July 2014
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Plagairism and Evolution and Attribution Statements
The big news right now in social media-land is that a Buzzfeed editor is a plagairist. Here’s coverage on that from TPM: In one particularly damning example, Johnson allegedly copied a 2009 post on Yahoo! answers. “Throughout the London Blitz, over a million incendiaries and around 50,000 high explosive bombs were dropped on London,” wrote Continue reading
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Federated Wiki for Distributed Notetaking (and the surprising pedagogical implications of that)
I mentioned earlier that I’d decided to change my explanation of federated wiki from a “top-down” explanation to a “bottom-up” one. It makes a heck of a difference. I made this video below for one of our faculty, to show how even something as simple as notes becomes an integrative exercise in federated wiki. I Continue reading
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Reclaim Hackathon
Kin and Audrey have already written up pretty extensive summaries about the Reclaim event in Los Angeles. I won’t add much. Everything was wonderful, and I hope I don’t upset people by choosing one thing over another. But there were a few things for me that stood out. Seeing the Domain of One’s Own development Continue reading
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Doug Engelbart’s Grocery List
If you’ve watched the Mother of All Demos, you know that one of the aha! moments of it is when Engelbart pulls out his grocery list. The idea is pretty simple –if you put your grocery list into a computer instead of on a notepad, you could sort it, edit, clone it, categorize it, drag-and-drop Continue reading
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The Universal JSON Canvas and Ben’s Five Star Plugin
I’ve borrowed Jon Udell’s term (“universal canvas”) for talking about SFW. In this video I talk about a plugin my brother Ben wrote for SFW earlier this week, and try to show what that means in semi-mechanical terms. One of the things I think it starts to show is how much of a construction kit Continue reading
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No More Secret Sauce Analytics
I’ve gotten two calls from reporters in the past week asking me about the “dangers of analytics” in higher education. I’m always quite careful to say I think there’s a lot of promise for analytics in higher education. I can’t imagine a future where we’re not using analytics extensively to try and improve what we Continue reading
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The Original Factory Education Was a Personalized Learning Experiment
“From the perpetual agency of this System, idleness cannot exist… [T]he whole is a beautiful picture of the most animated industry, and resembles the various machinery of a cloth manufactory, completely executing their different offices, and all set in motion by one active engine.” — Rev. Cordiner, describing the popular Madras System of education in Continue reading
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Interface, and the First Sixty Minutes
I’ve been struggling to explain SFW interface to people. Which is weird. Because I actually think the interface is one of the stronger features. I have come to wish I could surf the web in SFW instead of say Chrome. It solves a bunch of issues Ted Nelson tried to solve but more elegantly and Continue reading
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#indiewebcamp
The first surprise about IndieWebCamp were the people. This is going to sound like I was expecting Really Bad Things, but you have to remember this is Portland. What’s “indie” in most cities is considered corporate in Portland. I don’t know how to explain this, except to say when I went out to dinner with Continue reading
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