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Chatbox - Project collaboration inside Dropbox - 1 views

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shared by bkozlek on 18 May 11 - No Cached
  • bkozlek on 18 May 11
     
    fruits of a weekend project from a team of developers. Cool idea and execution.
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In Silicon Valley, Buying Companies for Their Engineers - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Cole Camplese on 18 May 11 - No Cached
  • Some technology blogs call it being “acqhired.” The companies doing the buying say it is a talent acquisition, and it typically comes with a price per head.
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northern voice 2011 jam session | D'Arcy Norman dot net - 0 views

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  • Cole Camplese on 18 May 11
     
    Link to the panel discussion on DS106 Radio from Northern Voice.
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Tim Harford's Adapt: How to fund research so that it generates insanely great ideas, no... - 2 views

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shared by gary chinn on 17 May 11 - No Cached
  • What did Capecchi do? He took the NIH's money, and, ignoring their admonitions, he poured almost all of it into his risky gene-targeting project. It was, he recalls, a big gamble. If he hadn't been able to show strong enough initial results in the three-to-five-year time scale demanded by the NIH, they would have cut off his funding. Without their seal of approval, he might have found it hard to get funding from elsewhere. His career would have been severely set back, his research assistants looking for other work. His laboratory might not have survived.In 2007, Mario Capecchi was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine for this work on mouse genes. As the NIH's expert panel had earlier admitted, when agreeing to renew his funding: "We are glad you didn't follow our advice."
  • Whichever way they sliced the data, Azoulay, Manzo and Zivin found evidence that the more open-ended, risky HHMI grants were funding the most important, unusual, and influential research. HHMI researchers, apparently no better qualified than their NIH-funded peers, were far more influential, producing twice as many highly cited research articles. They were more likely to win awards and more likely to train students who themselves won awards.
  • The HHMI researchers also produced more failures; a higher proportion of their research papers were cited by nobody at all. No wonder: The NIH program was designed to avoid failure, while the HHMI program embraced it. And in the quest for truly original research, some failure is inevitable.
  • gary chinn on 17 May 11
     
    not specific to education at all, but a fascinating & well-written article about innovation, risk-taking and societal choices.
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Economics Game Ramp Up: Effective Achievements - Zac Zidik - 6 views

www.personal.psu.edu/...up-effective-achievements.html psuegc psutlt games design
shared by Cole Camplese on 15 May 11 - No Cached
  • The real challenge in designing this game will be designing it so that there are many paths to success and and many paths to failure with all the mediums inbetween, while continually keeping the player informed on how they are doing in regards to the "expected achievements."
  • Cole Camplese on 15 May 11
     
    Good post from Zac on design elements for game achievments.
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Online learning: The necessity and promise - 1 views

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  • Jamie Oberdick on 14 May 11
     
    "Rows of desks, teacher lectures, and passive learning won't lift us into the future. We need a serious, national discussion on what the 21st century classroom can and should look like, acknowledging the variety of ways that students learn, the multitude of tools they use to interact with the world, and the growing use of online learning."
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In college, it's not so much who lectures as how the teaching is done, Nobelist's study... - 2 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...AFbGFH1G_story.html clickers Teaching science
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  • He found that in nearly identical classes, Canadian college students learned a lot more from teaching assistants using interactive tools than they did from a veteran professor giving a traditional lecture. The students who had to engage interactively using the TV remote-like devices scored about twice as high on a test compared to those who heard the normal lecture, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science.
  • gary chinn on 13 May 11
     
    story about clicker use that vicki williams found. I'd be less inclined to think it was that big a deal (it's only one study, not a meta-analysis, etc), but it's being published in Science is huge in terms of visibility.
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Is Your School Ready for Google's Chromebooks for Education? | MindShift - 2 views

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  • Are Your Teachers Ready? Successful one-to-one computing initiatives aren’t as simple as just passing out devices to each student. One-to-one computing requires rethinking how instruction happens, how resources are accessed and allocated. Are your school’s teachers ready for not just one-to-one computing — a huge shift in itself — but for one-to-one computing that’s solely focused on Web resources? Are you using Web-based applications, for example? How much does your school rely on software installed on machines, and can you make the transition to other online tools instead?
  • gary chinn on 13 May 11
     
    aimed at k12 readership (as far as I can tell, anyway), but brings up some interesting points.
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DNA/How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet - 1 views

www.douglasadams.com/...19990901-00-a.html ci597 disruption psuhack technology internet
shared by Cole Camplese on 11 May 11 - Cached
  • I suppose earlier generations had to sit through all this huffing and puffing with the invention of television, the phone, cinema, radio, the car, the bicycle, printing, the wheel and so on, but you would think we would learn the way these things work, which is this: 1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal; 2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it; 3) anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.
  • In other words the cost of connection is rapidly approaching zero, and for a very simple reason: the value of the web increases with every single additional person who joins it. It’s in everybody’s interest for costs to keep dropping closer and closer to nothing until every last person on the planet is connected.
  • Another problem with the net is that it’s still ‘technology’, and ‘technology’, as the computer scientist Bran Ferren memorably defined it, is ‘stuff that doesn’t work yet.’ We no longer think of chairs as technology, we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‘crash’ when we tried to use them. Before long, computers will be as trivial and plentiful as chairs (and a couple of decades or so after that, as sheets of paper or grains of sand) and we will cease to be aware of the things. In fact I’m sure we will look back on this last decade and wonder how we could ever have mistaken what we were doing with them for ‘productivity.’
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  • The same thing is happening in communication technology. Most of us are stumbling along in a kind of pidgin version of it, squinting myopically at things the size of fridges on our desks, not quite understanding where email goes, and cursing at the beeps of mobile phones. Our children, however, are doing something completely different. Risto Linturi, research fellow of the Helsinki Telephone Corporation, quoted in Wired magazine, describes the extraordinary behaviour kids in the streets of Helsinki, all carrying cellphones with messaging capabilities. They are not exchanging important business information, they’re just chattering, staying in touch. "We are herd animals," he says. "These kids are connected to their herd – they always know where it’s moving." Pervasive wireless communication, he believes will "bring us back to behaviour patterns that were natural to us and destroy behaviour patterns that were brought about by the limitations of technology."
  • Cole Camplese on 11 May 11
     
    Great piece by the late Douglas Adams in 1999.  So true in the rearview mirror!
  • bkozlek on 11 May 11
     
    An 11 year old text, the message of which still needs to be delivered to many people today.
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Portal 2 Authoring Tools open to everyone - 1 views

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  • The Portal 2 Authoring Tools include versions of the same tools we used to make Portal 2. They'll allow you to create your own singleplayer and co-op maps, new character skins, 3D models, sound effects, and music.
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Chromebook - 2 views

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  • bkozlek on 11 May 11
     
    More information about the just launched chromebook. Watch the guided tour. 
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ChromeBooks For Education Priced At $20 Per Month - 0 views

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  • ChromeBooks, centralized, almost entirely cloud-based machines by Google, will be available for students and schools at $20/per month/per user, enabling full updates, central login controls, and a central administrator panel to handle users and control access. The price includes a web console, full support, warranty and replacements, and how-tos along with free updates. They will be available on June 15 and offer many of the same features available in Chromebooks for Business.
  • bkozlek on 11 May 11
     
    There is something appealing about a purely cloud based machine. Potential for huge savings in IT costs.
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Web Search: Teaching and Learning with Technology: Using Apps to Enhance Learning for U... - 8 views

jimjansen.blogspot.com/...-learning-with-technology.html tltfacultyfellow psutlt
shared by Cole Camplese on 10 May 11 - No Cached
  • Honestly, there is already a lot on my plate with teaching and research; however, I just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to work with Cole Camplese, Allan Gyorke, Brad Kozlek, and the rest of the TLT folks. (Note: Cole is a definite ‘early adopter’ and teaches a very popular course at Penn State on disruptive technologies.)
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Stay N Alive: Twitter and Facebook Both Quietly Kill RSS, Completely - 3 views

www.staynalive.com/...acebook-both-quietly-kill.html twitter rss facebook open standards
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  • Cole Camplese on 10 May 11
     
    While I agree to a degree, there are lots if people I still subscribe to b/c they choose to not be a part of twitter or fb. That and quite a bit of what I read is related to the joys of HE administration and no one links to that stuff!
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William James and Rethinking the Global Research University - WorldWise - The Chronicle... - 0 views

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shared by Jeff Swain on 09 May 11 - No Cached
  • I have been frustrated by the dramatic increase in specialization that has taken hold across so many disciplines. Since I first started in academe more and more journals have sprouted which seem to say more and more about less and less, each with their own attendant group of acolytes.
    • Jeff Swain
      Jeff Swain on 09 May 11
       
      you can read the essay here http://des.emory.edu/mfp/octopus.html
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Why You Should Think Twice About Opting-In to the Delicious-AVOS Transfer | ZDNet - 1 views

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shared by Robin Smail on 09 May 11 - No Cached
  • Robin Smail on 09 May 11
     
    I realize this is Violet Blue, but still, it's a good reminder that when a service changes hands, it's more than likely the TOS will change, too. Now that I've moved, I'm really not that interested in maintaining bookmarks in both. 
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Built-in video editor for Team Fortress 2 - 0 views

www.teamfortress.com/replayupdate games video
shared by bartmon on 06 May 11 - No Cached
  • bartmon on 06 May 11
     
    Kind of wild...TF2 now has the ability to not only record your in-game footage, but now edit it as well with some custom tech. Even more interesting, you can toggle the camera from FPS view, to 3rd person view, to a 'free roam' view, allowing you to get different angles out of replay. Figures they also have direct links to YouTube, tied the video making/editing to achievements, as well as offering special in-game items if youtube vids hit certain view thresholds.
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How Do We Prepare Kids for Jobs We Can't Imagine Yet? Teach Imagination - Education - GOOD - 3 views

www.good.is/...-imagine-yet-teach-imagination creativity education imagination Teaching
shared by gary chinn on 06 May 11 - No Cached
  • Instead of simply putting their research on how to foster imagination, creativity, and conceptual thinking into a report, King and Fouts decided to create a free, easy-to-use web portal that's full of the ideas and solutions that they've found work best. Interestingly, instead of the model of individual success and standardized test taking that currently exists in schools, the education approaches they've found best foster imagination also teach kids to collaborate to solve problems.
  • gary chinn on 06 May 11
     
    I like the idea behind the project, as well as the portal-style organization. fun to take a look at some of these.
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