- 22 Thoughts on Automated Grading of Student Writing | Inside Higher Ed – I love it. The idea that teaching and evaluating written work can be done as a computer algorithm is a mind-saver. Why? Reading is boring. Automate now. I have videos to watch. My favorite thought is #7:” The only motivations for even experimenting, let alone embracing automated grading of student writing are business-related.” Can there be any better motivation? – (de xmooc assessment )
- Blog Exercises: Increase Your Thank You Ratio « Lorelle on WordPress – No excuses. Say thank you. – (etiquette learning de en3177 )
- Is Google Making Us Stupid? – Nicholas Carr – The Atlantic – – (DL CreavtiveCommons ) Sorry … Miles away … What was the question? Carr tries to address the question by over-interpreting neuroscience research. Plasticity does’t mean stoopidity.
Tag: etiquette
- Man sued for keeping company Twitter followers – One for Weblogs and Wikis and A&E: "Corporate control of Twitter accounts has been a highly debated subject. Legal experts believe this latest case could set a precedent for future ownership tussles." – (twitter IP socialmedia )
- Twitter Etiquette: In A Little More Than 140 Characters – – (twitter etiquette socialmedia )
- Welcome to Quora. Do Yourself a Favor… Slow Down – Some instruction for noobs. Terse in places, a little narrow in others, but it defines one of the safer paths to take while you find your way around. See the apologia, too, if you want to see the culture in action: http://www.quora.com/Lucretia-M-Pruitt/Im-not-the-boss-of-you-Im-not-the-teller-of-you-what-to-do – (en3177 etiquette quora cullture rant )
- How can I avoid forgetting the best things? – Quora – Sort of a recursive entry. The response to the question is to bookmark it online – so I am, and curious to see how the answer change. 'Course, you can just follow the question too – (quora question socialbookmarking )
- Welcome to The Nethernet – Some profs using this as an incentive. I prefer my good and evil fully baked. – (twwt socialpractices gaming )
- Challenging the Presentation Paradigm (in 6 minutes, 40 seconds): Pecha Kucha – 20 sides running automatically for 20 secs each, each slide containing one graphic or one phrase. The numbers are arbitrary, but the constraints (equal time on each slide, one graphic or one phrase – not a sentence) are interesting. The article suggests it takes 6 hours to develop and practice the presentation. – (presentations ppt pecha-kucha powerpoint )
- The Email Signature: From Efficient to Overkill – advice based on tech writing principles – (email etiquette tech_writing )