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On Monday 8 September 2014, the Nal'ibali reading-for-enjoyment campaign, in partnership with Mxit Reach, will launch a literacy app. The Mxit social networking platform, which has five million monthly users, will allow anyone with a mobile handset to help put their children on the path to educational success with access to regular stories, literacy tips and support

Great idea. Part of a lots of creative digital projects taking advantage of the interest of child for mobile phones and permanent connection

"global virtual culture-historical encyclopaedia www.nekropole.info/en in which any person could record their memories about their ancestors, family members and other close and important people." At present, on more than 14.0 million pages the website holds data on more than 3.85 million persons. More than 131,000 sites of burial grounds have been added and marked on the maps. The website continues to grow and is constantly technically improved. Today, the information can be recorded in 8 languages: English, Russian, German, French, Polish, Latvian, Lithuanian, and Hebrew.

"The results further showed that 64.8% of households in South Africa had no access to the Internet. Of those households that had access to the Internet, 16.3% accessed it via cellphone, 8.6% from home, 5.6% from elsewhere and 4.7% from work."

It's unfortunate that South Africa is still plagued by inequality. While it is good that some are accessing the web via mobile, ideally more efforts would be done to create infrastructure to serve entire communities.

8 elements of digital literacy This video has merit despite the some of the distractions which divert the viewers' attention from the valuable content. Belshaw's introduction of his topic and objectives are clearly identified when he's in the street, he then walks into a building (at an accelerated time speed), sits down to describes the difference between the traditional mode of literacy found in print and books to that of digital media e.g. smart phones. This works well until he's suddenly in a railway station and later back in the street with all the commotion linked to these settings. This makes it very difficult to hear what is being said. However, his re-cap of at the end is helpful. Although reading and writing is necessary in both traditional and digital milieus, this is in figurative sense with the digital setting. There are numerous definitions for digital literacy (DL), but he describes digital literacy as being "a social linguist construct" rather than an intellectual concept. He describes an intersection between information and digital literacy. DL is divided into 8 elements: Cultural, Cognitive, Constructive, Communicative, Confident, Creative, Critical and Civic. The order of importance of the elements is dependent on the context in which the DL is found. There is no one correct choice as geography and networks have an impact.

El documento tiene por objetivo compartir experiencias de enseñanza, aprendizaje e investigación educativa en la incorporación de Recursos Educativos Abiertos (REA) en la practica docente. Abordando los temas básicos de estrategias cognitivas, estilos de aprendizaje y enseñanza, así como los retos inherentes en el uso de tecnología y los desafíos que se tienen en el proceso de apropiación tecnológica, descubriéndose nuevas habilidades en la práctica educativa que potencian el aprendizaje significativo en el salón de clase.

El documento tiene por objeto compartir experiencias de enseñanza, aprendizaje e investigación educativa en la incorporación de Recursos Educativos Abiertos (REA) en la practica docente.

"...we need to recognize you can't kill the instinct the technology produces. We can only criminalize it. We can't stop our kids from using it. We can only drive it underground. We can't make our kids passive again. We can only make them, quote, "pirates." And is that good?" - Larry Lessig This is a great talk about the free use of materials to make something new. The crux of Mr Lessig's argument is that every time a "kid" remixes a song with a video they are committing a criminal act. By doing this the law is making their free expression criminal. He shows three great examples of this starting at 8:29 in the video. He suggests that by using Creative Commons materials, we can avoid being criminals, and by doing this we can break the cartel of the RIAA and others. He uses the example of BMI causing the downfall of ASCAP. You can see this at 4:55 in the video. Here is the quote: "Finally. Before the Internet, the last great terror to rain down on the content industry was a terror created by this technology [Shows a picture of a broadcast radio antenna]. Broadcasting: a new way to spread content, and therefore a new battle over the control of the businesses that would spread content. Now, at that time, the entity, the legal cartel, that controlled the performance rights for most of the music that would be broadcast using these technologies was ASCAP. They had an exclusive license on the most popular content, and they exercised it in a way that tried to demonstrate to the broadcasters who really was in charge. So, between 1931 and 1939, they raised rates by some 448 percent, until the broadcasters finally got together and said, okay, enough of this. And in 1939, a lawyer, Sydney Kaye, started something called Broadcast Music Inc. We know it as BMI. And BMI was much more democratic in the art that it would include within its repertoire, including African American music for the first time in the repertoire. But most important was that BMI took public domain works a

Os mando un enlace en donde se puede encontrar informacion basica sobre como operar en Internet. En la opcion "Aprender por internet" se detalla los cursos por internet e incluso se sugiere como crear uno. 1. Introducción 5. Correo electrónico 9. Aprender en Internet 2. Conexión a Internet 6. Comunicarse on-line 10. Seguridad en Internet 3. Los navegadores 7. Foros y Grupos de discusión 11. Blogs y CMS 4. Los buscadores 8. Comprar en Internet 12. Web 2.0 y Redes sociales

Micah Lee's whitepaper on open source encryption tools available in an post-snowden era.

Micah Lee's whitepaper on open source encryption tools available in an post-snowden era.

Para el 23 de octubre!! Os copio el resumen de la presentacion de estas jornadas; " La Universitat de Barcelona y la Universidad Complutense de Madrid organizan dos jornadas dirigidas a los investigadores sobre acceso abierto a la producción científica y a los datos de investigación, en el marco del proyecto FOSTER (Facilitate Open Science Training for European Research). Estas jornadas se celebran en Barcelona y en Madrid durante la Semana de Acceso Abierto (20-25 de octubre de 2014). FOSTER es un proyecto europeo, financiado por el FP7, en el que participan 13 socios procedentes de 8 países europeos. El principal objetivo de FOSTER es establecer un programa de formación que ayude a los investigadores, especialmente a los jóvenes investigadores, bibliotecarios universitarios y otros implicados a adoptar los principios y políticas de acceso abierto para crear y compartir conocimiento conforme al programa Horizonte 2020 y al European Research Area (ERA)."

Documento del gobierno Español en el que se da cuenta de lo que incluye la alfabetización informacional y a donde apunta esta metodología. Su lectura es fácil y sumamente interesante.

A Review of Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet Lisa NakamuraLondon: Routledge, 2002 ISBN: 0415938376 $18.95 pp. 192 Review by Samantha Blackmon Purdue University Lisa Nakamura's Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet aims to interrogate how the Internet shapes and reshapes our perceptions of race, ethnicity, and identity.

"This small pilot study suggests that the article creation process may more closely mirror the traditional writer/editor process than it does the "crowd as writer-editor". It also raises questions about potential changes in how people view the content creation process."

How the Internet has evolved to effect our society in terms of collaboration, government, participation, intellectual property, content, and information as a whole

Open Access book - Opening Science: the evolving guide on how the internet is changing research, collaboration and scholarly publishing / edited by Sonke Bartling and Sascha Friesike. 2014