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click! Photography Changes Everything - 2 views

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  • Beatriz Lupiano on 06 May 10
     
    Part of the Smithsonian Photography Initiative: a collection of essays and stories about how photography helps to shape our culture and our lives
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monopolies of invention « Bethany Nowviskie - 0 views

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  • Consciously ignoring disparities in the institutional status of your collaborators is just as bad as being unthinkingly complicit in the problems these disparities create.
  • This is because of the careless way your disregard reads to the people it damages.
  • the lost souls euphemistically referred to as “contingent labor;”
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  • service personnel. This latter group includes programmers, sysadmins, instructional technologists, and credentialed librarians and cultural heritage workers.
  • There is another reason, beyond discomfort, that we don’t really talk about how status factors in collaborative work.
  • they highlight the degree to which new works of scholarship are the work of many hands,
  • the digital humanities bring into focus any failure to acknowledge our collaborators appropriately
  • The problem was this professor’s assertion of a right — granted to lead faculty members on collaborative research projects by our institutional policies — to intellectual property over the whole concept of our shared work.
  • the category of “work for hire,” no matter how intellectually rich and critical to the project these contributions were
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Academics and Social Media: #mla09 and Twitter - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher E... - 1 views

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shared by Vanessa Vaile on 19 Apr 10 - Cached
  • One category of informal gatherings this year was the “Tweetup” — a meeting of convention attendees who happened to be using the micro-blogging social media tool Twitter.
  • What makes this development significant is the (still, unfortunately) marginal and somewhat disreputable status of social media in academia:
  • via our own Twitter account, ProfHacker solicited answers to the following question: “How did Twitter affect (positively or negatively) your experience of #MLA09?”
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  • In the second, the commenter chose to address a different social media tool: the English Job Search Wiki.
  • one new internet phenomenon that does prove useful — for people on both the hiring and applying ends of the job market — is the English Job Search Wiki.
  • Now that I see the power of Twitter for communicating with MLA members, convention attendees, and other interested people, I will think about more ways the MLA can promote conversations that extend well beyond the walls of the cities in which we meet.
  • But buried within the sense that the 140-character form trivializes our work — a complaint about condensation that might not be so far removed from faulting poetry for its failure to present extended realist narratives — is an implied concern about who it is that sees us being trivial.
  • a key form of outreach
  • not just to our colleagues but to the broader intellectual public, and to those whom we need to support higher education
  • until we get over our fears of talking with the broader culture, in the forms that we share with them, we’ll never manage to convince them that what we do is important.
  • Because of the network I created for myself on Twitter, I was able to sit in a packed conference room, listening to a panel full of people I already knew (in a virtual space, who later became people I knew in meatspace) talk to a room full of people I already knew, about issues I understood were directly affecting those real people. Twitter made my conference experience much more real.
  • The year’s lesson in twittering at conferences, for me, is that context is all. We’re still figuring out how media that are at once synchronous and asynchronous, and audiences that are at once present and absent, fit into our comfortable conference-going habits.
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Life Under An #Ashtag: Online Networking My Way Home From Europe | techPresident - 0 views

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  • I don’t feel like a displaced person, but more like a ball being buoyed by an invisible network of friends and strangers, all connecting to me and with each other via the Internet.
  • Does it make sense to rely on one’s online social network in times of crisis?
  • But at every moment, whether I was hearing from friends or strangers, I was comforted knowing that people were looking out for me. And I got a lot of useful answers when I needed them.
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  • what failed this past week was not the Internet, but corporate and government agency websites. They’ve been rendered useless by this crisis because they operate under a no-fail rule: nothing can be posted on them unless cleared from above
  • By contrast, the networked public sphere of bloggers, friends and strangers grouping around hashtags and online social networks, has been doing what it always does: sharing information, offering support, highlighting problems and improvising solutions.
  • fluid, open and collaborative,
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PROOF that Wordle can help you edit - 1 views

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    more editing with Wordle
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Heim Binas Fiction: Wordle. - 0 views

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  • a concordance as presented by a word cloud gives greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text
  • word clouds to find unexpected language
  • a suggestion for beginning writers that uses this program. Wordle your work-in-progress, then look at it. Is it what you expected? Are the names of some characters HUGE, when in fact you didn't think they got that much time on the page? Do you use fiction's "meaningless words" too often: apparently, very, or really? Or perhaps some good news... a theme of your book appears to you, written but unnoticed until now. It's suprisingly cool how much this reveals about your use of language.
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adVancEducation: Modeling your PLN: Backchanneling with Students - 2 views

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  • PLN, or Personal Learning Network
  • what we envisage involves colleagues sharing information in a social network or community of practice
  • Scott Leslie's nice collection of PLE diagrams: http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/PLE+Diagrams
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  • one of the ten paradigm shifts that I think educators must make as they move into facilitating learning in the 21st century
  • we should be teaching as 21st century life skills: creativity, communication, collaboration
  • The problem is where networks might collide
  • distracting clutter
  • LISTS
  • Edmodo
  • Edmodo
  • Etherpad
  • why we'd want to backchannel with students
  • a classic: http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2008/twitter-for-academia/
  • This post therefore is yet another example of how a PLN works
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ToolsZone - 4 views

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  • Beatriz Lupiano on 02 Apr 10
     
    One of the pages in the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies (c4lpt) website listing tools for learning in a very clear and organised way. According to the site, about 70% of the tools listed are free
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LearningTimes Green Room » Blog Archive » LTGR Ep. #74 - "Nancy White on Comm... - 1 views

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  • Beatriz Lupiano on 27 Mar 10
     
    Special edition podcast previous to their conference in mid-March 2010. Nancy White explains her views on e-communities and f2f communities around the central theme of whether communities for learning are possible and if so, how.
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Getting Students to Do the Reading: Pre-Class Quizzes on Wordpress - ProfHacker.com - 1 views

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  • learning as a two-step process: First there’s the transfer of information (from a source of knowledge, like an instructor, to the student), then there’s the assimilation of that information by the student
  • students need to have their first exposure to the course material happen some other way—like reading their textbook
  • in all fields, there’s still the challenge of motivating students to actually do the pre-class readings
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  • short, online reading quizzes consisting of open-ended questions that are due several hours before class starts to do the job.  Most of the quiz questions are meant to help students focus on and make some sense of key concepts
  • Students submit answers to these questions online before class, and I grade their quizzes on effort.
  • pre-class reading quizzes allow me to practice what is often called “just-in-time teaching.”
  • pre-class reading quiz questions as a clicker question during class,
  • how do I implement these quizzes?
  • local course management system, but I found the system to cumbersome
  • I find it much easier to post course documents to a WordPress blog, and I like that it makes my course more open to those not enrolled in it. 
  • I create a Facebook fan page for each of my courses
  • that pulls in the course blog content via RSS
  • So I now post my pre-class reading quizzes on my course blogs, tagged with a “PCRQ” for easy locating
  • default comments feature on WordPress to have students reply to them.  This meant that students could read each other’s answers, which, for these questions, only enhanced the learning experience
  • So I looked around for a way to have students comment on posts semi-privately—where I could see their comments but they couldn’t see each other’s comments.  I found a WordPress plug-in called, appropriately, Semi-Private Comments!  (Plug-ins—yet another reason I prefer WordPress to a course management system.) 
  • he main limitation is that it doesn’t help me grade those quizzes
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100 Video Sites Every Educator Should Bookmark | AccreditedOnlineColleges.org - 3 views

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    "By Alvina Lopez It doesn't matter if you're a veteran teacher or a newbie just now taking college courses - finding new ways to get students engaged in the classroom is always a great thing. One way many teachers are reaching out is with the multitude of material found on the web, allowing them to turn everyday lessons into a multimedia experience. You can find a great amount of helpful material on these sites, including videos to augment your lessons, lectures to inspire students, documentaries to show them how things work, and loads of additional videos to help you become a better, smarter teacher."
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