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"The Ultimate Section 508 Guide for Students In 1973, the United States government passed a sweeping piece of legislation known as the United States Workforce Rehabilitation Act. Intended to aid those with disabilities, this legislation provides funding for ...vocational rehabilitation, supported employment, independent living, and client assistance (and) authorizes a variety of training and service discretionary grants administered by the Rehabilitation Services Administration. As technology advanced, and both the workplace and society as a whole underwent significant changes, the need of those with disabilities also evolved. In order to foster equal access to the Internet and related technologies for all, the government added Section 508 to the Workforce Rehabilitation Act in 1998. What is Section 508? As amended by the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (P.L. 105-220), Section 508 ...requires federal agencies to develop, procure, maintain and use electronic and information technology (EIT) that is accessible to people with disabilities - regardless of whether or not they work for the federal government. In short, federal law requires government agencies to create and use electronic devices, and content developed to be used with them (e.g., websites, media files, etc.), that people with disabilities can readily access. "

Questa guida è scritta in lingua molto semplice e illustrata da video, mentre la sezione 508 dell'ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act, un po' come la legge Stanca in Italia) in legalese originale è più difficile da capire.

"Can You Really Teach a MOOC in a Refugee Camp? - Wired Campus - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education August 1, 2014 by Steve Kolowich Two men living in Dadaab, a refugee camp in Kenya, would watch lecture videos and take online quizzes at a nearby United Nations compound. (InZone) One narrative that has driven widespread interest in free online courses known as MOOCs is that they can help educate the world. But critics like to emphasize that the courses mostly draw students who already hold traditional degrees. So when Coursera, the largest provider of MOOCs, published a blog post about how a professor had used one of its online courses to teach refugees near the Kenya-Somalia border, it sounded to some like a satire of Silicon Valley's naïve techno-optimism: Hundreds of thousands of devastated Africans stranded in a war zone? MOOCs to the rescue! Details of the experiment paint a more nuanced picture, one that highlights the challenges MOOC providers face in trying to change the lives of downtrodden people. Barbara Moser-Mercer, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Geneva, ran the refugee experiment and wrote Coursera's optimistic blog post about it. But in an interview with The Chronicle, as well as a more formal article she wrote about the experiment for a European conference on MOOCs, the professor expanded on the logistical issues that come with trying to make sophisticated online courses work in deprived settings."

"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 Documentary Film Program on March 1, 2007 at 1:30 pm Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University created this humorous, yet informative, review of copyright principles delivered through the words of the very folks we can thank for nearly endless copyright terms. View (streaming) or download (mp4) the whole film or watch it below Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License Distributed on DVD by The Media Education Foundation."

Con sottotitoli inglesi ed ebraici: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/vuKh0drc3ZYS/info/a-fairy-use-tale/

"TWITTER -- February 17, 2011 at 9:30 AM EDT NPR's Andy Carvin on Tracking and Tweeting Revolutions By: Hari Sreenivasan We caught up with NPR's Senior Strategist Andy Carvin between his 400+ tweets a day for a chat about his Twitter stream. It has become a must-follow wire service of sorts for people interested in the latest developments in Tunisia, Egypt and a growing number of countries across the Middle East, Persian Gulf and North Africa. We discussed how he began mapping out whom to trust in the "Twittersphere," and how he works to verify and share facts with NPR as the stories develop. His tweets are populated with the words "source" and "verified?" More often than not, as he re-tweets trends and waves of information across the streams he tracks as his sources verify or discount facts on the ground. Carvin uses a combination of old media (wire services, broadcast networks) and follows a series of bloggers and Twitter accounts. He verifies with sources he trusts before saying a piece of information is "confirmed." Andy has spoken about his open news-gathering processes during a live-chat with Poynter, a Q&A with the Atlantic, the Knight Digital Media Center and it has been blogged about at the New York Times."

URL dei link del testo Conto twitter di Andy Carvin: http://twitter.com/acarvin Poynter: http://bit.ly/fND2aM Atlantic: http://bit.ly/h4O3Gr Knight Digital Media Center: http://bit.ly/fAjoBi New York Times: http://nyti.ms/edNSIi Conto twitter di Hari Sreenivasan: http://twitter.com/hari

"THE PERFORMERS Dr. William Cutter, Director, presents the MIT Concert Choir, December 2, 2006, Kresge Auditorium, MIT. Featuring: David Collins, pianist Joshua Li, baritone Stephan Jung, baritone Daniel Cunningham, baritone Michael Johnson, bass Sudeep Agarwala, tenor Elisabeth Hon, soprano THE WORK Carmina Burana is a scenic cantata composed by Carl Orff in 1935 and 1936." http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/

Monday, January 25, 2016 Ben Williamson "The world's largest publisher of educational textbooks and resources, Pearson, recently extended its work into digital media and learning. As well as producing innovative new digital learning resources and platforms, Pearson is also positioning itself as a major center for the analysis of educational big data. This has implications for how learning is going to be conceptualized in the near future, and begs big questions about how the private ownership of educational data might impact emerging understandings and explanatory theories of the learning process itself."

Del 26 gennaio 2016 - e due giorni prima, Andreas Formiconi pubblicava già http://iamarf.org/2016/01/23/se-il-progresso-e-solo-business-non-va-bene/ su partneriati dubbi tra scuole e altri business....

"Ian Goldin - Professor of Globalisation and Development and Director of the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford - UK The Opening Plenary session of OEB 2015 looked at the challenges of modernity and identify how people, organisations, institutions and societies can make technology and knowledge work together to accelerate the shift to a new age of opportunity. More info: http://bit.ly/1lugQWX"

"Cory Doctorow - Writer, Blogger, Activist - USA The Opening Plenary session of OEB 2015 looked at the challenges of modernity and identify how people, organisations, institutions and societies can make technology and knowledge work together to accelerate the shift to a new age of opportunity. More info: http://bit.ly/1lugQWX"

"David Price - Learning futurist and co-founder of We Do Things Differently - UK The Opening Plenary session of OEB 2015 looked at the challenges of modernity and identify how people, organisations, institutions and societies can make technology and knowledge work together to accelerate the shift to a new age of opportunity. More info: http://bit.ly/1lugQWX"

"Advances in technology make it possible for students to experience personalized learning anytime and anywhere. But this can only take place if our school systems have well designed networks that support the increased demands of student devices and 24/7/365 access and that remain current in the face of rapidly evolving technologies. In our first phase, with the generous support of Qualcomm, the SEND Initiative developed guidelines for network design and a checklist for district network planning. Currently, SEND II is building on that work in collaboration with leading technology partners: ENA, Filewave, Fortinet, Presidio, Juniper Networks, and SAFARI Montage, SEND II is developing next-level resources for building network architectures that can handle and evolve with new demands."

Linked in http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/10/21/lessons-learned-from-security-breaches.html

Ciao Claude, mi sono iscritta ad Amara e ho iniziato a sottotitolare il tutorial Diigo. Se qualcuno vuole unirsi e continuare… Io ora devo fare altre cose (preparare e correggere compiti… ahimé), quindi faccio una pausa. Grazie per il post, davvero interessante e esaustivo, me lo studierò! Il video è qui: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/EfplCifDOjln/info/social-bookmarking-making-the-web-work-for-you/

proposta per gli addetti di inglese l2 perchè non sottotitolare in inglese allora, ma sarebbe un lavoraccio e dove la mettiamo la listening se concentriamo il focus sui sottotitoli? La vedo bene come attività per gli studenti, per l'uso veicolare della lingua, o come facility per i docenti, per i tanti tutorials in inglese presenti sul web, ma non so se sarebbe più economico come tempo fare direttamente un tutorial in italiano...

Non ho capito Fabrizio, cosa intendi? Penso che le attività di sottotitolazione possano avere fini diversi. Se il fine è l'accessibilità, allora è importante partire dalla sottotilazione nella stessa lingua del video, e poi aggiungere traduzioni in altre lingue. Se si fa fare agli studenti nell'ambito della L2, sottotitolare nella stessa lingua può essere un'ottima attività per migliorare le competenze di listening, secondo me.

Ossia: Trattato di Marrakech per facilitare l'accesso alle opere pubblicate per le persone cieche, ipovedenti o con altre disabilità che impediscono l'uso dei testi stampati" Pagina del sito dell'OMPI dal quale il trattato può essere scaricato in inglese, francese, spagnolo, arabo, cinese e russo.

Qualcuno avrebbe un suggerimento per rendere "print-disabled" più snellamente? Definizioni: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/print-disabled http://www.readingrights.org/definition-print-disabled Nelle traduzioni ufficiali del trattato (nelle lingue che capisco), per "otherwise Print Disabled": FR ayant d'autres difficultés de lecture des textes imprimés ES con otras dificultades para acceder al texto impreso In http://www.unipd.it/ilbo/content/accesso-ai-libri-i-non-vedenti-miracolo-marrakech Antonella De Robbio usa: "che non hanno accesso alla cultura nei supporti a stampa e in video" - "in video" è interessante perché si riferisce a una bozza anteriore che avrebbe incluso anche i sordi tra i benificiari (via la sottotitolazione), ma che ha attratto l'ira di Hollywood , rischiando di far naufragare l'intero trattato.

Very nice work.

"Io parlo parlo, ma chi m'ascolta ritiene solo le parole che aspetta..."

Grazie per la versione ebook ,adoro Calvino e il tuo post mi ha donato la voglia di rileggermi Le città invisibili,un'altra volta e per me rileggere significa assaporare ancora di più...

Hai ragione Antonella, anch'io leggo e rileggo, tutte le volte scoprendo qualcosa di nuovo. Recentemente mi è ricapitato tra le mani: "Memorie di Adriano" e devo dire che mi erano sfuggite un sacco di cose o, forse, i libri non parlano mai con la stessa voce.

New Translator agreement. The PDF is actually dated Oct. 3, 2014 in the properties. Archived in http://www.webcitation.org/6TfKOJHBY on 2014-10-28 The https://d396qusza40orc.cloudfront.net/translations%2FCoursera%20Translator%20TOS.pdf of its former one now says AccesDenied in a chunk of XML. However its changing versions were archived - in http://www.webcitation.org/6SttqGNYz on 2014-09-27 - in http://www.webcitation.org/6SSA3w3F7 on 2014-09-06 - in http://www.webcitation.org/6PS41wkK8 on 2014-05-09

The updated version is even more disadvantageous for GTC volunteers, in that it does not mention the "goog and valuable consideration" that Coursera was to provide in exchange for translation work.

"Fair Use, MOOCs, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act: Frequently Asked Questions In October 2015 the Librarian of Congress issued new rules permitting certain teachers of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to break encryption on DVDs, Blu-Ray discs and streaming videos to create short clips for use in their teaching. It's a major step forward for MOOC teachers and their students. This document, prepared by Professors Peter Decherney and Brandon Butler, answers some of the most common questions you might have about the new rule."

(Per il contesto, vedi http://infojustice.org/archives/35654 e http://ipclinic.org/2016/01/22/fair-use-moocs-and-the-digital-millennium-copyright-act-frequently-asked-questions/) Parti problematiche: Coursera and Udacity are for profit companies. Can they take advantage of the exemption? Coursera and Udacity are the platforms. Colleges, universities, museums, and other nonprofit organizations offer courses through these platforms. The organization that creates the course must be an accredited nonprofit educational institution, but the provider of the software platform may be for-profit . So a university course offered through Coursera may take advantage of the exemption. How can the material be restricted to students enrolled in the course? We believe that use of passwords provided only to enrolled students will sufficiently limit access to the course content to students or learners. How can redistribution be prevented? Offering streaming rather than downloadable versions of the course content should reasonably limit unauthorized redistribution of the work. Unfortunately, this unfairly disadvantages learners with slower internet access" Cioè l'autorizzazione a far saltare i blocchi anticopia vale soltant per i MOOC che non sono MOOC perché non sono Open ma protetti da password. E l'argomento secondo il quale il fair use vale per i video di corsi Coursera e Udacity, a patto che gli enti che elargiscono il corso non siano a scopo di lucro, anche se le piattaforme lo sono, è dubbio. in effetti Coursera e Udacity traggono profitto dai materiali proposti da questi enti. Quanto all'offerta dei video in solo streaming per impedirne lo scaricamento: almeno nei corsi Coursera dove il link di scaricamento è stato t

"Last week, the University made its decision final, and announced that it will begin the process of removing all the content on March 15th. To add insult to injury, it turns out that removing this digital library will ultimately end up requiring about five months worth of work- a cost UC Berkeley will be forced to pay."

Articolo "anti-stato" sulla disputa tra Berkeley e il Dipartimento della Giustizia US (DoJ) in merito all'accessibilità dei corsi pubblici di Berkeley. L'autrice ignora deliberatamente diversi fatti: il riconoscimento da parte del DoJ degli sforzi di Berkeley per implementare l'accessibilità, il fatto che i video inaccessibili non verranno cancellati, ma il loro accesso verrà per ora ristretto, ecc,