Max Plank dei Paesi Bassi, perciò sembra abbastanza sicuro. Ho installato la versione per Mac: poi provo e riporto

"by Lauren Lindstrom, The Blade/TNS | February 5, 2016 TIFFIN, Ohio - A judge has ordered Seneca Re-ad Industries Inc. to pay more than $54,000 in damages and back pay after ruling that the sheltered workshop wrongly set subminimum wages for three of its employees with disabilities. Judge Steven D. Bell, an administrative law judge for the U.S. Department of Labor, ruled this week that the employer was not justified when it paid three of its employees below minimum wage. He also ruled that the subminimum wages were not accurately assessed. The case involves three employees of the Seneca Re-Ad Center, a sheltered workshop in Fostoria. In a petition filed in November with the Department of Labor, the employees said their disabilities, which include visual impairment and Asperger's syndrome, did not interfere with their work productivity and they should be paid minimum wage."

Lo scaffale di Howard Rheingold su Delicius sul tema delle mappe mentali. Sito personale http://www.rheingold.com/

Cyberspazio: è pronta anche la mappa relativa alla lezione conclusiva.

"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.

"ThingLink interactive images help students develop 21st century skills and enrich their enthusiasm for learning. Teachers can use ThingLink images as interactive learning modules (ILMs) that activate and inspire students with creative and effective learning experiences. If you're a teacher or student, you can sign up to Education; it's FREE."

Ieri Daniele ci ha lasciati. Combatteva da tempo con una brutta malattia di cui non amava parlare. Condivido con voi il suo blog per salutarlo anche nel ciberspazio di questo cMOOC cui aveva partecipato sempre con la sua visione originale e spigolosa delle cose, e soprattutto con i suoi valori, in difesa dei più deboli, della scuola pubblica, della libertà intellettuale. Ciao Daniele

Grazie, Luisella, ma che tristezza - ricordo discussioni con lui: sulla comunicazione visuale, sulle licenze creative commons che usava per le proprie opere, ma non sempre venivano capite dai ri-utenti. Non sapevo che era ammalato.

sgomento - m'è parso di dover riportare il tuo saluto nella bacheca del laboratorio, così che sia il saluto di tutti...