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The 'interestingness curators' of social news (Wired UK)
Maria Popova calls herself an "interestingness curator". On average 55 times a day, the 35,000 followers of her @brainpicker account are sent links to "stuff that inspires, revolutionises, or simply makes us think". It might be vintage photos she's discovered of Soviet schools in the LIFE Magazine archives, "21 films to inspire entrepreneurs", or a fascinating new book about sex and consumer behaviour. In a world saturated in information, Popova sees her mission as helping her readers "become interested in things they didn't know they were interested in", thus enriching their "creative capacity".
VoiceThread Image Attribution « Moving at the Speed of Creativity
VoiceThread provides a great way for students to provide “clickable” links to the websites where they originally found images used in their interactive digital stories. When editing an image in VoiceThread, click below the image in the thumbnail in the left column of the screen to add a title and link: Then add the desired title and link. You’ll want to copy the link first from a web browser.
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Blog Archive » The Web’s third frontier
Everyone realizes that the web is entering a new phase in its development. One indication of this transition is the proliferation of attempts to explain the changes that are occurring. Functional explanations emphasize the real time web, collaborative systems and location-based services .
Magazine That Plagarized Blogger’s Article to Fold [REPORT]
It looks like Cooks Source , the New England magazine that was bullied by the web after republishing a blogger’s article without permission, compensation, nor later, an apology, has been shamed into shutting down. Yesterday morning, an unsigned apology of sorts, seemingly authored by editor Judith Griggs, was posted to the website along with the news that the public fallout from the copyright infringement “is probably the final straw for Cooks Source .” “We have never been a great money-maker even with all the good we do for businesses,” the note reads.
Tweeting Students Earn Higher Grades Than Others in Classroom Experiment - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Students chatting on Twitter both inside and outside the classroom got higher grades than their nontweeting peers in a recent experiment conducted at a medium-size public institution in the Midwest. At the end of the semester, the tweeters had grade-point averages half a point higher, on average, than did their nontweeting counterparts. And students who tweeted were more engaged. Twitter users scored higher than those who didn’t use the tool on a 19-question student-engagement survey over the course of the semester—using parameters like how frequently students contributed to classroom discussion, and how often they interacted with their instructor about course material. The results of the experiment were published in the latest issue of the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning in an article titled “The Effect of Twitter on College Student Engagement and Grades.”
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