George Siemens – Open Online Courses: PLEs and Networks at CMC11 – (YouTube)
George Siemens Open Online Courses: PLN Environments and Networks at CMC11
Basically, ask people instead of forcing your own ideas on them.
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Here are 3 simple tips for setting up online communities http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/blog/2011/09/30/3-simple-tips-for-setting-up-online-communities/
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Reshared post from +Stephen Downes
Increasingly, it's what's happening behind the scenes that's important on the internet. The simple Twitter tweet is a case in point. The reader sees only your 140 character message. The computer program accessing the Twitter API sees a host of related data, more than enough to construct a sophisticated graph. This article from the Economist offers a compelling look at the anatomy of a tweet. http://www.downes.ca/post/56355
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"Social Media for business: Why it matters to everyone", by Stephen Baker.
"The big points are that everyone needs social media, to learn, connect, respond, and be seen. I argue toward the end that a crucial skill in this changing world–and this might surprise some people–is good writing. Our words are our ambassadors."
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An excellent essay on social media by +Stephen Baker is attached. Our ability to communicate is a critical 21st century skill. This is certainly true in mathematics as well. I always remind my students, "obtaining an answer is not our only goal, we must communicate to others how we solved the problem!" So often I receive assignments that are totally unreadable — answers magically circled somewhere in the middle of a sea of scratch calculations. Would your future project manager approve of that?
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The Numerati is Stephen Baker's Take on Technology and Life.
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Dave Winer: What comes after the cloud?
Dave Winer tries to look beyond the current trend and foresee the next disruptive change – the personal computer. Witty post.
What comes after the cloud? By Dave Winer on Thursday, September 29, 2011 at 9:08 AM. You know I think the cloud is great. I've been preaching the advantages of everyone having their own outpost o…
"The social media report" from Nielsen. Great format for quickly getting the core points (via @cristinacost on Twitter).
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Open Educational Resources: The value of reuse in higher education,
Report authors: David White, Marion Manton.
From the introduction:
"The approach of the study was broad and highly qualitative; focusing on what motivates the reuse (or rejection) of digital resources found on the web, and exploring factors that staff and students value in educational content, such as provenance, quality, context and format. This report begins by highlighting some key themes of the use and reuse of OER. It then outlines the study’s findings of current practice within the sector and suggests some of the attributes of educational content that are most valued by stakeholders in a range of contexts. It also describes approaches taken by staff when searching for educational content online and some of the ways in which they incorporate resources into the curriculum. The report concludes with the study’s recommendations around enhancing teaching practice,supporting learners, improving services and further research."
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“The power of social networks, like electricity, will inevitably change almost every business model. Leaders need to understand the importance of organizational architecture. Working smarter starts by organizing to embrace diversity and manage complexity.” Harold Jarche
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Some great questions and reflections on technology and the web.
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Something I've been thinking about over the last few weeks:Is the technology industry a force for good in the world?
The promise is that technology empowers and democratizes, and particularly on the web, I buy into that. It's changed the world in some very important, very good ways. But consider:
We're seriously eroding our users' privacy. For many of us, that doesn't matter very much in our own lives. But it's the kind of thing that could erode our freedom should we find ourselves in a less privileged position – and many people do, today.
The web itself is being eroded into a commercial tool dominated by a few key players.
We're defining people by the products they consume – and asking them to define themselves in the same way. Like your favorite albums, brands, pages, corporations, and post it on your profile so we can see what kind of a person you are.
We're one of the most energy-hungry industries on the planet. Right now, 2% of all the electricity used in the United States goes on server farms, and it's increasing at a rate of 10% each year.
Most of the devices we push are made using environmentally unfriendly manufacturing processes, in adverse conditions by people well below the poverty line. While we empower our users, our lifestyle is made possible by people who have to all intents and purposes been disenfranchised.
It's a bleak picture, but the game isn't over yet. More and more, I find myself drawn back to the principles of open source, participative activism and social entrepreneurship. It's not too late to turn this ship around.
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Sure hope this very 90's control-the-content-and–the-medium tendency (see also Apple, Facebook et al.) is proven wrong by users keeping their priorities straight – freedom, choice and ownership first.
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My Guardian column this week is about (you guessed it) the Amazon Kindle Fire. It's a smart first entry in the tablet market for Amazon, but I'm sorry to see the company giving into its own control-freak impulses by creating such a sideways version of Android. I'm not planning to buy one, for a number of reasons, and hope it'll be swiflly jailbroken.Also, as you'll see, one of the losers in today's announcements is likely to be Barnes & Noble, which I believe blew a huge opportunity to lock up the bargain-price Android tablet business when it, too, locked down its Nook Color. A huge mistake in the long run, and a lot of great work by a crack development team largely wasted.
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Dan Gillmor: Amazon's smaller, cheaper tablet device is an astute product – designed to hold market share against others' software and apps
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