Discussion Questions for Class
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The EDUCAUSE Top Teaching and Learning Challenges 2009 | EDUCAUSE
The is another Educause research project. How is the process similar to that used by the Horizon report? How is it different.
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Xobni: Email Organization Tool One Key Question
Anna has given this a try, and I hope that she’ll demo it for us on Wednesday night. After working with it for a week, would you recommend that it be more widely adopted?
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Yahoo’s vision of the future | Videos on ZDNet
Karen posted this to her Diggo account before we ran into Xoboni. How are the two alike? How are the different?
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Here are some powerful examples of the extent to which trends identified in the Horizon Report are coming to fruition in higher education. While this report focuses strictly on students entering Amherst, a small liberal arts collect in the northeast, the statistics are telling. William and Mary is seeing many of the same trends, including the increase in the number of iPhone and iPod touches. We had somewhere between four and seven hundred iDevices on the William and Mary network during the first week of school.
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By the end of August 2008 the total number of members and posts at the Amherst College Class of 2012 Facebook group: 432 members and 3,225 posts.
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Students in the class of 2012 who registered computers, IPhones, game consoles, etc. on the campus network by the end of the day on August 24th, the day they moved into their dorm
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Based on the first 9 months of 2008, estimated percentage increase in help-desk tickets in 2008 over 2007: 11% (or 15.6 weeks of work for a staff member).
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- Estimated number of hours it would have taken to update the graphics, navigation, and organization of the 2005-2006 College web site (static HTML): 50,000.
- Hours it took to roll out the new web site in August 2008 (database-driven): 3.5.
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The looming crisis: Personal syndication overload
Here’s a good example of some of the practical practical problems that have to be solved before some of the predictions of the Horizon Report are likely to come to pass. Which of the six Horizon Report initiatives is reflected in this article? What’s significant for teaching and learning in the process of content creation that he describes?
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So this is my challenge to the Web 2.0 community: Solve the personal content and community problem. Take the multi-publishing chops of Ping.fm, the aggregation features of Friendfeed, the republishing capability of Twitterfeed (with more functions, please), and the discussion aggregation of Disqus, and put it all together into one simple, easy-to-maintain product that acts as a hub for publishing, reading, and community in all these services. And while you’re at it, make sure you don’t steal traffic or community from the services you’re front-ending; they all have personalities we want to keep alive.
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