Tag Archives: openaccess

What I’m reading 30 Aug 2016 through 9 Oct 2016

• A decentralized web would give power back to the people online – Want open? Start with open federation. – (oer fedwiki openaccess federation )
• Institutionalized – Mike's recent paean to changing the institution from within. – (oer open_learning open )
• Clueless Microsoft language processing – It might be crap, but it can only get better – if it's mandated. "Office 365 is the crappiest, slowest, most annoying email system I have ever encountered, and that is really saying something. I could write reams for you about its stupidities and detrimental effects on my productivity. Its attempts at showing intelligence are perhaps its worst feature." – (mnscu erhetoric microagression micromanagement )

Morgan’s pinboard for 2 Jan 2015 through 8 Jan 2015

• Peer 2 Peer University – Because anyone who's looking in should get a link to p2pu. [insert fork pun here]. – (courseware p2p )
• Harmonizing Learning and Education -e-Literate – large OV in response to Cormier, Downes, et al concerning active learning, course design, lib Ed. The title says it all, but here's some more: "This is partly a workplace argument. It’s an economic value argument. It’s a public good argument. If Dave is right, then people who care about learning are going to be better at just about any job you throw at them than people who don’t. This is a critical argument in favor of public funding of a liberal arts education, personalized in the old-fashioned sense of having-to-do-with-individual-persons, that much of academia has ceded for no good reason I can think of. The sticky wicket, though, is accountability which, as Dave points out, is the main reason we have a schism between learning and education in the first place – (pedagogy assessment coursedesign culture )
• Building a Place for Community: City Tech’s OpenLab – Report on CUNY's OpenLab, designed in part to align a dispersed community. Come together by way of a leaning community. – (OER openaccess open_learning digitalhub )
• [toread] Rhizomatic Learning – A Big Forking Course | Dave’s Educational Blog – – (none)

on pinboard for July 9th, 2014

• Movie Moment: Metonymy and Synecdoche in Legally Blonde | The Thought Experiment – fast look at visual metonymy. – (rhetoric visualrhetoric visual_argument )
• Writing Spaces Open Textbook – – (DH openaccess fyc oer )

bookmarks for December 30th, 2013 through December 31st, 2013

• Afraid someone will steal your idea? – "No genius. No mystique. Only work. Don't buy into the genius mystique. It is a mirage. Maybe there are geniuses out there, but you can't go assuming that you're one. That's like living as if you're going to win the lottery on a regular basis. No, the value comes from the work and no one's going to do more of it than you." – (open_source openaccess IP authorship )
• Language Log » School grammar, round two – Continuing loving it to death, our hero turns to implementation. English Depts are driven too much by literature and suffer from a lack of training in analytical methods so we might place the study of grammar elsewhere: "But at least in the U.S., my suggestion would be to turn away from English departments, and pursue a plan based on an alliance of linguists with people in computer science, psychology, statistics, medicine, law, sociology, business, etc., who increasingly see linguistic analysis (e.g. in the form of "text mining" or "text analytics") as an interesting object of study in itself, and as a means to enable research on other (applied or fundamental) topics. This alliance — which eventually might even include some people from Digital Humanities — is a plausible basis for college-level courses in "grammar" as practical text analysis." With this, we need a change in marketing The English Major, away from Book Club and towards theory in practice (aka analytic methods, study of text, NLP). It'll take a generation, – (DH linguistics grammar )

bookmarks for December 2nd, 2013 through December 6th, 2013

• Elsevier is taking down papers from Academia.edu | Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week – Can Elsevier be any more condescending? Welcome to Academics Got Talent, with Elsey playing Simon. – (academia2.0 copyright cc openaccess )
• Cult of Android MobileWhy Google Wants to ‘Can’ Your Messages | Cult of Android – sorry. im out of thr office but will get back 2 u when eye return. eof – (dh wcw erhetoric )

bookmarks for November 27th, 2013 through November 28th, 2013

• The Teacher’s Guide To Pinterest – Edudemic – Edudemic – Hmmm… curated, or simply dumped in a heap? – (curating DH )
• Death to the dropbox: Rethinking Student Privacy and Public Performance – – (DH openaccess )
• » Zen Scavenger Essay Writing SAMPLE REALITY – In a related exercise, students get a wordle of a scholarly essay and are to reconstruct the original. – (DH fyc recomposing )
• » What’s Wrong With Writing Essays SAMPLE REALITY – "The student essay is a twitch in a void. A compressed outpouring of energy (if we’re lucky) that means nothing to no one. … This is the primary reason I’ve integrated more and more public writing into my classes. I strive to instill in my students the sense that what they think and what they say and what they write matters — to me, to them, to their classmates, and through open access blogs and wikis, to the world." And he means, also, writing on objects in the world. – (DH fyc )
• Digital Storytelling » A Tale of Two Goldfish Bowls . . . Or What’s Right with Digital Storytelling – – (DH )

bookmarks for December 20th, 2012 through December 21st, 2012

• David Crystal – Texts and Tweets: myths and realities – YouTube – Tweeting means culture goes to hell in a hand basket? Yeah, ok. You might want to consider the evidence. – (twitter languagechange en3177 linguistics )
• Online photo sharing as harbinger of irrelevance | Abject – Argument for findability and the movement towards walled gardens. Or something like that. – (findability flickr oer openaccess opencontent )
• Klout in the Classroom: A Valuable Grading Tool? – WTF! Can you be less professional? "Like Klout, marketing simulation software provides a grade based on an unknown algorithm. Bacile explained that the software uses hundreds of differently weighed factors that are not revealed to its users. “The algorithm isn’t transparent and is subject to change,” he said. “But it’s a useful service that demonstrates that the world is full of uncertainty.” " – (social_media )

bookmarks for May 25th, 2011 through May 26th, 2011

• Experts Say Gestural Interfaces Are a Step Backwards In Usability – – (readlater )
• Open Textbook Tweet – WikiEducatorj – Buzz page for pdf and hard-copy editions of a text on OER and open textbook creation compiled by Sharon Fitzpatrick. – (oer mooc ple open_learning openaccess crowdsourcing )

bookmarks for December 28th, 2010

• #Open Textbook Tweet – A manifesto for ope texts in a collection of tweets – (crowdsourcing oer openaccess en3177 twwt system:filetype:pdf system:media:document )
• WikiEducator – – (oer openeducation openaccess )
• Microsoft Launches Open Source Filter for Mediawiki – WikiEducator – Could be better: Could simply support markup – lots of text editors do.  – (oer mediawiki )

bookmarks for November 19th, 2010 through November 20th, 2010

• Long Live the Web: Tim Berners-Lee Scientific American – TBL is back with hisvcontinuing arguments for an open, net neural web. "Why should you care? Because the Web is yours. It is a public resource on which you, your business, your community and your government depend. The Web is also vital to democracy, a communications channel that makes possible a continuous worldwide conversation. The Web is now more critical to free speech than any other medium. It brings principles established in the U.S. Constitution, the British Magna Carta and other important documents into the network age: freedom from being snooped on, filtered, censored and disconnected." – (facebook history internet web berners-lee netneutrality openaccess )
• Sarah Palin’s Kids: The Complete Lack of Online Self-Control Doesn’t Fall Far from the Tree – A quick commentary on decorum. Those krazy Palins. – (facebook twitter linguistics fyc )