Zotero Group at Diigo (weekly)
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Study: 54 Percent of Companies Ban Facebook, Twitter at Work | Epicenter | Wired.com
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Community Networking and Social Capital: Early Investigations
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Vol. 8, No. 3
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In a Digital Future, Textbooks Are History
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Most of the digital texts submitted for review in California came from a nonprofit group, CK-12 Foundation, that develops free “flexbooks” that can be customized to meet state standards, and added to by teachers. Its physics flexbook, a Web-based, open-content compilation, was introduced in Virginia in March.
“The good part of our flexbooks is that they can be anything you want,” said Neeru Khosla, a founder of the group. “You can use them online, you can download them onto a disk, you can print them, you can customize them, you can embed video. When people get over the mind-set issue, they’ll see that there’s no reason to pay $100 a pop for a textbook, when you can have the content you want free.”
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Sharing links with users – 8 different ways | Musings about librarianship
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Marketing Over Coffee Marketing Podcast » Conference In A Box
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New Journalistic Workflow : A Blog Around The Clock
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Step 1 is easily done on Twitter, but other Twitter-like platforms can do the same thing. One can do the same even on places like Delicious, Stumbleupon, Simpy, Digg, Reddit, Fark, Slashdot or Metafilter. Or even on a blog – this is what bloggers have been doing – quick links and one-liners many times a day – for years before any of those other platforms were invented. One can also do it on Facebook since it introduced the relevant functionalities. Also worth noting is that having this service on one’s mobile device allows for reporting from the scene, i.e., for “breaking news” as I defined here last week (see all the responses to that post aggregated – Step 2 – on FriendFeed).
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SAMPLE REALITY · On Hacking and Unpacking My (Zotero) Library
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YouTube – Using Zotero with Flickr Images and PowerPoint
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darcusblog » Blog Archive » Zotero Groups and Teaching – geek tools and the scholar
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Top 10 Web Collaboration Tools (That Aren’t Google Wave) – Collaboration – Lifehacker
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Even as layoffs persist, some good jobs go begging – Yahoo! News
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Ask Steve Jones, a hospital recruiter in Indianapolis who’s struggling to find qualified nurses, pharmacists and MRI technicians. Or Ed Baker, who’s looking to hire at a U.S. Energy Department research lab in Richland, Wash., for $60,000 each.
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- What key things have I learned in unit x this week (from the lecture, textbook, and/or tutorials)?
- How does this relate to what I already know?
- How can I apply what I’ve learned in this unit to other units I’m studying?
- Can I apply what I’ve learned in this unit to aspects of life outside the classroom?
- What patterns and relationships between different aspects of what I’m learning in this unit can I identify?
- What was a high point of this week (mastering a difficult topic, scoring an A in a test, having coffee with a new friend)?
- What was the low point of this week (failing a test, computer crashing, taking twenty minutes to find an empty student parking bay)?
- What obstacles did I encounter this week (difficult text to read, couldn’t make sense of the notes I took in the lecture, got lost)?
- What strategies did I use to overcome these obstacles (got notes from The Learning Centre on effective reading techniques, found a learning partner to compare and discuss notes after the lecture, got a map and took a walk around campus to familiarise myself with where everything is)?
- What have I learnt about myself as a learner this week (strengths and weaknesses, learning style preferences, best times and places to study, balancing study with other responsibilities and commitments)?
Here are some examples of the kind of questions you might ask:
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You Can’t Do What You Want By Doing Something Else
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One observation set me back. There are lots of people who wanted to do one thing but then got “practical” and did something else “first.” The idea was that they’d be successful and sock away money doing the practical thing, and after that they could go back to the thing they loved. Bronson was sure that, among the hundreds of people that he interviewed, someone would actually have been successful with this strategy. It sounds so reasonable, after all.
But he encountered exactly zero people who pulled it off. Everyone who tried got sucked into the “practical” career and were never able to extract themselves from it. Too comfortable, too many expectations from friends and family, too easy just to keep doing what you’re doing.
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Five Best Weight-Management Tools – Weight loss – Lifehacker
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The Open PhD – What a Concept « Open Ph.D. – An Experiment in Higher Learning
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Ed/ITLib Digital Library ? The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education
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Ed/ITLib Digital Library ? The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education
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The World is Open Webinar – ednak.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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