How To: Track India’s Fight Against Corruption Online by Sahil Shah

"Earlier we wrote about how Anna Hazare’s ‘fast unto death’ movement created an uproar on Facebook and Twitter and how more than 400,000 people have already pledged their names on the online petition. Clearly, India’s unified voice is increasing in volume day-by-day, supporting Anna Hazare’s campaign for the Lokpal Bill.", Sahil Shah writes. 

Everything came like a storm and we understand it is difficult to keep a track of what’s happening. To make it easier, we have created a guide that sources the best new media and touch points to get you involved through the Internet.

Photo: Penn Olson

1. Twitter: Real-time updates on the movement
Not surprising, Twitter is the best tool to get real-time information. But one really needs to break through the clutter to get the correct information. Following the right keywords and hashtags are important. For this movement keep track on keywords like:
Read more... 

Related links
What is the Jan Lokpal Bill, why it's important
Social Media Plays a Major Role in India’s Fight Against Corruption

Source: Penn Olson 

How To: Track India’s Fight Against Corruption Online by Sahil Shah

"Earlier we wrote about how Anna Hazare’s ‘fast unto death’ movement created an uproar on Facebook and Twitter and how more than 400,000 people have already pledged their names on the online petition. Clearly, India’s unified voice is increasing in volume day-by-day, supporting Anna Hazare’s campaign for the Lokpal Bill.", Sahil Shah writes. 

Everything came like a storm and we understand it is difficult to keep a track of what’s happening. To make it easier, we have created a guide that sources the best new media and touch points to get you involved through the Internet.

Photo: Penn Olson

1. Twitter: Real-time updates on the movement
Not surprising, Twitter is the best tool to get real-time information. But one really needs to break through the clutter to get the correct information. Following the right keywords and hashtags are important. For this movement keep track on keywords like:
Read more... 

Related links
What is the Jan Lokpal Bill, why it's important
Social Media Plays a Major Role in India’s Fight Against Corruption

Source: Penn Olson 

Pearson Announces EQUELLA® 5 Digital Repository

Pearson, the world's leading learning company, today announced EQUELLA® 5, the latest version of the company's award-winning digital repository that enables users to search, create and manage content online.

EQUELLA provides one central solution to meet an institution's learning, research, media and library content needs. Faculty, instructional designers and academic technologists can easily search in one location for all of their learning content—video, custom eBooks, presentations, lecture captures and more—all tagged by metadata such as learning outcomes, grade level and relevant keywords. EQUELLA places no restriction on the content type or file size, and all content is protected using the repository's permissions, digital rights management and copyright functionality.

EQUELLA Intro 


EQUELLA 5 includes the following new features:

• Updated user interface that improves overall usability
• New dashboard capabilities, allowing users to customize the solution to suit their needs
• Ability to access and import resources from external repositories
• Built-in Harvester enhancements allow users to easily schedule content harvests from third-party sources, including other EQUELLA repositories, and directly harvest the metadata, content and resources
• Addition of portlets, which provide access to different key functionality based on user preference

EQUELLA works with all popular learning management systems, including Pearson LearningStudio and Fronter, as well as library systems, portals and other solutions.
Read more...

Source: PRWeb and thelearningedge's Channel (YouTube)

Pearson Announces EQUELLA® 5 Digital Repository

Pearson, the world's leading learning company, today announced EQUELLA® 5, the latest version of the company's award-winning digital repository that enables users to search, create and manage content online.

EQUELLA provides one central solution to meet an institution's learning, research, media and library content needs. Faculty, instructional designers and academic technologists can easily search in one location for all of their learning content—video, custom eBooks, presentations, lecture captures and more—all tagged by metadata such as learning outcomes, grade level and relevant keywords. EQUELLA places no restriction on the content type or file size, and all content is protected using the repository's permissions, digital rights management and copyright functionality.

EQUELLA Intro 


EQUELLA 5 includes the following new features:

• Updated user interface that improves overall usability
• New dashboard capabilities, allowing users to customize the solution to suit their needs
• Ability to access and import resources from external repositories
• Built-in Harvester enhancements allow users to easily schedule content harvests from third-party sources, including other EQUELLA repositories, and directly harvest the metadata, content and resources
• Addition of portlets, which provide access to different key functionality based on user preference

EQUELLA works with all popular learning management systems, including Pearson LearningStudio and Fronter, as well as library systems, portals and other solutions.
Read more...

Source: PRWeb and thelearningedge's Channel (YouTube)

The Spring 2011 issue of the Teacher PD Sourcebook is now online

The Spring 2011 issue of the Teacher PD Sourcebook is now online.

Photo: Teacher PD Sourcebook

This issue looks at how innovative educators are working to build stronger connections between math and literacy instruction and students' own lives.

Real-World Learning: Creating Authentic Lessons in Math and Reading

News & Notes

Getting Real
The central objective of the educators we feature in this issue is to bring greater authenticity to math and literacy instruction.

Bringing Context To ELL Instruction
A Texas district employs an intensive professional development method to help regular educators engage English-language learners.

Professional Development Goes for a Walk
Teachers and administrators extol the virtues of "learning walks," in which groups of teachers visit other classrooms to learn best practices from their peers.

Teaching Avatars
Teacher-candidates at one university candidates can now practice in a virtual classroom before ever entering a real one.

Better Reading Through Writing
One way to improve students' reading skills is to work on their writing skills, according to a new report. 

Your Future Colleagues?
South Korea hopes to have robot teachers in all of its 8,400 kindergarten classrooms by 2013.

Video Buffs

Math: It’s in the Cards 
Can poker teach students math skills?

Wiring Algebra Instruction
A four-year study on classroom connectivity suggests that training algebra teachers in software that lets them monitor students’ work on graphing calculators can lead to higher student test-score results. 

Coaching Up Reading Instruction 
A study finds that putting literacy coaches in schools can help boost students' reading skills by as much as 32 percent over three years. 

Websites to Know 
Selected math and writing websites for teachers.
Read more... 

Source: Teacher PD Sourcebook Directory

The Spring 2011 issue of the Teacher PD Sourcebook is now online

The Spring 2011 issue of the Teacher PD Sourcebook is now online.

Photo: Teacher PD Sourcebook

This issue looks at how innovative educators are working to build stronger connections between math and literacy instruction and students' own lives.

Real-World Learning: Creating Authentic Lessons in Math and Reading

News & Notes

Getting Real
The central objective of the educators we feature in this issue is to bring greater authenticity to math and literacy instruction.

Bringing Context To ELL Instruction
A Texas district employs an intensive professional development method to help regular educators engage English-language learners.

Professional Development Goes for a Walk
Teachers and administrators extol the virtues of "learning walks," in which groups of teachers visit other classrooms to learn best practices from their peers.

Teaching Avatars
Teacher-candidates at one university candidates can now practice in a virtual classroom before ever entering a real one.

Better Reading Through Writing
One way to improve students' reading skills is to work on their writing skills, according to a new report. 

Your Future Colleagues?
South Korea hopes to have robot teachers in all of its 8,400 kindergarten classrooms by 2013.

Video Buffs

Math: It’s in the Cards 
Can poker teach students math skills?

Wiring Algebra Instruction
A four-year study on classroom connectivity suggests that training algebra teachers in software that lets them monitor students’ work on graphing calculators can lead to higher student test-score results. 

Coaching Up Reading Instruction 
A study finds that putting literacy coaches in schools can help boost students' reading skills by as much as 32 percent over three years. 

Websites to Know 
Selected math and writing websites for teachers.
Read more... 

Source: Teacher PD Sourcebook Directory

Er du på Twitter top ti? af Henrik Føhns

Hør denne spændende udsendelse, der handler om din sociale score, baseret på Facebook-opdateringer, tweets og kontakter på LinkedIn.

"Er du en respektabel 40′er? Er du sunket ned på 25 og skal til at arbejde lidt for sagen? Eller har du opnået et index over 75 og er i den absolutte superliga?" skriver Henrik Føhns, Harddisken 

I de gamle landsbyer kendte alle hinanden og derfor var de andres ry og rygte noget man nærmest fik ind med modermælken, men idag har vi store netværk på Twitter, Facebook og de andre tjenester – netværk med mennesker som vi ikke nødvendigvis kender godt nok til at stole på eller til at vurdere deres ‘ digitale sociale status’.

Læs mere... 

Hør udsendelsen 

Relaterede links:

PeerIndex

Klout
Rasmus Helles, KU – forsker i sociale medier
Brian Solis, digital analytiker og futurist
Wosju – dansk netværkstjeneste 
Anders Colding-Jørgensen, internetpsykolog 

Medvirkende:
Azeem Azhar, stifter, PeerIndex
Rasmus Helles, adjunkt, Københavns Universitet
Brian Solis, analytiker
Hans Henrik Heming, stifter, Wosju
Anders Colding-Jørgensen, internetpsykolog

God fornøjelse med udsendelsen!

Kilde: Harddisken (DR)

Er du på Twitter top ti? af Henrik Føhns

Hør denne spændende udsendelse, der handler om din sociale score, baseret på Facebook-opdateringer, tweets og kontakter på LinkedIn.

"Er du en respektabel 40′er? Er du sunket ned på 25 og skal til at arbejde lidt for sagen? Eller har du opnået et index over 75 og er i den absolutte superliga?" skriver Henrik Føhns, Harddisken 

I de gamle landsbyer kendte alle hinanden og derfor var de andres ry og rygte noget man nærmest fik ind med modermælken, men idag har vi store netværk på Twitter, Facebook og de andre tjenester – netværk med mennesker som vi ikke nødvendigvis kender godt nok til at stole på eller til at vurdere deres ‘ digitale sociale status’.

Læs mere... 

Hør udsendelsen 

Relaterede links:

PeerIndex

Klout
Rasmus Helles, KU – forsker i sociale medier
Brian Solis, digital analytiker og futurist
Wosju – dansk netværkstjeneste 
Anders Colding-Jørgensen, internetpsykolog 

Medvirkende:
Azeem Azhar, stifter, PeerIndex
Rasmus Helles, adjunkt, Københavns Universitet
Brian Solis, analytiker
Hans Henrik Heming, stifter, Wosju
Anders Colding-Jørgensen, internetpsykolog

God fornøjelse med udsendelsen!

Kilde: Harddisken (DR)

March/April 2011 EDUCAUSE Review is Now Available Online

Just look at this interesting line-up in this EDUCAUSE Review, Volume 46, Number 2, March/April 2011.

Diana G. Oblinger, President and CEO of EDUCAUSE writes, "This issue of EDUCAUSE Review offers several perspectives on mobile technology—thoughts on how our expanding notions of portability are intersecting with, influencing, and advancing many of our current ideas on teaching, on e-books, on iPads, on websites, on mobile devices, and even on change itself. These perspectives highlight three dominant and interwoven aspects of mobility that our institutions need to consider: complexity, communication, and control."

Taken together, these three issues of complexity, communication, and control may signify a deeper change being introduced by mobile. In March 2011, Oliver Burkeman wrote in The Guardian: "The internet is over." That is, the days of the Internet "as an identifiably separate thing" may be gone. He noted that the "ubiquitous computing" first noted in 1988 has given way, with mobile technologies, to "the arrival of the truly ubiquitous internet." The boundary between online life and real life has disappeared (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/15/sxsw-2011-internet-online).

Getting a Handle on Mobile: Perspectives

On Teaching
Mobile Literacy
By David Parry
"The future our students will inherit is one that will be mediated and stitched together by the mobile web, and I think that ethically, we are called on as teachers to teach them how to use these technologies effectively."

On E-books
E-Reading: The Transition in Higher Education
By David McCarthy
"The current optimal e-reading solution for higher education is a robust laptop home base with an ecosystem that interacts with tablets and e-readers for mobile consumption."

On iPads
Why Mobile?
By Mary Ann Gawelek, Mary Spataro, and Phil Komarny
"With their students, faculty have become co-learners and pioneers in the classroom. With no models to work from, they had to explore, practice, and discover the iPad's potential for expanding learning."

On Websites
Mobile Matters: Communication Trumps Technology
By Susan T. Evans
"Mobile is the future for content delivery. Colleges and universities need to establish a strategy now and make the decisions necessary to take advantage of this communication opportunity."

On Devices
Mobile: Letting Go of the Device and Building for Innovation
By Jim Davis and Rosemary A. Rocchio
"This device-agnostic framework and approach has huge practical advantages in that we can reach the vast majority of our mobile community regardless of what device they are using and we can readily accommodate ever-changing devices."

On Change
Embracing Change: An Interview with Tracy Futhey
"The best I can hope to do is keep an eye on the high-level industry trends and directions, and then once we've identified those trends, ride them as best we can to where we think they'll take the market."
Read more...

Source: EDUCAUSE Review 

March/April 2011 EDUCAUSE Review is Now Available Online

Just look at this interesting line-up in this EDUCAUSE Review, Volume 46, Number 2, March/April 2011.

Diana G. Oblinger, President and CEO of EDUCAUSE writes, "This issue of EDUCAUSE Review offers several perspectives on mobile technology—thoughts on how our expanding notions of portability are intersecting with, influencing, and advancing many of our current ideas on teaching, on e-books, on iPads, on websites, on mobile devices, and even on change itself. These perspectives highlight three dominant and interwoven aspects of mobility that our institutions need to consider: complexity, communication, and control."

Taken together, these three issues of complexity, communication, and control may signify a deeper change being introduced by mobile. In March 2011, Oliver Burkeman wrote in The Guardian: "The internet is over." That is, the days of the Internet "as an identifiably separate thing" may be gone. He noted that the "ubiquitous computing" first noted in 1988 has given way, with mobile technologies, to "the arrival of the truly ubiquitous internet." The boundary between online life and real life has disappeared (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/15/sxsw-2011-internet-online).

Getting a Handle on Mobile: Perspectives

On Teaching
Mobile Literacy
By David Parry
"The future our students will inherit is one that will be mediated and stitched together by the mobile web, and I think that ethically, we are called on as teachers to teach them how to use these technologies effectively."

On E-books
E-Reading: The Transition in Higher Education
By David McCarthy
"The current optimal e-reading solution for higher education is a robust laptop home base with an ecosystem that interacts with tablets and e-readers for mobile consumption."

On iPads
Why Mobile?
By Mary Ann Gawelek, Mary Spataro, and Phil Komarny
"With their students, faculty have become co-learners and pioneers in the classroom. With no models to work from, they had to explore, practice, and discover the iPad's potential for expanding learning."

On Websites
Mobile Matters: Communication Trumps Technology
By Susan T. Evans
"Mobile is the future for content delivery. Colleges and universities need to establish a strategy now and make the decisions necessary to take advantage of this communication opportunity."

On Devices
Mobile: Letting Go of the Device and Building for Innovation
By Jim Davis and Rosemary A. Rocchio
"This device-agnostic framework and approach has huge practical advantages in that we can reach the vast majority of our mobile community regardless of what device they are using and we can readily accommodate ever-changing devices."

On Change
Embracing Change: An Interview with Tracy Futhey
"The best I can hope to do is keep an eye on the high-level industry trends and directions, and then once we've identified those trends, ride them as best we can to where we think they'll take the market."
Read more...

Source: EDUCAUSE Review