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/
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