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C4LPT Guide to Social Learning
I recently did quite a bit of updating of the C4LPT Guide to Social Learning, so thought it was worth posting about it again here. Here's the contents list:
News: Fans and Fears of 'Lecture Capture' - Inside Higher Ed
If professors record their lectures and put them online, will students still come to class?
That question came up in two different sessions at the 2009 Educause Conference here on Friday. And in both cases, the panelists cited research indicating that students’ likelihood of skipping class has no correlation with whether a professor decides to capture her lecture and post it the Web.
News: Assessing the Assessments
On Tuesday, the groups released a federally funded analysis of a "test validity study" conducted by the makers of the three tests showing that the three tests produced comparable outcomes at the institutional level, based on having been administered at a diverse range of 13 institutions, big and small, public and private. - Inside Higher Ed
News: Tweeting in Class
Do Twitter skeptics really believe the popular microblogging service offers no educational value, or are they just afraid of it? - Inside Higher Ed
Does Twitter’s 140 character limit improve writing or reading?
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Many people have complained that Twitter is getting spammy, and that as a user follows more twitterers, they see a decrease in the signal-to-noise ratio in their feed. Obviously, it is always better to have a high ratio of signal-to-noise.
But if the “cost” of noise is low, then you can tolerate more noise. Twitter’s 140 character limit helps keep the “cost” of noise low; it is easy to scan the feed and skip over tweets that are not interesting to you. Since Twitter has few ways to filter the feed to minimize noise, short tweets are important to reading as well.
13 Tricks for Making 140 Character Twitter Tweets
Another Twoosh, but this time using all the tricks I've learned to make any thought, re-tweet, news bulletin fit into 140 characters. These tips work for retweets and your own, original posts:
100 Best Professors Who Blog
Online students have a lot to learn online, and you can find great knowledge from professors’ blogs. Whether they’re about science or political science, you’ll find something interesting on each of these blogs. Read on to check out our collection of the 100 best professor blogs online.
Future of Social Media: Is a Tweet the New Size of a Thought?
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consider the emerging Twitter practice NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen calls "mindcasting." It may begin as just a seed of an idea — a thought about the future of online media, say — tossed out into the germinating medium of the twitterverse, passed along from one Twitter feed to another, critiqued or praised, reshaped and edited, then handed back for fleshing out on a blog, first, and then, perhaps, in a book. It's not that tweet-size sparks of insight haven't always been part of the media ecosystem, in other words. It's just that Twitter now has given them a vastly more exciting social life.
Word Of The Moment: Mindcasting
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Twitter is a new way to conduct a real-time, multi-way dialogue with thousands of his colleagues and fellow netizens.
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I favor streaming as the core verb for all these activities, anyway. Casting is too strongly related to broadcast, which is strange, considering Jay is the guy who coined the term "the people formerly known as the audience" to get away from the info producer/consumer dialectic.
On Twitter, mindcasting is the new lifecasting | Technology | Los Angeles Times
Twitter, the micro-messaging service where users broadcast short thoughts to one another, has been widely labeled the newest form of digital narcissism. And if it’s not self-obsession tweeters are accused of, it’s self-promotion, solipsism or flat out frivolousness.
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There’s already a vibrant community of Twitter users who are using the system to share and filter the hyper-glut of online information with ingenious efficiency. Forget what you had for breakfast or how much you hate Mondays. That’s just lifecasting.
Mindcasting is where it’s at. -
Twitter is a new way to conduct a real-time, multi-way dialogue with thousands of his colleagues and fellow netizens.
Mindcasting: defining the form, spreading the meme
A method I endorse is to understand things by participating in them. By doing your own thing, you learn the difference between possible actions (what you can do with the system) and likely behavior: what most people will tend to do when that system is switched on for them. Forget this difference and you foreclose on your invention.
The New Literacy and the CMS
The biggest problem I have with Blackboard (and other vertical CMS platforms) is that the knowledge, materials and conversation generated by the class is walled off from the rest of the world. - Technology and Learning - Inside Higher Ed
Technology Skills We Should Be Teaching in College
If America wants to continue to be a world-leader, we can do it with a technology advantage - but only if we actually know how to leverage that technology to continue to be more productive.
So, I began to write out a list of the tech skills that I think students should learn before they leave college. Ideally, these are skills that would be integrated throughout K-12 and college curricula.
Top 10 Web Collaboration Tools (That Aren't Google Wave)
You've probably heard about a hard-to-get, hugely new service called Google Wave. Lest ye forget, there are plenty of web-based collaboration tools that don't require learning a new way of speaking. Here are a few of our (mostly free) favorites.
100 Best iPhone Apps for Academic Types
There’s an iPhone app for just about anything these days, so of course many in the academia world are taking notice. These applications represent a new age of study for those recognizing the importance of technology and social media. The iPhone can be an invaluable resource for almost anyone in the academic field. Whether being used for studying, reference, teaching, reading, note taking, quizzes, or networking, the below list provides you with the apps that can help.
99 Awesome Firefox Add-ons for Educators - Online Courses
They say today’s educators are overworked and underpaid. Luckily, the web offers tools to make your professional life more manageable and less stressful. These add-ons might not change your salary, but we’re sure they’ll ease your workload.
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