- #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 )
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bookmarks for March 31st, 2010
- To Scroll or Not to Scroll – Readers using scrolling material had lower recall of information. More study necessary. – (scrolling reading fyc system:filetype:pdf system:media:document )
- High-Tech Cheating on Homework Abounds, and Professors Are Partly to Blame – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education – Cheating on homework isn't cheating – technological distancing – and inconsistent academic integrity policies – (cheating academic_integrity student_culture millenials )
bookmarks for March 8th, 2010
- Andreessen’s Advice To Old Media: “Burn The Boats” – is longstanding recommendation that they should shut down their print editions and embrace the Web wholeheartedly. “You gotta burn the boats,” he told me, “you gotta commit.” His point is that if traditional media companies don’t burn their own boats, somebody else will. – (print publishing media newmedia )
- Who Does What On Wikipedia? – Technology News – redOrbit – Ram and Liu identified seven specific roles that Wikipedia contributors play.<br />
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Starters, for example, create sentences but seldom engage in other actions. Content justifiers create sentences and justify them with resources and links. Copy editors contribute primarily though modifying existing sentences. Some users – the all-round contributors – perform many different functions.<br />
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"We then clustered the articles based on these roles and examined the collaboration patterns within each cluster to see what kind of quality resulted," Ram said. "We found that all-round contributors dominated the best-quality entries. In the entries with the lowest quality, starters and casual contributors dominated."<br />
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To generate the best-quality entries, she says, people in many different roles must collaborate. Ram and Liu suggest that the results of this study should spark the design of software tools that can help improve quality. – (wikis collaborativewriting collaboration ) - Andreessen’s Advice To Old Media: “Burn The Boats” – is longstanding recommendation that they should shut down their print editions and embrace the Web wholeheartedly. “You gotta burn the boats,” he told me, “you gotta commit.” His point is that if traditional media companies don’t burn their own boats, somebody else will. – (print publishing media newmedia )
- Who Does What On Wikipedia? – Technology News – redOrbit – Ram and Liu identified seven specific roles that Wikipedia contributors play.<br />
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Starters, for example, create sentences but seldom engage in other actions. Content justifiers create sentences and justify them with resources and links. Copy editors contribute primarily though modifying existing sentences. Some users – the all-round contributors – perform many different functions.<br />
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"We then clustered the articles based on these roles and examined the collaboration patterns within each cluster to see what kind of quality resulted," Ram said. "We found that all-round contributors dominated the best-quality entries. In the entries with the lowest quality, starters and casual contributors dominated."<br />
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To generate the best-quality entries, she says, people in many different roles must collaborate. Ram and Liu suggest that the results of this study should spark the design of software tools that can help improve quality. – (wikis collaborativewriting collaboration ) - Patterns of Collaboration on Wikis – identifies some of the strategies that create solid collaborative work on wikis by looking at life cycles on corporate wikis – (wikis refactoring collaborativewriting collaboration research system:filetype:pdf system:media:document )
bookmarks for July 18th, 2009
- 7 things you should know about Twitter – Educase PDF. Overview. – (twitter teaching web2.0 socialmedia microblogging system:filetype:pdf system:media:document )
- Twitter in higher education – Really just a technique or two > A better model for twitter integration was suggested which I quite like. This would involve defined periods when students were encouraged to ‘tweet’. For example, 20 minutes in you say to the students “for the next 3 minutes discuss with your neighbour the issues raised so far (or have a specific question you want them to answer). Please feel free to ‘tweet’ your thoughts or questions using the tag #xxxx”. The lecturer could then choose to take a couple of minutes to respond there and then or follow up after the class. – (twitter web2.0 lecture teaching )
- Professors experiment with Twitter as teaching tool – JSOnline – List of faculty at Marquette who are using twitter for classes and why. The usual reasons and uses. One warning to limit personal exchanges. – (twitter socialpractices socialmedia privacy facebook teaching fyc )