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"Wolfram|Alpha's knowledge base covers an immense range of areas"

"A gallery of Esri story maps Esri publishes story maps with three goals: To showcase interesting and important topics; to explore techniques and best practices for map-based storytelling; and to help enable people to make their own story maps"

"Welcome to PrimaryPad PrimaryPad is a web-based word processor designed for schools that allows pupils and teachers to work together in real-time. Look below to see how it works and create a new pad to the right to have a go, you also get a free 3 month trial when you sign up! Free pads last 30 days from the time of creation."

"Most people who take massive open online courses already hold a degree from a traditional institution, according to a new paper from the University of Pennsylvania. The paper is based on a survey of 34,779 students worldwide who took 24 courses offered by Penn professors on the Coursera platform. The findings-among the first from outside researchers, rather than MOOC providers-reinforce the truism that most people who take MOOCs are already well educated. The Penn researchers sent the survey to students who had registered for a MOOC and viewed at least one video lecture. More than 80 percent of the respondents had a two- or four-year degree, and 44 percent had some graduate education."

Ma vedi anche il commento di Stephen Downes http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=61414 : "Goodness gracious, the word "MOOCs" does not mean the same thing as "courses offered by Penn professors on the Coursera platform." The Chronicle can be so infuriating at times. Coursera very deliberately targeted an upmarket customer profile, so no wonder that's who they got"

"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."

"...I don't mean to imply any untoward motives by the makers of MOOCs. I'm not arguing that the content or methodologies of most current MOOCs are wrong because they are based on the dominant Western academic approaches. But I do believe it is important to point out that a powerful emerging educational movement strengthens the currently dominant academic culture, perhaps making it more difficult for alternative voices to be heard."

C'è MOOC e MOOC, of course...

Filmed Apr 2011 * Posted May 2011 * Gel Conference "At the onstage introduction of Twirlr, a new social-sharing platform, someone forgets to silence their cell phone. And then ... this happens. (Song by Scott Brown and Anthony King; edit by Nathan Russell.) Improv Everywhere is a New York City-based prank collective that causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places." YouTube URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soAk3F0wX9s

From http://www.stanford.edu/~efs/693b/TED1.html : "1. length: 3:20 2. overall speed (WPM): unknown--no transcript (*)--but not too fast 3. vocabulary profile: mostly frequent words--no transcript available 4. accent: US standard 5. comments: no captions for the first 34 seconds (**). References to various social sharing applications (Twitter, Facebook, Vimeo, Myspace, FourSquare...) 6. At the onstage introduction of Twirlr, a new social-sharing platform, someone forgets to silence their cell phone. And then ... this happens" (*) Actually there IS a transcript generated by the subtitles captions: - below the player in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soAk3F0wX9s - downloadable from http://www.amara.org/en/videos/gUDo8ztfKMOW/en/40866/ (Download > TXT) 362 words in 3:20 = 108.6 WPM (CA) (**) Actually captions now start at 0:03 (CA)

"...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.

Example + comment: "This language is designed to grab all rights from a free-lance author or artist. The first clause purports to create a work for hire agreement, which would mean that the author has no rights left at all, ever (and cannot even get them back through the termination right). The second clause takes a belt-and-suspenders approach: if for any reason the work is not for hire -- which it would not be if the commissioned work did not fall within the statutory categories -- the author explicitly assigns all rights not only in this work, but in any work based on this work, for the full term of copyright, for the whole world."

The example is very close to the language of https://d396qusza40orc.cloudfront.net/translations%2FCoursera%20Translator%20TOS.pdf

"UNESCO Young Digital Creators (YDC) Educator's Kit   The YDC Educator's Kit is designed to help teachers and educators working in schools, youth clubs, community centres, and training institutes to generate and manage project-based learning activities with young people. "

"Recent headlines around a high-profile settlement between the US Department of Justice and edX, Inc., one of the largest and earliest distributors of MOOCs, have once again highlighted the importance of understanding the rules for making online courses and services accessible to those with various types and levels of disabilities. While much of the media coverage of the edX settlement has focused on the fact that the government sued so high-profile-and respected-an online provider, to date there has been little recognition that the enforcement action may signal an effort to extend the ADA's accessibility requirements not only to a broader range of non-institutional entities providing web-based instruction, but also to those that provide other education-related services."

"...Subtitles and transcripts Every talk on TED.com will now have English subtitles, which can be toggled on or off by the user. The number of additional languages varies from talk to talk, based on the number of volunteers who elected to translate it. Along with subtitles, every talk on TED.com now features a time-coded, interactive transcript, which allows users to select any phrase and have the video play from that point. The transcripts are fully indexable by search engines, exposing previously inaccessible content within the talks themselves. For example, searching on Google for "green roof" will ultimately help you find the moment in architect William McDonough's talk when he discusses Ford's River Rouge plant, and also the moment in Majora Carter's talk when she speaks of her green roof project in the South Bronx. Transcripts will index in all available languages. The interplay between the video, subtitles and transcript create what we call a Rosetta Stone effect. You can watch, for example, an English talk, with Korean subtitles and an Urdu transcript. Click on an Urdu phrase in the transcript, and the speaker will say it to you in English, with Korean subtitles running right-to-left below. It's captivating. ...."

Descrizione del progetto di traduzione aperta - e collaborativa - dei sottotitoli dei video TED, con tante sotto-pagine linkate, in particolare a indicazioni per i tradutttori volontari.

"Dhawal Shah Oct 15, 2014 Coursera is an education platform that partners with top universities and organizations worldwide to offer courses online for free. It was started by two Stanford professors in late 2011. In less than three years it has reached 10 million students around the world and raised $85 million in venture capital. Why have VCs invested so much money in the company? How does offering free online courses generate revenue? Many have asked, so we examined Coursera's different monetization models and offer estimates based on some known numbers. "

"By Matthew Sparkes, Deputy Head of Technology 12:03PM BST 06 Aug 2014 Wikimedia, the US-based organisation behind Wikipedia, has refused a photographer's repeated requests to remove one of his images which is used online without his permission, claiming that because a monkey pressed the shutter button it should own the copyright. British nature photographer David Slater was in Indonesia in 2011 attempting to get the perfect image of a crested black macaque when one of the animals came up to investigate his equipment, hijacked a camera and took hundreds of selfies. "

"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly By Florian [Schmidt] On October 8, 2013 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Why Crowdsourcing Needs Ethics Abstract This position paper for the workshop CrowdWork 2013 discusses some of the ethical implications of crowdsourcing in general and of contest-based crowd design in particular, especially in regard to the question of fair payment. The paper establishes four different categories of crowdsourcing with separate ethical challenges and argues for the crowd work industry to develop a code of ethics from within, in order to counter the exploitation and abuse that it often enables."

"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.

"Re: The United States' Findings and Conclusions Based on its Investigation Under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of the University of California at Berkeley, DJ No. 204"

Lettera del Dipartimento della Giustizia US in merito al procedimento per violazione della Americans with Disabilities Act (Legge sugli americani con disabilità, +/- equivalente della Legge Stanca italiana)

Questo è un commento di prova dove voglio vedere se si può linkare un'altra risorsa, tipo questa http://lospaziodioscar.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/come-attivare-la-notifica-di-consegna-e-di-lettura-di-un-messaggio-di-posta-elettronica-su-alice-mail/ o addirittura così

Ok, funziona in ambedue i modi! Questo significa che posso istituire un bookmark per ogni problema, taggandolo anche con "problema", tracciare mediante commenti successivi la via alla soluzione del problema, e infine, una volta risolto, taggandolo con "soluzione". L'insieme dei problemi può essere raggiunto con http://groups.diigo.com/group/ltis13/content/tag/problema e quello delle soluzioni con http://groups.diigo.com/group/ltis13/content/tag/soluzione e ciò mi pare buono...

E si possono salvare tutti i bookmark in una varietà di formato, tipo RSS xml based, ok ok...

"Summary of a presentation by Phillip D. Long, University of Queensland We want to see the learning design patterns change, we want to see phy6sical participation in the profession, that is, engagement with the content and the practice, in the rich spaces that we have, and let the content engagement, which can be well-designed online, be the place where content is delivered. (Eg. Pictures of classes, eg., composed of 'terraces'). Recently, we tried bringing people together en masse. We took a large space that is a sports facility and turned it into a learning environment, tables of nine, an instructor and two TAs, and engagement simply in terms of 'showing up' is stunning, 85-90 per cent attendance. Our engagement with MOOCs, and we've just started to partner with EdX, is because we are learning how to refactor how learning on campus takes place, to put the effort into learning design into the online context, moving away from these little boxes, and looking at the campus as a series of practice spaces. (SD- Stephen Downes: This is a good model - but one wonders why it would be reserved for tuition-paying students - why not move it out into the community as a whole - you'd get *much* better 'tables of nine')"

SD = Stephen Downes

Questa è la raccolta dei Bookmark taggati "valutazione" presenti nel gruppo ltis13 su Diigo il 1giugno 2013. Non è esattamente equivalente ad un "Report", ma è utile per capire chi è interessato a questo argomento ed eventualmente creare un nuovo gruppo (non è una proposta, ma una nota metodologica)

i miei sono taggati in inglese, purtroppo nella contingenza, quindi dovrei ritaggarli aggiungendo il tag italiano. E' un eterno dilemma... in un gruppo, coe idea di una potenziale efficace cooperazione su diigo, forse sarebbe utile prestabilire dei criteri comuni di base per evitare doppioni che siano semplici traduzioni di un tag nell'altra lingua