xLearning Group 2010. Web 2.0 - Information Technology K-12 Education. World is Open-Chapters 4 and 5-FOSS and OCW - GO LIVE! with North Carolina Virtual Public School and Learn and Earn Online. Course announcement: Indiana University, School of Education IU-Bloomington Room 2101 (Section 31021), IUPUI ES 2101 (Section 19148) Mondays 7:00‑9:45 p.m. (via videoconferencing IUB and IUPUI) Instructor: Curt Bonk, Professor, Instructional Systems Technology See online syllabus at Wikibook; Table of Contents 2010: R685 Topical Seminar, The World Is Open with Web Technology, 3 Credits 1 "The World is Open with Web Technology" 1 Course Description and Rationale: 2 Course Goals and Objectives 3 Required Texts 3 Tentative Tasks and Grading 3 Projected Seminar Weekly Topics 3 Class Tasks 4 A. B. C. D. Final Class Presentation Points: (20 Points or 5 pts for each dimension for all options above) 9 Final Project Examples: 9 Note: Alternative Readings Option: 9 Weekly Reading Requirements 9 Projected Seminar Weekly Topics: 9 Week 1.
Week 2 (September 6) Digital Literacy Skills 11 Week 3. Week 4. 1. Academics’ Views On and Uses of Wikipedia | gnovis. Abstract: Web 2.0 technologies bring both opportunities and challenges to our formalization of collective knowledge and its use. The collective generation of knowledge without the control of a central authority has raised discussions in academia over the validity and the reliability of the knowledge generated. An online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, is central to some of these discussions. In this paper, I discuss academics’ views on and uses of Wikipedia as an academic source.
A semi-structured interview protocol was used to collect data from a purposively selected group of graduate students and university faculty. Results revealed that participants have a positive attitude towards Wikipedia’s use for nonacademic purposes however they believe that use of Wikipedia for research and coursework should be limited. Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore academics’ views on and use of “Wikipedia” as an academic resource. Introduction Wikipedia Methods Participants Instrument Findings. Deep-sea images reveal colorful life on ocean’s floor | Featured Site of the Week. Scientists using cutting-edge technology to explore waters off northern Indonesia were wowed last month by colorful and diverse images of marine life on the ocean floor—including plate-sized sea spiders and flower-like sponges that appear to be carnivorous.
They predicted that as many as 50 new plant and animal species might have been discovered during the three-week expedition that ended Aug. 14. More than 100 hours of video and 100,000 photographs, captured using a robotic vehicle with high-definition cameras, were piped to shore in real time by satellite and high-speed internet. Scientists used a powerful sonar mapping system and the robotic vehicle to explore nearly 21,000 square miles of sea floor at depths ranging from 800 feet to more than two miles.
The mission was carried out by the U.S. Verena Tunnicliffe, a professor at the University of Victoria in Canada, said the images provide an extraordinary glimpse into one of the globe’s most complex and little-known marine ecosystems. The World Is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education - Curtis J. Bonk. Special 2-Book Discount! Empowering Online Learning and The World is Open by Curtis J. Bonk. Get a 25% discount with the Curtis J. Bonk Online Learning Set! Please see this flyer for more details. The World Is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education is now in softcover with a new introduction/prequel (“Sharing…the Journey”) and ending/postscript (“An Open Letter to the Learners of this Planet”).
The World is Open is now out in Chinese (simplified). Check out the new Italian translations of the Postscript to World Is Open, the Foreword to Word is Open in Chinese Edition, and the Prequel to World is Open. Watch e-learning video primers "For those of you eager to stay current on open education trends, I recommend the new book by Curtis Bonk, The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Technology. Michelle Pacansky-Brock, Director of Online and Hybrid Support Center at California State University, East Bay Buy this book! U.S. Introduction to the Open Learning World. Educational Blogging (EDUCAUSE Review. © 2004 Stephen Downes EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 39, no. 5 (September/October 2004): 14–26. Stephen Downes Stephen Downes ( is a Senior Researcher with the E-Learning Research Group, National Research Council Canada, Moncton, New Brunswick.
Comments on this article can be sent to the author at stephen@downes.ca. "I think it’s the most beautiful tool of the world and it allows us the most magic thing... " —Florence Dassylva-Simard, fifth-grade student The bell rings, and the halls of Institut St-Joseph in Quebec City echo the clatter of the fifth- and sixth-graders. Dominic Ouellet-Tremblay, a fifth-grade student at St-Joseph, writes: "The blogs give us a chance to communicate between us and motivate us to write more. The students at St-Joseph are reflective of a trend that is sweeping the world of online learning: the use of weblogs to support learning. Institut St-Joseph is an unassuming, yellow-brick school on a tree-lined road in the west side of Quebec City.
Figure 1. Reflections of Dr. Kim Foreman...Poet, Professor, Writer, Missionary, Colleague, Teacher, Leader, Technology Experimenter, and Highly Caring Friend. Reflections on Kim Foreman... (Oops, guess I am missing "sister" from the title above) This blog post has taken me nearly two weeks to post and it can never be satisfactorily done...though I try. Hard to place my emotions into words. People who you have studied with, collaborated with, thought with, and shared meals with can never be replaced.
Why are we struggling? Kim in Rwanda in 2002. Kim in Uganda in 2003. Chris and Kim Foreman at a lunch break. Suffice to say, August 10th was not a very happy day. Reflections on Grad School Days in Madison: To ready ourselves for such positions, we had all taken courses together on the critical analysis of instructional technology and instructional design with Dr. We also took a seminar class each semester with Dr. Over in educational psychology in the Educational Sciences Building, we took similar classes with another brilliant professor by the name of Dr. At first, I could not believe that it was true. Yes, her students were fantastic.
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