http://sites.google.com/site/writ371fall2011/home/course-readings
http://www.thefastertimes.com/news/2011/06/16/aol-hell-an-aol-content-slave-speaks-out/
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnx3cml0MzcxZmFsbDIwMTF8Z3g6N2UzYzI0YTk2ZTJhNWI2OA
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnx3cml0MzcxZmFsbDIwMTF8Z3g6MzQ3NjNjMGRmOTc4NDI&pli=1
http://www.amazon.com/Don-Novello/e/B000APFMSU/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0
http://www.observer.com/2011/06/alec-baldwin-got-an-aol-content-slave-fired/
http://graphjam.memebase.com/
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Monday, June 16, 2008
Workshop on Web2.0
This week I did a presentation on Web2.0 and how it is transforming education.
I was in Great Falls.
It is summer.
FINALLY....
I was in Great Falls.
It is summer.
FINALLY....
Bryce March 2004
Bryce March 2004
Originally uploaded by AskDrScience
Here is a photo I took while on Spring Break a few years ago.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
What is Web2.0?
The Read/Write web
A web-based application supplies the venue, and the users add significant value by adding, modifying and commenting on content, and forming collaborative networks.
Wikipedia says:
Web 2.0 is a trend in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to facilitate creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users.
A web-based application supplies the venue, and the users add significant value by adding, modifying and commenting on content, and forming collaborative networks.
Wikipedia says:
Web 2.0 is a trend in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to facilitate creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
College and Football...
"Have we got a college?
Have we got a football team?
....Well we can't afford both.
Tomorrow we start tearing down the college. "
- Groucho Marx as Quincy Adams Wagstaff in Horse Feathers
Have we got a football team?
....Well we can't afford both.
Tomorrow we start tearing down the college. "
- Groucho Marx as Quincy Adams Wagstaff in Horse Feathers
7 Things You Should Know About...
The questions:
- What is it?
- Who's doing it?
- How does it work?
- Why is it significant?
- What are the downsides?
- Where is it going?
- What are the implications for teaching and learning?
What is Web3.0?
Web2.0 is the read/write web - user generated content.
Web 3.0 Will Be About Reducing the Noise
- Erick Schonfeld, TechCrunch, April 17 2008
Word!
- Zaid , TechCrunch, April 17th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Web 3.0 Will Be About Reducing the Noise
- Erick Schonfeld, TechCrunch, April 17 2008
Word!
- Zaid , TechCrunch, April 17th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Tabron quote is a challenge to IT professionals on campuses
Judith Tabron is director of faculty computing services at Hofstra University. (From "How to Find What Clicks in the Classroom", excerpted from March 28 Chronicle of Higher Education - http://chronicle.com/free/v54/i29/29a03801.htm):
…
And IT departments have to resist the urge to reabsorb the resources set aside for such efforts. Sometimes even IT people newly assigned to the instructional mission would rather solve more-immediate problems like broken printers. The departments must learn how to build the market for their services among faculty members who are not early adopters — a task that takes years.
Of course there are always printers and other machines to fix, basic services to upgrade, and so on. It may seem frivolous to reserve even part of the time of part of the staff to keep looking into new tools, trying out podcasts or Second Life or wikis and figuring out how they might help students learn. It's easy to let the everyday needs push the longer-term wants into the background.
But that is how IT-staff members must help in the development of teaching methods for the wired world. They are the ones who should try out the newest technologies, winnow out the fads or the tools that can't be adapted for use by thousands or millions of students, and figure out how to align the best tools with the best teaching methods. Without that experimentation, the instruction we offer will never be truly innovative.
Colleges may feel that they can't afford to provide any space and time for improving teaching. They may blame faculty members, students, or even society for a lack of innovation in education — and those charges may well be fair. But colleges unwilling to plant the seeds for change shouldn't be surprised that they grow nothing.
It may seem that the seeds are too expensive, but we have a compelling reason to pay the price: Our students live online. They fall in love, they shop, they order pizza on the Web. Their iPods, TV's, and Xboxes are sophisticated technologies. They instant-message their blogs from their cellphones, and they can't picture college having a place in any of this, because we haven't shown them that it can.
It will be a dismal future if the only thing our graduates cannot do online is learn.
…
And IT departments have to resist the urge to reabsorb the resources set aside for such efforts. Sometimes even IT people newly assigned to the instructional mission would rather solve more-immediate problems like broken printers. The departments must learn how to build the market for their services among faculty members who are not early adopters — a task that takes years.
Of course there are always printers and other machines to fix, basic services to upgrade, and so on. It may seem frivolous to reserve even part of the time of part of the staff to keep looking into new tools, trying out podcasts or Second Life or wikis and figuring out how they might help students learn. It's easy to let the everyday needs push the longer-term wants into the background.
But that is how IT-staff members must help in the development of teaching methods for the wired world. They are the ones who should try out the newest technologies, winnow out the fads or the tools that can't be adapted for use by thousands or millions of students, and figure out how to align the best tools with the best teaching methods. Without that experimentation, the instruction we offer will never be truly innovative.
Colleges may feel that they can't afford to provide any space and time for improving teaching. They may blame faculty members, students, or even society for a lack of innovation in education — and those charges may well be fair. But colleges unwilling to plant the seeds for change shouldn't be surprised that they grow nothing.
It may seem that the seeds are too expensive, but we have a compelling reason to pay the price: Our students live online. They fall in love, they shop, they order pizza on the Web. Their iPods, TV's, and Xboxes are sophisticated technologies. They instant-message their blogs from their cellphones, and they can't picture college having a place in any of this, because we haven't shown them that it can.
It will be a dismal future if the only thing our graduates cannot do online is learn.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Top Social Networking Sites
March 2008 Update:(Click to see enlarged)
Top social networking sites in September 2007 by ZDNet's ZDNet Research -- Nielsen//NetRatings published the list of top social networking sites in September 2007. Top social networking sites in September 2007
Top social networking sites in September 2007 by ZDNet's ZDNet Research -- Nielsen//NetRatings published the list of top social networking sites in September 2007. Top social networking sites in September 2007
Audience, 000 Growth
Site September 2006 September 2007 YTY
Myspace.com 47,189 58,581 24%
Facebook 7,765 18,090 133%
Classmates Online 13,291 13,313 0%
Windows Live Spaces 7,782 10,275 32%
AOL Hometown 9,997 7,685 -23%
Reunion.com 4,712 4,845 3%
LinkedIn 1,762 4,075 131%
AOL People Connection 6,096 4,017 -34%
Club Penguin 1,333 3,769 183%
Buzznet.com 1,061 3,737 252%
Source: Nielsen//NetRatings
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Washer Controls
Washer01-EDIT-PDRM1376
Originally uploaded by AskDrScience
Wow - I just learned how to wash my clothes!!!
Monday, October 22, 2007
Terraces at Mammoth
IMG_0085 (Small)
Originally uploaded by AskDrScience
This is just an example of the automated blog posting that you can do with Flickr.
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
2006 NetDay Speak up survey results
Now in its fourth year, NetDay Speak Up is an annual national research project that collects the voices and views of key stakeholders in education on topics such as educational technology, science, math, and 21st workforce skills. Over the past three years the project has collected the viewpoints of over 562,000 K-12 students from all 50 states, as well as 26,000 teachers.
http://www.netday.org/speakup/pdfs/SpeakUpReport_05.pdf
http://www.netday.org/speakup/pdfs/SpeakUpReport_05.pdf
Monday, November 13, 2006
WikiDumper - Where rejected Wikipedia entries go
From the bold to the beautiful, from the wicked to the wise, every day the Wikipedia team relegates possibly "inappropriate" submissions to the garbage dump of time. Here, we make selected rejects immortal and preserve them for posterity.
http://wikidumper.blogspot.com/
http://wikidumper.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
SolutionWatch: Web 2.0 for School
http://www.solutionwatch.com/512/back-to-school-with-the-class-of-web-20-part-1/
"With the start of the new school year, many teachers and students are seeking new products and technologies to help them through their upcoming academics. With the increase of teachers using blogs and wikis, and students networking and utilizing online tools, the demand for easier and more efficient ways of learning is on the rise. To me, the growing interest for web-based learning is amazing, which brought me to thinking; what if I were to consolodate some of the helpful online products and services that can help students, teachers and administrators alike? Well, I convinced myself. The following is a compilation of Web 2.0 products that I’ve personally researched and tested."
Check out SolutionWatch at:
http://www.solutionwatch.com
"With the start of the new school year, many teachers and students are seeking new products and technologies to help them through their upcoming academics. With the increase of teachers using blogs and wikis, and students networking and utilizing online tools, the demand for easier and more efficient ways of learning is on the rise. To me, the growing interest for web-based learning is amazing, which brought me to thinking; what if I were to consolodate some of the helpful online products and services that can help students, teachers and administrators alike? Well, I convinced myself. The following is a compilation of Web 2.0 products that I’ve personally researched and tested."
Check out SolutionWatch at:
http://www.solutionwatch.com
Friday, October 06, 2006
Academic - Learning Beyond LMS
http://incsub.org/soulsoup/?p=633
People are getting it!! Finally!
Social software: E-learning beyond learning management systems
by Christian Dalsgaard of Institute of Information and Media Studies, University of Aarhus
http://www.eurodl.org/materials/
contrib/2006/Christian_Dalsgaard.htm
People are getting it!! Finally!
Social software: E-learning beyond learning management systems
by Christian Dalsgaard of Institute of Information and Media Studies, University of Aarhus
http://www.eurodl.org/materials/
contrib/2006/Christian_Dalsgaard.htm
Monday, October 02, 2006
Trends: Email out of vogue with youth?
E-Mail is for Old People
As students ignore their campus accounts, colleges try new ways of communicating
By DAN CARNEVALE
From the Chronicle of Higher Education issue dated October 6, 2006
Excerpt: College officials around the country find that a growing number of students are missing important messages about deadlines, class cancellations, and events sent to them by e-mail because, well, the messages are sent to them by e-mail.
In response, some institutions require that students check their college e-mail accounts so they do not miss announcements, holding students responsible for official information that comes through that medium. Other institutions are attempting to figure out what technology students are using to try to reach them there.
http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i07/07a02701.htm
As students ignore their campus accounts, colleges try new ways of communicating
By DAN CARNEVALE
From the Chronicle of Higher Education issue dated October 6, 2006
Excerpt: College officials around the country find that a growing number of students are missing important messages about deadlines, class cancellations, and events sent to them by e-mail because, well, the messages are sent to them by e-mail.
In response, some institutions require that students check their college e-mail accounts so they do not miss announcements, holding students responsible for official information that comes through that medium. Other institutions are attempting to figure out what technology students are using to try to reach them there.
http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i07/07a02701.htm
Thursday, September 28, 2006
File Sharing and the Music Biz
Does file-sharing hurt the music biz?
From Ars Technica
9/26/2006 12:44:05 PM, by Nate Anderson
Excerpt: Will file-sharing be the savior or the slayer of the music industry? The industry is quite sure that it knows the answer, and it has been attempting to sue the file-sharing genie back into its bottle, with limited success. Defenders of sharing argue that it actually benefits the music industry by exposing people to more artists. But for a topic this controversial, file-sharing has received limited academic scrutiny. The entire debate is in need of some good empirical evidence, which is why Norbert Michel's recent paper in Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy is so intriguing.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060926-7832.html
From Ars Technica
9/26/2006 12:44:05 PM, by Nate Anderson
Excerpt: Will file-sharing be the savior or the slayer of the music industry? The industry is quite sure that it knows the answer, and it has been attempting to sue the file-sharing genie back into its bottle, with limited success. Defenders of sharing argue that it actually benefits the music industry by exposing people to more artists. But for a topic this controversial, file-sharing has received limited academic scrutiny. The entire debate is in need of some good empirical evidence, which is why Norbert Michel's recent paper in Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy is so intriguing.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060926-7832.html
Monday, September 25, 2006
Technology/Academic: Skype Bans
SJ State weighs Skype ban
PLAN ON HOLD AFTER SOME OBJECT
By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News
Posted on Thu, Sep. 21, 2006
Excerpt: An effort by San Jose State University to ban the Skype phone service has been put on hold in the face of fierce objections from students and staff.
...San Jose State is the third California university to impose restrictions on Skype.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/
business/15576648.htm
PLAN ON HOLD AFTER SOME OBJECT
By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News
Posted on Thu, Sep. 21, 2006
Excerpt: An effort by San Jose State University to ban the Skype phone service has been put on hold in the face of fierce objections from students and staff.
...San Jose State is the third California university to impose restrictions on Skype.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/
business/15576648.htm
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