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Archive for December, 2008
Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis
Posted in general on December 23, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Love for all
Posted in general on December 11, 2008| 1 Comment »
A minute of joy:
The Word and the World
Posted in general on December 11, 2008| Leave a Comment »
A short article in Edutopia on technology for English language learners.
Quote of the day
Posted in general on December 11, 2008| Leave a Comment »
“To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit.” — William Blake
Online Educa Berlin 2008
Posted in general, tagged conferences on December 10, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Online Educa Berlin 2008 edition took place in the German capital last week. As it can be seen in this video, Online Educa Berlin is the largest global e-learning conference held for the corporate, education and public service sectors. The variety of themes treated this year and in previous editions, the many workshops organized, pictures of the event, interesting podcast shows, and much more information can be found in their website (available in English, German, Spanish and French).
Hanging out and geeking out
Posted in general on December 6, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Mimi Ito is a brilliant culture anthropologist studying young people’s use of new media. Mimi presented today at the UCI Digital Learning Lab on the results of a large three-year Digital Youth Research project she helped head up. The study captures the two main types of youth participation online, which they label as “hanging out” and “geeking out.” The former involves hanging out with peers online at Facebook and MySpace, and through instant messaging, and is basically an extension of peer social networking at school and in the community. Contacts are largely with people who are already known, adults and strangers are for the most part not welcome, and the social functions fulfilled are similar to those achieved by hanging out at the mall. The majority of U.S. youth “hang out” online. In contrast, “geeking out” involves more creative content production and distribution by a minority of youth in fan, video, anime, gaming, and other sites, and Ito provides some fascinating examles of “geeks” and their communities. Geeking out involves much higher level skills, puts youth in touch with people based on their interests rather than their immediate social networks (and thus involves contact with like-minded people around the world, including adult participation).
An interesting question is who gets access to developing these geeking out skills and who doesn’t; other than the fact that this is somewhat gendered (with male geeks more predominate in gaming sites and female geeks more predominate in online writing sites), I didn’t get much sense of this from Ito’s presentation. I look forward to reading more in the project reports.
Self-portrait
Posted in general on December 4, 2008| Leave a Comment »
As of December 4, 2008, this is what our website looks like.
blue: for links
red: for tables
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images
yellow: for forms
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes
black: the HTML tag, the root node
gray: all other tags
This graph tells us that we are very linked up, like line breaks and block quotes, but we have very few images and forms. I’m not savvy enough to know what DIV tags and root nodes are. 🙂
This is all the remarkable work of Sala, an artist-blogger who has designed one of the most amazing Java applications I’ve seen: Webpages as Graphs
Here’s a fun quiz (answer after the jump):
Education–who will Obama pick?
Posted in general on December 4, 2008| Leave a Comment »
With many of the other cabinet posts filled, there haven’t been any serious leaks about Secretary of Education. David Brooks has an interest take on the debate within the Obama camp.
Quote of the day
Posted in general on December 4, 2008| Leave a Comment »
“Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.” — John Tukey
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