Pedagody
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Read/Write/Web reports on Rheingold's new project--the "Social Classroom." According to the story, it is "an open-source Drupal-based web service to teachers and students for the purpose of introducing social media into the classroom."
So, is this anything more that a Drupal distribution designed for learning and teaching? I think a lot of us who use Drupal-based sites already do that stuff. Perhaps I am missing something.
OpenOffice 3.0 has been released. In addition to the traditional Windows and Linux versions, Mac fans will be glad to hear that there is now a native OSX version. See Ars Technica for more details or go straight to the download page.
Please consider signing the "PETITION IN SUPPORT OF THE TEACHING AND RESEARCH ASSISTANTS COLLECTIVE BARGAINING RIGHTS ACT." This bill would "amend the National Labor Relations Act to restore collective bargaining rights to teaching and research assistants at private universities and colleges." Further, this is a public bill and petitions so anyone, non-teachers and students, programmers, anyone, can sign this petition.
The Chronicle of Higher Education this week announced that HathiTrust is now open. HathiTrust is composed of a large group of several universities interested in preserving the work Google has done with digitalizing hundreds of thousands of books. HathiTrust, working to become the biggest library in the world, with Google's help has currently digitized "2,108,109" volumes. Other stats include:
Currently Digitized
2,108,109 volumes
Design and Implementation of Educational Games: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives
Call for Chapters
a book edited by: Pavel Zemliansky, Ph.D and Diane Wilcox, Ph.D
both James Madison University)
Proposal Due Date: December 15, 2008
To be Published by IGI Global
http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=524
Introduction to the Subject Area
CALL FOR CASES
Proposal Submission Deadline: October 15, 2008
Notification of Proposal Acceptance: October 20, 2008
Cases on Successful E-Learning Practices in the Developed and Developing World: Methods for the Global Information Economy.
A book edited by Bolanle A. Olaniran, Texas Tech University, USA
Introduction
My school, Seton Hill University, recently won a multimillion dollar instruction technology grant, part of which includes funding for a new technology specialist (which will become a permanent job when the grant ends).
In helping to write the job notice, I drafted the "you-attitude" paragraphs, with the references to Bioshock and lolcats.
InsideHigherEd.com reports that American Anthropology Association is making digital material free, if you can wait 35 years for the latest bits.
The American Anthropological Association [is making] “a groundbreaking move” that would provide “greater access for the global social science and anthropological communities to 86 years of classic, historic research articles.” The problem, critics say, is that the emphasis should have been on the word “historic,” because those 86 years worth of articles aren’t the most recent 86 years. Rather the association will apply its new policy for its flagship journal, American Anthropologist, only 35 years after material was published. The association has created open access to the scholarship of the ’50s and ’60s.
Kinda dulls the notions of being on the cutting edge of things.
