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Erasmusez-vous - Marseille
De 13h à 16h30, une trentaine de projets Erasmus+ réalisés ces deux dernières années par des établissements de tout type sera exposée à la Villa Méditerranée à Marseille.
Le public pourra échanger, témoigner, se former à la création de projets Erasmus + et à la plateforme eTwinning ainsi que rencontrer des associations engagées auprès des établissements dans des dispositifs européens. A cette occasion, monsieur Bernard BEIGNIER, Recteur de région, recteur de l’académie d’Aix-Marseille, Chancelier des universités remettra les prix aux trois lauréats du concours « mon roadtrip Erasmus+ ».
Public cible : Enseignants et formateurs de l’académie d’Aix Marseille
Inscription préalable via mail : ce.dareic@ac-aix-marseille.fr
Organisateur: DAREIC - Rectorat Aix-Marseille
Lieu : Villa Mediteranée, J4 Marseille
Date : vendredi 13 octobre 2017
Swearing in conference presentations works!
Swearing in conference presentations works!
Donald Clark, Donald Clark Plan B, 2015/03/05
Donald Clark defends the use of swear words and expressions in conference presentations (language warning, not surprisingly). This is also common in various online publications. More...
Rules, Attribution, and Doing The Right Thing
Rules, Attribution, and Doing The Right Thing
Alan Levine, CogDogBlog, 2015/03/05
I have to say I'm completely on board with the sentiments expressed in this post from Alan Levine. He writes, "Attribution not just about following rules and avoiding getting in trouble for copyright, it’s about paying forward the act of sharing content freely." More...
To Get Big, Start Really Small

Tim Kastelle, The Discipline of Innovation, 2015/03/05
I think this post is a classic example of post hoc ergo propter hoc - "after this therefore because of this". Here's the argument. More...
4 Reasons You Don’t Have an E-Learning Portfolio

4 Reasons You Don’t Have an E-Learning Portfolio
Nicole Legault, Flirting W/ Elearning, 2015/03/05
Interesting perspective on why people don't have or use e-learning technology like e-learning portfolios. So why wouldn't you post your best work online? Here are the four reasons:
- You're too busy
- You don't have any experience
- You don't have any e-learning software
- You signed an NDA. More...
People Have the Star Trek Computer Backwards
People Have the Star Trek Computer Backwards
Michael Caulfield, Hapgood, 2015/03/05
This is a great reconstruction of just what exactly is going on with the computers on Star Trek (the original series). More...
Om Malik interviews Jenna Wortham
Jenna Wortham
Om Malik, pi.co, 2015/03/05
Om Malik interviews Jenna Wortham. I wasn't sure I'd like it because I'm a bit indifferent to Malik (and the early name-dropping and depiction of his subject as "sassy" didn't help). But it's a good conversation and they go into some depth into what's happening at least in the U.S. version of the internet. More...
How Facebook Is Taking On "Dangerous" Speech
How Facebook Is Taking On "Dangerous" Speech
ReadWrite, Alicia Eler, 2015/03/04
Interesting article about Facebook's response to 'dangerous speech'. The article is situated with respect to "the Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu, who spent seven years in jail for inciting violence against Muslims and now advocates exiling them from Myanmar." The article lists five criteria for identifying "dangerous speech". More...
The troubling psychology behind how we decide who’s a scientific “expert” — and who isn’t
The troubling psychology behind how we decide who’s a scientific “expert” — and who isn’t
Chris Mooney, Washington Post, 2015/03/04
The trouble with experts, according to this article, is that they're unreliable (and our choice of who counts as an expert is unreliable as well). So we should let the wisdom of crowds prevail. More...