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K Dunks

Academia's War with Technology - 0 views

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    This presentation highlights academia's reluctance to embrace new technology.
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    This presentation highlights academia's reluctance to embrace new technology. It is presented in a funny but straightforward presentation.
K Dunks

Academia Meets Twitter by Richie Escovedo - 0 views

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    A presentation on the use of Twitter within academia and its benefits.
Ronda Wery

The Dark Side of Twittering a Revolution | Open The Future | Fast Company - 0 views

  • n noting the potential power of social networking tools for organizing mass change, I thought out loud for a moment about what kinds of dangers might emerge. It struck me, as I spoke, that there is a terrible analogy that might be applicable: the use of radio as a way of coordinating bloody attacks on rival ethnic communities during the Rwandan genocide in the early 1990s. I asked, out loud, whether Twitter could ever be used to trigger a genocide.
  • In a 1999 presentation for the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Professor Frank Chalk noted five circumstances that would allow the maximum intensity of a media-driven response to a crisis: the introduction of a new medium of communication, such as radio [or Twitter]; the use of a completely new style of communication; the wide-spread perception that a crisis exists; a public with little knowledge of the situation from other sources of information, and a deep-seated habit of obeying authority among the target audience. All of these circumstances pertain to the promulgation of the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 and many of them are found in other cases of genocide and genocidal killings, as well. It's easy to see how well this model applies to the Iranian situation, too. This shouldn't be read as an indictment of social networking technologies in general, or of Twitter in particular. As I said at the outset, I'm thrilled at how critical this technology has been to the viability and potential success of the pro-democracy demonstrations. As the cat-and-mouse game around proxy servers further suggests, the only way for a state to entirely cut off the use of these kinds of tools is to kill its own information networks, blinding itself and effectively removing itself from the global economy. What I'm arguing, however, is that we shouldn't see the positive political successes of emerging social tools as being the sole model. We should be aware that, as these tools proliferate, they will inevitably be used for far more deadly goals.
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    In a 1999 presentation for the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Professor Frank Chalk noted five circumstances that would allow the maximum intensity of a media-driven response to a crisis: 1. the introduction of a new medium of communication, such as radio [or Twitter]; 2. the use of a completely new style of communication; 3. the wide-spread perception that a crisis exists; 4. a public with little knowledge of the situation from other sources of information, and 5. a deep-seated habit of obeying authority among the target audience. All of these circumstances pertain to the promulgation of the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 and many of them are found in other cases of genocide and genocidal killings, as well. It's easy to see how well this model applies to the Iranian situation, too. This shouldn't be read as an indictment of social networking technologies in general, or of Twitter in particular. As I said at the outset, I'm thrilled at how critical this technology has been to the viability and potential success of the pro-democracy demonstrations. As the cat-and-mouse game around proxy servers further suggests, the only way for a state to entirely cut off the use of these kinds of tools is to kill its own information networks, blinding itself and effectively removing itself from the global economy. What I'm arguing, however, is that we shouldn't see the positive political successes of emerging social tools as being the sole model. We should be aware that, as these tools proliferate, they will inevitably be used for far more deadly goals.
K Dunks

Pedagogy2.0: A Missing or Broken Link - 0 views

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    A presentation on Web 2.0 technologies in the classroom with ideas for using different tools in the classroom.
Ronda Wery

Wired Campus: Paper Highlights Pros and Cons of Twittering at Academic Confer... - 0 views

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    Professors are beginning to use Twitter at academic conferences to share proceedings with absent colleagues and to create an online "backchannel" for attendees, but the tool can also be distracting and detract from face-to-face communication at events.\n\nThose were the basic findings of a survey of academics at five recent conferences, in research presented this month at the annual EduMedia Conference in Salzburg, Austria. The paper is titled "How People Are Using Twitter During Conferences."
Ronda Wery

open thinking » 80+ Videos for Tech. & Media Literacy - 0 views

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    Over the past few years, I have been collecting interesting Internet videos that would be appropriate for lessons and presentations, or personal research, related to technological and media literacy. Here are 70+ videos organized into various sub-categories. These videos are of varying quality, cross several genres, and are of varied suitability for classroom use.
K Dunks

Sciweavers - 0 views

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    Sciweavers is a free bookmark academic social network for researchers. It hosts URL links to the most significant and effective research tools and materials on the web such as publications, source code, presentations, tutorials, lecture notes, books, data
Ronda Wery

Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship - 0 views

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    Social network sites (SNSs) are increasingly attracting the attention of academic and industry researchers intrigued by their affordances and reach. This special theme section of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication brings together scholarship on these emergent phenomena. In this introductory article, we describe features of SNSs and propose a comprehensive definition. We then present one perspective on the history of such sites, discussing key changes and developments. After briefly summarizing existing scholarship concerning SNSs, we discuss the articles in this special section and conclude with considerations for future research.
K Dunks

Creative Web 2.0 Learning - 0 views

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    A presentation that outlines Library 2.0 and what it means for future education.
Ronda Wery

Rapid E-Learning 101 - The Rapid eLearning Blog - 0 views

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    Rapid elearning is about getting the right information to people at the right time. It's more than the tools. It's about empowering people with the knowledge that they need to operate at the speed of business.
Ronda Wery

Diigo - 2 views

What are the most important/helpful ways Diigo can be used? I'm doing a presentation and was interested in what y'all think.

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