"Published on March 18th, 2013 | by Guest Author [Kate Lee] Infographics are becoming an increasingly popular method of communicating information quickly and clearly. Great designs can reduce the complexity of information, making a process, product or service easily understandable and accessible to the general public. And a good infographic means that all of that information is presented in a way that is aesthetically pleasing to boot. But have infographics become too good at streamlining information? Have they become the fast food of graphic design - quickly digestible, but lacking in substance? Infographics: Guilty As Charged The web has lots of criticisms levelled at infographics and it's true that many are poorly created, failing to fulfil their purpose, using Papyrus or other crimes against design. The main complaints when it comes to infographics are: 1. Creates confusion: the data is presented in a manner that takes a long time to interpret, is difficult to follow and creates additional complexity instead of providing clarity. 2. Inaccurate information: [...] 3. Too long: [...] 4. General ugliness: [...] The problem with infographics is that so many people think it's easy to create them, when in fact it's a particular subset of skills in an already specialised profession.[...] Data Visualisation Requires Thinking That being said, there are truly great infographics out there that tick all the boxes: accurate information, presented in an effective visual manner that helps the audience interpret and understand quickly. And so we come to the point of this post: with complex information rendered so comprehensible, without the need to read long reports and with the ability to look at pictures and share it with all your friends - is there a danger that infographics cause the audience to stop thinking? In short, the answer is no. In most cases where the audience needs to think, the data isn't simple anyway. The mission of infographics is to re

Titolo volutamente provocativo. Ottima presentazione delle "infographics", di cosa dovrebbero e potrebbero essere ma purtroppo spesso non sono, e degli risvolti cognitivi del loro uso.

"Forse la prossima chiusura di Google Reader sarà un bene. Ci costringerà, dopo una dozzina d'anni di uso dei feed reader, ad evolvere e a cercare un sistema migliore per tirare verso di noi i contenuti che davvero ci interessano. Ora bisogna solo capire se già esistono strumenti in grado di farlo, se esistono reti da pesca in grado di intrappolare solo pesci prelibati, o cani da tartufo in grado di riportare solo preziosi tuberi. O se invece saremo costretti a migrare, a 2013 inoltrato, sull'ennesimo aggregatore di feed, dove perle e banalità sono mischiate in ugual misura."

Titolo volutamente provocatorio. Partendo dall'annuncio della chiusura dell'aggregatore di feed Google Reader, l'autore si interroga su perché e con quali mezzi radunare e organzzare informazioni. Grazie a Mattia Lanzoni - https://www.diigo.com/user/Matzlanz - per la segnalazione.

Strumento per la verifica dell'accessibilità delle pagine Web, con criteri più aggiornati - mi pare - di CynthiaSays, ad es. ARIA. Grazie a Mattia Lanzoni - https://www.diigo.com/user/Matzlanz - per la segnalazione. PS: Forse non c'entra direttamente con questo cMOOC #ltis13 - però i cMOOC usano tanti strumenti sociali di cui è necessario valutare l'accessibilità (anche di cosa si produce con essi) se poi li si vogliono ri-adoperare anche a scuola. E questi strumenti sociali presentano caratteristiche tecniche (di codice) che altre applicazioni più vecchie (?) di valutazione dell'accessibilità non prendono in conto.

"While about two thirds of respondents to a 2011 survey had not applied to any state, now about two thirds have applied to, at least, one state. * More institutions are deciding not to apply in some states. Those most cited: MN (22.4%), MA (19.5%), AR (18.0%), MD (14.6%), and AL (14.1%). This will have an impact on student choice. * Institutions are averaging about half of an FTE dedicated to authorization compliance. We believe that most did not have such staff in 2011."

"March 19, 2013, 1:00 pm By Prof. Hacker [This is a guest post by Lisa Rhody, who works for the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University as the project manager for WebWise 2013....] From early posts about scholarly uses of social media to more recent entries on its usefulness for improving student engagement, there seems to be a general consensus among ProfHacker writers that the use of social media promotes the widening of scholarly networks. Keeping in mind that online social networks extend beyond the obvious Twitter and Facebook-blogs, podcasts, wikis, and photo/video sharing sites are a few other forms of social media-the vexing question to answer has been how to quantify the scope or significance of one's participation in social media to a wider scholarly conversation."

"March 20, 2013, 4:55 am By Steve Kolowich The State University of New York's Board of Trustees on Tuesday endorsed an ambitious vision for how SUNY might use prior-learning assessment, competency-based programs, and massive open online courses to help students finish their degrees in less time, for less money. The plan calls for "new and expanded online programs" that "include options for time-shortened degree completion." In particular, the board proposed a huge expansion the prior-learning assessment programs offered by SUNY's Empire State College. The system will also push its top faculty members to build MOOCs designed so that certain students who do well in the courses might be eligible for SUNY credit. Ultimately, the system wants to add 100,000 enrollments within three years, according to a news release."

"A walkthrough of a SketchUp model representing the Learning Creative Learning cMOOC."

"Published on Mar 17, 2013 [by] Fred Bartels A walkthrough of a SketchUp model representing the Learning Creative Learning cMOOC. "

"...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. ..."

"Starts: 3/31/03 Ends: Leaders: wendy Participants: 255 (view all) Description: This is the discussion rotisserie for the BOLD series "Development and the Internet." If you would like to join the series, please visit: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/bold/devel03"

"BOLD 2003: Development and the Internet Module I Architecture Module II Entrepreneurship Module III LearningModule IV Policy Module V Conclusion"

"The Year of the MOOC (...) MOOCs have been around for a few years as collaborative techie learning events, but this is the year everyone wants in. Elite universities are partnering with Coursera at a furious pace. It now offers courses from 33 of the biggest names in postsecondary education, including Princeton, Brown, Columbia and Duke. In September, Google unleashed a MOOC-building online tool, and Stanford unveiled Class2Go with two courses. "

"Creative Learning @medialabcourse"

"All posts Discussion Staff Announcements Questions Groups/Communities Offer to Teach & Learn Resources/Media Weekly Email Introduce Yourself Ask the Panel Events"

"Peer 2 Peer University (we mostly just say P2PU) is a grassroots open education project that organizes learning outside of institutional walls and gives learners recognition for their achievements. P2PU creates a model for lifelong learning alongside traditional formal higher education. Leveraging the internet and educational materials openly available online, P2PU enables high-quality low-cost education opportunities. Learning for the people, by the people. About almost anything. Our values Three things guide everything we do: openness, community and peer learning. P2PU is open Being open enables more people to participate and innovate, and makes us accountable. Our community is open so that everyone can participate. Our content is open so that everyone can use it. Our model & technology are open so others can experiment with it and we can all improve it together. Our processes are open so that we remain accountable to our purpose and community. P2PU is a community P2PU is community-centered and our governance model reflects that. P2PU is built driven by volunteers, who are involved in all aspects of the project. As members of this community, we speak and act with civility. We show tolerance and respect for other opinions, people, and perspectives. We strive for quality as a process - driven by community-review, feedback and revision. P2PU is peer learning P2PU is teaching and learning by peers for peers. Everyone has something to contribute and everyone has something to learn. We are all teachers & learners. We take responsibility for our own and each others' learning. "

Tutti i video sono automaticamente sincronizzati con http://www.amara.org e quindi ciascuna reca il link alla pagina Amara.org dove possono essere sottotitolati in più lingue. Sembra che UN UMANO per ora faccia i sottotitoli inglesi originali. A differenza di Coursera dove avevano un team Amara incasinatissimo dove sbattevano sottotitoli automatici originali zeppi dei tipici errori del riconoscimento vocale, poi si stupivano che la gente mollasse le traduzioni a metà.

" Sign-up is now closed. But don't worry, we'll definitely be back! Follow us at @medialabcourse for updates. Free & Online! You've been dying to take the MIT Media Lab course on creative learning, but you're not in Cambridge? Despair no more. We invite you to join the course right here, on the interwebs. It's free of charge and we hope you'll like it. A Big Experiment This is a big experiment. Things will break. We don't have all the answers. Sometimes we plan to rely on you to make it work. But we'll try our very darndest to make sure you have a good time, and get something out of it. Weekly Lessons Make new friends, and start learning from weekly live videos, readings, discussions, and project-based activities. Open for signup now, course starts February 11th. Questions? Drop us a note in our Google+ community or send us an email at medialabcourse@p2pu.org. All materials licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license."

"Below you will find 50+ web tools you can use to create your own web-based story. They are grouped into categories of tool types, but you can also access a complete list of all tools. Each link points to a full entry on the tool that includes a description, links and embedded versions of the original Dominoe story, links to other stories created in the tool, and some more feedback that can help you decided if the tool might be of interest. People who join this wiki can contribute to the content on these pages (learn more...). Again, your mission is not to review or try every single one (that would be madness, I know), but pick one that sounds interesting and see if you can produce something. But before rummaging around the toolbox, have you done your prep work? Do you have your story idea or presentation concept outlined, developed? This should be on paper or in a document file or scribbled on the back of a napkin, but do not rely on making it up as you go! If not, go back 2 spaces and do this now. Next- do you have your media assets available, your images, video clips, audio files-- if not go find your media now."

"Il cMOOC della IUL, a.a. 2012-2013 LABORATORIO DI TECNOLOGIE INTERNET PER LA SCUOLA #LTIS13 Curato da Andreas Robert Formiconi connectivist: studente al centro, apprendimento cooperativo Massive: senza limiti di iscrizioni Open: liberamente e gratuitamente fruibile Online: accessibile da qualsiasi browser Course: un insegnamento universitario Inizio: 3 aprile 2013 Durata: 10 settimane Modalità di fruizione: chiunque può partecipare liberamente e gratuitamente, per iscriversi occorre semplicemente spedire un'email a cmooc@iuline.it specificando nome, cognome e città di provenienza i partecipanti che alla fine del corso abbiano preso parte attivamente e con successo a tutte le attività proposte, potranno ricevere 6 CFU mediante un iscrizione post hoc al costo di 150 € i suddetti crediti potranno essere validi per l'insegnamento di "Laboratorio Informatico" per tutti coloro che si dovessero successivamente iscrivere al Corso di Laurea "Metodi e Tecniche delle Interazioni Educative" presso la IUL, ivi compresi eventuali studenti dell'ultimo anno di scuola superiore i CFU acquisiti potranno altresì essere riconosciuti, in totalità o in parte, nel Master di I livello "Le nuove competenze digitali: open education, social e mobile learning", promosso da UNIFI e in master e corsi di perfezionamento affini, promossi dalla IUL. Obiettivi del corso Imparare ad abitare nel cyberspazio Imparare a imparare e a insegnare nel cyberspazio Imparare a creare comunità di apprendimento e aggiornamento professionale Annullare il gap tecnologico fra vecchie e nuove generazioni Orientare gli studenti dell'ultimo anno di scuola superiore interessati al proseguimento degli studi nell'area delle Scienze della Formazione "

"Un cMOOC sulle tecnologie internet per la scuola - #ltis13 Aggiornamento 2 marzo: istituisco questa pagina con le domande più frequenti che ho già ricevuto da vari network e dai primi iscritti. Locandina del cMOOC #ltis13 con i fatti essenziali Dove si racconta dell'origine dei cMOOC per capire in cosa consisterà questa offerta Testimonianze di studenti che hanno vissuto un'esperienza simile"