By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Platforms for Collective Awareness and Action
Unattributed, European Commission Information Society, July 31, 2011.
This is a new European Commission Information Society project intended to create online environments to support collaboration. "The vision is that individuals can "save the planet" if they are given the opportunity to act socially, based on trusted information. The key is enabling access to trusted knowledge about the state of their environment, the actions underway in their Communities to improve that situation, and the impact of their own actions." I think there is merit to the underlying idea of feeding external data and information into social communities. More...
13 mars 2019
Hawaii
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Hawaii
This is my last night in Hawaii - I have a long flight home tomorrow, and I'll be getting caught up later in the week.
Stephen Downes, Flickr, June 30, 2009 [Link] [Tags: Flickr] [Comment]. More...
DiigoNotes - 7 Skills Schools Should be Teaching Them
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. DiigoNotes - 7 Skills Schools Should be Teaching Them
If you teach only what people need to get hired, you teach people to live only half a life. This list is about having them work well in companies. More...
Soundation Studio
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Soundation Studio
I spent way too much time on the weekend playing with Soundation Studio, an online electronic music maker. It's a lot like GarageBand, but designed in Flash. This would be a great way to create copyright-free background music for videos or presentations. More...
LED Lightbulb Speakers for Wireless Music in Every Room
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. LED Lightbulb Speakers for Wireless Music in Every Room
If we can put wireless speakers into LED lightbulbs, why not wireless access points? This way you could create a mesh of perfect wireless connectivity throughout a house, powered from a single access point. And we could take this further - everywhere in public there is a light today, there could be a wireless internet access point in the future. More...
Anybots Robot Will Go to the Office for You
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Anybots Robot Will Go to the Office for You
Roberts that stand in for you and attend your meetings in the office. I've speculated about these in the past, and if we have sufficient wireless access, these can't be too far in the future. More...
The Access Copyright Interim Tariff Opt-Out List
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Access Copyright Interim Tariff Opt-Out List
Michael Geist, Weblog, July 30, 2011.
Here's an update to last weeks post on Canadian universities withdrawing from Access Copyright. Based on this list, I would say that that the demand for substantially increased rates may result in the organization's demise. A good object lesson. More...
Digital Fluency: Empowering All Students
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Digital Fluency: Empowering All Students
Liz Losh, DML Central, July 31, 2011.
I too agree that digital literacy is more than just learning a set of skills. It's also more than the 'logical self-defence' approach that characterizes critical literacy. More...
Platforms for Collective Awareness and Action
A taxonomy for measuring the success of open source software projects
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. A taxonomy for measuring the success of open source software projects
Amir Hossein Ghapanchi, Aybuke Aurum, and Graham Low, First Monday, July 31, 2011.
Open source software is a lot like education: everybody wants it to be successful, but there's no definition of what counts as success, and traditional definitions ('sales', 'grades') are wholly inadequate. More...
Interview with Rick Schwier – connectivism
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Interview with Rick Schwier – connectivism
James Johnson, The Blog Herald, August 1, 2011.
This is totally what Google+'s hangouts needed - the capacity to support a live YouTibe audience. I can easily imagine using one of these in a MOOC. More...
