Great way to offer tech support to students in an online course, by the great Laura Gibbs at U. of Oklahoma

Here's the course site for Mia Zamora's #WritingRace course.

" I am fortunate to be teaching a course this semester that I have successfully taught before and I have always loved to teach. I must admit that when it comes to my course rotation roster, I am always happy when it is time to teach this one. But, this semester, my new approach feels like I am hanging on a limb. I am uncertain. I feel vulnerable. I fear my experiment will fail. (Despite the fact that I know we really need to rethink this notion of failure.) So why do this? Because somewhere down in my gut I know that vulnerability is the heart of learning, and I know I need to learn too."

A novel made of GIFS! Enough said...

Really cool mapping tools. *THIS* is what computing + the Web affords by way of augmenting human intelligence.

" Virtually overnight, Reddit had created the world's largest two-way dialogue between scientists and the general public."

"They've shortened the company's name to Genius and secured $40 million in funding to plunge fully into a Silicon Valley "pivot": the transition from doing one thing better than anyone else-annotating rap lyrics-to doing something bigger and bolder-"annotating the world," a capaciously vague ambition that no one, themselves included, is certain they can pull off. Annotation has been a Silicon Valley dream since the invention of the first web browser, but it has yet to produce an elegant solution comparable to what Wikipedia did with the crowdsourced encyclopedia. The Genius founders see their platform as a means for enlightened discussion in contrast to the dark world of the internet comment. Users can upload a text, click on any word, and add whatever context they deem worthwhile."

I'm in @scott_bot's #nets workshop at #aha2015 #gsdh, largely because of what I saw @ChuckRybak doing with Dracula: http://t.co/Z9ARyyQ3kz

Twitter lists are incredibly useful. Making them has been incredibly painful. This is a good step forward...

"It is the simplicity of Seinfeld that makes it so appropriate for use in economics courses. Using these clips (as well as clips from other television shows or movies) makes economic concepts come alive, making them more real for students. Ultimately, students will start seeing economics everywhere - in other TV shows, in popular music, and most importantly, in their own lives."

"The Nifty Assignments session at the annual SIGCSE meeting is all about gathering and distributing great assignment ideas and their materials. For each assignment, the web pages linked below describe the assignment and provides materials -- handouts, starter code, and so on."

"PIRSA is a permanent, free, searchable, and citable archive of recorded seminars from relevant bodies in physics."

Don't miss the work of @scholarslab, @lisa_goff, and @RareUVA to #TakeBackTheArchive: http://t.co/I1Yft8je6A. #UVa

"Once you present OER to faculty, there's a real affinity and alignment of OER with faculty values. Jeff was surprised more about the potential of OER than he had thought going in. Unlike other technology-based subjects of BSRG studies, there is almost no suspicion of OER. Everything else BSRG has measured has had strong minority views from faculty against the topic (online learning in particular), with incredible resentment detected. This resistance or resentment is just not there with OER. It is interesting for OER, with no organized marketing plan per se, to have no natural barriers from faculty perceptions"