- (Higher) Education as Bulwark of Uselessness – I'm deskilling in the wake of Pokemon GO. " I am being completely straight in claiming that the role and glory of education is that it can be useless, not being bounded by criteria of production and pre-determined purpose." – (gaming polemic corporateculture )
- Beyond Academic Twitter: Social Media and the Evolution of Scholarly Publication – Beyond the branding there is scholarship. – (dh erhetoric social_media twitter )
- Why Online Programs Fail, and 5 Things We Can Do About It – Hybrid Pedagogy – > The failure of online education programs is not logistical, nor political, nor economic: it’s cultural, rooted in our perspectives and biases about how learning happens and how the internet works (these things too often seen in opposition). – (DH DE )
Tag Archives: social_media
on pinboard for October 27th, 2014 through November 8th, 2014
bookmarks for February 15th, 2013
- The changing complexity of congressional speech – Sunlight Foundation Blog – Linguistic and ideological analysis of public language change. – (Linguistic_change linguistics rhetoric )
- Comparing Facebook networks with the students – Overview and tools from jill/txt – (data_visualization facebook social_media )
- Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers (2nd edition) « Scholarly Open Access – How to ID a potential predatory journal: the usual criteria of openness, names, dates, places, and association. – (OER library2.0 )
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 February 26th, 2011
bookmarks for January 13th, 2011 through January 15th, 2011
- Will #Quora Be Big In 2011? – a good article for en3177, in part for the subject of discussion but even more for the aggregatating and repurposing the writer's doing. trace the inputs and outputs and diagram how he links it all together. this is learning. – (en3177 twitter quora mooc ple synthesis )
- Should I Work for Free? – flowchart. but it's not about the flow. it's about the players. illustrates how to play with genres. – (vizualization argument persuasion )
- At Netroots UK, British progressives plant seeds for future online struggles – Students organize around and by using social media in the field and after. Sarcasim, demonstrations, Guardian columnists, and blogging. – (en3177 protests social_media )
- Writer’s Guide to Twitter – – (en3177 twitter writing )