"...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. ..."
"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."
"Features
No programming skills required
Just choose interaction formats, enter contents, set the app design and with one click generate your apps.
Multiple interaction formats
You can choose several formats like tests, flashcards, video, audio, plain texts and more.
Multiple publishing platforms
Create your apps for users of Apples iOS, Googles Android, HTML5 and soon even more platforms.
Brand your app
Make your app individual by using your own designs. Or just choose one out of many predefined professional designs.
No access limits
There is no need for an IT infrastructure. Build your apps in the cloud, no matter where you are or what time it is
24/7 updates
Upload or change any contents and update them for your end users in real time."
Trovato perché mi ha seguita su Twitter. Troppo bello per essere onesto? Però se il prodotto deve funzionare su tutte quelle piattaforme, questo dovrebbe comportare una benvenuta semplificazione della struttura, no? La quale dovrebbe facilitare l'accessibilità?
Ci proverò.
Mm però il tutorial YT fa proprio schifo, nello stile "ti mostro ma non dico niente così [non] funziona in tutte le lingue", con musichetta del cavolo.
Non è che capisca cosa significhi: ma è una pagina normalmente nascosta del blog about.amara.org il cui link mi è apparso in un momento di connessione lenta, e sembra una cosa interessante: infatti è da oltre un anno che i link sui codici temporali delle trascrizioni generate dai sottotitoli, che dovrebbero consentire la navigazione nel video, non funzionano. Perciò ben venga una trascrizione interattiva funzionante, come su TED.com, DotSUB.com e YouTube.com.
Built an interactive, mobile-awesome, super-simple, live-data web-app-thing. That means you can connect dynamic data streams and share drool-worthy interactive visuals in less time than it took you to read this.
"A simple way for journalists, designers, and creators to weave interactive stories".
1. PICK A TEMPLATE
Templates allow you to change the basic way your story will unfold. Designs include scrolling, slide based, and temporal based templates. You can also contribute your own.
2. CRAFT YOUR STORY
The Odyssey Editor gives you an easy way to mix written narrative, multimedia, and map based interaction into a beautiful map driven story.
"ClassFlow is a revolutionary cloud-based teaching and learning platform that makes lesson planning easier and lesson delivery more dynamic.
Create Interactive Lessons. Plan your lessons anytime, anywhere. All you need is the internet. Connect With Every Student. Use tablets or personal devices to put the information in their hands. Achieve Instant Feedback. Reveal progress and comprehension in the moment of learning."
"ClassFlow is a revolutionary cloud-based teaching and learning platform that makes lesson planning easier and lesson delivery more dynamic.
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Reveal progress and comprehension in the moment of learning."
"Turning bookmarks and feeds into interactive slideshows…
You are here: Diigo Home > WebSlides
A new way of organizing, sharing, and presenting web content...
How is it useful?
Provide a quick briefing, a simple tutorial or guided tour on any subject.
Re-mix and re-package your blog posts to encourage browsing and embedding..."
This experience is all about connection. Sure, we have some topics and themes to explore, and we'll have plenty of things to make and do, but really Teach the Web is about connecting with other people who are passionate about spreading digital and web literacies. It is the interaction with the people around you that will make this a successful learning experience. Teach the Web is meant to be a social collaboration, rather than a solo deep dive into content
"About Pipes
Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web.
Like Unix pipes, simple commands can be combined together to create output that meets your needs:
- combine many feeds into one, then sort, filter and translate it.
- geocode your favorite feeds and browse the items on an interactive map.
- power widgets/badges on your web site.
- grab the output of any Pipes as RSS, JSON, KML, and other formats."
By Matthew Hughes
MakeUseOf.com April 5, 2013
"...
Dire Consequences For An Administrative Error
The one thing that stuck out for me when speaking to Amber was how catastrophic being removed from Facebook could be.
Her suspension almost derailed a social media campaign for a large, multinational company. It resulted in her losing some of her oldest friends. It resulted in a loss of trust in an institution which almost all of us use to handle our social interactions.
If an administrative error on a website can result in someone losing old friends and potentially losing their professional reputation, we should be questioning the role that Facebook has in our lives, and if we're too dependent on it.
We reached out to Facebook and asked them to comment on this story. When asked how they identify breaches of their terms of service, they said
"People report content or accounts to Facebook via the reporting links you can find on every page of Facebook. After you submit a report, Facebook will investigate the issue and determine whether or not the content should be removed based on Facebook's policies".
They also said that their policies for dealing with people who breach their TOS depend on the particular rule broken.
"If a content violates our policies then we will remove it. For example if a photo breaks our nudity guidelines we would remove it and let the person who posted it know. If someone is using Facebook under a false identity then we remove the profile."
(...)
Matthew Hughes is a writer, blogger and programmer from Liverpool, England. He's rarely found without a cup of coffee in his hand and loves making beautiful things. You can read his scribblings at matthewhughes.co.uk. "
(Ottima spiegazione di come Facebook funziona - e a volte NON funziona -vedi anche i numerosi commenti)
Video della NASA dell'atterraggio di Apollo 11 sulla luna, con trascrizione interattiva degli scambi tra astronauti e operatori di controllo a Houston.
"By Harry Keller
Editor, Science Education
Despite plenty of nay-sayers, the textbook is dead. It just doesn't know it yet and continues on walking about as though alive. Textbooks have evolved considerably over the last fifty years and even somewhat in the previous fifty years. I even have one, A Text-Book of Physics, on my bookshelf beside me that was printed in 1891. It has some line drawings and no color. Its size is about 5"x8". Today, textbooks have lots of colorful images, plenty of side bars, and lots of engaging questions sprinkled about on their heavy-weight glossy paper stock. They also have tons of advice to teachers on how to use them effectively. They've gone about as far as they can go with paper as the medium. (...)
You can learn faster and learn more than you think you can. Textbooks do not tap into our brains to realize that learning potential. New software that uses true active learning will. By so doing, it will eliminate textbooks of all forms, both printed and online, both passive and so-called interactive. Today, the textbook is a zombie. It's just waiting for that wooden stake or silver bullet to put it to a well-deserved rest."
Analisi decisamente più interessante rispetto alle precedenti (citate) perchè vola decisamente più alta evitando di impantanarsi sulla falsa questione del formato dei contenuti per ragionare piuttosto di metodo. Ho condiviso filosofia e conclusioni
This site is designed for geography students and teachers to find interesting, current supplemental materials. To search for place-specific posts, browse this interactive map. To search for thematic posts, see http://geographyeducation.org/thematic/ (organized by the APHG curriculum).
"This release brings the ability to see and interact with shared media (also known as MoaP - media on a prim) thanks to Shyotl. Autoplay of shared media is disabled by default and can be enabled in Preferences -> Audio & Video by checking "Automatically play prim media" option."
[about http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/a_ted_speaker_s_worst_nightmare.html ]
Actually, this TED page has an English subtitle-generated transcript (as well as translated transcripts in the 47 other languages the video is subtitled in). And the transcript in http://amara.org/en/videos/h60BL6bU49WF/en/2426/ page where the English subtitles were made shows an average 90 wpm in the passages where Collins actually speaks.
This remains rather slow indeed, however non natives may find it difficult to grasp the written texts that appear very briefly on-screen, and hence Collins' allusions to these texts. (CA)
"EFS 693B - STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Advanced Listening and Vocabulary Development (...)
TED Talks
Introduction
Below are groups of TED Talks, curated from http://www.ted.com and organized roughly by level and topic. You should do a full group (divided across several sessions if desired) and see if the integration makes them easier to understand (especially the later ones). Be sure to interact with them--don't just watch all of them straight through. However, you can do all or parts of some more intensively than others. Use your best judgment, and return to previous class notes as needed. Note that you are provided with the following information about the talk:
1. length
2. the overall speed in words-per-minute (WPM)
3. the vocabulary profile by percent of words at set frequency levels of the British National Corpus (3K, 5K, 10K, and more than 20K (off-list=OL))
4. Accent (US, British, etc.)
5. Comments
6. Brief description of the content (from the TED website)
(...)
Last modified November 12, 2013, by Phil Hubbard"
Grazie, Fabrizio,
Ho taggato con "EFS_Stanford" - tra altri tag - questo webquest e i video ivi elencati dopo un webinar con Phil Hubbard organizzato via hangout da Vance Stevens domenica scorsa (8 ottobre). Nel webinar Hubbard ha insistito sul fatto che la forma di webquest direttivo era meglio delle forme di collaborazione sociali come tagging e condivisione, perché gli consentiva, da esperto, di dare informazioni coerenti. Allora taggare queste sue risorse TED su Diigo è anche un modo di esprimere il mio dissenso ;-)
In effetti a proposito di http://www.ted.com/talks/gel_gotta_share.html , elencato in questo webquest, dice di non poter indicare le parole per minuto "perché non c'è trascrizione". Invece c'è, se si va alla pagina YT originale del video embeddato. Ora se invece di un webquest statico avesse condiviso questa risorsa con i suoi studenti in un gruppo come questo, c'è da scommettere che almeno uno di loro avrebbe rimediato all'errore in un commento - come d'altronde ho fatto in https://groups.diigo.com/group/ltis13/content/tag/EFS_Stanford%20GelConference ...