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08 Dec 09

01 Dec 09

New IDF Web 2.0 unit to fight enemies on Facebook, Twitter - Haaretz - Israel News

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30 Nov 09

Web 2.0 Expo: Harshtags, Twecklers and the Silence of the Death Star | BatchBlue: Blog

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something seems to be changing in the conference world. In the past, they’ve been great places not only to learn from the leaders in your industry but to make connections, spark new friendships and form potential new partnerships. That sense of the hallway conversations being as important as the sessions themselves seems to be receding, largely because the conversations…aren’t really happening.
I’m all for the back-channel and having a spirited conversation about a presentation, but I can tell you that as a presenter, to have it broadcasted while you are presenting sucks, especially once the spammers and the trolls join in. There’s even a term now, “harshtag”, which is when people start tagging their related tweets with something insulting in order to get it to trend.
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- There’s something seriously wrong about a thousand people who won’t talk to each other in the hallways bonding together to silently mock presenters, who have taken time, energy and in many cases personal expense to come speak.
- Choose your venue carefully
- Don’t post the back-channel or moderate it if you do
- Attendees, find a more constructive way to voice dissent
- Put down your devices

25 Nov 09

Web 2.0 in the Classroom

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07 Nov 09

Times Higher Education - Next-gen PhDs fail to find Web 2.0's 'on-switch'

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only a small proportion of those surveyed are using technology such as virtual-research environments, social bookmarking, data and text mining, wikis, blogs and RSS-feed alerts in their work. This contrasts with the fact that many respondents professed to finding technological tools valuable.
Just under half of those polled used RSS feeds and only about 10 per cent used social bookmarking, with Generation Y students exhibiting the same behaviour as other age groups.

31 Oct 09

Digitally Speaking / Social Bookmarking and Annotating

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13 Oct 09

How To Convert Your Blog Articles Into Cool Videos

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07 Oct 09

The Innovative Educator: 5 Things You Can Do to Begin Developing Your Personal Learning Network

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06 Oct 09

The Wired Campus - ProfHacker Blog Highlights Widespread Interest in Teaching With Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education

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a site that wants to look at the intersection of productivity, technology, and pedagogy in higher education
showing that the barrier of entry to this new stuff is lower than it seems
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- One hundred percent of this stuff we bring into our own classroom. If the slogan for software development is to eat your own dog food, we are always eating our own dog food. These are our assignments, our best practices.

05 Oct 09

The Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education — 2009 | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

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The poll for this list — The Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education — 2009 — is located below this post, and closes on February 1, 2010. Please vote for no more than ten of the thirty-two sites listed. Please note that I’ll be listing these sites in my post from my pick from number thirty-two and ending at first place, but the poll is listed in the opposite order.

28 Sep 09

Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody

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television
watching? Two hundred billion hours, in the U.S. alone, every year.
Put another way, now that we have a unit, that's 2,000 Wikipedia projects a
year spent watching television. Or put still another way, in the
U.S., we spend 100 million hours every weekend, just watching the ads.
The physics of participation is much more like the physics of weather
than it is like the physics of gravity. We know all the forces that
combine to make these kinds of things work: there's an interesting
community over here, there's an interesting sharing model over
there, those people are collaborating on open source software. But
despite knowing the inputs, we can't predict the outputs yet because
there's so much complexity.
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- The normal case of
  social software is still failure; most of these experiments don't
  pan out. But the ones that do are quite incredible
- It's better to do
  something than to do nothing. Even lolcats, even cute
  pictures of kittens made even cuter with the addition of cute
  captions, hold out an invitation to participation. When you
  see a lolcat, one of the things it says to the viewer is, "If you have some sans-serif fonts on your computer, you can play
  this game, too." And that's message--I can do that, too--is a big change.
- media is actually a triathlon, it 's three
  different events. People like to consume, but they also like to
  produce, and they like to share.
- Here's something four-year-olds know: A screen that ships without a mouse ships
  broken. Here's something four-year-olds know: Media that's targeted at you but doesn't include you may not
  be worth sitting still for. Those are things that make me believe that this is a one-way change. Because four year olds, the
  people who are soaking most deeply in the current environment, who won't have to go through the trauma that I have to go
  through of trying to unlearn a childhood spent watching Gilligan's
  Island, they just assume that media
  includes consuming, producing and sharing.

25 Sep 09

The 'Web Squared' Era - Forbes.com

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Web 2.0, the name we gave this phenomenon in 2004 when we named our new conference, turns five on Oct. 5
Web Squared.
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- Web Squared is another way of saying "Web meets World."
- collective intelligence applications are increasingly driven by cascades of sensor data being thrown off by devices, often without explicit human intervention. Today’s smartphones contain microphones and cameras, as well as motion, proximity, location, and direction sensors. They have their own eyes, ears, and sense of touch. Revolutionary new applications connect those senses to cloud databases and programs running on massive server farms.
- Where the Web Squared world gets really interesting, though, is when applications use all the senses of a device, coordinating them much like the human brain coordinates our senses, to draw conclusions that would be difficult with one sense alone.
- our world will have "information shadows." Augmented reality amounts to information shadows made visible.

09 Sep 09

The Hierarchy Of Digital Distractions | Information Is Beautiful

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07 Sep 09

How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education | Fast Company

I'm pretty sure this is not about Edupunk. It's about entrepreneurship in the relatively limited sense of making money. Heh.

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02 Sep 09

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26 Aug 09

Clive Thompson on the New Literacy

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The fact that students today almost always write for an audience (something virtually no one in my generation did) gives them a different sense of what constitutes good writing. In interviews, they defined good prose as something that had an effect on the world. For them, writing is about persuading and organizing and debating, even if it's over something as quotidian as what movie to go see. The Stanford students were almost always less enthusiastic about their in-class writing because it had no audience but the professor: It didn't serve any purpose other than to get them a grade.
The brevity of texting and status updating teaches young people to deploy haiku-like concision.

19 Aug 09

Putting Syllabi Online « Easily Distracted

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Social Media is Killing the LMS Star - A Bootleg of Bryan Alexander’s Lost Presentation — Open Education Conference

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Note that this isn’t just a technological alternate history. It also describes a different set of social and cultural practices.
CMSes lumber along like radio, still playing into the air as they continue to gradually shift ever farther away on the margins. In comparison, Web 2.0 is like movies and tv combined, plus printed books and magazines. That’s where the sheer scale, creative ferment, and wife-ranging influence reside. This is the necessary background for discussing how to integrate learning and the digital world.
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- These virtual classes are like musical practice rooms, small chambers where one may try out the instrument in silent isolation. It is not connectivism but disconnectivism.
- CMSes shift from being merely retrograde to being actively regressive if we consider the broader, subtler changes in the digital teaching landscape. Web 2.0 has rapidly grown an enormous amount of content through what Yochai Benkler calls “peer-based commons production.” One effect of this has been to grow a large area for informal learning, which students (and staff) access without our benign interference. Students (and staff) also contribute to this peering world; more on this later. For now, we can observe that as teachers we grapple with this mechanism of change through many means, but the CMS in its silo’d isolation is not a useful tool.
- those curious about teaching with social media have easy access to a growing, accessible community of experienced staff by means of those very media. A meta-community of Web 2.0 academic practitioners is now too vast to catalogue. Academics in every discipline blog about their work. Wikis record their efforts and thoughts, as do podcasts. The reverse is true of the CMS, the very architecture of which forbids such peer-to-peer information sharing. For example, the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (RCCS) has for many years maintained a descriptive listing of courses about digital culture across the disciplines. During the 1990s that number grew with each semester. But after the explosive growth of CMSes that number dwindled. Not the number of classes taught, but the number of classes which could even be described. According to the RCCS’ founder, David Silver (University of San Francisco), this is due to the isolation of class content in CMS containers.
- unless we consider the CMS environment to be a sort of corporate intranet simulation, the CMS set of community skills is unusual, rarely applicable to post-graduation examples. In other words, while a CMS might help privacy concerns, it is at best a partial, not sufficient solution, and can even be inappropriate for already online students.
- That experiential, teachable moment of selecting one’s copyright stance is eliminated by the CMS.
- Another argument in favor of CMSes over Web 2.0 concerns the latter’s open nature. It is too open, goes the thought, constituting a “Wild West” experience of unfettered information flow and unpleasant forms of access. Campuses should run CMSes to create shielded environments, iPhone-style walled gardens that protect the learning process from the Lovecraftian chaos without.
- social sifting, information literacy, using the wisdom of crowds, and others. Such strategies are widely discussed, easily accessed, and continually revised and honed.
- at present, radio CMS is the Clear Channel of online learning.
- For now, the CMS landsape is a multi-institutional dark Web, an invisible, unsearchable, un-mash-up-able archipelago of hidden learning content.
- Can the practice of using a CMS prepare either teacher or student to think critically about this new shape for information literacy? Moreover, can we use the traditional CMS to share thoughts and practices about this topic?
- The internet of things refers to a vastly more challenging concept, the association of digital information with the physical world. It covers such diverse instances as RFID chips attached to books or shipping pallets, connecting a product’s scanned UPC code to a Web-based database, assigning unique digital identifiers to physical locations, and the broader enterprise of augmented reality. It includes problems as varied as building search that covers both the World Wide Web and one’s mobile device, revising copyright to include digital content associated with private locations, and trying to salvage what’s left of privacy.
  
  How does this connect with our topic? Consider a recent article by Tim O’Reilly and John Battle, where they argue that the internet of things is actually growing knowledge about itself. The combination of people, networks, and objects is building descriptions about objects, largely in folksonomic form. That is, people are tagging the world, and sharing those tags. It’s worth quoting a passage in full:
  
  “It’s also possible to give structure to what appears to be unstructured data by teaching an application how to recognize the connection between the two. For example, You R Here, an iPhone app, neatly combines these two approaches. You use your iPhone camera to take a photo of a map that contains details not found on generic mapping applications such as Google maps – say a trailhead map in a park, or another hiking map. Use the phone’s GPS to set your current location on the map. Walk a distance away, and set a second point. Now your iPhone can track your position on that custom map image as easily as it can on Google maps.”
  
  (http://www.web2summit.com/web2009/public/schedule/detail/10194)
  
  What world is better placed to connect academia productively with such projects, the open social Web or the CMS?
- imagine the CMS function of every class much like class email, a necessary feature, but not by any means the broadest technological element. Similarly the e-reserves function is of immense practical value. There may be no better way to share copyrighted academic materials with a class, at this point. These logistical functions could well play on.

05 Aug 09

Open-Xchange Tries To Liberate Your Contact List - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

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the idea that separating more personal services like Facebook from business-oriented services like LinkedIn makes little sense in the Internet age.
All you have to do is enter your LinkedIn login information
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- “The revolution is that, all of a sudden, the Internet can be a network of intelligent agents, doing work for their users, rather than a place where big commercial interests aim to gather as many users on their platform as possible,”

04 Aug 09

Young Muslims turn to technology to connect, challenge traditions - CNN.com

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a generation of Muslims who are using technology to express themselves, connect with others, challenge traditional power structures and create an identity in an era when Islamic extremists often grab the headlines.
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- She discovered blogs, and the more she read, the more she grew frustrated with the nature of the dialogue. "No one was talking to each other," she said.
- "There are various issues that I am unable to tackle for security reasons."
- "We have to move faster" because extremist groups are more widespread in traditional media such as newspapers and radio stations, which are still consumed by more people than new media such as Web sites, she said.
- It's long been a concern that the Web is being used by extremist groups such as al Qaeda to recruit young Muslims to their cause. However, Bruce Etling, who co-authored recent studies of the Arabic and Persian blogospheres at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, said he found little evidence of such activity.
- "In the Arabic blogosphere we found no specific clusters related to extremism, and when it was discussed, it tended to be in negative terms," he said. "It was a counter-narrative we were surprised to find."
- "Nobody, absolutely nobody, straps a bomb on their body because they were recruited from the Internet," he said. "It takes an enormous amount of personal face-to-face contact and time in order to recruit a young person into the cause of jihad."
- "No one over 30 knows what Bluetooth does," the young Iranians told him.
- By some estimates, about 60 percent of Muslims in the Middle East are under the age of 30.
- "During the 20th century, the parents of this generation were struggling to define for themselves some conception of a pan-Arab or pan-Muslim unity," Aslan said. "But that was elusive because there are so many things geopolitically that separate the Muslim world.
  "With the Internet, those boundaries, those borders are irrelevant."

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