EdVentures in Technology
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Archive for June, 2007
June 22, 2007 at 12:30 pm · Filed under Diigo Links
Youth Online 2007
- This is a critical piece of information in video, audio and transcript format that dispels many rumors surrounding the statistics that the media and our legislators are using to push the types of laws intended to “protect” our youth from the Internet. - post by edventures
DIGITAL MAOISM: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism By Jaron Lanier Annotated
In “Digital Maosim”, an original essay written for Edge, computer scientist and digital visionary Jaron Lanier finds fault with what he terms the new online collectivism.
Web 2.0: The Sleep of Reason, Part I - Britannica Blog Annotated
…the difference between the print world of scholarly and educational publishing and the often-anarchic world of the
href="http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9001458/Internet"> Internet. The difference is in the authenticity and fixity of the former (that its creator is reputable and it is what it says it is), the expertise that has given it credibility, and the scholarly apparatus that makes the recorded knowledge accessible on the one hand and the lack of authenticity, expertise, and complex finding aids in the latter.
Web 2.0: The Sleep of Reason, Part II - Britannica Blog Annotated
- “Digital Maoism is an unholy brew made up of the digital utopianism that hailed the Internet as the second coming of Haight-Ashbury—everyone’s tripping and it’s all free; pop sociology derived from misreading books such as James Surowiecki’s The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies, and Nations; a desire to avoid individual responsibility; anti-intellectualism—the common disdain for pointy headed professors; and the corporatist “team” mentality that infests much modern management theory. ” - post by edventures
This “wisdom of the crowds” and “hive mind” mentality is a direct assault on the tradition of individualism in scholarship that has been paramount in Western societies at least since the Renaissance and, before then, can be seen in the Church Fathers and the Greek philosophers, among others.
Old Revolutions Good, New Revolutions Bad: A Response to Gorman. Many-to-Many: Annotated
Encyclopedia Britannica has started a Web 2.0
Forum, where they are hosting a conversation going on around a set of posts by Michael Gorman. The first post, in two parts, is titled
href="http://blogs.britannica.com/blog/main/2007/06/web-20-the-sleep-of-reason-part-i/">Web 2.0: The Sleep of Reason Brings Forth Monsters, and is a defense of the print culture against alteration by digital technologies.
The Siren Song of the Internet: Part I - Britannica Blog
The Siren Song of the Internet: Part II - Britannica Blog
Gorman, redux: The Siren Song of the Internet. Many-to-Many: Annotated
Siren Song of the Internet contains a curious omission and a basic misunderstanding. The omission is part of his defense of the Luddites; the misunderstanding is about the value of paper and the nature of e-books.
Personal Learning Environments: What They Are And How To Implement Them - Robin Good’s Latest News Annotated
June 22, 2007 at 10:19 am · Filed under TechTalk
My sincere apologies to those who may have tried to post comments to my blog but were unable to. Dean Shareski and Beth Kanter most of all!
Turns out that somehow my comments.php was pooched. Went back to an older version of the function, copied the good code, dropped it in et voila! Comments are now working once more.
It really shouldn’t have taken me this long to fix this considering how easy it was but my head has been in other places of late.
So please if you have wanted to comment but were unable to, come on back and drop a line. I would really love to hear from you!
And thanks to Cliff Pearson for motivating me to fix this problem!
Cheers!
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June 21, 2007 at 10:16 pm · Filed under Teaching & Learning, Web 2.0
My thanks to Danah Boyd who brought to my attention testimony she and a number of others including a professor from my undergraduate alma mater, Dr. David Finkelhor of the University of New Hampshire, provided to the Advisory Committee to the Congressional Internet Caucus. Their testimony has been posted online and includes video (note this version requires Real Player, but read on for links to a YouTube version), audio (43MB) and transcript of the proceedings which lasted just under an hour and a half.
I highly recommend either viewing, listening to or reading this testimony. Read also Danah’s posts which are substantiated by statistical data and do far more justice to the topic than I can. It is interesting to see and hear from experts in the field, particularly as their testimony is often at odds with the fear pandering and net paranoia espoused by our media, and in some cases our government officials. Take for instance this sobering fact. When it comes to sexual predation, strangers account for only 10% of those cases. The predominant offender? Parents at 78.5% of reported cases.
As a parent myself, I understand and advocate for a greater level of parental involvement in the lives of our children. Any child predation is too much. However, it is also important for us to work from facts rather than assumptions. The bottom line is that online predation is far less a threat to our children than the lack of parental involvement, guidance and love in their lives. We don’t need more legislation, we need more communication!
[tags]online, youth, victimization, predation, netcaucus[/tags]
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June 21, 2007 at 9:27 am · Filed under Random Thoughts
On the heels of the last post is this link from Beth Kanter on a Slideshare presentation on Web 2.0. This one specifically deals with user-centricity and contribution and is easily adapted for use in an educational environment. Using the Wizard of Oz as context, this presentation focuses on five factors: convergence, influencers, the journey, the magic and what really matters.
[tags]slideshare, web2.0[/tags]
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June 21, 2007 at 9:20 am · Filed under Web 2.0
Thanks to Vicki over at CoolCatTeacher blog for pointing out this slide set. Probably old hat for those of us living this but this is a great icebreaker and introduction to what it is that we are trying to do. Perhaps Enterprise 2.0 is too overpowering for educators and maybe this slide set could be remixed to address educational purposes or realignments.
[tags]slideshare, enterprise2.0, web2.0, collaboration[/tags]
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June 14, 2007 at 12:21 pm · Filed under TechTalk
If you can read this, the latest pre-release beta version of Flock has posted successfully to my blog!
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June 8, 2007 at 12:30 pm · Filed under Diigo Links
WP Download Manager Plugin | Tek Tank Annotated
Easily add downloadable files into your Wordpress Website, either public or protected, with grouping feature. Read the README file inside for instructions.
brainrelax » WP Plugins Annotated
show a Skype-Button for direct dialing in Your sidebar.
WP-FileManager Plugin | johannes ries Annotated
- Scroll to the bottom for instructions in English.
- post by edventures
WP-FileManager based on a hack by Joe Schmoe. With this plugin you can easily change, delete, organize and upload files.
Blogroll Page Plugin | Website Hosting IQ Annotated
The
Blogroll Page Plugin plugin for your Wordpress Blog is used to publish your blogroll to an individual post or page.
June 1, 2007 at 7:49 am · Filed under Teaching & Learning, Videos
A big thanks to Christian Long at think:lab for pointing out this great video. If you are a teacher, know a teacher, or think you know what a teacher is or does, then this is for you.
[tags]video, passion, teacher, teaching[/tags]
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