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How Summer Programs Can Boost Children's Learning How Summer Programs Can Boost Children's Learning Summer learning programs have the potential to help children and youth improve their academic and other outcomes. This is especially true for children from low-income families who might not have access to educational resources throughout the summer months and for low-achieving students who need additional time to master academic content

"What is Coding with Scratch? Coding with Scratch is a free, online class that will teach you how to program using Scratch, a graphical programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations - and share your creations with others around the world."

Attorney General Eric Holder Speaks at the E-books Press Conference Washington, D.C. ~ Wednesday, April 11, 2012 "Earlier today, we filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, against Apple and five different book publishers - Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster. In response to our allegations, three of these publishers - Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster - agreed to a proposed settlement. If approved by the court, this settlement would resolve the Department's antitrust concerns with these companies, and would require them to grant retailers - such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble - the freedom to reduce the prices of their e-book titles. The settlement also requires the companies to terminate their anticompetitive most-favored-nation agreements with Apple and other e-books retailers. In addition, the companies will be prohibited for two years from placing constraints on retailers' ability to offer discounts to consumers. They will also be prohibited from conspiring or sharing competitively sensitive information with their competitors for five years. And each is required to implement a strong antitrust compliance program. These steps are appropriate - and essential in ensuring a competitive marketplace. Beginning in the summer of 2009, we allege that executives at the highest levels of the companies included in today's lawsuit - concerned that e-book sellers had reduced prices - worked together to eliminate competition among stores selling e-books, ultimately increasing prices for consumers. As a result of this alleged conspiracy, we believe that consumers paid millions of dollars more for some of the most popular titles. During regular, near-quarterly meetings, we allege that publishing company executives discussed confidential business and competitive matters - including Amazon's e-book retailing practices - as part of a conspiracy

160 bookmarks tagged mooc and an interesting post with lots of lnks and ideas http://uminntilt.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/summer-as-course-redesign-time-some-ideas-from-university-based-moocers/

Interessante appuntamento Fiorentino sulla privacy ed i diritti digitali. Utile per chi è interessato alla giurisprudenza ma non solo

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Mmm sì, però mostra anche i limiti delle lezioni video: questo è il risultato grezzo di un Google hangout - però non c'è nessun segno di una discussione live nei commenti, che è il principale interesse di questo tipo di video. Seguire questa intro a posteriori? Pesantissima da caricare. Allora ho controllato - tramite le miniature della riga del tempo - i momenti in cui si vedeva altro che la faccia di Gino Roncaglia: visualizzazioni della piattaforma del corso, illeggibili come riconosce Roncaglia stesso. Perciò ho scaricato il video, convertito come mp3, tramite http://getvids.de/video.cgi . Fino a 37:23, ci sono solo informazioni amministrative che si potrebbero dare in modo molto più efficace in forma testuale, con link a documentazioni esistenti (descrizione del corso in http://ebooklearn.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=64:summer-school-online-su-e-book-ed-editoria-elettronica , aiuto Google sugli hangout) Il multimedia non si limita a un revival della TV dei mezzibusti anni 60. Anche il testo ne fa parte.