The purpose of this journal is the presentation of options in web intelligence and explanations of how their use can be advantageous. Articles focus on “intelligence techniques and theories with specific web technology”
The information is easily accessed through the portal for archived JETWI’s back issues.
It can be accessed at: http://academypublisher.com/jetwi/
You can view the issue with its Table of Contents and links to all articles. What an information rich resource.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
ProfHacker.com
Professor Hacker isn’t limited to the career demands of an educator/researcher. Anything that makes life easier or more organized is up for discussion. When a site like this allows numerous people to post the information can show a wide range of ideas.
How to keep track of all those keys
This is not an educational metaphor. It is simply a report of how one person organized their keys. No judgment here but really?
Scheduling 101: Using Acuity for Student Appointments
The advantages of using Acuity: Customization Simple Interface and Alerts
Once you have signed up and paid for the service you set up your parameters for appointments. Your students etc. can easily be directed to your customized schedule where they are prompted to schedule and instructed on what information they need to provide/bring to the appointment. How does anyone live without it? Talk about building a better mousetrap. My Daytimer stuffed with Post-Its is so yesterday.
The Magic Pencil, Or Tools of the Trade
The prof is actually talking about a pencil, not some web tool for assessment and grading. Advantages include the ability to erase (from the simple reword of a note to changing a grade upon reflection). Once the grading is finished the final grade is made in ink, for the obvious reason. For those who don’t already have a lifetime supply of pencils, this prof recommends a Sensa Classic .5mm mechanical pencil.
How to keep track of all those keys
This is not an educational metaphor. It is simply a report of how one person organized their keys. No judgment here but really?
Scheduling 101: Using Acuity for Student Appointments
The advantages of using Acuity: Customization Simple Interface and Alerts
Once you have signed up and paid for the service you set up your parameters for appointments. Your students etc. can easily be directed to your customized schedule where they are prompted to schedule and instructed on what information they need to provide/bring to the appointment. How does anyone live without it? Talk about building a better mousetrap. My Daytimer stuffed with Post-Its is so yesterday.
The Magic Pencil, Or Tools of the TradeThe prof is actually talking about a pencil, not some web tool for assessment and grading. Advantages include the ability to erase (from the simple reword of a note to changing a grade upon reflection). Once the grading is finished the final grade is made in ink, for the obvious reason. For those who don’t already have a lifetime supply of pencils, this prof recommends a Sensa Classic .5mm mechanical pencil.
Social Bookmarking For Scientists - The Best Of Both Worlds
What is Connotea
Connotea (http://www.connotea.org/) represents the unlikely merger of two radically different worlds... sort of Paris Hilton meets Carl Sagan in my ever low tech mind. Actually Social bookmarking is a technique for Internet users to search for information, organize it, tag it, and manage the resulting bookmarks of web resources. Users can add descriptions to the bookmarks so future users are informed of the content without needing to download (tags). This becomes “social” as many users contribute keywords to the tag. If you want to research this the terms folksonomy, and social tagging come in handy. Social bookmarking is just users saving links to web pages system that they want to retain or share. This isn’t the same as file sharing because the files aren’t shared, only the bookmarks that allow other users to locate them.
The Purpose of Connotea
Nature Publishing Group (NPG)’s New Technology team developed Connotea as a system of organization oriented to the needs of scientists and clinicians who need to locate and organize original research and its citable references. NPG’s intended Connotea to address the highly specific needs of researchers by merging web based approaches of social bookmarking with the reference management systems commonly used. Users are researching scholarly articles and need comprehensive information that is required for a standard formal citation such as the name of the journal, and details including dates, volumes and pages. There is a similar service called CiteULike which is not included in the paper.
The paper becomes comprehensible only to a highly specialized audience-
The paper addresses the technology of the search and specific techniques employed by Connotea. This is where they lost me:
”To address this concern, and to facilitate reference linking within primary research, the scholarly publishing community makes use of Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), assigning a DOI to each article published. CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) maintains a look-up table of DOIs and publisher URLs, along with the basic bibliographic information for the article. DOIs can be de-referenced by prefixing them with http://dx.doi.org/, which simply redirects to the publisher URL (for example, here is a DOI link for a paper about Connotea published in D-Lib Magazine: http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/april2005-lund). If the publisher URL changes, the CrossRef database is updated and link integrity is maintained, and hence the dx.doi.org link is considered permanent.”
Which immediately precedes the section termed “The Whine”. (Very near the conclusions of the paper termed “The Wish.”) While the paper includes screen shots and definitions intended to make it more accessible, the writers often lapse into very dense descriptions which are comprehensible only to those with adequate expertise (which is, to say, not me).
Luckily the description of our new exploration of social bookmarking sounds much less intimidating as it is described by the instructor.
Connotea (http://www.connotea.org/) represents the unlikely merger of two radically different worlds... sort of Paris Hilton meets Carl Sagan in my ever low tech mind. Actually Social bookmarking is a technique for Internet users to search for information, organize it, tag it, and manage the resulting bookmarks of web resources. Users can add descriptions to the bookmarks so future users are informed of the content without needing to download (tags). This becomes “social” as many users contribute keywords to the tag. If you want to research this the terms folksonomy, and social tagging come in handy. Social bookmarking is just users saving links to web pages system that they want to retain or share. This isn’t the same as file sharing because the files aren’t shared, only the bookmarks that allow other users to locate them.
The Purpose of Connotea
Nature Publishing Group (NPG)’s New Technology team developed Connotea as a system of organization oriented to the needs of scientists and clinicians who need to locate and organize original research and its citable references. NPG’s intended Connotea to address the highly specific needs of researchers by merging web based approaches of social bookmarking with the reference management systems commonly used. Users are researching scholarly articles and need comprehensive information that is required for a standard formal citation such as the name of the journal, and details including dates, volumes and pages. There is a similar service called CiteULike which is not included in the paper.
The paper becomes comprehensible only to a highly specialized audience-
The paper addresses the technology of the search and specific techniques employed by Connotea. This is where they lost me:
”To address this concern, and to facilitate reference linking within primary research, the scholarly publishing community makes use of Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), assigning a DOI to each article published. CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) maintains a look-up table of DOIs and publisher URLs, along with the basic bibliographic information for the article. DOIs can be de-referenced by prefixing them with http://dx.doi.org/, which simply redirects to the publisher URL (for example, here is a DOI link for a paper about Connotea published in D-Lib Magazine: http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/april2005-lund). If the publisher URL changes, the CrossRef database is updated and link integrity is maintained, and hence the dx.doi.org link is considered permanent.”
Which immediately precedes the section termed “The Whine”. (Very near the conclusions of the paper termed “The Wish.”) While the paper includes screen shots and definitions intended to make it more accessible, the writers often lapse into very dense descriptions which are comprehensible only to those with adequate expertise (which is, to say, not me).
Luckily the description of our new exploration of social bookmarking sounds much less intimidating as it is described by the instructor.
Monday, February 22, 2010
ELEARNSPACE
The Future of the Internet IV
Google won’t make us stupid. It will, however, be like a drug. We are dependent and would surely suffer if deprived of it whenever we need a fix.
Reading, writing and the rendering of knowledge will be improved.
As a teacher this subject has made me schizophrenic. Any reading and writing is better than no reading and writing. But sustained thought and the ability to reflect and advance a line of reasoning? I don’t see that happening.
Innovation will continue to catch us by surprise.
It appears that even with something as widespread and commonplace as the iPhone, the experts never saw it coming. A decade in technology is an eternity . They would probably be lucky to predict in three year intervals. Bill Woodcock seems to disagree with me but then he uses all the examples the other guys sited in their statements that agree with mine. Clearly majority is in favor of the idea that the truly great innovations “come out of the blue.”
Anonymous online activity will be challenged, though a modest majority still think it will be possible in 2020.
I wonder if this is largely the viewpoint of people who would open the door to a caller with his thumb over the viewer. We’ve all seen “To Catch a Predator” where decoys have to spend a only a few minutes online, posing as a 13 year old girl, before they are greeted by an older guy in another state, lying about his age and hoping to have sex with a minor. On TV all he gets is some iced tea and handcuffs. In the real world he appears to be successful with frightening regularity. There are no shortages of examples on why anonymity online is a colossally bad idea. Remember the woman who claimed she couldn’t hurt a fly until they found a couple months of Google searches for ways to kill a husband on her computer? How about the guys who went on a killing spree after viewing Columbine reruns online? The experts are split on the possibility that anonymity online may not change in the coming decade. I’m sure they’re right. It’s so easy to create a false identity there is little chance they could change that. Perhaps the advances will be in those internet searched alerting local authorities to a possible crime in the works. Overall, it appears that people wearing masks behave more badly than those without a mask.
Google won’t make us stupid. It will, however, be like a drug. We are dependent and would surely suffer if deprived of it whenever we need a fix.
Reading, writing and the rendering of knowledge will be improved.
As a teacher this subject has made me schizophrenic. Any reading and writing is better than no reading and writing. But sustained thought and the ability to reflect and advance a line of reasoning? I don’t see that happening.
Innovation will continue to catch us by surprise.
It appears that even with something as widespread and commonplace as the iPhone, the experts never saw it coming. A decade in technology is an eternity . They would probably be lucky to predict in three year intervals. Bill Woodcock seems to disagree with me but then he uses all the examples the other guys sited in their statements that agree with mine. Clearly majority is in favor of the idea that the truly great innovations “come out of the blue.”
Anonymous online activity will be challenged, though a modest majority still think it will be possible in 2020.
I wonder if this is largely the viewpoint of people who would open the door to a caller with his thumb over the viewer. We’ve all seen “To Catch a Predator” where decoys have to spend a only a few minutes online, posing as a 13 year old girl, before they are greeted by an older guy in another state, lying about his age and hoping to have sex with a minor. On TV all he gets is some iced tea and handcuffs. In the real world he appears to be successful with frightening regularity. There are no shortages of examples on why anonymity online is a colossally bad idea. Remember the woman who claimed she couldn’t hurt a fly until they found a couple months of Google searches for ways to kill a husband on her computer? How about the guys who went on a killing spree after viewing Columbine reruns online? The experts are split on the possibility that anonymity online may not change in the coming decade. I’m sure they’re right. It’s so easy to create a false identity there is little chance they could change that. Perhaps the advances will be in those internet searched alerting local authorities to a possible crime in the works. Overall, it appears that people wearing masks behave more badly than those without a mask.
New Feature - following a tweet
With blatant disregard for time management (this took for-ev-er) and my previous stand against the inherent narcissism of tweeting, my blog is now following Craig Ferguson's tweet. (Just to prove it could be done.) And next time I have a couple hours to engage in utter frustration I probably won't do it again. Yet, I wonder what Cher is tweeting today?
Saturday, February 20, 2010
National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education
Mobile campus – standardization needed?
Focusing on the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, vendors and advocates consider the future of the mobile sector. In areas such as India, mobile phones are becoming an affordable and preferable platform for distance ed. They don’t have the phone poles and wires so the wireless infrastructure has exceeded what we have here in New Mexico. They often have excellent coverage in the middle of a jungle. So, in a true use what you have and make it work mentality, teaching is occurring on mobile phones.
Open Notebook Science
Dr. Jean-Claude Bradley serves as an example of an increasing number of scientists who are conducting their work online, where it can be viewed and reviewed by their peers and the public. They have utilized online applications to share ongoing experiments in real time and share the evolving data, laboratory notes and correspondence with all viewers. This takes collaboration and transparency to a whole new level.
Coming Soon: Blogs United
NITLE has integrated their three blogs Techne, Liberal Education Today, and Perspectives into what they are calling “one unified metablog.” The proposed benefits from this change include uniting all communication and interchange of ideas in one location. By sharing the space with professionals from different areas of expertise will share ideas and collaboration will be enhanced. Resources can also be shared. Will it become too large and cumbersome? Time will tell.
Focusing on the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, vendors and advocates consider the future of the mobile sector. In areas such as India, mobile phones are becoming an affordable and preferable platform for distance ed. They don’t have the phone poles and wires so the wireless infrastructure has exceeded what we have here in New Mexico. They often have excellent coverage in the middle of a jungle. So, in a true use what you have and make it work mentality, teaching is occurring on mobile phones.
Open Notebook Science
Dr. Jean-Claude Bradley serves as an example of an increasing number of scientists who are conducting their work online, where it can be viewed and reviewed by their peers and the public. They have utilized online applications to share ongoing experiments in real time and share the evolving data, laboratory notes and correspondence with all viewers. This takes collaboration and transparency to a whole new level.
Coming Soon: Blogs United
NITLE has integrated their three blogs Techne, Liberal Education Today, and Perspectives into what they are calling “one unified metablog.” The proposed benefits from this change include uniting all communication and interchange of ideas in one location. By sharing the space with professionals from different areas of expertise will share ideas and collaboration will be enhanced. Resources can also be shared. Will it become too large and cumbersome? Time will tell.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Podcast from Sea Change Radio
This episode is about sustainable schools and green options in education. Perfect for my environmental sustainability class. http://podcast.com/episode/50963391/120696/
e-learning 2.0 - how Web technologies are shaping education
The ReadWriteWeb… the first thing I’ve read in days that doesn’t sound like something coined by someone who’s had way too much coffee. It’s great. ClearConciseRelevant. As a teacher and parent I can state categorically that children are egocentric creatures. Sure, their intrigue with all things “shiny” will drawn them into VLEs (Virtual Learning Environments). But I think tools that allow them to create their own materials…Blogs, Wikis, and something called Manila etc… will captivate and motivate.
Teachers at a grammar school in Scotland take their students on an annual trip to Paris and Normandy and the kids publish a travel blog using TypePad. (Makes me wonder if they get the weekly lecture about using the copier too much. Maybe using technology will be cost effective and we can get those trips to Paris scheduled.) This image is of teachers’tv, which appears to be the go to place to see innovative applications for web 2.0 in education.
The author then addresses concerns that educators are “in danger of being undermined by the recently proposed Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA). This legislation attempts to address the moral panic over sites like MySpace and the perceived ‘dangers’ they pose to children.” Yes, the quotes around dangers are his. Yes, I understand the legislation uses a backhoe when a scalpel would have been more appropriate. Steve, as a parent and grandparent, if the school assigns students to use public sites like MySpace and, as a result, one student is harmed, would that be an acceptable cost? Look at the realities. A crime ring sprang up to hit celebrities who had tweeted they were away from home. Maybe they don’t get Dateline in the UK and he hasn’t seen all the online child predators stopping by for ice tea and handcuffs. It’s a valid danger and a concern educators need to share. Maybe web 2.0 is the perfect platform for educating children and putting the child predators where they belong. Seriously, it would be an opportunity to be proactive and make web 2.0 in the classroom part of the solution.
I’m off to watch a conference on Moodle that’s occurring this weekend in Austrailia and to make an avatar for second life. Now that’s a sentence I never thought I’d write and a far cry from usual Saturday. Yes, I know what you’re thinking, after inserting an image in your blog haven’t you done enough for one day?
Teachers at a grammar school in Scotland take their students on an annual trip to Paris and Normandy and the kids publish a travel blog using TypePad. (Makes me wonder if they get the weekly lecture about using the copier too much. Maybe using technology will be cost effective and we can get those trips to Paris scheduled.) This image is of teachers’tv, which appears to be the go to place to see innovative applications for web 2.0 in education. The author then addresses concerns that educators are “in danger of being undermined by the recently proposed Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA). This legislation attempts to address the moral panic over sites like MySpace and the perceived ‘dangers’ they pose to children.” Yes, the quotes around dangers are his. Yes, I understand the legislation uses a backhoe when a scalpel would have been more appropriate. Steve, as a parent and grandparent, if the school assigns students to use public sites like MySpace and, as a result, one student is harmed, would that be an acceptable cost? Look at the realities. A crime ring sprang up to hit celebrities who had tweeted they were away from home. Maybe they don’t get Dateline in the UK and he hasn’t seen all the online child predators stopping by for ice tea and handcuffs. It’s a valid danger and a concern educators need to share. Maybe web 2.0 is the perfect platform for educating children and putting the child predators where they belong. Seriously, it would be an opportunity to be proactive and make web 2.0 in the classroom part of the solution.
I’m off to watch a conference on Moodle that’s occurring this weekend in Austrailia and to make an avatar for second life. Now that’s a sentence I never thought I’d write and a far cry from usual Saturday. Yes, I know what you’re thinking, after inserting an image in your blog haven’t you done enough for one day?
Friday, February 5, 2010
Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning?
How important are blogs? Do I need Feedstar, Waypath and Daypop to search for the content in blogs? And is blogpulse truly “blogosphereic”? I had hoped that Technorati would be reigning in all these trends, but no, it’s more of the same. PubSub allows us “to literally search the future, lets students and faculty follow a search over time, perhaps across a span of weeks in a semester.” I have read too much for one day. Too many Webtastic trends for one brain that doesn’t appear to be compatibly wired. TBC
E-Leaning in the Digital Age by John Seely Brown
This is largely an exploration of Social-Constructivist Learning Theory. My concern, as a long time teacher, is the egalitarian nature of the web. Are young learners differentiating between the thoughts of Nelson Mandela and those of a rap artist or their BFF? All information is not created equal. My hope is that the technological revolution of learning will create dynamic learning experiences that are more educational than anything I could create within the four walls of a classroom. The 2010 Horizon report suggests future virtual learning environments where students could stroll down the streets of ancient Athens and chat with Socrates. Another study claims students are wired up 7 hours a day and I suspect not very much of it is educational. I’m concerned that students are currently being drawn toward the dominant medium of knowledge, not the peaks.
I have a degree in psych and it causes a specific concern in this matter. We are unconsciously drawn to the familiar. Thousands of years ago, as our brains were evolving, this was a good thing. If we ate the same nuts and berries over and over we were less likely to ingest something new and poisonous. A teacher must prod students into the unfamiliar, often by placing it in the context of things with which they are already comfortable. American students currently have a very distorted perception of their knowledge as revealed in studies. They think they’re smarter than they are…smarter than their counterparts in other countries and they aren’t. Does the web foster complacency and mediocrity? The world online is flat. Wisdom is not.
I have a degree in psych and it causes a specific concern in this matter. We are unconsciously drawn to the familiar. Thousands of years ago, as our brains were evolving, this was a good thing. If we ate the same nuts and berries over and over we were less likely to ingest something new and poisonous. A teacher must prod students into the unfamiliar, often by placing it in the context of things with which they are already comfortable. American students currently have a very distorted perception of their knowledge as revealed in studies. They think they’re smarter than they are…smarter than their counterparts in other countries and they aren’t. Does the web foster complacency and mediocrity? The world online is flat. Wisdom is not.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Lov'n Pata Pata
Perhaps you’ve noticed the Honda ads with the captivating music. They have out maneuvered those of us who have mastered the automatic brain tune out at the first sign of a commercial. Every time the ad ran I would turn up the volume and repeat, parrot-like, “I LOVE this song.” Now that I’m looking for excuses to peck my way around Web 2.0 this seemed like the perfect opportunity.
Turns out I’m not the first person impressed by this song. This is Pata Pata by Miriam Makeba. Harry Belafonte discovered her in the early ‘60’s. She performed with Paul Simon’s Graceland tour. (I LOVED it) She’s been nominated for Grammies and performed at the Lincoln center. I’m just saying I could have noticed this talent a long time ago.
OK, there is more talent out there than any one person could have time to appreciate. It’s nothing an evening spent on Google and YouTube can’t fix.
You can listen to Pata Pata by clicking in the right column. Move the furniture back and enjoy.
Turns out I’m not the first person impressed by this song. This is Pata Pata by Miriam Makeba. Harry Belafonte discovered her in the early ‘60’s. She performed with Paul Simon’s Graceland tour. (I LOVED it) She’s been nominated for Grammies and performed at the Lincoln center. I’m just saying I could have noticed this talent a long time ago.
OK, there is more talent out there than any one person could have time to appreciate. It’s nothing an evening spent on Google and YouTube can’t fix.
You can listen to Pata Pata by clicking in the right column. Move the furniture back and enjoy.
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