Tag Archives: readlater

bookmarks for June 23rd, 2011 through July 29th, 2011

• 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 )

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 May 22nd, 2011

• Manifesto for “augmented journalism” – because you can't have too many. – (readlater )
• Teaching with Technology: Numbers – Numbers from Bedford/StM surveys on use of digital pedagogies 2004-2010. Use is still low; 2 years tend to use tech to lighten their admin load rather than teach with. Use the article in #CompTheory fall. – (CompTheory survey digital_literacy digital_pedagogy pedagogy )

bookmarks for May 14th, 2011 through May 16th, 2011

• [toread] m.guardian.co.uk – – (none)
• [toread] Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: What Constitutes an Open-Book Exam in the Digital Age? – – (none)
• In Defense of Hard: When Easier Isn’t Better – Are we dumbing down processes that ought to be difficult? valuing ease at the cost of growth? heard it before, but this is a sloghtly different angle: " The goal of design should be to turn the most difficult into the most enjoyable. While nothing below is particularly new, they are still worth noting." : " – (design readlater literacy new_literacy )

bookmarks for May 6th, 2011 through May 9th, 2011

• 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 )

bookmarks for May 5th, 2011

• The Open Source Way – – (readlater oer open_source )
• iPad Study Released by Oklahoma State University | Business Wire – – (ipad readlater )

bookmarks for May 3rd, 2011 through May 4th, 2011

• Our Irresistible Fascination with All Things Circular Stephen Few – Critique of data charting – (visualization readlater )
• Views: A Truly New Genre – Inside Higher Ed – – (readlater )
• Mapping the Mixed Emotions following Osama bin Laden’s Death – – (visualization dot_plot )
• [toread] Masters of Media » Narrative Structures in Data Visualizations to Improve Storytelling – – (none)
• [toread] Narrative Structures in Data Visualizations to Improve Storytelling » OWNI.eu, News, Augmented – – (Visualization narrative )
• [toread] Narrative – – (visualization narrative )

bookmarks for April 27th, 2011 through April 28th, 2011

• Education Reform: What I want my children to learn – – (readlater )
• [toread] Marketing masterpieces » OWNI.eu, News, Augmented – – (none)
• [toread] The 5 Best Free Tools For Making Slick Infographics | Fast Company – – (none)