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5 juillet 2019

The HUB (School Your Way)

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Unattributed[Edit][Delete]: The HUB (School Your Way), WalMart [Edit][Delete] July 21, 2006

Marc Canter linked to this with the suggestion that the people in this online community are not real. It's hard not to agree; this seems to be a pretty clear example of astroturfing. But what is the message? Not good: for boys, school is all about playing sports and having fun. For girls, it's all about shopping, style, and having fun. The site promotes a message of "do your own thing" - but it's mostly about conformity and consumption. And for both guys and girls (or "ladies") three of the five "hot" outfits include military wear. More...

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5 juillet 2019

A Discussion about Communities

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Dave Comier and Jeff Lebow[Edit][Delete]: A Discussion about Communities with Nancy White, Ed Tech Talk [Edit][Delete] July 21, 2006

I listened to this podcast this morning, a wide-ranging interview with online collaboration specialist Nancy White. Listeners will most appreciate, I think, her observations on how to manage disruptive elements in communities. She was also asked about my own view of site-specific online communities (they have a boundary, she said, "this is my arms making a big 'O'"). Sometimes a sense of place and common purpose is needed. More...

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5 juillet 2019

Tapping Into Social Networking for E-Learning

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Various authors[Edit][Delete]: Tapping Into Social Networking for E-Learning, Australian Flexible Learning Framework [Edit][Delete]Australian Flexible Learning Framework [Edit][Delete]Australian flexible Learning Framework [Edit][Delete] July 21, 2006

The RSS item (which doesn't appear on the link at all - it was dated June 19 but only showed up in my feed reader today) read, "Almost 800 people from Australia and overseas participated in Tapping into social networking for e-learning, a free online event discussing the latest technological developments in the world of education and training." The event was held June 15 - 16. I was a bit sceptical of the headline because the discussion forums you can easily access from the main page looked pretty empty. And I wasn't encouraged by the use of Elluminate for the online forums. More...

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5 juillet 2019

Evaluation of the Texas Technology Immersion Pilot

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Texas Center for Educational Research[Edit][Delete]: Evaluation of the Texas Techn ology Immersion Pilot, Texas Education Agency [Edit][Delete] July 20, 2006

Actual text of the report that has been the subject of so much discussion. Note that in the conclusion (report p. 77) the authors take note that only "partial immersion" was obtained. "A major challenge for teachers in the first year was simultaneously learning how to use technology and finding time to integrate laptops and digital resources into existing practices." Additionally, they note that educationally significant results may take more than one year to obtain (gee, really?). It is worth noting that while negative results were reported in that first year, postitive results were "compelling" in the second year results. I have to wonder (with some on the WWWEDU mailing list) why these results were released now, and why they got the spin they did. More...

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5 juillet 2019

New Pew Internet Report&Comments

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. David Warlick[Edit][Delete]: New Pew Internet Report&Comments, 2 cents Worth [Edit][Delete]2 Cents Worth [Edit][Delete] July 20, 2006

A new report on bloggers and blogging from the Pew Internet in American Life project has been released. The general tgrend seems to be that bloggers are more diverse than one might expect, that they are generally young, and that tghey speak mostly to small audiences. More...

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5 juillet 2019

Knowing Me, Knowing You

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Christopher D. Sessums[Edit][Delete]: Knowing Me, Knowing You, Christopher D. Sessums : Weblog [Edit][Delete] July 20, 2006

According to this essay, "Social software has two key attributes that could be considered meaningful to educators: Permits communication between groups and individuals [and] Enables the aggregation and sharing of resources." The people working and living in such a community become producers of knowledge and not just sharers of knowledge. "In this sense, social software allows for a certain level of knowledge co-creation that can be drawn from, reflected upon, and further refined." I think this paper would be stronger were it not so rooted in its references. More...

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5 juillet 2019

Windows Principles: Twelve Tenets to Promote Competition

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Unattributed[Edit][Delete]: Windows Principles: Twelve Tenets to Promote Competition, Microsoft [Edit][Delete] July 20, 2006

Microsoft lists twelve principles it will follow from now on to enable competition in the software industry. Several of these principles were required by anti-trust court rulings. And others are still somewhat, well, weaselly. Like point 8, for example: "Microsoft will design and license Windows so that it does not block access to any lawful Web site or impose any fee for reaching any non-Microsoft Web site or using any non-Microsoft Web service." Well fine. But what Microsoft has been doing (and will apparently continue to do) is slow down these sites and make them work less well. More...

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5 juillet 2019

E-Learning 2.0 - Why the New Tools

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Stephen Downes[Edit][Delete]: E-Learning 2.0 - Why the New Tools, July 20, 2006

PowerPoint slides and MP3 Audio of my online presentation today. My talk, scheduled for one hour, went (with a willing audience) closer to two hours, which was nice, because I was able to develop the topic the way I wanted. After sketching the progression of Web 2.0 tools (from personal publishing to webtops) I outlined (drawing heavily on Konrad Glogowski) how it enables new forms of learning. From this, I outlined some of the theory underlying these new forms, and from this theoretical stance, responded in part to the critics of these new models (a version of the same argument found in these pages yesterday). [Tags: Web 2.0, Podcasting] [Comment]. More...

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5 juillet 2019

What Is Open Access?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Charles W. Bailey, Jr.[Edit][Delete]: What Is Open Access?, Eprints.org [Edit][Delete] July 19, 2006

This is a very good overview of open access, moving through subsequent definitions of open access beginning with the Budapest and Berlin declarations, describing different open access practices, including Suber's definitions of 'Green' and 'Gold' journal OA policies, licensing, and more. For readers unfamiliar with the landscape this paper is an essential read. More...

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5 juillet 2019

Hellodeo

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Stephen Downes[Edit][Delete]: Hellodeo, July 19, 2006

I'm not sure whether this will work - but I'll certainly give it a try. This is a test recording from a n ew service from the people at Odeo: Hellodeo.
So, try clicking on the video, and let me know how it came out (and let me know if you read this post on email, RSS, the web, or whatever). And if you couldn't see it, you can always view the video here. [Tags: Macromedia] [Comment]. More...

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