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"Here's the problem: web video is beginning to rival television, but there isn't a good open resource for subtitling. Here's our mission: we're trying to make captioning, subtitling, and translating video publicly accessible in a way that's free and open, just like the Web. Our approach: Make a simple and ubiquitous way to request, create, and translate subtitles for any video Work with others to define open protocols so that whenever subtitles for a video exist, any website or video player will be able to retrieve them Create a community space for people who subtitle video, to encourage contributions and facilitate collaboration" Posted April 13, 2010 by amarasubs.

Se avessi lasciato l'intitolato basato sul tag "title", questo segnalibro sarebbe intitolato: "Subtitles and Captions for Every Video on the Web | Amara - Buy captions, video translations, transcriptions, and crowd subtitling". - con la parte prima del | il titolo del primo post del 13 aprile 2010 del blog di Amara (allora Universal Subtitles": "Sottotitoli tradotti e per sordi per ogni video online" - e con la seconda parte dopo l'|, che dà il titolo attuale del blogo, cioè "Amara - Compra sottotitoli, traduzioni di video, trascrizioni e sottotitolazione di massa" Quite a change...

I am currently investigating file formats for long-term preservation. Obviously they must be free of proprietary ownership and publicly accessible and avoid vendor-locking - even if the vendor is a non-profit organization. What I wonder: which conditions must a video file format fulfill to permit captioning / subtitling? Are there public and open standards of formats for captioning / subtitling? Where do I find them? Can they be enriched with metadata about the author of the subtitles?

"MP3 From YouTube Flash Video ListenToYouTube.com is the most convenient online application for converting YouTube flash video to MP3 audio. This service is fast, free, and requires no signup. All you need is a YouTube URL, and our software will transfer the video to our server, extract the MP3, and give you a link to download the audio file. How To: Extract MP3 From a YouTube Video Enter the URL from any YouTube page, and this application will quickly retrieve the Flash video file and extract the audio as a downloadable MP3. By using our service you agree to abide by our terms. Enter YouTube URL: Once you click 'GO', you will need to wait a minute or two until we convert from YouTube to mp3. Please be patient while we do this. Once we have converted the YouTube Video to mp3, you will get a download link to get your YouTube mp3."

Vero quanto dice la descrizione, però c'è un mucchio di annunci pubblicitari pulsanti. Perciò meglio aprire una nuova scheda del browser per fare altro mentre si scarica il file audio. Utile quando l'audio YT è debole, come in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvI0dMcNCcA dopo i primi 28 secondi (su 56 minuti e 9 secondi)

"About NewOCR.com is a free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) service, can analyze the text in any image file that you upload, and then convert the text from the image into text that you can easily edit on your computer Select your file File URL Recognition language Italian" e decine di altre lingue. Molto preciso e rapido, e c'è un'anteprima dove si può selezionare la parte che si vuol convertire in testo vero. Funziona con file online e con file caricati dal computer. Non c'è da crearsi un account.

Fantastico! Grazie Claude! Potresti aggiungere qualche altro tag, tipo converter, convertitore, tool (perché magari, per chi come me non ricorda mai l'acronimo OCR, pur sapendo di cosa si tratta, diventerà più facile ritrovare questo segnalibro in caso di bisogno). Grazie :-)

"Pics4Learning is a safe, free image library for education. Teachers and students can use the copyright-friendly photos & images for classrooms, multimedia projects, websites, videos, portfolios, or any projects in an educational setting."

"Abstract The last five years have witnessed a hype about MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) presaging a revolution in higher education. Although all MOOCs have in common their scale and free access, they have already bifurcated in two very distinct types of courses when compared in terms of their underpinning theory, format and structure, known as c-MOOCs and x-MOOCs. The concept of openness behind each of the formats is also very different. Previous studies have shown that c-and x-MOOCs share some common features but that they clearly differ on the learning theory and pedagogical model on which they stand. In this paper we extend earlier findings and concentrate on the concept of "openness" behind each format showing important differences. Keywords Distance Education; Massive Open Online Course; MOOC; Open Course; Open Learning; Openness"

"Antonio Fini, Andreas Formiconi, Alessandro Giorni, Nuccia Silvana Pirruccello, Elisa Spadavecchia, Emanuela Zibordi Abstract In Fall 2007 David Wiley, professor at Utah State University held a course about Open Education. That time, however, Dr Wiley's course was followed by a rather unusual group of students. The Fall 2007 edition, in fact, was available to anybody, free of charge, all over the world. The only requisite required was the possession of a blog for the completion of the weekly assignments. The present paper, whose authors attended the course completing it successfully, is an account of the experience they had. It can be considered an innovating experience from many different viewpoints and can be regarded as an example of how the world of the formal education can meet the demands of the informal one, in the broader landscape of professional training and lifelong learning. Keywords OER; Open Education; online community; informal learning Full Text: PDF This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License."

"Welcome!!! Through these pages you can enter into our Project. The aims of this project are: to improve the use, discover and disseminate the Web 2.0, open source software and ITC in all kind of schools. Sharing documents by Web2.0 tools Showing the importance to work with different country and different student ages Use teaching strategies like active learning, contextualized knowledge, cognitive and cooperative learning. Using virtual world as educational tool Creating free courses for teacher that want improve their ITC competences I, Riccardo Rivarola, am the data processing responsible, Claudio Filosi is the didactic/pedagogical responsible. Prof. Riccardo Rivarola WARNING! All videos that are not manufactured by us have been chosen with great care but we can not hold accountable if you connect the same to other movies, maybe not education and / or not suitable for minors!"

"he courses will be free to teachers, and for those who want a verified certificate, there will be a $50 fee. Coursera will verify that the teacher actually completed the course and participated fully along the way."

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Fueling their enthusiasm is the explosion of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, the new species of free classes prestigious universities are offering to students around the world. As educators debate what the classes mean for the future of traditional universities, one thing is clear - they provide a vast laboratory to study learning, using a trail of electronic data to examine what resources or study habits best help students, whether they take courses online or in traditional classrooms.

"Author: Andy Carvin , EDC Center for Media & Community | December 7th, 2004 You may have noticed recently that lots of websites now contain little graphical buttons with the word XML on them. For example: XML button When you click on the button, all you see is a bunch of jumbled text and computer code. What's this all about? It's an RSS feed, and they're changing the way people access the Internet. RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is a technical format that allows online publishers to share and distribute their content to other websites or individual Internet users. It's commonly used for distributing headlines on news websites. Bloggers use it to distribute summaries of their blog entries as well. RSS is written in the Internet coding language known as XML, which is why you see RSS buttons labeled that way. If a website publishes an RSS page, commonly known as an RSS "feed," this feed will contain summaries of all the recent articles posted on that site. For example, Yahoo News publishes news related to world headlines, national news, sports, etc. These you can all read by going to the Yahoo website. But they also publish RSS feeds for each of these subjects. Each RSS feed contains a summary of the most recent news stories posted. Similarly, the Digital Divide Network publishes RSS feeds for our news headlines, events listings and other content on our website. I even have my own RSS feed for articles that I publish on my personal blog, Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth. But why do RSS feeds look like a jumbled mess when I click on them with most Web browsers? It's because RSS feeds are meant to be read by machines rather than people. Software and websites can understand the data contained in RSS feeds and make it available to people on personalized websites, through software known as news aggregators, even through email. So when you aggregate RSS feeds, you're having a computer collect content from many different websites and organize them in a convenient pla

Linkato in http://iamarf.org/2013/04/20/racconti-ltis13/ , commento 42. RSS come empowerment.

"is a great service for reading your favorite RSS feeds on your iPad, Android device, or in your web browser. Feedly will import all of your Google Reader subscriptions for you with just one click. I enjoy using the visual layout of Feedly which I feel enables me to browse through my RSS subscriptions more efficiently than if they were just in a list like in Google Reader. I also find it very easy to share from Feedly to Google+, Evernote, Twitter, and many other services. "

January 22, 2014 | By Katitza Rodriguez "We aren't going to let the NSA and its allies ruin the Internet. Inspired by the memory of Aaron Swartz, fueled by our victory against SOPA and ACTA, the global digital rights community are uniting to fight back. On February 11, on the Day We Fight Back, the world will demand an end to mass surveillance in every country, by every state, regardless of boundaries or politics. The SOPA and ACTA protests were successful because we all took part, as a community. As Aaron Swartz put it, everybody "made themselves the hero of their own story." We can set a date, but we need everyone, all the users of the Global Internet, to make this a movement. Here's part of our plan (but it's just the beginning). Last year, before Ed Snowden had spoken to the world, digital rights activists united on 13 Principles. The Principles spelled out just why mass surveillance was a violation of human rights, and gave sympathetic lawmakers and judges a list of fixes they could apply to the lawless Internet spooks. On the day we fight back, we want the world to sign onto those principles. We want politicians to pledge to uphold them. We want the world to see we care. Here's how you can join the effort: Send an email to rights (AT) eff.org confirming your interest in participating in this action and receiving updates. Let us know what you would like to do in your own country so we can send you more information and amplify your voice. Visit TheDayWeFightBack.org and Take Action. Join your fellow global citizens and, sign the 13 Necessary and Proportionate Principles here: https://en.necessaryandproportionate.org/take-action/EFF Use social media tools to announce your participation. Develop memes, tools, websites, and do whatever else you can to encourage others to participate. Be creative -- plan your own actions and pledge. Go to the streets. Promote the Principles in your own country. Then, let us know what your plan is, s

11 febbraio: giornata di azione contro la sorveglianza globale tipo PRISM della NSA. Vedi anche i 13 "Princìpi internazionali in materia di applicazione dei diritti umani alla sorveglianza delle comunicazioni" https://it.necessaryandproportionate.org/text . Tra i firmatari, in Italia: Agorà Digitale, Electronic Frontiers Italy - ALCEI, Hermes Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights,

by Shara Tibken - January 30, 2014 11:10 AM PST "Things are about to get tougher for Apple. Google late Wednesday made an unexpected announcement that it's selling Motorola Mobility to Chinese PC giant Lenovo for $2.91 billion, or less than a quarter of what it paid for the handset vendor just a couple of years ago. During the years Google owned it, Motorola lost money and market share, and the relationship caused tension between Google and the other Android vendors, particularly Samsung. It also led those other phone makers to develop their own software and services, rather than push those from Google. That amplified Android's fragmentation in the market. Overall, Google's purchase of Motorola turned out much better for iPhone maker Apple than for Google. That's now going to change. Google, sans Motorola, can go back to focusing on what it does best -- making a really great operating system and apps. It can mend its relationship with Android leader Samsung and the other vendors. And it can concentrate on unifying and streamlining the Android experience, rather than worry about bolstering its own hardware operations. All of those factors mean that Apple may not be able to win over customers as easily as it has in the past. Related stories: Google sells Motorola unit to Lenovo for $2.9B With Motorola out, can Samsung, Google be BFFs again? Apple's higher standard: How 51M iPhones is somehow disappointing Apple's iPhone 5C misses the low-cost mark By ditching Motorola, Google frees Android from distractions Behind Samsung's push to rule the world"

"Wordcounter is a word count and a character count tool. Simply place your cursor into the box and begin typing. Word counter will automatically count the number of words and characters as you type. You can also copy and paste a document you have already written into the word counter box and it will display the word count and character numbers for that piece of writing. Knowing the number of words or characters in a document can be important. For example, if the author is required to write a minimum or maximum amount of words for an article or paper, word counter can help them know if their article meets these requirements. In addition, word counter automatically shows you the top 10 keywords and keyword density of the article you're writing. This allows you to know what keywords you use most often and what percentage each is used within the article. This can help you from over-using certain words in your writing and allow you to make sure you have the correct keyword distribution you're trying to obtain for any article you write. Word counts can also be important in defining typing and reading speeds. Word counter can help determine both of these. Simply set a timer and start typing and when the time is up, you'll instantly know how many words you have typed for that period of time. If you have any questions about word counter, please feel free to contact us here. Disclaimer: We strive to make our word counter as accurate as possible but we cannot guarantee it will always be so."

Contatore di parole online: si scrive o si incolla un testo, e lui ti dà automaticamente il numero, oltre a quello delle parole, dei segni (non so se con o senza spazi però), delle frasi, dei paragrafi, e la lunghezza media delle frasi (in No di parole), nonché la frequenza delle parole chiave più usate. Cioè potrebbe anche essere utile per scegliere tag quando si fa un segnalibro su Diigo ;)

Brushes Download ZIP Painting app for the iPhone and iPad. Brushes is a painting app designed for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. It is available on the App Store. License Brushes is free/libre open-source software. It is distributed under the Mozilla Public License v2.0.

"Brushes is now free/libre open-source software."

"Our mission is to promote and provide equal access to communication and learning through described and captioned educational media. The ultimate goal of the DCMP is for accessible media to be an integral tool in the teaching and learning process for all stakeholders in the educational community, including students, educators and other school personnel, parents, service providers, businesses, and agencies. The DCMP supports the U.S. Department of Education Strategic Plan for 2014-2018 by committing to the following goals: Ensuring that students (early learning through grade 12) who are blind, visually impaired, deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind have the opportunity to achieve the standards of academic excellence. Advocating for equal access to educational media as well as the establishment and maintenance of quality standards for captioning and description by service providers. Providing a collection of free-loan described and captioned educational media. Furnishing information and research about accessible media. Acting as a gateway to Internet resources related to accessibility. Adapting and developing new media and technologies that assist students in obtaining and using available information."

"The (Free) Efficient Way to Manage Class Q&A How is this better than email, newsgroups, and discussion forums? Students actually use Piazza, they love it. This difference stems from how we built Piazza. We've personally met with and spoken to thousands of students and instructors. The result is a beautifully intuitive and simple product that students love and use."

Ultimo post sul blog un anno fa: http://blog.piazza.com/2012/07/23/7-management-secrets-of-the-postpartum-ceo/ . Può darsi che la fondatrice nonché CEO di Piazza abbia trovato il pupo bipede ancora più impegnativo di quanto pensasse... Scherzi a parte: sì, sembra interessante, in particolare per il supporto di LaTEX, ma colpisce il fatto che le università elencate sono tutte US. Chissà se accettano anche istituzioni straniere - e viceversa, nel caso dell'Italia, se le istituzioni educative dipendenti da MIUR sono autorizzate e crearvisi un account?

Registrarmi non mi andava (già mi arrivano tonnellate di mail!), ma di primo acchito, con la demo, mi pare si tratti di un forum simile a tanti altri: mi sbaglio?

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