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04 Nov 08

The Tower and The Cloud | EDUCAUSE

Self interest alone should be driving educational institutions to move more strongly and quickly into web2.0 - "What appears to be emerging is industrial-scale computing -- a standardized infrastructure for delivering computing power, network bandwidth, data storage and protection, and services. Comsumerization and industrialization beg the question "Is this the end of the middle?"; that is, what will be the role of "enterprise" IT in the future? Indeed, the bigger question is what will become of all of our intermediating institutions? This volume examines the impact of IT on higher education and on the IT organization in higher education." via Stephen Downes

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What appears to be emerging is industrial-scale computing -- a standardized infrastructure for delivering computing power, network bandwidth, data storage and protection, and services. Comsumerization and industrialization beg the question "Is this the end of the middle?"; that is, what will be the role of "enterprise" IT in the future? Indeed, the bigger question is what will become of all of our intermediating institutions? This volume examines the impact of IT on higher education and on the IT organization in higher education.

28 Oct 08

Web 2.0 Storytelling: Emergence of a New Genre (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE CONNECT

Absolutely wonderful! This discussion of digital storytelling explores what has been done, and what the possibilities are, how digital storytelling can contribute to both composition courses and can be made into curricular objects. I strongly recommend it! via Stephen Downes

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The technology thus becomes more transparent; attention is focused on the content. As a result, the amount of rich web media and content has grown in quantity and diversity. And any student of history would not be surprised to observe that out of those manifold ways of writing and showing have emerged new practices for telling stories.
Storytelling is a rare human universal, present and recognizable across cultures and epochs. We can refer to it as the "art of conveying events in words, images, and sounds often by improvisation or embellishment."
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- Story can refer to either fiction or nonfiction, depending on the context. It's easy to think of nonfiction storytelling examples: marketing used to sell a product's story; the mini-stories so essential to any discussion of ethics; the use of storytelling for surfacing implicit information in knowledge-management practice. As popularized in education, the familiar form of digital storytelling is a narrated personal story of overcoming obstacles, achieving a dream, honoring a deceased family member, or describing an event.⁷ Web 2.0 stories are often broader: they can represent history, fantasy, a presentation, a puzzle, a message, or something that blurs the boundaries of reality and fiction.
- a new form of expression that is compelling to educators.
- Web 2.0 narratives can follow that timeline, and podcasts in particular must do so. But they can also link in multiple directions.
- Web 2.0 storytelling can be fully hypertextual in its multilinearity. At any time, the audience can go out of the bounds of the story to research information
- Often, the paths do not necessarily follow routes and destinations entirely generated by the story's creator. User-generated content is a key element of Web 2.0 and can often enter into these stories.
- it is up to readers and viewers to analyze and interpret such content and usually to do so collaboratively.
- Web 2.0 productivity tools are approaching mainstream use. For example, we wrote this article in Google Docs (http://docs.google.com), simultaneously editing the copy from different parts of the country. Indeed, some have even suggested that Google Spreadsheets constitute a virtual world.¹⁶ For rich-media content creation, Web 2.0 tools have lowered the barriers by moving the process of (expensive) desktop video-editing software to (free) web-based applications¹⁷ and at the same time ostensibly moving the focus from using the tool to telling the story with the tool.
- webcam culture, where single narrators tell their camera (and viewers) stories on just about any topic, from breakfast to atheism. Telling a convincing story in that format requires a set of skills drawn from basic videography to public speaking and even performance art and stand-up comedy.
- Web 2.0 storytelling offers two main applications for colleges and universities: as composition platform and as curricular object.
- this learning tool can produce materials that subsequently will be available as learning objects.

21 Oct 08

EducauseCONNECT - Undergraduate Students and IT 2008

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"Following are some of the important findings of The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2008.
Ownership of Technology
More than 80% of student respondents own laptops, 53.8% own desktops, and one-third of them own both a laptop and a desktop. The longitudinal data for those institutions that have participated in ECAR studies for the past three years show that laptop ownership has increased from 65.9% in 2006 to 82.2% in 2008. In fact, freshmen respondents are entering college with new laptops in hand—this year 71.1% have a laptop less than one year old. And most respondents (68.9%) own a computer of some type that is two years old or less, well within recommended equipment replacement cycles ...
Ownership of Internet-capable cell phones is also on the rise, now owned by 66.1% of respondents. Most respondents, however, do not yet take advantage of the Internet capability, citing high cost,
slow response, and difficulty of use as primary reasons. Despite these barriers to use, almost one-fourth of respondents do access the Internet from a cell phone or PDA at least monthly, and 17.5%
do so weekly or more often. Among respondents who say they are early adopters of technology, 25.9% already access the Internet from handheld devices weekly or more often."

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