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"Google Hangout Screen Sharing - How To Share Your Screen On "

"Here's the lastest video educator's are jacked about: [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UFpe3Up9T_g ] I like much about this video. I like the message. I like the way it's shot. I like the girls. What I don't like is the perception that this is the girl's invention. It's not. These girls are likely no more into inventing and making than most girls their age. While I might be able to look past that, and I can, I don't like the perception that this is authentic as it suggests. Which raises the larger question of authentic student voice. I remember first being struck by this when this video came out about 6 years ago: [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_A-ZVCjfWf8 ] It's an iteration of Michael Wesch video using college aged students. When I saw the k-12 version it just didn't sit well with me. The signs the students held seemed to be the language and ideas of adults. I had a hard time thinking any 5 year old would use the phrase "engage me". But still I thought the video had value but I never used them to share with others. (...) If you're still jacked about the little girls video, that's okay, show it to your young girls, encourage them to explore science but let's have enough awareness to know when we're being sold something. My point with this little wander through video is let's advocate for student voice but not fake ones. Our students do have a voice. Most of them are childlike, full of child like ideas and most aren't as eloquent as adults because they aren't adults. That's what we're supposed to be doing, helping them develop that voice. Yet we do have some that are ready for prime time and we should provide ways for them to share. I know some districts have had students keynote. I think that's great, as long as the core of their story is their own, not the districts or their teachers. I'd way rather listen to a student share a less polished message that was their ow

Vedi anche il commento di Stephen Downes in http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=61423

"Coding is for Everybody: Learning through Creating, Personalizing, Sharing, and Reflecting

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)

"About QuickScreenShare.com: QuickScreenShare.com is the simplest way to share screens with anybody: No registration required and completely free. Nothing to install for sharer or sharee (assuming you have Java). Works on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Even lets you remotely control mouse and keyboard! This free service is a side project from the creators of Screencast-O-Matic.com and is still in BETA. We use it extensively for remote user support and collaboration. The current version creates a direct peer-to-peer connection, so if you're on a super duper secure school or company network it may or may not be able to connect, but in most cases you'll find it works quite well so give it a shot!"

"...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. ..."

"Hi, Today we made some changes at Ning. I want to share with you the email Jason Rosenthal, our CEO, sent to all Ning employees: Team, When I became CEO 30 days ago, I told you I would take a hard look at our business. This process has brought real clarity to what's working, what's not, and what we need to do now to make Ning a big success. My main conclusion is that we need to double down on our premium services business. Our Premium Ning Networks like Friends or Enemies, Linkin Park, Shred or Die, Pickens Plan, and tens of thousands of others both drive 75% of our monthly US traffic, and those Network Creators need and will pay for many more services and features from us. So, we are going to change our strategy to devote 100% of our resources to building the winning product to capture this big opportunity. We will phase out our free service. Existing free networks will have the opportunity to either convert to paying for premium services, or transition off of Ning. We will judge ourselves by our ability to enable and power Premium Ning Networks at huge scale. And all of our product development capability will be devoted to making paying Network Creators extremely happy. As a consequence of this change, I have also made the very tough decision to reduce the size of our team from 167 people to 98 people. As hard as this is to do, I am confident that this is the right decision for our company, our business, and our customers. Marc and I will work diligently with everyone affected by this to help them find great opportunities at other companies. I've never seen a more talented and devoted team, and it has been my privilege to get to know and work with each and every one of you over the last 18 months. We'll use today to say goodbye to our friends and teammates who will be leaving the company. Tomorrow, I will take you through, in detail, our plans for the next three months and our new focus. Thanks, Jason Rosenthal I know many of you will have que

"10.3263 - Postulato La Svizzera ha bisogno di una legge contro lo scaricamento illegale di musica da Internet? Depositato da Savary Géraldine Data del deposito 19.03.2010 Depositato in Consiglio degli Stati Stato attuale Trasmesso Testo depositato Il Consiglio federale è incaricato di redigere un rapporto sulla situazione in fatto di scaricamento illegale di musica da Internet e di studiare le misure per ovviare a tale problema (...) Parere del Consiglio federale del 12.05.2010 Il 1° luglio 2008 è entrata in vigore una revisione parziale della legge sul diritto d'autore, con cui sono state apportate le modifiche legali necessarie in ambito digitale. A tale proposito il Parlamento ha discusso anche se permettere l'uso personale pure nei casi in cui l'opera in questione viene messa a disposizione su Internet senza il consenso del titolare del diritto. Dopo intensi dibattiti il Parlamento ha rinunciato a limitare i casi in cui è consentito l'uso personale. A suo avviso, una tale limitazione è sproporzionata, inconciliabile con la protezione della sfera privata e comporta una poco auspicata criminalizzazione di massa dei consumatori. Gli stessi timori depongono anche a sfavore dell'introduzione di una normativa legale analoga alla soluzione francese, che prevede di bloccare l'accesso a Internet ai privati in caso di violazioni ripetute. Tuttavia il titolare del diritto non è sprovvisto di protezione. In virtù del diritto d'autore ha la possibilità di procedere sia contro i fornitori sia contro i gestori di piattaforme di "file sharing". Una tale procedura va privilegiata anche per motivi di economia processuale. Appare infatti più opportuno procedere contro un gestore di piattaforma piuttosto che contro tutti gli utenti della piattaforma in questione. Eventualmente si potrebbe prevedere, d'intesa con i gestori di piattaforme, di concludere un accordo di licenza per il "file sharing" dei loro utenti. L'attuale legge sul diritto d'autore

"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."

"No plugins. No signup or payment required. Anonymous. Peer-to-peer. GROUP VIDEO CHAT Add multiple people to the conversation SCREEN SHARING Easily add anyone's screen to the conversation LOCKED ROOMS Add a shared key to a room for added privacy ROCKETS & STUFF Play rocket lander while you wait for people to join Works in Chrome Firefox* *Screensharing available only in Chrome."

"Interactive, engaging online content in a few simple clicks Haiku Learning revolves around your content. Create classroom pages, add and organize content blocks, change layouts, and publish whenever you're ready. Embed content from YouTube, Google Docs, Maps, Skype and dozens of other third-party services or create your own from scratch. And when you've crafted the perfect classroom page? Resource sharing in Haiku lets you share your classes, pages, and content blocks with any other Haiku user--and use content in your own class created by other teachers."

"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."

Brief.ly is a simple way to share a "bundle" of links at the same time. Enter up to 30 links and captions you want to share (one per line or click the wrench for more options). Brief.ly will generate a unique URL. When opened, a Table of Contents page lists the sites included. When you open the bundle, each site appears and tabs appear along the top of the page that allow you to easily jump from one recommended site to the next. This site is very easy to use and helpful for all ages, as long as they can read. With your membership, you can edit the contents of your list later, without resending it or changing the single link. tag(s): organizational skills (84) TeachersFirst review

"We now require captcha on many social features, such as following people, joining groups, etc. For a very nominal fee, you can upgrade yourself to "Social Membership," which would grant you full social features without capcha, plus a lot of other goodies. We expect to stop the vast majority of the spammers with this simple measure. We'd like to elaborate more about Social Membership and its pricing and our thoughts behind the decisions. As long-time Diigo users know, Diigo is a personal knowledge management tool on the one hand, and a knowledge-sharing community on the other hand. While it is perfectly fine to use Diigo solely as the former, we do believe that the value of the knowledge-sharing community could be substantial, as the number of active users increases, and as the spam is minimized. As a result, we have decided to set the social membership annual fee at $5/year on Oct 1, 2014, and will increase the price gradually thereafter according to a pre-determined formula, as the number of active social members increases. To reward existing users, an attractive promotion price of $2/year will be available until Oct. 1, 2014. For future years, you will continue to pay the low annual price you paid in the first year, as long as your credit card stay valid for automatic renewal. We have also taken this opportunity to re-adjust our pricing plan to better align users needs with our business model. Existing basic and premium users will be automatically upgraded to Standard in the new pricing plan."

Attenzione a quel "new pricing plan" https://www.diigo.com/premium che limita drasticamente il numero dei gruppi per le formule meno care, ma non è chiaro cosa succederà ai gruppi creati con formula gratuita.

"Overview - This course is offered by University of Zurich with Prof Paul-Olivier Dehaye and his students. This lesson plan is created by Dilrukshi Gamage (www.sdgamage.weebly.com) a MOOC student from this class due to few reasons. 1. Course started with giving some ideas, but now it appears no more ideas facilitated 2. Forums are closed and we have no clue of what to do 3. Students who take this course or any of coursera for the first time will be wondering and might lose the context of learning. 4. This lesson plan will guide us to collaboratively find solution to be in synchronized and learn from the time we invest in this. Introduction - The course named Teaching goes massive : new skills needed. It is our responsibility to find out what are the skills we need when we are teaching to a massive class.. or any class. Prof.Paul mentioned some experiments which we can do and previous forums already started and gone very well until suddenly closed everything. So let us drive this MOOC , learn to learn ourselves how to be organized and learn from each other. Anyone can suggest things but not like as forums it has to be much more effective. This document will contain how to participate and what can you do in contributing to expand your learning. Don't worry this will not stop suddenly as we the students are in charge. First step lets set some objectives so we can see did we achieve when we finish this course. Objectives - After you complete this course 1. You will learn how to learn yourselves to work without a real teacher or a lecturer. 2. You will learn to make communications and build a network where you can share and learn throughout your interest. 3. You will learn to work on inclusive projects in the same course ( by inclusive what I mean was anyone can work in one project or more) 4. You will gain knowledge on what skills you need and how to handle it when teaching is massive Where to contact - Please use the links provided in collaborating

vedi anche http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2014/07/09/congrats-to-paul-olivier-dehaye-massiveteaching/ di George Siemens per un ottimo riassunto e altri link utili

e https://etherpad.mozilla.org/pr8ZtLXODg , il Pad dove Dehaye spiega il contesto della sua decisione. Se qualcuno ne ricancella il contenuto, usate la storia delle revisioni: funziona come PiratePad

"Editorially makes collaborative writing easy Write. Rewrite. Share and discuss. Everything you need to make good writing great. "

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Filmed Apr 2010 * Posted Aug 2010 * Mission Blue Voyage "Cartoonist Jim Toomey created the comic strip Sherman's Lagoon, a wry look at underwater life starring Sherman the talking shark. As he sketches some of his favorite sea creatures live onstage, Toomey shares his love of the ocean and the stories it can tell. For the past 13 years, Jim Toomey has been writing and drawing the daily comic strip Sherman's Lagoon, about a daffy family of ocean dwellers"

From http://www.stanford.edu/~efs/693b/TED1.html : "1.length: 14:15 2. overall speed (WPM): 167 3. vocabulary profile: 3K-90.8%; 5K-94.5%; 10K-97.4%; OL-2% 4. accent: US standard 5. comments: names of fish and other ocean creatures are mentioned--try looking these up on Google images. He draws cartoons to support what he is talking about; see also http://shermanslagoon.com/ 6. Cartoonist Jim Toomey created the comic strip Sherman's Lagoon, a wry look at underwater life starring Sherman the talking shark. As he sketches some of his favorite sea creatures live onstage, Toomey shares his love of the ocean and the stories it can tell."

Filmed Dec 2010 * Posted Jan 2011 * TEDWomen 2010 "New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly shares a portfolio of her wise and funny cartoons about modern life -- and talks about how humor can empower women to change the rules. New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly tackles global issues with humor, intelligence and sarcasm. Her latest project supports the United Nations initiative Cartooning For Peace."

From http://www.stanford.edu/~efs/693b/TED1.html : "1. length: 6:43 2. overall speed (WPM): 152 3. vocabulary profile: 3K-94.9%; 5K-98.4%; 10K-99.5%; OL-.5% 4. accent: US standard 5. comments: her cartoons illustrate the points she makes; references to growing up in the 1950s and 60s; glass ceiling 6. New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly shares a portfolio of her wise and funny cartoons about modern life -- and talks about how humor can empower women to change the rules."