What Is Web 2.0 | O'Reilly Media
# eBay's product is the collective activity of all its users; like the web itself, eBay grows organically in response to user activity, and the company's role is as an enabler of a context in which that user activity can happen. What's more, eBay's competitive advantage comes almost entirely from the critical mass of buyers and sellers, which makes any new entrant offering similar services significantly less attractive.
# Amazon sells the same products as competitors such as Barnesandnoble.com, and they receive the same product descriptions, cover images, and editorial content from their vendors. But Amazon has made a science of user engagement. They have an order of magnitude more user reviews, invitations to participate in varied ways on virtually every page--and even more importantly, they use user activity to produce better search results. While a Barnesandnoble.com search is likely to lead with the company's own products, or sponsored results, Amazon always leads with "most popular", a real-time computation based not only on sales but other factors that Amazon insiders call the "flow" around products. With an order of magnitude more user participation, it's no surprise that Amazon's sales also outpace competitors.
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pagi: eLearning
Nils found this. It is a Spanish concept map on eLearning that includes CTLT and the Harvesting Gradebook.
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Google Spreadsheets ImportRange
Google Spreadsheets lets you reference another workbook in the spreadsheet that you're currently editing by using the ImportRange function. ImportRange lets you pull one or more cell values from one spreadsheet into another.
To create your own ImportRange formulas, enter =importRange(spreadsheet-key, range).
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Jonathan Kozol on "Shame of the Nation"
Jonathan Kozol on "Shame of the Nation"
Audio file of Kozol speaking abou "weighing the lamb"
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In Honor of the Standardized Testing Season… « Let’s Play Math!
If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand you don’t fatten your lambs by weighing them?
— Jonathan Kozol
at Westfield State College’s 157th Commencement
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Washington Wire - WSJ.com : Obama Puts Different Twist on Lipstick
The expression “you can’t fatten your lambs by weighing them” may be an expression in southern illinois but it was also used by Jonathan Kozol in his keynote speech to the Children’s Defense Fund in the early 90’s. I know. I have the tape of the speech. Obama likes to take the words of others and use as his own.
Comment by catherine - September 10, 2008 at 6:32 am
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Educational advocate speaks at UMass - News
Kozol came to Amherst to promote his latest book, "Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America," which discusses "re-segregation" of public schools and the difficulties facing schools with a high minority population.
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techPresident – Looking at Voter-Generated Presence on Candidate Websites
This article compares the Google index rating of canditates who allowed the posting of voter generated content on their site with those that didn't. In other words: Web 2.0 vs. Web 1 approach relative to the number of pages google had indexed from the site.
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techPresident – Daily Digest: Did the Internet Matter?
From the Techapresident post:
"Does the Internet Matter?": That's the title of a new report out from Temple University's Institute for Business and Information Technology. Making use of some techPresident data, Temple's Sunil Wattal, David Schuff, and Munir Mandviwalla considered how social media in particular shaped the '08 presidential primaries. Their conclusion? While YouTube and MySpace may help lesser-known candidates find footing, only blogs seem to correlate with boosts in Gallup poll numbers. ( You might notice that the report requires a password, but we've got one for you: "templeowls.")
in list: Learning
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We Are Media » About Project Background
The We Are Media Project is a community of people from nonprofits who are interested in learning and teaching about how social media strategies and tools can enable nonprofit organizations to create, compile, and distribute their stories and change the world.\nCurated by NTEN, the community will work in a networked way to help identify the best existing resources, people, and case studies that will give nonprofit organizations the knowledge and resources they need to be the media. The community will help identify and point to the best how-to guides and useful resources that cover all aspects of creating, aggregating, and distributing social media. The resulting curriculum which will live on this wiki and will also cover important organizational adoption issues, strategy, ROI analysis, as well as the tools.
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E-Learning 2.0 ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes
the evolution of education is discussed by downes in this post.
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ThinkCycle: Reaching Out to Solve Real-World Problems
This is a wonderful potential model of university 2.0. It influenced the design of our most recent eportfolio contest.
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Metagenomics: A Call for Bringing a New Science into the Classroom (While It's Still New)
this article touches on an opportunity that will probably occur more often in the future; a very new field of study that is so vast it becomes necessary to involve community, students, faculty researchers.
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Myelin Repair Foundation's Institutional Innovation
great example of a new research model.
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Myelin Repair Foundation's Institutional Innovation
An Effective Research Road Map\n\nConsider the powerful example of the Silicon Valley nonprofit Myelin Repair Foundation (MRF), which provides an early glimpse of next-generation institutional innovation (BusinessWeek.com, 11/15/07) as it emerges on the edge of medical research and drug discovery. As its name suggests, MRF has a very specific target—to mobilize and focus research on a particular biological process, myelin repair.\n\nMyelin is the substance that coats our nerves to facilitate the passage of electrical signals. In multiple sclerosis, that myelin coating begins to degrade, resulting in a host of symptoms, including fatigue, blindness, and loss of balance, ultimately leading to paralysis and death. The MRF was founded by Scott Johnson, a civil engineer and MBA by training, who himself suffers from the disease.
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The expression “you can’t fatten your lambs by weighing them” may be an expression in southern illinois but it was also used by Jonathan Kozol in his keynote speech to the Children’s Defense Fund in the early 90’s. I know. I have the tape of the speech. Obama likes to take the words of others and use as his own.