Tag Archives: Twwt

bookmarks for December 28th, 2010

Designed by Apple in California – (37signals) – only a starting point for analysis – (marketing rhetoric semiotic visual_rhetoric )
What’s wrong with (M)OOCs? – Seimens sketches his concerns about MOOCs. They arw becoming more popular. – (ple mooc twwt )

A Framework for Teaching with Twitter – – (twitter socialpractices socialsoftware twwt )
Naked CIO: Apple’s iPad – why it’s iBad for business IT | Page 2 | CIO Insights | silicon.com – Businesses stay clear of ipad. Why? "All they care about is selling volume to pimply-faced teenagers looking for the next big thing. It is not in their business model and so it can't be in ours." Talk about a specious argument. I say, Fine. Keep ipads out of business. we spotty-faced pros do just fine without your tribe. – (business tribalism rhetoric fyc iPad )

Slashdot Ask Slashdot Story | Your Online Education Experience? – Brief entry and extended discussion on DE including Walden, Phoenix, and state unis, being self-taught, the value of a degree. Anecdotal, but broad. – (de ple education twwt )
ZSR | The Future Of – Blogging as Scholarship – We've turned the corner on scholarly blogging. Next you know, Time will cover it. Some valuable links in this short post. "If scholars are to be truly evaluated on their impact to the field, a blog that fosters healthy debate and discussion, and ideally advances ideas or problems within the field, is a strong indicator of immediate impact. " – (blogging scholarship2.0 socialmedia twwt en3177 )

Welcome to The Nethernet – Some profs using this as an incentive. I prefer my good and evil fully baked. – (twwt socialpractices gaming )
Challenging the Presentation Paradigm (in 6 minutes, 40 seconds): Pecha Kucha – 20 sides running automatically for 20 secs each, each slide containing one graphic or one phrase. The numbers are arbitrary, but the constraints (equal time on each slide, one graphic or one phrase – not a sentence) are interesting. The article suggests it takes 6 hours to develop and practice the presentation. – (presentations ppt pecha-kucha powerpoint )
The Email Signature: From Efficient to Overkill – advice based on tech writing principles – (email etiquette tech_writing )

Kairos PraxisWiki – Repository of brief articles on CMSs and teaching writing – (wiki twwt )
Views: The iPad for Academics – Inside Higher Ed – Solid brief article arguing for the pad as a reader, and looking forward to journals to grow up and start offering a la carte articles to academics, DRM-free. But I'm guessing this is off the mark: I'm putting my $$ on the pad as a good academic machine. "Overall, however, by splitting the difference between dedicated devices and genuine computers, the iPad doesn’t show a lot of promise as a mobile platform for research and teaching. Of course if everyone is always carrying around an iPad already then they might start replacing voice recorders. It's hard to tell. My bet is that tuning forks and compasses are not going away. – (ipad academic teaching library2.0 )

Consumer Report iPhone4 study flawed | Viewpoints by Bob Egan – The iPhone antenna brouhaha is proving to be a good opportunity for teaching a lot about antennas, testing, and scientific methodology. After the battle is over, it will be good to return to the flak to do a rhetorical study. – (iphone teaching scientific_method )
Nixty Launches With Ambitions to Build Something Huge in eLearning – Two points here: Nixty social couse management software that leverages profs, and "the fact is that most people who can afford to go to college in the US want the experience of actually going to college. Those of us who would love to go back to college but don’t have the time to take off from careers or raising families, could use Nixty, but the problem is what I call the “Rosetta Stone dilemma.” I love Rosetta Stone’s software, and I think the approach to learning languages works – but the bottom line is there’s no short cut to the hours you need to put in to really learn a language fluently and I just don’t have those hours." – (de cms socialsoftware twwt )

SAMPLE REALITY · Pedagogy and the Class Blog – About evaluating blog posts. Offers a rubric, similar to mine on weblogs and wikis, as well as a mid-term reflective post, again similar to my mid-term reflection. – (twwt blogd blogging pedagogy evaluation )
‘How are you going to grade this?’: Evaluating Classroom Blogs – good general advice for GAs and newbies – (twwt blogs blogging )
Jean Lave, Etienne Wenger and communities of practice – Thoughts and comments on COPs, from "Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger (1991) Situated Learning. Legitimate peripheral participation, Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press. 138 pages. Pathbreaking book that first developed the idea that learning 'is a process of participation in communities of practice, participation that is at first legitimately peripheral but that increases gradually in engagement and complexity'." – (cop ple #CritLit2010 )

eLearn: Feature Article – Teaching the Librarians of the Future Without Online Instruction – When elearning becomes something other than DE – and they are proud of it. – (socialpractices newmedia course twwt library2.0 )
eLearn: Feature Article – Teaching the Librarians of the Future Without Online Instruction – When elearning becomes something other than DE – and they are proud of it. – (socialpractices newmedia course twwt library2.0 )
eLearn: Best Practices – eLearning Tools for English Composition – A list of tools and toys – sites and applications – for the very traditional way of teaching first-year comp. I wouldn't call this best practice so much local practice, and I don't see these so much as tools for learning as tools for teaching. Perhaps a counter-list is in order. – (twwt DE fyw fyc )