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Readability - An Arc90 Lab Experiment - 0 views

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    handy if you read from the web a lot or frequently assign webbased reading. No installation required - just drag the readability button to your browser toolbar
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The Hidden Center of the "Gutenberg Galaxy" - 0 views

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  • McLuhan and the Gutenberg Galaxy
  • What if the social changes that result from these technologies are intended , rather than unintended
  • Marshall McLuhan wrote a good deal about the "Gutenberg Galaxy" - the 'constellation' of changes wrought on European society after the German of that name figured out how to turn a winepress into a holder for movable type - in other words, a printing press - in the 15th century.
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  • changes in the political, religious, and social landscape.
  • Gutenberg's press also made possible the Protestant Reformation - because, as Martin Luther came to realize, the wide translation and printing of the Bible meant "every man be a priest."
  • It's certainly hard to see how any of the changes which followed
  • could have occurred without the widespread literacy and education that the printing press made possible
  • what is now happening to our society in our second "Gutenberg revolution" - namely, the rise of electronic media
  • But what if there were a hidden center to the "Gutenberg Galaxy?"
  • fostering our current phase of technological change
  • cultural determinism of technology
  • And then, the Renaissance
  • The Dawn of Writing
  • obvious changes made possible by writing
  • technology of writing was ascribed to some mythic "culture-bringer" - Ogham, Thoth, Quetzelcoatl, etc
  • Most people are not aware, however, what writing had undone.
  • writing may have destroyed man's own prodigious mnemonic talents
  • Art of Memory also involved using tools and images
  • earlier technological revolution - one that occurred perhaps five millenia ago - the birth of writing
  • The spoken word is intimate
  • writing is impersonal, does not carry emotional intonations
  • The written word makes possible the autonomous survival of knowledge - with an oral tradition, it disappears when the oralists have all been killed
  • throughout the great breadth of the Dark and Middle Ages, literacy was not very widespread.
  • Was the printing press purely serendipitous? It does seem to have arrived at the right place at the right time.
  • mysterious traditions of the printers' and papermillers' guilds
  • heretical content of many of these watermarks
  • Bayley suggests it was Huguenot refugees that brought papermaking and the printing art into England
  • "Gutenberg revolution" as quite a Gnostic coup - destroying the literacy monopoly of both the Catholic Church and the feudal state
  • Today, the Arrival of the Electronic Word
  • any people are openly saying it: print is dead, the era of the printed word and the book is fading, and thus a new kind of literacy - "teleliteracy," ("the grammatology of video,") the reading of the moving image and multimedia barrage before us - is being propagated
  • death of civilization itself, since in their eyes we seem to be leaving the printed text behind and returning to the moving image or fetish
  • immediacy, presence, and participation lost through writing and print
  • whether some of the changes electronic media will bring were not intended,
  • would not think for you, but would help you think better and function as a "Knowledge (gnosis? ) Machine."
  • hypertext meant that the world's knowledge could be seamlessly woven together, much like the integrated unified system of knowledge imagined by the mystic Ramon Lull.
  • could be used to facilitate "Community memory" and community activism. It meant access to information
  • Vanessa Vaile on 28 Jan 10
     
    shades of Dan Brown!
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WordSift - About - 0 views

www.wordsift.com/about

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  • WordSift was created to help teachers manage the demands of vocabulary and academic language in their text materials. We especially hope that this tool is helpful in supporting English Language Learners.
  • WordSift helps anyone easily sift through texts -- just cut and paste any text into WordSift and you can engage in a verbal quick-capture! The program helps to quickly identify important words that appear in the text. This function is widely available in various Tag Cloud programs on the web, but we have added the ability to mark and sort different lists of words important to educators. We have also integrated it with a few other functions, such as visualization of word thesaurus relationships (incorporating the amazing Visual Thesaurus® that we highly recommend in its own right) and Google® searches of images and videos. With just a click on any word in the Tag Cloud, the program displays instances of sentences in which that word is used in the text.
  • a toy in a linguistic playground that is available to instantly capture and display the vocabulary structure of texts
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Perspectives on Tag Clouds for supporting reflection in Self-organised Learning - 1 views

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    paper on tagging, clouds, reflective learning Abstract: Tags are popular for organising information in social software based on the personal views of the participants on the information. Tags provide valuable attention meta-data on a person's interests because the participants actively relate resources to concepts by using tags. This paper analyses three designs for tag-clouds that are integrated in the ReScope framework for reflection support. ReScope provides a widget for visualising personal tag-clouds of the tags that were used with social bookmarking services. The presented designs focus on processing and representing attention meta-data on the levels of recency, of collaboration, and of social connectedness from the perspective of situated learning. The present paper analyses how the designs are related to the underlying presumptions for supporting reflection using the different representations of attention meta-data.
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Points of Contact - 0 views

www.chrisbrogan.com/points-of-contact

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  • When I look at it, I’ve got too many points of contact:
  • And if I were to trim it all back into just a few spots, would it help, or would it bottleneck?
  • I thrive on contact. I’m drowning in it. It’s not my problem. It’s a modern world problem.
  • Vanessa Vaile on 28 Jan 10
     
    not teaching or ESL oriented but still relevant to the task at hand. it also references yet another network to coordinate ~ on top of the tech and new tools, we all inhabit multiple networks
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How I Use Mindmapping to Write - 0 views

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  • Mind maps are a great tool for getting your jumbly thoughts into a framework. From there, you can work backwards and forwards on ideas without the “weight” of lots of words to slow down your thinking. Then, by the way, you can use the words you’ve put down as the titles of slides, or as the headers to paragraphs or as the notes on your note cards for your speech.
  • the “stuff” of the final product gets in the way of the frame of what we’re putting together.
  • Vanessa Vaile on 28 Jan 10
     
    marketer's approach to using mindmapping to write, in this specific case, speeches and presentations + comments
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Blog U.: Online Education and Blogging - Technology and Learning - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

www.insidehighered.com/...online_education_and_blogging

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  • For conference presentations or article submissions there is no substitute for invested time in reflection, writing, and re-writing. For blogging - well it goes on the page as it goes through the brain.The best preparation I received for blogging was teaching online. One of the most important elements for running a successful online course involves presence. The instructor must be "present" in the course discussion boards and blogs. Teaching online gave me tons of practice in writing rapid, hopefully thought provoking, discussion and blog posts around the curriculum and the student's work
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Multiliteracies - evo2010mlit - 0 views

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  • Google Reader
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      what name is our Google Reader under? I want to subscribe to shared items
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Top Topic Trackers (Updated List) - 0 views

www.readwriteweb.com/...top_topic_trackers_updated.php

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  • leading topic-tracking tools on the Web.
  • Feed and/or Email Services
  • These are services that output RSS and/or other formats, such as email notification. We think this type of topic feed tool is the most flexible
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  • particularly when it outputs RSS.
  • Social Filter
  • Destination Services
  • don't output RSS or emails for topic searches.
  • filtering or grouping of the feeds inside an RSS reader
  • People Curated
  • Community Curated
  • Topic-focused blogs (such as ReadWriteWeb!) are great for tracking topics
  • light blogging service
  • easy way for individuals or small groups of people to curate information on a given topic
  • "topic hubs" for bloggers.
  • Aggregators / Portals
  • aggregate, or group, news and other stories around a specific topic
  • Market Intelligence
  • professional brand management services
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Digital Office Hours - 0 views

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  • Instant messaging (IM) services like AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, or Windows Live Messenger make it possible for you to chat in real-time with friends, colleagues, and students.
  • But do you really want to have all of these different tools open at once? Probably not. In order to cut down on applications or screens that you have open on your desktop, you can use an IM aggregrator.
  • Digsby allows you not only to manage all of your IM streams, but also works as an email manager for web-based mail and as an interface for social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook
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  • Google Talk chatback badges. The badge is a short snippet of HTML that I can plug into any of my course-related websites, and the result is that anyone who visits the website can click on the chatbox to start a conversation with me–(1) whether they have a Google Talk account or not or (2) whether or not they know my IM account name.
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Tending Your Digital Gardens: In-Semester Maintenance - 2 views

www.profhacker.com/...ardens-in-semester-maintenance

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  • If you spend any amount of time using a wiki–or, for example, services such as Flickr or delicious, where you can tag and organize your material in a variety of different ways–then sooner or later entropy will tend to set in.  It can be hard to find things
  • If you spend any amount of time using a wiki–or, for example, services such as Flickr or delicious, where you can tag and organize your material in a variety of different ways–then sooner or later entropy will tend to set in.  It can be hard to find things
  • If you spend any amount of time using a wiki–or, for example, services such as Flickr or delicious, where you can tag and organize your material in a variety of different ways–then sooner or later entropy will tend to set in.  It can be hard to find things
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  • If you spend any amount of time using a wiki–or, for example, services such as Flickr or delicious, where you can tag and organize your material in a variety of different ways–then sooner or later entropy will tend to set in.  It can be hard to find things
  • If you spend any amount of time using a wiki–or, for example, services such as Flickr or delicious, where you can tag and organize your material in a variety of different ways–then sooner or later entropy will tend to set in.  It can be hard to find things
  • If you spend any amount of time using a wiki–or, for example, services such as Flickr or delicious, where you can tag and organize your material in a variety of different ways–then sooner or later entropy will tend to set in.  It can be hard to find thing
  • If you spend any amount of time using a wiki–or, for example, services such as Flickr or delicious, where you can tag and organize your material in a variety of different ways–then sooner or later entropy will tend to set in.  It can be hard to find things
  • If you spend any amount of time using a wiki–or, for example, services such as Flickr or delicious, where you can tag and organize your material in a variety of different ways–then sooner or later entropy will tend to set in.  It can be hard to find thing
  • If you spend any amount of time using a wiki–or, for example, services such as Flickr or delicious, where you can tag and organize your material in a variety of different ways–then sooner or later entropy will tend to set in.  It can be hard to find things
  • If you spend any amount of time using a wiki–or, for example, services such as Flickr or delicious, where you can tag and organize your material in a variety of different ways–then sooner or later entropy will tend to set in.  It can be hard to find things
  • If you spend any amount of time using a wiki–or, for example, services such as Flickr or delicious, where you can tag and organize your material in a variety of different ways–then sooner or later entropy will tend to set in.  It can be
  • If you spend any amount of time using a wiki–or, for example, services such as Flickr or delicious, where you can tag and organize your material in a variety of different ways–then sooner or later entropy will tend to set in.  It can be hard to find things
  • If you spend any amount of time using a wiki–or, for example, services such as Flickr or delicious, where you can tag and organize your material in a variety of different ways–then sooner or later entropy will tend to set in.  It can be hard to find things
  • If you spend any amount of time using a wiki–or, for example, services such as Flickr or delicious, where you can tag and organize your material in a variety of different ways–then sooner or later entropy will tend to set in.  It can be hard to find things
  • Vanessa Vaile on 22 Jan 10
     
    If you spend any amount of time using a wiki-or, for example, services such as Flickr or delicious, where you can tag and organize your material in a variety of different ways-then sooner or later entropy will tend to set in. It can be hard to find things....Wiki folk have a metaphor that's handy to think about: wiki gardening. You cut a little here, move a little there
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    for some reason Diigo highlighting is not working on this page
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    when tagging this page, the highlighting tool did not appear to be working but was, which resulting in the same note being repeated over and over ~ something to watch for when tagging.
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Top Tools For Tracking Topics on the Web - 0 views

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  • Tracking topics on the Web can be a painful process, due to the amount of noise and difficulty of filtering it. So to help you out, we've selected and categorized the leading topic-tracking tools. This is based on the discussion that arose from our earlier post about topic feeds, which are RSS feeds for keywords or phrases.
  • Google Alerts.
  • Topikality
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  • ReadWriteWeb!
  • light blogging services
  • Posterous
  • Google Fast-Flip feeds
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Does the Internet Promote New Forms of Communication? | HASTAC - 0 views

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  • It is often remarked that email causes many problems because people often send emails as if it were oral communication (with a loose form of control) and receive them as if they are written communication (as if they are carefully crafted).  
  • ead by both "audience members" and the "author," and in different ways and in different
  • contexts.
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  • The speech act that is Internet communication is remarkably complex and comes with a variety of situational and cultural rules. 
  • locked-in syndrome
  • (Do we write in a different way with a pen than with a keyboard? In 140 characters?  In a term paper versus a blog?
  • who creates the protocols of communication and how
  • really unpack what communication and what it does on its most fundamental levels.
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Marginal Revolution: *You are Not a Gadget* - 0 views

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  • humanist critic of how the internet is shaping our lives and cultures
  • Of all the books with messages in this direction, it is the one I would describe as insightful.
  • I disgree too. I was there for the good old digital days, and I don't miss them a bit. Web 2.0 is far more inclusive than anything that has come before.
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  • I disgree too. I was there for the good old digital days, and I don't miss them a bit. Web 2.0 is far more inclusive than anything that has come before. The unwashed masses are welcome, I say.
  • having to manage one's reputation via a website seems very preferable to having to do so via fist fight, church and family proxies.
  • Countless hives permeate the net.
  • Vanessa Vaile on 18 Jan 10
     
    new book by Jaron Lanier, a humanist critic of how the internet is shaping our lives and cultures and providing a new totalizing ideology. Plus reviews & comments
  • Vanessa Vaile on 18 Jan 10
     
    Graff wrote of teaching and the culture wars, "teach the differences"
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Main Page - Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching and Technology - 0 views

projects.coe.uga.edu/...index.php

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    "Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching, and Technology" ~ SECTIONS on Learning and Cognitive Theories, Learner-Centered Theories, Inquiry Strategies: Tasks, Inquiry Strategies: Changing Learners' Minds, Tools for Teaching and Learning: Changing or Encouraging Human Behaviors, Tools for Teaching and Learning: Technology Tools, Socially Oriented Theories, Direct Instruction Strategies
  • Vanessa Vaile on 16 Jan 10
     
    Wiki book licensed under Creative Commons: "Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching, and Technology." Sections on learning and teaching theory,teaching strategies, tools,
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Computer Mediated Instruction - Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching and Technology - 0 views

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    wiki for University of Georgia project on on Computer Mediated Instruction
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Main Page - Semantic Web Standards - 0 views

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  • In addition to the classic “Web of documents” W3C is helping to build a technology stack to support a “Web of data,”
  • The term “Semantic Web” refers to W3C’s vision of the Web of linked data
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