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7 mai 2019

Blogs & RSS as a School Communication Environment

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Blogs & RSS as a School Communication Environment
Dave Warlick has caught aggregator fever. In this post (and yes, it's a continuation of the 'blogs as conversation' conversation) he offers several ways aggregators could be used in a school environment: lesson plans, lesson reflections, lesson blogs, dynamic categorization, announcements and policy, subscription analysis. "The aggregator is the linchpin of this arrangement. Teachers must be able to refine their settings and how their subscriptions are organized." Yes. More...

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7 mai 2019

Look, Ma, No Schoolbooks!

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Look, Ma, No Schoolbooks!
Article about a school that has replaced all its textbooks with Apple iBooks. The advantages are there to see - they're easier to carry, the content is more up-to-date, and they can access more resources. The control culture still lingers, with the school filtering downloadable material (not that I would expect anything else). More...

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7 mai 2019

Middle Ground?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Middle Ground?
Link to an article by Glenn Reynolds calling for an easing of legal restrictions on podcasters ('Lessig concludes: "The existing system is just workfare for lawyers.') and a short response from James DeLong. Following the links will lead you to a really good discussion of standards setting and intellectual property, also by DeLong. Now I don't agree with the stance taken by DeLong and the Progress Freedom Foundation (a too-obvious attempt to obfuscate the name of the Electronic Frontier Foundation); as Derek Slater comments, "They continuously beat the drum of market-based solutions." Slater suggests that 'music rights organizations' which offer blanket licenses or a form of voluntary collective licensing may provide that "elusive middle ground" that almost everyone is searching for. More...

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7 mai 2019

Presentation - DIY eLearning systems

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Presentation - DIY eLearning systems
Presentation being given today by Rob Wall looking again at the 'small pieces loosely joined' approach to educational technology. Nice use of the S5 presentation, and even more interestingly, authored using Dave Winer's recent OPML Editor and converted to S5 using an OPML file exporter. More...

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7 mai 2019

The Future of SVG and the Web

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Future of SVG and the Web
The author begins with a discussion of scalable vector graphics (SVG), an XML-based image file format, but he doesn't end there, roaming instead into a sweeping discussion of the role of XML in redefining the web. Syndication, the editable web, ubiquitous personal content, domain experts - all of this is in the future, explained with clarity and earnestness and with some great turns of a phrase ("We spend billions of dollars making the web editable in proprietary ways. More...

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7 mai 2019

Essential Freeware for the PC User

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Essential Freeware for the PC User
Usually titles containing the word 'essential' are hyperbole, but thisw title is an accurate reflection of the contents. Many of the applications listed - Firefox, Audacity - wilol be familiar, but most everyone will find something new here. For me, it was Videolan's VLC Player, a multiformat and multiplatform audio and video player. More...

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7 mai 2019

Digital Youth: How today's students use digital content in school vs. at home

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Digital Youth: How today's students use digital content in school vs. at home.
The fall issue of Threshold, Cable in the Classroom's magazine, is out and this article is the most interesting of the bunch (the rest of articles don't go a lot of depth and tend to repeat pretty much the same points). In this article, students comment on how their use of the internet at home differs from that at school. More...

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7 mai 2019

Elgg's Podcast Launch!

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Elgg's Podcast Launch!
ELGG laiunches its podcast service and begins on target with an interview with George Siemens. I haven't listened to this (who has time?) but at least Dave Tosh posts the questions he asked. More...

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7 mai 2019

McGraw-Hill Chooses Zinio for EBooks

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. McGraw-Hill Chooses Zinio for EBooks
Since there is almost no demand for e-books (it turns out consumers hate them so much Adobe is pulling its its eBook packaging and distribution software, Adobe Content Server, from the market) publishers naturally see them as a good venue for textbooks. I wonder whether these publishers think there's some sort of long-term advantage in turning education into a miserable and frustrating experience. More...

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7 mai 2019

The Lecture - A Teaching Strategy or Cop-Out?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Lecture - A Teaching Strategy or Cop-Out?
The author offers a short post considering the pedagogical benefits of the lecture as a prelimimary to joining the "Triple A Lecture Invention" learning object project. As she notes in a later post, participants have been drawn from Manitoba, Canada, China and Australia. More...

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