• Fifth Discipline

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• Organization Development and Knowledge Management, GMU/School of Public Policy

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• NAIS - Annual Conference -

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• The Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education

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• The International Studies Schools Association at the University of Denver

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• Presentation Materials

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• TakingITGlobal - Inspire. Inform. Involve.

  tags: community, TakingITGlobal, activism, education, global, teaching

• About Systems Thinking

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• MIT OpenCourseWare | Sloan School of Management | 15.963 Organizations as Enacted Systems: Learning, Knowing and Change, Fall 2002 | Calendar

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• MIT OpenCourseWare | Sloan School of Management | 15.963 Organizations as Enacted Systems: Learning, Knowing and Change, Fall 2002 | Syllabus

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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.

• Interacting and paradoxical forces in neuroscience and society

  tags: paradoxical

• Albert Jay Nock and Alternative History| The Foundation for Economic Education: The Freeman, Ideas on Liberty

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• Charles H. Smith’s Home Page

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• Links from all over the place (I) « eme ká eme

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• 17 Ways to Get Free Books | Frugal Panda

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  • 17 Ways to Get Free Books

    You can never have too many books, so we are delighted to share with you some ways to get them for free. From children’s books to technical books, there are numerous resources that offer literature for free. Some of the following sites offer actual printed books, while others feature electronic books (aka “ebooks”). Please bear in mind that the list is alphabetized, not ordered by importance.

    1. 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.

    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.

• HOW TO: Convert Your Blog Into a Podcast on iTunes for Free

  Easy poetry readings/ lectures/ audio diary.

  tags: podcast, itunes, tools

• Our Tea

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• Twitter for Dummies: Home

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• 24 Killer Portable Apps For Your USB Flash Drive - Download Squad

  tags: usb, portable, tools, usbDrive, freeware

• Daddy, Where’s Your Phone? - O’Reilly Radar

  tags: mobilelearning, digital_natives, educational_leadership

  • 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

• tinytags - make a little text tag graphic

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• Will Electric Professors Dream of Virtual Tenure? - Chronicle.com

  tags: futureversity, singularity, x-prize

  • 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

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

  • 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
  • The whole fabric
    • Interesting metaphor, our strength derives from the interlocking thread elements. - post by tellio
  • 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

  • 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
  • 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 Education

      View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: elearn atellio
  • International Space University
  • For 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

• Diigo for education | Education IT | ZDNet.com

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• Your Personal Online Brand - It Begins with your Facebook Profile | The Digital Student Blog

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• » Thinking Thru the Syllabus Networked Knowledge: ATEC 6V81 (University Texas at Dallas)

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  • Interresting idea: getting feedback on your syllabus on the internet . - post by theron_d
  • 
    • A truly clean class design. - post by tellio

• CiteULike: academicdave’s library [65 articles]

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• Your Personal Online Brand - It Begins with your Facebook Profile | The Digital Student Blog

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• » Thinking Thru the Syllabus Networked Knowledge: ATEC 6V81 (University Texas at Dallas)

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  • Interresting idea: getting feedback on your syllabus on the internet . - post by theron_d
  • 
    • A truly clean class design. - post by tellio

• CiteULike: academicdave’s library [65 articles]

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• xmlcss_2.gif (GIF Image, 1500×780 pixels) - Scaled (94%)

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• Nikon | Coolpix 2100 Firmware Update 1.1 - Windows

  tags: coolpix, 2100

• HAVEN - Community - Dialogue Zone

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  • “The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
    — Muriel Rukeyser, The Speed of Darkness

    • Stories are the atoms of communication. - post by tellio

• Pageflakes - Mark’s Web 2.0 Research Tools USC

  tags: pageflakes

• Zotero Forums - General Principles

  The specific tools I use are Zotero (for citations, bookmarking, and note taking), EndNote (for citations and bibliographies), OpenOffice Writer (for note taking), and diigo (for bookmarking and annotations). I find I have to use both Zotero and EndNote because the latter handles lots of references (I have about 20,000) very well and because it integrates much better with my university’s reference databases like CSA, EBSCO, or Science Direct, as well as with publishers’ online databases and notification services like Blackwell Synergy. In general, I find EndNote much more “lightweight” (i.e., quicker to use and more responsive) than Zotero, but its integration with ordinary web documents and note-taking features are far weaker. I say “ordinary web documents” because most of the time with pdf files and other even slightly out of the ordinary web material (e.g., any of the U.S. Census Bureau’s surveys), I have to enter the citation information manually. I use OpenOffice.org Writer to take notes involving mathematics, since it’s much better for this than Zotero (or Word or EndNote). I use diigo to annotate and comment on web pages, including online pdf documents. None of the other tools comes close on this function.

  One thing none of these packages does well is deal with web pages being displayed under a parent page. For example, if I use LexisNexis to retrieve newspaper articles, they appear as pdf files in a frame (I think it’s a frame). Neither Zotero nor diigo gets the correct citation information, and neither EndNote nor OpenOffice Writer are designed even to try. I have to enter the bibliographic information manually, and I’m not even sure the URL will be reliable in Zotero or diigo since it points to the LexisNexis interface rather than to the individual newspaper article.

  In any case, because no one application has all the functionality I need, I have some items’ reference information in EndNote, Zotero, or diigo and notes in Zotero, EndNote, or as separate OO.o files. In addition, before using this set of

  tags: zotero, workflow, EndNote, OpenOffice

  • 
    • Need to develop workflow management into regular production. - post by tellio
  • The specific tools I use are Zotero (for citations, bookmarking, and note taking), EndNote (for citations and bibliographies), OpenOffice Writer (for note taking), and diigo (for bookmarking and annotations). I find I have to use both Zotero and EndNote because the latter handles lots of references (I have about 20,000) very well and because it integrates much better with my university’s reference databases like CSA, EBSCO, or Science Direct, as well as with publishers’ online databases and notification services like Blackwell Synergy.
  • In any case, because no one application has all the functionality I need, I have some items’ reference information in EndNote, Zotero, or diigo and notes in Zotero, EndNote, or as separate OO.o files. In addition, before using this set of tools I used Scribe and WikidPad.
  • 
    • Opportunities for consulting, books, classes–personal learning environments that combine f2f with p2p. - post by tellio

• Center for History and New Media » Blog Archive » George Mason’s Center for History & New Media, Emory University Libraries Announce Zotero Partnership

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  • Since its introduction in 2006, Zotero has earned significant
    accolades for its facilitation of online research. It was named a PC
    Magazine’s “Best Free Software” in 2007 and again this year, as well
    as “Best Instructional Software” of 2007 as determined by the
    Information Technology and Politics section of the American Political
    Science Association.
  • 
    • More accolades for Zotero. - post by tellio

• FINAL REPORT | DIGITAL YOUTH RESEARCH

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• Arianna Huffington: Obama’s Call to Service Meets the Economic Meltdown

  tags: obama, huffington

  • On Monday afternoon I got a blast email from the Obama campaign. I immediately wondered what I was going to be asked to do: Donate to the Franken campaign? Make calls for Jim Martin down in Georgia?

    It turned out to be neither. The campaign was letting me know that barackobama.com was directing visitors to volunteer for — or donate to — relief efforts to aid the victims of the Southern California fires.

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• edtechpost » SESSION 2 - Mashing up your own PLE

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• fd’s Flickr Toys: Do fun stuff with your photos

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  • GREAT assortment of free tools to create photo projects.
    - post by cburell
  • U?yteczne zabawki dla Flickr. - post by mendrek
  • ??Flickr?? - post by geneboy

• Between Trapezes — Six Steps

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• Go2Web20.net - The complete Web 2.0 sites directory

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  • This is really a great site. I wonder how often it’s updated. - post by seadap
  • This is an amazing collection of tools with examples - post by kathibak
  • amazing! - post by nettzevo
  • Fantastic site! - post by kosmos2k
  • A directory of web 2.0 applications and services - post by gerchik

  • Very up to date web2.0 directory - even got WebSlides up already

    - post by maggie_diigo

  • ????? ???????????! - post by danila
  • Sweet.  Ajaxy directory of Web 2.0 apps (whatever that means).  Just mouse over to get a quick description of what they are.  Nice since I miss Mashable.com’s list.
    - post by bluecockatoo
  • I love web 2.0 and this is a great site too look at some of the cool new sites.
    - post by szutyo
  • This is a comprehensive list of Web 2.0 sites.
    - post by youcanreachtim
  • Great Directory of many of the latest Web 2.0 sites.
    - post by youcanreachtim
  • A wall of logos of the latest web 2.0 applications. Find what you need. Discover what you don’t… - post by ebouvier
  • Sammlung von web2.0 Anwendungen - post by akpe76
  • Go2Web20.net has a not-quite-comprehensive collction of web2.0 services. - post by iconolith
  • flash application - post by jeanmichelg
  • Listing of many sites - post by tapirka
  • the complete Web 2.0 directory - post by jdrsantos
  • A wall of logos of the latest web 2.0 applications. Find what you need. Discover what you don’t… - post by stiphen
  • web 2.0 ???????????? - post by msnbwam3
  • Site flash presentant les sites WEB20 et leur logo - post by fardeen
  • Toàn b? danh sách các site Web 2.0 ???c s?p x?p theo d?ng gallery. Nó c?ng là m?t th? vi?n v? logo ?áng xem cho các designer. - post by sonnymotives
  • WEB2.0?????? - post by kgl0903
  • The complete Web 2.0 directory - post by deeskillman
  • easy search for lost findings - post by sylvesterbecker
  • ****** - post by jackie
  • ****** - post by minimo
  • ****** - post by jackiege
  • ****** - post by jackiege
  • The complete Web 2.0 directory - post by geneboy
  • ****** - post by jackiege
  • web2.0??????????? - post by m_mor_
  • Tagline: “The complete Web 2.0 directory.” What’s really cool, though, is the awesome interface. It appears quite thorough. - post by docbadwrench
  • ?????????????????????? - post by hepodo
  • wowwowwow!!! <-my completely pointless comment of the day - post by telecommatt
  • Logos and details about so many web 2.0 companies - post by suscreative

• CogDogRoo » Web 2.0 Gem Starters

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• CogDogRoo » StoryTools - Annotated

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  • Great list, and I appreciate how they were organized by categories. - post by go2net
  • We could use this for lessons… I’m going to try as many as I can - post by andyriddle
  • http://voicethread.com Weave uploaded or flickr imported images into a media presentation with multiple voices. Record audio, video, or add text or drawn annotations. Others can add video, audio, and text comments as well. See also VoiceThread for Education wiki.
    • Voicethread looks great for student collaborative presentations - post by gjhugs
  • http://www.glogster.com/ Create posters with images, video, audio (uploaded or recorded) and apply a wide range of text effects- note that each one is relatively large sized (may not fit in blog page)
    • Just added and edu section. I have some students who are starting to create posters for class. Our church youth group leaders are using glogster to create posters for events and posting them on facebook. - post by rjacklin
    • Not sure about this for classroom use but will give it a whirl - post by gjhugs
  • http://www.slideshare.net It’s YouTube for PowerPoint. Upload Powerpoint/Keynote/PDF content and converts to Flash easily embedded in other web sites. Provide a URL for an audio track, and you can sync it to create an audio narrated “slidecast”
    • Have used this, slow upload but works well - post by gjhugs

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