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Jonathan Becker

Viral Texts | Mapping Networks of Reprinting in 19th-Century Newspapers and Magazines - 0 views

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  • Jonathan Becker on 03 Apr 15
     
    "Mapping Networks of Reprinting in 19th-Century Newspapers and Magazines" Really cool digital humanities project
sanamuah

Online Test-Takers Feel Anti-Cheating Software's Uneasy Glare - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Proctortrack, however, seems to impose more onerous strictures on students than a live proctor would. Among other things, it requires students to sit upright and remain directly in front of their webcams at all times, according to guidelines posted on the company’s site.“Changes in lighting can flag your test for a violation,” the guidelines say. And, “Even stretching, looking away, or leaning down to pick up your pencil could flag your test.”
Joyce Kincannon

What Makes an Online Instructional Video Compelling? (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE.edu - 0 views

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  • Joyce Kincannon on 18 Apr 15
     
    "A major affordance of video is the ability to produce multimedia elements and create dynamic learning artifacts. This may be self-evident, yet often instructional videos are produced without much design devoted to sound or imagery. Students repeatedly described the audio/visual elements of video as useful aspects of online course videos. Throughout the interviews, all participants evaluated charts, graphs, photographs, and other visuals relevant to the content area in positive terms. Conversely, a couple of students voiced their dissatisfaction with videos that they did not perceive as a value-add over text (they said videos they viewed did not include useful audio/visuals and that they could have just as easily read a transcript for the same information)."
Enoch Hale

Why 'Nudges' to Help Students Succeed Are Catching On - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 2 views

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  • It can also be used to redesign systems so that they’re easier to navigate in the first place.
  • A nudge, like the text-message reminders that helped students make the transition to college, offers a workaround to help people get through a complex system,
  • A nudge, they explained, encourages — but does not mandate — a certain behavior: think putting healthier options at eye level in the cafeteria.
  • ...10 more annotations...
  • Researchers have used a series of text messages like this one to "nudge" students to complete important tasks like filing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. The researchers, Ben Castleman and
  • He says there are two aspects of behavioral work: trying to solve a behavioral problem, and doing so with a behavioral solution.
  • Social psychologists are interested in how people make sense of an experience, which can in turn direct their behavior.
  • "We begin a step back in the causal process," Mr. Walton says. As a result, social psychology’s interventions often strive to change how students see the social world around them, or actually change that world — for instance, by having teachers frame their feedback differently.
  • The approach is elegant, creative, and aligned with common sense.
  • It’s possible some people would argue that we act like completely rational beings, but probably not anyone who spends a lot of time around college students.
  • Given their low cost, behavioral solutions often appealing to funders and policy makers.
  • But the flip side of the coin is that such low-cost solutions cannot replace other, pricier efforts to improve college access and success.
  • Higher education presents a "perfect storm for the frailties of human reasoning," Mr. Kelly says. "The system often seems set up to frustrate people."
  • Critics of efforts to simplify or inform students’ choices often say that college isn’t meant to be easy. If someone cannot successfully apply for financial aid, maybe that person doesn’t belong in college. Researchers typically respond by saying they are working to help students through the pesky tasks on the periphery of going to college. Filing the Fafsa — which, incidentally, the most advantaged students don’t have to deal with — isn’t meant to be an admissions test.
  • Tom Woodward on 03 Feb 16
     
    I wish I could automate some things like this in rampages . . . like if you do a bare URL that doesn't link . . . I'd like to auto comment with some directions on how to make a link. Seems doable in terms of programming.
Jonathan Becker

Reacting to the Past - 0 views

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  • Jonathan Becker on 03 Feb 16
     
    "Reacting to the Past (RTTP) consists of elaborate games, set in the past, in which students are assigned roles informed by classic texts in the history of ideas. Class sessions are run entirely by students; instructors advise and guide students and grade their oral and written work. It seeks to draw students into the past, promote engagement with big ideas, and improve intellectual and academic skills. Reacting to the Past was honored with the 2004 Theodore Hesburgh Award (TIAA-CREF) for outstanding innovation in higher education. "
sanamuah

Letter: What We've Learned - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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  • We’re obviously no longer limited to the printed page, but we are still influenced by the many years in which we were. So long blocks of text are still often the default way to convey information.
sanamuah

Circles Sines and Signals - Introduction - 1 views

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d3.js explorable+explanations

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  • This text is designed to accompany your study of introductory digital signal processing.1 It’s an eccentric piece of not-so-rigorous literature with a preoccupation for explaining things using interactive visualizations, animations and sound.
  • sanamuah on 20 Apr 15
     
    In the vein of Bret Victor's Explorable Explanations, this site uses several interactive visualizations to explain complex topics
  • Tom Woodward on 20 Apr 15
     
    Great example. He even references Victor's Magic Ink essay http://worrydream.com/#!/MagicInk
Tom Woodward

SoundCiteJS -- Northwestern University Knight Lab - 1 views

soundcite.knightlab.com

tool text audio knightlab

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  • Tom Woodward on 27 Jul 15
     
    "Inline audio players. Easy to make. Seamless to publish." h/t Stan
Tom Woodward

Crossfilter - 0 views

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  • Tom Woodward on 27 Jul 15
     
    "Crossfilter is a JavaScript library for exploring large multivariate datasets in the browser. Crossfilter supports extremely fast ( h/t Stan
Tom Woodward

Dictanote - Demo Note - 2 views

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  • Tom Woodward on 28 May 15
     
    Nice free transcription tool that works well with Google Docs
Yin Wah Kreher

BeeLine Reader: BeeLine Reader adds a color gradient to text to help you read faster an... - 0 views

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apps reading technology accessibility

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  • Yin Wah Kreher on 10 Apr 15
     
    BeeLine Reader makes reading faster and easier by using a color gradient that guides your eyes from the end of one line to the beginning of the next. With BeeLine Reader, you can finish your work faster-and with less eyestrain.
Tom Woodward

KBDeX - 1 views

www.kbdex.net

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  • Tom Woodward on 16 Dec 14
     
    h/t Laura via Jon
sanamuah

A Highlighter for Marking Up Whatever You Want Online | WIRED - 0 views

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highlighter marking online

shared by sanamuah on 12 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • Paste any website URL into Pith.li’s website and it’ll strip the content into a clean version that you can mark all over like a piece of paper. Your cursor acts as your marker, allowing you to highlight bits of text and make notes in the margins while saving your highlights in a tidy little box on the left side of your screen. The idea is that over time you’ll be able to build an easily accessible file of the most interesting stuff on the internet and be able to share just share those bits with whoever you want.
Enoch Hale

Why Do Many Reasonable People Doubt Science? - National Geographic Magazine - 0 views

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teaching learning barriers science

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  • Enoch Hale on 12 Mar 15
     
    "We live in an age when all manner of scientific knowledge-from climate change to vaccinations-faces furious opposition. Some even have doubts about the moon landing."
sanamuah

App Gives Students an Incentive to Keep Their Phones Locked in Class - Wired Campus - B... - 1 views

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3rdspace

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  • Resisting the urge to pull out your phone in class is quite difficult for many students, apparently. There are texts to answer, emails to read, snapchats to send, and rude comments to post on Yik Yak. But two students at California State University at Chico have created something they hope will persuade students to keep their phones tucked firmly in their pockets: An app that rewards them with coupons for local businesses when they exhibit self-control and leave their phones untouched during class.
Jonathan Becker

London's Big Dig Reveals Amazing Layers of History - National Geographic Magazine - 0 views

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london dig history natgeo multimodal composition

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  • Jonathan Becker on 26 Jan 16
     
    Beautiful, informative, multimodal composition.
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