- Technology Fails Plagiarism, Citation Tests – "plagiarism detection software is being unmasked as not as effective as using browser search engines." But with Turnitin, you don't actually have to read the paper. Maybe I'm cynical, but I'm thinking we don't trust our own judgements. But the better argument is this,
"Both plagiarism detection and citation software are harbingers of the dangers of seeking shortcuts for teaching students any aspect of writing; spending school or university funds on these inadequate technologies, I think, is hard to defend, but the greater pedagogical problem is how technology often serves to impede, not strengthen our roles as educators—especially as teachers of writing. – (plagiarism fyw )
- Fear and Loathing of the English Passive – Geoffrey Pullum – Pullum clarifies use of the passive in English. Makes one glad to be alive. – (grammar usage syntax strunknwhite )
- Human Resources and Thought Control – Lingua Franca – Geoffrey Pullum – Another strike at the gramma and umbrage gang. This time it's a matter of getting a focus: Don't try to change the language – change the damn HR policies.
"My point is that either it’s right to try to reshape people’s thinking by sculpting their phraseology or it isn’t. If it isn’t, then Orwell shouldn’t have been trying to manipulate our political perception through linguistic revision. But if it is, then HR people are not doing anything wrong by following Orwell’s example.
You can’t have it both ways: Thought control through word or phrase eradication… can’t be uncritically regarded as right when Orwell does it but automatically condemned as wrong when your employer does it. That’s begging the question." – (grammar standards strunknwhite )
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- How I manage to keep active in so many networks – PhD candidate Cristina Costa on living in her PLN. – (dl dh academia2.0 ple fyw social_learning )
- Your WYSIWYG Editor sucks – outlines the concerns of developers, which is a good insight into how and what they think. includes that pesky gender problem: the smes are gendered as women, getting a little too creative for the developers and either slow in learning or just plain obstinate. interesting how the typist is still gendered and the solutions to them is still administrative. – (webdesign sme gender cms )
- open letter to coursera – in the manner of a course proposal. Bob Meister – (academia coursera mooc moocs xmooc )
- Ian Bogost – The Walled Kindergarten – Bogost on corporate control of MOOCs – (moocs xmooc )
- Ian Bogost – Latour Litanizer – Bogost doing OOO theory – (DH theory doing OOO )
- Microsoft honcho pleads with media: ‘Stop picking on us!’ – How to handle annotating an article, including sarcasm. – (fyw argument annotation )
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bookmarks for May 21st, 2012
- Layering Personal Learning Environments – – (ple )
- [toread] Wikipedia in the Classroom | NiCHE – Network in Canadian History & Environment – – (wikipedia education fyw techwriting )
- Tree of Codes by Jonathan Safran Foer – review | Books | The Guardian – Guardian provides a solid ov if the context and origin of the work – (DigitalHumanities DH literature reading artifact )
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bookmarks for April 21st, 2012
- Delagrange::Technologies of Wonder – fair OV. – (DigitalHumanities erhetoric )
- Prof. Jones’s wiki / Class Notes Assignment – Class notes are epistemologically weird. On the one hand, they feel quite private, but, on the other, if your understanding of what went on in class is too idiosyncratic, then you’re likely to do poorly on exams. (Also, to whatever extent a class is a shared intellectual enterprise, there should be at least *some* common understanding of what has gone on during our time together.) It can be hard to improve one’s notetaking skills, because it’s traditionally such an individual practice. Enter the wiki. – (wiki teaching fyw via:ccarey )
- [toread] classifying participation in online discussions – – (erhetoric )
- The Nature of Scholarship : The Digital Scholar: How Technology Is Transforming Scholarly Practice : Bloomsbury Academic – method just below the surface. – (research2.0 ple )
- How to Write an Email That Will Get a Response | The Art of Manliness – Not bad for generic advice. More about AoM than email, but, hey. – (techwriting netiquette email )
- Digital Literacies for Writing in Social Media – a brief plan – (literacy digitalliteracy fyw )
- the 99% movement’s use of social media – fast analysis of twitter text in the movement. – (en3177 anthropology twitter emedia digitalkulture )
- How Take Control Makes EPUBs in Pages – – (none)
- #fuckyouwashington « BuzzMachine – The start of the #fuckyouwashington hashtag escspade. How a hash gets started and moving. – (twitter hashtag erhetoric #en3177 )
- No one owns a hashtag « BuzzMachine – From the originator of #fuckyouwashington, which created a minor hashblurp. Some thoughts on how the tag functions socially. – (twitter hashtag # fyw fyc erhetoric en3177 )
- Losing interest in social media: there is no there there – George Siemans placing social media (FB, Twitter, g+) in its place. Ephemeral. Distribution. Theres a place for the ephemeral, the emotive, but the considered work is foundational. I was thinking the same thing – even g+ is California – but more as a matter of pace and obligation: g+ and others demand a pace and regularity that I’m just not interested in engaging. Nor are many of my students.”What has Twitter and Facebook done for me? Nothing, really. Other than perhaps attending to my emotive needs of being connected to people when I’m traveling and whining.
Social media=emotions.
Blogging/writing/transparent scholarship=intellect.
Put another way, Twitter/Facebook/G+ are secondary media.” – (Twitter g+ FB socialmedia socialnetworking social_obligations scholarship2.0 )
- Data journalism at the Guardian: what is it and how do we do it? – Where data touches rhetorical delivery. A little self-serving (We Are The Guardian), but a good starting point for more investigation. – (data data_analysis visualization journalism prezi )
- Learning Reimagined: Participatory, Peer, Global, Online – Taming a mini-mooc-like environment, with the emphasis on co-learning. – (oer mooc ple )
- Americanisms: 50 of Your Most Noted Examples – – (fyc )
- Stephen Downes: Open Educational Resources: A Definition – This is the way to do it: work towards a genus:species definition (see F/T/W, Ann Berthoff), explaining the rationale behind the choices. – (taxonomy OER definition defining #en3177 )
- OpenLearn – The Open University – OER courses. – (OER )
- CC’s The Power of Open – – (readlater )
- [toread] Post by Robert Scoble: Tips – Yesterday 2:19 PM (edited Yesterday 2:26 PM) A little test – (none)
- Teaching teachers how to teach web media. – Jennifer Jones’ PhD Notebook – An outlined CPD workshop with commentary worth reading. Or commentary on CPD workshops worth reading with an outline of a workshop. – (CDP teaching )
- [toread] MOOCs as ecologies – or – why i work on MOOCs » Dave’s Educational Blog – A step back from the Siemens-Wiley debate. – (MOOC PLE OER )
- [toread] The Technological Dimension of a Massive Open Online Course: The Case of the CCK08 Course Tools | Fini | The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning – – (OER MOOC PLE casestudy )
- Do open online courses have a role in educational reform? « Connectivism – Good entry point to the Siemens and WIley debating some of the qualities and position of MOOCs. “the fact that people don’t have the skills to participate in distributed networks for learning and sensemaking is exactly why we need MOOCs.” – (MOOC PLE OER futureofeducation salvation )
- 80 Apps and Resources for Cloud-Based Web Dev – – (wcw )
- Bloggers illuminated by their screens – Dust off your semiotic analysis hats and take a look at these images of bloggers. – (bloggers blogging semiotics en3177 )
- Hyperbole and a Half – Multimodal composition. – (newjournalism multimodal erhetoric )
- Eye blog » (No) end of print. Reports of print’s death have been greatly exaggerated – Overview, with links and artifacts, of the print debate from a print designer’s perspective. – (visualdesign printculture print design )
- Two centuries of propaganda in posters » OWNI.eu, News, Augmented – Extensive collection for A&E – (A&E fyw argument visualliteracy visual_argument )
- FAQ #1 – Advantages of using the Institutional LMS – Draconian policies in the guise of FAQs from U Toronto. It”s all worth looking at for the naive understanding of teaching and learning, for driving pedagogy by administration, and for the nasty way of passing their silliness off as FAQs. A good one: “Students may be disadvantaged if they are required to learn how to use and navigate multiple systems.” Response: Student *will* be disadvantaged if they do not learn to use multiple systems. – (LMS policy commonsense )
- Atlas of the Habitual – hyper logging project. – (readlater lifelogging gps )
- Do’s and Don’ts for Your Work’s Social Platforms – Andrew McAfee – Harvard Business Review – a pretty modest and conservative view of using social apps, but illustrates that writers can use them for things other than slagging off everyone else. – (social_ practices advice )
- [toread] News: The Shirley Sherrods of Academe? – Inside Higher Ed – Here's a right mess. Conservative edits course lectures and discussion to emphasize violence – and the profs get the hit. Cmon U Missouri. Make it right. You can do it. – (Conservatism academia Fyw )
- [toread] Why I Might Be (although I would rather not be) Leaving Dropbox – academhack – Thoughts on Emerging Media and Higher Education – Also a good example of researched argument. – (Privacy fyw )
- Five Ways to Make Word Clouds from Text – – (#en3177 readme )