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28 novembre 2019

Twitter: an Evaluation

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Twitter: an Evaluation
Terry Freedman spends a couple of months evaluating Twitter. "When Twitter first appeared on the scene," he writes, "I thought it sounded like a complete waste of time." And though he tries to be positive in his evaluation, it really reads like he found it to be a complete waste of time. "It can be fun, and it can be addictive too... so many of these sorts of networks that I can spend hours of an evening doing nothing except have conversations. More...

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28 novembre 2019

Dalhousie Gets Facebook Animal Research Site Yanked

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Dalhousie Gets Facebook Animal Research Site Yanked
I don't know one way or another how Dalhousie treats its animals. But I am reasonably confident that the way to respond to criticism isn't to get Facebook to shut down vocal opposition groups. Facebook has been clamping down on its users' activities recently, also deleting profiles for groups and fictitious entities. This sort of activity elsewhere - at Friendster, for example - has sent users looking for freer alternatives. More...

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28 novembre 2019

Blackboard, Competitor Reach Agreement to End Court Fight

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Blackboard, Competitor Reach Agreement to End Court Fight
Blackboard and iParadigms have settled their patent dispute out of court. The dispute arose when Blackboard filed what it called "preventative action" after acquiring the main competitor to iParadigm's plagiarism detection system, TurnItIn. More...

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28 novembre 2019

E-Learning Market Update (August 2007)

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. E-Learning Market Update (August 2007)
Good post that summarizes Adobe's decision to end production of Athorware and to support higher definition video in the next version of Flash (the company knows a strength when it sees it, I guess - more on this). More...

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28 novembre 2019

The BPR3 Icon Contest

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The BPR3 Icon Contest
There's a movement afoot to distinguish blog posts that report on credible academic work. A noble cause, but only reports on "peer reviewed research" will be so designated. I appreciate that the intent is to highlight reporting that is of something deeper than news clippings and press releases. Goodness knows we've seen enough of that in the blogosphere. But I really think that we should cast out net more widely. Is there an icon that I think would indicate that the things I cover are credible? No - but the fact that I covered them (in my eyes) lends them that credibility. More...

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28 novembre 2019

Emergence

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Emergence
Doug Noon looks at the role of rules in the emergence of learning. "Friere said that freedom can only exist in conditions that are subject to authority. The student, he said, experiences freedom in relation to the teacher's authority.'" My reply. More...

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28 novembre 2019

I CAN HAS LOLCODE PARSER?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. I CAN HAS LOLCODE PARSER?
So what makes me happy on a rainy Friday afternoon? An article on Brad Fitzpatrick and the opening of social networks? And Facebook Feeds? Good, but that's Wednesday stuff. More discussion of books vs computers? Nice when people agree with me, also nice when they don't. More...

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28 novembre 2019

What's All the Buzz About Wikibooks? I Found at Least 10 Examples.

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. What's All the Buzz About Wikibooks? I Found at Least 10 Examples.
Curt Bonk offers us a look at a promising alternative to the textbook, the wiki book. Essentially, the wiki book is an online book written collectively by its readers. Bonk's post is a valuable contribution because it lists and describes in some detail ten separate wiki books projects. This gives readers some concrete examples they can consider following. Bonk is working on a book applying Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat ideas to learning. Richard Hoeg takes the same tack with this post and presentation (which is worth the six minutes to view). More...

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28 novembre 2019

OER Recommender

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. OER Recommender
This is a very nice way to work with things that are not textbooks. "OER Recommender links you to open education resources related to web pages you are browsing." Outstanding! I'd like to see a (paper-based) textbook do that! The only real problem I see with it is that it requires the Greasemonkey Foirefox extension, and then another Firefox extension (these also work in Flock). It's not that I don't like the extensions, it's just that I would prefer the feature to be browser-neutral. More...

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28 novembre 2019

I Disagree with Suspending the Purchase of Textbooks

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. I Disagree with Suspending the Purchase of Textbooks
I'll state right up front that I disagree with Vicki Davis's position here. But it should be stated. She writes, "I personally have to underline, write, rewrite, take notes in the margin and work with the text. I just have to. It is how I learn." Fair enough. And I absolutely think that you need to work with the material in order to learn it. When I was in university I also spent a great deal of time rewriting texts on paper (lectures too, which I transcribed as I listened to them). Now I use a computer to do this - and it's an important skill to have. Yes, some people still do it the old way. They shouldn't. And some people today just cut and paste from electronic texts. More...

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