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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Mathieu Plourde

Mathieu Plourde

Mapping the Future of Higher Education - 0 views

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    "The company announced that, for the first time, it generated more revenue from digital products than print. This seemed to go relatively unnoticed by most, likely because we all took the evolution for granted, but it is a key milestone in the ongoing reinvention of learning content for Higher Education."
Mathieu Plourde

Our Policy on Cookies and Tracking -e-Literate - 0 views

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    "In the wake of the Pearson social media monitoring controversy, edubloggers like Audrey Watters and D'arcy Norman have announced their policies regarding code that can potentially track users on their blogs. This is a good idea, so we are following their example."
Mathieu Plourde

Introducing TweetDeck Teams - 0 views

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    "Introducing TweetDeck Teams, a simple way to share access to your Twitter accounts without sharing passwords. The feature is starting to roll out today on TweetDeck for web, Chrome and Windows."
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No profit left behind - 0 views

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    "A POLITICO investigation has found that Pearson stands to make tens of millions in taxpayer dollars and cuts in student tuition from deals arranged without competitive bids in states from Florida to Texas. The review also found Pearson's contracts set forth specific performance targets - but don't penalize the company when it fails to meet those standards. And in the higher ed realm, the contracts give Pearson extensive access to personal student data, with few constraints on how it is used."
Mathieu Plourde

Richard Stallman's GNU Manifesto Turns Thirty - 1 views

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    "The GNU Manifesto is characteristic of its author-deceptively simple, lucid, explicitly left-leaning, and entirely uncompromising. He explains the point of the project in short, declarative sentences: "[A] user who needs changes in the system will always be free to make them himself, or hire any available programmer or company to make them for him. Users will no longer be at the mercy of one programmer or company which owns the sources and is in [the] sole position to make changes."
Mathieu Plourde

How to Stream Live Google Hangouts on Air to YouTube | Social Media Examiner - 0 views

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    "Google Hangouts on Air and YouTube offer the benefit of recording your event while showing it in multiple places at the same time. In this article you'll discover how to stream your next Google Hangout on Air to YouTube."
Mathieu Plourde

Who Spewed That Abuse? Anonymous Yik Yak App Isn't Telling - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "Yik Yak is the Wild West of anonymous social apps," said Danielle Keats Citron, a law professor at University of Maryland and the author of "Hate Crimes in Cyberspace." "It is being increasingly used by young people in a really intimidating and destructive way." Continue reading the main story Colleges are largely powerless to deal with the havoc Yik Yak is wreaking. The app's privacy policy prevents schools from identifying users without a subpoena, court order or search warrant, or an emergency request from a law-enforcement official with a compelling claim of imminent harm.
Mathieu Plourde

Teaching Excellence Video Series - 0 views

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    "In 2014, the Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning embarked on a research project to investigate elements of effective teaching and learning practice valued at Vancouver Island University (VIU). Our investigation resulted in conversations with faculty and students in defining the elements of teaching practice valued at VIU. Faculty from the existing Community of Scholarly Teaching Practice (CoSTP) and students from the VIU community were invited to contribute their ideas about regarding effective teaching and learning design and practice. These consultations have generated a list of themes which capture practices most valued at VIU. "
Mathieu Plourde

Has Technology Changed Us?: BBC Animations Answer the Question with the Help of Marshal... - 0 views

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    "In January, we featured series of short animations from BBC Radio 4 addressing the question "How Did Everything Begin?" In February, we featured its follow-up on an equally eternal question, "What Makes Us Human?" Both came scripted by Philosophy Bites co-creator Nigel Warburton and narrated by X-Files co-star Gillian Anderson (in full British mode). Now that March has come, so has the next installment of these brief, crisp, curiosity-fueled productions: "Has Technology Changed Us?""
Mathieu Plourde

How To Cite Social Media In Scholarly Writing - 0 views

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    "So when we saw the very useful teachbytes graphic above making some noise on pinterest on several different popular #edtech websites, it reminded us of the constant demands changing technologies place on existing ways we do business. When and in what contexts it makes sense to cite social media content is probably a more relevant post than sharing a graphic that simply shows the format, but they're both nice to have, yes?"
Mathieu Plourde

Andrew Marcum, Wanted Ohio Man, Openly Taunts Cops on Facebook - Then Gets Caught - NBC... - 0 views

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    "The Butler County Sheriff's page was updated Tuesday night with a mugshot of Marcum looking red-faced and apparently in tears. The department wrote that Marcum "will be off Facebook temporarily because there is no social media access in the Butler County Jail. He's turned himself in.""
Mathieu Plourde

How the TSA Handles Social Media - 0 views

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    The TSA might not be the first name you associate with savvy social marketers, but it's gained a wave of media attention (and 235,000 followers) since opening an Instagram account in June 2013. Every Friday, Burns-also known as Blogger Bob-posts a weekly blog that recaps all of the prohibited items found that week.
Mathieu Plourde

Wearable Computer Market Will Grow 38 Percent in 2015 -- Campus Technology - 0 views

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    "She said that Gartner foresess "strong growth" in wearables this year, with smartwatches, fitness bands and other trackers selling nearly 70 million units - up 38 percent from 2014. She added, "While the wearables market is currently a relatively low penetrated market, it has the opportunity to grow in double digits in the long term." Accordingly, Gartner forecasts sales of wearables to reach 514 million units in 2020. "
Mathieu Plourde

Senate moves forward on social media and employment bill - 0 views

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    "But the online application for the job included a space in which to enter one's Facebook account. The Navy man, who deliberately didn't have a Facebook account, left the space blank - which seemed to puzzle the company. "They said, 'Well, get a Facebook (account) and we'll interview you,' " Boquist recalled in her public testimony before a Senate committee on Feb. 18. "He said, 'I'm not going to have one.' So he did not get the interview.""
Mathieu Plourde

The Psychology of Social Media - 0 views

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    "What is it about screens that keeps our eyes transfixed and fingers a-tappin'? Psychologist Sherry Turkle, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of "Alone, Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other," explains what keeps us tangled up in tech."
Mathieu Plourde

The UnTextbook as a Path to Open Pedagogy | NextThought - 0 views

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    "You need to visit Laura's UnTextbook site to gain a full appreciation for the open content she has compiled for the course (and keeps compiling), and also to understand how it is representative of the future of openness, open content, and open pedagogy. While the UnTextbook certainly saves money for students, its real value is the way it opens the course structure and expands student learning networks."
Mathieu Plourde

What does it mean to be literate in the 21st century? - 0 views

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    "Even if students are "digital natives" it does not mean they know online information skills such as vetting valid and reliable sources. Students must be taught the new literacies. "
Mathieu Plourde

U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander: Federal Regulations Harmful to Universities - Higher Educ... - 1 views

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    U.S Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), said some federal regulations on education are draining universities of time and resources. He proposed pruning back some of those regulations in a committee meeting Tuesday morning.
Mathieu Plourde

Auburn may offer free textbooks for students - The Auburn Plainsman - 0 views

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    Presented by senators Walker Byrd and Justin Mathews, the proposal would provide students with free or inexpensive "open textbooks" through a nonprofit organization, OpenStax, based out of Rice University. "We as students should have purchasing power of the books we buy, but we don't," Byrd said. "The professors require a book and often times you have no control over how much that book is going to be."
Mathieu Plourde

FCC Approves Net Neutrality Rules For 'Open Internet' - 0 views

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    "The Federal Communications Commission approved the policy known as net neutrality by a 3-2 vote at its Thursday meeting, with FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler saying the policy will ensure "that no one - whether government or corporate - should control free open access to the Internet.""
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