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Cole Camplese

Sharing Student Notes - Work and Stuff - 1 views

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psutlt notes

shared by Cole Camplese on 31 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • I think it would be cool to add a link in our new LMS where students could share their class notes online with the other students in the class. A rating system could percolate the best notes to the top and a search feature could possibly return a page of student notes using that word or phrase.
  • Cole Camplese on 31 Aug 11
     
    Interesting idea ... I've seen a lot of these kinds of features proposed in the emerging eText area.
  • Allan Gyorke on 03 Sep 11
     
    GradeGuru is specifically designed to do this. http://www.gradeguru.com/home We took a look at it. Interesting idea - ratings of quality notes and note takers with the ability for top performers to earn real rewards. They proposed a cost of something like $2/enrollment/semester though - just not a model that would work for us.
bartmon

Creating a Meaningful College Experience in an Era of Streamlining - Commentary - The C... - 1 views

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  • in many classrooms on today's traditional campuses, with class sizes in the hundreds of students, distance learning begins in the fifth row.
  • in many classrooms on today's traditional campuses, with class sizes in the hundreds of students, distance learning begins in the fifth row. At the same time, students spend much of their days holed up in their dorm rooms chatting with one another on Facebook. The opportunities to learn from other students and professors, in and out of class, are declining at the very time that we know such engagement is critical for learning.
  • We know students learn more when expectations are high and when feedback on what they need to do to improve is constant. I'm certain that my young friend, and his friends, would work harder if we expected it of them—but we don't.
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  • We have to decide what students should learn and then offer courses that will enable them to achieve the goals we have set. The smorgasbord that currently exists is inefficient, ineffective, and meets the whims of the faculty rather than the needs of the students.
  • bartmon on 28 Jun 11
     
    Good editorial on large class size and disengagement across large institutions. A very student-centered piece that rings true on a lot of fronts.
gary chinn

On the Benefits of Lectures - Brainstorm - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

chronicle.com/...36519

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  • gary chinn on 24 Jun 11
     
    this topic seems to come up every year, but at least this story is tied to a study. the comments are actually pretty interesting. might turn into a decent conversation.
Derek Gittler

The Perils of Classifying Social Media Platforms as Public Utilities | Mercatus - 1 views

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social social media platforms public utilities

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  • Derek Gittler on 26 Mar 12
     
    Social Media are not essential facilities. Those who claim that Facebook is a "social utility" or "social commons" must admit that such sites are not essential to survival, economic success, or online life. Unlike water and electricity, life can go on without social networking services.
Emily Rimland

Steve Hargadon: Live Tuesday Sept. 27th with Cecilia d'Oliveira from MIT's OpenCourseWare - 1 views

www.stevehargadon.com/...ay-sept-27th-with-cecilia.html

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  • Emily Rimland on 26 Sep 11
     
    Join me Tuesday, September 27th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Cecilia d'Oliveira, Executive Director, OpenCourseWare (OCW) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Cecilia was the technology director for OCW since 2002, and in 2008 was named executive director. She was also a winner of a 2010 WISE Award.
Erin Long

Desire2Learn Learning Suite Gaining Google+ Integration -- Campus Technology - 1 views

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  • Erin Long on 27 Jul 11
     
    Desire2Learn adds Google+ to its list of profile linking tools that already includes Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
Allan Gyorke

ODH Update - Announcing 32 New Start-Up Grant Awards (July 2011) - 1 views

www.neh.gov/...Up-Grant-Awards-July-2011.aspx

grants humanities crowdsourcing

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  • Allan Gyorke on 30 Jul 11
     
    "Museum of the City of New York -- New York, NY HD 51480, Improving Digital Record Annotation Capabilities with Open sourced Ontologies and Crowd sourced Workers Lacy Schutz, Project Director Outright: $50,000 To support: The development of methods and tools to facilitate the description of digitized primary sources by combining "crowdsourcing" tactics with linked open data and semantic Web technologies."
  • Allan Gyorke on 30 Jul 11
     
    Interesting list of grant awards in the humanities. The quoted one above jumped out at me, but there are plenty of other good ideas in there. I'd be interested to see what others think.
Cole Camplese

Heating Your House With A Hard Drive - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast - 1 views

andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/...download-while-you-dry-.html

shared by Cole Camplese on 30 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Channeling that excess heat could turn a regular old server into a “data furnace” that keeps homeowners warm in the winter, dries their clothes and heats their shower water.
bartmon

Startup Weebly takes profitable leap forward - 1 views

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  • At 7.5 million users, Weebly doesn't have the size or visibility of platforms like Tumblr (more than 25 million blogs) or WordPress (about 54 million). But Weebly, which tries to make it cheap and easy for businesses to create their own websites, now powers 2 percent of the Internet, according to research firm Netcraft.
  • They did it using a "freemium" model, giving away most services at no cost but charging for additional features.
  • Veltri, the chief operating officer, says that 51 percent of businesses still don't have a Web presence.
  • bartmon on 17 Aug 11
     
    Interesting for a few reasons. This was an IST class project in 2007 or 08, that led to 3 PSU students dropping out of school and driving across country to chase funding. They are also using the freemium model, a model that a lot of game companies adopted to turn net-loss IPs into profitable IPs the last few years. Finally, the stat "51% of business don't have a web presence" is surprising. I know a lot of small business don't have a presence (I'm looking at you, Watkins Glen hotels and wineries!), but 51% seems high.
  • bkozlek on 17 Aug 11
     
    only tangentially related: http://www.squarespace.com/ is another very impressive website hosted content management system.
Cole Camplese

Virtual and Artificial, but 58,000 Want Course - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...16stanford.html

open opencourseware ci597 psutlt Design

shared by Cole Camplese on 16 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • A free online course at Stanford University on artificial intelligence, to be taught this fall by two leading experts from Silicon Valley, has attracted more than 58,000 students around the globe — a class nearly four times the size of Stanford’s entire student body.
  • The three online courses, which will employ both streaming Internet video and interactive technologies for quizzes and grading, have in the past been taught to smaller groups of Stanford students in campus lecture halls. Last year, for example, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence drew 177 students.
  • How will the artificial intelligence instructors grade 58,000 students? The scientists said they would make extensive use of technology. “We have a system running on the Amazon cloud, so we think it will hold up,” Dr. Norvig said.
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  • Dr. Widom said that having Stanford courses freely available could both assist and compete with other colleges and universities. A small college might not have the faculty members to offer a particular course, but could supplement its offerings with the Stanford lectures.
  • Cole Camplese on 16 Aug 11
     
    Amazing trend happening with open and online courses. This is the second one of these I have heard about in a week. Maybe we need to try something similar with CI597?
  • gary chinn on 22 Aug 11
     
    good discussion about this course from CS faculty. they bring up some excellent points and have a healthy skepticism about the project: http://computinged.wordpress.com/2011/08/18/stanford-on-line-ai-course-draws-58000-but-is-it-real/
Cole Camplese

Summit explores uses of technology in the classroom - The Daily Collegian Online - 1 views

www.collegian.psu.edu/...chnology_in_the_classroom.aspx

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shared by Cole Camplese on 16 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • The College of the Liberal Arts teamed up with Educational Technology Services and University Libraries to offer LASTS, a day of panels and peer-to-peer discussions centered on incorporating technology with both teaching and research.
bartmon

Official Google Blog: Games in Google+: fun that fits your schedule - 1 views

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  • If you’re not interested in games, it’s easy to ignore them. Your stream will remain focused on conversations with the people you care about.
  • bartmon on 12 Aug 11
     
    Google is already taking some major flack about putting Games on Google+, mainly from people that don't want to re-live the Facebook spam days of Farmville and Mafia Wars. Looks like they're listening and trying to make the games transparent for those that don't want to play. Solid list of launch titles though, including Angry Birds, Zynga Poker and a Dragon Age game.
gary chinn

Now You See It: How the Science of Attention is Changing Work and Education | Brain Pic... - 1 views

www.brainpickings.org/...now-you-see-it-cathy-davidson

cognition learning education

shared by gary chinn on 22 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Davidson uses the insights from these experiments as a lens through which to examine the nature and evolution of attention, noting that the educational system is driven by very rigid expectations of what “attention” is and how it reflects “intelligence,” a system in which students who fail to meet these expectations and pay attention differently are pigeonholed somehow deficient of aberrant, square pegs in round holes. Yet neuroscience is increasingly indicating that our minds pay attention in a myriad different ways, often non-linear and simultaneous, which means that the academy and the workplace will have to evolve in parallel and transcend the 20th-century linear assembly-line model for eduction and work.
  • gary chinn on 22 Aug 11
     
    am currently reading 'brain rules' & 'how learning works,' and I think this book might be a good addition to the list.
Emily Rimland

Google's and Facebook's facial recognition opt-in policies are a smokescreen. - Slate M... - 1 views

www.slate.com/...licies_are_a_smokescreen_.html

privacy facialrecognition optin google facebook slate

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  • Emily Rimland on 21 Dec 11
     
    Great article that's about ethics of online technologies. Many of the analogies stuck me as similar to making sure technology enhances learning and not using it just for technology's sake.
Cole Camplese

Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

chronicle.com/...33010

chronicle closed blackboard mobilelearning mobile psutlt

shared by Cole Camplese on 30 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Sprint officials reasoned that colleges would flock to the free version of the software, Mobile Learn. And because only Sprint customers could use the software with Android, BlackBerry and Palm phones, college students would have a powerful incentive to sign up with Sprint.
    • Cole Camplese
      Cole Camplese on 30 Aug 11
       
      Really? Students would "flock to the free version of the software" ... if you've used the software, I don't quite know if that is the "f word" I'd use to describe it.
  • Sprint asked a judge to bar Blackboard from allowing its free iPhone and iPad versions to use wireless networks.
    • Cole Camplese
      Cole Camplese on 30 Aug 11
       
      You know, for the kids.
  • The exact amount is unclear, but Sprint will eventually owe more than $50-million that it has not already paid, Blackboard said in a court document. Sprint must pay Blackboard $2 per month for every student who has downloaded Mobile Learn for Sprint, in addition to millions in other fees, the document says.
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