November 30, 2008
Zotero Group at Diigo (weekly)
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Organization Development and Knowledge Management, GMU/School of Public Policy
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The International Studies Schools Association at the University of Denver
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The Online Photographer: The Amazing Gift of Woo Lai Wah
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The Amazing Gift of Woo Lai Wah
By Mike Mitchell
On my way to the basement to do some laundry, I noticed a package on my porch. It was in the usual spot where I ask delivery people to put things if there’s no answer to the doorbell. Strange, though. I wasn’t expecting anything; everything I’d ordered recently had been delivered.
When I came back upstairs I picked it up. It was for me, not my tenants, and it was from Hong Kong. There was no return address and the customs declaration on the side simply read “camera part.” Very strange.
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Interacting and paradoxical forces in neuroscience and society
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17 Ways to Get Free Books | Frugal Panda
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- Bibliomania - Bibliomania is a simple and fast-loading site that offers over 2000 classic books, short stories, plays and poems online. From Mark Twain to William Shakespeare, some of the world’s greatest writers are included on the site. All you have to do is browse the site’s genre sections or search for a specific text, then you are presented with it directly on the site’s page. Users can seamlessly stroll through each page with this site, as it isn’t bogged down with flashy graphics.
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Bibliomania is an invaluable tool for book lovers, as well as students and teachers. Teachers for the classroom could print off excerpts from classic texts. Also, study guides are available on the site, should you need to cram for a big test. Should you wish to purchase a physical copy of a featured text, you can be directed to a store where you will can order the text online with a credit card.
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HOW TO: Convert Your Blog Into a Podcast on iTunes for Free
Easy poetry readings/ lectures/ audio diary.
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24 Killer Portable Apps For Your USB Flash Drive - Download Squad
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Daddy, Where’s Your Phone? - O’Reilly Radar
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But I plead guilty to Kamla’s charge: I think about the web as experienced on a PC, and then about mobile as an add on. The tipping point has come; that notion has to flip: if we’re trying to get ahead of the curve, we need to think first about the phone, and then think about the PC browser experience as the add-on.
- Because I work in a computer lab classroom (I am indeed a lucky dude to have such a teaching assistant) I do not tend to notice this until I see a student texting in the back of the classroom. For him the computer keyboard within arm’s reach is nowhere near as compelling as the one in his hand. I feel like I am standing on stone in the middle of the creek as the rain pelts down and it has just occurred to me that I can’t stay where I am for long. Swim, rat, swim! - post by tellio
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Will Electric Professors Dream of Virtual Tenure? - Chronicle.com
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Singularity University
- How far are we going to allow computers to advise us? Perhaps they would make better learning brokers or at least be better in bringing the multiplicity of the net and aggregat it into a “program of study”. - post by tellio
- Interdisciplinary, Intercultural and International - post by tellio
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how thinking machines would reshape campus life.
- This is the meat of the article. I want to know how this singularity university affects me. Will I be out of a job? Will it make my job easier, faster, better? Where will I need to go to accomodate? Do I need to check out of higher ed and move into another form of ed? Worldwide effects? - post by tellio
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I’m one or two orders of magnitude more productive today because of the global knowledge system the Internet has enabled.”
- I would have to agree with this. Google as second brain (some seem to think that it is their only brain) is a metaphor I use with my students in class all the time. I can only imagine the connectivity online search represents to get tighter and more profound at the same time just as it already has. - post by tellio
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Perhaps we’ll soon have machines recording everything we say, see, and hear, allowing us to retrieve experiences we now lose to forgetfulness.
- Reminds me of Kevin Kelly’s website, The quantified self–http://www.quantifiedself.com/
Good info is inevitably customized to small “t” truths that make your life meaningful. - post by tellio
- Reminds me of Kevin Kelly’s website, The quantified self–http://www.quantifiedself.com/
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Computerized research assistants
- What kind of topology is being suggested here? Would these research assistants be experts on top or on tap? As it exists now humans are still at the hub of any system, but perhaps we need to move to a heliocentric system where the research bots are at the center and we orbit them. Personally, I prefer a jungle ecology system, a learning society of mind like MInsky writes about. - post by tellio
- They already exist–google alerts for example. What we need are researchbots–oops they already exist, too. - post by tellio
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The whole fabric
- Interesting metaphor, our strength derives from the interlocking thread elements. - post by tellio
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let’s face it, the human brain isn’t getting any zippier.
- What a great motto or signature or bumper sticker!
I certainly wish I could tag this comment. - post by tellio
- What a great motto or signature or bumper sticker!
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These new computer teachers will have more patience than any human lecturer, and they will be able to offer every student individual attention — which sure beats a 500-person lecture course.
- All hail the Comptutor! This frees up teachers to do…..? Creative work. Designing even wiser and better comptutors? - post by tellio
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Virtual professors probably won’t ask for tenure. And Mr. Goertzel sees them as key to expanding educational opportunities, by greatly reducing the price of a high-quality education.
- I think that we are already well past the fork in the road and some of us are dead teachers walking. Take a look at David Wiley’s slideshare on this and then rub that thought together with the idea of the comptutor as learning broker and you will know what I mean.
Openness and the Disaggregated Future of Higher EducationView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: elearn atellioInternational Space UniversityFor example, if the technology falls into the wrong hands, it could aid terrorists or repressive dictators.
- I could see an educational panopticon with the ultimate evil high school counselor sitting like a giant hypnotoad in the center of it all directing us toward the greater good. - post by tellio
Your Personal Online Brand - It Begins with your Facebook Profile | The Digital Student Blog
» Thinking Thru the Syllabus Networked Knowledge: ATEC 6V81 (University Texas at Dallas)
- Interresting idea: getting feedback on your syllabus on the internet . - post by theron_d
- A truly clean class design. - post by tellio
Filed under TechKnowledgE by tellio
- I think that we are already well past the fork in the road and some of us are dead teachers walking. Take a look at David Wiley’s slideshare on this and then rub that thought together with the idea of the comptutor as learning broker and you will know what I mean.
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